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Chatper 218
Chatper 218
Janet’s mind went blank for a second.
Although she had seen this coming, she had not prepared for this.
There was actually a baby inside of her body, a baby she could not protect.
How would Westin react to this?
He would certainly be enraged.
He hated Daran to his gut, and he would hate Daran’s kid equally as much.
She placed a trembling hand on her belly.
NOBODY could know about this secret.
And she had to start moving forward with her escape plan.
When she started to show, everybody would know, which would be too late by then.
A knock on the door snapped her back to reality.
“Are you doing alright in there?” Clemente’s voice came from the outside.
…Yes.”
“The dinner is ready.”
“OK. Just one second.”
Janet looked at the pregnancy test stick in her hand and found that there was another question:
What should she do with this?
She couldn’t simply leave it in the trash bin.
Clemente was hyper–alert to her every move. She already made him suspicious when she went to the
pharmacy. Who knew if he would go over her trash?
The most secure way was to
out when Clemente was not wat the stick with her till she found a way to throw it
So she put the stick back in her pocket and left the bathroom.
Yet unfortunately for her, she didn’t find any chance during the following couple of days to get rid of that
stick.
Clemento
to was watching her lika a haude
He followed her everywhere she went. He even slept in the armchair in her room at night
He was like a robot that never grew tired.
His cold, emotionless gaze sometimes made Janet want to hang herself.
And it made Janet wonder too-
Who was Clemente doing this for?
Westin simply asked him to protect her, not spying on her.
Elder Lamonte and he had a bad relationship. He probably wouldn’t listen to his father.
Who could this mysterious master of Clemente be?
In the meantime, Westin was starting to prepare stuff for the ceremony.
One night when he came over for dinner, she overheard him on the phone with a party planner, nailing
down details about the Mating Ceremony.
Once it hit the one–week time limit, he would start pushing her to recognize the mate bond.
Her time was up.
On the third day after she found out that she was pregnant, Belle and Wells came to
visit.
“Janet-”
Belle came rushing down the hallway with her arms wide open and dashed right at
her.
Janet stood up laughing.
She wanted to open her arms and waited for Belle to throw herself into her arms. Yet she suddenly Text © 2024 NôvelDrama.Org.
remembered something very important-
Her child.
She was pregnant now.
So she slightly tilted her body, with one hand protecting her belly, she used the other hand to hug Belle,
“How are you doing?”
“I am good!” Belle grinned, “Just a bit exhausted.”
“Our tutors are drowning us with homework,” Wells said.
Janet smiled.
Yet from a peripheral look, she suddenly noticed that Clemente was staring at her–more precisely, at
her hand on the belly.
A chill was sent down her spine as she quickly retracted her hand and put it into her pocket instead.
“Do you want to go take a walk around the lawn?” Janet asked.
The twins beamed and said.
yes.
It was a beautiful day out with a crystal clear sky and a gentle warm breeze The
pocket instead.
“Do you want to go take a walk around the lawn?” Janet asked.
The twins beamed and said yes.
It was a beautiful day out, with a crystal clear sky and a gentle warm breeze. The weather was so good
that they got a perfect view of the majestic mountains and peaks in the distance.
Janet gazed at one of the high peaks with a heavy heart.
…She wondered where Daran was at the moment.
Was he safe?
How far away was he right now?
Did he know that they were going to have a baby together…
“Janet, what are you looking at?” Wells asked by her side.
“At those mountains.” Janet gave him a smile. “I was just wondering, during a sunny day like this, will
the path to the outside world still be blocked by fog in the forest?”
She needed to know more about the mist forest in order to escape.
“Of course, it will!”
Belle answered right away:
“The fog in the mist forest had nothing to do with the weather. It is a magical power that protects our
Kingdom 24/7…”
She paused.
And then started to giggle, “…kind of like Clemente!”
Wells rolled his eyes, “I didn’t know why Westin sent this guy to protect you. He is so dull and creepy,
kind of like a sociopath.”
Belle grimaced at her brother, “You are just jealous because Westin likes him more. Clemente is like
the perfect younger brother that Westin never had.”
“Then what am I!” Wells jumped.
Belle started laughing, “A relative, perhaps?”
Wells’s face went tomato red as he snapped, “I am not jealous of him! That dude is seriously off! Hey
Janet, don’t you think that Clemente is weird too?”
Janet smiled, “Clemente seems like a nice person. Although…I have to admit that it would be nice if I
could take a break from him.”
“Of course, you can.”
Wells turned around to Clemente, who was following behind them a few meters. away, and cried, “Hey
Clemente! Can you go somewhere else and leave us alone
OUCH!!!
His sister pinched him on the back.
“Clemente, I hate to ask, but can you bring us some fresh lemonade from the kitchen?” Belle asked
softly with a sweet smile.
Clemente said nothing.
He simply turned on his back and started heading back to the castle.
Janet stared at his back till it completely disappeared into the distance before quietly letting out a sigh
of relief.
Great.
The hawk that had been watching her was finally gone.
This was her chance to get rid of that pregnancy test stick, which had been sitting in her pocket for 3
days already.
She looked around.
There were no trash bins nearby.
She couldn’t simply dump this thing on the lawn.
She spotted a few gardeners, who were clipping the roses with a sack of fallen leaves and twigs by
their feet.
Janet immediately walked over to the gardeners.
“The roses look really pretty,” she said to the gardeners with a smile, “You did a wonderful job.”
The gardeners looked flattered, “Thank you, my lady. And if you like, I can pick out a
bouquet for you.”
“Oh, we would love that!” Belle cried in joy.
The gardeners immediately got to work.
Belle and Wells’s attention was on the roses.
Janet casually dropped her arm.
And let the pregnancy stick fall right into that sack of leaves and twigs.
Nobody noticed anything.
“Yeah, great idea,” Janet beamed.
She felt relieved.
A huge pressure was off her shoulders now.
Clemente returned from the kitchen with 3 glasses of lemonade half an hour
later.
He crossed the lawn and walked towards the twins and Janet.
On his way, he encountered a group of gardeners who just come back from the rosebeds.
Those gardeners were all chatting ensuthiastially:
…That is the King’s fiancé that we just met right?”
“What a nice lady. Coming over here and complementing our works personally…”
“She will be a great match to our King…”
Clemente halted abruptly.
“You talked to Lady Janet?” he asked one of the gardeners.
“What did she say?”
“Nothing really…Just that they liked the roses, and we picked out a bouquet for them.”
Clemente’s eyes fell on the sack in the gardener’s hand.
“Leave the sack. And you can go,” he ordered.
“But general, it is just a sack of dirt and leaves. It will dirty your hand
“Leave it.”
Still looking bemused, the gardeners dropped the sack on the ground and walked
away.
Clemente set the lemonades down.
Then he turned the sack upside down, emptying the sack.
He stared at the word Positive shown on the stick.
His eyes gradually darkened.