Married a Secret Billionaire

“Martin!”

Carmella looked at him in horror as she clutched his hand. She scanned around—there were only a handful of guards in the main hall, and the two attendants were close to her.

She asked for everyone else to be dismissed, leaving her and Martin in the hall.

Carmella took a deep breath and told him softly, “I know that you feel guilty toward Helene, but the reality is as such. We have no other choice! Keeping her in the west palace for a peaceful rest and using the best medicine on her all these years are the best we can do for her!

“Besides, with what happened back then… she won’t ascend to this throne.”

Martin jolted, the past vaguely replaying in his mind.

Among the royal family siblings, he was the closest to Helene. He remembered that Helene had been intelligent, beautiful, and capable growing up. She was a noble and elegant princess to the others, but she turned into a cute and playful girl in front of her brother.

There was a stretch of beach outside the palace. It was Martin and Helene’s secret place.

The siblings would go there every day after school, taking off their shoes and chasing after waves barefoot. The seagulls would roam free in the sunset, and their laughter would echo throughout the beach. Sometimes, Helene would hop onto Martin when tired and ask him to walk carrying her.

“Helene, when you find a boyfriend next time, you have to find someone who can carry you like I do, you hear me?”

And if I can’t find

the talent—and the wealth of the whole of Southeast

if I can’t find one, I’ll stay in the palace forever, and you’ll carry me forever,

laughed and nodded.

joke at that time became a

really staying in the palace forever, but her brother, who had promised

when she saw him in a daze and

Martin snapped back to reality and turned

“Where are you going?”

lips and uttered with much difficulty. “I

could not believe that he was saying

the trip had been in vain. She had been

Now…

That child might not even be in Melorian anymore. Besides, if you do find her, can she reunite with Helene?

Helene might not get better either. As for the

hunched back was stiff and

by your emotions. Even if we didn’t do that back then, your mother wouldn’t have forgiven Helene! That child could never

a huge taboo of the royal family for her to give birth out of