AWDC Chapter 41
by VolareKrim wanted to know everything about Salomé. Salomé also didn’t want to keep any secrets.
Her life in the capital, her family, her upbringing. However, if she talked about those things, she wouldn’t be able to keep her child a secret.
“Sir, I am a woman who left her child behind in the capital.” Salomé agonized and hesitated, but in the end, she decided to tell everything.
Krim was surprised as he watched the woman who was sobbing and confessing her past.
(Because she was a prostitute, I thought it was natural for her to have some kind of past.) But he never imagined that she had left a child in the capital.
“I am a dirty woman.”
Krim didn’t sense any lies in Salomé’s confession. She truly regretted her mistakes and was trying to tell him everything.
Krim felt sorry for Salomé, but he didn’t feel any contempt for her. On the contrary, he wanted to support her for revealing everything to him.
“You don’t have to cry anymore. Let’s talk about the future from now on.”
“The future?” Salomé thought that Krim would hate her if she told him everything. But receiving Krim’s love without telling him felt like a lie.
(I can’t live together with a lie.) She decided to tell him, even if it meant being hated.
(Samuel-sama abandoned me. And yet Krim will forgive me?)
“If possible, could you tell me everything about you, about the baby, and your family?”
Salomé cried even louder at Krim’s warm words.
“Are you saying that the baby’s father is Samuel-sama?” Krim was even more surprised.
He understood why she had come to this village so far away from the capital alone. Even though she could earn money, there was a reason why she had come alone as a woman.
He also understood her determination to go to the lord’s mansion alone and have the child acknowledged.
(But what a reckless thing to do.)
Still, he felt the strength of a mother’s love for her child in her bold actions.
Krim closed his eyes and thought for a while. He couldn’t imagine breaking up with her now.
(How can we live happily together?
Can I raise her child as my own?)
Strangely, he didn’t think about his family home.
Krim’s older brother had already taken over his family home.
(My parents won’t object to where or what kind of woman I marry.
Even if I contact my parents about the marriage, I don’t need their approval.)
(More than that, how am I going to tell the lord about this? That’s the difficult part.)
He didn’t know how the lady would react more than the lord. Would the lady, who cared so much about her son, direct her anger at Salomé, who had an illicit relationship with him?
But he couldn’t possibly keep this a secret.
“Okay, I’ve decided.” Krim could be called indecisive, but he didn’t want to show himself hesitating in front of the woman he loved.
He thought he should decide as a man.
“Eh?”
“I’ll call your child from the capital and introduce him to the lord.”
“Eh?”
“We’ll build a family with me, you, and the baby.”
“Eh?”
Salomé had only been saying “Eh?” since a while ago. That’s how surprised she was by Krim’s proposal.
She couldn’t believe Krim’s words.
“I’m a prostitute at a bar.” “I don’t care.”
“I’m a dirty woman.” “I don’t care.”
“I am…” “I don’t care!” He raised his voice at the end.
Salomé was so incredulous and happy that large tears came out.
“Then I’m too blessed.” Now her voice was filled with joy.
“I got too much!” Until just now, she had been confessing and crying, but now her tears had turned to tears of joy.
When the lord heard about his son’s relationship with Salomé, he said, “Let’s meet immediately,” and summoned Salomé to the mansion.
“Okay, be strong and tell the truth.”
In the reception room of the lord’s mansion. In a room where the servants were kept away, Krim whispered to Salomé one more time.
Salomé nodded at his words and began to speak quietly in front of the lord and his wife.
“There are no inconsistencies in what you say, but tell me more about Samuel’s characteristics.”
The lord felt that Salomé, despite being of low status and uneducated, spoke in an orderly, polite, and concise manner, showing her intelligence. He could believe this girl’s story.
“I saw a mole near Samuel-sama’s nipple on his left chest.”
Salomé answered with a bright red face. It was clear what it meant to know the naked chest of a young man. She was ashamed of saying something so suggestive.
“That must be Samuel without a doubt.”
The lord’s wife couldn’t believe that the girl in front of her had given birth to her son’s child. But the doubts disappeared when she saw that the girl clearly remembered the characteristics of her son’s body.
“Okay, I’ll tell George to bring the child from the capital.
We have to expand Krim’s house as well. I’ll tell Tom.”
“Eh, my house is sufficient as a clinic.”
“What are you saying? Can George bring a young child alone? Of course, Salomé’s parents will have to live here as well.”
The lord’s words were unexpected for both of them.
“It’s difficult to raise a child without experienced parents.
I also have to thank the parents for raising my grandchild with care.
More than anything, we want to see our grandchild’s face soon.”
The lord said cheerfully while looking at his wife.
At those words, Salomé’s happy tears could be heard again.