Chapter 262: The Funeral
"So, uhh..."
Lyne held every screaming cell in her body to stay put. Just hearing Boris speak was sending her on edge, even after she thought that she had made some progress with her own prejudice. After everything that had happened, with the man actually saving her life once, she owed him at least this much.
"Uhh..." Boris kept on stammering, Lyne noting his constant fidgeting as she waited. "Can we talk?"
Lyne raised an eyebrow at his words. She already knew what the elephant in the room was, but she could at least hope that it wasn’t the case. If only to spare themselves even more awkwardness. "About what?"
Boris clearly struggled with his words as he replied. "About... err... us?"
For some reason, a part of her felt a pang of excitement run through her chest. Her first instinct was to flinch, however, and she could barely stop herself from hiding the slightest grimace at Boris’s proposal.
And unfortunately, it seemed as if the man actually caught her.
"I-I know you offered yourself to me as soon as I offered you Danos’s head, but I guess that’s taking a while..." he awkwardly asserted. "But... That doesn’t mean we can’t go on a date?"
Lyne blinked at his proposal. She really didn’t know what to say, but what else was there for her to do? She inadvertently offered up her hand to the man out of her own burning desire for revenge. She haven’t really thought about it all at the moment, but now that it was happening right in front of her, she now had no choice but to accept it. Cause why wouldn’t she? Boris had shown his dedication time and again, and it went a long way with having her warm up to him.
It also didn’t help that she wasn’t someone that could so easily break her word once she gave it out. It was just not in her nature to not honor a deal that she herself made with someone.
"I... I suppose," Lyne breathed out, her eyes falling to the floor as she avoided eye contact. "Although, the situation has changed so drastically that you might not even need to kill him yourself. With the Convel Society essentially under our control, King Nathan could probably just snap his fingers and the bastard will be brought to justice."
Even without looking at him, she knew that Boris flinched at her words. She had just invalidated his one ticket to somehow win her over, and she knew that it was callous on her part. But that was simply who she was... She was blunt and logical, and while her emotions got the better of her, it’ll simply serve as a reminder for her to better. In a way, perhaps she could learn to do so by actually going through with her offer, even if Boris technically hadn’t given her his part of the deal.