The Ruined Heiress's Deal With The Regent

Chapter 6

Word Count: 1020 | Released on: 17/06/2026

e frigid air. The bitter interrogation was officially over. The entire atmosphere of the hall shifted abruptly in an instant. This was no longer a petty inter

, firmly seizing the sobbing, collapsed Lydia, the pale terrified Faye, and Jed Tucker who sat rigidly on the ground with empty, numb eyes. They dragged the three culprits out of the grand hall without mercy. The towering iron-studded oak doors slamme

e a deadly apex predator slowly uncoiling its muscles before striking its prey. He strode steadily toward her, his to

w, emotionless murmur stripped of any trace of warmth or kindness. "Fa

nd suffocating degree. Sloane had to tilt her chin back slightly to hold steady against

"Before we talk about us, Your Highness, the internal chaos of my House must be

f cold warning flashing across his irises. "Are you

offering you a valuable political asset. A united, stable House Michael free of internal betrayal and strife wi

. "Are you referring to that special kind of 'use' you d

led to rattle her

understand this better than anyone alive. My Scarlet Fervor and your Frostb

rom his lips. Royal physicians had spent a whole decade exhaustively researching his fatal frost curse, yet never found a single effective solution or

without hesitation. "What happened in the forest tonight is only a temporary relief, a makeshift stopgap. Without standardized, cont

ightly to hers. From this moment on,

spinning rapidly to weigh all risks and benefits. After a long paus

ward. First, you must guarantee my lifelong personal safety unconditionally. Second, I need your tacit ro

dition sink deep into his mind. "In exchange, I will give you the one p

ing the gap between them further. "I

nly bargaining chip, laid ou

st you?" he questioned, his voice th

ss," she whispered, lowering her voice into a soft, intimate tone only for his ears, "I am the o

against his in the forest-a craving his body could not resist, even when his rational mind tried to re

d been trapped in an endless freezing winter for ten long

e, he finally yielded. "Lydia Michael

ion marked his co

ad undoubtedly won the first bru

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Alfred History

“Elara carried a dormant second self-Sloane, forged from a year of border warfare after cousin Lydia sold her into slavery. Rescued and amnesiac, Elara forgot it all-until Lydia's poison shattered her gentle host, unleashing the soldier. But she barely had time to reclaim her dark instincts before a grimy groundskeeper lunged at her in the dark woods. Her sweet, smiling cousin Lydia hadn't just poisoned her with the deadly Scarlet Heat toxin. Lydia had paid this man to defile her, wanting Elara's reputation completely annihilated before the poison finally stopped her heart. As the agonizing heat threatened to cook Sloane's brain, Lydia burst into the clearing with a crowd of royal guards and exquisitely dressed nobles. "Oh, Elara! How could you? With a common servant. Have you no shame?" Lydia played the horrified sister perfectly, weeping and screaming about Elara's unimaginable depravity. In the eyes of the disgusted onlookers, Elara's already-tarnished reputation was dead and buried. She was meant to die an agonizing death as a ruined pariah, while Lydia stepped over her corpse to take her place as the Prince Regent's fiancée. It was a flawless, vicious trap designed to destroy a helpless noble girl. But Lydia didn't know that the soul inside Elara's body was a battle-hardened soldier. And she certainly didn't know that the "common servant" Sloane had just desperately kissed to survive the poison wasn't the groundskeeper. The crowd's whispers died instantly as the man in the shadows stepped forward, his glacial eyes sweeping over them. It was Damian Sinclair, the terrifying Prince Regent himself, whom Lydia had just accused of being a lowly servant engaged in filth. Sloane crossed her arms, a cold, mocking smile touching her lips as she watched her cousin collapse in terror. The real show was just beginning.”