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“Oxana is my mother,” Demyan asserted with absolute assurance

“And you would do anything for her and the man you consider your father, even marry some socially backward American scientist to protect the Yurkovich financial interests” She said scientist as if it was a dirty word

Chanel almost smiled She’d never considered her vocation as beyond the pale before

“That is enough, Svitlana” The king’s tone was again harsh, his expression forbidding

“Oh, so you haven’t told her?” Duke Zaretsky asked snidely, clearly ignoring his king’s evident wrath and this tilish “I could alave up hundreds ofyou and she doesn’t even know it”

There could be no doubt the duke was talking about Chanel, but the words made absolutely no sense

“I didn’t give up anything and gained everythingDemyan,” she fiercely asserted

The duchess looked at her pityingly “You have no idea, but no reen, until you spoke your vows three hours ago, you were a twenty-percent owner in Yurkovich Tanner”

“I wasn’t My great-great-grandfather left his shares to the Volyarussian people” He’d told her great-grand with the family Bible

“And they have been used to finance infrastructure, schools and hospitals since then,” the king assured her

She s deot the scholarship Your country is kind of ay conservation”

“I alad you think so”

“That ’s sister insisted “Until you married my son”

The clai to make an awful kind of sense, but Chanel had no intention of allowing the two emotional vultures in front of her to know about the splinters of pain slicing their way through Chanel’s heart

She simply said, “He’s not your son”

“Would you like to see your grandfather’s will?” the duke asked, clearly unwilling to give up

Two things were obvious in that moment The first was that there had to be so If there wasn’t, Deorically denied it