Beast King's Crippled Mate-Chapter 234: A Husband’s Excitement

"PREGNANT?!"

Gale’s voice thundered inside the castle. It was so loud that half of the castle probably heard it. He couldn’t hide his shock, and the little bit of hope hidden in his heart exploded as he had been waiting for such a miracle to happen.

"My wife is pregnant? Are you sure?! How can you be sure? Tell me how to detect my baby! What will happen to my wife now?!" Gale barraged the doctor with countless questions as he could barely suppress his excitement.

The doctor was overwhelmed and stammered in his reply, "M-m-my apologies, Your Majesty. But I am a beastman doctor who only knows how to handle sickness and disease suffered by fellow beastmen. I do not know how to fully treat a sickly human, nor diagnose a female human for her pregnancy."

"Then, I will find a human doctor. Surely, they know how to check her pregnancy, right?" Gale decisively said. "You should wait here for a moment, Sweetheart. I’ll find a human doctor from the Holy Achate to check on you!"

"Y-Your Majesty, I think you shouldn’t be too rash..." the doctor tried to stop him.

"Why not? My wife is pregnant!"

"I—" the doctor knew that the Beast King must’ve been excited because they had been waiting for an offspring for a while now. At the same time he didn’t want to make the Queen of Beasts sad if his diagnosis was proven to be a false alarm.

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"Your Majesty, I suggest you call Matoa, the miracle doctor instead," the doctor advised. "He has a vast knowledge from various fields, so he must’ve been able to make a correct diagnosis for her pregnancy. Her Majesty’s pregnancy is unique. She might be the very first female human to get pregnant by a beastman since we are technically an entirely different species from humans."

"If you call a human doctor, they probably can give a correct diagnosis, but they wouldn’t be informed about a certain factor like the seed that fertilizes Her Majesty’s womb, which is the Beast King’s seed."

Gale clicked his tongue. He got annoyed because what the doctor said was reasonable. It was true that Swan might’ve been the very first female human to get pregnant with a beastman’s child, so it wasn’t right to just call a human doctor.

Swan needed a doctor who was capable of both factoring his gene as a beastman and Swan’s gene as a human.

And the person who could do that was Matoa, the miracle doctor.

Gale didn’t want to make a mistake when the matter concerned his wife and his future child.

"Alright, I will find that old doctor. But you should still give my wife a medicine or two to help her alleviate her morning sickness," Gale instructed as he began to calm down. Only he knew that beneath his calm facade, both his heart and mind were in chaos as he began thinking about so many things in the far future regarding his wife and their cubs.

Meanwhile, the doctor prescribed some medicines for Swan before excusing himself.

"I’ll go and dispatch all my scouts and Blaze Silverfang to find Matoa. That old doctor often goes on random trips somewhere far away to find medicine. I need him to be here by noon," Gale murmured as he put Swan on the bed and let the cat maids serve her breakfast.

Swan looked at her husband and called her, "Husband..."

"Yes?"

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Swan’s lips thinned as she wanted to say that they shouldn’t call Matoa, because she was afraid that Matoa would say she was just ill, not pregnant.

She also wanted to say that it was better to just wait and see if she would get a baby bump later. It was better to shoot down any expectations before she got disappointed again.

’Gale, you shouldn’t get too excited. What if this is not a baby? Maybe I’m just sick, or maybe it’s just a false sign. I don’t know if we can ever have babies of our own.’

Those words were stuck in Swan’s head as she wanted to keep the expectation low.

Contrary to her gloomy atmosphere, Gale could barely hold his smile. He was like a kid about to get his present, so Swan didn’t have the heart to say what was on her mind, knowing it would only hurt him.

Swan decided to keep her opinion to herself and prepare for the worst in case she wasn’t pregnant.

She smiled at her husband and shook her head, "Nothing. Please return after you’re done dispatching the scouts to find Matoa, alright? This morning is a little too cold for me."

"Definitely! I need to protect you and our cub!" Gale said as he jumped from the window to get to the castle ground quicker.

Swan sighed as she drank ginger tea and ate a piece of bread to start her breakfast. It was really difficult to eat anything for breakfast these days, and the thought of Matoa telling her that she wasn’t pregnant made her lose her appetite almost immediately.

She put down the bread and sighed for the second time.

"Cheer up, Princess. Isn’t it good that there is a chance of you getting pregnant? That means nobody will dare to ever talk behind your back anymore!" Myra said.

"Yes, isn’t it better? We—the beastmen—also want to have our little lord or lady run around the castle!" Maya added while closing the window.

"Of course, the idea sounds nice. I just don’t know if it can come true," Swan muttered. "I have this gut feeling about being pregnant at first. I’ve been desperately trying to hide it because I’m scared. If Matoa comes and tells me that I can never get pregnant with Gale’s cub, then I might as well end my life."

"PRINCESS!" The cat maids yelled in unison. "Please don’t say that in front of His Majesty. He might get angry!"

Swan chuckled, "Of course, I won’t ever say such a thing in front of him. It’s just a passing thought, don’t worry about it."

As Swan sipped her tea again, the door was knocked, and the cat maids opened the door.

Swan saw Long Xiurong’s new attendant bowing in front of her and said, "Your Majesty, Lady Long asked if she could meet you today. She said it is urgent."