Chapter 251
"Oh goodness~ should your father act more foolish so this sight is shown more often, my dear?"
Happy to finally grasp our hands the Duke told us, failing to hide from his eyes the adorable surface of moved tears at our sight.
’No, Sir! Hehe, please! It’s not that foolish, it’s just– hehehe oh God~ it’s just too cute~ I can totally imagine you falling asleep at work because of reading stories at night to this girl~ pfff hehehe!’
My laughter continued as if I had gotten infected by an insane laughing fit that sometimes happens without much good reason.
Our lids shut tightly and I could hear myself emit those softly cut nasal sounds that came out because my body couldn’t hold all the chaos the laughter invoked inside... So I practically laughed through my nose. Elegantly, though.
For a while, he didn’t say anything. But I knew he was looking at us in that silence that was mayhem inside us... After all, his hands kept keeping ours apart from our face, which we still wanted to hide out of shyness.
’Ahhh~ that was good~ So good~ I haven’t laughed like that in years~ Or probably ever, physically wise, haha!’
Gradually I was able to calm down as I regularized our breathing.
’Heh. It wasn’t even that funny but I still laughed a bunch~~ My humour is broken, hehe~’ — Contemplating well on the source of laughter, I considered, still feeling nice about it.
And then, opening our eyes, I found the fond gaze of his. Fascinatedly watching from below. Too comfortable in the crouched position for my liking.
"Lovely bird." — He said, smiling tenderly.
I could only shrink in my shoulders, too shy to retort at the dreamy eyes watching us.