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The Loneliest Ballad

“You must bear a child, Celia. what good is a woman who isn’t a mother? What good is an empty womb?” “Especially when it’s a foreign womb, like yours…” It’s not an easy life when you’re watched month after month, when all the blame is placed at your feet for your young husband having no heir. Celia Devon Tralhamir, Crown Princess of Havietten, waits every month with hope mingled with fear. A child will secure her future. But it will also bind her for life to a husband she neither loves or respects, who refuses to see her abilities. Is that what she wants? Is she content to prioritise security over happiness, and be a wordless decorative vessel all her life? Or is she brave enough to try to forge her own path and seize fulfilment on her own terms? Even in a society that cannot recognise individual brilliance in a mere woman. A sequel to the WEBNOVEL book “Earning the Love of a Princess”, this novel follows another woman born into the Royal House of Devon, trying to fight the confines that threaten to stifle her happiness.

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245 Chs

Dynamics

15 April, 1369. Elleiser Foothills, Havietten.

"How you you think couples that marry for love, stay in love after many years have gone by?" Celia asked as she stretched out languidly on Lucas's bed, then rolled over on to her belly.

Outside, a spring storm rattled the window of the monastery they were spending the night in. The tapping sound of the rain added to the cozy atmosphere of the room.

It's like we're the only people in the world still awake, Celia thought contentedly. Just me and the man I adore.

"You expect me to know that?" Lucas asked, then tucked a lock of hair behind his ear. His smile was the silly, sleepy one he always wore after they'd finished making love. "None of the other men you're currently bedding can answer that question?"