Goodbye You Never Loved Me novel (Martha and Stefan) novel Chapter 503

Chapter 503 Do you want to kill her?

After leaving the royal palace, Martha went to the hotel where Stefan was staying.

She had started to doubt Catherine, but she didn't think King Ducasse was a good person to confide in.

"You're here," said Stefan as soon as he opened the door and saw his beloved woman. His eyes lit up at the sight of her.

He hadn't expected Martha to come see him so early.

Martha looked at him with a serious expression and walked into the room. Stefan noticed that something was wrong with her and furrowed his brows in concern.

"What's wrong? Did something happen?" he asked, his voice laced with worry.

Martha sat down on the sofa and slowly recounted what had happened earlier that day, "This morning, one of Catherine Queen Dowager's guards came to the Lucas family looking for me. He said that Catherine Queen Dowager wanted to see me."

"Did she trouble you?" asked Stefan anxiously as he took a step forward towards her. He looked at her with worried eyes.

If Martha were to say that she didn't want to marry King Ducasse, Catherine would probably become furious. Had Martha been mistreated by the royal family?

As these thoughts ran through his mind, he asked again, "Are you hurt anywhere?"

Martha shook her head slightly before speaking out about what was troubling her, "She didn't make things difficult for me, but I disagreed to marry into the royal family. She said that I, like my mother, didn't know the good from the bad."

Catherine's eyes at that time were vicious and angry, completely different from what she usually saw, which only fueled more suspicion within Martha's heart.

Stefan's face darkened when he heard this, and a gloomy voice sounded in the room-

"According to what you said, Catherine Queen Dowager of Country Z must hold some grudge against your mother."

"Yes, that's what I suspect. I suspect that there must be some unknown grievance between her and my mother."

Martha's hand on her side tightened unconsciously, while feeling an inkling inside of herself - as long as she knew the grievances involved, the real culprit who killed her mother would also be found.

Sitting across from each other now, Stefan nodded along before delving deeper into analysis over their suspicions together in hushed tones.

"The Hopper family has finally become a member of the royal family. Shouldn't they continue to have their own family members become the next queen to consolidate the Hopper family's position?"

Stefan paused and then continued, "By choosing you as Z Country's queen, isn't Catherine Queen Dowager pushing the Lucas family back into power again? The Hopper family's influence may not be as strong as it is now."

Stefan sensed that Catherine had a hidden agenda for choosing Martha to marry King Ducasse and become Z Country's queen. Martha agreed with Stefan's rational analysis.

"You are right, and before that, I heard Sam say that the Hopper family and the Lucas family had been hostile towards each other for a hundred years, so I suspect that Catherine has her own reasons for letting me marry into the royal family."

However, she didn't know what the reason was.

She furrowed her brows at this thought and remembered how hostile Catherine had been towards her mother earlier today.

"I could clearly feel her deep hostility towards my mother in her chamber today," Martha said.