Revenge Costs Interest [EN]: Chapter 165

Revenge Has Interest 165

165. I Was Prepared to Die.

2024.01.12.

Leah considered how to explain it to Terrun, then took his hand and placed it on her belly. She had been feeling faint movements for a while now.

It was as if the little ones in her belly knew their father was here; they had been moving constantly since Terrun opened his eyes.

“Feel it, Terrun.”

“!?”

Terrun, without knowing why, kept his eyes on Leah’s face and his hand on her belly. Then, he felt something thumping against his hand.

“What is this?”

“Take a guess?”

“Could it be a tumor? A living, moving mass of cancer?”

Terrun’s face darkened again. Leah, on the other hand, was dumbfounded.

She wasn’t expecting a rapturous reaction, but a living tumor?

“It’s our baby.”

Leah barely managed to lower her voice, stopping herself from shouting.

“What are you talking about? You were clearly taking birth control pills……?”

“I wasn’t.”

“What?”

Terrun was in a state of confusion for a while and couldn’t easily snap out of it.

Vivian had said that taking the pills for a long time would lower the chances of getting pregnant.

“When did you stop taking them?”

“It’s been a while. I stopped taking them the moment I realized that the pills you and the Empress were giving me were contraceptives.”

“That’s……!”

“I know.”

Tears fell from Leah’s eyes.

At the time, she understood Terrun, but it was hard to hold back her anger.

“I also thought I wouldn’t be able to get pregnant. And I resented you and the Empress for making me that way.”

“Is that why you left my side?”

“Yes, I needed time. Time to hate you as much as I wanted for doing such cruel things to me, and time to inevitably understand you in the end.”

At Leah’s words, Terrun covered his head with his hands. What should he say? How could he explain it to make her understand?

No, from the start, their differences were so great that no matter how hard they tried, it would be difficult to fully understand each other’s feelings.

“What’s left for me if I lose you?”

“Terrun, please don’t say such desperate things……!”

“I was afraid of being left alone with you and the child.”

So, he believed that even if he was criticized and cursed for the rest of his life, it was better to give up the child than to lose Leah.

“Terrun, I have something to tell you. You might not believe what I’m about to say, but please listen to me until the end. That way, you’ll understand why I can’t give up the child.”

Leah decided that it was time to reveal the truth to Terrun.

She wanted Terrun’s child, but it was also a way to repay Grace.

“I’m not Grace Vizak.”

Leah believed she had dropped a very powerful bomb on Terrun.

She was worried about how shocked and horrified he would be… Even as she spoke, she was anxious. After saying it herself, she lowered her head and couldn’t look at him.

“I know.”

“Yes? What did you just say?”

Leah was even more surprised by Terrun’s calm tone. She trembled as if she had heard something she shouldn’t have.

“That you’re Leah Hamilton…….”

“Oh my God!”

Leah almost screamed if she hadn’t covered her mouth with her hand.

“Don’t ask me how I knew. I won’t ask you anything either. The important thing is that the woman I love is the person in front of me right now. Whether you’re Grace Vizak or Leah Hamilton, it doesn’t matter. You are more precious than my life or my child.”

Terrun held Leah’s trembling hand tightly and said.

“Grace, don’t risk your life to give birth to the child. No, let’s give up even now.”

It was a very sad and miserable thing to say, but he had no choice in order to protect her.

It was almost impossible to give birth in Grace Vizak’s body.

“I can’t do that. I promised Grace. I promised to give birth to Terrun’s child.”

Leah desperately clung to Terrun.

“Grace said that her uterus is weak and can cause excessive bleeding during childbirth. You almost died just from a miscarriage! I don’t want to go through that nightmare again.”

“No, there’s a way. Dr. Karen said she can do it. It’s impossible in Lubeck, but it’s a common method in Lomerica [Likely a fictional country, perhaps analogous to America].”

Of course, Karen had never said that much.

She had exaggerated her words to persuade Terrun. But even so, her will would not change.

“Vivian’s doctors are the best. How can some country doctor do what they can’t?”

Looking at Terrun, who was getting angry, Leah couldn’t bring herself to say that it was twins.

But there was no need to be afraid without reason. If she had wanted to avoid childbirth because she was afraid, she wouldn’t have come this far.

“No matter what Terrun says, I won’t give up. Our children…. I will definitely give birth to them.”

Leah said in a firm tone. But Terrun’s expression worsened.

“Our children?”

“T-Twins.”

“What? Twins!”

Terrun put his hand on his forehead and paced around the room.

She was already struggling with just being pregnant, but now she was carrying two children. Leah quickly got up and hugged Terrun’s waist.

“Can’t you bless us? They are your and my children.”

Only then did Terrun hug Leah tightly.

He wanted to feel that they were together, burying his face in her hair, which he had always missed.

“Grace, it’s too dangerous. I’m also upset and heartbroken. But the child is not more precious than you.”

“Terrun!”

Leah pushed Terrun’s chest with all her might and stepped away from him.

She walked as far away from him as possible and shouted.

“Listen carefully. If you tell me to give up the children, I will die in front of you!”

She cried out to Terrun with the feeling that it was her last chance.

To kill the twins wriggling in her belly just to save her own life? It would be hard to live with a sound mind for the rest of her life.

Leah took out a gun from the drawer next to her.

“Grace, put that down!”

Terrun shouted fiercely, but she didn’t care.

Instead, she put the gun to her head and threatened him.

“Don’t treat me carelessly just because you love me. Giving birth to a child is clearly my will and my right.”

“I understand, so put the gun down. Please!”

Terrun regretted it terribly. He shouldn’t have condoned it when Leah stole the gun from his drawer.

“Are you serious?”

“Who can stop you? You’re a woman who will do whatever you want no matter what.”

Terrun approached Leah and grabbed the gun in her hand.

“Dr. Karen’s theory better be convincing.”

He decided not to tell Leah to give up the child anymore.

Because he knew she wouldn’t give up.

Leah shed tears of joy and wrapped her arms around Terrun’s neck.

“Terrun, trust me. I will never give up, even for you and our children.”

Leah kissed Terrun to stop him from saying anything more.

In a long-awaited kiss, the two eagerly explored each other’s lips.

* * *

The four of them sat around the table and raised their glasses in celebration.

Luke and Sarah had naturally expected them to reconcile, so they went out to buy groceries for a small party.

“How did you know?”

Terrun was surprised by the food on the table and asked Sarah.

“We can’t stop the young lady. You don’t know how stubborn she is.”

“I agree.”

“Congratulations, young lady. Please have a safe delivery!”

Luke raised his glass first and congratulated Leah.

“Thank you, Luke.”

“The young lady will definitely do it.”

“I would have given up if it was impossible. Dr. Karen gave me courage by saying there was a way.”

Leah wanted to reassure Terrun once again at this gathering. Honestly, it wasn’t a lie.

If Karen had said it couldn’t be done, she would have tried to save herself. But the problem was how Terrun would accept the cesarean section.

“Grace, how are you going to give birth?”

Terrun wanted to know at least roughly.

He would hear a detailed explanation from Dr. Karen tomorrow, but it would be better than going in completely blind.

“Listen to it yourself. I’m not confident in explaining it well.”

If she said something wrong, Terrun would spend the whole night awake.

In fact, tomorrow was more of a problem. Even she was very surprised and puzzled when she first heard Karen’s words.

“Are you using the wheelchair to avoid straining your body?”

Terrun had wanted to ask all along.

“That’s right.”

At Leah’s answer, Terrun said nothing. He had a serious expression as if he was worried.

“Why?”

“If you’re in a wheelchair, it’s impossible to go back to Lubeck by ship. I think we’ll have to give birth here.”

Now that he had decided to have the baby, Terrun’s mind was filled with nothing but that.

* * *

Terrun was the one who pushed Leah’s wheelchair into the hospital.

Leah wasn’t surprised because she had heard it many times, but Terrun didn’t even breathe at Karen’s explanation.

“Are you saying that you cut open the belly and then cut open the uterus to take out the baby?”

“That’s right.”

“How many successful cases have there been?”

“I’ve done it about three times and they were all successful. In Lomerica…….”

“You’ve only done it three times?”

Terrun’s reaction was becoming increasingly skeptical.

“It’s difficult for even ordinary pregnant women to give birth naturally with twins. So the only way is…….”

As Karen was about to say more, Terrun raised his hand to stop her.

Terrun was dizzy just imagining it. It wasn’t the first time he had heard about cutting open the belly and taking out the baby, but he knew that it was a very difficult surgery because anesthesia was not yet developed.

He couldn’t give her strong liquor and cut open her belly like in the Middle Ages. The very idea of putting a knife to Leah’s fragile body was hard to accept.

“Are you proficient in anesthesia?”

For the first time at Terrun’s question, Karen couldn’t answer. She had written a letter to Lomerica, but there was no news.

“I’m looking for an anesthesiologist.”

Karen said honestly.

“Is that the only problem that needs to be solved?”

Leah asked instead of the frustrated Terrun.

“That’s right, Miss Grace.”