Chapter 93. Only the Goddess Is Good Enough

Sean’s POV

I just cannot understand Iris these days or maybe I can. Mum is really picking in her and it is stressing her out. I feel like a heel for not protecting her better from my mum. I understand Mum too.

I know what she has passed through raising me especially during my strange illness. The battle she had to face keeping the throne, engaging in battles of the mind and words with the elders till I miraculously became well. She had been scared of losing me and losing to the elders. Now she is anxious to see her grandchildren and be assured that my heir would succeed me when the time came.

“What is this I hear about your wife looking for a breeder for you?” the voice penetrated my thoughts. I looked up into my mother’s enraged face. What is it this time? I wondered.

“Isn’t that what you want?” I asked her with a shrug. “She is being a good daughter-in-law, ensuring that you have the grandchildren you are so anxious to have!”

“You don