Chapter 007 - Bare Minimum

If Gideon is really serious about treating me well, sending his concubines away is the bare minimum. I know that now, but if I were the same Serra as before, this piece of news would have made me very happy. But now, it did nothing to quell my need for revenge.

“Children, huh...” I whisper. “We don’t have one...”

“We can have one, if you like.” He kneels before me and takes my hands in his again. “When I lost you, I needed to sire heirs, but now that you’re back, we can try again.”

It was not so long ago that I was desperate for a child, but now, every thought of it fills me with hatred, remembering how the child in my belly died due to all the stress and pain of being his wife.

“I can’t, right now,” I answer in a small voice. “I don’t want my child to get embroiled in an inheritance war, especially with all your other concubines...”

He squeezes my hand. “They won’t be!”

‘They?’ Don’t tell me he plans to have more than one child with me?! The thought alone repulses me!

“Only you