Free Web NovelChapter 33: It’s just pregnancy hormones.
Two full hours later, the prestigious family doctor had already settled inside the royal suite of the palace after concluding his meticulous examination of Roselina through his magical life energy pulses. He finally opened his eyes and exhaled a sigh of relief as he raised his hand, causing the dense, warm green aura that emanated from his palm and enveloped Roselina’s body to vanish.
The doctor a cheerful smile and said, "Congratulations, Lady Roselina! The magical examination confirms accurately that you are in your second week of pregnancy. However, I am truly amazed because how were you able to detect this pregnancy and determine the presence of the fetus at such an extremely early time? Were you waiting for this news with absolute impatience?"
Roselina fell completely silent upon hearing the doctor’s sweet words. Her mind suddenly grew confused and her features froze as she stared at the ceiling decorations for a very long time in absolute distraction. She regulated her breathing and said in a faint, scattered voice, "Thank you, Doctor Marcus. I will send your additional reward with the servants outside."
Cain thanked the doctor in turn, who bowed with deep reverence and departed with calm, straight steps outside the room. Meanwhile, Roselina remained lying down while still staring at the ceiling in absolute distraction, completely unable to believe what was happening as she muttered scattered, faint words like, "Impossible... Is this real? Or am I dreaming?" freewebnovel.cσ๓
Amelia approached the bed with her small steps and asked in an extremely innocent tone and a brilliantly faked angelic face, "Auntie... Are you not happy with this news? Isn’t the presence of children always a good and joyful thing?"
Roselina could not find the appropriate words to respond to her niece’s sincere and innocent question, so she shifted her scattered, troubled gaze toward Cain, who was sitting on a luxurious wooden chair beside the bed, observing the situation in absolute silence.
Roselina sighed and said, "Cain... Can we speak for a bit away from Amelia? Because there is some adult talk we need to discuss."
Cain turned toward Amelia and nodded his head to her, saying, "Amelia... You can go now and practice your basic sword movements with Seth in the training ground until I come to you myself. I need to talk to your aunt about some family matters for a little while."
Amelia nodded her small head, understanding the situation with sheer intelligence, and immediately left the room with her short, delicate steps, closing the massive wooden door behind her in absolute silence.
The moment the sound of the door closing echoed and silence settled in the room, the expressions on Roselina’s face darkened even more, and the shock suddenly transformed into a sweeping wave of sadness and heartbreak. She looked at Cain with tears welling in her eyes and said in a crying tone, "Brother... I need you to listen to me seriously and without interruption."
Cain nodded calmly, prepared to hear what Roselina would say.
However, after another two full hours had passed, the expressions on Cain’s face had become extremely grim, and his head was bowed toward the ground in absolute regret and despair, while Roselina continued her non-stop talking without even pausing to catch her breath! She was crying loudly and complaining with childish bitterness as she wiped her face.
"I am telling you that he no longer loves me like before! He has completely changed! When he woke up from sleep that day and I looked into his eyes, he completely forgot to tell me that he loves me as he usually does! And when I spent hours in the kitchen and served him food I made myself with my intense hard work, do you know what that idiot did? He just ate the entire meal! He ate it in complete silence without praising my cooking skills or throwing poetic flirting lines to my ears! This is definitive proof of his lack of love!"
Cain’s facial expressions worsened and his annoyance doubled as he replied in a desperate attempt at rationality,
"Don’t you think you are exaggerating and blowing things out of proportion needlessly? Doesn’t him finishing the plate and wiping it completely clean mean he admires your food very much and finds it delicious? Furthermore, if the matter bothers you, why don’t you eat from the cooking of the professional chefs in the palace and give yourself a break? What are you trying to prove to me right now with this story of yours?"
But Roselina did not listen to him. Instead, her hand extended angrily toward the tissue box beside the bed to pull out tissue number 156 in this single session, and she continued her dramatic sobbing,
"You are truly a rude brother with no conscience, empathy, or feelings! I am telling you that I clearly feel deep inside me that he no longer loves me, and my intuition tells me that he is about to cheat on me with another woman! Instead of comforting and supporting me, you defend him and blame me! You are exactly like him in your wretchedness, because all men in this universe have no conscience!"
A faint smile formed on Cain’s lips, and muffled, interrupted laughs escaped him, indicating absolute despair and deep regret for remaining in the room throughout these two hours.
He thought to himself seriously that if Michael had genuinely wronged his sister or hurt her feelings, he would have gone to him personally to discipline him and break his bones without hesitation.
However, he finally realized, by virtue of his knowledge, that his sister was simply suffering from the sudden, insane surge of early pregnancy hormones, which made her psychological state unstable, causing her to resent the minor passing details and magnify simple matters into major conspiracies.
Cain knew Michael very well since he was the son of a prominent Count from the Western Empire. He had come to the Holy Academy in the past and was in the same academic year as Cain, making them very close friends.
He knew with absolute certainty that Michael sincerely adored Roselina and could die for her. But naturally, with the passage of days and the continuation of the marital routine, that burning, exploding passion accompanying the beginnings starts to fade gradually to transform into a calm stability. Didn’t his sister realize this simple biological fact?
Cain understood the situation and decided to change the atmosphere, so he stood up from his place with the intention of taking his sister out of the darkness of the room, taking her on a tour to the beach, or occupying her with any activity to make her a little happy until she regained her senses and realized that all these fictional scenarios about betrayal and coldness were mere illusions woven by her troubled mind due to the pregnancy.
However, as he was preparing to move, light and calculated knocks were heard on the door of the private suite! Cain wondered to himself in amazement because who among the servants or guards possessed enough audacity to knock on the suite door now, knowing that he was conversing with his sister regarding an urgent matter? He promised in his secret heart that he would severely punish this interrupting person and banish them from the suite to serve as a warning to others.
Cain shouted in a sharp, stern tone,
"Who is knocking on the door at this time?!"
The reply came immediately in a soft female voice. It was the voice of Maxie, which was the familiar disguised voice that Lucy used during her infiltration.
"It is me... Lord Duke..."
Cain’s limbs froze in their place for several moments, and drops of cold sweat appeared along his spine.
Seconds ago, he had said he would punish whoever interrupted them, but now he realized with sheer terror that he was the one who would be punished and whipped if any mistake occurred! He tried to calm his accelerating breaths and wipe the features of tension from his face to act completely naturally before his sister, saying in a slightly loud voice,
"Come in... You may enter."
Roselina observed her brother’s strange behavior and wondered in her mind with utter amazement about the reason for his noticeable confusion, and why he allowed someone to enter so easily despite his usual majesty and his ability to dismiss anyone.
Who was this woman who possessed such hidden authority and terrifying dominance over her tyrannical brother, Cain?
The door opened slowly to reveal Lucy, disguised in her usual form as Maxie, and behind her stood the little Amelia. Lucy held a deck of magical playing cards with gilded patterns in her hand, and a soft, warm smile formed on her face as she looked at Cain and Roselina sitting on the bed.
"Welcome to the palace, Lady Roselina. I heard from Amelia a moment ago that you are feeling some distress and sadness due to a minor ailment, so I said to myself, what do you think if we play an entertaining round of cards together to refresh the soul and change the atmosphere?"
Cain’s nerves stretched to the absolute limit, and he turned toward Roselina slowly while drops of cold sweat poured visibly from his forehead. He turned and said in a trembling tone that he tried hard to conceal, "What do you think of this suggestion, sister? Do you wish to play?"
Cain was dripping sweat heavily in secret, wishing from the depths of his heart that Roselina would politely decline the offer and excuse herself with a desire to sleep.
He knew with absolute certainty that Roselina and Lucy sitting together at the same table was equivalent to placing a burning matchstick next to a barrel of gunpowder! His sister was talkative, reckless, and impulsive due to the hormones, and she could simply utter a single wrong word or a scandal from the past in the middle of the game that would trigger Lucy’s dormant wrath, turning the beachside palace into a field of absolute mass slaughter!
Roselina looked at her brother’s tense features, and with her cunning female intuition, she captured the presence of numerous, complex emotions appearing on Cain’s face for the first time in his life. She knew one of these emotions specifically: it was genuine fear. ƒreewebηoveℓ.com
Roselina’s smile widened with malice and mockery, and she felt a sweeping desire to explore this intriguing mystery, so she said in an enthusiastic tone,
"Absolutely, my dear! I completely agree, let us play together!"
Cain felt at that moment that his inevitable end had become extremely close, and that his security plans were on the verge of absolute collapse because of a playing table.
