I Faked a Pregnancy, but My Husband Returned - Chapter 69

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Judith was so dumbfounded that she was momentarily speechless.

Anais made a fuss and caused a commotion.

“Oh my, oh my, what should we do, really what should we do! Are you okay? Hm?”

Judith let out a sigh. And before she could say anything, a desperate scream hit her eardrums.

“I’m, I’m sorry!”

It was the maid who had spilled water on Judith.

“I’m really sorry…”

A young-looking girl immediately prostrated herself in apology.

“I mistepped, I’m really sorry. Please forgive me just this once…”

She hadn’t just spilled a cup of water. She had completely spilled a large bucket full of water that she was supposedly using to water the plants in the garden. Judith was completely soaked.

‘Anais must have ordered this.’

Knowing Anais’s temperament, it definitely didn’t seem like an accident. Meanwhile, the young maid trembled and pleaded.

“I’m really, really sorry!”

“How dare you make such a mistake with a guest at our party?”

Anais shouted with wide eyes.

“Lock her in the storage and beat her thoroughly, then don’t give her water for a week!”

In this situation, there was only one action Judith could take. To say it was fine, that she would forgive her.

If she didn’t show mercy in forgiving the maid, Judith would be the one criticized for being cruel.

Many people were already watching her.

Judith stood still, breathing heavily.

Anais immediately grabbed Judith’s arm and said.

“Are you perhaps not feeling better? If so, I’ll lock that maid up for ten more days. Oh, what should we do, hm?”

“…No.”

Judith said coldly.

“Forgive the maid. She can make mistakes.”

“Oh my, Judith, you’re still really kind.”

Anais said loudly in a voice filled with emotion, clasping her hands together.

“Well, you also had a time when you worked hard like an employee… so it wouldn’t feel like someone else’s problem.”

Judith’s green eyes quietly glared at Anais. Anais looked over her disheveled appearance and said.

“This won’t do, Judith. You need to change clothes. Oh my, you’re not alone anymore, so you’ll catch a cold staying like this. I’ll lend you the best of my clothes.”

Anais curved her eyes into crescents and shrugged her shoulders.

“What if you become alone again? You might end up in that situation again, right?”

It seemed her wish from the carriage on the way here, ‘Please let’s go easy on each other,’ would not come true.

Judith sighed and took out a handkerchief to wipe her face first.

The handkerchief was also wet so it wasn’t much help, but it did help secure her vision. Looking at the people gathered in small groups at the garden party, she roughly understood the situation.

‘She selected people and arranged the timing.’

The people at the garden party now were only those who were very close to Anais, or liked gossip, or were too timid to speak up.

So even when Anais openly insulted Judith, no one stepped forward to take Judith’s side.

‘She must have invited people who might be risk factors at different times.’

She already knew the reason for wanting to change her clothes. Anais would definitely recommend clothes with excessive exposure.

‘And she said she would create a scene of me being close with Master.’

Water dripped from the handkerchief. Looking at it, it wasn’t even clean water and had a strangely unpleasant smell.

‘People who come later will have some prejudice against me. The rumors about me afterward are obvious. Despite being pregnant, she wore revealing clothes and secretly had an affair with another man.’

Honestly, Judith just wanted to get through this quietly. If Master and she worked together to avoid giving any grounds for criticism.

But did she really have to be this malicious?

“What are you doing, Judith.”

Anais curved her eyes and grabbed her arm to pull her.

“You’re my guest, so I’ll definitely take responsibility for this. Oh, are you worried about the baby? Should I assign our count’s household physician? If not for that child, you wouldn’t be able to see a noble family’s physician, right? Of course it’s an incredibly precious child.”

Judith took a deep breath. Something caught her attention as she regained her composure. It was Master, who had just gotten off a private carriage.

As soon as he got off the carriage, he looked at Judith with surprised eyes. She could see him about to rush to her immediately.

But at this moment, even Master didn’t seem very important.

“Anais.”

She smiled sweetly and said.

“Could you let go of this?”

“Hm? Why?”

“Just let go for a moment.”

Anais let go of her arm without understanding why.

At the same time, Judith slapped Anais’s cheek with a sharp sound.

“Wh-what is this…”

When Anais momentarily stopped processing the situation and couldn’t even burst into anger, Judith raised her other hand and slapped the other cheek.

A sharp sound echoed as Anais staggered. At the same time, the maids approached Judith in surprise.

“What on earth are you doing…”

“Stop.”

Judith leisurely crossed her arms.

“I just fulfilled your master’s dream.”

“Hey!”

Anais, who had finally come to her senses, shouted fiercely.

“Are you crazy? Do you know what you just did?”

Then she immediately raised her hand. Judith caught that hand and held it tightly.

“What’s wrong, Anais.”

She grinned and shrugged her shoulders.

“I told you. I just fulfilled your old dream, didn’t I?”

“What nonsense…”

“You see. When my family fell three years ago and I sold everything valuable.”

Water was still dripping from Judith’s body. Regardless of that, she spoke loudly and clearly.

“Conversely, I kept almost everything that wasn’t worth money, right? I felt like I needed to keep at least that to not forget that I was Judith Ailan.”

“Shut up and let go of this…”

“But among those things were exchange diaries and letters I shared with childhood friends.”

Anais’s expression suddenly hardened. Naturally, she couldn’t remember any of the contents of the notes exchanged between noble young ladies around age fifteen.

“Of course, Anais, there are letters you gave me too.”

Judith threw away Anais’s arm. While Anais swayed and staggered, she took out a piece of paper from her bag.

“The bag material is good so the contents didn’t get wet. Really fortunate.”

Judith smiled brightly. Then she walked with big steps and placed that paper on the table with the most people. After that, she commanded the young lady closest to her.

“Read it, you.”

“…Pardon?”

“You can read, can’t you. Loudly and clearly. You don’t need anything else, just read Anais’s part.”

“Ah…”

The content of the paper was simple. It seemed like a rolling paper where quite a few children had written their respective dreams.

Judith’s was there, and Anais’s was there too.

[♡Judith Ailan’s Dream♡

I will definitely become a good mother.

I will love my child the most in the world.]

[♡Anais Elona’s Dream♡

I will definitely marry Ekian Meius.

So I won’t let anyone who challenges the young duchess get away with it.]

Judith smiled confidently.

“But you didn’t become the young duchess, did you? Somehow I ended up fulfilling your dream?”

In the coldly frozen atmosphere of the garden party, Judith said boldly.

“Since I’m fulfilling it, I should do it to the end. You said not to let anyone who challenges the young duchess get away with it. Of course I can slap you for insulting me, can’t I?”

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