I Faked a Pregnancy, but My Husband Returned - Chapter 92

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Ron’s plan was quite simple. It was to follow Elizabeth’s original plan.

Lure Judith, kill her, and pin that murder on the Meius Ducal House – that was all.

Killing one powerless woman wouldn’t be difficult. Framing the Meius Ducal House wouldn’t be too hard either. He could just run to the nearest magazine and give a tearful interview saying it seemed like the Meius Ducal House had killed Judith.

“My wife has always missed Judith and has been tormented by guilt… Our family has never once forgotten Judith. We didn’t abandon Judith. We were just separated by circumstances. Judith was in the capital while we worked hard in the countryside to pay off our debts. But when we belatedly learned that Judith had become the Meius Marquis’s wife, we came up to the capital to understand the situation…”

Ron had already thought through the entire interview content.

“When we secretly met for the last time, Judith was extremely anxious. She said it seemed like Marquis Ekian’s feelings had changed, that the ducal house seemed to be trying to get rid of her… I can’t forget those wavering eyes of hers!”

People loved sensational stories, so with the Emperor’s influence added to this, it would naturally be accepted as fact.

So the most important thing was luring Judith. He needed to lure her to come alone to a place with as few witnesses as possible.

It didn’t seem likely she would come out alone just because Ron or Elizabeth called her. Therefore, Ron had to use his head a bit based on the information he heard from Elizabeth.

“Just assign teachers to that child. Then she won’t look for me. So don’t worry about it. I’m not the one raising that child, right?”

Elizabeth always said this to appease Ron.

“That child probably follows the teachers more than me anyway. Especially with the classics teacher – she was absolutely devoted to her. Was it Countess Olan? That lady must have nothing else to do since she teaches much longer than the original class time.”

“The classics teacher?”

“Yes. That old woman probably doesn’t like being alone either. She’s a poor old lady living by herself. So isn’t it good for everyone?”

In her childhood, Judith had certainly relied heavily on one of her tutors, the classics teacher.

She was a fallen noble over 60 years old who doted on Judith, saying she was brilliant. She was a baroness in name only, living alone with no one to care for her. Then her son who lived in the provinces took her in, ending the employment relationship.

Ron remembered how sad young Judith had been at that time.

‘I can lure her out by saying Countess Olan wants a visit from her sickbed.’

It wouldn’t be difficult to write a letter pretending to be her son. If he lied that Countess Olan was on her deathbed and wanted to see Judith’s face, she would rush out of the Duke’s mansion immediately.

‘The only problem is the mansion’s servants coming out together in a group.’

A marquis’s wife who was even pregnant wouldn’t come out alone. But Ron knew several useful pieces of information about young Judith.

‘If I do it like this…’

Ron smiled slyly as he wrote the letter pretending to be Countess Olan’s son.

‘She’ll definitely come out alone. And to a secluded place at that.’

With Ben and Isabella’s cooperation, the divorce proceedings moved quickly. However, it took some time to leave the Duke’s mansion because Isabella insisted on providing generous alimony.

“I’ll prepare cash instead of deposits or checks. It doesn’t seem likely you’d use Meius checks or deposits.”

Isabella was being considerate since Judith would likely need to live under an assumed name for a while.

However, since she couldn’t pile on gold coins, the schedule was inevitably delayed while searching for other monetary means that were both liquid and portable.

“All procedures are complete, and we can announce the miscarriage simultaneously with the divorce.”

Isabella spoke with a resolute expression.

“Let’s say you divorced him because you couldn’t stand living with such a man who didn’t even show his face despite the miscarriage.”

It was a divorce where Ekian was completely at fault. Isabella had worked until the end to protect Judith’s honor.

Of course, Karl also glumly agreed to this.

“Yes… Since my brother was excessively trash, it can’t be helped.”

Looking at Karl’s tear-filled eyes, Judith thought that if not for the child in her womb, she might have been able to stay here.

“I raised my brother wrong. I’m truly so sorry. Now my brother… seems to have really crossed a point of no return.”

Thinking about it that way, going all the way with Master that night had truly been an excellent choice that blocked her retreat.

“No, Karl.”

Judith looked into Karl’s eyes as she spoke.

“Right now, Marquis Ekian is surely doing something very admirable. Something tremendous for the Empire and his family.”

That was a fact she had deduced from her conversation with Melanie.

She got the sense that Ekian was doing something so dangerous that he couldn’t tell his family, something that even Melanie and Alteon kept their mouths shut about.

However, since Ekian was a stranger to her, she wasn’t particularly worried. Well, such people had to exist so that ordinary people like Master could live happily and peacefully.

“So don’t think like that. Calling him a delinquent or a scoundrel… He’s absolutely not that kind of person. Ekian was very good to me too.”

Of course, those words had the opposite effect.

“Sister-in-law is so kind until the very end…”

Karl ended up bursting into tears.

“Even if he really is doing something great, what’s the point if he abandons his family and leaves pretending not to know his own child? That’s what being out of his mind is!”

“Ahaha…”

“Now I can’t even call you sister-in-law anymore… *sob*…”

“You can just call me Judith.”

Judith gently spoke while wiping Karl’s tears.

“I like that too. Let’s definitely meet often.”

Of course… that would be after safely giving birth to the child.

There was still no contact from Master. Judith decided to visit the Grey Information Guild after leaving the Duke’s mansion.

She didn’t want to go outside until she divorced and left the Duke’s mansion.

She wanted to spend time with the Meius Ducal House people until the very end.

“My baby.”

Judith whispered alone while stroking her belly in the room.

“I have quite a few memories with your daddy in this room. Every night your daddy would visit and we’d talk about this and that.”

Of course, it was another man’s room…

Judith forcibly swallowed those words for the sake of prenatal care.

“So I feel a bit sad to leave here. But from now on, we’ll spend each day more joyfully in a better place.”

Memories flashed by like a revolving lantern – being pressed close together with him in the secret passage, showing her drunken state while causing a scene, bickering and sulking with each other only to inevitably make up again.

“But this wasn’t really home.”

Judith smiled brightly as she spoke.

“Now I really wanted to have my own home, and I’m so happy I can have it with you.”

Though she lived in the Baron’s Manor until age seventeen, somehow that place never felt like her home. The boarding house where she lived for three years goes without saying. She couldn’t confidently call the Meius Mansion ‘my home’ either, so now it was finally time to prepare her real nest.

While Judith was saying sufficient farewells to her family and peacefully awaiting the approaching day of the divorce announcement,

A letter arrived addressed to her.

The sender was Haines Olan.

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