My Contract Husband is Going Crazy Because of My Iron Wall - Chapter 45.1
Chapter 45.1
“What should I do? It must be uncomfortable for you to sleep on the sofa so far away, but I have to sleep this close to you… Haa. This is difficult for me, too.”
“…Are you uncomfortable sleeping with me?”
“No, not really. But I’m worried that I might get excited if I sleep so close to Reinhardt, as I’m not good at physical contact.”
“According to Irovel, you must have already felt excited about me a hundred times. You said you fall in love easily, but you’re holding up well.”
Reinhardt, who had been chuckling as if he was dumbfounded, lowered his gaze and murmured.
“…I guess I’m not that attractive.”
“The most attractive man in the world is making the most ridiculous joke in the world.”
“If it’s not a joke, why haven’t you fallen for me yet?”
“I do fall in love easily, but other people’s men are an exception.”
“Other people’s men? Me?”
Reinhardt’s voice suddenly became fierce. It seemed that he was getting upset after hearing things that he felt were completely unexpected.
I tried to calm him down by explaining calmly.
“You’ll be someone else’s husband someday.”
“You’re talking nonsense again.”
“Why? You won’t stay single after the end of our contract, will you?”
“What if I planned to do that?”
“There’s no way you would. Reinhardt, as the Grand Duke of Erestein, you have a duty to have children.”
“If I don’t plan to have children, I can just pass the title to someone else of Erestein bloodline.”
Reinhardt still spoke in a fierce voice. I began to feel strange. Surely, he didn’t plan to stay single after divorcing me…?
“Reinhardt. Then you won’t get married even after you divorce me? Even if you find someone you love later?”
“That won’t happen.”
It was an extremely firm affirmation. What? Why is this man acting like this…?
“Even if you think so now, your heart might change when you find someone you love.”
“I’m not someone who changes easily.”
No, well, I knew it! I knew how much you’ve changed since you met Lucia when you had absolutely no interest in women!
“Um… Well, okay.”
I decided to stop talking for now, as nothing I said would reach Reinhardt’s ears at this point.
‘I should leave some Larboris snacks and Magic Stones in front of the stable and get some sleep.’
Reinhardt looked at me with a dissatisfied expression as I grabbed the Larboris’s snacks from my luggage and headed out of the stable. It seemed that he was also feeling that I had given up on further conversation.
* * *
I couldn’t sleep for a while because of the close proximity to Reinhardt and the memory of the kiss we shared earlier, but I eventually fell asleep because I was so tired. Then, I woke up to the sound of rustling outside the stable.
I immediately sat up.
‘Did the Squishies leave?’
It seemed like quite some time had passed since I fell asleep, as the air was colder than before.
“Haa…”
I breathed into my hands and carefully untied the string that held the entrance of the stable closed. Then, under the dark sky, I saw a cat… or rather, Larboris Tartar, frantically eating the tuna soup I had left out.
“Meow, meow, meow!”
How delicious must it be for him to be making those kinds of sounds while eating? It was worth it to have made the soup as close to his taste as possible, using my experience from raising a cat in my previous life.
I was secretly watching the Larboris, who was now turning his attention to the tuna jerky, with a pleased expression, when the Larboris suddenly looked at me.
“…Haa!”
Oh no, I’ve been caught. I knew he would be wary when we first met. I hurriedly closed the entrance of the stable again, and the sound of him being wary stopped.
However, I couldn’t hear the sound of him eating the snacks again. After waiting for a long time, it seemed that he had probably gone somewhere else, as there was no sign of him.
‘This is going to be a long fight.’
I lay down next to Reinhardt, who was fast asleep, probably because he was as tired as I was, and tried to go back to sleep.
Then, as soon as it was dawn, I checked the bowls I had left out in front of the stable with the snacks and Magic Stones, and they were completely empty. I couldn’t help but smile as I imagined the little guy enjoying the delicious food while keeping an eye on us while we were sleeping.
“Wouldn’t it be easy to win the guy’s favor if we just let him eat while we sleep?”
Reinhardt asked, looking at the empty bowls. It seemed that he had forgotten about yesterday’s events, judging by the fact that he was the one who initiated the conversation.
“He’ll probably keep coming here because he remembers how good this tastes. Then, we’ll have more time to run into him, and he’ll gradually get used to us. Oh, right. Speaking of which…”
Suddenly, I remembered another topic and asked Reinhardt.
“What happened with your kitten? You were worried that it would run away if you tried to touch it and that it might leave even if you avoided it.”
“Ah… um.”
Reinhardt seemed to be deeply troubled by the kitten as he sighed and lowered his gaze.
“She’s still the same. She ran away if I tried to touch her, but she kept tempting me, and I’m just getting frustrated…”
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