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"...Marry you?!" Ciel gasped at Alois in disbelief.
"Why not, Ciel?!" Alois asked, flashing Ciel a giddy smile. "I'm in love with you…..you know that! You must feel something for me too….we're a good match! Our families already own property together, we're both in the same social standing…...why not?! Say yes and let's be together and then you'll never have to worry about Sebastian interfering again!"
Ciel blinked at Alois for a moment, then she gave him a mirthless chuckle and raised a hand to her face to rub her temple.
Alois was making Ciel dizzy with all of his naive assumptions.
Ciel certainly felt something for Alois, sure, but she barely knew the blonde Earl………it wasn't as if they were a prearranged match.
Alois thought that he could just propose to her and that would be the end of their worries?
Ha!
Alois thought that a simple thing like a marriage would make Sebastian relinquish the jealousy and possessiveness that he felt towards Ciel?
Ha!
Putting the handsomeness of Alois's face aside, Ciel was struck by how ignorant and immature the blonde Earl really was…..
"Alois, it's not that simple." Ciel tried to explain with a sigh.
"Sure it is." Alois replied with a shrug. "Hurry up, Ciel. Accept my hand and we can spend every day and every night together. Won't that be fun?!"
"Yes, perhaps it would be, in an ideal world." Ciel huffed, a pout forming on her pink lips. "But I can't live my life in a delusional fantasy, Earl Trancy. Besides Sebastian, I have too many obligations and I face far too many dangers to jeopardize you by becoming your spouse."
"I don't care." Alois stubbornly insisted. "I want you, Ciel. Please! Please say-"
The parlor door opened and then amazingly, it promptly closed again.
Both Ciel and Alois looked up, expecting someone to enter the room but when no one did, their eyes fell back onto each other.
"Listen, Alois……" Ciel sighed. "Just give me some time, alright? I don't want you to get hurt. People I care about have an uncanny way of ending up dead."
"I can manage just fine." Alois said reassuringly, looking at Ciel with a smirk as he straightened his back and drew closer to the bluenette. "All I want to do is be with you…..I want to hold you, to take care of you, to stand beside you…."
Ciel frowned and opened her mouth to speak, "Alois, I——"
Alois took the opportunity as soon as he saw it….
Ciel's words were cut off as Alois quickly dove in and pressed his lips against Ciel's.
Maybe Ciel would marry him, maybe she wouldn't….
Maybe they could be together for the rest of their lives, maybe not……
But at least Alois could have one more kiss~.
Ciel sighed against Alois's lips and Alois gently laid a hand on the side of her cheek.
Their kiss was sweet but passionate and Alois took several long, languid moments to savor it before he pulled away from the bluenette.
Ciel's cheeks were heated again, but instead of a blush, Alois saw a soft glow on her pale skin and he sighed as he pleaded, "Be with me, Ciel~."
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Outside the door, Sebastian continued to snarl at Claude but the other butler remained calm.
"You clearly stated that you would allow my master to pursue the heart of yours." Claude reminded Sebastian.
Cautiously, Claude took his hand off of Sebastian's and crossed his arms.
Sebastian growled in frustration. "That's true, yes, but I told Alois Trancy that for that to happen-"
"That does not matter to me." Claude interrupted Sebastian, "My only concern is that so far you have failed to uphold your end of our agreement. Why did you hide my master's letters?"
Sebastian frowned at Claude.
"Is it because you were trying to free yourself from our arrangement? Or is it because you were pursuing your own selfish interests regarding Ciel Phantomhive?" Claude asked shrewdly.
"I apologize about the letters." Sebastian said stoically, regaining his composure. "However, your master is—-"
"-More competitive than you realized?" Claude asked, interrupting Sebastian again.
"Alois Trancy is much more persistent than I thought." Sebastian smiled as he corrected Claude.
"If Alois Trancy's love for Ciel Phantomhive angers you so much, then I would imagine you'll be even more willing to help me destroy him." Claude replied.
"Perhaps……" Sebastian nodded.
Claude and Sebastian studied each other silently for a moment.
To Sebastian, lingering outside the door with Claude felt like a huge waste of his time.
Sebastian needed to go inside the parlor and rescue Ciel before it was too late!
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"Alois……" Ciel murmured, in between their kiss.
Alois pretended not to hear Ciel and he slid his hands around her waist in an attempt to get even closer to her until she pulled back and pouted at the blonde.
"I'm sorry, but I can't accept your proposal." Ciel said very firmly.
Alois's eyes widened instantly and he huffed at Ciel like a deprived child, "Ciel! But…...but….why?!? Doesn't our love mean anything to you?! I'd be an excellent husband! I'd never hurt you, I'd never abandon you, I'd—-"
Ciel put her finger over Alois's lips to quiet him and Alois resisted the urge to open his mouth.
"Our feelings have nothing to do with it, Alois." Ciel replied. "You don't understand…….I wouldn't do well as a wife, for you or anyone else."
"-But Ciel!" Alois cried forlornly.
"I'm sorry, Alois" Ciel repeated, looking sadly into the blonde's ocean blue eyes.
Alois's grief seemed to leave him after a new idea slowly emerged in his mind.
A scheming, underhanded idea……...
"May I at least have another kiss, Ciel?" Alois asked very politely.
Ciel blushed but as Alois leaned in, Ciel didn't pull away.
Alois brushed his lips against the bluenette's once more and this time, he smirked at how receptive she was.
As Alois kissed Ciel again, slowly, deliberately, deeply, he silently made up his mind.
If Ciel wouldn't marry him due to her current situation, then Alois supposed he would just have to organize another situation~.
A situation in which Ciel would have no choice but to either marry him or be ruined forever……..