Transmigrating from a zombie world to become the mecha kings wife
Chapter 577: Fragile glue, waiting to snap.

Chapter 577: Fragile glue, waiting to snap.

Esong lifted her up abruptly and sat her on his laps. First, he moved her his head down and touched it against hers. Then both of his hands went around her waist, holding it tightly.

He closed his eyes and took a deep breath, pulling in the smell of the last caramel pocky she had been eating when he walked into the kitchen.

He wanted to believe her so desperately but it was a challenge for him to find her words credible when every cell in his body was screaming otherwise.

Perhaps she was right and all they had to do was spend more time together like they did after winter, before the research into the space crack started, and before he decided to head inside and explore.

"Esong." She called his name in a soft voice and tried to raise her head but he pulled her down and hugged her fully.

"I love you." he growled out to her. He didn’t say it softly but with strength as if his words were a sharp nail that he was trying hammer deep into her bones. "I don’t know about anything else but I know that I love you and I do not ever want to lose you. I will go to from world to world in search of the thing which will bring pure joy back to you."

Scarlet laughed softly and clutched at his cloak, holding on to him desperately. How could he search for the thing which brought her joy when he was at the top of the list, or in the top ten.

She moved one of her hands and placed it between their bodies, on his stomach. Trailing upwards slowly, she moved it until it arrived at his chest, right over his heart.

It’s loud beating was a solace to her, because it was the proof that he still had life in him.

"All I need is this."

She drew her head up and this time, he let her because her body was soft and pliant. She looked into his eyes and said, "You don’t need to go from world to world searching for anything to return my joy because you are my joy. Justin, any babies we will have in future, my family and this wonderful home we have built together. I have so much joy in my life__, you have no idea how much."

She lowered her head and hid it in his neck. Her hands moved along and they too went around his neck holding him just as tightly as he had done her waist.

Lately, she had ben convincing herself not to be too greedy, not to smother him with her desires. It was enough___, what she had was good enough and to want more was selfishness. There was a time when she had nothing and now she had everything. It had to be enough.

"You are enough, just you my darling." She grasped at him and whispered.

Esong closed his eyes in relief and the last remaining knot in his heart unwound, loosened and evaporated.

Three nosy goddesses were peeping into the room and eavesdropping on the couple. Just because they stepped out, didn’t mean they were not curious.

"Do you see what I did there, that is love at work." The goddess of love bragged.

Carnelia and Lythia who were aware of the true nexus that would shake the couple and all they had built shared a mutual gaze. Love had not fixed anything, she had just glued it together temporarily.

Soon, the glue would come undone and then the couple would rebuild or split. There was a long way to go until then for love to declare her work done.

On the floor above the one where the engagement was ongoing, Carolyn was inside the apartment sized room which had been turned into a bridal dressing room. She was pacing up and down, nervously.

If she had not seen the man she was to be engaged to arriving, one would think that she was worried about being stood up. But that was not the issue apparently.

The door opened and she looked up eagerly. It was Beord who came in and he shook his head.

"I can’t find Scarlet." he told her.

Carolyn was so overwhelmed with nerves that she snapped at him, "Keep searching."

"You need to relax." He didn’t move but found somewhere to sit and he looked around. None of the drinks or snacks in the room had been touched.

He was starving because he had been running different errands since morning and he decided to fill up his stomach. His hands reached for the platter of sandwiches but a sharp swift slap stopped him.

"What the..." he complained.

The one who had just assaulted his innocent hand was his sister, Carolyn. And for some reason, she was staring daggers at him.

"Don’t eat, none of us should be eating right now." she paced around some more.

Beord looked at the sandwiches and vacuum flasks filled with coffee, milk and black tea. If these things were not here for eating then why were they there?

The door sung open and Carolyn looked up hopefully. Elroy and Fey walked in and her eyes dulled.

"It’s just you guys." she said in a disappointed voice.

Elroy was not even bothered while Fey closed the door as she mumbled, "I will try not to be offended by that."

Unlike Beord whose hand had been slapped and he was forbidden from eating, Elroy was successfully in pouring himself a cup of hot coffee. "They are presenting your engagement gifts out there. So far, our family has been granted three different mines, one is actually an energy mine. I can see why nobles like giving birth to female children. It’s like the golden ticket to easy wealth." he told her as he mixed in four spoonful’s of sugar.

"Oh gods!! I think I am gonna be sick." Carolyn put her hand over her mouth and stumbled as she found her way into the bathroom.

Beord sighed and stood up because neither Fey nor Elroy showed any signs of attending to her.

"No worries, I have got it." he said, sarcastically.

Elroy rolled his eyes. Of the three people in the room, Carolyn would prefer him over the others in there.

Carolyn did actually vomit and Beord patted her back. "What is wrong with you? Why would you vomit at the mention of your engagement gifts?"

"I don’t know." She answered and wiped her lips.

Beord stood up, poured some water in a glass and handed it her. Carolyn took the glass gladly and rinsed her mouth. Then, she sprayed some mist from the cabinets above the sink into her mouth and smelled her breath. It was fresh once again, as she required it.

"Is it nerves, cold feet or I hope not because I will kill him before he puts a ring on your finger, pregnancy?" he asked her.

He had seen his mother vomiting through each of her pregnancies. The Su brothers knew the early symptoms of pregnancy better than most women at this point.

"Are you crazy? The empress would kill us. When we do it we take proper measures....."

"Ah ah ah ah," Beord covered his eyes and babbled while Carolyn was still explaining. He had no interest in knowing what took place between his sister and Markay in the bedroom.

"She is here." Fey shouted to them.