After leaving the royal pce, Martha went to the hotel where Stefan was staying.


    She had started to doubt Catherine, but she didn’t think King Ducasse was a good person to confide in.


    “You’re here,” said Stefan as soon as he opened the door and saw his beloved woman. His eyes lit up at the sight of her.


    He hadn’t expected Martha toe see him so early.


    Martha looked at him with a serious expression and walked into the room. Stefan noticed that something was wrong with her and furrowed his brows in concern.


    “What’s wrong? Did something happen?” he asked, his voiceced with worry.


    Martha sat down on the sofa and slowly recounted what had happened earlier that day, “This morning, one of Catherine Queen Dowager’s guards came to the Lucas family looking for me. He said that Catherine Queen Dowager wanted to see me.”


    “Did she trouble you?” asked Stefan anxiously as he took a step forward towards her. He looked at her with worried eyes.


    If Martha were to say that she didn’t want to marry King Ducasse, Catherine would probably be furious. Had Martha been mistreated by the royal family?


    As these thoughts ran through his mind, he asked again, “Are you hurt anywhere?”


    Martha shook her head slightly before speaking out about what was troubling her, “She didn’t make things difficult for me, but I disagreed to marry into the royal family. She said that I, like my mother, didn’t know the good from the bad.”


    Catherine’s eyes at that time were vicious and angry,pletely different from what she usually saw, which only fueled more suspicion within Martha’s heart.


    Stefan’s face darkened when he heard this, and a gloomy voice sounded in the room-


    “ording to what you said, Catherine Queen Dowager of Country Z must hold some grudge against your mother.”


    “Yes, that’s what I suspect. I suspect that there must be some unknown grievance between her and my mother.”


    Martha’s hand on her side tightened unconsciously, while feeling an inkling inside of herself – as long as she knew the grievances involved, the real culprit who killed her mother would also be found.


    Sitting across from each other now, Stefan nodded along before delving deeper into analysis over their suspicions together in hushed tones.


    “The Hopper family has finally be a member of the royal family. Shouldn’t they continue to have their own family members be the next queen to consolidate the Hopper family’s position?”


    Stefan paused and then continued, “By choosing you as Z Country’s queen, isn’t Catherine Queen Dowager pushing the Lucas family back into power again? The Hopper family’s influence may not be as strong as it is now.”


    Stefan sensed that Catherine had a hidden agenda for choosing Martha to marry King Ducasse and be Z Country’s queen. Martha agreed with Stefan’s rational analysis.


    “You are right, and before that, I heard Sam say that the Hopper family and the Lucas family had been hostile towards each other for a hundred years, so I suspect that Catherine has her own reasons for letting me marry into the royal family.”


    However, she didn’t know what the reason was.


    She furrowed her brows at this thought and remembered how hostile Catherine had been towards her mother earlier today.


    “I could clearly feel her deep hostility towards my mother in her chamber today,” Martha said.


    It was because of this hostility that she couldn’t help but wonder if Catherine was responsible for killing her mother. Her eyes darkened at this thought.


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    Soon, Stefan’s questioning voice sounded in the room, interrupting Martha’s thoughts.


    “Are you suspecting that Catherine Queen Dowager killed your mother?”


    Martha raised her head sharply to look at the man sitting across from her, but shook her head after a while.


    “I’m not sure if it was her, but I do suspect she had something to do with my mother’s death.”


    She didn’t know much about what was happening within royalty right now except for feeling how hostile Catherine had been towards them earlier today.


    But that hostility could only prove that there was a deep grudge between Catherine and her mother, and there was no evidence that her mother was killed by Catherine.


    At this moment, the doorbell in the room rang, interrupting their thoughts.


    The two looked at each other, and they both saw doubts in each other’s eyes.


    Eden and Stefan’s assistant have left Z Country, so who would knock on the door now?


    The next second, the waiter’s crisp voice sounded outside the door, “Hello, room service.”


    “Wait a minute.”


    Martha replied, turned around and walked out, and opened the door of the room that was originally closed.


    Unexpectedly, the next moment, the door of the room was suddenly knocked open, and the person standing at the door stretched out his hand and raised an electric shock baton to directly attack Martha’s abdomen.


    The sudden electric shock on her belly made Martha’s body tremble, and she almost fell to the ground.


    Stefan who was standing behind saw this scene, and immediately reacted, quickly stepped forward and kicked the man in ck who was walking forward.


    One of the men in ck was immediately kicked to the ground, and hispanion rushed forward after seeing it.


    Before Stefan got close to Martha, he was surrounded by two men in ck.


    The man in ck went up with an uppercut, and Stefan quickly took two steps back and kicked him in the heart.


    One of the men in ck jumped up to avoid his attack, and the other man in ck swung at Stefan in the head.


    The two men in ck fought with Stefan violently.


    The man in ck standing not far away saw that hispanion couldn’t beat Stefan, so he grabbed the fainted Martha, and put a sharp dagger on Martha’s neck-


    “Stop it, do you still want her to live!”