Awakening Love Reborn to Be His Duchess (Elowen Hale) novel Chapter 666

Chapter 666 What Was Owed

Elowen’s heart softened completely.

How can someone be this soft and sweet?

Then almost immediately, another thought followed.

Oh. Right. She’s mine.

At that moment, Elowen genuinely felt happier than she ever had in her life.

And once Emily settled comfortably into her mother’s arms, absolutely no one could coax her away again.

When the nurse reached out to take her back, Emily immediately turned her face aside and buried herself deeper against Elowen’s neck in protest.

Even after growing sleepy enough that her eyelids kept drooping shut, she still stubbornly wrapped both tiny arms around Elowen’s neck and refused to let go.

The servants nearby all looked helplessly amused, but Elowen merely smiled softly.

“It’s alright,” she said gently. “Let Poppy stay with me.”

By the time Cassian returned later that evening, the room had already gone completely quiet.

The moment he stepped inside, he saw both mother and daughter sleeping peacefully together on the

bed.

Emily lay curled tightly against Elowen’s chest, one/tiny pink hand wrapped firmly around Elowen’s finger.

Elowen slept on her side facing the child, one arm draped protectively over her daughter while her breathing rose and fell slow and even in deep sleep.

Cassian sat quietly beside the bed and watched them for a very long time.

Long enough for the fading sunlight beyond the windows to gradually shift from one side of the chamber to the other.

Only then did he reluctantly rise and head for the study to deal with the official matters still waiting for him.

The next morning, by the time Elowen finally woke, daylight had already flooded the entire room. She remained tangled lazily beneath the blankets without the slightest desire to get up.

She had slept deeply the night before, and now her mind still felt wrapped in haze, heavy and unfocused enough that she could barely think straight.

Turning over, she buried her face deeper into the pillow and nearly drifted back to sleep again

Then suddenly, footsteps approached from outside.

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The velvet bed curtains were pulled aside.

“Ella.”

Cassian’s voice.

Still half asleep, Elowen blinked her eyes open and saw him standing beside the bed, his brows drawn together slightly.

“The investigation into Alaric’s murder was officially concluded this morning,” he said quietly. “All responsibility was placed on Daphne. They’re burying him this afternoon. In the end, His Majesty still relented and allowed him to be laid to rest in the royal crypts.’

Elowen jolted fully awake instantly.

She sat upright so quickly the blankets nearly slid off the bed entirely before grabbing Cassian’s arm tightly.

“What about Alaric’s head?”

Cassian immediately turned his hand over and clasped hers in return.

“I left it outside the room.”

Elowen’s heartbeat slammed violently against her ribs.

She drew in a sharp breath, then another, but the pounding in her chest still refused to settle.

Without another word, she threw aside the blankets/and hurried to climb out of bed.

Cassian quickly stepped forward to steady her.

“Careful,” he said helplessly. “Slow down before you trip. At least put your shoes on first. The floor’s freezing.”

But Elowen was far too distracted to care.

She shoved her feet hurriedly into her slippers before standing upright and looking directly at him.

“Cassian,” she said slowly and clearly, “we’re leaving the city.”

Her fingers tightened around his wrist.

“I want to go see Ember.”

The carriage departed through the northern gates of Vanelle and traveled steadily farther from the capital.

The entire journey passed in silence.

Neither Elowen nor Cassian spoke.

The wooden box rested quietly in the corner of the carriage occasionally shifting with a dull nud

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whenever the wheels struck uneven ground.

Leaning silently against Cassian’s shoulder, Elowen kept staring toward the box the entire way there, stil unable to fully process the fact that everything had actually reached this point.

After traveling for nearly half an hour, the carriage finally stopped near the foot of a mountain trail.

Once they stepped down, Cassian carried the wooden box himself while Elowen lifted a heavy basket fille with fresh fruit and pastries.

Cassian led the w

She had neve

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to come

head while Elowen followed quietly behind him.

his path before.

ever dared ask where Ember had been burfed, nor had she ever found the courage

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handled everything quietly for her without ever forcing her before she was ready.

ollowed the narrow trail upward through the hills, and after ten minutes, the landscape

y rested deep within the mountainside, surrounded on all sides by thick green woodland d it completely from the outside world.

spread across the clearing like velvet.

he very center stood a grave.

not large, but it had clearly been cared for meticulously.

a single weed grew nearby, and pale white stones had been carefully arranged around the front of the ve marker.

lowen suddenly thought that Cassian truly understood her.

He loved her.

And because he loved her, he had also cared for the little mare she had loved so dearly.

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Ember had always adored beautiful places when she was alive, especially flowers and open fields.

Resting somewhere like this would have made her happy.

Elowen slowly crouched beside the grave and carefully arranged the fruit one piece at a time before the

marker.

Everything she brought had once been Ember’s favorite.

Finally, she spoke soft

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