I Faked a Pregnancy, but My Husband Returned - Chapter 11

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Judith had never once thought of the Master as a man.

How could she feel romantic attraction toward a man whose face and voice she didn’t know? Whatever magic item he used, his voice would evaporate from her memory as time passed. He didn’t even have the faintest scent of cologne.

So she had absolutely no information she could gather from him through sight, touch, smell, taste, or hearing. But…

‘Nice body?’

Now that they were close together in the darkness, she could vividly feel his body temperature and well-built muscles.

Judith swallowed dryly as she thought.

‘…Really nice?’

She knew he was tall, but she hadn’t expected his physique to be this good.

Usually he wore dark, baggy hooded clothing.

‘He must work out diligently…’

It was truly fortunate it was dark. Otherwise, she might not have been able to manage her expression well.

Being together in the darkness made her acutely aware that she was truly alone with a ‘man’ like this. Judith’s heart pounded—she who had been too busy making money to get close to any man.

And it seemed the Master felt the same way. Tension emanated from his breathing, which he was trying his best to suppress and swallow.

‘Wow, I’m really conscious of his breathing. I should try not to breathe as much as possible.’

She didn’t know when he had started being so tense, but they walked for quite a while in silence, holding only each other.

The path was winding, the directions varied, and there was no light at all.

For Judith, this seemed like a place she could never return to alone even if asked. She could only think how amazing the Master was for remembering all of this.

“Here.”

When her legs were starting to ache, the Master whispered in a hoarse voice.

“We’ll soon arrive near Karl’s Room Closet.”

My goodness, they were already inside the Duke’s Mansion. Judith rolled her eyes in surprise. She hadn’t even noticed when they’d entered the Duke’s Mansion—who would have thought it was a passage connected so directly to the outside.

As she walked along holding his hand, the Master suddenly asked.

“But are you really okay with having a marriage record with Ekian Meius?”

“Pardon?”

“Judith, you are a noble. Nobles still don’t have as much freedom in remarriage as commoners do. If you have a history of divorce after marriage… it won’t be easy to form a marital bond with a good noble again.”

She had already said it didn’t matter several times, but it seemed like such an unbelievable situation that he felt compelled to ask once more.

Judith answered slowly in the darkness.

“Well… Um… I don’t know if these words will resonate with you…”

She had often been alone with the Master. Yet this feeling was a first. That is, the feeling of having a conversation as human to human.

“Nobles are different from commoners, nobles must maintain their dignity… I was never taught even these things. Um, it seems parents usually tell their children this from a young age, but my parents weren’t very interested in me.”

“…”

“Especially my father, who should have told me about the history of the Ailan Baronial Family or family stories… he rarely came home. I think I only saw his face a few times.”

Judith’s voice was calm and composed as she spoke of the past.

“So perhaps that’s why I don’t really understand what everyone calls a ‘good noble husband.’ My father and mother were both nobles, but they didn’t exactly have an exemplary married life. Besides, my mother eventually ran away with a servant.”

Judith thought of her mother. In her memories, her mother was always with some handsome brown-haired servant.

When her mother was with that servant, she looked quite happy, so Judith just watched them from afar, as if looking at someone who had nothing to do with her.

She had gone there because she didn’t want to be alone and missed her mother, but she instinctively felt she couldn’t intrude between the two people who were together. Watching them from a distance like that, Judith kept thinking.

If only her mother had been a commoner too and could have married that commoner, she would have been happier. If that was the case, she should have just gathered courage and run away with that servant before marrying father…

In the end, it was only when her noble father died and debts were about to be passed down that her mother finally found that courage.

Therefore, Judith, who had observed her mother’s happiness and unhappiness from afar, had decided long ago not to live like that.

“I’d be fine even as a commoner, as long as he’s a sincere and handsome man who can take good care of his own family.”

“…You’d be okay with a commoner?”

“Yes. Honestly, my father was also a noble, but if that’s what nobles are like, I don’t particularly want to meet one. All I inherited from my father were debts and a title, and honestly, if I could choose my birth, I wouldn’t want to be father’s daughter and wouldn’t want to receive either.”

Of course, a noble family with money and power would be very nice, but a title that was just an empty shell like the Ailan Baronial Family was truly of no use to Judith whatsoever.

Usually nobles value family honor and consider continuing the lineage their highest priority.

Judith was the sole heiress who received the Ailan Barony, but thinking about the baronial family only made her feel adrift. It was as if she was someone who shouldn’t have existed from the beginning.

After recalling the original story, that feeling became even stronger.

For commoners, remarriage wasn’t really a flaw. So Judith didn’t care at all about having a history of divorce.

She thought the conversation might continue, but suddenly the Master stopped walking and whispered.

“Here we are.”

In the pitch-black darkness, the Master carefully guided her hand. He knocked somewhere—tap tap—then opened it with a clunk.

A faint light began to seep out from there.

“Inside the wardrobe.”

Indeed, a boy’s clothes hanging above were swaying back and forth.

“From here, you should be able to see the situation in the room, at least roughly.”

He said, pointing to the crack in the door. Without anyone saying anything, Judith and the Master pressed themselves against the door crack.

Through the door crack, they could see a boy. The eight-year-old boy with blonde hair and blue eyes was hugging a teddy bear.

Judith’s eyes widened as she looked at the small boy.

‘Oh my, how can he be so cute?’

The young villain was so adorable that she couldn’t imagine him tormenting and obsessing over the female lead.

His chubby cheeks, sparkling blonde hair, and glass-like blue eyes made him look like a little prince from a fairy tale.

“He’s cute.”

Judith murmured without realizing it. Then the Master next to her nodded.

“Right?”

“Yes. He’s incredibly cute.”

She could understand why Ekian had cherished him—he was that lovable. Karl was reading a book while hugging his teddy bear.

They watched the child together like that. But naturally there was only one door crack, so their bodies had no choice but to stay pressed together.

Judith cleared her throat and whispered to the Master.

“Master, nothing’s happening yet, so how about resting a bit?”

“What should I rest from?”

“You could sit comfortably in the corner of the wardrobe and wait. There’s no need for us to watch together like this.”

“I don’t need to rest. You go rest, Judith.”

“But if I move away from here even though it’s a bit uncomfortable, I won’t be able to see Prince Karl…”

“…So in the end, telling me to rest meant you want me to move away because it’s a bit uncomfortable?”

“You caught me.”

“…”

The Master snorted as if incredulous, and Judith said boldly.

“Master, your build is too big, so from the perspective of someone pressed against you, it’s extremely uncomfortable.”

“That’s the same for me. I’m also very uncomfortable.”

“What are you talking about. My body is much smaller than Master’s, right? Even when I move this way and that, there’s still space…”

“Ah, stop fidgeting. I told you I’m uncomfortable too.”

“Master has such a big build that you can’t even fidget.”

“There’s a nice word called ‘physique,’ but you had to say ‘build’… Ah, please stop fidgeting.”

They whispered for a long time but neither gave up their spot. Once they started bickering, she became stubborn too.

“I’m not moving that much!”

“Still, when we’re like this as if embracing and you keep moving…”

Suddenly the Master stopped speaking. She could feel bewilderment along with uncontrolled breathing.

As sudden silence fell, Judith also became flustered.

‘It, it is close…’

The Master’s arm, which had somehow trapped Judith, tensed with sinew. In the suddenly strange atmosphere, she began to be conscious of even her own heartbeat.

“Ha.”

The Master let out a light sigh.

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