Chapter 40

Asher

I waited patiently even as the stunned look on her face remained.

The confession left my lips as easily as it did the first time, and I felt no regrets even while I looked at her shocked gaze.

Ariezel was beautiful. That was a fact I couldn't take away. But now, she still looked sallow and heartbroken. The tears on her eyes had barely dried and eyebags stood prominent. It made me want to hold Serena back to the dungeons for what she did to her.

In the hours that Ariezel stayed unconscious, a thousand possibilities ran through my head of why this happened. I didn't dare leave her side, too anxious that every second was going to be the one she would wake up in. But I never expected it to be so horrible.

Serena had caused a miscarriage. Had killed Isabella's child with no remorse.

Even during the hospital visits, I had grown fond of the little bump that I watched through the ultrasound slowly growing within her. I had already made up my mind that if Ariezel accepted my courting and