Chapter 187

Baski nodded. “I never intentionally tried to endanger your life by making you get pregnant for your master. I knew of his condition and thought it would be a waste of herbs. It might harm you to take needless herbs. I never knew.”

“That was why you accused me of having another lover that day,” she deducted.

Baski put the water away and began grinding new herbs. “Yes. It was so hard to believe.”

Danika’s eyes closed in defeat and more pain. She lowered her head back to the ground. “No wonder you were most hesitant to go to the king about my condition. His condition... He thinks he can’t father a child. Even without what he saw today, he would have thought I had another lover. He would have executed me anyway.”

“We don’t know for sure, and we will never be able to find out any more. He already knows you’re pregnant.”

“And he doesn’t believe. And he has sentenced me to d-death for my betrayal,” she said, pained.

“He doesn’t know better. We will make