Transmigrated Into The Body Of The Cursed Prince Wife
Chapter 125: "It’s you I want."

Chapter 125: "It’s you I want."

Lucian pulled her along to the stable as he ordered Zane to keep guard outside the entrance and not allow anybody into the space while they were still inside. The moment they entered, Ave pulled her arm away from his grip, and he allowed her to pull away and put some distance between them. He saw her eyes hold a glare, her cheeks reddened, perhaps from embarrassment, which she tried to mask with anger. Regardless, he found that expression adorable as it was typical of Ave and not the owner of the body, who only looked at him with fear and disgust.

Though Lucian didn’t like the distance she had put between them, he didn’t cross it, as the last thing he needed was for her to call their earlier moment him molesting her. That angered him beyond anything, but he kept his cool and decided to address the reason he’d brought her into the stables first.

Walking towards Heaven’s stall, with Ave following behind but not closely, he asked, "You said you heard Heaven speak to you, what did she say?" He came to stand before the stall where the mare was now eating and crunching on the food in the large basin.

"She said something about Rosette, and that she had been waiting for her and welcomed her back," Ave muttered softly, thinking whatever the horse had said made no sense to her. Who was Rosette, and why was she welcoming her? Ave thought as she watched how the mare was eating.

Even the way she chewed looked regal for a horse, and when she seemed to notice their presence, the horse raised her head and regarded Lucian with a small glare in her eyes that caught him by surprise, before she snorted and resumed eating.

Ave noticed the glare and the way she chewed as well and couldn’t help but walk forward to stand next to Lucian, forgetting for a moment she had made a mental note not to walk or stand next to him again. "Is it just me, or does this mare carry herself like royalty, and that look... Did she just glare at you?" Ave muttered in bewilderment as she’d never seen a horse act like this one.

Lucian’s face also held a look of surprise as he watched the mare. However, what surprised him wasn’t even the glare. It was the fact that she was eating in their presence after a long time. Before today, Heaven would not eat in anyone’s presence, and she would act like she didn’t see him whenever he came to give her her meal. He could touch her, but she wouldn’t respond or show any reaction or acknowledge his presence. She always had her eyes closed, but today...

She was eating in their presence and acted like she did when his mother was still alive. She would always glare at him whenever he wanted his mother’s presence and attention by dragging her away from the horse.

"Try to speak to her now, let’s see if she’ll talk to you. Ask her who Rosette is and why she was welcoming you," Lucian remarked, not taking his eyes off Heaven.

Ave nodded her head and stepped closer to the stall. She first cautiously reached out and stroked her mane, and when the mare didn’t react in an agitated way like the last time she tried to touch her, a smile graced Ave’s lips, and she said,

"Hi, Heaven. I know you never liked me before today, but now that we are buddies, can you tell me more about yourself and who this Rosette you mentioned is?" She asked, but if Heaven heard her, she didn’t react and only continued to chew her food in that same regal way that set her apart from any other horse.

Pursing her lips, Ave turned over her shoulder to look at Lucian and said, "She’s ignoring me. This mare must have been a queen in the horse world; she’s kinda arrogant and—woah!" Ave didn’t get to finish her words before Heaven looked at her and snorted, then moved forward and used the sleeve of Ave’s dress to clean her mouth by rubbing it over the fabric before walking to the inner part of her stall and lying down, now completely ignoring them as she closed her eyes.

Ave was at a loss for words as she watched the greenish stain on the sleeve of her dress where Heaven had wiped her mouth. What kind of a horse was this?

"I don’t think I will be getting along with this arrogant creature, did you just see what she did?" she exclaimed, turning towards Lucian with a deeply displeased frown but stopping short at the sight she met behind her.

Lucian’s amber eyes were shining with mirth as he tried to hold back what looked to be laughter. It was as though his body didn’t quite know how to handle laughter—he grinned at first, his eyes lighting up, but the laugh itself sounded hesitant when he let it out. The laugh that came from him was deep and raw, a foreign sound that seemed to echo through his body, breaking the silence in a way that seemed to surprise even him.

His shoulders shook so hard from the laugh, and Ave, who was watching him in disbelief, found herself laughing along as his laughter was contagious. She had never seen him laugh before, to the point his eyes were filling with tears. He bent his head into his hand as if to control the laughter, and she found that gesture cute. When he laughed, he looked unlike himself. The warmth in his eyes was unmistakable; it made him look so much younger and more approachable.

Outside the stable, even Zane heard the foreign sound of the prince’s laughter, and it startled him at first before he composed himself. Not once since their childhood had he ever heard Lucian laugh like this. It was as if he had lost the ability to feel or show human emotions apart from his indifference and anger. He rarely smiled, not to mention laughed.

Especially after he lost his mother, his eyes and heart had turned into a hollow pit of darkness, and all he ever talked about was his revenge on the royals and the Pendragon people. He killed without emotion and did many things that, even though Zane found terrifying, because they were like brothers, he always stood by him and supported him.

However, ever since the presence of this imposter, he couldn’t help but notice the drastic change in the prince. These days, he rarely even spoke about killing all the royals and destroying the Empire. He hadn’t gone to see the armies he was training in secret to commit treason, and he was showing kindness towards people by even ordering his kitchen staff to cook a large amount of food and offer it to Hugo to take back to his village and give to his family. Though he didn’t say that, that was how Zane interpreted his actions.

At first, Zane didn’t like this woman, as he suspected her to be here for a reason or to even hurt the prince like Selene, but he would admit he was beginning to like her more and more for the prince. With her by his side, things wouldn’t be as dark as they used to be before. He thought with a grin of his own as he shook his head.

Meanwhile, inside the stable, Lucian’s laughter had subsided, but the warmth in his eyes was still there and a small smile on his lips. He used the tip of his fingers to flick the tears at the corner of his eyes away before he spoke, his voice sounding hoarse and deep, "I think you and Heaven are going to be good... what was that word you used awhile ago? Bu something," he trailed off as if trying to recall the word.

"Buddies?" Ave provided with a smile, and she watched him nod his head. "Yes, buddies. Perhaps she’s not in the mood to speak to you again. You can always come back to have a word with her some other day," Lucian suggested as he saw how Heaven had gone and lay down with her eyes closed.

"Lucian..." Ave called his name, her eyes locking onto his face, and when he turned to her, she grinned. "You should laugh often. You look ten times more handsome when you laugh that way." She poked his chest with her index finger as she said those words, completely forgetting that she had decided to put a wall between them by no longer addressing him by his name or touching him, until she felt him grip her wrist and pull her closer to his chest.

Ave’s heart skipped a beat when his arm wrapped around her waist, and he pulled her into his arms and hugged her, burying his head deep in the crook of her neck where her shoulders met her neck, his warm breath fanning her skin. The arm he wrapped around her caressed her hips, and the other one stroked her hair, causing her to stiffen in place as memories of their time in the library began to flood her mind.

She heard him speak, his lips moving against her skin and his breath tickling her neck. "Only you can give me the reason to smile and laugh, and with you by my side Aveline, I shall never lack the reason to laugh. I don’t know what you are doing to me, but ever since you came into my world, everything seems to be changing. Whenever you are not there, I want to seek you out, and whenever I lie down, I want to have you in my arms..." he whispered softly, his husky voice falling on her skin, where she felt him press his lips and kiss her there.

"Aveline, you are addictive and dangerous to my senses. I long for you. I want to possess your soul and mark you as mine. I fight with my inner demons every single day to stop myself from biting into your skin. You are driving me mad," he said as he licked her neck at the same time, causing Ave’s breath to hitch in her throat and making her knees suddenly feel weak. He nibbled at her neck, and Ave knew at that point she needed to stop him before he made her lose control again.

Putting up her hand, she placed it against his chest and tried to push at him, "Lucian, stop this," she said, her voice coming out breathless as his hand had gone to rub at her behind in a sensational way that made her lower abdomen tighten.

"Lucian, stop it. I... I don’t feel the same with you, and I don’t like you touching me!" she exclaimed as she used all her strength to push at him, but in reality, it wasn’t her push that stopped him—it was her words that made him step away from her.

She watched as his expression looked confused at first, as if trying to process her words, and Ave hardened her heart and added, "I have told you before, I do not like being touched by you or anyone, and yet you keep on doing it. Furthermore, you have said it yourself that unmarried couples can’t do all these things, but yet you keep on doing it with me after you have divorced me. Your marriage to Madeline has been fixed; you should go to her and not me. She will be your wife anyway, and that bitch looks eager to be yours while she would make you cast me into a servant!"

Ave didn’t know how frustrated she was with his marriage to that Madeline until now, and instead of trying to make him see that she didn’t like him and didn’t want to be touched, she was making it seem like she was jealous. "Not that I care or anything, but the day you chose to marry again, you made it obvious that you don’t want anything to do with your other wife, and that also meant we shouldn’t be doing—"

"If you don’t want me to marry Princess Madeline, just say the word and I will sever all ties with her and cut off the arrangements. I do not want her," Lucian declared without hesitation as he closed the distance between them and took Ave’s hand into his as he added, "It’s you I want. Though I won’t be able to marry you now until I take the throne, I will keep you by my side and spend every second of the night with you in your room," he kissed her knuckle, causing an electric jolt to go through Ave’s body.

Lucian knew that he wouldn’t be able to even show how much he cared and wanted her in public, as he feared that the moment the Empress realized how she was his weakness, she would be used to get to him, but he was willing to let everything else go, including the support of the Banzai kingdom, to please her and make her happy.

Since she seemed not to like Madeline, then he wouldn’t marry her.

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