Chapter 216: Thank You For Speaking Out [Bonus - ]
"I only wanted to make you mine as soon as possible to ease my yearning. But I did not even consider you were already yearning for someone else. I got in between you two instead and forced you apart. I should have competed with him fairly for your love. I should have tried getting your attention too instead of suddenly sending a proposal that left you with no choice but to marry me," Ferdinand continued with regretful eyes.
[I had been so ignorant despite all the years I had lived. I am so much older than her. She had not even lived a fourth of the life I’ve lived. And yet, just because I realized I wanted her to be with me my whole life, I decided to obtain her without a care about what she wanted. It was simply just all about me.]
"I was so insistent on marrying you as soon as possible so Raymond and Alwin were just set on satisfying what I wanted. They just moved according to my desires without regard for how you would have felt. We only realized we had trapped you in Valeria like captured prey after you decided to speak out," Ferdinand sighed deeply.
"I... That’s..." Arabella didn’t know what to say anymore.
Her husband had said so much that she doesn’t know which to address first. But he seemed to still have a lot to say. She decided to listen to everything he said first.
Moreover, it was indeed true that in her previous life, there was a time she had felt like she was captured prey. That she was akin to a prisoner or a trophy.
She was only able to see differently now because of all the things she had learned about them. She could hear his thoughts too and Ferdinand himself had changed so much in this life.
"Thank you for speaking out about how you felt after what I had done. If you didn’t talk, I would have remained in the dark about my mistakes and kept doing them. Now, I can change and improve so I can make you happy in the future," Ferdinand kissed the back of her hands.
Arabella realized Ferdinand asked her the question about their wedding so he could pour his heart out honestly like this.