Book 16: Chapter 29
“You’re back, Your Highness. Oh, you have some grass on the corner of your mouth.”
Lucia cheerfully hugged me and then gently picked the grass off my face. Honestly, I felt something was off when I woke up.
“Why do I randomly have the smell of grass in my mouth…? Did I chew on grass while I was sleeping?” I mused.
The White Deer King was also asleep. She must’ve been absolutely exhausted since she didn’t sleep last night and got hurt. I stretched my back out, as sleeping on the straw hurt my back. A maid came over to take my cloak. Lucia nimbly and jovially hugged my arm: “Let’s go. Let’s go and eat, Your Highness. We don’t have many peaceful days left, but we’ll get to have a good rest for the last few days.”
“Yeah, I don’t want to think about what recently happened, either. It was just too much…”
I sighed. I rubbed my head then Lucia’s. Lucia flicked her short her: “I’m not a kid anymore; stop rubbing my head!”
I continued rubbing Lucia’s head and chortling: “You don’t like, this, Lucia?”
“It’s not that I don’t like it… It’s just… mm… it feels as though you’re treating me the same way as Vera and Nona… It doesn’t feel as though we’re husband and wife.”
“Okay, okay, okay.”