One week later.
Inside Laura's room.
Adela entered the room carrying a tray of food. She placed the food on the table. "Lady, enjoy your meal," she said wearing a pleasant smile on her face.
"Thank you, Adela," Laura replied. She went to the table and looked at the dishes. She saw a platter of rice, a bowl of chicken soup, and fried fish, and there are two ripe bananas as well.
She picked up the banana and began eating it.
"Lady, the Lord told me that you can visit the garden after lunch if you like," Adela said.
"Nice! I'll come down to the garden later after I'm done eating," she replied.
"Okay, I'll prepare the picnic blanket. I'll take my leave now," Adela said.
"You should eat lunch before preparing the picnic blanket," Laura said.
"Yes, I will, my lady. I'll take my leave now, enjoy your meal!" Adela said and left the room.
Laura lowered herself on the chair and began eating her meal with gusto.
One hour later.
Adela returned to take the dishes away and bring them to the kitchen for washing. "The picnic blanket will be ready in a while, my lady..."
"Okay, no need to hurry, take your time," she responded.
Adela picked up the tray and exited the room.
Half an hour later, Adela returned. "My lady, the picnic table and blanket are now ready," she said.
"Alright, let's go downstairs and go to the garden," Laura replied excitedly.
The women left the room and went downstairs, they exited the main door and walked on the path leading to the garden located at the back of the house.
When they arrived there, the picnic blanket and the table were already in place, and there was also pillows and blanket.
Laura smiled brightly and went to the picnic blanket. "Wow, this is cozy!" she gushes and lowered herself on the blanket.
"Enjoy the garden, my lady. I'll prepare some orange juice and biscuits for you," Adela said and walked away from the garden.
Laura fixed her gaze on the blooming flowers. The yellow and white daffodil flowers are refreshing to the eyes.
A few minutes later, Luke can be seen walking on the path approaching the garden. He lowered himself beside Laura.
"Are you enjoying the colorful flowers?" he asked gently, looking forward to having a decent conversation with her.
Laura took a deep breath. She's here to enjoy the flowers alone, she doesn't like having Luke's company in the garden. But she might as well reasonably deal with him, she's still very much his prisoner despite that they already got intimate again. "Yeah..." comes her short bland reply.
Luke sighed. It's obvious that she's still not in the mood to talk to her based on her dry reply. She didn't even glance at him when she replied to his question. He might have claimed her body once again but her feelings towards him are as dark as the night. He will wait for her to love him again, now that they're living under one roof, they will get closer to each other - whether she likes it or not.
"How's the baby?" He asked the one question that can make her talkative.
Laura's body tensed up, she breathed deeply and looked at him. "The baby is growing inside my tummy, I hope you're no longer planning to kill my baby," she told him.
Luke sighed. "Of course! Now that we agreed on a deal, I will never back out from my words. I also hope that when your husband will find you, you won't leave me and go with him," he said.
Laura didn't reply and kept her silence. To avoid angering him, she can't say to his face that once she will see her husband she will go with him.
Luke was waiting for her reply. "Can you promise me that you won't go with your husband if he found you?"
Laura bit her lip. "He won't be able to find me because you put a concealing power around me, therefore you don't have to worry about it," she finally replied. Instead of answering him directly and angering him, she reminded him that she can't easily be found by her husband.
Luke knew that she was playing it safe, he already expected that she won't give him an honest answer. But even if she will say to him that she will avoid her husband and won't leave with him, that's a big lie. He knows that Laura had fallen madly in love with his twin brother. To be honest, when he died, he kind of expecting it already that once Graven and Laura's paths will cross, they will surely fall for each other.
But it's hard for him to accept that.
He just can't endure the painful truth that he met Laura first, but instead, she married his brother in the end.
It's a hard blow on his pride.
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