I Faked a Pregnancy, but My Husband Returned - Chapter 86

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At fifteen, after that doctor said ‘this child will have difficulty getting pregnant.’

Judith had never forgotten those words. Secrets always had a way of sticking in one’s mind even more.

He had said pregnancy would be difficult, not impossible, so she had been thinking positively that ‘if we have relations frequently, the chances might increase even a little.’

She had even whispered confidently that night when she shared her body with Master.

“It’s okay… The timing is safe, and the doctor said I have a body that has difficulty conceiving anyway…”

It was she herself who had held onto Master, who was hesitating at the last moment, trapping his warmth inside her.

“They say… if you just time it right, it can happen even in one try. It’s just that the timing is irregular unlike others, making it hard to predict.”

Melanie giggled as she laughed. She blushed slightly and added, “I was right to send the men away.”

“That’s recently discovered research, so it’s a bit different from older medical texts. That’s why I worried more than necessary too.”

Recently discovered research results?

Judith forced a smile while quickly starting to count the days in her head.

In terms of frequency, they had done it several times, but it had all happened in just one day, and according to the general medical books she knew, it was a day with low pregnancy chances.

She had always known her body had difficulty conceiving, and the timing was safe too, so she hadn’t thought about the possibility of pregnancy.

But… if what Melanie said was true?

The general medical book Judith had read was naturally an old publication. It was a general book old enough to be called ‘general knowledge.’

The doctor who examined her at fifteen was also an old doctor from five years ago, so there was a high possibility he had told her something different from recent research trends.

She anxiously counted the days. Her heart began to pound.

‘My normal menstrual due date… has passed.’

Because it was so irregular, she hadn’t thought much of it until now.

Meanwhile, Melanie’s story continued.

“Still, I was so anxious. In early pregnancy, I had almost no symptoms, so when I woke up, I always felt like the child in my belly had surely left my side… So do you know what I did?”

“Ahaha.”

Judith laughed soullessly as she replied.

“What did you do?”

“I told the smartest maid among those I keep to learn medicine! Isn’t that ridiculous?”

Melanie said excitedly.

“At least to quickly study whether the child was doing well… Doctors say they can sense the unique magic power that fetuses possess. They can tell the fetus’s condition with that.”

“Is, is that so?”

“Yes. Since she’s not a professional medical person, she doesn’t need to know that much, just needs to be able to sense two magic powers… I had her study like that. So I asked that maid every day whether my child was really doing well. I couldn’t bother the imperial physicians every day asking if my child was well, because it would be too obvious.”

Her eyes curved kindly. Then she said lightly.

“Quite interestingly, that maid is this child here.”

The maid behind Melanie smiled shyly and bowed her head slightly.

Seeing that she was the only servant who accompanied them to Huyd’s Villa, she seemed to be a maid Melanie truly trusted.

“That was already several years ago… That child now talks and walks around, and does quite pretty things too.”

Judith saw the affection rippling in Melanie’s brown eyes.

It was warm and blind, yet the kind of affection that made the person happy. The love, worry, joy, and overwhelming feelings built up layer by layer since the child was in the womb were deeply melted into the words ‘pretty things.’

Surprisingly, seeing those eyes, her anxiously rattling heart began to settle calmly.

“Judith, I was actually an insignificant young lady from a count family with little influence. I wasn’t good at anything, wasn’t pretty, and wasn’t particularly brave or very outgoing either. I was such an ordinary woman, common as they come in this world.”

Melanie said with a gentle expression.

“But becoming one child’s mother, and thinking I wanted to protect that child… I’ve come this far.”

Her words dripped with sincerity, so Judith stared at her as if entranced.

“To be really honest, Judith. I don’t have feelings like wanting Crown Prince to become Emperor, wanting to become Empress myself, or my son must become the next Emperor…”

Judith knew this well enough. She nodded, feeling somehow like her heart was aching.

“But I do these things because I have to protect my children. Coming out to the festival-busy streets while pregnant, carrying Crown Prince’s blood myself, and risking my life and my father’s life to obtain an antidote… Because otherwise my family would be in danger.”

“…Yes.”

“Probably Ekian Meius Marquis is the same. The Marquis would want to be by Judith’s side more than anyone, but he’s temporarily away from his family because he has to protect that child in Judith’s belly. Given the Marquis’s personality, he probably didn’t explain much, but I hope Judith understands that heart…”

Only then did Judith think she understood why Melanie had told her that story.

At the same time, she realized that Ekian hadn’t run away again like a scoundrel, but was really away in relation to imperial affairs.

Melanie seemed to want to defend Ekian, who had disappeared again leaving his pregnant wife behind.

“Even someone like me, the most ordinary person in the world who couldn’t muster courage for anything, became the most special person because of my child… What would that heart be like for someone as capable as the Marquis.”

At Melanie’s words, Judith slowly nodded.

At that moment when she was blankly mulling over her words one by one.

Judith suddenly thought of one thing.

Anyway, she now had to make a choice.

The thought ‘Could I possibly be pregnant?’ had been circling in her head since earlier.

She had no particular symptoms, but Melanie also said she had no symptoms in early pregnancy…

She couldn’t keep saying there was a child when there wasn’t one forever. She had to announce a miscarriage anyway, and divorce that way, so… she would have to announce the miscarriage to someone eventually.

And if by any chance, a child had been conceived from that night with Master…

‘I can’t show myself to a doctor. If I’m pregnant, I can’t lie about the gestational age. It would be troublesome if rumors spread.’

Then she couldn’t miss this opportunity. Melanie’s maid wasn’t a doctor, so she couldn’t know things like the child’s condition or gestational age, and could only tell whether there was fetal magic power.

If there was no child, she could slowly prepare to announce the miscarriage, and if there happened to be a child, she had to quickly prepare for what came after.

“Um…”

Judith looked at Melanie with calm eyes.

“Crown Princess, then may I also ask one favor? It’s nothing difficult…”

After swallowing dry saliva once, she smiled as naturally as possible and said.

“My child too, whether it’s doing well… If your maid could see that much, I’m curious too.”

Even her breathing trembled with tension. Of course, Melanie didn’t notice and smiled brightly.

“I know that feeling well. It’s a bit awkward to see the attending physician every day at Meius Mansion too, right? You’d worry about hearing gossip that you’re being extreme because it’s a pregnancy for social advancement…”

Then she looked back and gestured to the maid.

“You heard, right? Please take a look for her.”

The maid immediately smiled and replied.

“Yes.”

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