"We got an invitation to the wedding for his brother and my supposedly only ally... my cousin."
"Talk about how much surprised I was."
"If you, soone the family really acknowledges, are going to marry the eldest legitimate son, I could have possibly not made any concessions, and stayed outside of it all."
"I even confronted her with these thoughts, as I was really angry at that ti."
"I beca even pregnant with that scum's child after all, I can't undo all of that."
"But what answer did I get?"
"She feared the chance of seducing him and didn't want to leave any possibility.
"As if I needed that, when he I just needed to choose him, instead of his brother."
"More than that, with out of the picture, her chances of capturing his heart were higher since I'm more beautiful than her."
"And she loved him and wanted him."
"Like really, talk about ironic."
"She, who said she didn't care about love when she was young, got to marry the one she loved in the end. And I, who told myself that I would get to experience love, haven't even found the person who could make my heart beat."
While Eva's chest heaved up and down seductively from her agitation, she took a deep breath, cald herself slightly, and said,
"Well, she still kept her promise and helped with the deal I made with that trash, so I couldn't hate her completely."
"Most importantly, even if I had escaped back then, because of my cousin, I could've easily been sold again if the Ashvale family deed it necessary. So, even if it wasn't the outco I wanted, it was still better."
"And even more than that, because of her presence, I beca soone unimportant, soone who lost their worth, with no one caring about anymore."
"The deal they made at first, which was more like a temporary arrangent, beca a strong alliance. So, my position, which on neither them of them, turned out to be advantageous for , it made it harder for anyone to mistreat from either side."
"And after all this happened, I finally ca here to Harrisburg."
Christian, still on the listening side, felt a great deal of conflict raging inside his mind, with anger being the primarily one.
It wasn't as though he didn't have an inkling about everything she had said.
He knew she was a mother, so there was a man out there.
He knew she had been sold, so she had a complex and painful past.
He knew she was tied to an ancient family and a massive company, so there would be countless challenges awaiting him.
Even so, he hadn't backed away or lost his temper before.
But now, hearing the exact details of what had happened to her, he couldn't stop the surge of anger rising within him… anger at all of them, everyone who did that to her.
Was he, and those he was destined to care about, always supposed to face hardships?
He questioned it once, twice, and more, the thought looping in his mind.
But before he could co to an answer, Eva spoke again.
"At that ti, that trash, who had initially risen in favor, because of the sa bet that lifted him fell out of grace. In the end, his older brother won, after all, marrying the legitimate daughter of the Ashvale family, ant to be the grand prize, not . So, whatever small interest he had in quickly faded."
"He had many won, and one of them had already caught his favor by then. Anyway, he had waited, thinking he might need to register as his legal wife if circumstances required it. But after that incident, even that beca unnecessary for him, and I was left alone here."
Taking a small pause as she recalled how that brief, peaceful ti hadn't lasted long, she sighed and added, "Well, that was how things were supposed to be."
"But ten years ago, he suddenly appeared with mbers of the Ashvale family and representatives from the Infinitel company to finally test Olivia's talent, sothing they hadn't bothered to do all this ti."
"Clearly, sothing had happened, though I didn't know what it was at the ti."
"I didn't even have the luxury to worry about it, though, because it turned out Olivia had imnse talent, even surpassing my cousin's son.
"And they wanted to take her away from , when she was only eight years."
"But, when all I had in this world was her, how could I possibly accept that?"
"Then again, would my struggle an anything?"
"Fortunately, my cousin, once again, agreed to help ."
"Well, she was also helping herself, as she wanted to ensure that her son continued receiving the best treatnt. But I didn't care about her reasons."
"And with her help, soone from the Ashvale family started coming weekly to teach Olivia."
"Again, ti passed peacefully, at least on the surface. And just when I felt like things really couldn't get any worse, when even my fear that my daughter might one day be treated the sa way I was, sold off to soone, began to fade with all the attention she was getting, this ti, they started saying that my daughter needs to attend so kind of academy with other talented youths."
As she spoke, she couldn't help but glance at the man,… or rather, the boy? Sitting in front of her. He was the sa age as her daughter. So, could he have been able to enter that academy as well?
A small curiosity took hold of her thoughts as she wondered, but without dwelling on it further, she continued.
"It was more than a year ago that I was told about this."
"At first, I was worried, but in the end, I knew this ti it wasn't sothing I could do anything about."
"Most importantly, I was at least able to let her experience a normal school…
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