Night of the Abandoned Duchess - Chapter 70

Chapter 70

Leo, who alternately stared at Kyle and Rosalind as they chattered, quickly lost interest and listened to his mother’s stomach. Neither Leo nor the servants were very concerned about it, knowing that it was a loving quarrel anyway.

“Is there a child in here?”

Leo’s main concern these days was whether the child in the womb was a younger sister or a younger brother.

“Yes.”

“Is it a sister or a brother?”

“Well, I don’t know.”

Rosalind said while stroking her stomach.

“Shall Leo ask?”

“There’s no answer.”

“Even if there’s no answer, they can listen.”

The child started whispering softly into her stomach, perhaps tempted by Rosalind’s words.

A happy smile bloomed as he whispered something that only his younger sibling would listen. It was because after getting pregnant, she was worried that Leo might feel jealous or sulky, but rather he was overjoyed.

“Does Leo want it to be a younger sister or a younger brother?”

“It is a secret! Because I only told the baby.”

The moment Leo put his lips to her stomach and spoke again, she felt a movement.

“The child is kicking in the stomach.”

Rosalind widened her eyes, feeling it was still awkward and strange. Leo, who was holding his hand close to his mother’s stomach, also flinched. Leo’s tiny mouth, who frowned as he said, “It’s strange,” quickly turned into a smile.

“It seems that they heard Leo’s voice and responded.”

“Is that so?”

“Yes. It listens to your voice and responds with a kick.”

“They have to come out safely so that mom doesn’t get sick.”

Kyle, who was watching the two mother-and-son affectionately, said to the child in the stomach.

“Our sea. Understand?”

The child’s fetal name was ‘Sea.’
[ T/N: ‘.’ I think this is a culture that is mostly seen in Korea, I don’t think they have it elsewhere. So parents would name their baby before they were born, but in a nickname kind of sense. So, they could be something like gon-gang-ee (health), sa-rang-ee (love). This is temporary as the baby would use their real name after they were born. ]

It was the name she gave when she found out about her pregnancy after seeing the sea together.

Rosalind thought that she would like the child to have a heart as broad and pretty as the sea that day. At the same time, Kyle wished they were just born healthy. Whether it was a boy or a girl, he just wanted the child to come out to the world safely.

That was his only wish.

“Why is it taking so long?”

Kyle opened his mouth with a dry voice. The voice that had been reprimanding was much lower and harsher than usual. He continued to stand in front of the door in impatience, overreacting to every single sound coming from inside the door.

This was unlike his usual self.

If their Master was being his unusual self, it would be somewhat related to his wife, who was entangled in something unusual too. The employee, who was watching him, was also restless and quietly responded.

“They say she’s working hard… It must not be easy.”

“I already know she’s working hard.”

As he said so, he took a deep breath to suppress the emotions that were coming from within. Kyle knew in his head that having a child was not easy, but seeing it in reality was different. When it happened, he felt like he was going to go crazy hundreds or even tens of times more.

“…Give more strength!”

“Aaahh!”

He felt like a handful of ashes because he couldn’t stomach the sound coming through the closed door.

“How can I not know when she’s screaming like this.”

Rosalind’s voice continued uninterrupted. He could hear her groaning out of breath, and there was a sound of pain that he couldn’t stand. The voice of the midwife telling her to breathe was intermittently mixed in.

He was really going crazy.

…Had time ever passed so slowly?

The fact that he was only guarding the door and there was nothing he could do made him so helpless. But then, suddenly, the sound stopped. He had been listening to every single sound coming out of the room, but when he sensed the ominous feeling, he shook his head violently.

The next moment, the door opened and a doctor rushed out. Kyle took the time to grab the doctor’s arm.

“Why is there no sound all of a sudden?”

He thought he wouldn’t want to go back to when there was no sound, though when it did, he didn’t want to.

“That’s…”

The doctor paused for a moment.

Kyle asked sharply, urging him once more. The nerves all over his body were so tight that his words came out wilder than he expected.

“What happened?”

“She passed out for a while. It’s coming too late than expected, so it’s dangerous for both the mother and the baby if they go on like this.”

His whole body lost strength, he dropped the hand he was holding out. The doctor hurriedly passed Kyle as his arms were freed, and the maids with buckets of water began to diligently come to the room.

He tried to enter the room without hesitation. However, the servant who hastily stopped him shouted.

“You have to wait outside!”

It was the tacit and customary practice in this country for the husband not to see the wife until the child’s cry broke out. With this custom, the higher the status, the more thorough it was, so the more husbands could not face their wives bearing children from generation to generation.

“Then.”

Nonetheless, Kyle responded coolly as if he was going to say something and then opened the door. He was without a single hesitation.

“…Rosalind.”

He opened the door and took a deep breath.

The whole room was in chaos. Several doctors and maids were next to his wife’s side, and Rosalind, lying still in bed, unlike the busy people, looked fragile. The maids who normally would have noticed him coming in immediately and explained her circumstances seemed to be distracted by her.

“Madam, you need to wake up! Madam…”

The doctor was waking Rosalind up, telling her to keep getting up. Seeing this, Kyle walked over to Rosalind. He then opened his mouth, wiping the sweat from her white forehead with a dry cloth.

“Rosalind. Look at me.”

His voice was soft and firm.

“Rosalind.”

He called her name once more. Still no answer, Kyle had a maid soak the towel in cold water. He carefully wiped her hot face with a cool, wet towel. Perhaps because of the cold feeling, her eyebrows began to twitch.

“You have to get up. Hurry.”

He kept calling her name so earnestly for a long time.

Slowly, her eyelids began to rise.

The people around were relieved and wiped their chests. Barely opening her eyes, Rosalind moaned and opened her lips, but the voice was too small to hear. Kyle brought his ear closer.

“Kyle, if I can’t wake up forever…”

“Why do you say that?”

He responded firmly to Rosalind’s words, brandishing it as nonsense.

“Do you think I’ll let you do that?”

His words were very strong, without even a small gap, like making a firm commitment.

“How did I get you back, don’t say nonsense. It will never happen.”

At that, he clasped Rosalind’s hand. Kyle’s fingertips holding her were firm compared to that of Rosalind’s, who had no energy.

“Madam, you must give strength.”

“…I can’t.”

“You must do it, Madam!”

The midwife looked at Rosalind and cried.

“That’s how you will see the child. Time is running out!”

Rosalind exhaled her breath hard.

“You can do it. Just a little bit. Okay?”

As Kyle seemed to comfort her, he swept Rosalind’s hair and spoke. His voice was gradually spreading closer to a plea.

“Think of me, no Leo. You have to see Leo grow up.”

Rosalind nodded her head slightly.

As she let out a sharp moan from her mouth as the midwife’s push to give strength resumed, Kyle held her hand tighter. He cheered her up when she was exhausted, and Rosalind grabbed his hand and his hem and held out with all her might.

It was a long time later that the long-awaited cry of the child was heard.

“Why hasn’t she woken up yet?”

He was really going crazy.

Kyle let out a long breath as she looked at Rosalind lying on the bed. The child eventually came out safely. It was a long and arduous way to come out, but a healthy girl was born, except for her petite stature.

However, as soon as Rosalind gave birth to her child, she once again let go of her consciousness.

“We should wait and see a little more.”

“How long is that little more?”

His voice was more of a plea than a reproach. Rosalind fell asleep without even seeing the baby in her arms. Although it’d been quite a while since then, she still hadn’t woken up.

“For now… I will do my best to help her regain her energy.”

“. You, you can go.”

Initially, he was angry with the frustration. He then asked the doctor for a favor. But to no avail. All he could do was stay by Rosalind’s side with a complicated face. He left behind his newborn child.

As the doctor went out, the butler, Walter, who was guarding the hallway, came in.

“Would you like to see the Miss? The nanny is now taking care of her.”

“Later.”

The child was a small and cute girl. She resembled Rosalind — her face was white, and her cheeks were blushing. The nanny and maids praised her for how pretty and lovely she was, but he only looked after Rosalind rather than the child.

When they asked him to give her a name, he only replied that he would name it together when his wife woke up.

“I see. Would you like to have a meal?”

“I’m all right.”

With his answer, the butler looked at him with worried eyes.

After Rosalind lost consciousness, Kyle didn’t eat properly. Not only that, he didn’t even close his eyes properly, and he was focusing all his attention on Rosalind. He didn’t listen to the butler, no matter how much he told him to take care of his health.

It didn’t seem to go to his ears.

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