Chapter 41. The Poisoned Soup

"I did have an outbreak many years ago. But it was because I lost my baby, and I was afraid to tell my husband. He didn't even know I was pregnant. And if he did, he would never forgive me for letting his heir son die."

"Do you think he might have known what Adrian was doing to your health? Do you think they are complicit?"

"Oh, no. Not that. He has no idea. At first, in the early years, he would come to visit me and tell me how much he wanted to see me well again because the dream of having a child was still haunting him. Adrian confided in me that he would kill me little by little to give his daughter time to reach marriageable age and hand her over to Don John to be queen in my place. Of course, he believed that I could not hear him or he would never have told me the truth. I... In fact, I didn't expect to get up from that bed anymore. I thought I would die there..." She said in a broken voice.

Alfred got up from the armch