Chapter 118.2 (2/2)

“However, the Madam showed interest in the investigation of the headache medicine.”

“What do you mean by interest?”

“The Madam called her former doctor and met her personally.”

Hugo furrowed his brow. This was unexpected.

“And?”

“She had a pretty long conversation with the former doctor. I was not told what they had talked about.”

Hugo didn’t have any idea what she would have talked to her former doctor about. He sorted out a few urgent documents and headed up to the second floor with a heavy heart.

He had turned his family’s secret room upside down for nearly ten days but couldn’t find anything.

In his family’s genealogical record, there were only records of the Dukes from generation to generation and the Duchesses who bore the successors. There was no information about the mothers of the Duchesses or the Duchess’ parental homes. In the part about their lineage, Philip’s family was mentioned many times, but there was no reference to what method.

As Hugo opened the door to the bedroom, readying to enter, he paused.

The bedroom was lit up moderately with candles and Lucia, who was lying on the bed, lifted her head and exclaimed in delight.

“Hugh! When did you come back?”

“I’ll come to you. Don’t get up.”

Hugo stopped her since she looked like she was going to jump down from the bed. He quickly reached the bed and climbed up on his knees. She had her arms stretched out to him and he wrapped his arms around her, squeezing her tight.

“You came back, and no one came to tell me.”

“They probably thought you were sleeping.”

“Hugh, do you know what happened a little while ago?”

Lucia took Hugo’s hand and placed it on her stomach. Hugo was momentarily startled. In the span of a few weeks, her stomach had grown significantly.

“The baby sent me a signal that it’s doing well in there. It was just a little while ago. I was just lying down, and I heard a sound like water drops. At first, I didn’t know what it was. I thought it was just something like my stomach rumbling when I’m hungry. But after a moment, I heard it again, twice and suddenly, I got goosebumps and my heart started to race. And so I just knew. The baby is talking to me.”

Lucia poured out a string of words without stopping for breath. Hugo could clearly see that she was overwhelmed with emotion and he was moved too. Hugo looked at his hand which was still on her stomach.

“…inside here…?”

“Yea. Wait a little.”

The two of them waited with bated breath for a while but there was no movement from inside Lucia’s abdomen.

Lucia wanted him to feel the overwhelming emotions she had felt. She inwardly urged the baby to move a few times, but it was still.

“It definitely moved a few minutes ago.”

Hugo gently kissed his wife, who looked disappointed.

“Have you been well?”

“Yes. What of you? Did your trip go well?”

“Roughly. I heard your stomach hurt a lot?”

“It was fine soon after I took medication. I was more worried that something would go wrong with the baby.”

“…I see.”

Even if Philip didn’t tell him that the mother would be endangered if he tried to get rid of the baby, Hugo already didn’t plan on doing anything to the child. He had no intention of watching his wife wallow in despair over the loss of her child.

Philip won. When Hugo came back to the capital without finding anything in the secret room, he thought that as long as she could be safe, he would do whatever it takes, even if it meant playing into Philip’s hands.

“Hugh. There is something I wanted to verify when you came back. The headache medicine.”

“What about the headache medicine?”

“The reason I was able to get pregnant was because of the headache medicine, right?”

“…”

His wife was an interesting woman. Sometimes, she was naïve and innocent but at other times, she was very sharp.

Lucia told him about her entire conversation with Anna. Hugo listened attentively, not missing even the trivial parts of what she was saying.

This was high quality information that wasn’t present in Jerome’s report. He was able to get a clear idea of how Philip cleverly maneuvered through the gaps in Anna’s heart, using her trust in him.

Hugo ground his teeth at Philip, who had hundreds of snakes crawling in his stomach.

‘Mugwort, huh? Is that related?’

Hugo felt like he was grasping onto something. It seemed like there would be a way to use this information.

“But Hugh. What I can’t understand the most is why Sir. Philip did this.”

It was Lucia’s biggest question and dilemma. She didn’t know why Philip went to the extent of playing so many tricks so that she could get pregnant. It was too much to see it as mere loyalty. Not only was the method less than decent, she could feel an unpleasant obsession.

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