"Maybe next time we can practice swordplay together, would you like to Prince Theo?" asked Jillian as she smiled at her brother-in-law.
Theodore nodded and returned Jillian's smile to him. "With pleasure."
They returned their attention to the soldiers who were practicing. Theodore slightly glanced at the woman next to him who was focused on his troops. "Lian... I have something to ask you."
"What is it?"
"Do you hate Dion after what he said to you?"
Jillian turned to look at Theodore in confusion. The dark-haired man explained that Dion had told him everything, what the man had said that day. "It does sound cruel, saying that to you,"
"Well.. Not really. After all, what Dion said does have some truth to it. I put us in this situation. If I hadn't asked for something back then, we wouldn't be like this now. Dion must really hate me for having to marry a woman like me," Jillian replied with a faint smile.
She only hoped that one day, maybe they could part on good terms. She doesn't know for what reason, but they weren't supposed to be together. There was no chance for the two of them to like each other. Even if they had to stay together, there would be no happiness for them, especially for Dion.
"I see. Even when you don't like him, you still care about Dion."
"Hm? Ah that's because I don't really think about what I feel. At least if I can't be happy, I don't want others to feel the same way because of me," Jillian replied while looking at Theodore with a gentle gaze.
"You're really a good person."
The woman chuckled at her brother-in-law's words. She also praised Theodore's kindness and prowess in many ways during the time they had known each other.
"If only we had met earlier in the beginning, would we have gotten married? Maybe it's better for me to marry you instead. You are kind, gentlemanly and more mature. It would have been great to be with a man like you." she said.
Theodore who heard that was silent for a moment looking at Jillian. Jillian immediately said that she was just joking. "I'm just kidding, you don't have to look at me like that..." she said while covering Theodore's eyes with her palms.
She even had to stand on tiptoe because he was quite tall. Calmly, Theodore grasped Jillian's hand covering his eyes and pulled gently. "I know," he replied and kissed the back of Jillian's hand.
The two red eyes that the man had, gazed with such a gentle gaze, a look that Jillian had never seen before. For a moment, the woman with the purplish silver hair was speechless.
After a while, she gasped at Theodore's treatment of her. She immediately pulled her hand away and said she wanted to go back to her room because it was hot. Without saying anything else, Jillian ran out of the castle and went to her room with a pounding heart.
At the same time, Dion was in his room, spinning around while repeating the same words. He was trying to train himself to try to apologize to Jillian for what he said at that time. Dion realized that his words came out because he was too emotional seeing Jillian having too much fun with another man.
"Lian... I want to apologize because I... No, no, that was too flat." Dion turned around and started his sentence again. "I'm sorry I didn't mean to say that, I was just... Just... Wasn't happy to see you with him? I..."
Dion's words trailed off and he began to imagine Jillian's response if he said that to her.
"Not happy? Hmn... You're jealous because I'm with Aileen? How ridiculous."
Dion's head dropped. "She would have said that," he complained.
He turned to the mirror and looked at himself in the mirror. He wondered, why did he have to do this? Why did she have to apologize to Jillian, when even if Jillian didn't care about him that would be great.
"That... It feels lonely. When she doesn't talk to me, even if she says annoying things, when she ignores me it feels so empty..." he murmured softly while looking down at himself.
Dior sighed and started again. "Lian, I'm sorry, I..." Halfway through his sentence, the door to the room suddenly opened and Jillian appeared from behind it.
Dion's body was petrified when he saw his wife suddenly arrive while he was practicing to apologize. Jillian was equally surprised to find Dion standing at the door. She had not expected him to be standing there.
However, without saying anything, Jillian ran straight into the bathroom and locked the door. Dion was confused, what was wrong with Jillian? Why did she suddenly go into the bathroom, was she in the mood to pee?
In the bathroom, she looked at herself in the mirror and tried to calm herself down. She shouldn't have behaved like that just because of her brother-in-law's behavior. She felt sorry for teasing Theodore earlier, it was her heart that was beating so fast because of him.
"Why do you have to behave like that? He's your brother-in-law, you can't be like that to him, Lian!"
She turned on the bathtub faucet and intended to soak to calm herself down, Jillian always did that to make herself feel calmer. She slowly pulled down the zipper of the dress she was wearing and took off her underwear.
For a moment she stares at her smooth body in the bathroom mirror while waiting for the water in the bathtub to fill up. Jillian picked up a soap bottle to pour into the bathtub. However, because it was slippery, the bottle suddenly fell and hit her foot.
"Ahhh!" She reflexively screamed because the bottle was made of glass which was hard enough to hit her foot.
Dion, who heard Jillian's scream, immediately felt worried. He went to the bathroom door and knocked. "Lian, what's wrong?" he asked.
But there was no answer from inside. Feeling something strange, Dion immediately broke into the bathroom.
BRAK!
Jillian was surprised because the door suddenly opened, coupled with Dion who appeared. Because Dion was equally surprised and ran inside, he accidentally lost his balance and fell straight onto his wife.
"D-Dion?!"
BRUK!
Dion slowly opened his eyes, he felt something soft where he landed. When he raised his head, he saw Jillian's flushed face staring at him. "Y-you..."
The man apparently landed right on top of Jillian's chest. His right hand was now grasping her chest, and he unconsciously squeezed it out of reflex. Jillian's lilac eyes widened and she screamed out loud.
"AAAAHHHHHH!!!!!"