I Faked a Pregnancy, but My Husband Returned - Chapter 119

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Elizabeth was riding in a cargo wagon heading toward Aarten.

Though it was an uncomfortable, rattling carriage, her eyes shone with more hope than ever before.

‘You stay home this time. I’ll take care of it.’

Ron had stayed home because of their son Petro.

Literally, the two had decided to switch roles with each other.

Elizabeth was confident she could succeed where Ron had failed.

‘So what are you going to do when you get to Aarten?’

‘I’m going to get permission from the Marquis.’

‘So why are you going to the Marquis?’

‘Because we don’t know where Judith is right now! She got divorced and went somewhere we don’t know! It’s natural that we can’t find out with our information network.’

Elizabeth had explained as if frustrated.

‘If we knew where Judith was, we would have gone there. But since we don’t know, let’s start with the sure place. It feels wrong to ignore that Marquis and proceed.’

‘You mean Judith’s ex-husband?’

Though she couldn’t know the situation in detail, Elizabeth’s plan, having once been part of noble society, was as follows.

Ekian had even run away from home to escape the Meius family.

The fact that he tried to abandon that good position as heir to Meius must mean he was abused by the Meius Marquis couple or at least had bad feelings toward them.

But it turned out his bloodline was connected to the Imperial Family, and perhaps he had returned gloriously as Marquis after revealing this fact.

If that were the case, Ekian, who had cut ties with the Meius Ducal House, wouldn’t care about Judith, so they could attempt their original plan of killing Judith and framing the Meius Ducal House.

‘That’s the only explanation. Otherwise, why would he run away at that teenage age? From such a good family. He really hated the Meius Ducal House.’

The atmosphere Ekian gave off was so eerie that Elizabeth didn’t want to go against him unnecessarily.

But if she got his permission, wouldn’t that connect her to two figures from the Imperial Family?

‘The Crown Prince’s people definitely interrogated us threateningly. Thinking about it, they were probably trying to figure out the weaknesses of the Marquis who suddenly appeared. Brothers who share the Emperor’s blood would naturally be in competition, wouldn’t they?’

If she informed the Marquis of this fact, the Marquis might be very grateful to them.

Then that could become tremendous connections for Petro, who would become a lord later.

Of course, it might not work out. But to just sit still when this opportunity was too precious to waste.

The future belonged to those who actively pioneered it.

‘Our Petro could… become a noble! Ron and I could become nobles again too!’

Elizabeth didn’t feel sorry for Judith at all.

Rather, she felt that because of Judith, she couldn’t give Petro all the resources she should have. It was a characteristic of favoriting parents.

She had abandoned Judith and gained Petro.

But Judith living better than Petro felt like proof that her choice had been wrong.

No matter how divorced she was, she must have secured enormous alimony.

She couldn’t accept that a child she had never loved or cherished was living better than her precious son.

‘That child was born wrong from the beginning.’

In fact, when she found out about the pregnancy, she had considered terminating it.

It was because Ron, who had become noticeably dejected after the pregnancy, worried her. But even after buying all the medicine, she ultimately couldn’t take it. She lacked the courage.

Elizabeth’s eyes gleamed coldly inside the cargo wagon.

She had lived without courage her whole life. If this was the result, she had to find courage for Petro’s sake.

‘If I had taken that medicine then, maybe I would have fled with Ron earlier. Wasn’t I staying at the Baron’s Manor because of that shallow sense of responsibility toward that child? If only that child hadn’t existed, I could have met Petro sooner and been younger parents to him…’

When her thoughts reached that point, it felt as if all her unhappy and miserable life was because of Judith.

‘So this is just reversing that decision from back then.’

Elizabeth’s eyes gleamed coldly inside the rattling cargo wagon.

Of course, she had considered other possibilities too.

Judith had shown moves that exceeded her expectations so far.

Could she, who had even become a Duchess, really have been divorced so easily and ended up in such a pitiful state?

Ron had worried about this too.

‘If she seduced him once, couldn’t she do it twice? If it were me, I would never let that man go.’

If that child seduced Ekian again and rose to the position of Marquis’ wife…

‘Then I should get a position too.’

While Judith was annoying enough to want to kill, she wasn’t beyond using.

As her daughter, she knew Judith well.

Judith didn’t have the temperament to pretend not to see her birth mother crying and clinging to her, begging to get along well even now.

‘Petro is her half-brother by blood, so I can ask for even an estate at the outskirts of the Duchy.’

If Judith seemed reluctant, she could sob that her peaceful life was ruined because of threats from the Imperial Palace because of Judith.

While it was true that Ron had tried to kill her, she could say it was unavoidable due to the Emperor’s orders.

While she couldn’t move because the Marquis threatened her, she could insist, ‘I couldn’t bear to harm you. I’m your birth mother, after all.’

‘If I do that, I’ll become the Marquis’ wife’s mother.’

Moreover, there weren’t people in the estate who knew Judith’s circumstances well.

People easily forgot things they hadn’t seen with their own eyes.

While it was true that Judith had suffered somewhat in childhood because of her, those people didn’t know that.

A woman who had just become Marquis’ wife driving out her crying birth mother in rags, saying ‘I’m so glad we could meet like this’? It would be very bad both politically and humanly.

‘If she drives out her own birth mother, that would only make that child’s reputation worse.’

Calculating from various angles, heading to Aarten was rational.

All possibilities of living a noble life again lay in that land.

After closing Judith’s door and coming out.

Huyd sighed looking at the crushed roses at the entrance.

As he approached to clean up the debris, he suddenly had this thought.

‘Outside that door… surely he’s not still standing there.’

If it were me, if I were the Marquis… I absolutely couldn’t have left this house.

Even though Judith said she would take time to think, precisely because of that, he wouldn’t have been able to move a single step.

If he was standing outside the door, it seemed like he should calmly give him a few more words of abuse.

Above all, he should at least sneer at him for being a Marquis yet so petty as to trample other people’s flowers.

However, when Huyd impulsively opened the door.

There was no one outside the door.

‘He left?’

Huyd unconsciously blinked his eyes.

‘Really… he left?’

Of course, Ekian was a busy man. He had even taken office as the new Marquis of the estate this morning.

Since he had announced the deaths of both the Emperor and the lord while at this small house, it meant he had tremendous work to handle.

But the fact that he had hastily carved out time from such a busy schedule to follow them meant Judith was his top priority over any other matter.

For such a Marquis to really leave when told to go?

‘It seems like something we don’t know about is missing.’

Clearly Ekian had said he left the capital to eliminate those who posed a threat to Judith.

‘I wanted to see your face and talk. But really… really it was so urgent that I had to leave immediately. I really had no time to spare.’

That was quite puzzling.

‘Who could be such a difficult opponent? Judith couldn’t have made such a formidable enemy in her life.’

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