Don’T Get Caught By Your Husband! [EN]: Chapter 38

A Secret Just for Us

Don’t Get Caught by Your Husband! Episode 38. A Secret Just for Us (38/130)

#38. A Secret Just for Us

2024.04.07.

She felt detached from reality.

She could feel the cold sweat trickling down her back.

Oh, what should I do……?

Belladonna stared at Escalion standing before her, unable to utter a word.

The golden eyes that were fixed on her softened.

“I thought I was dreaming. I kept wondering if what I heard last time was just a dream.”

“…….”

“It’s getting chilly, so put this on.”

He approached Belladonna, who was standing still, in one stride and draped his coat over her shoulders.

Belladonna couldn’t bring herself to step back and looked up at him with a bewildered expression.

She couldn’t believe that her secret had been discovered so easily.

Besides, he…… didn’t seem surprised.

She felt very confused by it all. W, what’s going on……?

“Do you want to stay longer? Do you need more time to clear your head?”

Belladonna couldn’t answer Escalion’s question easily.

She didn’t know whether to go back with him as if nothing had happened, to explain herself on the spot, or to turn around and run away right now.

“…….”

Seeing that Belladonna was trembling slightly and seemed out of it, Escalion muttered quietly.

“What are you so surprised about? You didn’t think I would send my wife out with just one untrustworthy maid, did you?”

T, then……?

“Since I couldn’t follow you myself, I sent several knights. They watched you get lost, stand blankly, walk somewhere, climb the hill, and sit there looking down.”

“Ah…….”

Belladonna sighed softly.

She belatedly regretted how naive and wrong she had been to think that no one here knew her secret.

“I came as soon as I heard the news, but how long were you planning to wander around? It’s getting colder.”

“…….”

“Bella, tell me now. Why were you feeling so bad today?”

Escalion leaned down and asked her.

Belladonna stared blankly at his face as he approached.

The words, “Because of you,” rose to her throat, but she held them back.

“Are you going to clam up again?”

Escalion raised the corners of his lips and said playfully.

Why……? She couldn’t understand why he could remain so calm even after hearing her voice.

Did he really hear my voice back then?

“You’re thinking complicated thoughts.”

Escalion raised his fingers and poked Belladonna’s cheek.

She stared at him with confused eyes and slowly opened her mouth.

“Why…… don’t you say anything?”

“Ah, this is too good.”

Escalion frowned playfully as he heard Belladonna’s voice.

“Your voice is so soft; it feels like my ears are melting.”

Don’t joke around! Belladonna looked up at him with a slightly aggrieved face.

She couldn’t understand him making jokes in this situation.

“D, don’t joke around……!”

“I’m not joking. I really like it.”

Escalion grabbed the hem of the coat that kept slipping off Belladonna’s slender shoulders and fastened it tightly.

Belladonna, who was looking at him, slowly said,

“Did you…… know that I could speak?”

“Maybe.”

It was a strange answer. Neither yes nor no. What……?

“Let’s go down for now. The maid who lost you is very worried.”

Escalion put his arm around her shoulder and tried to move, but Belladonna stood firmly on her feet and stubbornly resisted.

Escalion looked down at her, who wasn’t moving, and Belladonna spoke again.

“What are you going to do now?”

“About what?”

“Are you going to tell…… the Pope? That I can speak.”

As she said that, she felt her heart sink.

If the fact that she could speak reached the Pope’s ears, she would inevitably be suspected of having gained divine power in exchange for her voice.

And if that happened…….

“Why would I?”

However, at Escalion’s answer, Belladonna widened her eyes again and raised her head.

“Is it that important that you can speak?”

“…….”

“I don’t know what your circumstances are, but if you don’t want to speak in the future, you can live your whole life without speaking. It’s a bit of a shame not to hear your pretty voice…… but won’t you let me hear it sometimes when we’re alone?”

“I, it’s not that simple.”

“If it’s not simple, is it complicated?”

Escalion tilted his head and asked playfully.

This man, really……! Even in this situation, he’s being so slick.

She couldn’t understand what he was thinking at all.

As Belladonna looked up at him with a sulky expression, Escalion shrugged his shoulders as if he couldn’t help it and replied,

“I heard you singing in your sleep at the Vatican.”

So, he knew since then……?

Belladonna stood still and bit her lower lip.

“And I’ve heard it often since then.”

“……?”

“Don’t you know how many different things you say in your sleep every night? You groan, and you mutter seriously about what kind of dreams you’re having. You’re so noisy at night, my wife.”

R, really……?

Belladonna’s face turned redder and redder.

She thought she was hiding it perfectly, but she had no idea that she made all sorts of noises at night. H, how embarrassing……!

Escalion, who was looking down at Belladonna, who was flustered with her face flushed red, lowered his head and chuckled.

“I was just kidding about making noises at night, but I did hear you groaning softly when you were sick.”

“…….”

“Don’t glare at me like that. Shouldn’t you be grateful to your husband for keeping his wife’s secret until the end?”

So Escalion…… knew from the beginning.

That she was deceiving him and pretending that she couldn’t speak.

‘But he pretended not to know…….’

Thinking that, she felt a little grateful to him.

“Are you…… alright with it? That I…… deceived you.”

“I figured you had your reasons. I thought you might tell me someday. But ‘you’?”

Escalion, who had been relaxed the whole time, suddenly frowned.

What is it? What’s the problem? Belladonna widened her eyes, not knowing what was going on, and he sighed in annoyance, sweeping his hair back from his forehead.

“Don’t tell me you’ve been thinking of me as ‘you’ all along?”

What does that mean……?

“Bella, I’m not ‘you,’ I’m your husband. Now that I’ve heard your voice, I think we need to make sure you use the right term from now on.”

H, husband……? W, well, yes, but…….

“Then what should I call you…….”

“Say my name.”

“…….”

Escalion.

It was a name she had already repeated hundreds of times in her mind, but it wasn’t easy to say it out loud in front of him.

Was it because she had realized that she liked him? She felt embarrassed and awkward for no reason.

“Hurry.”

“E, Esc…….”

“Hmm?”

Escalion raised the corners of his lips and brought his face close to Belladonna’s.

Belladonna blinked rapidly, unable to come to her senses as his face came closer.

T, too close……!

“Hmm? What is it?”

Escalion urged her once more.

O, oh no……! Unable to bear it any longer, Belladonna closed her eyes tightly and blurted out,

“I, I don’t plan to speak in the future anyway!”

“What?”

“Officially, I’m a saintess who can’t speak. E, even if I get caught, I, I won’t speak in front of other people.”

“What does that have to do with me calling you by your name right now?”

T, that’s true? This unnecessarily precise person…….

“So…… I, I hope you’ll keep it a secret in the future…….”

As Belladonna muttered softly, Escalion raised one eyebrow.

“Who else knows you can speak? From what I can gather, it doesn’t seem like the Pope knows.”

“No one knows. Just the two of us…… know.”

“Who and who?”

At Escalion’s question, Belladonna closed her eyes tightly. He was a really persistent person.

Okay, let’s just say it and be done with it……!

“Me…….”

“And?”

“Escalion.”

At the whispered words, a satisfied smile spread across Escalion’s face.

“That sounds good. But Bella, what did I say you should do when I ask you for something?”

Belladonna raised her head and looked at Escalion. Escalion was tapping her cheek and smiling. Could it be…….

Escalion, confirming Belladonna’s horrified expression, smiled even more brightly and brought his face closer.

Belladonna blinked as she looked at his face coming towards her.

Th, this sly fox……!

“Come on, Bella.”

Belladonna hesitated for a moment with an aggrieved face, then grabbed his arm and raised herself on her tiptoes.

*Chu!*

An unbelievably cheerful sound rang in her ears.

“Good. Shall we go back now?”

Escalion, who had won a kiss of request from her, said with a smile in his eyes.

“Ah, no. The maid said she hasn’t bought the envelope yet. Let’s buy it together and go back.”

Ugh…… Okay, do as you please…….

Belladonna slowly nodded towards Escalion, who seemed satisfied.

She thought her face must be terribly red, and she felt even more embarrassed.

“I won’t tell anyone about today, so don’t worry.”

“…….”

“It’s not bad to make a secret just for us. Will you ever explain all the reasons to me?”

Belladonna couldn’t answer his question.

Someday…… no, before that, Belladonna had to leave him.

Escalion looked down at Belladonna, who had become silent again, and rearranged the coat he had put on her once more.

“Looks like you’ve closed your mouth like a clam again. Shall we go down then?”

Escalion, having finished tidying up, held out his large palm to her.

Belladonna stared at it for a moment, then placed her hand on top of it.

He turned and started walking.

She was completely out of her mind with the whirlwind of events.

After having her voice discovered so easily, she didn’t know what was going on.

“…….”

As she walked down the low hill, Belladonna turned her eyes and glanced at his profile.

She just wanted to sort out her thoughts in a place where no one was around, but she felt that everything had become even more complicated.

Ah, I really don’t understand at all…….

Don’T Get Caught By Your Husband! [EN]

Don’T Get Caught By Your Husband! [EN]

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[English Translation] Belladonna, the silent Saint of Astanya, finds herself trapped in a gilded cage as the Pope's only daughter. Praised for her beauty and grace, she harbors a secret: a voice she cannot use. Her husband, Escallion, grows increasingly frustrated by her silence, his dark eyes searching for a connection she fears to reveal. When a single, betraying hiccup shatters the fragile peace, Belladonna's carefully constructed world begins to crumble. Can she find her voice and escape the watchful gaze of her husband, or will her silence forever bind her to a fate she never chose? Dive into a world of secrets, unspoken desires, and the desperate struggle for freedom in 'Don't Get Caught By Your Husband!'

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