THIBV - Chapter 121

Forensic investigators stormed into Winston's mansion to search Penelope's belongings.

Bridget, who had personally opened the Winston mansion, watched indifferently as the investigators trashed the entire mansion.

During the chaos, Isaac was crying and holding onto the investigators.

"Our Eli, please find Eli! Eli is missing, yes? The baby is missing!"

On the day Penelope was locked up In the prison, her nanny ran away in the middle of the night with the baby...

Isaac tried to find the nanny and the baby by stamping his feet, but he couldn't find anyone because he had no cash on hand.

So that's why he was doing this to the useless court investigators.

"Penelope, that wicked woman must have been up to some trick! Yes?"

Isaac visited the Hudson Count's mansion several times just in case. However, just like his nanny, Count Hudson disappeared without a trace with his wife as soon as Penelope was locked up in the prison.

This was because the House of Weatherby reported that Count Hudson was falsely claiming the title and that he had been given the title by false pretenses to the royal family of the Kingdom of Lumion.

Isaac grabbed each investigator and whined at them, but when no one batted an eye, he finally lost his temper.

"You're part of the judiciary! Is it your job to help people like me who have been wronged?"

"Please ask the police about that. We only investigate cases related to the trial. Please step aside."

Then Isaac lay on the floor, flailing his arms and legs.

"Please find him! Someone find my son! Even the police aren't listening! Aaaah!"

Penelope's misdeeds were chronicled in gossip papers and distributed throughout the country.

The police did not want to get involved in a complicated case Involving the King, his government, his government's husband, and his mistress.

Who would applaud them for finding that wicked Penelope's baby?

People didn't even think about the baby's position and didn't feel sorry for Penelope's baby when he disappeared. They were imposing social guilt on the child without even realizing it.

Bridget was glad that the baby the nanny had taken was not Penelope's real baby, but the nanny's own son.

"Yes, there's no way Count Hudson would have taken care of the child while he was running away in the middle of the night. Bridget! Did you happen to hide Eli? Please... If that's the case, please give him back, okay?"

Isaac, who was going half-mad, clung to Bridget's skirt this time with a face covered in tears and snot.

"Even if you kidnapped him, if you just give him back, I'll pretend it never happened. Yes. What crime did the child commit, right? Fine. If you don't like him that much, you don't have to register him. I'll just raise her as my Illegitimate child. Just let me see him. No, no. Just let me know that he's doing well. Yes? Bridget!"

Bridget frowned.

Then, reacting to her discomfort, Kami reached out from the shadows and flicked Isaac away with two fingers.

"Ah!"

Even with Kami's light gesture, Isaal rolled over and crashed into the opposite wall.

"Isaac, I didn't know you could love a child this much. This is really unexpected."

Isaac was lying face down against the wall, sobbing.

"Eli... Huh!"

Bridget clicked her tongue.

"Do you really think that child is yours? Then why did the nanny run away with someone else's child? Did you really think that child was yours when you saw that the child's face looked exactly like the nanny's?"

Isaac blinked.

"Come on! Don't try to cause trouble between Eli and me with those weird words. Since the child spends more time with the nanny, it's only natural that he would resemble her... Ugh! I should've shown my face more! Sob sob!"

"It's really pathetic."

Isaac, who had been searching for Eli for several days, rolled around on the floor, shedding tears as if he had no more energy.

Isaac was still hateful and repulsive, but there was something sad about crying over the loss of a child.

Bridget impulsively looked at Isaac.

"If Eli were a daughter, would you have looked for her like you did now?"

"Elijah is a boy! My precious boy! I knew he was a boy since he was in Penelope's womb. I had a feeling. I had a feeling that a son would be born who would look just like me! Why would you make such a meaningless assumption?"

"..."

Bridget, feeling very sorry, turned away from Isaac and approached the investigators, asking if there had been any progress.

Isaac was certain that Bridget had had his nanny kidnap Eli.

But every time he approached Bridget, he was blocked by the black knight and couldn't get any closer. He shouted from afar.

"Give me back Eli,  Bridget!!"

***

The court investigators eventually found Hargulis poison in Penelope's possession.

Bridget, who had managed to get hold of one of them with great difficulty, wrapped it in a handkerchief so that it did not touch her skin and placed it in front of Charlotte.

Charlotte tightly closed her eyes as she carefully observed the size, color, and shape of the poison made of a ring.

"I hoped it wasn't true. It seems like it was my father's doing."

Charlotte had seen this poison several times in the past.

It was something the Duke of Linchester used secretly when he was having affairs with his mistresses.

Charlotte had once put it in his mistress's teas at her father's direction.

It happened when he was young, and he was scared when he realized later how he had been used.

Charlotte bit her lip.

"Maybe I can't have children because of my past karma."

The concentrated Ingredients of Hargulis not only affected the Duke's mistresses but also passed through the hands of young Charlotte and affected her as well.

The doctor said that the cause of Charlotte's repeated miscarriages was unknown, but Charlotte thought that Hargulis was the cause...

But she couldn't lose hope and kept trying to get pregnant, and now she can't even hope.

"It makes sense. With these hands, I destroyed babies who had never seen the light of day, so how could I possibly hold my own baby in my arms? I was always anxious and afraid. I resented my father."

"It's not Mrs. Highbury's fault. Whoever took advantage of an innocent child and made them commit a crime deserves to be punished."

Charlotte nodded with a bitter smile.

"Father must be punished too. Now, how can I help you?"

Charlotte could not forgive her father. Even if it was not necessarily revenge, he deserved to be punished.

With that thought and determination, she became Bridget's witness and officially broke off ties with the Duke of Linchester.

As a result, the young nobles who had followed the Count of Highbury collapsed, and many of them joined the New Royalist faction.

Bridget suggested.

"I am trying to leak information to the court Investigators that this poison came from the Duke of Linchester. Would you be willing to testify at Penelope's new trial?"

"Yes. I know where my father keeps his books and other stuff."

Yes.

Bridget felt close to her goal.

Bridget's original goal was to lure the Duke of Linchester out of his hole by baiting him with Penelope...

However, it was Penelope herself who acted meanly and frivolously and willingly became the bait.

'Now that I've told her that her nurse has run away, Penelope will feel betrayed and bring up the Duke of Linchester's name at her trial."

Julian prepared to cast the net in front, while Brigitte dug a trap behind.

The moment the Duke of Linchester appears on trial, Julian will expose all the corruption he has collected about him. That was Bridget's plan.

"Things seem to be working out faster and easier than expected... but, well, that's not a bad thing."

She had thought that dealing with the Duke of Linchester would be a bit more difficult, so she felt a bit uneasy about the situation going too smoothly.

'So we've ruled out every variable as much as we can. Let's go ahead and proceed without worrying too much.'

As Bridget was trying to console herself, Charlotte happened to bring up a different subject.

"I mean, Penelope Hudson's baby..."

Charlotte hesitated and then asked with difficulty.

"Will Mrs. Winston take her?"

Penelope's daughter was now living with the Count of Highbury.

That's why Bridget asked me to take care of her homeless baby in the past.

"Do you intend to give the baby to Viscount Winston? Of course, I know It is right to reveal the truth and return. the baby to its birth father, but..."

Charlotte's voice trembled slightly. She looked at Bridget pitifully.

"My husband and I have been very attached to the child for a few days. Of course, It may be unpleasant for Mrs. Winston. I completely understand that you may feel resentful, as the child was born from your husband's mistress. However..."

Bridget shook her head and smiled.

"I won't have any trouble. I brought her here in the first place because I wanted to leave the baby with Mrs. Highbury."

"Really?"

"Neither Isaac nor Penelope are worthy to hold that child."

It would be better for the innocent baby if qualified people become parents.

Bridget had no intention of letting her hatred for Penelope and Isaac spill over onto her newborn baby.

"Please be parents who are like a gift to that baby."

Charlotte was overjoyed and thanked Bridget several times.

'If Isaac knew the truth that his child was a daughter, he might not be as sad as he is now.'

So the truth about the baby was left buried forever. The baby was now the Count and Countess of Highbury's baby.

Isaac will never know what punishment Bridget inflicted on him.

Of course, this is not the end.

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