“Rabiana Selden. I paid a fair price to have you.”

Her groom was changed—on the day of the wedding, no less.

A cold, arrogant voice rang in Rabiana’s ears.

After losing her family and her sight in an accident as a child, she had been living under the care of others.

But she never wanted to be sold off like this, forced into marriage.

“Bear my child. Once you do, I’ll send you wherever you wish.”

Unilateral words spoken without the slightest care.

Duke Alberto Vel Roen was that kind of man.

“Why me, of all people?”

“Because you’re a woman I don’t need to concern myself with.”

“…Please, keep your promise to let me go.”

Rabiana made up her mind.

Once she gave birth to his child, once he abandoned her—

she would end this wretched life herself.

***

Alberto had thought little of marrying Rabiana.

He didn’t even recognize the emotions stirring within himself.

He assumed a woman with nothing to her name would quietly serve his purpose.

“Don’t come. Go back, Your Grace.”

“You… intend to leave me?”

Only now, when he could no longer stop her,

did he realize what a fool he had been.

Rabiana, who had always been within reach,

was now coldly trying to go somewhere he could never find her.

“Rabiana!”

His desperate cry shook the forest.