When I Took Back My Beloved Child Who Had Been Taken From Me, My Husband's Obsessive Love Began. Why? - Episode 20

“Lucienne! What on earth are you doing!?”

“Uncle, Aunt, it’s been a while. But could you please keep your voices down for now? Leoldo is awake…”

The last time I saw my uncle was when he came to say “Well done” upon finding out that Lucienne was pregnant.

As for my aunt, she only told me at a tea party or something before I got pregnant, “Advise His Highness to make Claudine his consort as soon as possible.”

After several years, the uncle and aunt suddenly barged in without any warning during the reunion.

Moreover, this is His Imperial Highness the Crown Prince’s bedroom. It would be only natural to be punished for disrespect.

As expected, Leoldo was startled awake by his uncle’s shouting.

“Mo… mother…”

“Leoldo, it’s okay. You were surprised, weren’t you…? But it’s okay.”

Lucienne hurriedly got up and rushed to the bed, hugging the sobbing Leoldo.

Leoldo seems to be trying to hold back tears, his face contorted.

Lucienne’s heart ached for Leoldo, who didn’t cry out loud even in this situation.

I thought that Leoldo would be familiar with Claude’s parents, the Marquess and Marchioness Arment, but their young faces were filled with fear as if they were seeing them for the first time.

“Uncle, Aunt, could you please step outside for a moment? Leoldo is scared.”

“Well, how brazen! Even if you were caught in the act of infidelity, trying to cover it up by using His Highness as an excuse is pointless!”

“Please don’t raise your voices. If you two don’t leave, we will have to forcibly remove you.”

“What an impudent woman! Listen, Lucienne――”

“Rite, please call the guards.”

Lucienne’s anger was strong towards the two who showed no consideration for Leoldo.

At the bedroom entrance, I instructed Rite, who was worried and waiting, to call the guards instead of the escort, in order to eliminate the two who were trying to harm Leoldo.

Not realizing the meaning, the uncle and aunt seemed surprised by Lucienne’s unusually assertive demeanor.

However, she quickly composed herself and began to reprimand Lucienne.

“Lucienne! This ungrateful wretch! Who do you think raised you without parents? And I even made you an empress! And yet—”

“Marquis Arment! No more misconduct in His Highness’s bedroom will be tolerated. This includes disrespect towards me, the Empress. We will take further action. Now, leave this place immediately.”

“What are you—”

Interrupting her uncle’s words with a strong call, Lucienne calmly stated.

That’s also to prevent Leo from being scared any more.

That strong and stern demeanor had an air of dignity, and the arriving guards obeyed Lucienne’s orders rather than the marquis’s.

While being somewhat reserved, they restrain the uncle and aunt and take them out of the bedroom.

The uncle and aunt were shouting, but Lucienne, while holding Leoldo, skillfully covered his small ears.

Eventually, the uncle and aunt were taken out of Leoldo’s room, and at last, silence returned to the room.

“Leoldo, I’m sorry. You must have been surprised, right?”

“I’m… I’m fine. I’m fine…”

Even at Lucienne’s apology, Leoldo didn’t cry or scream; he just kept repeating “It’s okay” to himself, trembling slightly.

As I gently and slowly stroke that small back, the tension gradually leaves Leoldo’s body.

Until now, Leoldo might have been enduring hardships all alone, repeatedly uttering the word “okay” like a spell.

Neither Claudine nor the uncle and aunt seemed to have any affection for Leoldo at all.

Perhaps the only one who showed him affection, Craig, was too busy, and knowing Leo, who was intelligent, he probably didn’t even bother to rely on him.

“I’m sorry, Leoldo…”

Lucienne wasn’t the only one suffering for the past two years without being able to meet.

Leoldo must have endured loneliness in such a small body from the moment he was born until now.

Lucienne kissed Leoldo’s small head, then kissed his soft cheek, and hugged him tightly, tightly.

“I love you, Leoldo.”

“Uh, um…?”

It seemed that Leoldo couldn’t understand Lucienne’s words of love.

He probably heard it for the first time.

Therefore, Lucienne gently smiled, stared intently into Leoldo’s eyes, and repeated.

“Yes, I love you. It means I really, really like you. It means you’re really, really important to me.”

“Really, really… love?”

“I love you so much. Mother loves you dearly, deeply, and truly.”

“I also… I also love you, Mom. …I love you.”

“Thank you!”

Leoldo, cautiously seeking confirmation of love, was both endearing and cute, and Lucienne further expressed words of love.

Then, Leoldo clumsily responds.

Within Lucienne, her love for Leoldo swelled to an unprecedented degree, and she hugged him so tightly that it felt as if her small body might crush him.

Suddenly, Leoldo lets out another joyful scream, “Kyaa!”

However, this time the guards didn’t burst in, and the two rolled around playfully on the bed.

Eventually, exhausted from laughing, we lay in silence on the bed for a while, but our hands remained intertwined.

Then Lucienne got up, kissed Leoldo on the forehead, and lifted him up.

“Mother will always be by your side from now on.”

“Yes!”

“First, it’s the magic class. Of course, I’ll be watching from the sidelines.”

“……Yes.”

In response to the promise that his mother would be by his side, Leoldo replied cheerfully.

However, upon hearing that there is a class afterwards, the response loses its momentum.

When Lucienne laughed at that, Leoldo, though a bit embarrassed, also laughed happily.