I Faked a Pregnancy, but My Husband Returned - Chapter 57

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“Ah, yes. Thank you.”

Since there was no reason to refuse, Judith accepted the medicine. The transparent liquid looked just like water.

“But this looks exactly like water – colorless and odorless. What if I accidentally drink it by mistake?”

“Ah, it’s fine.”

Sandra said cheerfully.

“For ordinary people, it acts as a nutritional supplement. It’s a medicine that many people buy as gifts. It’s quite expensive, so it would be good for you to take it when you’re feeling mysteriously low on energy, my lady.”

“I see. Thank you.”

After asking a few more questions, Sandra left the room. After seeing Sandra off, Judith tied a ribbon around the pretty medicine bottle.

Contrary to Sandra’s words, Ekian hadn’t prescribed the libido-suppressing medicine because Judith was in early pregnancy. He had simply taken it because he needed to take action while they weren’t yet emotionally connected.

Therefore, there was no need to deliver this medicine that Sandra prescribed today to Ekian. In that case…

‘I should give it to Master as a gift.’

It was expensive, and since other people often bought it as gifts, it was a perfect item.

‘I was grateful to him in many ways anyway.’

Now that Ekian would be sharing the same room, their secret nightly meetings were over. It would be meaningful to give this while telling him they could no longer meet.

‘And I saw it in a book.’

In “How to Seduce the Man You Like,” there was definitely such a phrase. It said to show your affection by giving various gifts to the man you like.

Then, after receiving those gifts, he would think of the giver while using them, and this would have the effect of making him feel closer to her.

‘But it said giving something too expensive or burdensome could backfire. But since I received this too, it’s a very appropriate gift that won’t make him feel burdened!’

Judith thought proudly while fiddling with the ribbon-tied medicine bottle.

‘Today, I should first send a letter asking if it’s okay to visit soon. Ekian will allow it anyway.’

She immediately sent a message through the ducal house’s servant to the Grey Information Guild asking ‘would it be okay to visit today?’

The reply came quite late.

[My schedule has been too busy lately. Could you possibly visit in ten days?]

There was no problem with that. Judith readily wrote back agreeing to meet then.

And not long after, a maid came to deliver Ekian’s message. It was asking if it would be okay to have tea time in the morning with the three of them including Karl.

‘This is fine!’

How happy would Karl, who had always liked his brother, be?

Judith answered ‘yes’ with a joyful heart.

Ekian had been busy since dawn. He had a five-year gap.

No matter how much he had continued working and handling business, it took time to understand the ducal house’s affairs again.

‘At least it’s fortunate that the medicine worked well.’

Honestly speaking, last night he thought it would be impossible to share the same bed with Judith while sober. So he requested a new attending physician and even got medicine prescribed.

But the medicine worked so well that he could maintain his composure even while seeing Judith in her indoor clothes.

Originally, just being alone in a room with Judith, even when she wasn’t dressed in such indoor clothes, had been quite difficult.

‘But it’s better to stay in the same room even if I have to take medicine.’

Ekian had no intention of using a different room from Judith. He would need to wrap up the Grey Information Guild’s affairs now, and if that was added to everything else, his days would be too busy. Shouldn’t he share at least the room to quickly win her heart?

‘She definitely said she liked me before.’

That was all Ekian could believe in now.

“Of course, it’s not like I entered the Duke’s Mansion while already liking some man. It’s a man I happened to grow close to after entering the Duke’s Mansion.”

Judith was definitely interested in Huyd now.

“Just when I was thinking that man seemed to have feelings for me too, I gradually came to admit that my heart was also drawn to him…”

All the explanations matched Huyd Soden. The man who liked her first was also Huyd Soden, and since he had been by her side like that, it was obvious that Judith wouldn’t have disliked it either.

“That’s all there is to it, and naturally there was no progress! Both that man and I know my situation, so we wouldn’t start a relationship while I have a husband on paper…”

If there was any consolation, it was that Judith and Huyd weren’t anything to each other yet.

Conversely, didn’t that mean he just needed to turn her heart back to him? Huyd had even gone down to the Soden Marquis’ Domain now. Time was on Ekian’s side.

And Ekian was definitely the man that the former Judith had liked. She had said he was so perfect that she couldn’t help but like him.

That was also the feeling that all women commonly had toward him.

The perfect heir of Meius. An objectively excellent young man with not a single visible flaw.

Conversely…

‘I can’t reveal that I’m Master.’

Ekian thought with a dark expression.

‘Then I’d have to explain the reason, and I don’t want to tell her that reason.’

He wanted to appear to Judith as the perfect Meius Marquis. He wanted to approach her exactly as she had been captivated by him when she was young. That seemed to have a higher chance of success.

He didn’t want to tell such dark and terrible stories about how he wasn’t actually the biological son of the Meius Ducal House, how his birth mother had cursed him, how his birth father tried to use him, and how he himself was afraid he might harm the Meius Ducal House.

Especially now, compared to Huyd who had found his bloodline and proudly become the heir of the Soden Marquis, even more so.

‘I want to appear as the perfect Ekian Meius.’

He had already returned to the Duke’s Mansion with that intention.

She was already his wife, the Meius Marquis’ wife, and was sharing a room with him. There was no reason to create other variables.

‘Huyd Soden, I need to make her forget that guy quickly.’

Ekian thought with a calm face.

‘Anyway, I’m her husband.’

Time would be on his side.

Judith had given him time until her belly would grow. He planned to do his best until then.

With that intention, Ekian wrote a reply to Judith’s letter saying she would visit the Grey Information Guild.

It took some time since it had to go through servants twice, and he was also busy so the appointment time was delayed, but it was fine.

Anyway, in ten days, ‘Master’ was planning to bid farewell to Judith and disappear.

He planned to approach Judith only as the more perfect and wonderful man, Ekian Meius. So today at lunch, he had also arranged to have tea time in the morning with the three of them including Karl.

Since Judith was fond of Karl, if the three of them made good memories together, it would be easier to keep her tied to this mansion. It was a plan full of some degree of ulterior motives.

Karl had already rushed to Ekian as soon as he woke up and heard the news of Ekian’s return.

Of course, there were so many urgent matters that his aides had calmed him down a bit, but knowing Karl’s feelings, Ekian had also set aside time in the morning.

“Ekiaaaaaaan!”

As soon as Karl saw Ekian, he clung to him crying loudly.

“What happened, huh? Huuuuu, you won’t leave again, right? Huh? Huuu, huuuuuu…”

Ekian held Karl tightly and stroked his head. Tears continuously poured from the lovely boy’s eyes.

“You can’t go anywhere anymore… Huuuu, brother, brotherrrrr…”

Ekian nodded and wiped Karl’s tears.

That’s when it happened.

“Excuse me, Lord Ekian, Lord Karl.”

A maid came and said.

“Lady Judith has arrived.”

But Karl, who had been crying so pitifully, immediately lifted his head upon hearing those words. Then he opened his eyes wide with a face that said he was just now coming to his senses.

“Ah, right.”

Then he slowly muttered.

“My brother was trash, wasn’t he?”

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