Chapter 75: Bending rules (4)
Xavier arrived home shortly after Selene. He sought her out first to hear about her outing and found her standing in their bedroom with a sword in her hands.
Xavier cautiously entered the room. "I was not expecting this when I came looking for you. No one informed me that you were learning how to use a sword."
"I wasn’t," Selene carefully rested the sword against the bed. "I was testing how it would feel to swing it but it belongs to you. I bought it today."
"Me? How thoughtful of you," Xavier replied.
Xavier closed the door and walked to the bed to inspect the sword. "And here I thought you were practising how you would hurt me."
"Hurt you? Why would I think of hurting?" Selene asked, puzzled by his assumption. "Have you done something which requires me to hurt you?"
"No, not at all. I like to think that I have been a good husband. It is a good sword," Xavier said after lifting it. "Does it come with someone to use it on?"
"No. I am afraid you will have to find a target yourself. With all that is happening as of late, it shouldn’t take too long for you to find someone. Did your talk go well? I cannot smell any blood on you," Selene said, taking that as a good sign.
"It would have gone well if they would have dropped it but they are claiming they are willing to give you a chance. Do not get excited because I will not let them get near you. They will still do what they can to send you away and I don’t care for them to accept you. Nothing has changed," said Xavier.