Chapter 173
"Must you touch me so much?" Amelia asked, swatting away Killian’s hand for what felt like the tenth time. He kept reaching out to hold her hand or at times, poke her to rile her up. "Isn’t there something you must do today? To get away from bothering me?"
"No. The only time we have spent together since you arrived is when we prepare for dinner or go to bed. I have planned to spend the rest of the day with you. Until the night of course. I hear your people have the tradition of not letting the bride and groom see each other as it is bad luck. Do you know it is demons who had a hand in that bad luck?" Killian asked.
Weddings made for the perfect playground for demons to have fun. Whether it be revealing a secret child, an affair, or leading the bride to find the groom with her sister, it was always fun.
It wasn’t long before they blamed the wedding curse on the bride and groom seeing each other the night before the wedding. Amelia’s kind claimed the couple was secretly looking for a way to ruin the wedding if they met the night before.
"I am not surprised that demons would be involved. However, I plan to follow that tradition. Gina has a list of things to prepare me for the wedding and I rather you not be there. Some of it is quite embarrassing. Are there any traditions you wish for me to follow?" Amelia asked, not wanting to be one-sided with only him following her traditions.
"There is only one tradition that involves sex and fire. It is not something you can stomach no matter how brave you are. Marriage is not the same for my kind. We just spend our days with each other without a ceremony or rings. If you like someone, just stay with them until it doesn’t work out. I’ve watched your kind for years and see how marriage binds you forever," said Killian.
"It is the bad side of it," Amelia muttered as it wasn’t normal for married couples to separate so they needed to continue living together despite having no feelings there.
"Bad? I found it to be wonderful. Watching two people try not to kill each other every day and running around engaging in sin as they sleep with other sinners. It’s what keeps the underworld so full of damned souls," Killian explained, playing with her hair as he smiled.
"No matter how much I try I cannot get used to the things that make you smile. I’m afraid I will have to turn down whatever tradition it is that involves fire. I don’t want to be burnt. I have a question," Amelia shifted her body to face him. "Would you burn at all if you walked into a fire? Your hair at least."