“Today… I don’t think you should overdo it,” Aven said in a suppressed voice, obviously controlling his breathing.
Seira tightened her hug and said, “Just stay next to me. You were going to sit in a chair and stay up all night anyway.”
Aven raised his head and their eyes met. As her mysterious purple eyes fluttered leisurely at him, Aven gazed at her without moving, as if time itself had stopped for the two of them.
After a long while, he finally gave her an answer, “All right.”
At last, she let go of his neck and opened the blankets as if inviting him over. Seeing her in thin lingerie, he looked down and asked, “May I change my clothes?”
“Okay, go ahead,” Seira nodded.
She glanced at his hand as she watched him leave the bedroom. He definitely looked like he wasn’t in his normal body state, as it was impossible to tell if the pulse that was wildly beating under the palm of his hand was because of her.
After some time, Aven quietly opened her door without knocking and came in. Seira had been waiting with wide eyes, and she pulled back the blanket as she did earlier. Aven sighed silently as the two of them searched for their comfortable spots next to each other.
“Don’t we look like a married couple by doing this?” Seira joked.
“A married couple…” he repeated as if thinking.
“Yes, a wife that seduced her bored husband.”
“I don’t think you could say that I am a bored husband like that.”
Seira only smiled and did not answer.
The two of them spent most of their days together and discussed the family’s affairs no matter how big or small. It has been three years since they shared a bed, and it did look like they were a couple. But no matter what they felt for each other, they never looked at another Alpha or Omega.
But even though Aven’s arms were so comfortable, and his pheromone smelled the sweetest in the world, she was now forced to look for another Alpha.
If she wanted to have a strategic marriage and relationship without the affection, their wishes must coincide with each other. It was clear that even if she pushed for the idea, it wouldn’t have worked when the other person wouldn’t accept her terms.
Besides, it was none other than Calrad Lowell Viseltium who sought to bite her by the neck.
Seira wouldn’t be able to forgive herself if she stubbornly held on to Aven and lost him in the process.
‘I should just rest today, and starting tomorrow…’
She decided not to put him in so much trouble.
Finally finding her resolve, Seira closed her eyes as her fever burned.
* * *
The day at D-Ark was just the usual. Aven trained with her when he was in the castle, and Nathan when he was out.
On the third day of her return, she sent Aven to investigate the situation at the imperial court and take care of a few matters. Seira and Nathan were the only ones left in the castle.
Seira woke up early in the morning and didn’t realize how much time had passed since she was too focused on solving her problem with controlling her powers. She left the training grounds and headed to the kitchen around lunchtime.
Looking at her rummaging through the ingredients, Nathan asked next to her,
What are you going to cook?
“Stew,” she answered him, her attention half on the task in front of her, “Meat stew.”
You need to put in vegetables too.
“Yes, yes, of course I should.”
She roughly chopped both meat and vegetables, and then dropped them in a large pot. It was a complete mess, but Nathan wasn’t talented in cooking as well, so he merely just watched in silence at the disaster that continued.
Leaving the stew to boil, Seira went back to her room to clean herself. She took a bath and got rid of the sticky sweat all over her body, and then changed into clean clothes. As she went back down to the kitchen, she saw her father standing in front of the oven.
Oh, my god… what should we do with this? The stew seemed to have dried up.
Even if it had burned out, there was nothing Nathan could do as a spirit.
“It’s okay. We can just pour water again.”
Seira scooped water from the jar, and then poured it into the iron pot. She stirred the mixture of vegetables and meat with a ladle, and shredded food floated up and down in the soup.
“It looks all good to eat now.”
She poured a few scoops of stew into a bowl, grabbed a spoon, and sat down by the table. Her father sat down beside her as well.
“Dad, do you want a bowl too?”
No thanks.
She pouted her lips at the stern decline and took a spoonful of the meat stew.
“I cooked it using the same ingredients.”
It was surprising that the taste was far from what Aven cooked. Still, she didn’t have much of a choice if she didn’t want to go hungry. She only has herself to rely on today.
You know, if you marry the Crown Prince, you could eat delicious food every day.
As soon as Nathan started nagging her again, Seira’s spoon which was moving diligently slowed down gradually.
“This is good, too,” she insisted stubbornly.
If you’re having a hard time, why don’t you talk to the imperial family?
“If you’re going to keep talking about this, I will stop eating and go up.”
Nathan sighed at Seira’s blunt reply.
I wish I could be honest with you that it’s not tasty at all, Seira.
Seira’s brow raised as if she was being challenged into a duel, “No, it was really good that I’m currently thinking of having another bowl.”
Yeah, sure.
She couldn’t tell because it was a bit blurry, but she swore she saw the corners of her father’s mouth curled up on one side. Contrary to what she stated, it was time for her to empty her bowl.
Jeff is close.
“What?!”
Seira doubted her ears at what she heard Nathan said. Now, what did he mean by that all of a sudden?
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