*UNEDITED*"Interesting?" Lila repeated.
"Yeah, interesting," he drawled his words and Lila felt her cheeks gradually burning.
"Why does this man make everything sound so seductive?" He does this deliberately. Then again it"s her fault for being so guilable. A deep sigh escaped her lips as she leaned forward. "Hubby, let me kiss you."
"Rather than kiss. Let me tell you about the investigation results." He seemed impatient, and even anxious.
Her gaze softened. "You can"t keep secrets from me anymore can you?"
"I can"t."
A approving hum pa.s.sed her lips as she kissed him. "Work talk can wait, you know I would rather relax."
"Is this relaxing my wife?" Haruka mumbled.
"Mm, very relaxing." Lila trailed off. "Say, I have some questions for you."
"Go ahead."
"When will we return to London?"
Haruka caressed her hair, and with his other hand ran his hands through her back. She felt him undo her zipper, and she rolled her eyes. "Make you"re mind up."
"I"m making my mind up whether or not to continue talking. Or have more of a feel. What do you think I should do wife, decide for me."
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Meanwhile at XX Rooftop - K region
Sumire sensed him before she even heard his footsteps. She saw him lean against the railing casually. "Can"t sleep wife?"
She shook her head. "Nightmare."
Yuhi sighed and walked over. "You talked in your sleep."
A sad smile appeared on her face. "And what did I say, something interesting?"
Her husband wrapped his arms around her, and a content sigh escapes her lips.
"When I see Lilchan and Harukkun, they really remind me of how we used to be. But at the same time. I understand that things are different now then they were before too. Even then, there"s something there. I"m afraid of letting Lilchan go."
"You can"t stop her from falling in love with anyone eose - though, even I know she will return to the brat before long."
"I know and who"s to stop her when there"s already someone who caused her feelings to waver? But its frightening, because, I can tell that Lilchan"s feelings for Harukkun are stronger than mine were towards you. At least, that age."
"Right." Yuhi agreed. "I recall you flirting around with Ichinose and you ditched him when Mamoru came back. I"m pretty sure with all that going on, you didn"t have time to think of me."
She hits him. "How rude! I was serious about senpai, and as for Ru. .. " she trails of. Was she serious? If if all that didn"t happen. Could the two of them truly have been able to remain a happy couple, and eventually get married?
If all that didn"t occur with Ru. She would probably not have had to leave on her journey. Her path would not have crossed again with Yuhi until much much later. But even then, could she confirm that the two of them would have had a happy future?
Even if it played out that way, Sumire is sure she would have picked the person right beside her. It would still be Yuhi. Is it because they"ve been connected as lovers since there may past lives? But even then there was a time where it diverged from the normal route and she fell in love with somebody different.
The connection between them may be carried along through the pa.s.sage of time but it gradually gets weaker. So after several times, it would be none existence. Still, Sumire felt that her connection with Yuhi now is the strongest. It"s ironic, how the words she wrote then, several centuries ago - ended up being right.
Those words she never had to tell him, he already knew. Such a strong and powerful love exists between them and there is no longer anything to fear.
"Lilchan, really is amazing. I don"t think she"s afraid at all. She may hesitate and get scared, but she"ll dismiss them right away."
"Switching the topic I see."
"This was the original topic."
"I know. I know." Sumire saw a complicated look appear on her husband"s face.
"Yuhi?"
"There is something I never really told you properly then Sumire."
"Something you never told me?" Sumire repeated.
"I should have said it a long time ago."
Sumire blinked, "I wonders what it is, he seems serious." Then again, hasn"t he always been like this?
"I love you."
Eh? That?
"I know Yuhi-- " he cuts her of by placing his fingers on her lips. The sensation of his thumb across her lips made het heart beat rapidly.
"You don"t know. Rather, I"m sorry I never told you. I wrote a response to that letter. When we get back home. Do you want to read it?" Yuhi asked.
That letter….that one? "Wait, you didn"t burn it?"
"That"s how you respond?" Yuhi said amuses.
"But, I thought you destroyed it this entire time." Sumire was very confused.
"Why would i? You wrote it for me."
He has become so cheesy. But, indeed it was in that letter where she convey it properly. Yuhi"s feelings for her, the one she thought she already knew about. Her gaze softened, "so he responded even though he couldn"t send it?"
"Then, when we get home. Lets read it together. "
"I think we should extend our stay here." Yuhi mumbled in her ear.
Sumire rolled her eyes. "We can"t leave for so long. What if something happens?"
"Isn"t that why you asked Kanagawa to take care of Lila?"
At that comment her sweat fell. It seems he overheard their discussion but wait, Yuhi must have seen – Sumire turned around and caressed his cheeks. "You saw."
"I can"t do anything about my wife being so popular."
Her sweat fell when she heard his sarcastic tone. "You know I don"t feel like that towards Ren anymore, right?" For the longest time she still had feelings for Kanagawa Ren. But all of that changed in the seven years she was apart from Yuhi. Sumire learned that the person she loves the most is without a doubt her husband. She wrapped her arms around his neck and mumbled in his ear. "I love only you."
She felt his arms wrap around her waist. "I know, I was kidding." He trailed off. "I got flashbacks from the past and was a bit concerned, he still loves you."
"That maybe the case. But Ren does not want to stay with me anymore. He knows who to prioritise now."
"Is that good or not? So many men still love you."
"Since when did you become so weak?" Sumire mumbled. "You know, I wanted to say this for a long time." She copied his words from earlier. "But weren"t you confident about my feelings for you from the very beginning?"
Yuhi sighed. "So much for playing weak. I wanted to trick you, so you could console and comfort me."
This man and his ridiculous suggestions.
But then again, that part of him has not changed. From the very moment they met, Teras.h.i.+ma Yuhi has always been confident that she loved him back. Despite everything that happened with senpai, Atsuro, Soujiro and Ren. Yuhi always knew she would come back to him.