I Faked a Pregnancy, but My Husband Returned - Chapter 116

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As he approached Judith, he didn’t forget to trample the bouquet of roses that Huyd had dropped with his shoe.

“That… I am this kind of person.”

Judith’s mouth fell open.

Huyd was also curious about the Master’s face, but he hesitated when he noticed Judith’s unusual reaction.

Kastin, who was between them, muttered.

【Wow, he’s handsome.】

It was pure admiration possible only because she couldn’t understand anything. She tilted her head and added.

【Looking at him more, he’s a bit scary, but still.】

Without a doubt, Ekian was someone who had never been made a fool of anywhere.

Not to mention when he was Ekian Meius Marquis, and it was similar when he was the Grey Information Guild Master.

His plans were always cold and calculated, and his execution was secretive.

In fact, Ekian’s essence was assassinating the Emperor, threatening Elizabeth, and things like that.

Such things suited him well.

But strangely, whenever he got entangled with Judith alone, he felt like he became ridiculous.

‘That… I am this kind of person.’

He had no intention of revealing his identity with such pathetic words.

If that were the case, he wouldn’t have written that letter with such gravity in the first place.

In truth, he had planned to meet Judith alone in a place where no one else was around, then explain everything from the beginning and ask for forgiveness.

His dark birth and the strange inferiority complex he didn’t want anyone to discover, the heart that couldn’t stop despite everything, and the greed to somehow approach her with dignity…

However, he couldn’t bear to watch Judith suffer with such a guilt-stricken expression for even one more second.

Though Huyd probably didn’t intend it that way, given Judith’s nature, she would naturally have taken Huyd’s words as criticism.

“…So, that is.”

Ekian desperately pretended not to notice the foreign woman who kept pointing at his face and saying he was handsome in a foreign language.

He didn’t think it was necessary to mention that he could understand those words. He just awkwardly added.

“Like that… well, it’s not like I did anything particularly unethical…”

Judith was breathing heavily and said nothing at all.

Her expression was truly ominous. Because she remained silent, an even more anxious atmosphere was created.

Finally, the foreign woman intervened, beating her chest as if frustrated.

【What? What’s going on? Who is this man?】

Judith answered stiffly with a frighteningly expressionless face.

【The child’s father.】

【But what’s the problem with that?】

【Because I know this person.】

The conversation content was terrifying.

Ekian thought it was fortunate that no one else was listening to this conversation.

Meanwhile, Judith was making an expression that Ekian had never seen before.

It was a cold, chilly, and somehow insulted, menacing face.

【Isn’t that natural? So who was this person you knew?】

【My husband.】

【Oh, really? But what’s the problem with that? Is there some culture in the Empire’s capital where you can’t have your husband’s child?】

【That’s not it, I got pregnant without knowing his face.】

【So you’re just now learning your husband’s face?】

The foreign woman, who seemed to have somewhat poor situational awareness, misinterpreted everything.

Then, in that stiff atmosphere, she cheerfully clapped and said.

【Congratulations on winning! It was worth living virtuously!】

Truly, no one answered.

“For now, I’d like to talk alone for a moment.”

Judith said calmly.

“Come in.”

Ekian moved his steps toward the room Judith had entered first.

He didn’t forget to trample the bouquet of roses that Huyd had bought once more.

He felt very childish himself, but if he hadn’t become so petty in the face of jealousy, he wouldn’t have followed Huyd and suddenly barged into this house like this.

He knew it was the worst timing, and he had noticed that it wouldn’t produce a very good picture.

Nevertheless, he couldn’t bear to watch that scene of Huyd handing flowers to Judith while laughing heartily.

Honestly speaking, if only that foreigner’s presence hadn’t been there, he might have really been called a ‘madman’ after turning this house upside down, thinking the two had set up house together.

“I understand roughly.”

Judith said coldly after closing the door.

“Why you knew the secret passages of the Meius Mansion so well, why you helped me so enthusiastically with my work for the Meius Ducal House, why Ekian was always absent from the mansion whenever I was with the Master, I understand now.”

Ekian swallowed dry saliva while looking at Judith’s cold face.

“It was such a strange situation that I wonder why I didn’t notice.”

Judith took a deep breath once and asked calmly.

“I heard from Kastin that a new Marquis came to the estate. Looking at your hair color, could it be you? You ran away because you weren’t the biological son of the Meius Ducal House?”

“…That’s about right.”

Without needing explanation, Judith was already fitting all the facts together and making deductions close to the truth.

Ekian first told her that the Emperor and the lord were already dead, and that the search party would announce that fact this evening.

Being mindful of Huyd and the foreign woman outside the door, instead of saying he had killed the Emperor, he said he had left the capital to eliminate ‘the one who posed the greatest threat to Judith.’

Of course, even saying just that much, Judith seemed to understand sufficiently.

“So you don’t need to worry. Coming here to find information and hiding during critical times were wise choices, but… you can move around freely now.”

Judith nodded slightly.

Though she hadn’t shown it, she must have been quite anxious all this time.

After that, Ekian confessed everything that had happened during that time.

But there was just one thing he didn’t bring up: Elizabeth’s story.

Having been with Judith for so long, he knew well that her Achilles’ heel was her biological mother.

It wasn’t for nothing that he had quickly rushed to stop Elizabeth. And after meeting Elizabeth directly, she was truly a chillingly terrible woman.

He couldn’t tell Judith, who already had childhood wounds, that her biological mother had really tried to kill her.

It was better for her to believe it was something Ron Dale had orchestrated.

‘If she’s in her right mind, she won’t approach Judith after the Emperor’s death is announced.’

Originally, when he left the capital, he had wanted to give orders to kill Ron Dale immediately if he plotted against her.

But fearing that killing him might cause Elizabeth to harbor resentment toward Judith, he had instructed to attack after successfully assassinating the Emperor and send him back barely alive.

‘Ron Dale probably knows the capital’s situation roughly too. He’ll take care of himself and live quietly like now.’

If Judith’s wounds hadn’t healed yet, he didn’t want to unnecessarily touch them.

So Ekian explained the other parts while omitting that part.

When he brought up the story that he was the biological son of the Last Shaman, Judith was quite surprised and startled, but she seemed to have little emotional response to the other stories.

“So.”

Judith sighed once and said quietly.

“Was it fun?”

“Judith.”

“I asked if it was fun watching me cling to you, begging to be held just once while knowing nothing and even covering my eyes.”

“I didn’t keep quiet with that kind of heart. As I explained earlier…”

“You felt inferior to Huyd who seemed to have everything, so you tried to acquire even more to appear before me.”

Her voice was calm, which made it feel even more sarcastic.

She sighed once and grumbled with indifferent eyes.

“First of all, Huyd doesn’t like me…”

“I know I’m a sinner before you.”

Ekian interrupted Judith’s words and said firmly.

“Any fool would have noticed that Huyd Soden likes you. Let’s be clear about that fact.”

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