The Crown I Will Take From You - Chapter 212

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Part 2, Chapter 59

“Ma, Madam.”

Her husband’s bedroom, which she rarely visited. She had neither the leisure nor the intention to wait around.

“Madam, please calm down and compose yourself…”

“Should I tear that mouth apart before you’ll move?”

Catherine, ignoring Raju’s roundabout words, pushed aside the terrified maid and strode boldly into the bedroom.

“Kyaa-! How naughty, really-!”

“…Haha, yes, yes…”

The coquettish high notes overlapping with a man’s baritone grated on her nerves.

But step by step. Step by step.

As Catherine approached the bedroom door, the voices became clearly audible.

“Just bear sons. Healthy and robust children. If you do that, I’ll give you anything.”

“Really? Will you really give me anything?”

“Of course. Naturally, if you only bear sons, what couldn’t I give you? You’d be the benefactor who continued my lineage when it was about to be cut off.”

His relaxed tone was filled with perfect satisfaction, as if he had become a golden king with nothing to want.

“Hmm, even if I asked you to chase away your wife and give me her position?”

“Hehe, you cunning thing. You want to become Joaquin’s real wife? Fine, I’ll make it all happen, so prepare yourself well. I’ll even hold a grand and magnificent wedding for you.”

“Kyaang!”

Catherine clenched her hands. Her nails dug painfully into her flesh.

That old man behind the door, flirting with a woman and promising marriage, was her husband.

Though there may have been no love, he was her husband and lifelong companion who had raised children together and shared life’s ups and downs for over ten years.

Shock and betrayal surged like a tsunami from deep in her chest.

“Heo, heo…”

Catherine clutched at her chest.

It felt like her heart was collapsing. Her vision was dizzy and she couldn’t breathe.

But the pain soon transformed into boiling rage. She shot up abruptly.

And bang-!

Catherine flung open the bedroom door.

“Joaquin-! You shameless man-!”

“Wha, what?!”

Joaquin jumped up from his spot as if he’d seen a ghost.

“Catherine? Why are you here now…”

Half-naked Joaquin spotted his wife standing like a sentinel at the doorway and hesitated for just a moment.

“Th, this is no, no, nothing…!”

Soon he realized his wife had caught him with the woman lying beside him.

“What are you doing right now?”

At his wife’s frosty question, the color drained from Joaquin’s face.

Catherine wasn’t stupid. And she knew her husband to the bone.

“I should be going now.”

“You handle it yourself. There’s no need to bother me with trivial matters.”

Recently cold Joaquin, who didn’t hide his lack of interest in his son’s affairs, his mind occupied elsewhere.

That bastard worse than a dog had given up on his disabled child and was trying to have a new one.

Though she herself had maintained a long romantic relationship with Raju, Catherine paradoxically trembled with rage at her husband’s infidelity.

She was righteous.

She prided herself on having done her duty to this family just by bearing that human trash’s child from her own womb.

Yet to witness firsthand this pathetic sight of him abandoning both wife and child to please some mongrel woman of unknown origin, all for the sake of continuing some insignificant lineage, filled her with humiliation.

Catherine’s face became fierce and red like an angry bull. She charged straight at Joaquin.

“How can you do this! Right now, when your son is in such a state! You have the mind to do such filthy things? Huh? You beast! You bastard worse than a dog!”

“Are, are you crazy?”

“Then should I not go crazy? When you’re in this state? I’ll kill you! I’ll kill you both!”

“Kyaaak-! Pl, please spare me!”

It was chaos.

“What did I do! How can you treat me like this!”

“What did you do?! Frankly speaking, who do you think allowed you to live so well after marrying me? Frankly, if a mother had taken proper care of her child, would Samon be lying there like that now? Huh?”

Joaquin, who had been frantically clawed and beaten, began shouting at the top of his lungs.

“I did nothing wrong! If we’re being honest, you’re the one who didn’t take proper care of the child, so you’re the cause!”

“What makes you so great, Joaquin?! An incompetent fool with no presence blaming others? I endured it because we were family, but you dare betray me-!”

Catherine lunged at her husband and his mistress like a madwoman. Red nail marks were carved into Joaquin’s chest.

Through the sharp pain, he soon spotted Raju behind Catherine.

‘Bringing even the Count to storm in and grind her husband’s face into the dirt, there should be limits…!’

Joaquin was already feeling inferior about his son Samon neglecting him and staying close to Raju.

Rage surged at the thought that he had shown Raju all of this disgraceful behavior – not only committing adultery but getting caught by his wife.

“This crazy woman really-!”

Smack-!

A sharp sound of flesh hitting flesh rang out.

Catherine, who had been knocked down by the impact, sat clutching her cheek with wide eyes.

Words tumbled out stammering as if she couldn’t believe it.

“…Di, did you just… hit me?”

Joaquin bit his lip. He too was greatly flustered.

He hadn’t intended to raise his hand like that, but thinking he had to stop his wife somehow in front of Raju-

“Y, you were acting like a crazy lunatic! Even disrespecting your husband has limits! How dare you raise your hand so insolently? Do you think you’re still the Duchess you used to be?”

“Where do you get off talking big?! You’re nothing special either! Just a common citizen who’s not even a Duke and was even expelled from the royal registry!”

“Shut up-!”

She too, with her reason clouded by the drug’s effects, couldn’t easily restrain her harsh words.

“I’m glad Valdina didn’t fall into the hands of someone as foolish and shameless as you. Ha! The throne? Be honest?! You were nothing compared to the previous king! You can’t even compare to your nephew, the current king! That’s your level. This kind of dirty scheme is exactly the level that suits you.”

As Catherine refused to give up and kept shouting, Joaquin became even angrier.

The faint guilt that had been rising in his chest instantly withered away.

“This woman really-!”

He kicked toward his wife who had fallen to the floor. Or tried to.

“Ueoeok-!”

Until he was knocked down by Raju’s punch.

It was the moment Joaquin slapped Catherine’s cheek.

Fire flashed in Raju’s eyes. Flames began to surge in his chest.

Already anxious about Jared’s situation, he witnessed his beloved being struck right before his eyes.

He couldn’t help but see red.

“Do you know what I’ve done because of your pathetic son? And yet you dare hit my woman?”

Heok. Heok.

Raju could see nothing.

The old hatred he harbored blinded his eyes.

Joaquin Claudio.

The bastard who stole his woman for life, acting like some great Valdina royal.

The bastard who made him raise his daughter as someone else’s!

He had always wanted to smash that arrogant face someday.

“Keo, keok-! St, stop!”

“Heok, heok…”

I’ll crush the hand you raised against my woman and cut off the lower body that made my woman cry.

“Haa, haa.”

“Ro, Roberto…”

The flames wouldn’t subside at all. Even Catherine’s shocked call didn’t reach Raju’s ears.

“I told you, so don’t mess around.”

Raju writhed in agony. Seeing the swollen mass that had begun to puff up from the thorough beating filled him with an inexplicable sense of satisfaction.

“Aaaaaaahhhhh!”

And at some point, a piercing scream reached Raju’s dazed ears.

Where the flames had died down as if doused with cold water.

Only the corpse of Joaquin Claudio, who had already breathed his last, remained.

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