Beast King'S Crippled Mate novel Chapter 288

Chapter 288: Chapter 288: I am selfish...

Swan was still crying in a marble pavilion, surrounded by rows of beautiful and fragrant fall flowers that seemed to have no end. Yet, even this marvelous view couldn’t stop her from weeping for one second.

"My dearest daughter, you have been crying for weeks in Earth realm’s time. Are you not tired?" Asmara, Goddess of the Sun, walked towards the pavilion. She wore a gown similar to her sister, the Moon Goddess, but it was gold in color instead.

Her face was covered with light, so nobody could see it, not even her daughter.

Swan tried to suppress her cry until it was nothing but muffled sobs.

"My apologies, Mom. I was just... sad..."

"Because of your husband?"

...

Swan nodded.

Asmara sat next to her daughter on the marble pavilion, and gently caressed Swan’s golden hair, "You are the one who prayed to me, so I will take you out of the earth realm. You wished to be sea foam, to be dust, to be a nameless star that exploded and disappeared forever. I am merely granting what you wished for."

"I know, Mom..." Swan lowered her head. If she could be honest, she still didn’t regret what she had done by taking herself out of the earthly realm, because it was too painful to exist in a world where Gale kissed another woman. "Back then, I kept telling myself I was nothing to him. So I thought it would be fine for him to get another woman after me. As long as he kept me alive, it would be a blessing in disguise."

"I kept telling him to find another woman to satiate himself and pushed him away from time to time," Swan confessed. "But when I saw him kissing another woman, I felt like my entire body had turned cold, and I felt so bitter that I wished I would never see him for the rest of my life."

Swan clenched her dress, which was similar to what her Goddess mother wore. Her belly bump had grown a bit since the last time she left earth.

"I-I know I am selfish. I shouldn’t have hogged him all for myself. But I can’t. So I... I just want to disappear, so Gale can be with whoever woman he wants without having to think about me and our baby anymore," Swan said. "I remember that time when my late father, King Tyrion, was so burdened after having me. He treated me like I never existed. He allowed my stepmother and half-sister to bully me nonstop until my leg got crippled. I don’t want my son to experience the same pain I had; born unloved and unprotected by his father."

"Didn’t he apologize and beg you not to leave?" Asmara recalled.

"He also told me that he loves me many times, Mom. He told me that I was his only one. He told me that he had never been in love before," Swan muttered. "How am I supposed to believe that his apology is genuine?"

...

The Sun Goddess wanted to show that the cursed wolf was affected by aphrodisiac and illusion. However, knowing the approaching danger from Great Witch Harsetti, the Sun Shadow, when Swan was still pregnant, Asmara decided to keep it hidden for now, at least until Swan had safely given birth to her son.