Love's Unexpected Awakening Elowen's Choice novel Chapter 201

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Elowen turned her face slightly and asked, “Where is the Crown Prince?”

Cassian answered calmly. “That day I struck him hard enough that he lost consciousness and was carried back to the Crown Prince’s Wing. He woke later that night, and His Majesty ordered ten strokes of the rod. He is covered in injuries now, running a high fever, recovering in the Crown Prince’s Wing.”

“Recovering,” Elowen repeated quietly, her eyes unfocused as if speaking to herself. “Still wrapped in silk and velvet. Still waited on by servants. Still attended by the finest physicians and the most expensive medicines.”

Beaten once. Hit a few times. And that’s enough for him to go on living like some pampered Crown

Prince?

She closed her eyes briefly, then asked, “Cassian where is Aunt Elspeth?”

“She has been staying at Duskmoor Manor these past two days,” Cassian replied.

Elowen looked startled. “She’s here?”

Cassian lowered his gaze. “She blames herself for not protecting you.”

Elowen was silent for a moment before saying softly, “Cassian, I would like to see her.”

“Now?”

“Yes. Now.”

Cassian studied her for a few seconds, then glanced toward Cora. “Go and invite her.”

Before long, Elspeth arrived.

Elowen looked up at her and thought she seemed thinner than before.

“Ella…”

Elspeth stood by the bed, wanting to step closer to comfort her, to apologize, yet guilt crowded her thoughts and she did not know where to begin.

Elowen managed a faint smile. “Aunt, I’m all right. I slept for two days. I’m better now.”

The words made Elspeth’s eyes redden at once.

If Elowen had blamed her, she might have felt less burdened. Instead, the girl was the one

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offering reassurance.

“Truly,” Elowen added earnestly. “Once I recover we’ll go out together again.”

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Elspeth took a breath and steadied herself. “Ella I should tell you the truth. The day before the hunt, the Marquess came to Vanelle. That was why I arrived late. After the hunt began, someone came to inform me that his cousin Lydia had also come to Vanelle. Lydia and the Marquess have… a complicated history. Her family has never favored her. Her husband died last year, and she clung to him afterward. He took her in out of sympathy. I have argued with him over this many times. When I heard she had arrived, I hurried back immediately.”

Elowen remembered hearing the words “Marquess” and “Lydia” that day.

But speaking of it now changed nothing.

She was about to say it did not matter.

“But the more I thought about it,” Elspeth continued, her tone turning cold, “the more something felt wrong. Lydia is a woman alone. How did she reach Vanelle? The residence I am staying in was newly purchased. How did she find it so easily? Someone clearly arranged. all of it in advance.”

Her expression hardened further. “I have already begun investigating. I will uncover the truth soon. Whoever caused your injury will pay for it.

Then, more gently though still somewhat stiffly, she added, “Rest. Do not worry about anything.”

She turned and left.

Soon after, Cora returned with medicine.

“I will feed her,” Cassian said, taking the bowl naturally.

Mira helped Elowen sit up. “Your Grace fed you these past two days as well, when you were

unconscious.”

Elowen only nodded.

Cassian lifted a spoonful, cooled it with a breath and held it to her lips. She opened her mouth obediently and swallowed.

After a few sips, she asked slowly, “Did you use the spoon I prepared before?”

Cassian looked puzzled. “What spoon?”

Elowen frowned faintly. “If not that… then how did you-

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Cassian did not look away. “I used my mouth.”

She froze. A faint flush rose to her pale cheeks.

A subtle curve touched his lips. This, at least, looked more like the Elowen he knew.

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