Chapter 187: Meeting with friends (3)
"So, how is married life treating you? The impossible happened for Xavier Blackthorn," Henry said as he handed Xavier a glass of wine. "I thought you would be the last one to get married and that’s only because I heard you planned to go to sleep."
"It is going well," Xavier replied, keeping his matters to himself.
Henry laughed it off instead of being offended. "You’re still the same which is why so many fail to get close to you. It took me five years to get you to speak to me. I remember you telling me that you didn’t like me."
"Did I?" Xavier replied, not remembering this.
"It hurts me a little that you forgot about it. It was when we were children and we all had to go to the palace to play. I personally always thought you mistook me for Darius’s friend so you didn’t want to get close to me. Was it that?" Henry inquired.
"What are you doing? Trying to find answers for your childhood? If I ever told you that I didn’t like you then I didn’t like you. Whatever it was, you grew out of it since we’ve done business together and here I am standing in your home when I want to be at home with my wife," Xavier replied.
Xavier took a sip of the wine Henry offered him to check that it was good before he drank more.
"I am asking now because I never knew what changed. I spend a little time in the palace so I get to see some of what goes on there. It turns out that with my wife close to your wife the king is on me. He’s been around me so much that I am not going to enter the palace anymore," Henry informed Xavier.
"Now that I am blaming you for it," Henry clarified before Xavier misunderstood. "If you have anyone inside you might have gathering news about the king then you should prepare for them to be watched. I’m sure he’s been paying very good attention to those loyal to you. Like with Isaac."