BAMG 03

BAMG

Posted by Akame, Released on September 1, 2026

Chapter 3

‘What?’

For a moment, her heart dropped and sank.

‘Our child?’

With trembling eyes, she looked at the two of them.

Before she realized it, Elodie had already leaned her face into Damien’s arms, whispering in a coy voice.

“What if our child ends up becoming an illegitimate child like this? I’m scared.”

Damien, holding Elodie in his arms, replied,

“Don’t worry. There’s no way I’d let our child become illegitimate. We just need to get rid of Anesa before the child is born.”

At the same time, Damien pressed a kiss to the back of Elodie’s neck, which was fully exposed.

“Haa, Damien.”

A breath mixed with pleasure slipped from Elodie’s lips.

It would be accurate to say her heart had been butchered. They were half-sisters, yet it was the betrayal of the sister she had trusted and relied on in a foreign land, and the husband she loved.

Anesa shook her head as if she couldn’t believe it. In the shock of the moment, had she unconsciously taken a step back?

She accidentally stepped on the hem of her dress and fell. With a loud thud, the moans that had been coming from the room abruptly stopped.

Only then did Anesa come to her senses and try to get up to run away. At that moment, the door flew open.

“Anesa!”

Damien and Elodie were looking down at her with startled expressions.

But only for a moment. Damien quickly composed his face and helped the fallen Anesa to her feet.

“Why are you lying here? Are you alright?”

As if nothing had happened, he whispered in a gentle voice.

“If you’re not feeling well, we should call a doctor—”

Just as he reached out to brush Anesa’s cheek, Anesa sharply slapped his hand away.

“You filthy bastard. How could you, with my sister…”

“…Anesa.”

For a brief moment, Damien’s eyes trembled in surprise. Soon, his expression hardened coldly as he spoke.

“So you saw everything after all?”

The tone that had just been worrying about Anesa had disappeared, replaced by a cold voice.

“Well, that might actually be better. I was wondering how I should tell you.”

“……”

“I’ll just be honest. As you know, your reputation isn’t good right now. It’d be impossible for you to become empress like this.”

“What are you trying to say?”

“Divorce me. Go down to some provincial estate and live quietly, or return to Edelite.”

“Damien! You… How could you do this to me…!”

At her desperate cry, Elodie, who had been silently watching the two of them, cut in.

“What can we do, Anesa. Even if you became empress, it wouldn’t benefit Damien at all. Even now, people outside are shouting for you to be killed, aren’t they? And the child in your belly…”

Elodie looked at Anesa’s stomach with mocking eyes.

“Honestly, even you don’t know whether it’s Damien’s child or not, do you? In that state, how could you dare think of becoming empress? There’s a limit to how shameless someone can be.”

“Sister!”

Elodie also knew. She knew that Anesa had taken on that disgrace because Damien had ordered her to.

And the one who had comforted her then, who had blamed Damien, had been Elodie herself.

“How could you do this to me…”

It felt as if everything had collapsed. The world she loved and believed in seemed to crumble into dust.

Anesa shook her head in disbelief.

“I won’t forgive this. I’ll tell everyone everything!”

She wouldn’t just endure this silently. At the very least, she wanted the world to know that guiding the First Prince had been Damien’s scheme.

Even if she couldn’t stop him from becoming emperor, she could at least stain Damien’s reign.

The world needed to know he was a vile man who would even sell his own wife to become emperor.

With those words, Anesa ran with all her strength.

“Anesa!”