I Wish My Husband Were Dead - Chapter 81



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What do you think of me?
2024.01.20.

When the roses bloom, we should have a wedding.

Rosalind Embley closed her eyes and imagined a rose garden in full bloom.

She had imagined it dozens, hundreds of times already, so it was vivid as if she was seeing it right before her eyes.

People applauded the bride and groom. Rosalind walked

down the aisle holding a bouquet of red roses. At the end of it was Maximilian. She was so nervous that she held her breath halfway and barely reached the end. Then Maximilian would grab her hand and say,

“Lady, please come to your senses!”

“Open your eyes. You have to get up!”

“If you don’t fight, the baby could die. Lady! Lady!”

A child.

Yes, right. I was giving birth.

“Ahhh!”

The pain tearing through her body came again. Rosalind clenched her teeth and screamed. It felt like someone had set fire to her lower back. Or slashing with a knife.

“I can see her head, I need to push my upper abdomen!”

“Miss. Oh, please, oh. God. Please, please.”

Sophia, the maid who had served Rosaline since she was very young, prayed to God without ceasing, shedding tears. That was all she could do. The midwife

could not bear to be angry at Sophia. The mother’s health was that bad. Neither the mother nor the child could survive.

“I can’t do this. The mother is not pushing at all.”

The midwife wiped the sweat from her forehead and motioned to the maid standing next to her.

“One of you, go up and push this lady’s belly. If the baby stays in the birth canal for too long, it’s dangerous for both the mother and the child.”

At her words, one of the older maids climbed on top of Rosaline.

“Push! Push harder!”

“Aah! Aah!”

Rosaline howled like an animal. She had been begging to be spared, but soon she was begging to be killed. Sophia, who had been watching the scene, eventually collapsed on the floor and cried.

“Miss, give me strength! One more time!”

Rosaline could no longer tell what was real and what was a dream. The rose garden appeared and disappeared repeatedly. This painful time felt like an eternity.

“I can see the ear. The baby’s head is almost out. I’m doing well now. Now, one last time!”

“Miss, miss! The baby is coming out. Sob, miss.”

Her ears were open, but there was no sound entering her head. Rosaline’s ears were just a buzzing sound. Sophia held the miss’s hand tightly and prayed that some of that pain would come to her.

Poor miss, poor miss.

Her sympathy for Rosaline soon turned into anger toward Maximilian, the mastermind behind all this.

He had ruined the miss’s life, and now he was trying to take her life.

The fact that she left Ershe and came to this distant foreign land, Angsene, and that she suddenly gave birth in this countryside without a proper doctor was all because of him.

“All right, all right! The baby is here. It’s a boy. It’s a boy. He’s a very handsome boy.”

“Oh my, miss. It’s a boy. Miss, miss… …”

The midwife quickly wrapped the baby in a clean cloth and skillfully cut the umbilical cord. The baby, who had been unfamiliar with the world he had been forced into, did not open his mouth for a while, but soon burst into tears.
Everyone inside breathed a sigh of relief as the baby’s cries filled the room.

Until then, no sound had been heard, but as if it were a lie, the baby’s cries pierced Rosaline’s ears. Rosaline, who was struggling to breathe, barely opened her eyes and waved her arms.

“Oh, a boy, a boy?”

“Yes, miss. It’s a boy. He looks healthy.”

Sophia, who had been praying, wiped away her tears and took the baby to Rosaline. Rosalind tried to straighten her blurry focus.

My child. My son.

“Baby.”

The baby was unusually small because he came out of his mother’s womb two months early. Rosalind felt sorry for him and burst into tears. If she had been a little healthier, the baby wouldn’t have come out of this world so soon.

“Daniel, I’ll call him Daniel.”

“What a noble name, Master Daniel.”

“Daniel… .”

Rosalind looked down at the baby with loving eyes. It was still red and wrinkled, so she couldn’t even call him pretty out of politeness, but in Rosalind’s eyes, he was the most beautiful angel in the world.

She tried to keep her eyes open as long as possible to capture her son’s appearance. However, the more she did, the more her vision blurred.

The first to notice this was the experienced midwife. She screamed when she noticed Rosalind was about to lose consciousness.

“Oh, the blood… . Bring the doctor outside right now! Hurry!”

“Young lady, you shouldn’t sleep yet. You should see Master Daniel. Young lady, young lady!”

The situation that had calmed down for a moment became urgent again. The doctor who had been waiting outside came in right away and checked on her condition.

“Your temperature is too high? You’re also bleeding a lot… … This young lady, you said your heart is not good?”

“Please save me, please save our young lady.”

“Life and death are now up to God. Get out of the way. Joshua! Bring my bag right now!”

Sophia hugged her child tightly in the midst of the busy crowd. Tears quietly flowed down her cheeks.

Where did it go wrong?

If he had strongly discouraged her when he found out she was meeting Maximilian Attila, if he had advised her to give up when he first found out she was pregnant, would things have been different?

“Open your eyes! Oh, this is not going to work. The bleeding won’t stop.”

The doctor let out a pitiful breath and checked on Rosaline, but the situation only got worse.

It was obvious that they would not be able to escape Attila’s pursuit if they stayed in Ershe. So they decided to go to Angsene, a country in the southern continent.

However, before they could even board the ship to Angsene, Attila’s encirclement was closing in. Then Maximilian suggested to Rosaline that they split the group in two.

‘If we both move together like this, Attila will catch us. Rosie. I will go somewhere else with the knights and draw their attention. You go to Angsene first.’

‘What if you get caught?’

Rosaline was very afraid that Maximilian would go to prison again. Maximilian consoled Rosaline.

‘That would be better than you and our child being in trouble.’

‘Max… …’

Rosaline had been sick since she was young, and Maximilian was the first man she had ever met and talked to.

The innocent young lady was deceived by this snake-like man and ended up having a child. Even though Rosaline had to run away to Angsene while pregnant, she didn’t show any sign of resenting Maximilian. She just sobbed and sent Maximilian off.

Sophia, who was watching them from the side, found his actions funny. Wasn’t this all because of Maximilian in the first place?

Although he said that he split the group into two, there were only three or four knights attached to Maximilian. After all, their original purpose was to protect Rosaline. Honestly, it didn’t matter much

what happened to Maximilian. Up until then, Sophia had been focused solely on arriving at Angsene and helping Rosaline deliver the baby. She had never imagined that the situation would turn out this way.

“Does this young lady have a family?”

the councilor asked Sophia, wiping the sweat that had formed on his forehead. Sophia nodded urgently.

“Yes. Your father, the master, is here. This lady is from a very noble family. So please… … .”

“Bring her family back as soon as possible. We have to protect the last one.”

“What do you mean, the last one? What will happen to the young lady?”

“I did everything I could. If I’m lucky, she might survive if her fever goes down, but… … .”

The doctor trailed off and nodded to his assistant. The assistant understood what he meant and gathered up the things he had brought.

“It’ll probably be hard. The mother was so weak. It’s a miracle that she was able to give birth safely.”

“Ah. Our poor young lady, our poor young lady.”

“I pray that God will have mercy on her.”

The doctor left with just those words.

Sophia approached Rosaline, leaving the baby in the care of the other maids. She was so bloodless that it was hard to believe she was breathing.

The three maids, including Sophia, removed the blood-soaked bedsheets and poured water into Rosaline’s mouth. The remaining one brought milk and quenched Daniel’s hunger.

Rosaline could only groan occasionally without opening her eyes. The maids huddled around the bed and took care of their master.

“Who on earth were they?”

said the youngest of the three, shivering.

“The one who attacked us. How could he kill so many knights in an instant? In just thirty minutes.”

“It doesn’t matter who they are. When the master comes, he will definitely find and kill those who attacked us. So just take good care of the young lady and think about going back.” “

Oh, can you really go back? What if those guys…?”

The young maid shed tears as if the situation was too much to handle. You can’t blame her.

Not long after arriving in Angsene, they were attacked by unknown assailants. In the midst of the chaos, only Rosaline and the three maids barely survived.

It was terrifying to see someone die so cruelly right before my eyes for the first time. Rosalind also gave birth two months early due to the shock.

“Don’t say that. Miss Rosaline, Master Daniel, and all three of us will return alive.”

Sophia said, patting her shoulder.

They took turns taking care of the child and wiping Rosaline’s body with cold towels, trying to bring down her fever. They held out until daybreak.

Fortunately, Rosaline’s fever, which had been raging, went down a little after dawn. The maids were so happy that they hugged each other.

“Just hold on a little longer, and your master will be here soon. He is coming to see you now.”

Sophia whispered in Rosaline’s ear. She prayed earnestly that she would gain strength even a little.

However, the person who opened the door of the old inn that afternoon and came in was not the person she had been waiting for.

“Oh, how did the Duke come here…?”

“How did you come here? Is it strange that I came?”

As if he had been waiting for the chaos to end, Maximilian appeared in the room where Rosaline was lying at the right time.

Sophia was confused. She had parted ways with him before she had even come to Angsene. But how on earth did he know about this place and come here? He had never contacted her before.

“Rosaline?”

“The young lady lost a lot of energy while giving birth… …”

“Is she dead?”

“What are you talking about!”

She raised her voice without realizing it. Maximilian raised an eyebrow. Sophia immediately realized her mistake and lowered her head.