CH 257

Chapter 257: His Tender Care

She kept repeatedly having the same dream.

She was dreaming only of falling down the stairs in the past, but now she kept dreaming of finding herself at the bottom of the stairs looking at the blood flowing between her legs. Every time she saw this happen, she knew that it was a sign that the baby inside of her might be dying and tried her best to try and stop it however she can, but as a single human being there was nothing she could do.

“Igor!”

In this completely powerless situation, she stretched out her hand. It felt like if he were to grab her hand right now, the pain and suffering she’s feeling right now may be mitigated somewhat. However, she knew. He will not be by her side. Even though she kept searching for him after falling down the stairs in the past, he still didn’t even show his face once. He never even mentioned the reason why he wasn’t able to see her.

Her desperate wish soon turned to despair. Just as she was about to drop down her hand with no strength left in it, someone pulled on her hand with great force.

“Rihannan.”

When she opened her eyes, his face was in front of hers. While she wandered between the boundaries of dream and reality for a moment, he embraced her deeply into his arms. A gentle hand came and stroke her untidy hair.

“You were having a dream again. You and your baby are all fine, so don’t worry.”

“Dream…”

“Yes. A bad dream. A dream of the past already gone. So there is no way that will ever happen to you again.”

Then Rihannan remembered the words he said in the past. That he will always stay by her side and never leave her. She also soon realized that this kind of situation had already repeated itself several times now. Rihannan was always suffering from having nightmares of losing her child after fainting from seeing the queen mother for a long time. However, this time Igor was always by her side whenever she was in pain and confusion. He kept whispering again and again into her ears that it was all just a dream and that everything is fine.

A week of days like those continued. Every day he would be by her side in bed, and would embrace her in his arms whenever she has a nightmare to tell her that everything will be fine, as well as personally cooking meals for her. After a while, the doctor saw that Igor was not even letting her even get out of the bed and told him he didn’t need to go that far, but immediately kept his mouth shut once he received a deadly glare from Igor. In one way, it looked as if Igor was quite happy to take care of Rihannan’s health personally.

As time passed, Rihannan started to be in a stable mood again. She no longer had nightmares as well. She had now admitted that her life is not like what had happened in the past. The baby inside of her was growing healthily, and Igor never left her side on bed and kept by her every day. It was as if the past was now sorry for what they’ve done to her in the past and was trying to compensate.

One day, after having a light nap and opening her eyes, Rihannan saw that Igor was still guarding her by the side of the bed. While stroking the back of Rihannan’s hand with his thumb, he was looking off into the distance. As her gaze traced to where Igor was looking, it reached the window. She saw that there was heavy rain falling that fogged up the windows.

She wondered what he was thinking as his eyes were clouded like the weather outside. It looked as if he was in a completely different place, in a different time. He looked so far off that it was hard for her to speak up.

“You’ve woken up?”

Not long after, Igor realized that she was awake and turned to face her. His distant expression and gaze disappeared, replaced with a smile on his face.

“You’re hungry, right? I’ll order for a meal to be delivered here right away.”