He could have played a little more with me, she mused, instead of telling me straight out. But I still thank him for telling me what I needed to know, even though it was rather shocking. All I was doing was watching the battle progress and I get a marriage proposal.
She laughed out loud. The attendants turned sharply around, staring at their mistress who was laughing for no reason.
"Go back to your duties." What she had realized, they never needed to know. Maybe not even her husband. He probably knew what he had done, but she¡¦d never really tell him that she knew as well. Better to keep it to a game.
What other man would let her have her own way? Yet something nagged in her mind. He knew too much about her, but he knew barely anything of his life, except for the basics, and what he had occasionally shared. He had dug deep into her yet she had barely scraped off his surface. Surely something was wrong.
One day, she vowed, she'd find a way to scrape off his tough exterior the way he did to me.
A horse and its rider left the estate.