A TALE OF FIRE AND ICE

One More Time

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"CAPTAIN, please rise," Irene said when she finally gathered the courage to speak while looking at Lisa's intense gaze.

Lisa, without breaking their eye contact, stood in front of her with a blank look on his handsome face. She only reached his chest so he had to literally look down just to meet her gaze. "Lady Prescott?"

"Please just call me 'Irene,'" she said before giving him a curtsy. "Good evening, Sir Lisa."

"You don't have to be so formal with me, Irene," he said, mentioning her name in a firm voice. She liked how he didn't hesitate to call her by her first name as if he wanted to be close with her so bad. "You can also call me by my name, too."

She couldn't help but smile at their fast progress.

In her past life, they only started to call each other by their first names after she gave birth to Winter. But now, they were obviously comfortable with each other right away.

[I'll definitely change our future.]

"Lisa, first of all, let me apologize to you for keeping my identity from you," she said. "I understand if you're angry. But I hope you let me give you an explanation."

"I'm not angry," he denied in his usual monotonous voice. But despite his stoic look, the glow in his golden eyes showed his interest. "Did I scare you?"

She nodded as confirmation. "You glared at me."

"Ah, I wasn't glaring you," he said with a hint of embarrassment in his voice. "I was just berating myself for being stupid. Had I known you were Lady Prescott from the very beginning, I wouldn't have held back the night you asked me to"

"Woah, Captain!" she said, then covered his mouth with her hands. Gosh, her cheeks were flushed but the captain remained as stoic as usual. "Are you really about to say that I asked you to s-sleep with me that night?"

He nodded, his golden orbs sparkling in amusement.

"Gosh," she complained, getting more and more embarrassed by the minute. "You're a knight. Aren't you supposed to protect a lady's honor?"

Well, she was perfectly aware that it wouldn't happen if she didn't ask him to sleep with her. She just didn't expect him to bring it up right away.

[Where's the indifferent husband that I know?]

Lisa gently tapped the back of her hand with his finger.

[Oh.]

She removed her hands from his mouth.

"I'm glad that we're having this conversation. Because this proves that we really met that night," Lisa said in a somewhat gentle tone. He was really in the mood to talk tonight, huh? "I searched for you all over the town the next day, Lisa. When I didn't find you, I thought you were just a beautiful dream. If the squires of my troop didn't see you then, I would have probably believed that you were a goddess that I luckily stumbled upon."

Okay, now her whole face felt hot. In her previous life, she was married to Lisa for more than ten years but he never complimented her that way. "G-Goddess?"

"Goddess of crabs."

She glared at him even though she could tell from his playful tone that he was just teasing her, then she playfully hit his chest.

[Wow, it's solid!]

Casually touching a man wasn't a common behavior for a lady in that empire. But since she also remembered her life as a modern woman, she couldn't help but sometimes act like how she did in the modern world. She was trying hard to act like a proper lady to avoid suspicions from the people around her.