Becoming a Handful of Vanishing Bubbles (Adult Version)

I thought it was a relief that she was a woman who knew when to step back. The half-blood of the Lonz family, a manufactured daughter of a duke who eventually clawed her way to the position of Queen, only to become a doomed woman destined for deposition for failing to conceive a child within the promised timeframe. Once, I pitied her. But whenever she looked at me with eyes that resembled Duke Lonz, a surge of nausea would suddenly rise within me, and I would pour my rage upon her. There was a time when showering her with disdain and contempt was easier than anything else. Until the moment she left me. * "Why didn't you tell me? That you were the one who saved me! Why did you just stan...