Chapter 44

Isadel was seized by the illusion that time had stopped.

The fact that Gyllen was her father's son did not easily feel real. That the man she had regarded all her life only as her instructor was in truth her half-brother.

The fact that Gyllen was her father's son did not easily feel real. That the man she had regarded all her life only as her instructor was in truth her half-brother.

Her mind stubbornly denied it, yet strangely, acceptance came quickly.

Perhaps it was because she well knew that her late father had been greatly given to womanizing. She had guessed that beyond the children of Hildwin, the official heir, there might be several illegitimate children outside the imperial palace.

But they had always been people unrelated to her. Illegitimate children without titles had no way of being recognized as members of the imperial house, nor any reason to…