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“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.

The Loneliest Ballad

Lucas blinked slowly. "What did you just say?"

"I'll say it again, nice and slowly so you can understand. Choose the woman whose life you want to save more - your pathetic mother or my slut wife."

Tobin shrugged. "It's the choice I'm giving you. You don't have to like it, you just have to make it. Be glad I'm willing to spare one of them from a tragic death."

"I won't choose. End my life instead." Lucas gritted out.

"No!" Celia screamed in horror. "I won't let you sacrifice yourself for me!"

Tobin looked at her long and hard in disgust, then turned back to Lucas. "I'm afraid you don't get to escape the consequences of your actions by dying. You'll live to suffer the outcomes of your choices. So who will it be?"

"Please don't do this, Tobin. Please don't punish innocent people for my sins." Lucas begged, looking devastated. "Just focus all your anger at me. I'm the one who has betrayed you the most."

Choose One or Choose None