Chương 110: The Ultimate Sacrifice

"Do you think I'm cursed, Mint?"

"Mistress, why would you say such a thing?"

I huffed. "It seems like it... Everything I have ever loved gets taken away from me in a snap" I said, my eyes at the window as the heavy rain poured.

"It has never stopped raining since that day... since the day that soldier came," I said in a heavy breath.

"Mistress", his tone of worry.

"Do you think the heavens feel my sadness too?" I turned to him, his sad eyes on me.

"Maybe they do," I add. "Mother said I failed this family, I failed this house"

"Mistress do not think like that, she didn't mean what she said"

"She's right, you know?" I said with a forced smile placing a hand on my flat belly. "I should have carried his legacy after his death but the line ended with him, I have failed"