I Faked a Pregnancy, but My Husband Returned - Chapter 109

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“Still, there are many children who want to learn. I wish they would build a school first…”

Judith spoke about education in this place with a sulky expression the entire time. Huyd stared blankly at her face.

He didn’t know the exact date, but he had heard that she got divorced and also heard news that she had left for somewhere.

Even the Crown Prince’s people had come to interrogate him, asking ‘Where is Judith?’

He didn’t know why the Crown Prince was looking for her, but since she had helped the Crown Princess before, he figured it must be related to that.

Actually, that night, he had genuinely worried whether Judith had been hurt somewhere. At the same time, he was happy that someone had expected she would come to him when she disappeared.

But to meet her here again like fate. Huyd was taking deep breaths, feeling the excitement stirring deep in his heart.

“Teacher! I finished reading!”

The faculty office door opened with a creak, and Anne came in.

“Up to the part you mentioned, teacher!”

“Really?”

Judith said with a bright smile.

“But you’re not the only one who finished reading, Anne. James and Simon don’t seem to have finished yet. Should we wait for them?”

“Yes, that’s fine.”

Anne didn’t leave as she was, but walked in with small steps and sat down right next to Judith, sticking close to her. Then she stared intently at Huyd.

The young girl’s eyes were full of curiosity and wariness toward the outsider.

“Teacher.”

“Yes.”

“Is that mister your friend?”

“He’s not a mister. And he taught you science earlier, so you should call him teacher.”

“Are you very close?”

“Yes, well, something like that.”

“Then…”

Anne glanced at Huyd’s face, then asked with the look of a second-place student eyeing first place.

“Is that mister going to be the godfather of teacher’s baby?”

Baby?

A real… baby?

But there had been a fake baby before, hadn’t there? Was this a similar situation to that time?

When Huyd showed a bewildered expression, Judith smiled sheepishly.

“That’s how it turned out, Huyd.”

“…What?”

“Even though you’re a doctor, I guess you can’t tell just by looking? I am pregnant.”

“That…”

Huyd’s eyes wavered.

“B-but you got divorced… I heard…”

“Anne.”

Judith looked at Anne and said gently.

“Could you step out for a moment? Teacher has something to say to a friend she hasn’t seen in a long time.”

“Oh, yes.”

Anne jumped down from the chair. Having realized that her father wouldn’t be unable to become the baby’s godfather because of Huyd, the wariness had disappeared from Anne’s eyes.

“See you later, teachers!”

With that, Anne leisurely left after dropping a huge bombshell.

With a thud, the faculty office door closed, leaving only Huyd and Judith alone.

“Well, that’s how it happened.”

Judith said with an awkward smile.

“So I had no choice but to divorce. I couldn’t stay at the Meius Marquis Family while carrying another man’s child.”

Huyd’s mouth fell open.

“N-no… then… you’re saying it’s not Ekian Meius’s child?”

“Yes, that’s how it is.”

Judith lowered her head slightly as if embarrassed.

“It’s really an embarrassing story… But I didn’t know this would happen either. I heard pregnancy was difficult.”

“Then…”

Huyd barely held onto his consciousness that had become hazy like fog and asked.

“Then who is the child’s father? Where is he? Is he here with you?”

“Oh, well…”

Judith rolled her eyes and muttered.

“I don’t know where he is… so I’m waiting for now.”

“What?”

Huyd looked bewildered. He couldn’t manage his expression at all, but barely held onto his reason and asked.

“What’s his name? I’ll find out somehow. At least in the Soden Marquis’ Domain…”

“I don’t know his name…”

“Then at least his appearance. If there’s anything distinctive…”

“That too… I actually don’t know.”

“Judith, surely you’re not lying to me because you want to hide it?”

“That’s not it. It sounds ridiculous from a listener’s perspective, but it’s all true.”

Judith continued with a sigh-mixed laugh.

“And you don’t need to find him for me.”

“What? Why?”

“Just… he might not like that a child was conceived. I didn’t expect to get pregnant. If the child’s father doesn’t look for us, then I plan to just live as we are.”

“Whaaaat?”

Huyd gaped in disbelief.

She must have suffered something terribly wrong from some crazy bastard. The scenarios unfolding in his imagination were so horrible that Huyd couldn’t even ask more.

But in the midst of all this, the words ‘if he doesn’t look for us, then we’ll just live as we are’ were so very Judith-like.

The feeling that she would leave without any lingering attachment to anything.

That’s how she had really left the Duke’s Mansion, left the capital, and was here wearing a plain cotton dress that only commoners would wear.

“Anyway, that’s the situation.”

Judith said with a bright smile.

“I’m so happy to see you again. Oh, but could you tell me some news from the capital? I’m so out of touch with recent news… What happened with Emperor’s disappearance?”

“Oh, well, I don’t know much either. I’m also on my way directly from the Soden Marquis’ Domain. I probably know as much as you do, having been here the whole time.”

Huyd answered while composing himself from his surprise.

And he decided not to mention that the Crown Prince had sent people to find her. He thought there was no need to alarm her unnecessarily.

Anyway, the most important thing for a pregnant woman was psychological stability. Even if she acted so cheerfully, her mental state must not be very good if she didn’t even know the child’s father.

“Judith.”

However, Huyd smiled warmly and said.

“I’ll stay here for a long time. I don’t have any urgent matters… and teaching children is my first time, but it has its own charm. It seems like rewarding work.”

“Is that so? That’s good.”

Huyd was surprised at himself for feeling that his emotions toward her hadn’t changed much.

Perhaps it was because in his imagination, she wasn’t with another man but remained a poor woman who had suffered terrible things.

Though he didn’t know the details, leaving her alone after she had experienced something unpleasant felt impossible.

With her short-cut bob, large glasses, and modest clothing that suited her well, she actually made his heart flutter more than ever before.

Earlier in the classroom, he had been stealing glances at her as she taught the children with competence and kindness. Excitement surged again in a heart he thought had cooled down long ago.

Though she was pregnant, perhaps the situation was better than before when she was another man’s wife.

Even if the Soden Marquis and Marchioness opposed it, if only Judith was okay with it, he felt he could abandon everything and live an ordinary life here with Judith.

If a child who resembled Judith a lot was born, he felt he could raise it like a real father.

Since he had sincerely cared for and looked after siblings who weren’t blood-related anyway, he wasn’t the type to be obsessed with bloodlines.

In fact, the siblings he had grown up with for a long time felt more like family than the Soden Marquis and Marchioness who had given birth to him.

“Judith, where are you staying?”

If he stayed steadfastly by Judith’s side when her body and mind were already weakened from pregnancy, wouldn’t the day come when she would see him as a man?

He knew better than anyone that Judith had only treated him as a good friend until now.

“I’d like to stay nearby as well, to adapt to the estate.”

“Then I would love that!”

Judith clapped her hands and laughed.

“There’s an empty room in the house we’re using. I’ll talk to Kastin about it! Kastin is also a doctor, so I think she’ll like it. They’re both kind-hearted, so I think they’ll become friends quickly.”

And from that evening on, Judith, Huyd, and Kastin came to live together in one house.

Thus began their simple life on the estate.

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