Chapter 269: Running Away After Getting Pregnant with the Tyrant’s Child (4)

Chapter 37: Running Away After Getting Pregnant with the Tyrant’s Child (4)

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“What did you say...?”

For a moment, Tarkan was struck speechless, and he couldn’t think of anything else to say.

[I am taking good care of my sister so you can stay out of it.]

The moment Tarkan heard that, his thread of rationality snapped.

His nerves were already on edge after his pregnant wife disappeared. The dimly flickering warning in his mind that this was his wife’s brother shattered.

“You’re talking a load of crap after kidnapping my wife.”

Tarkan growled.

[Kidnap? Rineh came because she wanted to though? I can’t possibly not listen to my little sister’s opinions.]

Because Rineh wanted to?

That remark was so shocking that even Tarkan’s burning anger died out.

[Of course, she relies more on her one and only brother than her husband who is not by her side. My sister must love me so much. You know I am her only family, right? Ah, soon my nephew will come into this world.]

“I am Rineh’s family. And he is not your nephew but my child.”[1]

[Oh, is that so? Then why is my sister here with me and not you? In that barbaric place, my sister....Oh?]

As if surprised by something, Launelian’s voice cut off for a moment.

A beat later, his voice could be heard again.

Unlike when he was speaking to Tarkan, his voice sounded sticky and sweet, like it was dripping with honey.

[Rineh, why did you come out? You should be resting in your room...]

Tut.

The connection ended.

Tarkan was still holding the transmission stone. He couldn’t believe what was happening right now.

‘What? Only family? My nephew? My sister loves me?’

Worst of all, he didn’t even get to hear Aristine’s voice because he was listening to that nonsense.

Crack!

The transmission stone quickly disintegrated in his hand.

Sparks flew from his golden eyes.

Asena and the court ladies almost keeled over when they saw something harder than stone disintegrate in the blink of an eye.

The court ladies fell to their knees as they sensed their lord’s mood.

“Y-Your Highness Tarkan...”

Even as he thought that, his heart was filled with anxiety.

《 Kidnap? Rineh came because she wanted to though? I can’t possibly not listen to my little sister’s opinions》

《 Of course, she relies more on her one and only brother than her husband who is not by her side.》

《 Then why is my sister here with me and not you? In that barbaric place, my sister...》

The words that Launelian said stuck in his mind and refused to leave.

Because Tarkan has also thought about them before.

When he found out that Aristine was pregnant, he thought that of course, he had to be by her side.

Imagine how anxious and lonely she must have felt, imagine how huge his absence must have felt.

‘I couldn’t even be by her side at such an important time.’

Even if Aristine was disappointed in him, he couldn’t say anything.

‘It is my fault.’

Saying he didn’t know that she was pregnant, or that he was in the middle of a demonic beast subjugation or that communication was cut off.

None of the numerous situations and reasons mattered.

The reality was that his wife found out that she was pregnant and was looking for him, but he, her husband, was not at her side.

Only that fact mattered.

‘Regardless of anything, it is my fault.’

Maybe Aristine resented him. Maybe she was angry and didn’t want to see him because he wasn’t there at such an important time.

Images of Launelian jumping in and blowing nonsense from the side lingered before his eyes.

‘I don’t care if she treats me coldly.’

Aristine did not forgive easily once she turned her back. Her feelings didn’t even linger.

She treated ‘Lu’ so closely and called him one of her few friends but she turned around in an instant.

The glee he felt seeing Hamill getting ignored now hung over his head like a shadow.

The mere thought of that made his heart sink.

Tarkan clenched his fists.

“Even so, I need to be by Rineh’s side.”

Right at that moment.

The transmission stone rang.

Not the transmission stone that Tarkan broke, but a transmission stone that a court lady was holding.

Translator’s Corner:

[1] I have no other way to translate [조카] than nephew. The word is used for nephew/niece interchangeably.