Lucy Wickshire 192 Chapter Twenty-Two 13

Lucy returned to her chambers to see a familiar figure sitting on her bed. She only paused for a second, before closing the door behind her.

"You enter a male prohibited area as you please?" she approached the man on the bed.

"Dear wife, you should at least welcome me first. I came at the risk of my life." he said pitifully. Lucy looked into his dark eyes and scuffed.

"If you could be killed by anyone in this lower realm, it would be beyond disgraceful."

"Still.." he started to complain.

"Why are you here?" she asked him.

"I rarely get to see you. Shouldn't you be more affectionate with this man?" he asked as though wronged.

"You are a man?" she asked coldly.

"If not, what am I?" he raged playfully.

"Ask me again when you are older. This lady does not live in a world of illusions. You and I are still children." she said and his eyes darkened slightly.

"Have you never wondered if my looks match my age?" he said and Lucy paused. He was right. This boy before her, even though he looked no older than eighteen, but at his level of power, should he be this young? His kind of power takes millennia to attain. This must not be his true age.

"You are so serious over the smallest things." he said with a laugh. Lucy could not tell if he was joking before, nor did she care. He could be thousands of years old for all she cares, she chose this him as her husband for a reason.

"Why have you come?" she asked.

"I will be leaving today." he said mildly, stretching his arms and tucking it behind his long black hair as he laid back on the bed.

"Where?" she asked.

"Very far." he said.

"I see." she said mildly, "You do not think me worthy to know."

"I do not think you care to, you only asked to be polite. You once said you will only demand to know such things when you can stand beside me as an equal. I await that day." he chuckled darkly, as though he did not believe that day will come.

"Then I will no more be polite." she said.

"You. What you plan to do..." he started to say.

"When did you become polite?" she asked.

"I do not understand how you mind works, so I will not pretend to. But, I know you are leaving this world soon. Take Mr. Jodanham with you" he said seriously.

"So you can keep an eye on me?" she asked carelessly.

"Will you take him?" he asked.

"The moment you interfere in my business is the moment I cancel our engagement." she warned with a dark smile.

"Good. Take him. He is with your guards right now." he said and faded into the light.