Lady Devil - Chapter 199

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A pregnant woman who speaks of murder so casually. Idris merely thought impassively at that chilling statement.

“You love him.”

Idris didn’t realize he had spoken aloud. As such, it was no more than a sigh slowly exhaled by a man faced with an unchangeable fact. With his gaze fixed on a distant point across from him, there wasn’t even a trace of reproach for a fickle lover on the back of his hand as it gently stroked the back of Giovinetta’s head.

“This one will be a boy.”

“…”

“I have such a certainty about it.”

Giovinetta also murmured incomprehensibly without any particular response.

“The Ducommun lineage… should have ended with me. That would have been right. Such a vicious… barbaric bloodline. A group not worthy of surviving to see future generations, I dare say. I don’t know why a bestial lineage that shouldn’t leave even a small inheritance continues through my womb. As tough as steel wire…”

“…”

“A beast giving birth to a beast…. It’s unbearable, I can’t stand it…”

She didn’t even lift her forehead once from where it was buried in Idris’s nape. Idris, who had been quietly attentive only to her voice in the calm red night, slowly erased his expression. He couldn’t help but feel somewhat perplexed.

“Isn’t it terrible because the child has that man as its father?”

“You keep saying things I don’t understand…”

Giovinetta rustled near his ear. Soon, her blue and dazed eyes rose to meet his.

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