Became A Queen After divorce

Declan dismissed everyone around him, including his most trusted butler Brody, and went to the dungeon alone.

The kerosene lamp on the wall cast a dim light, and the woman’s shadow on the wall appeared solitary.

The silent woman glanced at him indifferently before closing her eyes to rest. Her attitude remained as cold as ever.

However, Declan’s keen intuition detected something unusual in her expression.

“Have you seen Pearl?” he asked directly.

The woman’s pupils trembled under her long hair, but she quickly feigned calmness and shook her head.

“I don’t know any Pearl. Is she another one of your lovers?” Natalia’s eyes were clear, filled only with deep sarcasm as she mentioned the women he kept outside.

Her attitude infuriated Declan. He lifted her chin with his cane, forcing her to meet his gaze.

“It doesn’t matter if you deny it. That lock can only be opened with a specific key.”

“And there’s only one key, which I placed in a hidden compartment. Only you saw where I hid it, so you’re the only one who could tell Pearl where it is!”

Pearl had appeared before him with that child on her back, proving that they had met and even recognized each other.

Despite this, Natalia continued to argue:

“I’ve been locked here for over twenty years. Besides you, I haven’t seen a single soul.”

“If you insist that I’ve seen some woman named Pearl, then fine, just to make you happy.”

“Danny, you’re so pathetic. Because I don’t love you, you found a bunch of women who look like me.”

“Too bad they don’t love you either. They only love your money, hahaha.”

“Tell me, what part of this Pearl looks like me? Is it her eyes or her nose?”

Her wild laughter echoed in the narrow dungeon, making Declan’s face turn livid with anger.

He gritted his teeth and said, “Whether you love me or not no longer matters. You’ll always be mine!”

“And… Pearl is not one of those women.”

“She is our daughter, the child you gave birth to and almost drowned in the bathtub!”

“Natalia, you’re heartless. You don’t deserve to be her mother!”

Reflecting on the events of the night, Declan noticed a significant change in Pearl’s attitude towards him. He concluded that Natalia must have said something to turn his daughter against him.

Natalia, seeing her plot exposed, no longer pretended. She admitted openly:

“Yes, I saw her and told her all about your ‘glorious past’ when you were young.”

“What? Did I not speak the truth?”

“Danny, you dare to do but not to admit? Or are you afraid your daughter will see your true colors?”

If anyone else had spoken to him this way, Declan would have shot them dead. But this was the woman he had loved all his life. No matter how angry he was, he couldn’t bring himself to hit her.

“You!”

“Sigh!”

Declan roared in frustration. His fist grazed her beautiful face and landed on the wall beside her with a thud.

The iron bars remained unmoved, but his hand was bloodied.

A heavy aura of anger surrounded him, making the atmosphere unbearably tense.

“Putting aside our grievances, Pearl genuinely sees you as her mother. How could you bear to hurt her?”Belongs to (N)ôvel/Drama.Org.

He had always lied to Pearl that her mother was dead to spare her the pain of knowing Natalia didn’t like her.

Years had passed, and the lie had taken root. Explaining it now was too difficult, so he kept delaying it.

He never expected the secret to be revealed so quickly before he could explain it to Pearl.

“Putting aside grievances? How can I put them aside?”

“Don’t forget it was you who forced me to give birth to that child!”

“If it weren’t for you, I wouldn’t have had her. And my son… He was already five months old when you took him from me!”

It turned out Natalia had a son besides Pearl. She had given birth to him with her later husband in Fustroydor. After Declan found out, he killed her husband.

In the process of forcibly taking her away, she miscarried due to his negligence.

The five-month-old fetus was already formed-a handsome boy.

Since then, Natalia’s body was damaged, and she could no longer have children. Losing her son was an eternal pain in her heart.

And the person who inflicted all this pain on her was Declan, who claimed to love her.

Declan knew he owed her for causing her miscarriage because he couldn’t bear his beloved woman loving another man.

“In the end, it’s because of me that you hate her. Pearl is also your daughter… Can’t you be a little fairer to her?”

Natalia laughed as if hearing a joke.

“Fair? You want me to be fair to her? When have you ever been fair to me? When has this cruel world ever been fair to me?”

She wanted revenge! She wanted to see them turn against each other! She wanted to see Danny end up alone!

Only then could she heal her wounded soul.

“You’re insane!”

Declan turned away in disappointment. The ruthless woman before him looked exactly like the Natalia he once loved but was no longer the kind-hearted lady of the Cunningham family he remembered.

“The Natalia I knew was kind, talented, gentle, and understanding.”

He could never forget that day over twenty years ago when he lay dying at the Cunningham family’s door from poison.

He thought he would die quietly until she appeared and gave him hope.

“You wore a white dress that day, your long hair flowing like a spring breeze in March.”

“But now you’ve become like this!”

Natalia paused for a few seconds before coldly mocking him again: “Why I’ve become like this? Don’t you know? It’s all because of you! You pushed me to the brink of madness! How dare you say I’ve changed? You caused all this!”

Her words hit Declan like a wake-up call. He murmured softly:

“You’re right… It’s all because of me…”