Chapter 221
Was it because she was caught off guard by the sudden, sensitive question? The answer came only after a brief pause.
“As far as I know, yes. But who’s to say? There could have been more hidden children besides me.”
“So your father wasn’t exactly the trustworthy type, I take it?”
“Well, isn’t that obvious? I’m living proof of that,” she said with a derisive smirk.
She spoke as if recounting a joke—how he was a man who never took a break from romance.
The Archduke thought that perhaps her claim of hating her father might not have been an exaggeration after all.
She mocked her own origins so naturally, without the slightest hint of awkwardness.
As if it were something she had done her whole life.
Iona stepped forward with an indifferent demeanor and stood beside the Archduke.