Chapter 214: Getting closer

Chapter 214: Getting closer

She chuckled before turning to look at the pink glow of the setting sun before closing her eyes and breathing in the sea breeze, her anger calmed down a little. " If it makes you feel better, I don’t know how to be a good wife or a lover either. I have never felt the confidence to be with a man before, something always held me back... maybe it’s my insecurities but I couldn’t help but believe that no one would ever like me for who I am..." she paused and turned her head to look at Yakov before smiling mockingly as she said, " There was one time when I asked a man why he liked me and the only response he could give was that I was beautiful when I pressed him for more, he simply looked me dead in the eye and said, is there more than that, understandably I was quite with him and yet he didn’t understand why I was furious."

Yakov chuckled he wasn’t surprised that the man wasn’t able to see through her, she was far more secure and wrapped up in a protective layer, and even he as the chancellor of the empire was having a hard time understanding her, of course, no normal man would have been able to hold her down. " Is he the same man who made you feel like you were worthless?"

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