Chapter 16. The Three Wishes

Hektor returned to Yuki's room and looked at her thoughtfully. He loved that body, but it wasn't her spirit he wanted. He couldn't see her as anything more than a belly to carry his heir and she didn't make it easy either. She refused to stay with him and wouldn't even answer him.

The next day, the wizard gave Anchan's message to Hektor, who waited for his father-in-law to be defeated to make sure the god kept his end of the bargain. Meanwhile, he listened to Yuki's lamentations about her daughter. She talked about it so much that Hektor decided to go and visit the child.

At just five months old, she seemed to recognize him and that scared him. She looked a lot like him, and although her eyes were wide and oriental like her mother's, they were gray like his. Her hair was the same as her mother's. She didn't cry when she was in his arms and the family who raised her began to feel relieved by his constant visits, because th