Psyche fell into a deep sleep after a long time.
I thought it had been a very long time since I had felt such relief.
Her body felt light, and there was no pain.
If you think about it, it seemed like she hadn't gotten enough rest since she had the baby. Her body was getting heavier with each passing day, and she was constantly feeling tired. However, it was somewhat strange that all that heaviness was gone, which was a relief, but it was also a strange thing.
She felt like she saw a very beautiful child in her dream.
Was it a girl? Or maybe a boy?
Regardless of the gender, the feeling was incredibly warm, and made her feel good.
The baby's hair was beautiful, shiny, and a dark silver color, looking like a combination of her father Clint's black hair and her silver hair.
Her eyes were like her mother's, beautiful and pink. As if the child took the most beautiful parts of the duke and psyche, the child was amazing.
Psyche loved the child so much that she reached out to him.
She wanted to hold the baby and touch him.
But she couldn't.
'My child.'
She missed the child terribly and felt deeply sad, so she called for her child endlessly in her dream.
“Baby, let's meet soon.”
The child remained unresponsive, and was only sleeping with his eyes closed.
“Baby, your mother wants to see you.”
Psyche wanted to call out to her child, but her voice wouldn't come out, making her feel frustrated.
She felt as if there was an insurmountable barrier between her and her child, which made her feel upset.
‘Baby!’
However, the thought that she would be able to meet her child soon calmed her heart.
She longed to touch them.
She had never been a mother before, and this was the first time she had felt such feelings, only because she had been carrying the baby for several months.
Psyche was fascinated by her own feelings.
“We will meet soon.”
She finally swallowed her words, “Let’s meet soon.”
The child gradually became weak and distant.
Like an illusion...
“Oh!”
She panicked, and her upper body rose from the bed as if she had been shocked.
She let out a scream-like scream, and when she woke up, Psyche closed her eyes for a moment in amazement.
There was something wrong...
It was probably still midnight when the black sky appeared through the window with all the curtains drawn.
With no moon and only a scattering of stars, the night felt incredibly lonely.
Saiki began to slowly scan her surroundings.
It was a completely unfamiliar sight.
Only then did she realize that she had woken up in the palace.
Ah, I managed to escape from the duke's palace with the help of the prince and…
Memories of what happened a short while ago began to slowly seep into her foggy mind.
How long was she asleep?
She definitely succeeded in escaping the forest and fortunately met the prince.
No matter what happened...
Suddenly she threw off the blankets that were covering her.
“Huh?”
Saiki looked at her flat and light stomach and couldn't believe her eyes. She thought for a moment that she might still be dreaming.
"Oh, my God! Thank God!"
Suddenly, he heard a voice from the side.
It was so dark that it was not possible to see, but one of the palace doctors was taking care of Psyche seriously. This doctor was Cale, the prince's royal physician.
Kyle was asleep, and the sound of Psyche stirring woke him up, causing him to scream.
“Oh my God! You have finally regained consciousness. I must inform His Highness immediately. Please don’t go anywhere. It’s still cold, and you haven’t fully recovered yet.”
Kyle spoke quickly and disappeared.
Shortly after, he appeared again with the prince.
The prince, who was about to run to get there, looked at Saeki sitting on the bed with an absent expression and then quickly approached her, pulling her into his arms without hesitation.
The flabby woman was like a withered tree in winter, devoid of any vitality.
Breath pushed the prince away slowly and weakly.
“Your Highness...”
Her movements were different from her usual movements, which made the prince laugh.
However, he didn't want to have a negative expression on his face, so he smiled as cheerfully as possible.
Saiki slowly moved her head to look around, then opened her mouth.
“Mmm...”
“Yes, I'm listening.”
“I… how many days have you been asleep?”
Psyche quickly realized that the prince in front of her was smiling forcedly.
There were so many questions she wanted to ask, but for some reason, the prince hesitated to answer her simple question.
“How long...have you been asleep, Your Highness?”
“…Ten days. I was really worried about you not waking up. Do you have any idea how sad I am? I’m so relieved that you woke up.”
“Ten days...”
The Duke's family must be in chaos.
However, it seems that the Duke has not found out where she is, given the fact that she is still here. It was unfortunate and fortunate at the same time.
Psyche muttered after the prince's words.
“I... where is my baby?”
Psyche touched her now empty stomach with sunken eyes.
The prince's face changed within moments when he heard her question. He looked at Saiki like she was the most pitiful person, and fixed his eyes on her like that.
“Why are you looking at me that way?”
“Saiki...”
And the words the prince said next made Psyche feel as if her whole world was falling apart.
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“My baby… my baby.”
The tears she had been holding in all this time suddenly burst out.
It was something she couldn't accept. She ran out of the bedroom barefoot and screamed for hours, refusing to believe that her child had died until she saw it with her own eyes.
I repeated the process of sobbing and fainting several times.
The prince could no longer bear her screams, so he said: “The fact that you are alive is a miracle. Do not be too sad; your child saved your life by leaving.”
He tried to console her by saying:
“Your child went and saved your life,” but none of those words brought her any comfort.
For her, none of these words were a source of comfort, and she could not find comfort in such words.
All the feelings she had accumulated so far exploded at once.
Only then did she realize her true feelings buried deep inside her.
Basically, Clint was like her family after her parents died.
After giving birth to a child, she thought she might finally have a real family...
She wanted to believe in family.
Psyche's heart ached at the misery of not being able to believe in her family.
The truth was when she discovered that the Duke wanted to kill her.
The truth is that at that moment she wanted to cry.
She felt like she was falling into a pit of despair.
This was…an emotion that she could only embrace because she trusted someone.
Actually she…
With all her heart she wanted to trust him.
This was her sincere and sincere feeling.
That's why she clung to the child more, believing that he was her only hope.
The child she met in her dreams was not just a simple existence that could be expressed with words like hope.
The cute creature…
It was the present, but it felt like the future.
A picture of a peaceful family that she had never even dreamed of.
“Baby…oh…”
She clung to the illusion of her child, whom she couldn't even hold now, as she cried.
“I have nowhere to go now,” she said, crying bitterly.
She lost her baby, so the Duke didn't want to see her anymore
He…
She thought she would never see him again...
That's why it made her sadder, and she cried.
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Morning came.
Psyche had spent the night crying and not sleeping, and her face was very swollen.
She still couldn't accept reality.
The prince tried to comfort her all night, but it was not easy to comfort her.
He was haunted by a strange feeling of guilt and stayed by her side all night.
Then his assistant entered the bedroom to announce the start of the prince's official duties. Timidly, he looked back and forth between Saeki and the prince, hesitating to speak.
" to talk."
His gaze was fixed on Psyche, and the prince gave a short command.
“This… it is Duke Valentine requesting an audience again… it is impossible to delay any longer.”
After hearing these words, Saiki frowned subconsciously.
“Okay.”
The prince nodded, and then Psyche spoke.
“I think the Duke knows something. I… I’m leaving here.”
As soon as she finished speaking, the palace maids entered the bedroom with a silver tray, making the prince unable to respond to Saiki's words.
The scent of jasmine leaves spread throughout the place, and Saiki involuntarily put on a polite expression.
"Oh, sorry. I'll clean this up. Just give me a moment."
The prince, as if he knew something, quickly waved his hand and asked her to bring jasmine tea.
At his answer, Saiki's eyes, which were puffy from crying, widened. Then she slowly opened her mouth and asked.
“Jasmine...its leaves are not good for pregnant women...did you know that?”
“Huh?”
Suddenly an expression of terrible surprise appeared on the prince's face and he clapped his hands.
"Was it? I almost died just drinking that. That's why."
“Jasmine leaves. Who gave them to you?”
When I asked the prince, he hesitated a little.
“Come on. Who gave you the jasmine leaves?”
The prince sighed and answered slowly: “Rachel Halston brought it and said it was expensive.”
“…”
“Well, that's weird.”
Saiki smiled wryly.
Then her expression hardened and she said, “Before I leave… I need to meet Rachel.”
At her words, the prince's eyes widened even more.
“This way. Please call her Rachel Halston.”
In the face of Psyche's firm stance, the prince had no choice but to respond.