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“Why was it you, of all people?” Simple. You were the most pitiful and the cheapest.”
She met him in the ruined marriage market after her family had fallen from grace.
Her husband, Lucas, was a capable businessman who had been devoted to her throughout their marriage.
Until the day of their anniversary, when she discovered the truth.
“You didn’t have to bankrupt the count’s family, did you?”
“It had to hit rock bottom. That’s the only way a lowborn bastard like me could dare to touch a noble lady.”
The man she had believed to be her saviour had turned out to be the very one who destroyed her family.
Yet her husband remained shameless.
“You know something? When stupidity goes too far, it becomes an illness.”
She loved him too much to forgive him.
But just when she had made up her mind to leave, Cordelia was struck by a wave of lost memories.
「For you, my lady, I’d do anything.」
Then she learned the real reason her husband had approached her.
A love cloaked in false salvation.
Cordelia’s downfall was far from over.