Evil Duke, Please Be Gentle!

"It is going to be a month, you should share the good news with the duke, my lady." The physician checked her pulse and started mixing new medicines for her.

His face had grave expressions that worried her quite often. She had come here thrice but not even once the physician had smiled or congratulated her after checking her body.

"Is the baby stable now?" despite the red signals she could see easily, she asked naively hoping that she was just being over sensitive and his answer might be different.

The man raised his head with a look of hesitation on his face, "that would be too early to say anything, my lady. I have already told you that your womb is weak and the baby is strong mana. He is taking a lot more vitality than needed. If this continued…" he stopped and bowed his head again but she had already comprehended what he wanted to say. How could she not.. She could read it in his eyes and in his silence.

Her heart beat slowed and so did her emotions. She felt failure as a woman to not be able to give enough strength for her baby to grow in her womb.

"You do not need to worry, my lady. I am giving you enough supplements. You will soon be fine if you continue taking them." she looked away from the window, towards the physician and nodded her head.

"About the news, i still want to wait till i will be better. Do not inform Leo about it." though the man looked reluctant and wanted to refuse, under her pleading gaze, he could only sigh and nod his head.

"I will not inform the duke, my lady. But if he came personally and asked me then I would not be able to lie. It is a matter of my job and my life.

If something happened to you, the duke would neve forgive me. I will ask you to reconsider the choice of giving up on this child. You are newly married, you can have another child, anytime." ha! Such a bunch of lies!

She held her womb tightly as if she was trying to protect her baby from all the possible dangers. Her eyes told colder instantly that the man felt a sudden pressure on his chest as if he was not able to breath.

"Do you think you can fool me like that? If I would try to miscarry the child, wouldn't it affect my womb negatively and it would be weaker in the future.

What if the next time would be riskier and I would never be able to give birth? Do you take the guarantee that next time I will be able to give birth healthily?" the eyes of the man widened as he was not expecting her to calculate all that.

Most of the time, the advice works and women give up on motherhood thinking their life is more precious and they can be a mother later since most of the time they are newly married.

But the woman standing in front of her was strongly determined to have this child. He was sure that only one of them would survive in the end, yet he could not stop her or take the decision in her stead.

All he could do was prevent the situation from worsening and making sure that she could stay healthy. But this was the worst case, he had seen.,

Though he had seen women with weaker wombs before too, in the end the baby was weaker than other children of her age.

But in her case, the baby is growing stronger and taking all her life. As if he was feeding her life rather than nutrition from her body.

The woman that was full of vigor and vitality had grown pale and her bright eyes had turned dimmer. He was sure the duke would have already noticed her deteriorated condition if not for the problems their family was facing.

But for long she would be able to hide. He only hoped that the truth would not burn his family.

"No! No physician can guarantee that my lady. But in the end, I hope that you make a wise decision. Your life is much more important than the life that has not taken birth yet. Because.." he halted in his speech when she slapped the table with so much force that a deafening sound was created.

He was not expecting the weak woman to fight for her unborn child that fiercely. Her eyes were like a tigress whose cub had been attacked.

"If you want to live more, stop spouting nonsense or I will cut your tongue with my hands.

I am the one to decide whether I want to keep the pregnancy or not. Now give me the medicine, I have other things to do too." she stood up with the same ferocity that the physician did not dare to stop her again.

He had already done his part, now it was completely her choice.

He passed the packets to the maid she had brought with her and then saw him exiting the room, only then did he take a breath of relief.

The cruising aura was so strong as if it was not of a human but animalistic. He had never felt that scared even in the present of the previous duke or the current one.

"My lady, you should take some rest. I will bring your food in the room." Jenna felt worried as her face had turned paler. It had only been the third month since it started, yet she was looking so weak that she had the same thoughts as the physician but she did not dare to speak about it.

"No! That way others would be doubtful. I have to go down." Evan stood up and took off the covers when the maid shook her head.

"No! My lady duke is gone to meet with the envoys while lady Elizabeth is gone to the royal palace. Lady Evelyn is still preparing for your postponed marriage ceremony dinner. Only lord Ethan is having a meal down there."