CH 62.1

She has been deceiving Daymond by making excuses that she was not feeling well for several days, but the morning sickness was getting worse. Even if her morning sickness stopped, Daymond would notice that she was pregnant when her stomach started to swell. If she missed the time to use the medicine, he might be aiming for the life of the unborn child.

Let’s leave this place.

Thinking that far, she jumped up. The reason she decided to leave the castle was to protect her child. She hated leaving Daymond, but she hated the death of a child of his blood even more.

She loved Daymond, and after she gave birth she intended to keep the child well hidden and come back to persuade him.

She was about to leave the room with only the simple things she had packed right away when she saw Daymond’s ring lying on the table. He took off the ring whenever he went out, saying that he might lose it. She wondered if he might get angry and throw away the ring after she left.

She looked at the ring on her hand and his, then put them together in her pocket.

Just after passing through the front door, she was about to exit through the back door of the castle, when she passed the greenhouse. The greenhouse, where she tended flowers with him, suddenly looked forlorn. She fiddled with the ring in her pocket.

Let’s hide it here.

After thinking briefly, she went into the greenhouse and knelt down at the end of the flower bed with their favorite flowers. She put it in a small box and dropped the two rings in it. She tried to dig, push the box in, and cover it with soil again, but her empty finger kept catching her eyes.

Should I just wear mine?

She was going to leave it in case she lost it on the long journey, but she felt a little regretful.

Eventually, she took out her own ring and put it on her finger, and put Daymond’s in the box and closed the lid. When she returned, she intended to give him back his as well.

She left the North and returned to her parents’ mansion, but before she could cross the front door she was kicked out. As soon as they heard that she had an illegitimate child, they heartlessly abandoned their beloved daughter.

It was her fiance who came to pick her up at the moment when she had nowhere to go. He took pity on her and gave her a house in the little countryside for her to give birth to the child. An ignorant noble daughter could not live alone, so she had no choice but to entrust her to his mansion and prepare to give birth to the child.

Daymond will definitely be happy when he sees you.

She endured it alone for nearly ten months, holding her longing for Daymond and talking to the child. Strangely, she was able to endure without being lonely, as the small life seemed to comfort her every time.

As she made clothes for the child, she often imagined the day when the life she had carried would come out into the world. If he saw the lovely child, even if Daymond was an illegitimate child, wouldn’t he give up his harsh thoughts and accept it? She had no doubt that if he saw the child who looked just like him and her, he would change his mind.

And finally, the day of birth was imminent.

Seeing her fiance who had hurriedly called the midwife from the village, she let out screams with anxious eyes.

“A little bit… a little bit… Give me more strength.”

“Huuh…. Aaaahhh! Aaah!”

It was painful for her, and she bit the cloth in her mouth. She lost consciousness several times like that. But she has to wake up and give strength to give birth safely.

The midwife shouted something, but her mind, disturbed by the pain, did not understand the words and was more likely to pass out again. When she finally lifted her hazy eyes, everything was still.

She found a figure standing still among the flickering lights. Her breath stopped.

“Daymond…”

She called him in a slurred voice, but he was silent. There was only a flash in his bright red eyes. There was a sword in his hand. Dark blood flowed down the blade.

She looked around her as she lay down. On the floor lay the midwife and her fiance. Then she saw their red-stained clothes.

“Ah…”

She closed her eyes in misery. In the end, sadness at the fact that he had come seeking to kill the child that was just born, weighed down her neck. A throbbing pain spread to her stomach.

And her vision went dark.

So she lost her life along with her child at the hands of the man she loved.