Wow the Duke is still such a pretentious prick even as he’s “accepting responsibility”. Their child was sick from birth because he was born in filthy and freezing conditions after he kicked her out and she had to hide from him and his enemies. He was so cruel and controlling that she has to take desperate and dangerous measures to escape him. Now her child is dead because he was hiding away to escape on a ship while Rowena distracted Killian long enough for them to escape before (or maybe never) escaping the Duke to join them. She’s sobbing at the loss of her only child and he’s “glad that she’s no longer blaming herself”. Yeah, everything that went wrong in her life, after that one scam, was all him, and the only reason she didn’t reach that conclusion years earlier is because she was young and naive, and he played her like a fiddle. Even now, that shift of blame is only benefitting him. She’s still in despair and agony, but he gets to feel just a little less guilty over that one issue. He is still only concerned with himself. If he hadn’t held her there and used access to medication as leverage, they would have been able to leave earlier, together
Wow the Duke is still such a pretentious prick even as he’s “accepting responsibility”. Their child was sick from birth because he was born in filthy and freezing conditions after he kicked her out and she had to hide from him and his enemies. He was so cruel and controlling that she has to take desperate and dangerous measures to escape him. Now her child is dead because he was hiding away to escape on a ship while Rowena distracted Killian long enough for them to escape before (or maybe never) escaping the Duke to join them. She’s sobbing at the loss of her only child and he’s “glad that she’s no longer blaming herself”. Yeah, everything that went wrong in her life, after that one scam, was all him, and the only reason she didn’t reach that conclusion years earlier is because she was young and naive, and he played her like a fiddle. Even now, that shift of blame is only benefitting him. She’s still in despair and agony, but he gets to feel just a little less guilty over that one issue. He is still only concerned with himself. If he hadn’t held her there and used access to medication as leverage, they would have been able to leave earlier, together