CH 285

Chapter 285: A Meal

“Looks like it’s to your taste, thankfully.”

“Yes. I apologize for saying this but their seafood meals taste much better than the ones that the royal chefs in the palace make. I might end up bringing them to the palace once we go back.”

“Then I’ll consider about it after…”

“Please don’t take the joke so seriously like that.”

Rihannan scolded him for taking it too seriously while taking some sh*llfish well cooked in b*tter and putting it on Igor’s dish. A bright smile covered Igor’s face. For the first time in his life, he ate some food that Rihannan had served to him directly. It was extremely sweet and smooth. He thought that he probably will remember this taste forever in his life.

Afterward, conversations between them flowed naturally as they did before.

“Actually, you did serve some meat onto my dish in the past. Do you know what went through my mind back then?”

“What were you thinking?”

“I thought that you may be actually trying to torture me or something, since I was so distressed back then and couldn’t digest anything I ate, and yet you were putting meat on my dish, trying to force me to eat it.”

“I- I just did that since you looked so weak and out of energy back then and…”

“I understand. Seeing you take half of the meat on the dish back, I knew that it wasn’t your intention.”

Rihannan stretched out her hand to reach a cooked vegetable. At the same time, Igor stretched out his hand to drink his water. The two hands slightly grazed each other in the air. Rihannan hurriedly pulled her arm back. She then turned her head away and tried to ignore him.

Seeing her act that way, Igor’s expression became stiffer and gloom. Just as he was about to fall into a deep depression, he saw between her flowing hair that Rihannan’s ears and cheek were completely red with blush. Rihannan’s pupils were moving quickly, not knowing what to do. That expression she had was definitely different than how she looked to have feared him previously.

Only then Igor realize that she may not be avoiding him but is simply just being shy. If hisa*sumption isn’t wrong here, the current emotion that Rihannan was feeling wasn’t the same discomfort she felt around him. It was actually the opposite.

“…”

Slowly, Igor’s lips curved upwards. He bit the inside of his mouth, trying not to laugh out loud. With the usual calm tone that he has, he spoke.

“If you aren’t full after eating all this, just tell me. We can always order more.”

After Rihannan’s stomach became full somewhat, her speed of eating the food became certainly slowed down. She then felt very tired as all the fatigue she had built up until now had suddenly come rushing back to her, and her eyelids started to droop. Just as Rihannan was about to nod off into sleep for a moment, a knock was heard from the door.

“If you have finished eating, I’m here to pick up the dishes!”

The person who opened the door and came in was the employee that brought the food to the room a while ago. Perhaps due to the fact that he saw Igor pulling out his sword in front of him, his gaze was fixated on Igor’s hips where the sword was hanging.

Most of the meals were actually eaten up at this point. Igor gestured with his hand, and the employee swiftly gathered up the dishes and left the room. Before the employee stepped out of the door, the employee shouted.

“Ah, and the bathwater will be sent inside right away.”

Rihannan asked after the employee left.

“Bathwater?”