I Faked a Pregnancy, but My Husband Returned - Chapter 125

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‘If that woman isn’t Judith Meius, I can also tell you where she is.’

That meant she could somehow find out Judith’s whereabouts.

If she was at the Marquis’ Estate, she could quickly go there and cry, saying mother had been missing her.

Having just become the Marquis’ wife, she surely couldn’t show a cold attitude toward her birth mother in front of the estate residents.

But if she was somewhere else… she could negotiate with the Marquis to have her killed.

The money charged by the 【Grey Information Trading House】 was enormous, but it was still nothing to the Marquis.

Either way, with the Marquis, it was an amount she could pay back several times over.

‘We don’t sell false information. Let’s write a contract and swear that if we give you wrong information, we’ll pay five times the penalty fee.’

Five times the penalty fee! In that case, Elizabeth truly had nothing to lose.

So Elizabeth borrowed money from a moneylender in a nearby city and returned to the 【Grey Information Trading House】.

Upon returning to Aarten, the estate was full of vitality. Rumors had spread everywhere that the Marquis would return after defeating the barbarians.

An atmosphere of anticipation for the new master filled the entire estate.

In this atmosphere, the Marquis would naturally not want to cause any scandal.

“Yes, here it is.”

Elizabeth slammed down a check at the 【Grey Information Trading House】 she had visited again.

Then she asked triumphantly.

“Now please answer my question.”

It was the day Ekian would arrive. Not only the Marquis’ Estate but the entire territory was bustling.

In the midst of this, Judith was lost in thought with an unsettled heart.

It was difficult to understand Elizabeth’s intentions. What was her reason for coming here? According to Anne, she was even alone – but why?

She had asked Anne to find out what Elizabeth wanted. Anne replied that ‘she’s curious about Teacher Yus at the Marquis’ Estate.’

This was even more puzzling.

‘Surely not.’

Judith narrowed her eyes at the suspicion that crossed her mind.

‘Surely not… surely not. If she’s human… surely not.’

She had no intention of carelessly accepting the position of Marquis’ wife, but what if she did become the Marquis’ wife?

‘She’s not thinking of extorting money, is she?’

What frustrated Judith was that she didn’t know her mother well enough to determine whether she was ‘that kind of person’ or not.

‘Please.’

Judith thought with trembling lips.

‘Please don’t let her be that much of a terrible person…’

But there must be a reason why Ekian prevented her from meeting Elizabeth and kept her hidden.

‘Maybe Ekian wants to reduce anything that might shock me because I’m pregnant?’

If Elizabeth demanded money… would he plan to quietly give it and send her away?

But there’s no one who demands money just once.

This kind of thing lasts a lifetime once you give in.

She closed her eyes and imagined herself and Ekian in their fifties.

‘Ekian, what is this about?’

‘Ah, money to your mother… actually, I’ve been sending money all along.’

‘Wh-when did this start?’

‘About 30 years ago?’

‘You gave her that?’

‘It’s better than having her cling to you. I have plenty of money, so it was fine.’

‘Then until when do you plan to give it? Hm?’

‘…Forever?’

It would be a problem whether she lived with Ekian then or not!

If Elizabeth tormented Ekian in that way, she truly had no intention of marrying Ekian.

If that were really the case, she was someone unqualified to marry anyone, if only because of her mother’s existence.

‘So that’s why Ekian prevented me from meeting my mother?’

In that case, she couldn’t continue pretending not to know. So she had already spoken to Anne about it.

‘Anne, I want to go outside secretly. Is there any way to hide my identity and leave the Marquis’ Estate without anyone knowing?’

‘I’ll find out! I think I heard from dad that there’s a back route where merchants like us deliver goods!’

Fortunately, Judith wasn’t under surveillance.

This was because she had been staying quietly confined to the Marquis’ Estate and showed no signs of wanting to go out. And it seemed they thought Judith would be uncomfortable if they made it obvious they were watching her.

‘But if I actually tried to go out, they’d stop me. They’d make all sorts of excuses.’

Judith habitually stroked her belly once.

Just because she was pregnant, if she did nothing while knowing something was happening, the baby inside would dislike it too.

‘I just need to find out what’s happening. Only then can I deal with it.’

It was when she let out a sigh.

“Teacher! Teacherrrrr!”

Her precious girl who served as her eyes and ears, Anne, came running straight to her room.

Now the people at the Marquis’ Estate would let Anne in without much suspicion, thinking ‘she must have some question.’

“This is super urgent, really amazing news!”

Ron was getting into the carriage while holding Petro, trembling with anxiety.

‘What on earth? What…’

The carriage was large and nice, and above all, incredibly fast. Ron had never ridden such a carriage even while working at the Baron’s Manor.

“I told you not to worry.”

The man who brought him smiled maliciously.

The carriage was so spacious that he rode along with them, continuously watching Ron and Petro.

“You just need to act according to your own will. We won’t force anything, absolutely nothing on you.”

Ron found those words very frightening, but had no choice but to believe them.

“But would it be alright if someone joins us for a moment?”

“Pardon?”

“There are people who need to go to Arten Territory with us. The carriage is spacious enough for a few more people.”

“Ah, yes…”

He had no choice anyway.

Ron quietly rolled his eyes in anxiety while only stroking sleeping Petro’s hair.

Indeed, near a city close to Aarten, two large men joined the carriage.

“Hahaha, good timing.”

“Right. Perfect timing. We need to get to Aarten quickly.”

They were clearly men who did rough work.

When they entered the carriage, the spacious interior felt cramped. They crossed their arms and kept grumbling.

“Really, our newbie lent out too much money, so we need to check it out.”

“70 million gold! She seemed like a woman with no special skills, how could he just hand over that much money believing just her words? We need to chase after her and collect it immediately.”

From their conversation, they seemed to be moneylenders.

Apparently, recently, a clueless newbie had mistakenly lent an excessively large sum to a woman in Aarten, and they were going to collect it.

’70 million gold? I don’t know much, but she must be an incredible woman. To borrow that much at once? What was she trying to do…’

Even if he worked his bones off for his entire life, he wasn’t confident he could pay back 70 million gold.

So it made sense that these thugs would immediately go to collect the money as soon as they noticed the mistake.

‘I hope she hasn’t spent the money yet.’

Ron thought while glancing at the moneylenders’ faces.

‘If she spent it all, her life is over.’

The moneylenders would somehow add interest to that debt and milk her dry for life.

‘Or not? Well, maybe she could miraculously recover? Like Judith, who caught a good man and even got pregnant.’

A few years ago, when they abandoned Judith to the moneylenders, he really thought that girl’s life was over.

Elizabeth and Ron truly thought so.

Still, they were glad they at least left that girl behind.

This was because moneylenders, as long as they could keep track of at least one person, didn’t pay much attention to family members who cut ties and disappeared.

That’s why Elizabeth and Ron had been hiding in a distant rural village.

The moneylenders wouldn’t come looking that far.

But seeing how she had somehow endured and overcome that situation, human life was truly unpredictable.

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