The Dead Prince In My Arms: A Mother's Vengeance

Synopsis

When Crown Prince Edmund Ashford married Charlotte Somners, the chancellor's daughter, as his consort, I, Evelyn Winters, left Kingston. I took our four-year-old son Andy and departed, leaving only divorce papers. But half a year later, Andy fell gravely ill. The medicine that could save him cost ten gold coins a day. Watching my purse grow empty, I finally tore down one of the notices Edmund had posted across the Northwilds in search of me. And I returned to Eastwatch Palace on my own. Back at the palace, I became the model crown princess. No longer did I vie for his affection or weep, begging him to abandon his title so we could live as a simple couple, devoted only to each other. Even when I found him whispering intimately with a chambermaid, I simply closed the door gently for them and ordered bath water prepared in advance. Yet it was he who stormed out, eyes blazing, and shattered the water basin at my feet. "I have already defied the entire court to demote Charlotte to a concubine and raised you, a woman from a cookshop, to be my princess consort!" he shouted. "What more must I do?"