I Faked a Pregnancy, but My Husband Returned - Chapter 67

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Ekian let out a sigh and pressed his forehead. Things kept getting more tangled when they were already complicated, leaving him completely frazzled.

However, he no longer had the confidence to casually share a room with Judith. But Karl was already making a fuss about just one night away, so he couldn’t keep saying he’d stay out overnight. In the end, he had no choice but to use the Crown Prince as an excuse that no one in the Meius Ducal House could argue with.

After leaving the Duke’s Mansion with the excuse that ‘Crown Prince summoned me, so I have no choice.’

‘Sigh…’

That evening. Ekian hesitated for a long time inside the secret passage.

‘…How can I face her?’

But he couldn’t avoid meeting her. How could he just sit still when Anais was plotting something sinister? Eventually, he took a deep breath and opened the door.

In truth, Ekian thought he didn’t understand his own heart either.

Judith had surely kissed him impulsively while drunk. The man she liked was Huyd, after all.

It was hard to think she liked him. Because he always wore a mask in front of her and had never even properly let her hear his voice.

Even if he were a woman, he didn’t think he could like a man about whom he knew absolutely nothing. There had to be something attractive to be drawn to, wouldn’t there?

‘She’s a woman with a strong sense of responsibility. Since she thought he took the drug because of her, she probably wanted to help him somehow.’

But he couldn’t stop her approaching lips. He had no regrets about that incident.

He had gotten overly excited by her clumsy and bewildered inexperienced movements, ultimately losing his conscience.

Having kissed her without even properly revealing his identity, he was objectively quite a scoundrel. Nevertheless, even if he could go back to the past with all these memories, he wouldn’t have been able to stop himself. It wasn’t something that could be stopped in the first place.

‘Did she forget?’

She might have forgotten last night’s events because she was drunk. It would be easier to deal with if that were the case.

He let out another sigh, then knocked on the bookshelf and entered the room through the secret passage.

“Ah.”

Judith greeted him with her usual proper posture.

“You’re here, Master.”

Judith’s green eyes welcomed him warmly. Ekian was grateful he could hide his expression behind the mask. He definitely wouldn’t have been able to manage his facial expressions.

At the same time, Ekian made a decision.

‘Let’s pretend not to know.’

No matter how he thought about it, he couldn’t handle it.

‘It’s better to just pretend not to know.’

If Judith said, ‘I’m sorry, Master. Actually, I like Huyd… What happened was just due to responsibility while drunk, so can we pretend it never happened?’ he didn’t have the confidence to readily agree.

He still had work to do with Judith as Master of the Grey Trading Company. It was about Anais.

So he couldn’t lose his composure and become awkward. He still needed to play the role of an excellent business partner as he had until now.

“Yes.”

So Ekian answered as dryly as possible.

“We need to continue discussing yesterday’s matter.”

At those words, Judith glanced at him, then smiled slightly as she answered.

“I actually had something to discuss too. Anais is moving quickly.”

Whether she decided to go along with Ekian’s pretense, Judith showed no sign and held out an invitation. It bore the crest of the Anitas Marquis Family.

Ekian knew roughly what this garden party was about. Anais had already hinted at it to him.

“I have two choices, don’t I?”

Judith said with a bright smile.

“Option 1, avoid it. Option 2, confront it. Actually, I wanted to choose option 1 and stay quiet until the divorce.”

“…But?”

“This afternoon, another letter came, didn’t it? Saying Crown Princess would also be attending.”

Ekian felt dizzy again. What, even Melanie was coming?

Melanie was a strong and good woman, but he couldn’t believe she would come to such an occasion. She was the Crown Princess and could naturally decline to attend such a simple garden party. She probably didn’t even get along well with Anais.

“But Crown Princess would also need help, wouldn’t she?”

Judith said with sparkling eyes.

“She must be looking for a trustworthy good doctor.”

“Hmm?”

Come to think of it, it was originally Judith who had warned about Alteon’s danger. So it made sense that Judith would be concerned about that matter.

“A good doctor would be…”

“Huyd, of course!”

Judith said cheerfully.

“Huyd said he would definitely listen to any request from me at least once. So I think it would be okay to secretly ask him to examine Crown Prince. He would guarantee secrecy, and his skills are excellent as far as I know, so he could help with detoxification too.”

“Ah, Huyd Soden…”

The moment Judith’s lips formed that name, Ekian felt a strong sense of rejection. Judith, completely unaware, continued speaking.

“When you think about it, it’s a good opportunity, isn’t it? A chance to meet without suspicion. After all, Master and I know all of Anais’s schemes and can prepare for them.”

Ekian had heard about that directly.

At that garden party, Ekian was scheduled to appear as Anais’s surprise guest. Naturally wearing a mask, as a capable person leading a famous information guild.

“There, exchange a few words with Judith. Pretending to be close.”

“Well, that’s true enough.”

“Then say you have something to discuss and call her behind the big tree during the garden party. If you’ve been business partners for a long time, you should be able to do that much, right? After that, I’ll handle it myself.”

“Hmm.”

“The garden party is just a starting point anyway. It’s meant to be a trigger that people can remember when a really big incident happens later. That’s the purpose, so there won’t be anything major, and Judith won’t have reason to be suspicious either. Just some small excuse like a leaf got stuck, and you just need to stay close for a moment.”

Ekian relayed those words to Judith, and Judith clapped her hands with a bright laugh.

“Then it’s easy. I just need to pretend not to know Master there, right?”

“Or there’s the option of me not going.”

Ekian said with a chuckle. He had originally considered that method.

“I could just say something urgent came up and not attend.”

That was also a very simple way to thwart Anais. Anyway, Anais, who called Judith under the pretense of reconciliation, would have to act friendly with Judith in front of many people.

“No. You can just come.”

Judith said leisurely.

“Well, as long as we don’t go to a secluded place together, it should be fine, right?”

“That’s true, but…”

“And.”

Judith, who took a sip of the prepared tea, said firmly.

“It’s not like I don’t have any weapons either.”

“Hmm? Weapons?”

“Of course. I told you, didn’t I? I was also close to Anais when we were young. I know a lot about that girl too.”

Judith smiled mischievously. Ekian intuited that Judith had something he didn’t know about. And he thought it wouldn’t be bad to see that on that day.

“If that girl plans to embarrass me, it wouldn’t be bad to embarrass her a little at that occasion either.”

“I look forward to it.”

Ekian nodded leisurely.

Actually, he didn’t like the idea of exposing her in front of that wicked person Anais. But thinking about it, all the things he had done with her became quite pleasant memories after they were over.

Each and every one of them, all of them.

“I’m curious what kind of weakness you’re holding.”

“Oh, it’s nothing much.”

Judith smiled shyly.

“That girl had a crush on Ekian Meius Marquis when she was young, remember?”

It was then that Ekian’s previously good mood suddenly became anxious.

“It’s a story related to that time.”

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