I Got Engaged To The Blind Duke - Chapter 249

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I Got Engaged to a Blind Duke

Side Story 2 Episode 7

“You saw how small and fragile the baby is, didn’t you?”

“Yes.”

“This is a child Marine risked her life to give birth to. If the baby gets hurt because of me, I’ll die right then and there.”

Oliver squeezed his eyes shut.

Hasn’t the Duke been mentioning death quite frequently lately? Could it be depression or something?

He was someone who never spoke of death even when he was blind.

He wanted to inform the Duchess about this and have a consultation, but since it was a story involving the Duchess, he couldn’t speak of this either.

Oliver swallowed the sigh that welled up from deep in his chest.

His Grace was acting strange, and only he knew about it. His chest felt stuffy and he felt like he might get sick from stress, but there was nowhere to vent about it.

Oliver glared at the broken feather with resentful eyes, then returned to his original duties and tried to persuade the Duke.

“Your Grace. I’ll get another feather for you. Today you must sign the documents.”

“No, it’s time for the baby to wake up. I’m going to check.”

“Can’t you not even go near?”

“For the first time, I’m grateful for my ability.”

The Duke curled up one corner of his mouth.

Oliver suspected that the Ducal House had a secret ability, so he just accepted it.

“After you return, you absolutely must sign the documents.”

“Oliver. Don’t be obsessive.”

“Isn’t Your Grace the one making me this way!”

Oliver raised his voice in frustration, then realized his mistake. Even to himself, what he said sounded like a line from a romance novel.

The curtain swayed even though there was no wind.

Oliver glared fiercely at the curtain, thinking of Kay who might be hiding behind it.

“Leave them here. I’ll look at them when I return.”

“You absolutely! Absolutely! Must do it.”

“How tiresome.”

The Duke rose from his seat, spoke coldly, and left the office.

Oliver beat his chest loudly in the office without the Duke.

* * *

Listening to Oliver’s complaints pouring out like a burst dam, Marine opened her mouth slightly in surprise.

No wonder Gerald wouldn’t leave her side during her final month.

Even when she went to the bathroom, he tried to stand in front of the door, and they almost had a big fight about it.

“Gerald. Please stay away from the bathroom door.”

“Then choose. Either let me use my ability instead of staying away from the door, or allow me to stand in front of the door.”

Marine looked up at him with an incredulous expression.

Both choices meant he would hear the sounds of her relieving herself.

“You’re not serious, are you?”

“One hundred percent serious.”

“If you’re one hundred percent serious, then I’ll speak seriously too. I hate both options. If you do either one, we’re sleeping in separate rooms from now on.”

“…I won’t do it.”

“If you’re lying by any chance, I might get so angry that my stomach hurts. If my stomach hurts, the baby will hurt too-”

“I won’t do it! Absolutely won’t do it.”

Marine raised her pinky finger without withdrawing her suspicious gaze.

For him, pinky promises were something that absolutely had to be kept.

Gerald looked displeased, but after making the pinky promise, he moved far away.

Similar incidents continued after that.

Gerald wrapped her up tightly like a candle that would go out if the wind blew, always carried her around so she couldn’t even walk, and always fed her with a spoon, saying forks might be dangerous.

Since her body was heavy in her final month, she accepted his care, but knowing that all of this was because he was excessively worried about her made her heart ache.

“Has Gerald been sleeping well lately?”

“I was actually going to mention that too. He can’t sleep well either. He’s always only worrying about Madam and the baby.”

Oliver gave a report mixed with sighs.

As expected, he can’t sleep well.

When sleep is insufficient, even ordinary people become sensitive. Since Gerald was an extraordinary person, the intensity of his irritability was different.

“Oliver, you’ve worked hard.”

Oliver nodded with a tearful expression.

In the past, he would have said modest words and denied it, but it seemed he had really suffered a lot from Gerald.

“Please help us, Madam.”

“Alright. I’ll do my best.”

* * *

Dark night.

Marine suddenly entered the Duke’s room connected to her own room without even knocking.

Gerald, who usually forcibly suppressed his ability, was startled to see her suddenly appear.

He had been wearing his gown loosely enough to show his bare chest, but after seeing her, he tightened it firmly.

“I won’t pounce on you.”

Marine pouted her lips and said a word.

Anyway, her body hadn’t fully recovered yet, so that kind of activity would be too much.

Gerald pretended not to hear her words, then brought a blanket and wrapped it tightly around her body.

“It’s hot though?”

“You’re too tempting, so this is necessary.”

“Before, you said even covering me with all the blankets in the world wouldn’t work?”

“The situation then and now is different.”

“How is it different?”

When Marine opened her eyes wide and asked, Gerald deflected the question as if avoiding it.

“What’s going on here?”

“I’m trying to put you to sleep. You haven’t been sleeping well lately.”

“I’m fine. You’re the one who’s tired from taking care of the baby.”

“Two nannies are helping me. I’m not tired at all.”

“No. You’re tired. So go to bed quickly.”

He carried her, wrapped in the blanket, straight to the Duchess’s room and laid her down.

Marine looked up at him with an expression that said ‘This isn’t right?’

“Sleep well. Marine.”

He gave a very simple greeting and turned around.

Marine was momentarily flustered by his unexpected behavior of not being clingy despite the bed being right there.

“W-wait a moment!”

“Why?”

“Actually, I had a scary dream yesterday and I’m afraid to sleep alone. So couldn’t we sleep together tonight?”

Gerald returned to her with a serious expression.

“What kind of dream was it? I’ll get rid of it all for you.”

Marine chuckled at his earnest response.

Really, when it came to her, he was a man who gave endlessly. How could he get rid of scary dreams?

Pat pat. Marine tapped the bed that had always been his spot.

“I think I won’t have scary dreams if we fall asleep together.”

Gerald covered his eyes with his large hand and swallowed a groan.

“Marine, no. Don’t tempt me.”

“Could you at least tell me why we can’t sleep together?”

When Marine asked earnestly, he avoided her gaze and blurted out.

“Because it’s dangerous.”

“What’s dangerous?”

“What if you get pregnant again?”

“What?”

Marine looked at him with a puzzled face.

“If I sleep next to you, I won’t be able to resist my desires, and then you might get pregnant again and I can’t watch you hover between life and death anymore.”

My goodness. So that was the reason he had been trying so hard not to come near her.

“Gerald. Come sit here.”

Marine patted the bed again.

Gerald sat down properly in front of her.

“I want our Saessak to have siblings. So we need to work incredibly hard.”

“Are you serious? You want to have another child?”

Gerald asked with a shocked face.

“Yes. Of course.”

“I’m against it. I never want to hear your screams again. Do you know how much blood you lost during childbirth? You want me to see that again?”

“But we can’t let our Saessak grow up alone.”

“There’s only one child in my life.”

“I want more than two!”

The two faced off with eyes that showed not an inch of compromise.

“Sorry. I won’t be able to chase away your scary dreams tonight. Sleep well.”

He, who always gave in to her, was very firm this time.

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