Chapter 101

“Really, what is it?”

Evelina nodded again as Kaiden spoke with anxiety. She thought about what he was telling her, maybe it was about her adoptive parents, but she soon came to her senses.

He was not what he appeared to be. If she recalled what she had been through, no matter how sweet he was to her, it was more likely to be a lie. Perhaps even Princess Elsius and Dowager Empress Isabella, who were connected to him by blood, were chess pieces to him.

There’s the act of deceiving her and hiding the death of her adoptive parents.

She didn’t know until when he would be nice to her now. Maybe it’s just because it’s amazing to have a child together.

She was rather afraid of him approaching her. Even if she kept rejecting him, she hated him for continuing to visit her, because he thought she was just a monument to victory.

“I can forgive you, Kaiden.”

But it was useless now, too.

She was about to leave this damn palace, and it’ll all be over.

Evelina resented the Emperor who drove her adoptive parents to death. In fact, she hated herself the most because her adoptive parents’ treason seemed to be because of her.

Still having his child. Even though it’s sad. Because she didn’t think the child was guilty of anything because of what she went through as a child.

She couldn’t think of the time she grew up in a hospital. However, she was not very loved and she knew that she grew up rough. It was the same in previous lives.

That’s why she didn’t want to pass on that environment to the child in her stomach.

Everything might have been irrelevant when she thought she was going to die, but not now. There’s no turning back now.

She wanted to die, but she wanted to take care of the child until they grew up. She wanted to pass on such love to her child just as she received it from her adoptive parents.

“How happy were you when you found out I was pregnant?”

She asked because she thought she would have to tell the child about Kaiden in the future. Perhaps the effect of the drug is progressing slowly, because she gradually began to feel a stiffness in her left chest.

“I felt like I had the whole world.”

Kaiden sat on the bed hugging Evelina. Evelina moved her body in his arms like a sheet of paper.

Evelina somehow didn’t feel awkward sitting on the bed with her in his arms. She was quite used to his hard pectorals against her back.

He hugged her and let out a relieved sigh in her ear. The strength of the waist was very careful. It was like treating her like a fragile glass craft.

“Lina, I told you that the medicine I’m feeding Lina is an antie.”

“Yes, I did.”

“If you keep taking that medicine, you’ll understand me completely.”

She also remembered that the antie he was talking about was also a medicine she was taking to kill her. As she thought that everything would soon be over, she wondered if the medicine was really an antie.

But what kind of medicine would cause nosebleeds and vomit blood when you quit? It was obviously poison.

“I understand Kaiden. That’s how much… I love you.”

Somehow the lie wasn’t difficult for her. Then he said, hugging her tightly.

“I’m really… I’m so grateful that Lina gave me my child.”

“I see.”

“I’ve never been so happy to be alive.”

Evelina thought his words were also sincere. He was clearly feeling the catharsis of revenge.

“And yet, I’m nervous.”

“Which one?”

“It’s dangerous to have children. The rate of mothers being at risk from having children is too high.”

Evelina had the feeling that even if she gave birth to a child here, he would never let it go. It was clear that he had a woman hidden behind him.

The evidence was a woman’s fingernail mark on his neck.

The testimonies of Princess Elsius. No matter how much she hated her, she wouldn’t have made up about a woman who didn’t exist.

Furthermore, she was not the heroine of the original. She was just a wicked woman who left in a short time.

When Evelina recalled that it was strangely flowing like the original, she smiled as if she had resigned to her fate.

“I’m afraid Lina will be in danger while giving birth.”

“Everyone gives birth well.”

“There is no such thing as everyone. Lina is weak, isn’t she? It can’t be all the same.”

He sounded quite sincere when he spoke with anxiety. So she decided not to doubt it any more. There was only about two hours left to doubt and end the day.

It’s really time to say goodbye to him.

“I’ll be fine.”

“Let’s just have one baby. I… I will take medicine next time.”

“I’m going to give birth to ten children?”

When Evelina spoke playfully, Kaiden laughed with a breath.

“Then I’ll make Lina’s chosen child Emperor.”

“What if you choose a girl?”

“Then the Empress will be born.”

Kaiden said his words casually and hugged her tightly again.

Evelina felt somehow relieved and comfortable. It was strange because she felt sorry for some reason.

She loosened his arm and looked at Kaiden at once.

“Will you behave yourself?”

“I see. Just give me any order. I’ll follow it all.”

Kaiden deliberately pretended to be obedient. Because he was really distressed in the past when she seemed to be afraid of him. He didn’t want her to be afraid of him again and not look at him properly.

“My husband.”

Evelina stroked his cheek saying so. He was facing her, feeling her warm fingertips touching his ear lobe, stroking his cheek and pressing his lips.

Evelina had a fit of laughter. No matter how much she looked at his face, it was too much. How could he be so cool like a sculpture?

Reflected in her eyes, he was like a star rising at night and a sun rising in the morning.

He seemed to shine the most in the room. His black hair was still soft. The red eyes of the beast looking at her were so intense that every time she closed her eyes, it felt like they were engraved under her eyelids.

“Kaiden.”

“Yes.”

“The hawk you gave me as a present before. It looks like the hawk’s eyes.”

“Did you like the hawk?”

“Yes, very much.”

Evelina was afraid of hawks, but she took good care of it. Maybe that’s why Kaiden’s eyes looking at her are similar to those of a hawk waiting for its owner.

“It’s really pretty.”

He laughed, saying so.

“These eyes are Lina’s.”

“Oh, really?”

“Yes, my eyes and my hair are all the same.”

Evelina laughed like a child at his words. Then she sat looking back at him.

“Can’t you sit on top of this?”

When he told Evelina to sit on his thigh, Evelina said.

“It’s too hard there. And Kaiden is sly. I think it would be scary to sit there.”

“All right.”

Her words embarrassed him to cover his lower body. She laughed again when she saw the redness to his fingertips, removed his hand, and sat on his thigh.

She hugged him around the neck, ignoring the blunt pressure that she sat on.

“It’s stupid.”

“I… Kind of like that.”

He smiled ecstatically and stroked Evelina’s hair. She felt strangely good that his big hands, and the warm warmth, reached her.

“Lina, I don’t know if I’m hot or if Lina is cold.”

“Why? Am I too cold?”

“Your body temperature is too low. Are you cold?”

She was amazed that he knew her temperature had dropped, so she gently relaxed her grip and looked at him.

“Someone must have gotten hot with such a sly thought.”

“…Yes, I think so.”

He smiled sarcastically, even as his ears blushed as if he was ashamed of those words.

“I’ll be good, from now on.”

“Why do you say that all of a sudden?”

“In fact, I prayed that I would do anything if I could make up with Lina.”

“Wow, it really doesn’t suit you.”

Evelina laughed unconsciously because it didn’t suit him so much that he prayed.

“Does this feel like such a miracle?”

“Yes.”

He said so and touched her pretty platinum blonde hair with his hand. The silky fine hair combing his hands was making him more gentle.

“Then, if the face and eyes are mine, who owns the body?”

Then he smiled with a visibly gentle look on his face, then took her hand and placed it on my chest. She was amazed by his warm temperature under the thin white shirt. His palpitating heart beat through his palm.

“Everything of mine is Lina’s.”

His words made her feel strange. She felt like she was having an arrhythmia, probably because she was going to have a heart attack soon.

“You’re mine. Until when?”

“Nevertheless, I’m Lina’s. Every single strand of my hair.”

His words made Evelina’s face hot, whether because of his confession or the arrhythmia. Her ears were so hot.

It was as if the heat that heated him had transferred to her. Her heart was beating hard, and she was scared because she thought she might miss his smiling face.

“You’re mine. Not Kaiden’s.”

“Yes, that’s right. Because I belong to Lina.”

She couldn’t bear the words any longer, so she hugged him. Soon he laid down with her, and Evelina closed her eyes tightly because she hated the two heartbeats she could hear even when she laid down.

“Sweet dreams, Lina.”

She did not answer.

That’s how she fell asleep.

The despair of waking up again was unimaginable.

It was Evelina’s cold body, whose heart stopped, that Kaiden woke up to see.