A Cue For Love

A Cue for Love Chapter 1232–Natalie studied Bastien closely.

Sure enough, he’s the one who resembles Mikhail most among the latter’s many sons. His first instinctive reaction seems… exactly the same as his father’s.

Smiling, she shook her head. “Twenty years ago, I’ve never enjoyed the glory and prestige brought by the royal family. After more than twenty years have passed now, I similarly don’t need all that now. I’ve got no interest in being a princess or a queen in the future. Don’t you think it’s better to maintain the status quo?”

Verily, those words of hers were far too casual and nonchalant.

Although Loang wasn’t a huge country with vast territories, the fight for the position of the monarch was often accompanied by siblings killing each other throughout the ages. At the end of the day, no one with a stake really had zero desire for power.

Bastien was silent for a very long time.

Haha. the things I’d once cared about turned out to be wholly worthless in her eyes.

He wavered time and again, but ultimately, he couldn’t resist giving voice to the question he wanted to ask yet dared not do so. “Don’t you… Don’t you hate me? I once did such a thing to you and even almost… wronged you greatly.”

misunderstood the meaning of love. True love has never been about possession regardless of the cost.” Staring right into his eyes, Natalie enunciated, “Even without the blood ties

that very day, she had no

had fallen in love with him. Her feelings for him were so intense that they had seemingly been engraved into the marrow of her bones and melded

no other men existed for her.

to hate you, perhaps because of the same blood flowing through our veins. Or maybe it’s because I truly regarded

her words, Bastien’s lips curved into a faint arc that brimmed with

too small-minded. I selfishly wanted to possess her, yet she chose to let go of

we really… still be friends?” Bastien ventured with

re more suited to be friends.” Pausing briefly, Natalie continued, “I also heard that the king of Loang commended your performance during the coup and issued an

Inclined his head a

definitely

bitterness, love, and hatred. But right then, all that was no longer

become nourishment to his path in the future, making him an even