
When the reception ended at 22:00, Andrew and Keiko were the last guests to get up from the chair and approach the bride who seemed to be glowing despite her apparent exhaustion. The six-hour event went well, no obstacles at all.
“Congratulations for your wedding,” Andrew said as he greeted Hansel and Cecille.
“I really hope you guys are happy forever,” said Keiko.
“Thank you,” reply Hansel and Cecille almost simultaneously.
“I think you owe me something, Sir,” Andrew's tease while winking at Hansel.
Hansel chuckled and patted Andrew on the shoulder.
“Now I really cannot hate you. I think I should thank you in person, how about going to Berlyn’s this weekend? I'm the one who deals,” he said.
Hansel's words made Keiko and Cecille cleared their throat and glared at their respective husbands. See if they can get into the room if they dare to go there for drinks!
“Welcome to join the real club, Brother,” Andrew whispered as he shrugged his shoulders with a helpless expression.
Hansel's laughter is getting wider. He raised his index finger and placed it on Andrew's chest, while the other hand was curled around Cecille's waist very possessively saying, “One more, in the future, otherwise ... I won't hesitate.”
Cecille was stunned to hear her husband's words. He glanced to the side and looked at the man with a look full of admiration and adoration. Being protected like that made her feel .. as if the entire world was within her grasp.
Andrew brushed off Hansel's finger with a nonchalant expression and replied, “Just relax, we are a family. Neither will my wife allow me to bully you. Later, if there is a problem .. we will face it together. Don't hesitate ...”
Hansel smiled and looked at Keiko. For the first time in his life, he felt calm and so relieved, as well as happy. Keiko really did get a very good husband. Hansel tightened his arms around Cecille's waist and promised inwardly to be a good husband to his wife as well.
Keiko stepped forward to hug Cecille. “Happy we can be a family,” whispered in the ear of the bride. Now he thinks they can really be friends.
“Thank you, forgive me first—“
“Forget,” interrupted Keiko as she patted Cecille's arm slowly. “Jaga Hiro well.”
“Um.” Cecille nodded and smiled sincerely towards Andrew and Keiko. “Thank you, Mr.Roux, Mrs.Roux ...”
Andrew Roux and Keiko present a magnificent manor on the outskirts of Paris for his marriage to Hansel. And funny, now he looked at the man without any ripples in his chest. Very calm, very ordinary ..different when Hansel touched and or looked at him, it feels like his heart almost always loses its rhythm.
Andrew waved his hand and replied, “No need to hesitate.”
“It's late, we say goodbye first,” said Keiko.
“Good. Be careful on the road,” reply Cecille.
Andrew patted Hansel's arm briefly, then took Keiko's hand and walked towards the exit.
Hansel looked at his wife and said, “So, Mrs Kobayashi .. let's go home?”
Cecille returned her husband's gaze and smiled widely.
“Um. But say goodbye to papa and mama first, otherwise he will whip you again,” reply while giving a seductive look.
Hansel sighed and circulated his gaze to look for his in-laws. The old man was really fierce, but how else .. he was one package with this very cute wife, could only resign and accept her destiny. He took Cecille to approach the Marquess and his wife who were talking to Marco Roux.
“Dad, Mother, Mr. Roux,” said as he bowed politely to the three elders before him.
“Thank you so much for being my guardian, Mr Roux,”.
“Do not hesitate, I should have done this,” reply Marco Roux. He turned to the host and said goodbye, “It was night, I went home first, Antonio, Maria.”
“Thank you, Marco.” Antonio shook his head and hugged his best friend tightly. He was very grateful that all the problems ended like this, although outside he was still being tough on Hansel, but he knew the man was able to take good care of his daughter.
“Often stop by here,” Maria added.
Marco Roux nodded and smiled widely before turning around and leaving the family of the Marquess. Along the way he muttered in satisfaction, occasionally shaking his head very happily. It is unexpected, in his old age he will get double happiness like this. Alfred, who was waiting for him in the car, smiled before starting the car and bringing his master back to the mansion.
In the main room of the castle, Hansel also said goodbye to his two in-laws.
“Dad, Mom, we'll be back to manor,” part.
“A dare to call me dad?” grunt Antonio.
Hansel stepped forward and hugged the old man tightly.
“Of course, like it or not .. From now on you are my father, I will take good care of you all," he replied with a wide grin.
Antonio was stunned for a moment, then reached out to wipe his daughter-in-law's shoulder at a glance.
“Hum. Live with happiness. I give my blessing to you guys,” he said slowly.
Beside him, Maria and Cecille were tearfully staring at the heartwarming sight. The two of them hugged each other and said goodbye.
“My grandson's body is fine,” Maria's message to her daughter. Tears dripped down his wrinkled cheeks.
Cecille reached out to wipe her mother's tears while nodding quickly.
“Do not worry, Mama .. we will often come visit you,” murmured with a hoarse voice.
“Already, already ...it's a happy day, don't cry anymore,” said the Marquess as she gently pushed her daughter towards Hansel.
“Go home. I've asked the driver to drop you off.”
“Thank you, Dad. We go first.” Hansel grabbed his wife by the waist and walked out.
Tonight they will instantly occupy the manor given by Andrew and Keiko. He has been asking his people to tidy up and organize the building since last week. For other furniture that must be filled into the rooms in it, let his wife arrange it according to her taste.
...***...
“Come, get off ...,” take Hansel while opening the car door for Cecille.
The woman went down and stared at the architecture of the building before her in awe. Andrew Roux and his wife were really very generous. He secretly plans to give a reward in return when Keiko gives birth later. There is a castle in Germany that is very beautiful, very suitable for the twins. Cecille was satisfied with his thoughts and intended to discuss them with Hansel when there was free time.
“Oh!”
Cecille screeched when suddenly his body lifted up and floated in the air. He reflexively wrapped his hands around Hansel's neck.
“What do you do?” scold while glaring. Really surprised him.
“Mistress Kobayashi, I have a surprise for you,” replied Hansel as he winked.
He carried his wife through the hallways decorated with a bouquet of flowers and large candles that made the atmosphere look romantic. Several servants greeted them at each entrance and greeted them politely.
Upon entering the main hall, Cecille was again surprised to find a row of people dressed in all black in the middle of the room. There were dozens ...no, there seemed to be hundreds of people standing with their heads lowered.
“Hansel, who are they?” whispered Cecille while gripping the collar of her husband's clothes tightly.
Hansel lowered his wife right in front of the line, helped her stand up firmly before turning to the line in front of him and giving the order, “Greet your Madam.”
“Mrs!” the men shouted simultaneously while kneeling on one leg.
Cecille's mouth opened and closed without a sound. He looked at Hansel and the troops in front of him in turn. His bright blue eyes seemed dazed and astonished at one time, making Hansel anxious and wanting to kiss him loudly.
“They are my men. Don't worry, they are very adept at disguise, you won't notice at all when they are around you,” explained the man as he rubbed his wife's back affectionately.
“For what are they near me?” Cecille hissing softly.
Hansel chuckled at his wife's response. He pecked at the corner of the woman's lips gently before replying, “Of course to take care of you and our child later. From today, other than me .. you are the only person who has the right to give them orders.”
Cecille didn't know what to respond to. He was still staring at the line in front of him with a complicated expression.
“It's enough, you can go!” Hansel's orders.
With just that one command, the line in front of Cecille dispersed without a sound. When the woman blinked once, there was no one else in front of her.
How do they go?
“Oh!”
The woman shrieked again as her body floated back up. Hansel carried her up the stairs, walking down the hallways and pillars before finally stopping in front of the wooden door of a light brown room. The man pushed the door leaf with his foot, then stepped in and laid his wife on the bed.
Hansel wrapped his wife's body with both arms, then lowered his head until their faces were only a inch apart before asking, “My wife, are you happy?”
Cecille blinked with mixed feelings. Does this tickling feeling in his stomach that makes his heart beat like a broken clock mean that he is happy?
Very slowly he reached out to grab Hansel's face and landed a light kiss on his lips. This way her husband should know that she is happy, ‘kan?
Hansel replied to his wife excitedly.
"Wait a minute." Cecille held back her husband's mischievous hands.
"There's a baby ..," she whispered very quietly. Her face was flushed red looking at the mist on her husband's face that looked thick and dangerous.
"I won't hurt the baby, very slowly ...."
The man leaned over and licked his wife's neck, sniffing at the smell of roses coming out of her hair. As his face moved down to his wife's chest poking out from behind the bra, he could hear a racing heartbeat like the clattering of a horse's legs.
The man hugged his wife's body tightly, letting their heart beat and resonate in the same wave ....
...***...
In the villa of Dinan city, a man makes use of the opportunity as his wife no longer vomits while nearby. He snared the tiny body tightly, sniffing his neck and chest so that the woman in his arms wriggled.
“Stop!” keiko yelled while hitting her husband's arm. The man's fingers crept like snakes on his stomach and waist!
Andrew summarized Keiko's face and kissed her fiercely, kissing her until the woman gasped for breath.
“I miss so much,” whispered the man in between their kisses.
“There is still a baby, you can't—“
“I'll be very slow,” persuade Andrew.
Keiko's face is heating up. What is slow?! Ambiguous words like this made him crumble. He had not protested when Andrew had stripped them of their clothes very quickly, then touched them everywhere, persuading them so carefully that their bodies were turned into water, drifting in the gentle treatment of the man.
Between the roar of irregular breaths and the sweat mixed with saliva who it belonged to, Andrew whispered again in the ears of his wife, “In this life and the next, you are only mine. Kinara Lee ... Sakamoto Keiko .. whoever you are I will find you and take good care of you .. will love you with all my heart and soul.”.
Keiko's eye pellets are heating up. It was the most beautiful promise he had ever heard. She reached out and hugged her husband's neck tightly and replied, “I will always be waiting for you ..”.
Spring flowers are everywhere. The aroma swerved in and out of the night wind. Under the moonlight that pierced through the windowpanes, a true pair that tied each other to each other's promise moved slowly in rhythm with the calm flowing stream of the Rance River. The long waiting full of struggle paid off with all the love and longing that burst, melted and filled every niche with warmth.
...EXPIRE...
...***...