Ozymandias' frustration was evident in his heavy sigh. She clearly did not understand the situation, but of course that was by design. He'd said someone would inherit after him, and so far as she knew the most likely someone was a distant cousin, or something of the sort. If that were the case he might not have felt so inclined to dabble in parenting for the sake of preventing it. A credible bastard might very well have a better claim to the estate than a distant cousin, though, and he had no intention of handing his family's name over to the son of a ballerina.

"You had to have expected this," he argued. "When you married someone with an inheritance. You aren't stupid."

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