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"Lucius..."

Eleanor was trembling as she called out for me. Turning my head to her direction, I noticed that she look quite pale. Her eyes were beginning to water as she kept staring at mine.

"Are you okay? You look pale today...?" I asked about what was happening to her with a genuine look of concern. This is the first time I saw her like this, so I'm still confused about what was currently happening.

Swallowing her saliva, Eleanor raised something from her hands and showed it to me. She pointed her finger towards it and replied, "It's positive... I'm pregnant with your child, Lucius..."

Seeing her lower her head to avoid my gaze, it took me a few seconds to process about what I've just heard.

By the time, I understood what was happening, I also noticed some small plastic when I turned my head towards the bed. I promptly went to it's direction and picked it up before scrutinizing it very quickly.

"...Fuck"

Reading what the product is called, I bit my lower lips and forced a smile.

𝘓𝘶𝘤𝘪𝘶𝘴... 𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘥𝘪𝘥𝘯'𝘵 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘣𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘰𝘯 𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘤*𝘯𝘥𝘰𝘮!!!

Immediately, I clutched my hands tightly into a fist and destroyed the small pack of c*ndom that was on my hand.

Inhaling, I pinched the middle of my brows in contempt and thought, 𝘚𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘭... 𝘐'𝘮 𝘨𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦 𝘢 𝘧𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳... 𝘞𝘢𝘪𝘵, 𝘪𝘴 𝘧𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘥? 𝘐'𝘮 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘺 𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘓𝘶𝘤𝘪𝘶𝘴 𝘣𝘰𝘥𝘺... 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘧𝘦𝘦𝘭𝘴 𝘵𝘰𝘰 𝘸𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘨!!

Now, you might probably wondering about on how the actual fuck did this happen in the first place. Well, I don't really remember the full details, but let's back ourselves a little bit.

After the beach episode from the other day, when we got home, they decided to stay at my apartment to eat some food Eleanor will be cooking.

"The heck. Are you his wife or something?" Athan teased as he crossed his arms and glanced at Eleanor's direction.

Dianne was also staring at her direction, covering her mouth to prevent her laugh from escaping.

Eleanor, who was now putting on her pink apron, deliberately ignored his words and tried to hide her embarrassment by not looking at our direction.

Upon seeing her like this, I forcefully tried my best to remain calm by hiding my emotions from my indifferent-looking facade. She was too damn cute!

While Athan continued his teasing, Dianne suddenly let out a short yet deep sigh before speaking, "I guess this is fine as well..." She said, "Oh yeah, Ellie, are you going to apply once again on college next year?"

Hearing this, Eleanor suddenly flinched and abruptly stopped from cutting some onions that was on the cutting board.

As for me, when I heard her question, I turned my head to Dianne's direction before asking, "What do you mean by apply to college next year? Didn't you guys just graduated a month ago?"

While I was asking her this question, I suddenly felt some unknown force waking up inside me.

Dianne just gave me a straight look in the eyes before giving an answer. She tilted her head and replied, "Didn't she told you already? THAT she failed on graduating?"

Eleanor, who had been silent as Dianne spoke, began continuing to cut the onions from earlier before placing some cooking oil on the pan.

"What do you mean by failed...?" I asked as I secretly glanced at Eleanor's direction.

"Uhh... You didn't know?"

I shook my head as a reply.

When she saw this, her expression suddenly stiffened before saying, "I see... Why don't you ask Eleanor about this after we eat."

I nodded.

Soon after that, the whole room became silent as we all waited for Eleanor to finish cooking.

After she was finally done, all of us ate our fill. When all of us were done eating, Dianne and Athan left my room and decided to move on Athan's apartment to have a chat and do their business.

When the two of us were finally alone, I took a deep breath and let the force (real Lucius) take over me. I wasn't sure why I was doing this, but I guess that this is the best I choice I only have. I can't just let myself interfere about everything because the system might force me to regress... And I'm sure that this will be a problem since I've stayed in this world for who knows how long enough.

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Beside that, it seems like my progress is moving smoothly.

Before Eleanor could began her explanation, I let my consciousness fade by closing my eyes and letting Lucius handle everything... I guess I have to train myself for this since I'll be doing this a lot in the future.

After thinking of that, my consciousness finally passed out.

There's no need to explain what happened next because the next thing I knew, I woke up in the morning while naked in bed... Damn, that escalated quickly.

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Now, back to the present.

"It's positive... I'm pregnant with your child, Lucius..."

Eleanor repeated as she secretly raised her head slightly to take a glance at his expression. She soon lowered her head once again when she noticed Lucius turning his head to her direction.

She was pregnant.

It was because of this that she was stressing out internally. She didn't know what Lucius would say to her; will he be happy? Or was he going to throw her out and leave her.

Although she had spent a month with him, and never once he treated her like when she was with her mother, Eleanor still fears that she might get discarded later.

Lucius is one of the most richest man in the world. She knew that he had the power to do anything that he wanted to do to her and her little brother.

𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘢 𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘦... 𝘞𝘩𝘺 𝘥𝘪𝘥 𝘐 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘥𝘪𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘵 𝘯𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵? 𝘐𝘵'𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘮𝘺 𝘧𝘢𝘶𝘭𝘵... She began criticizing herself internally, that she bit her lower lips until she tasted a metallic taste from her mouth.

*Step Step Step*

She heard a sound of footsteps coming towards her direction.

"I..."

Eleanor couldn't properly raise her head to look at him straight.

When Lucius was a meter away from her, he stopped.

"Huuu...." He exhaled his breathes and knelt his body a little until he reached her height. His height is 6' 6, it's a bit higher for a 5' 7. So, he had to do it in order to look at her face to face.

Eleanor remained with her head lowered as she waited for him to say something, do something... anything he wanted to do to her.

Just when she had decided to resign to her fate, unexpectedly, she felt a gentle touch from her head.

Raising her head slightly, she was surprised- no, shocked from what she was seeing.

"I can't be sure if I'm going to be a great father..." Lucius, with a reddened face, couldn't help but scratch his cheeks out of embarrassment.

As for Eleanor, when saw this, she slowly raised her hands and used it to cover her mouth.

Straightening his back, Lucius turned his back to her and continued, "I'm only 23, I don't even know how to deal with childrens since it was my nanny that took care of me after my mother's death, not that stupid old man... Still..."

He let out a fake cough before saying, "I'll still try my best to become a great father figure for our child... Although I don't know how, I'll just try asking some famous people I knew for advice..."

Heaving out a sigh, Lucius turned around once again to face her and patted her head gently. He said, "Don't worry, I'll take responsibility of taking care of you and our baby."

Upon hearing, this Eleanor looked at him in the eyes as she began to tear up.

"Ah..."

Before she could even say something, Lucius reached out for her hands and continued, "And also, to lessen your worries about your little brother that was currently with your mother, I'll ask someone else to take him away, so that we can file to take full custody of him in the court."

Suddenly, when Eleanor heard this, she hugged him and cried in his shoulder.

"We can't let some untrustworthy someone to take care of him. Who knows what your mother will do after she finds out about this." Mumbling this, Lucius stroked her hair gently.

As for Eleanor, her hug became tighter. She then buried her face to his neck as her tears continues to fall off her face.

She was smiling from the bottom of her heart. Her expression was probably terribly awkward, but she couldn't care less about that right now.

Eleanor always try her best to make things better. Even if she was hurt, she'd always had a false facade of smile to hide her real feelings. She couldn't care less about herself. That's why, in order for her to save the company his father had founded left for her and his little brother, she was determined to sacrifice her happiness just for this that led her direction to Lucius.

The first time she saw Lucius, for some reason, she felt that he felt lonely... The shine in his eyes looked dead, it was as if he didn't care about anything any more.

She did everything that he asked for. On the first month, although he was cold to her, he didn't try to force himself to her and would only talk to her when needed.

On the second month, her virginity was finally taken. Although she was supposed to be saving that for Athan, after finding out that she already had a girlfriend... Well, let just say that her emotions go the best out of her that ended at costing her virginity.

From then, their sexual contact had started.

On every week, they pretty much had contact in 1 to 2 times. To her, it was good since he didn't force her to do it whenever she didn't wanted.

When the seventh month started, Lucius suddenly changed. She didn't know why or how, but she felt like he wasn't himself. Though, she ignored this as the days continued.

Two weeks had passed since after the day he suddenly changed and not even once Lucius touched her.

She felt that it was weird at first, but felt a bit happy soon after, but... She felt lonely for some reason.

"Maybe, he was finally tired using me as stress reliever..." That was the only answer that she could think of.

Did he even once think of her as his stress reliever?

She really didn't know the answer to this after hearing what he said when his brother showed up and tried to hurt her, she finally understood what he was thinking.

He liked her...

Since when? She didn't know, nor did she planned on finding out.

Right now, Eleanor decided that just this once...

Thinking about every sacrifices she made up until now in order for her to reach this direction, she had one thought in her mind.

Just this once, why can't she try being greedy?

***

After Eleanor left my room to go back to her apartment, I got in the bathroom and took a shower.

As the water began dripping down on my body, I thought about what happened earlier.

"I guess she didn't expect me to take responsibility about the baby..." I heaved out a deep sigh as I quickly finished my business in the bathroom before getting out.

*Ring! Ring!*

Hearing the notification from my phone, I went towards to it and reached out my hands to pick it up.

*[Ding!]*

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When my hand was about to reach it, I heard a loud notification inside my head.

Seeing this, I clicked my tongue and answered the call.

Before the caller could even say something, I spoke up.

"What's the correct estimation before the machine I told you about to be finished?"