Awakening Love Reborn to Be His Duchess (Elowen Hale) novel Chapter 634

Chapter 634 The Truth She Hated

Elowen’s frown deepened.

“Then the people you should resent are your parents, not me.”

Daphne’s eyes instantly sharpened.

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“But that wasn’t even the worst part.” Her voice rose with emotion. “Afterward, the story spread through Vanelle. People whispered about me everywhere. My father’s colleagues heard about it, their wives heard about it, their children heard about it, and suddenly everyone was gossiping behind my back like I was the disgrace instead of the man who hurt me.”

Elowen froze slightly.

“What are you talking about?”

Daphne stared at her coldly.

“If you didn’t tell people, then why do you think my father suddenly left Hale Manor?” she demanded. “Serving under General Hale was a respected position. He left because he couldn’t bear the humiliation anymore.”

Her voice trembled with years of resentment.

“That’s why I hated you. Why did someone like you get admired by everyone around you while I was the one suffering? I was the victim, but my parents blamed me and the entire city laughed at me.” Her breathing became uneven. “I wanted to take everything from you. I wanted you miserable the same way I was.”

She stared at Elowen with reddened eyes.

“My father resigned and took an appointment outside the capital for several years. By the time we returned, most people in Vanelle had already forgotten what happened.” Her voice lowered bitterly. “But I never forgot. I remembered how you pretended to help me while secretly ruining my life afterward.”

Elowen looked at her quietly.

“I never told anyone about what happened to you.”

Daphne laughed coldly without hesitation.

“You expect me to believe that?” Her eyes filled with hostility again. “Can you swear it? Can you swear on your children’s lives?”

Elowen’s expression did not change.

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“Daphne, if I had truly wanted to expose that story, I could’ve done it years ago.” Her voice remained calm and steady. “When you were living in the Crown Prince’s Wing, the two of us fought constantly. If I’d wanted revenge badly enough, I could have destroyed your reputation completely by revealing the truth. You never would’ve remained Crown Princess after that.”

Daphne’s mocking expression slowly stiffened.

“But I never used it against you,” Elowen continued. “Because I never considered what happened to you shameful. The disgrace belonged to the man who harmed you, not to you.”

The room fell silent.

For the first time, uncertainty appeared in Daphne’s eyes.

Elowen had remembered.

Which also meant Elowen had possessed this secret all along.

After the two of them openly turned against each other, Elowen could easily have weaponized the story and ruined her completely.

But she never did.

She never had.

And if she had not done it then…

Then perhaps she truly had not done it back then either.

Daphne’s pupils slowly widened.

“No…” she whispered faintly. “It wasn’t you?”

Elowen did not answer.

Panic gradually surfaced across Daphne’s face as she staggered backward.

“If it wasn’t you, then who was it?” she muttered in confusion. “Who told everyone?”

Everything she had believed for years suddenly felt unstable.

Back then, after people began whispering behind her back and mocking her openly, she had convinced herself there were only a few people who knew the truth besides the man who hurt

her.

Only Elowen’s family knew.

So it had to be Elowen.

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That certainty became the root of all her hatred toward Hale family.

But now…

Daphne stood frozen in place while her thoughts descended into chaos.

All those years of resentment, all those nights spent crying into her blankets until dawn, suddenly felt directionless.

“Hm.”

Cassian, who had remained silent the entire time, finally glanced sideways toward her.

“So you’re the girl who let someone grope her in exchange for candied fruit?”

Daphne’s eyes widened instantly.

“How… how do you know that?”

Cassian answered with complete indifference.

“Alaric mentioned it once.”

Daphne froze.

Alaric?

Cassian’s tone remained flat and emotionless.

“He brought it up casually at the palace years ago, apparently thinking it was amusing. I didn’t pay much attention to it at the time, and he probably forgot about it himself soon afterward.”

At that moment, Daphne suddenly remembered something.

The rumors had not spread immediately after Elowen stood up for her.

It happened nearly three months later.

And during that period, Elowen had already left Vanelle with her mother and brother to visit her grandfather in the countryside.

By the time they returned near winter’s end, the gossip had already circulated through the capital for months.

It really had not been Elowen.

Back then, Daphne had hidden herself inside the house after the incident, too ashamed to go

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