I Returned with His Heirs

At the Spring Hunt Banquet five years ago, noble lady Megan Ashford was drugged. When she woke up, all she could recall was the blurry silhouette of a man, alongside a silver wolf cufflink left beside her. Her sister Evelyn pleaded for her on the surface, yet secretly incited their father to brand Megan a disgrace to the family. Megan was cast out of the manor and left alone amid a torrential rainstorm. Nine months later, she gave birth to a set of boy-girl twins in a run-down cottage in the countryside. The boy Leo possessed rare silver-blue eyes, while the girl Lily bore a silver wolf-shaped birthmark on her wrist. Five years passed. Megan raised her children single-handedly relying on her culinary skills and claimed first place in the Royal Capital’s Head Chef Competition. The cold, unsmiling Duke Adrian Blackwood invited her to his castle to oversee royal banquets. Megan soon noticed the silver wolf crest displayed everywhere in the castle — identical to the cufflink she had kept for years. Worse still, Adrian’s silver-blue eyes were an exact match to Leo’s. She began to suspect that the powerful duke standing before her was the father of her children. After moving into the ducal estate, Megan endured harassment from the sous chef Gareth, all while shielding her children from the scorn of the nobility. Adrian initially only suspected a connection between the twins and himself. But as Leo’s portrait, the silver wolf cufflink, and records from the banquet five years ago sur