I Married the Strongest Magician - Chapter 10

It wasn’t like I wanted to go on a date or anything.

But when I saw her numb hands and the freshly hung laundry, I’ll admit—my heart was moved. Just a little.

That said, I’ve never really been on a proper date before.

“…Where shall we go?”

“I don’t know. You decide.”

I left it up to her.

“I’d like to do some shopping in the royal capital…”

She said that while sipping her pumpkin soup.

“I don’t mind, but… sorry, I can’t splurge like your family does.”

“…Of course.

Um… the washboard is really old…”

Her unexpectedly humble request warmed something inside me. I always assumed women were the kind to beg for expensive clothes or bags, to pour money into cosmetics like it meant nothing but maybe that was just a biased assumption…

That’s what it started to feel like. Despite how sick I’d grown of women in general… I couldn’t bring myself to dislike Lady Cherie.

“Then, tomorrow…”

“Yes.”

I wondered—would we go to separate bedrooms again tonight?

I ended up grabbing her slender wrist.

“Wh-what is it…? ”

“Well… how about a goodnight kiss, for once? ”

As I leaned in, she slapped me. With a palm reinforced by fire magic.

Still simmering inside, I held my stinging left cheek and headed off to my own room.

What the hell!

It’s just a kiss! Let me have that much!

Damn flirt playing innocent! But what surprised me most…

Was the fact that I actually wanted to kiss her. To feel her soft lips against mine.

I wasn’t used to that. Women usually threw themselves at me first, always the ones to devour me eagerly…

“Fallen for her, have you?”

Zen’s voice echoed in my head, and I scrambled to shake it off.