The child which will never be loved

Although the county of Kerrington was not in short of money, unfortunately the budget for Ashley's needs is very frugal. Unlike in my previous life, Ashley's parents didn't like the young heiress.

Annmarie Kerrington, the light of the former count's eyes, became the most beautiful flower of social life at the age of 14. The Kerrington family's trademark, silver hair and a pair of purple eyes gave her and her brother Conrad a really special beauty.

Annmarie's best friend was Miriam Doves, the daughter of a baron. Miriam was 3 years older than Annmarie, and by the way Conrad's fiancée.

Unfortunately, the young couple couldn't stand each other, Conrad was in love with another baron's illegitimate child, while Miriam simply didn't like the man's condescending style. But for Annmarie's sake, they tried to co-exist, and when Conrad's lover passed away tragically suddenly, all obstacles to the formation of the covenant were removed.

Miriam soon became pregnant, and counted the remaining days with Annmarie until the baby was born.

"I hope it's a little girl! I want a little girl too - then they could be best friends, just like us! "

Annmarie exchanged the flowers in the 7-month pregnant Miriam's room.

"What should she be called?"

The sister-in-law with black hair and eyes asked with a smile.

"Could it be Ashley? My daughter would be Kelsey! How good does it sound, right? Ashley and Kelsey! "

"Yeah, that sounds great!"

Unfortunately, the date of 16-year-old Annmarie's wedding was announced 2 weeks later. The future husband was a duke 30 years older. They practically sold the beautiful little girl to a rich old man.

Miriam was so upset about her husband's silence in this horror matter, that childbirth had started earlier.

That's how Ashley Kerrington was born on a cold winter night. But the girl did not inherit the ornate signs of the Kerrington bloodline, as her parents had hoped, but was a spit-out copy of her grandmother, the ashen-haired, brown-eyed Terezia Blois.

Conrad looked at his daughter in disgust. If she had looked like him — maybe he wouldn't have hated her so much — but Terezia, Conrad's mother, had killed his love so that Kerrington and the Doves house could unite ... so he wasn't capable to look at her daughter with love.

"Don't cry Miriam… everything will be fine… then… everything… will be fine .."

With teary eyes, Annmarie tried to comfort her friend before they lowered the veil and headed for the altar, toward the her end.

The duke was neither a kind nor a decent man. Annmarie did not expect a happy marriage either, but the tragic events of the wedding night sealed her fate. The light was lost from her eyes, the positive charming little girl was no more.

Miriam hated her husband once and for all, so the sight of their child began to disgust her… as the offspring of that monster ..

She spent all her time with Annmarie, who got pregnant on her wedding night.

The duke was one of the heirs to the throne of a neighboring country, and when the war between the heirs broke out he was forced to hide.

However, he left his wife behind. By this time Annmarie was already at the end of her pregnancy, and one spring day she gave birth to a beautiful girl with beautiful silver hair and indigo blue eyes.

"You did it! Annmarie did it! "

Miriam held her hand all the way and Annmarie happily took little Kelsey in her arms.

"So beautiful!"

The midwife had just cleared the bloody rags, when soldiers had broken the door of the prince's mansion.

"Catch the traitors! Execute all members of the Shandrel family! "

It had been in the air for days… their country's king, for the sake of peace, executes members of the Shandrel duchy on a charge of treason… since a family would be taken there rather than a country, he could not risk the internal strife of the neighboring empire growing into something bigger.

The soldiers slaughtered everyone who stood in their way until they finally reached Annmarie's room.

"Annmarie Shandrel was sentenced to immediate death, for the charge of treason against the Veskovanska royal family."

Two men set out to grab the young mother, Miriam who was kneeling on the floor next to her, reflexively teared the baby out of Annmarie's hands.

"The child…"

It was clear that the baby would also be sentenced to death, but Miriam could not leave it at that. Since neither she nor Annmarie had appeared at events in the past six months, only immediate family members knew about the pregnancy.

"She is my child… A member of the Kerrington Count's family!"

Miriam shouted from the rupture of her throat while she could barely see from her tears.

The soldiers did not want to tease other noble families, especially since the mines of the Shandrel duchy were received by the Kerrington as payment for the young bride, so the small county rose to become one of the 10 richest nobles.

Annmarie was kneeling on the ground in front of her friend's eyes, then one of the soldiers stood next to her, and raising his sword high.

Annmarie looked with a painful smile on her face at Miriam and Kelsey in her last minute with teary eyes.

'Thank you.'

Miriam read the silent sentence from her friends lips, then the soldier weighed his gun.

Then the soldiers like a whirlwind, left the mansion.

Miriam was just crying silently, kneeling next to her friend's body with the sobbing child in her arms.

Soon after, Conrad got there.

He kneeled beside his sister's lifeless body while crying. He loved the girl, he didn't want to hurt her. This wedding was not created through his intercession either, their parents 'stubbornness was the reason for everything. His only fault was that he did not prevent the creation of the covenant, but now it was too late… he silently endured that his mother had killed his love, forced his sister to death… that was the last straw.

That night, Conrad executed the former Count and Countess of Kerrington with his own hands, and Miriam helped him remove the clues.

And Kelsey, who was a tiny replica of her mother, was raised with all their love as their own daughter.

"In short, concisely since her grandmother was a damned evil bitch, and Ashley looks like her, she was screwed up.Her parents will never love me, so I won't even try to walk in their favor - his father is already a psychopath anyway... "