He chuckled at her words and then replied, "And you still want me like that, don't you, my silly naughty little wife?" He pinched her nose playfully.
If only she knew how he had been tempted every night to come to her. But then, he had been good at holding himself back from what he wanted. He had pretended he had no wife and continued with his life until he was certain she missed him enough to reach out to him first.
But then she had come to search for him—or more precisely, Kuhn, the damned hypocrite, had brought her to his art room to reveal to her things about him she was curious about behind his back.
Rohan fought the urge to go and search for the creature. He had switched so fast ever since Belle had started to see him. Before, he hung around Rohan like a tail, and now it was his wife. And since she couldn't understand the words he wanted to tell her, the damned hypocrite had come to show it to her.
Very soon, Rohan thought, he would use Kuhn for firewood in the fireplace!
