Transmigrating from a zombie world to become the mecha kings wife
Chapter 349: Avoidance__

Chapter 349: Avoidance__

At night, Scarlet kept a tentative eye on Esong as she pondered on the thought of bringing up the fact that her mother had beaten up his mother. Well, so had she but she liked to think that she was an innocent party in the mess as she had just cause. She had been anticipating a reaction from him but what she got was not what she expected.

Esong was being very non expressive about the whole matter, acting as if it never happened. He maintained a perfect smile through dinner, a calm demeanor as they gave Justin a bath before bed and she read him a bed time story and a weird quietness when they entered bed.

Usually, he pulled her over to his side of the bed as soon as they got between the sheets, he would trail his hands over her arms, whisper sweet nothings, tell her about his day as he embraced her tightly. And this was not on the nights when he was in the mood to make love to her because on those nights, his lips would be trailing greedily on every part of her body that he could access immediately.

But not tonight, his back was turned to her and keeping himself perfectly still as if he was in bed with an enemy or someone that simply repulsed him. Scarlet hated it, in fact hate was not strong enough of a word to describe how she felt about it. She loathed his body language completely and she would much rather sleep on the cold hard floor than next to him if he was in such a terrible mood. After struggling with it for a while, the discomfort became so extreme that she made up her mind to sleep elsewhere. She flipped the covers, grabbed a pillow and stood up.

Esong turned over the moment she flipped these covers. "What are you doing?"

"I am holding a pillow in hand, what does it look like?" she replied sarcastically.

She scoffed and then wore her fluffy slippers, but as she was turning around to leave, Esong’s hand pulled her back down onto the bed.

"You are going nowhere." he said seriously, with a bit of harshness in his voice.

"Let go of me." she pulled her hand away from his strong grip and glared at him.

As she rubbed her sore wrist she asked him, "Why would I sleep beside a man who is as cold as a fish? If you are angry with me because of what happened to your mother just come out and say it. Be direct, don’t avoid things and give me the silent treatment. If you are going to be like this then we should avoid each other for a while. I am not going to apologize Esong, I defended myself from your mother’s brutal attack. I refuse to be guilted or blackmailed emotionally into apologizing no matter how angry you are, I refuse." she shook her head stubbornly.

"And who says that I am angry with you?" he asked.

"I am not a fool, don’t disrespect me like that." she replied defensively.

Esong sighed and he sat upright, "You are really looking to start a fight between us it seems." he replied softly. "I am not a very expressive person but I will try to for the sake of peace between us. I am not angry with you because of what happened to my mother, she brought this on herself. Trust me, if it was not you or your mother, somebody else would have eventually come around to teaching my mother a lesson. I am feeling uneasy because you are stuck between me and her and so am I. It could become a large bone of contention between us in future if we don’t find a way of solving it soon. Short of making my mother dumb, I don’t know what else to do about her."

Scarlet softened and she calmed down. Now this she could understand clearly, all he had to do was explain himself and the slight misunderstanding which had birthed a stone in her chest, making her feel so uneasy would have been avoided.

"I am sure she has learned her lesson, don’t worry about her much." she answered.

And she had already sent Severus to do something about Emory, his making her dumb idea further widened her mind.

"I just don’t understand how we have come to a point of you needing to fight my mother. Maybe I should emancipate myself from my family and establish my own branch of the Wu family." he was still disturbed the fight and her assurances did not serve their intended purpose. What example would they be setting for Justin if he grew up in a conflict filled environment at home? And what about the other children they would have, would they be involved and have to pick sides in the family?

She on the other hand was bewildered by his outrageous suggestion of emancipating himself. It would break his grandparent’s hearts!! His father would ...., her thoughts broke off momentarily because she did not know Emmet well enough to know what he would do but his siblings would be crushed, especially his brother that looked up to him. And what about Justin?? Wouldn’t he lose his rights as the head of the Wu family someday? All this over something that she could simply fix with one of her pills, herbs or powders!!

"Forget that idea," she told him, "Scrub it out of your mind immediately, the feud between me and your mother has not come to that point. Look, let’s go to sleep after all, we have to take a flight to the capital tomorrow and I am excited for it."

She pulled him by the arm so that he could lay down and she gently moved her hand over his stomach, tracing lines and patterns through his abdominal muscles.

"Should I sing a song for you?" she asked him.

"Mmmmm." he answered.

She smiled and sung, "Twinkle, twinkle, little star..."

Esong frowned in amusement and then he chuckled because this was a lullaby she sung for Justin usually. Did she see no difference between an adult man and a young boy? This lullaby of hers would not work on him.

But Esong did not know of Scarlet’s supernatural talents, she spread some of her power around and sent it coursing through her body as she tapped his chest lightly.

He did not even realize how he fell asleep, but he did and his eyes did not open until the following morning. He did not voluntarily open his eyes, it was Scarlet that shook him awake roughly like a mini earthquake.

"What?" he asked as he rubbed his eyes and cleared up his vision. At the same time, he scanned the room for any sign of danger.

"We have to go to the capital, stop sleeping." she said to him urgently as she ripped the covers off the bed completely.

She could not control the excitement in her heart as she thought that she would finally get a chance to visit the capital which really the most technologically advanced and beautiful of the stars. Deep in her heat, she thought, ’flying cars, wait for me. Mecha fights, I am coming. History museums, royal palace, battle sites, exclusive nutrition solutions, every amazing place and thing in the capital, she had two days to explore as much as she could to her hearts content.

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