Obviously, It’s My Child

Chapter 64

Translator: Effe

Editor: Yonnee

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“When this is all over, he will come back to you again, Miss. Somehow, he must have not proposed until now because he was worried that you will get caught up in this!”

“Does it make sense that you two will break up just because of a momentary mistake?”

The maids poured out consolations for Iris. As they talked, their voices became more lively as they came to an agreement among themselves.

Iris cried.

“There is no way he would abandon the child’s mother…”

“Miss…”

“If I knew it would be like this, I wish I had been born as an Arren woman… Then I could have given him a legitimate successor. I…”

Iris whispered softly as she tried to stop her sobs.

“They say it’s fine as long as you can communicate as a good gentleman and a virtuous lady, but still…”

“Of course! His Grace will come back eventually!”

The maids said in unison that sooner or later, both Edelweiss and the jeweler will come with regret.

Iris didn’t respond to those words, she just sobbed sadly.

Knock, knock.

Then a knock came.

The maids hurriedly stood up. It was Katya, Countess Schneider, who entered.

Katya gestured gracefully.

The maids were fond enough of Iris despite being Katya’s daughter, but with the case of Katya herself, it was not easy for them to respect her. Instead, they looked down on her.

Although Katya deliberately tried to be stricter so that none of the servants would belittle her, a second wife, the maids always just found fault with her. They all claimed that she had seduced the master to become the countess and had a child before marriage.

The maids slipped out of the room like an ebbing tide. When the two of them were alone and the door closed, Katya spoke.

Iris lay face down and didn’t even raise her head. Katya sat by the bed and hugged Iris affectionately.

“Poor thing.”

Iris burst into tears again.

“If I had known it would be like this, I would have snuck into his bedroom.”

“You shouldn’t do that. Who are you? You are the famous daughter of Count Schneider. Why do you do what a lowly woman would do?”

“What’s the point of being the daughter of a count? It would have been better if I had been born an Arren orphan. Then Lord Erich would have chosen me.”

She sobbed as she fell on the pillow.

“I liked him first. I love him so much more than that vulgar woman who wants that kind of money, and I tried hard to qualify to be next to Lord Erich.”

Katya let out a sigh and sat down on the side of the bed, gently stroking Iris’s hair. Then she lowered her head and whispered in a low voice.

“Don’t worry. She would never be the Duchess.”

Iris lifted her teary eyes and looked at Katya.

“How?”

“Mom will make it. Trust me, my daughter. You just need to be the most beautiful lady in the world. Mom will do the rest.”

Katya soothed Iris.

When Iris, exhausted from her crying, fell asleep, Katya quietly got up and left the room. And she headed to the annex.

A young woman with a haggard face was walking around in the annex with an uneasy look.

Looking closely, not only did her face have an anxious complexion, but her eyes were also strange. Her pupils were trembling, and her hands and feet were shaking intermittently, like they were convulsions.

“Welcome, Nora.”

Katya called her affectionately.

Nora Hoffman was a wardrobe maid who’d been working under Louisa for nearly ten years now.

She was also someone Katya particularly cherished, as it would not be easy for her to get Klausenner’s employees under her control.

“Please, give me a cigarette.”

Nora trembled and fell on her knees in front of Katya. Katya smiled and shook her head.

“Vincent said you couldn’t even pay for the last cigarette?”

“I, I’ll get, the money. I’ll do anything to save for it. T-These days, I can’t sleep without it,” Nora cried.

Katya pulled a wooden box off the side of the table and opened it. Inside were twenty short cigarettes wrapped in lotus leaves.

Katya pulled out one and held it out in front of Nora. Nora pounced like a madman.

“Not in front of me. How dare you smoke a cigarette in front of me now?”

“N-No. Of course not, Countess. I’m not trying to smoke now.”

Nora pocketed the cigarettes. Suddenly, tears flowed down.

Katya reached out her hand and gently wiped Nora’s eyes.

“Oh my. You seem to be so troubled these days. But you know. It is very expensive.”

“Y-Yes. Yes, I know.”

Nora nodded her head frantically. But she wasn’t actually responding to the context of the conversation.

No, in a way, she knew exactly. Nora asked with somewhat crazed eyes.

“What can I do?”

If she couldn’t pay, then she could work. Nora was also well aware of her own position.

There were never many people who could whisper directly to Louisa. Even someone with access to Louisa’s mailbox and seal.

Katya smiled.

“What are you misunderstanding? I’m not trying to do anything to harm Klausener’s Elder Madam.”

“Yes, of course. The Countess is not one of those people. You are the best and sweetest person in the world.”

Nora picked up all the flattery and served it half-gibberish. The person with the lotus leaf cigarette was her god. There was nothing she couldn’t do to get it.

“There is a way to get rid of that woman who the Elder Madam regards as a thorn in her eyes these days.”

Katya deliberately lowered her head, speaking in a secretive voice.

Nora widened her eyes. She knew very well who it was talking about.

Lately Louisa had been unable to sleep without sleeping pills because of Baron Delford.

“Yes, I will tell her. That the Countess is very concerned for the Elder Madam.”

“No, Nora. It’s you, not me.”

“Me?”

“I am concerned about you. Do you have a lot of debt? The interest must still be accumulating.”

Nora nodded her head.