I Faked a Pregnancy, but My Husband Returned - Chapter 94

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Judith urgently spoke to the maid who approached her again.

“Who delivered this letter? Could I see them urgently?”

“I’m sorry, young madam.”

The maid answered in confusion.

“They just handed the letter to the gatekeeper saying it was urgent and disappeared, so I honestly don’t know who it was.”

“I see? Then could you help me prepare to go out?”

Judith spoke calmly despite being somewhat excited.

“There’s a place I need to stop by briefly.”

Ron was targeting her. She didn’t know the exact circumstances, but since Anais had targeted her before, she thought it might be the Emperor’s influence. In that case, it would be too difficult for her to handle alone.

‘Ah.’

Judith thought sadly.

‘All this time, I did everything together with Master.’

Master had been with her through every moment until now. She said she led because she knew the future, but in reality, she couldn’t do anything properly without Master.

That’s why now, she was feeling this sense of being ‘alone.’

Just because Master had left her side.

“Yes, I understand. Will you be gone long?”

“No. It’s nearby. Just prepare a carriage for me.”

Judith dressed simply and slowly left her room.

If it weren’t for the child in her belly, she would have stayed secluded in the Duke’s Mansion as the letter from Grey Information Guild suggested. That’s what she had been doing until now, and it wasn’t difficult either.

But now the situation was different.

The child in her belly was growing well day by day, and she needed to leave the Duke’s Mansion as soon as possible to suppress any potential scandals that could follow from the Meius Ducal House.

‘It’s an emergency situation, so I can’t just wait indefinitely. Master is the child’s father, so I absolutely must contact him.’

She understood that Master had left to carry out important work, but that was when he didn’t know about the pregnancy.

As the child’s father, he had the right to be contacted about the child being in danger. No, it was closer to an obligation than a right. After all, she didn’t make this child alone.

Unlike other times, Judith didn’t refuse the escort knight and carefully headed to 【Grey Information Guild】.

It was an alley and shop she had frequented since she was seventeen, truly familiar and genuinely ‘home-like.’ However.

“Huh? Oh, this place has been closed for quite a while now.”

Judith had to hear shocking news right in front of it. The information guild had become a restaurant in the meantime.

“The shop was put up for sale a very long time ago.”

“…What? A long time ago?”

When she pressed for details about the date, they said it had been put on the market around the time of the Imperial Palace banquet, claiming financial difficulties. Then it really had been quite a long time ago.

Judith just stared at the restaurant as if entranced. Wasn’t it vivid in her memory that she had discussed Anais’s garden party inside here not long ago? Did that mean they were already closing down the information guild at that time?

Both the real estate agent and the new restaurant owner just looked puzzled.

“We don’t really know where they went either? They were quite mysterious from the beginning…”

“Ah, I see.”

Judith smiled calmly without showing her feelings.

“I understand.”

After that, she took a carriage back to the Duke’s Mansion without asking any more questions.

But on the carriage ride, her mind was complicated.

She was finally beginning to realize that she had made a deal with a man without substance, that she had loved a man like a mirage.

She knew nothing about his face, name, current situation, or anything else. There was no way to contact him and no way to find him. To meet him, she could only wait.

But until when?

He said he would come as soon as possible, but exactly until when?

‘I can’t wait.’

Now that she had a child, she couldn’t just listen to Master’s words anymore. She had to protect this child from any direction. Originally, she had planned to go to Soden Marquis’ Domain where Huyd was, but that didn’t seem like a good idea either.

‘Traveling alone to that distant province would be tantamount to suicide.’

If she left the capital alone after the divorce, Ron would cheer and kill her immediately. She placed her hand on her belly and took a deep breath.

‘For now, I can’t go there…’

But she couldn’t send Ekian to an unknown place and then add more worries to Isabella, who was already full of concerns. Revealing the pregnancy was even more impossible, and she didn’t want to cancel her plan to leave the Duke’s Mansion either.

‘Even if I wait at the Duke’s Mansion, there’s no telling when Master will come. The child will be born in nine months, so what about that child then.’

If she was going to move, she had to move now while no one knew about her pregnancy. Of course, since it was early pregnancy, she had to be extremely careful…

Finally, in the rattling carriage, Judith swallowed dryly.

‘I need to hide myself. Ron will keep targeting me. No, now someone worse than Ron might target me in some way.’

Whether she could meet Master later or not, she had to protect this child with her own judgment first.

Thinking about the child, she could feel herself becoming extremely sensitive. Once her mind became anxious, it didn’t calm down easily.

‘The Duke’s Mansion? Is the Duke’s Mansion really safe?’

Now she was having those thoughts too.

‘Is it really okay? Bart also worked as the family doctor for a long time, right? And there was also a servant who wanted to become an adopted son of the Soden Marquis Family and betrayed others at the crucial moment. Where’s the guarantee that the servants won’t be bribed?’

There were countless servants in the Duke’s Mansion alone. That meant there were many watching eyes too. Judith found that fact newly terrifying.

‘I want to be alone… Everything makes me anxious.’

Fortunately, due to the incident at the Imperial Palace banquet, Alteon had awakened and was at odds with the Emperor. Surely Alteon had systematically planned to strike against the Emperor, and probably Ekian was also cooperating with him in an important role. In that case, it would be good to gamble on the Emperor’s downfall.

If only she could hide somewhere no one knew until then.

‘Baby.’

Judith swallowed dryly and thought.

‘For you, I can be excessively careful about anything.’

But where on earth should she go?

Where was there a way to hide without being discovered by anyone? On this continent that was still the Emperor’s land, among the Emperor’s informants where even Ron could move, could she hide well until the end?

And how should she make it so Master could find her?

Suddenly, tears seemed about to pour out. Ridiculously, what suddenly came to mind was Melanie’s kind words.

“Judith, I was such an ordinary woman, common as they come. But after becoming a mother to a child and thinking about wanting to protect that child… I came this far.”

Melanie had said she was absolutely not that kind of personality. But she said she was doing this kind of work to protect her children.

Judith also wasn’t originally the type to be obsessed with anything. Honestly speaking, she was used to letting everything flow by. However, for her child, she could definitely do things that didn’t suit her personality.

“Not having the child’s father by your side must be very lonely during pregnancy…”

Those words pierced her skin. The sorrow she had buried until now with thoughts like ‘it’s okay,’ ‘it can’t be helped,’ ‘he has his circumstances too,’ came flooding back.

She just wanted him to be by her side. To the point where she didn’t want to think rationally anymore, she just wanted that one thing. She was scared and anxious because she had nowhere to go, and lonely because she had no one to confide these feelings to.

That’s when it happened.

Judith suddenly thought of something and opened her eyes wide.

‘Ah, could it be!’

Suddenly, she seemed to know where she needed to go.

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