I Faked a Pregnancy, but My Husband Returned - Chapter 27

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Ekian stayed up all night. Nevertheless, even after returning to the information guild, his mind was clear.

The image of Judith chattering away while lying on his bed was vivid. At the same time, he felt like he was going crazy with self-loathing.

“The cursed Prince.”

When he heard everything from Bart, he truly wanted to die. Since he learned that Bart wasn’t someone from the ducal house, he had slightly hoped that there might be some other breakthrough.

But the truth he discovered was more ugly and terrible than he had imagined.

“Now let me tell you about your birth mother.”

He felt deep disgust with his very existence. It was exactly the same feeling he had at seventeen when he learned only part of the truth.

But he couldn’t die. Not at seventeen, and not now.

Dying was truly a difficult thing.

‘Ah, if only Judith hadn’t told me about the bomb…’

If that were the case, he would have already died along with the people in the alley.

Perhaps even when the bomb exploded and chaos erupted, he might not have deliberately avoided it.

He thought that might be fitting as the end for someone whose birth was wrong from the start…

‘But…’

However, the bomb had already been removed and he had survived. Even though he didn’t know what to do, his memories of Judith were vivid.

Judith laughing in his room.

Judith lying on his bed.

Judith leading him to lie down together and making eye contact.

Judith warmly comforting him without knowing the situation.

Judith sleeping like a child with her eyes closed on the bed he always used.

‘Hah…’

Was it because she was in his space? She seemed like his woman.

Judith, who casually called herself ‘Ekian’s wife,’ was even endearing at times.

She said she used to like him before. He even felt regretful about the past when he didn’t know Judith from those days.

In the end, he quietly watched her until dawn came, and only left the mansion when he heard the maids moving about.

When he was having conversations with Judith, it seemed like emotions he thought had died long ago were coming back to life.

Anger, absurdity, bewilderment, and even joy.

But he wanted to turn away from understanding the true nature of those emotions, feeling like he would fall into an even deeper quagmire.

‘How did things end up like this? Why did Judith have to enter the Meius Mansion of all places…’

The past three years when they only regarded each other as dry business partners.

If Ekian had seen her as a woman earlier, he would have paid off her debt so she wouldn’t even have to go to the Meius Ducal House.

Actually, it was natural that Judith didn’t look like a woman to him during that time. She was a minor.

He just thought she was a young kid living earnestly and only watched over her while giving good prices for information.

When he first saw her, she definitely had a somewhat childish appearance…

‘But when exactly did she grow up so much…’

When Isabella deliberately dressed her up prettily, she was a lovely beauty by anyone’s standards.

For the first time, Ekian felt a little resentful of Isabella’s personality of spoiling anyone she liked. Was there really a need to dress up a daughter-in-law who officially had a husband so prettily…

‘Why did Mother… no, she’s not my mother anymore.’

Thinking of his birth mother he learned about last night, Ekian bit his lip slightly. Upon hearing about his unexpected birth mother’s existence, a place he definitely needed to visit came to mind.

That’s when it happened.

A young man’s voice was heard from outside.

“Excuse me. This is the Grey Information Guild, right?”

With his acutely developed senses, Ekian could tell immediately. That somewhat shy voice belonged to Huyd Ramis.

In other words, that bastard who drank with Judith yesterday!

That guy whom Judith directly said she ‘communicated well’ with!

He couldn’t hear that ‘conversation’ that supposedly went so well because he had to visit Bart!

Ekian’s face hardened instantly.

“Yes, that’s correct. What can I do for you?”

The employee who always guarded the guild entrance asked matter-of-factly. Then Huyd answered in a gentle voice.

“I have a letter to deliver. Um, for Judith… I mean Baron Ailan. A letter for Master…”

“Yes, if you leave it here, I’ll deliver it.”

“I promised to deliver it personally. Could I possibly meet this person called Master?”

“That would be difficult. Master only meets with a very small number of important clients.”

“Ah…”

Huyd sighed as if he had no choice.

Ekian pondered for a moment, then crossed his arms.

He didn’t know much about Huyd Ramis. He was the personal physician who came after Ekian left the mansion.

And he couldn’t see him properly while looking through the gap in the secret passage.

With somewhat impulsive feelings, Ekian put on his mask and spoke toward the door in a stiff tone.

“Let him in. If it’s Judith’s letter, I should receive it personally.”

“Yes, Master.”

The employee smoothly opened the door. Huyd carefully walked up the stairs.

The neat-looking young man looked around curiously, then was startled when he saw the masked Ekian.

“Ah, hello.”

“Please sit here.”

“Yes. Thank you.”

Huyd seemed slightly surprised by Ekian’s mask, but politely composed his bewilderment quickly, smiled good-naturedly, and sat in front of him.

After scanning Huyd’s appearance, Ekian unconsciously muttered to himself.

‘Damn it.’

Neatly groomed, smooth brown hair.

Clear green eyes of a deeper shade than Judith’s.

A slender, well-proportioned build that looked distinguished even in inexpensive clothes.

His upright posture and kind impression made him look more noble than most well-maintained aristocratic young masters.

‘Judith said she liked handsome men.’

He had hoped that up close, Huyd might be somewhat ugly. But that wasn’t the case at all.

Rather, his affable impression seemed like it would make others feel much better than Ekian, who looked somewhat gloomy.

“Here, I came to deliver this letter.”

Huyd handed the letter to Ekian with a clean face.

The envelope had round handwriting that appeared to be Judith’s.

“I see.”

Ekian received the letter with a relaxed voice.

“Of course I should receive Judith’s letter personally. She’s my very spe.cial. and close. client.”

He deliberately showed off his friendship with Judith, but Huyd smiled even more gently.

“The other parents who visited before all said the same thing. Judith must have done really good work.”

“…”

It backfired.

Ekian hid his somewhat displeased expression behind his mask and immediately opened the letter.

The letter’s contents weren’t much.

It just asked him to find out as quickly as possible where the Soden Marquis and his wife were now and what they were doing.

He didn’t know why she was suddenly curious about the Soden Marquis, but he figured she had her reasons.

The location of the Soden Marquis and Marchioness wasn’t particularly difficult information to obtain.

‘But why? Suddenly asking about the Soden Marquis and Marchioness, I’m curious about the reason.’

He briefly wrote a reply about the Soden Marquis and Marchioness’s location right there and handed it to Huyd.

Then he spoke to Huyd politely.

“You can deliver this as the answer. Thank you.”

“Yes, well…”

Huyd, who he expected would tactfully get up, answered vaguely and rolled his eyes for a moment.

Then he asked in a serious tone.

“By the way, is this a place that deals with information?”

“That’s right.”

“So if I tell you what I want to know, you’ll give me an answer about it?”

“If possible. Is there perhaps something you’d like to know?”

“Ah, well….”

Huyd’s ears turned slightly red.

And he fidgeted with his fingers as he carefully began to speak.

“Actually, there’s a woman I have feelings for. I haven’t known her for long, but she’s pretty and kind and we get along so well in conversation… She’s someone that many people besides me like, truly someone you can’t help but like.”

Ekian’s expression hardened firmly behind his mask.

“But I’ve never been interested in women until now, and I’m quite ignorant about that sort of thing.”

Huyd was now blushing even to his cheeks.

“Could you perhaps tell me how to approach her carefully, without being burdensome?”

Oh my?

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