'Big Brother… You betray me for a bastard daughter. One who did not have power, status, nor had love for you. She loved me, yet she chooses you because you gave her what she wanted the most. Human greed is too much.
Both of you used me to reach where you are…'
Ashton looked at his surroundings and found the woman he fell in love with the same day his brother betrayed him.
The woman who used him as a stepping stone.
Baron Bart's bastard daughter. The most infamous lady in the Baron's house.
Most nobles follow the King's rule, monogamy. So, to have a child outside the marriage is a thing, the higher nobles looked down upon. And the woman who ruined Ashton's life together with his own brother Asher is a bastard, a child born from the Baron's maid.
She suffered when she was a child, but because she was the only lady born from the Bart house, the Baroness let her stay and trained her to marry a higher noble.
But…
