Chapter 9 Early Birth

When Titiana heard the question Arnold asked, cold sweat ran down her body

She waited for his answer but only silence fell for a long time then The emperor finally opened his mouth

"What about her? She will just have to give birth to another" when she heard what he said she felt anger run in her veins instead of blood and was about to break the door but what she heard next stopped her

"The child wasn't mine to begin with, did she think I wouldn't know, that he was his child" she felt her legs tremble

No wonder, the competition that only men above 17 could join suddenly had a new law which is all the princes with no exception have to start the competition as a form of encouragement to the aristocrats present

He knew everything, since when did he know that luke isn't his son, just since when did he know?

Eight years ago

Titiana was giving birth earlier than expected which made it even harder on both her and the child with a high risk of dying

At some point she thought that would be fine, she was afraid of the child that she is gonna bear and thought it would actually be good if she just died with him

"Madam, please push, I know it's painful but please hold on longer, I can see his head" the voice of her maid Mary pulled her back to reality and stopped her dark thoughts

Yes, how could she think that, no matter what, the child is her own even if he was born from rape he is innocent and he is mine

So no matter what I have to meet you, my child

"Ahhhhhhh, ugh hah hah ahhhhhhh"Titiana screamed in pain, the pain was so excruciating that she felt all her bones break one by one, something was not right, someone gave her something to miscarriage her child, to kill it and force an abortion, if she was just another woman and she drank that poison she would immediately die along side her child, but she was Titiana a commander and the heir to the grand duchy, she wasn't to go down with such a petty method

"One more push your highness, just one more" Mary called Titiana as if to reassure her so Titiana decided to give one more push despite the pain

After she just meets her child and sees her face, she swears to get up and find who did that petty trick

She swore to take revenge on whoever did that and she knew exactly who did, the cunning snake wearing a crown above her empty head, the empress.

"Aughhhhhhhhhhh" after a loud scream from Titiana her scream was mixed with a baby's cry and she smiled

His voice made her cry in happiness, she held him in her arms crying for a moment then laughing in the other, he was so small, so sweet and beautiful but the room was dark and she didn't notice at the beginning, the child didn't look like the emperor or her, He looked like "Damian" her lover.

She was shocked but also happy, what she went through with the emperor was no different than rape, he forced himself on her using the life of Damian against her

"Hah......hahahahaha" she laughed while looking at the child, she felt like she took revenge and she was happy beyond reason

"Mary, go bring me the bill we kept in the safe" Titiana ordered mary

"But your highness, you just gave birth and your body is so weak, you might die" mary tried to persuade Titiana against her decision but Titiana insisted

"I'm dead anyway if anyone sees the child, bring me that pill right now" Titiana glared at mary, she knew mary was worried about her, they were together every since they were young and were more like sisters than master and servant

That's why she only wanted Mary with her at birth, because she could never trust anyone else

Mary returned with the pill and reluctantly handed it to her lady

Titiana took the the pill without hesitation, there was no other choice, she will have to force her power path open so she can use her magic to change the boys appearance

After five minutes Titiana felt the power return to her body and she immediately performed her magic on the child and soon his hair changed from black to white and his eyes from an orange-red color to an Icy blue color and gave him the name Luke

The name her fiance Damian told her about.