I Faked a Pregnancy, but My Husband Returned - Chapter 118

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Just thinking about those times made her feel like her insides were turning upside down.

The deep guilt she had felt when returning to the Meius Mansion after sharing her body with Master now seemed unfair.

“Everything seems jumbled from one to ten. No, the delusion itself that Huyd likes me doesn’t make sense in the first place…”

“Um, Judith.”

Huyd gently cut off those words.

“That doesn’t not make sense.”

“…What?”

Judith blinked as if she couldn’t believe it.

“That’s too much, Judith.”

Huyd said with a resigned smile.

“To say that doesn’t make sense until the end, don’t you know how hurtful that is to someone with unrequited love?”

“Hu, Huyd?”

Judith’s eyes shook greatly.

Huyd poured milk into her cup and continued gently.

“Actually, everyone in the estate knows. That I like Judith.”

“Th… that, really?”

“This is the first time I’ve said it with my own mouth, but that means I couldn’t hide my feelings that much.”

【What, is he confessing by any chance?】

Kastin interjected with a bewildered face.

【Seeing Huyd looks like he’s about to cry and Yus is surprised, he’s finally confessing?】

It seemed like Kastin had noticed too, for all she knew.

Judith couldn’t give a proper answer because it didn’t feel real.

“Th, that… No, I’m a pregnant woman…”

“But you’re still Judith.”

Huyd said calmly and smiled.

“The fact that only Judith didn’t know my feelings when even passing strangers all know, means you had no interest in me.”

Judith looked down in confusion.

She had never once thought about it that way.

Huyd was the son of a high noble family, someone who would live in a different world from her…

“Anyway, I thought there was no need to hide my feelings until the end in this situation, so I tried confessing.”

Huyd said matter-of-factly.

“I thought if I stayed by Judith’s side until the end, I could win at least a corner of your heart. But…”

He muttered bitterly.

“As long as that person is the child’s father, Judith will eventually go to that person. Well, that’s the natural order.”

Natural order.

As soon as she heard those words, Judith’s face darkened.

Actually, there was a fact that had been bothering her continuously since earlier.

It was the fact that Ekian was the Last Shaman’s son.

[Please make him happy, my son.]

That was the Last Shaman’s request. Now she seemed to understand why she had said those words to her.

‘Was this prepared for times like this.’

Judith rubbed her eyes and sighed.

‘Should I quickly forgive him and throw a party celebrating winning the lottery of a handsome face as Kastin said.’

She had really thought it would be okay even if he was ugly.

She hadn’t thought that features as fine as Ekian Meius would be hidden inside.

Of course, thanks to the Last Shaman, she was able to pay off her loan shark debt and twist the future to save many people.

Nevertheless, she didn’t feel like accepting Ekian for that reason and covering everything up as if nothing had happened.

“Probably Prince Ekian… should I say Your Highness? Anyway, the Marquis will become the owner of this estate, and Judith will become the Marquis’s wife… the child will also grow up as a stable heir.”

Huyd said gently.

“While staying here, Judith is already loved a lot. If you become the Marquis’s wife, you’ll be able to directly fix the children’s educational system that Judith complained about every day. You’ll surely be loved for a long time as a recognized Marquis’s wife.”

He slowly looked down. Then he sighed deeply as if declaring defeat.

“So it becomes ridiculous for me to say I absolutely can’t send you to that man.”

“Huyd.”

Judith took a deep breath. Then she looked at Huyd in front of her with an upright gaze.

There was something she sincerely wanted to say to him.

“If there was anything that hurt you during this time because I was insensitive, I’m really sorry. I’ll apologize sincerely.”

First, there was a conversation she needed to finish with Huyd.

“Actually, since Huyd is the eldest son of the Soden Marquis family… I thought you were from a completely different world from me. So I never thought about it that way.”

She decided not to say things like ‘you should meet a better woman than me’ or ‘someone like Huyd could meet a better partner than me.’

That didn’t seem like proper courtesy toward the feelings Huyd had shown her, even while she was pregnant.

“I’m sorry I can’t accept those feelings.”

At Judith’s words, Huyd smiled bitterly. He didn’t seem very surprised.

Come to think of it, the reason he hadn’t confessed until now was probably because he had already anticipated her feelings.

“However, going to the child’s father because it’s the natural order as you said… that doesn’t feel natural to me.”

That was truly sincere.

To be honest, there were many reasons why she should accept Ekian.

Because he’s the child’s father, because of the Last Shaman’s request, because Ekian must have suffered mentally too, because he didn’t hide it with bad intentions, because he tried his best for her, because even though it was a mistaken belief, he came this far wanting to give her a great background.

Nevertheless, she didn’t want to be pushed into choosing by all those reasons.

Judith sat with her hands folded in an upright posture and added.

“My inability to accept Huyd’s feelings has absolutely nothing to do with this child or this child’s father. I wanted to make that clear.”

At Judith’s words, Huyd showed slightly surprised eyes.

After maintaining silence for a moment, he smiled gently.

“Hmm, I understand that this is an even more merciless rejection.”

“Then you also know that I’m saying this because I care about you?”

At those words, Huyd nodded with a hearty laugh.

Judith smiled and added.

“The position of Marquis’s wife isn’t important. If I were that kind of person, I wouldn’t have divorced the Duke so quickly and left. So…”

Their eyes met peacefully.

“It’s okay for Huyd to say you can’t send me to Ekian. It’s absolutely not ridiculous. Anyone can evaluate a person.”

It seemed like Huyd was thinking ‘I’m someone lacking compared to the Marquis in many ways,’ so this was something she definitely wanted to add.

“Really?”

Huyd asked playfully.

“Really, would it be okay to say I’d never send you to the Marquis even if I died?”

“Of course. Naturally.”

Judith nodded greatly.

“Of course, I don’t listen to others well. You saw that I eventually divorced and left even though the Duchess tried desperately to stop me, right?”

Then Huyd laughed out loud.

Judith’s words of ‘whatever you say, I’ll move according to my own thoughts’ seemed quite satisfying to him.

He made a mischievous expression and said.

“Somehow it seems like you won’t listen to the Marquis well either, so it’s a bit satisfying. You’ll be a difficult opponent for the Marquis too. That person should have some difficult things in life too, shouldn’t he?”

Then he slowly stood up.

“Well then Judith, I’ll be going now. It seems like you have a lot to think about, and if I keep staying here, it seems like you won’t be able to have dinner.”

Kastin, who had been watching the situation, awkwardly stood up as well.

【What, did he get rejected?】

Judith answered that.

To be precise, Judith was the one who rejected him, but still, Huyd couldn’t understand what Kastin was saying.

【Yes.】

Then Kastin clicked her tongue once and patted Huyd’s back.

【Oh dear. If Yus had stayed with you, she would have been moderately happy.】

Then she looked up at him and said.

【But it can’t be helped. People’s hearts don’t always go as planned. Yus must be looking at appearances.】

Though she couldn’t understand what was being said, Huyd seemed to take it as comfort for now.

He nodded gently.

“Thank you.”

Kastin, who had roughly learned to understand phrases like “thank you” while staying at the estate, muttered reluctantly.

【I was saying your looks are a bit lacking though….】

Judith decided not to bother translating that conversation.

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