My Perfect Omega - Chapter 68

He thought that they had spent enough time together to become familiar with each other, and not just that, but they had gotten to know each other more deeply.

“Why are you so angry?”

Had he become so repulsive that she preferred to sleep separately? So easily? Lucas’s mind was in turmoil. Out of all his thoughts, this one pounded at his heart the hardest.

“Can we suddenly start sleeping separately like this?”

Even though it was just sleeping on the sofa, it felt much more significant to him. Despite knowing she couldn’t move freely, he felt anxious that she might easily disappear from his side at any moment. His heart beat unpleasantly, and he couldn’t understand where this unease was coming from.

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“Honey, try practicing again.”

At Sarah’s suggestion, Benjamin cleared his throat and began to speak.

“Your Majesty! Please clear our family’s name! We have sacrificed much to protect our blind eldest daughter for years. But that wretched girl has conveyed words full of misunderstanding to the Duke, making our family suddenly appear disgraceful.”

“You did very well. You must keep speaking like this until the end.”

Encouraged by his wife’s praise, Benjamin loosened his tight cravat slightly and took a deep breath before speaking again.

“But His Majesty has agreed to grant us an audience. I feel positively about this appointment. There’s no need to worry.”

“Of course, who do you think my Count is? You’re such an eloquent speaker that I have no worries.”

“Hoho, good grief. Do you still find me so charming?”

As she flattered him, he blushed and laughed. Sarah hung on his arm and softly replied.

“Do you even need to ask? If our love were published as a book, it would already have more than ten volumes.”

Benjamin, hearing such a satisfying answer, nodded and relaxed.

“The best decision I ever made in my life was bringing you and the children into the household.”

Sarah recalled the past upon hearing her husband’s words. A nobleman, and a Count at that, had suddenly appeared in their remote village to inspect a newly discovered mine.

Sarah, who worked at a place that operated as both an inn and a tavern, fell for Benjamin the moment she saw him with the miners. After all, he was the only man in the vicinity wearing soft clothes and with clean hands.

At that time, Benjamin had come with the miners but didn’t dine with them. He simply paid and left. Watching him, Sarah took a bath that very day.

After washing thoroughly and smelling fragrant, she deliberately spilled wine on his clothes, pretending it was an accident. She didn’t forget to subtly brush her hand over his important parts.

Fortunately, the mine produced sapphires, albeit of low quality, so Benjamin visited the village more often. What started as a two-week stay extended to a month, two months, and then three months, allowing Sarah to become pregnant.

But even then, there were hurdles. Benjamin, disapproving of a commoner giving birth to a noble’s illegitimate child, seriously suggested Sarah have an abortion.

In a moment of quick thinking, Sarah lied. She told him that the midwife, who had delivered almost all the village’s children, assured her it was a girl, so there was nothing to worry about.

Benjamin’s love for Sarah was genuine enough that he couldn’t refuse her plea to keep the child, saying he wanted to remember her through their daughter. By the time she became pregnant with their second child, Timo, Benjamin had resolved to bring them to his estate.

They had a love for the ages. So it was only natural that their family would be happy, a predestined ending.

“My dear Count, I always tell you. As long as you are with me, there will only be good fortune. We will beautifully and happily overcome the trials that God gives only to His beloved children.”

And if it didn’t happen that way, they would make it happen. Leaning against Benjamin’s shoulder, Sarah smiled fiercely.