Chapter Thirty One
Lucrezia and Milliardo were getting ready to leave. Lucrezia, before leaving, took Relena aside to speak to her.
"Thank you so much for helping organise this. I will be forever grateful of all the support you've given to us, especially to me…I am the happiest woman on Earth and I really wish you that you'll soon be as happy as I am. If anyone deserves it, that is you" said Lucrezia.
"I thank you for your kind words but I should be grateful to you. I know now that my brother is in the best hands and that you will do your best to keep him happy…" replied Relena.
"About that tiara…I told your brother and he said that he's sure that sooner or later it will be you who will use it…he also said that I've done a good job not accepting it, that tiara was specially modified by your mother, you see, she changed the emeralds it originally had with the sapphires so they would match your eyes…" explained Lucrezia.
Relena was speechless. Her mum had gone through so much trouble even though she must have been just a newborn baby when all of this had happened.
The two women hugged each other before Lucrezia had to leave. Before that she turned around and giving her back to the group of women, threw her bouquet. It was almost like God himself wanted it to be like that because it just fell in Hilde's hands. The German girl was shocked. Then she took it with one hand and lifting it shouted at Duo:
"I won!".
Duo shouted back:
"We're next then!".
Then Hilde realising what he had said, blushed deeply and looked around to find everyone smiling at her. 'Oh my gosh!' Hilde thought, 'What have I done!'.
Shortly after the newlyweds had left, Sally and Wufei made their excuses and left quickly. Everyone exchanged eloquent looks. They were followed by Lady Une and the group of preventers that had come to the wedding to do the surveillance.
Quatre, Trowa and Dorothy, after staying for a quick coffee, left too. They were going to spend the night in Dorothy's house not far away from Relena's.
Duo and Hilde, not being able to go back to L2 that same night, they accepted Relena's hospitality and stayed in the mansion.
Once they were left alone, Hilde asked Duo very seriously:
"Did you mean what you said earlier?".
"Babe, sure I did. You know that I want us to get married…" replied Duo.
"I know, is just that you have not mentioned it for a while…" said Hilde.
"I know, is just that I wanted to give you a break…so you would have time to think about it…" said Duo.
"Ah…I see…" said the German girl.
"Ok…let's go to bed…" said Duo thinking that the conversation was over.
"Hey, don't you want to hear my answer?" asked suddenly Hilde.
"What? I…" exclaimed Duo.
"My answer is yes. Duo, let's get married…" said Hilde kissing Duo.
"What?" repeated Duo pulling away.
"I said, let's get married…I'm ready now…" explained Hilde.
Duo just shouted his happiness. Lifted Hilde in his arms and made her spin with him in the air.