Chapter 143: I want to know more.
After hours tangled in love, Ren relished the way he now washed her gently in the small wooden bathtub. There was something almost sacred in his touch, so careful, so reverent. It was her first time bathing like ordinary people, and yet nothing about this moment felt ordinary.
"Can you always warm the water like this?" she asked, still a little stunned by the simple magic of it.
"I can," he said, dipping a cloth into the water and running it slowly along her arm. "But I don’t usually use my powers for things like this. It drains my strength. Still..." He paused, brushing a kiss against her forehead as he gathered her damp hair into a bun. "For you, wife, I’d do anything."
She let out a soft breath, trying not to smile too much, not wanting him to think she was too moved. But inwardly, butterflies were fluttering in her stomach.
"What do you think will happen in the meeting?" she asked quietly.
Kai leaned back in the tub and drew her against his chest, his arms wrapping around her as his eyes drifted shut. "I don’t know. But I have a feeling the king is planning something... big."
Worry twitched in Ren’s chest. What if he revealed the truth, that she was his daughter? The weight of such a secret could shift everything, drawing eyes and schemes toward her.
"The Fae King... Do you think he’ll rise against the humans?" she murmured.
Kai shook his head, his voice calm. "No. Your mother left of her own will. She made it clear in her letter. That truth won’t change."