'Either mentally or physically, don't experience that pain again.'
Joanna, on the other hand, felt surreal. For a man, asking a woman who had become his wife to not give birth to his child was surreal. Did he not want to have a successor?
She then recalled the moment when they were in the Powel Orphanage—on the day when she spoke to him the words that he just repeated and at night when he asked her to bear his child, but she refused decisively. Since then he never brought up that topic anymore.
There was a thought in her mind that Canillas would bring up that topic one day, asking her the same request, following the fact that they had decided to be together. But surprisingly, he did not. And surprisingly, it was because he did not want her to feel the pain.
Was it because he loved her? Did he really love her to the extent he did not want to see her in pain? Did he love her that much to the point it was better to not have a successor rather than seeing her in pain?
