The General's Wife Wants to Leave
Chapter 265: Found an exception

Chapter 265: Found an exception

Back in her bedroom, Joanna curled up on the bed, holding a hot water bottle and pressing it against her stomach in an effort to relieve the cramp that intensified with time.

Sitting on the edge of the bed next to her was Bianca, who busily rubbed her back with gentle pressure applied, hoping that gentle massage would help her ease the pain.

Seeing her young lady in her current condition, where she curled up on the bed with her eyes closed and a crease appeared between her brows, which showed that she was enduring the pain, mixed feelings grew inside Bianca.

She remembered how aghast she was this morning when she found her young lady’s bedroom vacant. She found her nowhere in every nook and cranny of her room, not even in her bathroom.

It was a situation that she had never faced before. During the time she lived under the same roof with her young lady, which had been over a decade, she had always found her in her room every morning when it was time to wake up from her rest.

There was never a day she found her bed empty, as her young lady would wait for her to help her to start the day by lying or sitting on the bed.

To make sure how long she had left her room, Bianca touched the surface of the bed, which, from one glance, she could say that the bed had been occupied before, as the blanket was unfolded and pulled up. The sheet was slightly crumpled.

Under her palm, she felt the coldness of the surface of the bed, but she could not tell how long it had been left without being occupied. She did not know when her young lady had left her room.

Since their departure to the capital, she had no longer been able to carry out her daily routine diligently, a routine that she had long done during autumn and winter. A routine where she had to come to her young lady’s room before the dawn, as she needed to check if the flame in the fireplace was still alive. And she had to skip that routine a few times because of none other than the presence of her young lady’s husband in the same room as her.

She thought the routine would return to its pre-existing state once they were back from the capital and her young lady was back to sleeping alone in her room. Nonetheless, surprisingly, last night, before she left her young lady’s room after she attended to her daily nighttime routine as usual, her young lady told her to not carry out such a routine anymore.

She convinced her by saying that she could add the log of wood herself if she felt the room was lacking warmth. She had argued but could not do that any longer since her hardheaded young lady sternly insisted on that, asking her to sleep peacefully in her room until the morning came instead. Hence, she obliged without certainly knowing the reason behind that order.

So many thoughts of possibilities ran wildly in her mind at that moment when she had no idea where her young lady had gone to. Her heart beat so fast out of anxiety in her chest. Nonetheless, after calming her nerves and pushing aside the panic that rushed over her mind, she could think clearly and feel her gut tell her where her young lady was and where she had spent her time to sleep if she really did not sleep on her bed all night.

To her, it was highly impossible for outsiders to infiltrate the place where the security was overly stringent, particularly after the horrifying incident that had happened to her young lady in the capital.

Knowing very well how her master loved his children dearly, she believed that there would only be a minuscule chance or none for a rat to enter or escape his family’s dwelling place, a place that he had managed to make the safest place for them to settle in. That fact alone made the possibility of her young lady being abducted very low.

The other thought that might be possible to appear in others’ thoughts but not hers was that her young lady might sleep in the room of the guests that were now visiting her master’s residence, remembering they had not seen each other for a long time. But Bianca knew very well that it would never happen because her young lady preferred to sleep in her own room and bed.

No matter how much she enjoyed someone’s company, including her cousins, who were of course the same gender as her, she would never go to sleep with them either in her room or their room. Because she never invited them to sleep in her room and would decline their requests to sleep in their rooms.

Yet it seemed that now her young lady had found an exception, and that exception was none other than her own husband.

Bianca wanted to make sure that she guessed right and wanted to prove it before everything was too late. She had planned that if her young lady was not with her husband, she would immediately report to her master about her young lady’s disappearance. Hence, she hastily went to the room where her young lady’s husband was supposed to stay.

With immense worry, she knocked on the door, highly hoping that she would get a positive answer.

The one who welcomed her was her young lady’s husband, who opened the door not long after she knocked, and he appeared in his sleeping attire, looking aloof, which was different from when he interacted with her young lady.

Gingerly, she asked if her young lady was with him, and soon she could breathe in relief when the answer she received was the answer that she had highly expected.

The next words she heard that were added by the General almost immediately were that her young lady was still sleeping soundly. It was enough of a hint for Bianca to not ask about anything further, let alone ask him to wake her up. And it was a hint for her to not disturb them any longer.

With the thought of understanding, Bianca excused herself and left her young lady and her husband to sleep as long as they wanted to.

Before heading back to her young lady’s room, as she planned to wait for her there, aside from carrying out her morning routine, which was preparing her young lady’s morning stuff and cleaning up her room, she went to tell her master about the absence of her young lady at the family breakfast.

She was sure that it would happen based on the remaining time that gave a limited opportunity for her young lady to get prepared if she happened to wake up right at that time. And she had to tell her master if she did not want to make him worry and reprimand her if he was not informed beforehand.

The reason she conveyed was that her young lady was still asleep, as she seemed to be fatigued and needed prolonged rest. What she did not elaborate on was her young lady’s whereabouts because her master did not ask about that, as he definitely thought that his daughter slept in her room.

It was fortunate that her master did not ask too much for the detail about that matter. He seemed to relate to her young lady’s countenance on the previous day, on which she looked pale and tired. He only asked her to remind his daughter to have breakfast or brunch in her room once she woke up, which she would for sure do, as she personally did not want her young lady to skip the morning meals.

Another reminder that was given by her master was to call a doctor to examine his daughter if she happened to fall sick, which she really hoped she would not need to do, as above all what she wanted was her young lady to not fall sick but stay healthy and bright.

Yet after waiting for more than two hours, she found her hope of her young lady being healthy almost collapsed when, through the door of her room that she left open, she caught sight of her young lady appearing but being carried by her husband and wrapped in a thick blanket.

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