Chapter 222: Sorry but, you’ll need more than just chocolate to entice me

After that thorough discussion, we'd established quite a few things. 

One, I wouldn't be doing this alone. Two, we wouldn't meaninglessly start a fight and three, if everything worked out, life would be amazing. 

The thought of me being a father kind of ruined all that for me though. I knew nothing about parenting. Hell, I didn't even have a father. So, I had no idea what they were supposed to be like and what they were even supposed to do.

And more importantly, wouldn't doing it with Marg be…well, not feasible anymore and she'd go through weird mood changes and not feel like it? Actually, I didn't know much about pregnancy to even make a guess at that. 'Back to the memory instiller, I guess.' 

Come to think of it, I never brought my things back. 'Oh yeah, Merin was apparently, busy at the time.'

Sigh. 

"What?" Elsa froze my cheeks with a cold glass of lemon juice aka, lemonade. 

Just because it wasn't freezing inside, didn't mean, she had to freeze my frigging face off!

Obviously, I didn't say that. I wanted to drink lemonade anyway. Elsa always made the best lemonade- even better than mom. After we were done discussing, Elsa made them in batches. And she'd given it to everyone here at the guestroom but me. 

And I was really waiting for my turn too. For a second there, I thought she was maybe even a little mad at me for something. But I guess everything was dumbfounded. After all, just as I took a small sip, bliss!

Yeah, it was that good. The perfect blend of fragrance, sugar and sour. Just a single glass wasn't enough. But- since she won't be making more, I had to savor every last bit of this. 

"Nothing, really. Just wondering things." A lot of things.

Things that weren't even making sense. I had way too many things to worry about. 

There were all of us here in the guestroom but they were mostly spaced far away. Grandma, mom, and uncle were questioning the girl from another world. Enira was doing all the translating.

I was in a corner in a chair, sitting alone though. Obviously, worrying way too much.

"Well, don't wonder too much or you'll end up complicating things without meaning to." She was being a bit too mature for once. And She didn't act that surprised as she heard the whole thing either. 

I mean, she wasn't wrong. I did have the tendency to complicate things. 

But was she really alright? To me, she was just a kid. My little sister. And yet, she had to listen in on this whole world invasion thing and all that. 'Then again, we are supervillains, so I guess she's okay with all this?'

"Did you know?"

"Know about?"

"About mom and gramps and all that."

"No, not really. I'm just as surprised as you guys but what they were has nothing to do with us. They are our family and that's it. We don't need to question where they were from."

'Is this brat, seriously, my little sister?'

Yeah, I had my doubts.

"By the way," Raea came this way. "Nice house."

And then I realized, there was actually an outsider here. How the hell did I forget about her?

And now I had another thing to worry about.

"Thanks, and though I hate to ask you to leave, it's really late and-"

"And you won't ask a girl to wander in the blizzard at this hour, right?" She had a radiant smile.

I was really conflicted, actually. I didn't know if asking her to leave was the best call. I knew she was trouble, but she did help me with this, and she kind of just meddled all on her own. Also, now she knew our insider information. We couldn't just let her leave without any precautions and we couldn't just kick her out in the blizzard either. 

Really, a predicament. 'Wait, what the hell am I even thinking?'

I guess spending the whole evening with my cousins, really did a number on me. 

Sigh. 

"Don't worry, I won't ask you to leave tonight and I trust, no word of any of this will ever get out?"

I was studying her face as she stared at me with a bit of confusion and surprise.

"But why would I leak my family's secrets?"

What the hell did she just say?

"Huh?" Apparently, Elsa and I were in unison. 

And we'd just caught the eyes of mom, grandma, and uncle who were in a heated debate about who's lemonade was better even just a minute ago.

"What do you mean, your family?" Elsa asked, rather cautiously.

"Well…" Raea fiddled with her toes. "Let's just say, I'm interested in marrying him too." Did she really have to be that frank?

"Didn't you say you just wanted to be a slave or something?" And I just had to open my big mouth, because I was getting way more glares than usual. "I'll shut up now."

Actually, maybe it was best to just run away from here. 

"What does he mean? And what do you mean?" Marg stood between me and Raea.

Suddenly my lonely chair was surrounded by a lot of people.

'How the hell are you going to get out of this one Helio Romswell Jintel?'

I had no idea.

"Well, I'm in love with him. And though at first, I thought I'd be content with just being near him, just seeing him from twenty meters away…" She looked a tad sadder. "I'm not and I want him and I want him bad."

Well, she was blunt.

Wait, had I said something about her staying twenty meters away from me? And my hazy memory syndrome found a very convenient time to make its return. 

"Oh? Really?" Uncle joined in on the madness as he stood next to me. "You know when I was your age, girls also fawned over me. A bit more than you'd think." He laughed loudly. 

Yeah, I doubted that. Uncle was never a ladies' man anyway. How he managed to land a beauty like auntie was really beyond me. But more importantly, I had a hard time believing auntie would even allow this guy to go near other girls. Actually, it was probably auntie, who bound him, not the other way around.

Come to think of it, all girls of the Romswell family were weird. 'Actually, if both Gramps and Mom's mom were not from this world, wouldn't that not make me a Romswell?'

Oh boy. I took a deep breath. 'No, I'm a Romswell.' I couldn't and didn't want to even think about this thing. I was what I believed. Lineage had nothing to do with this. These guys were my family and I was theirs.

"I recognize and respect your love for me. However, as I said before-" I was going to decline her. I couldn't just take in every girl who had feelings for me. After all, I only had feelings for one. Okay, maybe two. But I didn't want to cross that delicate line and screw my relationship with Marg. 

Raea sighed. "I didn't want to do this but- Remember our deal? I'll double the amount. Everyday." She winked. 

'Double chocolate every day!?' 

I knew exactly what she meant. I could almost feel my mouth water. But I had to contain it. "Sorry but, you'll need more than just chocolate to entice me."