I Am Trying To Divorce My Villain Husband, But We Have A Child

Chapter 75

“Noona belly is big.”
(e/n: Leon is 4yrs old so his way of talking is going to have some grammatical mistakes. These are going to be left in his dialogue on purpose in case that wasn’t clear in past chs.)

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Then, after washing his hands first, Leon, who was waiting for them, gently poked at Elisha’s belly with his small finger.

“Is it big poop?”

At Leon’s absurd question, Elisha burst out laughing. Then she pinched Leon’s cheek slightly.

“When my baby hears you, he will be upset and cry.”

“Baby?”

“Yeah, a baby. There’s a baby in Noona’s belly.”

Recalling a newborn baby who came to the temple to be baptized a few days ago, Leon shook his head.

“Is not baby. Baby looks like Leon!”

“That’s right, a baby looks like Leon. This baby is still growing in Noona’s belly. After a hundred nights of sleep, he’ll pop out like Leon.”

To be precise, we had to wait more than a hundred days, but Elisha gave Leon a rough explanation so that it was easy for him to understand.

“Uhmm. I too want baby.”

“What would you do when you have a baby?”

“I’ll play all day!”

It was a childish idea. Elisha giggled at the cute thought but stopped laughing at Leon’s next words.

“How can Leon have a baby?”

At the child’s innocent question, Elisha’s face heated up. At the same time, the tips of Richard’s ears also turned red. As the two of them were embarrassed and at a loss of what to say, Leon looked at them with strange eyes.

“Noona?”

She couldn’t ignore those innocent eyes.

“Oh, um… so, the way to have a baby is… you’ll have it when you kiss someone you love.”

“What you means love?”

“If Leon finds someone he likes more than bread, that’s love.”

Leon looked at Elisa and Richard in turn, pondering, and then asked again.

“Then~ you love Mistoh?”

“Uh?”

Elisha blinked at an unexpected question. Richard, who had been looking away with his ears red, looked back at her upon hearing Leon’s question. Elisha, who was embarrassed by the child’s question, smiled awkwardly and answered.

“If, if you kiss even without love, you’ll have a baby too.”

“Um…”

“So you can’t kiss just anyone. Okay?”

She tried to give cautious words thinking about sex ed. Now, the existence of a baby was precious and happy, but at first, the unexpected existence of the baby was scary and frightening. Richard had felt the same. Elisha didn’t want Leon, and the one he loved, to go through something like that.

“Uhm… okay~”

Even though Leon did not understand the detailed reason, he nodded as if he understood the meaning of ‘you shouldn’t kiss just anyone.’

Richard’s expression darkened as he listened to their conversation, but Elisha did not notice and she stroked Leon’s head because he was being cute. Then she took the child’s hand and led him over to the flowerbed.

“Come here, Leon. I’ll tell you what a weed is.”

“Ngh!”

Elisha and Leon squatted down by the flower bed. Then she suddenly remembered Richard was still waiting nearby and looked back at him.

“Richard, will you also come and pick weeds?”

“…I’m fine.”

Elisha tilted her head with a puzzled expression in response to the chilly answer. Normally, he would have sat next to her without saying a word, but today something was strange.

“Is this a weeb?”

At Leon’s voice, Elisha turned her gaze back to him.

“This is a flower. Look, the buds look like this? It is a flower, so you cannot pull it out.”

Richard squatted in front of the flowerbed and looked at Elisha who was talking to Leon. Elisha’s posture while trying to support her body in such a low position by lowering her knees and raising her heels in order to not press on her stomach seemed quite uncomfortable. After watching this, Richard eventually sighed and sat close next to her. Then, he supported Elisha’s waist and hugged her.

“You will fall.”

“Ah… thank you, Richard.”

Elisha smiled brightly as she looked back. Richard’s expression instinctively relaxed at that smile, but he quickly turned away from her gaze. Still, he did not release the arm that was holding her.

She continued to tell Leon the difference between weeds and flowers again. When Leon barely began to distinguish the weeds, they felt a presence from behind them.

“What are you doing in front of the flowerbed?”

It was Aiden’s voice. Elisha looked up at him in surprise.

“Ah, Your Holiness.”

“Poping weebs! I puck a lot.”

Leon proudly lifted all the ‘weeds’ he had plucked out. However, Aiden’s eyes narrowed when he saw the messy flower bed with all the flowers pulled out behind Leon’s back. Elisha noticed his gaze and was nervous that Leon might be scolded. But Aiden, as always, smiled calmly instead.

“Yeah, trial and error are necessary for everything.”

“Trail and error?” Leon tilted his head trying to understand Aiden’s words.

“You did well, Leon, thanks to you, the remaining flowers will grow strong.”

Leon, who was in a good mood at Aiden’s praise, smiled wildly. Elisha, who was next to him, also smiled at the compliment.

“Did the Crown Prince leave?”

“Yes, I am just on the way back after seeing him off.”

Elisha got up from her position, supported by Richard. Her legs were numb because she had been crouching for quite some time.

“We should go back soon.”

“Madam, you can stay a little longer. Leon seems to want that too.”

“No. The temple is busy preparing for the foundation festival, we can’t stay more, Your Holiness. Today, I only came to donate in the first place.”

“Your grace will be given to those who need it most first.”

“Yes. Please do so.”

Elisha bowed to Aiden and waved to Leon.

“I’ll be back, Leon.”

Richard slightly bowed at Aiden.

“Noona bye~ Mistoh bye~”

Leon waved his tiny fern-like hand at the two of them moving away. As he waved it, the dirt on his hand splattered in all directions. Aiden, who saw it, half sighed and half laughed, and held Leon’s small hand.

“You should wash your hands first.”

Aiden wrapped his hands around Leon’s hands. Then water came up from his palms and washed Leon’s hands. The child, who had been staring blankly at the scene, opened his mouth as if he had suddenly remembered something.

“Water came out of Noona’s hand too.”

“Water?”

Aiden looked at Leon with puzzled eyes, recalling that the grass by the well was wet, he understood Leon’s words. It seemed that Elisha and Leon were washing their hands and playing with the water.

“It must have been interesting. Next time, ask Noona to tell you how to do it.”

“Yes!”

Leon nodded and shook off his clean hands. Aiden took Leon and headed into the annex.

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That night, Elisha, who returned to the bedroom after a long day’s work, was hugging Richard as usual and listening to the fairy tale book he read. The soft mid-low tone voice was as sweet as always, but Elisha’s nerves stood on edge. Richard was strangely odd. She looked at him with stern eyes.

‘I think you’re upset.’ It seemed as if he was less talkative -although he replied without any hint of displeasure when she talked first- but he had been avoiding her gaze since earlier. In addition, he was reading with a rather soulless tone, when he used to narrate the tale while reading he was more enthusiastic lately. And, the most crucial point, she was blatantly looking at him yet he didn’t look her way even once. Elisha wasn’t sure while eating, but she was definitely sure now. He was sulking. So much that he didn’t even want to look at her.

‘But why the hell?’

He seemed to have been in that state since they went to the temple, but she didn’t know exactly what offended him. Elisha, who was staring at Richard, who noticed her gaze but didn’t look back, finally called out to him.

“Richard, are you upset because of something?”

After a moment’s hesitation, his gaze looked at her. Then he replied a beat late.

“…No.”

He said no, but his eyes looked somewhat hurt. As he tried to look back at the book, Elisha grabbed him by his cheeks and made him look at her.

“What do you mean no? It’s all written on your face. ‘I’m upset’ it’s on your forehead.”

“…”

“Did I do something to upset you?”

At that question, Richard looked straight at Elisha. She tilted her head with a puzzled expression and quietly waited for his answer. At that moment, Richard’s hand grabbed her hand that was holding his cheek and entwined it. His lips eagerly approached and engulfed hers. Surprised by the sudden kiss, Elisha instinctively pulled herself back, and Richard’s lips fell away from hers. While still close enough to feel her breath, he whispered in a low voice,

“I don’t do this with just anyone.”

He looked at her with his eyes swirling with heat as if he would swallow her again at any moment.

(e/n: Author-nim plz don’t be faking us out… I really hope they understand their feelings for each other soon!)

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