A Beauty With Multiple Masks

Clement hurled the stick at the floor and slapped himself out of guilt. Alicia felt her heart wrench at the sight and kneeled before her grandfather, begging him to stop hurting himself.

No matter how Clement pressed on, Alicia just would not tell him who the father of the child was. Alicia then told Clement that she would keep the child when he asked about her plans.

Clement disagreed with her decision but relented when she kneeled before him and cried. He would not let her do any household chores and asked her to take a good rest in the meantime.

“Grandpa, why are you making stew again?”

Alicia smiled at the sight of the stew that Clement served.

Her grandfather had come up with various recipes to make her good food every day. As a result, she had grown plumper. She reckoned that even Aaron would have trouble recognizing her right then.

Her mood took a downturn at the thought of Aaron. Alicia placed her hand gently on her belly as she missed the man dearly.

Aaron, I will give birth to the child and raise him properly. Don’t worry about us and be a good king.

Alicia talked to herself as she looked out the window.

“You’re pregnant, child. You have to take some good food, of course,” Clement said.

and refused to tell him

future if she decided to keep the

What will become of

still alive then, Clement knew he could somehow help her out. However, he could not help but wonder how Alicia would get by

young and unmarried girl with a child survive on

get dejected whenever he was overwhelmed by those thoughts. How he wished he

Grandpa!” Alicia

eyed his granddaughter with

You’re my granddaughter, child.

had in the whole world. As for Alicia’s father, Clement would rather think that he was

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finally done dealing with the matters

he directed capital from his other assets, he was still

both engrossed in toying

up and said, “Let’s go and

So soon?