Chapter 49
Chapter 49
From that expression, Idina felt that he was slowly weaving something together.
“Before I was born, His Majesty spent a night with my mother before marrying her, and she conceived the child. A dominant Alpha, as you know, can impregnate you whenever they want if they just knot.”
“…….”
“As you might expect, I was born right away. And before my mother passed away, I had no siblings. But I didn’t think it was strange at all. As you know, the Escass Empire had too many siblings, so there were many times when things got out of hand. I just thought that he would be satisfied with me and end it.”
Everything he said was in the past tense. Idina felt sorry for Killian, who was speaking in a calm tone.
“If you heard that your mother wasn’t happy when she passed away… how would you feel?”
Idina flinched at the question that came back.
Killian smiled faintly, but it wasn’t a smile of joy. It was a laugh. It was sarcastic, like a slap in the face.
Killian’s mother, who was the empress, left that story as a will before she passed away.
<I’ve never been happy since I entered the imperial family.>
Killian’s belief that his family was happy was shattered on the spot. The reason he didn’t have a sibling was because there was no love between them.
However, his mother thoroughly hid her relationship with his father. Even from his son, Killian.
In short, Killian was living in a virtual world they had created.
His mother’s will shattered that virtual world.
When he heard the confession of someone who was on the verge of death, Killian felt as if his body was being dragged into the abyss.
At that time, he was arrogant. Born into the royal family, there was nothing he couldn’t do. Hence, he believed he knew everything in the world.
But that wasn’t the case.
He had no idea of the sadness of his mother, who read books to him every day. He didn’t know that the smile she made was actually a fake, forced one.
His mother’s death was sad.
But what was sadder was that he never knew about her sadness before she died.
Hence, Killian couldn’t get over the shock for a while. The pain of the world he believed in collapsing was a swamp from which he couldn’t escape.
And naturally, Killian’s anger and resentment turned to his father, who had left his mother so miserable.
The problem was that he was someone Killian had once loved. He had trusted and followed his father, so in the end, his anger toward him had subsided and only resentment remained.
“I couldn’t smile in front of others. And I stopped believing in things like love.”
“Your Highness…..”
“I resented my father, but I couldn’t kill him. That was why I decided not to listen to him.”
Killian’s refusal to listen to him was something that he could not express. He refused to get engaged or married.
He also anticipated that if he did that, all sorts of strange rumors would start to spread about him.
Is he sick? Was he being pushed out of the line of succession? Was he losing his mind?
He knew that all those speculations would come true. Nevertheless, he thought it would be better if he lost his title as crown prince.
“I didn’t want to give him anything he wanted.”
Killian really intended to live like that, doing nothing. Right after his mother passed away, he neglected many of his duties as crown prince and just laid there like a corpse.
However, as days passed and months passed, the emperor did not give up on him. He tried to make Killian go out somehow.
The emperor did not give even a single bit of love to the empress, but he loved his son. And his love was so persistent that in the end, Killian also got up. He would go out once if he begged.
And the Emperor, who had seen with his own eyes that Killian could change, tried to push something else.
His next goal was marriage with the Lilles Family. He seemed to believe that if Killian had a woman to protect and a child, he would come to his senses.
But Killian was never persuaded by that. However, the Emperor, who had learned that he would listen to his begging, used that chance once again.
“Idina, the day I first saw you, I went to the Academy to see Lilles’s younger sister. He said that if I saw her once, he wouldn’t say anything more. I decided to go and come back.”
“……I see.”
At that time, Killian really only saw Lilles’s younger sister for about 30 seconds. As soon as Lilles told him what her younger sister’s name was, he left without even talking.
After that, it was obvious. He was just about to quickly get back on the carriage. At that time, Lilles had introduced Idina.
<Your Highness, this is Idina Bride, my fiancée.>
Idina had a faint scent of pheromones. It was the scent of an omega. Of course, it wasn’t like Killian was interested in just anyone because he could sense an omega’s pheromones.
Strangely, the moment he smelled the pheromones coming from Idina, he was reminded of his mother’s scent that he missed.
His mother’s pheromone scent had always given him a sense of stability. When he was surrounded by her arms and heard her reading a book, that faint scent filled his nose and made him feel happy.
That’s why he asked.
<……Omega?>
