Lucia Chapter 118.1

< — The Beginning and the End — > (5)

When Hugo returned to the mansion, it was already late into the night . He sat absentmindedly in his office for a while . He urged his brain to think but it refused to work properly . He didn't know where he should start from .

'The headache medicine . Yes…find out what happened with the headache medicine and then…'

After that was blank . His head was as empty as a blank sheet of paper . Nothing came up . He felt terribly helpless, like an abyss was slowly eaten away at him from his feet .

It was fear . His heart thumped with anxiety, growing louder by the minute and he felt suffocated . Even if he were about to die by having his limbs bound, stomach smashed, and heart ripped out, he would not be this scared .

Just thinking about the possibility of losing her filled Hugo with indescribable horror .

Hugo left his office at daybreak . He went into his wife's bedroom, and stood idly by the bed, watching his wife who was sound asleep . He lifted the blanket, climbed onto the bed and pulled her into his chest . Her body was slightly hot due to her mild fever .

The happiness and despair filled his heart . He could not live if he lost her . He felt like his heart would explode and kill him .

[I have never said this, have I? Thank you for marrying me . ]

“…Not at all . You fell into a terrible swamp . ”

She went through all sorts of trouble to get a child that everyone else has, and the child she got with difficulty, became the main culprit eating away her life .

The only reason she had to go through things other people didn't was because she was married to him .

She should not have come to see him that day . If they had lived without knowing each other…if that had happened, then she likely wouldn't be facing such danger .

But if he had not met her, he would have lived with a frozen heart, watching a grey scenery for the rest of his life . [1]

'I can't let go . '

Even if he went back to the past right now, he had no confidence in being able to let her go . It was ugly selfishness .

“I love you . ”

Hugo whispered in her ear and closed his tingling eyes . Heat rushed to his eyes and something hot flowed from his eyes . His chest felt like it was tightening, and his throat hurt like it was seizing up .

As he shed tears for the first time, Hugo recalled the description of the word, 'cry' . It was a complex, intricate feeling that couldn't be expressed with something as dry as 'One cannot suppress their feelings and tears fall' .

Hugo spent the entire night wide-awake . He was thinking things over nonstop all night . The darkness withdrew, and the daybreak sun gradually brightened up the bedroom as he came to a conclusion after a long stretch of thought .

Lucia opened her eyes slightly earlier than usual this morning . She smiled, feeling the warmth against her back and the strong arms wrapped around her .

She shifted in her position and turned around to face him . When she met his gaze, she flashed a sweet smile and buried herself in his arms . His big hand found its way to her head and the feeling of his fingers combing through her hair was nice .

“Vivian . I think I have to go to the north . ”

Lucia lifted her head in surprise . His eyes had a subdued feeling of gravity in them .

“It won't take long . I'll come back soon . ”

“…Okay . It seems like an urgent matter . ”

“I'm sorry I can't be with you at a time like this . ”

“It's okay . There's still a long way to go before the child arrives . You'll be back before then, won't you?”

Seeing his wife trying to shrug it off like everything was fine, Hugo hugged her and squeezed tightly . His wife who always said that things were okay and smiled prettily had not changed .

Although he was taken aback by her complaints and annoyance, on the other hand, he was happy about it . It meant that she relied on him that much .

Hugo thought that he needed to thoroughly dig through the family secret room in Roam again . It was his only hope . He had to find even the slightest clue there . Still holding her in his arms, Hugo's eyes shone with resolve .

While her husband was away, Lucia tried to keep her mind and body in the best condition possible for the baby, at all times . And occasionally, she imagined various things, trying to solve the mystery of how she got pregnant .

“Milady . When did you start taking the headache medicine you were prescribed?”

“Why do you ask that?”

“There is something I need to look into . ”

Lucia had a strange feeling .

“What is it that you need to look into?”

When Lucia kept inquiring, Jerome hesitated then said:

“Master ordered the investigation . ”

'The headache medicine…it's related . '

Lucia sensed that her pregnancy and the headache medicine were related . Because the effect of her recent headache medicine was so good, Lucia knew exactly when she started taking it and clearly remembered who gave it to her .

'The medicine Anna gave me…?”

Lucia was shocked to think that there was a problem with the headache medicine . She had faith in the doctor, Anna on a fundamental level . She believed that there was no way Anna would mix something into the medicine deliberately . So, she decided to call Anna and ask her personally .

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