The King's Unbreakable Wife-Chapter 126: Cover (4)

"Tell me honestly, you are some kind of pervert, aren’t you?" Hazel asked, moving her foot from Tobias’s hands. He might like her foot being there a little more than he should. "Tell me now so I know if I should run out of the palace."

"Pervert? Of all things you think that I am a pervert?" Tobias questioned, amused by the claim. "The pain must be getting to your head and how do you plan to run out of the palace when you were finding it hard to walk back to your room?"

"How would you know when you left the first chance you got with that short goodbye?" Hazel asked.

"Wait," Tobias said, reaching for her foot as he spoke to put the last of the ointment. "Were you disappointed that I didn’t walk you back to your room?"

"Why would I be disappointed?" Hazel asked, realising her mistake.

"Because I have been going out of my way to be near you. I’m sorry, but I had to get the ointment first before the doctor would return to his room-"

"Did you steal this?" Hazel interjected, worried about the trouble he could get in.

"I wouldn’t call it stealing since I own everything in the palace. Think of it as getting what’s mine in secret so you don’t get in trouble."

Hazel was lost as to why she would get in trouble when he would go for it. "I did not send you for this ointment. Why am I getting in trouble for everything you do?"

Tobias felt there was more to what happened today that he had to hear. "What do you mean? What did you get in trouble for?"

He couldn’t think of something he did today that Hazel should get in trouble for. Tobias had behaved like he always did and was extra careful now that he had a deal going to Hazel. "Did my mother say something to you?"

"No," Hazel answered.

"I see why you try to be honest all the time. You’re an awful liar which is good for me. What is it? It had to have been my mother," Tobias assumed as there was no one else he could think of to bother Hazel.

"You should have waited until you were finished with your studies to go to your mother about the dresses. It must be a little suspicious as if the two of us met for you to know the dresses did not fit," Hazel answered, leaving out part of the story.

"I need all of you to stop thinking that I am just abandoning my duties. I get breaks and walk around to do what I want during them. Does my mother think you’re distracting me?" Tobias asked.

"Yes." Hazel nodded her head.

"Well, you are."

"You!" Hazel exclaimed, not believing he was agreeing with his mother. "How am I distracting you? You came to me this morning and now."

"You’re a pretty distraction, Hazel. You come around and do nothing, but it distracts me so she’s not wrong. Did she speak of me needing to be perfect?’ Tobias questioned, having an idea of how the story went.

It wasn’t a story only told to Hazel as his friends in the past would hear it. They were not to come to the palace at certain times of the day to distract him.

"Yes, you’ve heard this many times," Hazel noted because of his quick guess. "Is it because of the court?"

"They only have one heir. No other princes as a spare so I have to be perfect. I can’t give the court any reason to doubt my accession to the throne. I can’t have the kingdom worrying about whether I will take care of it. During the hours that I am to work, no one must come around to distract me. I’ve heard it from what age? Seven?" Tobias guessed.

"Honestly, why didn’t the two of them have more sons? One of our distant relatives has four children. I wouldn’t mind if I were to have brothers eyeing the throne. I would give it up in a heartbreak so they could fight over that seat."

"Sometimes I am happy to have you here because you treat me like a normal person, but then I get upset with myself for bringing you to a place I hate. It crossed my mind that I should have let you go and picked someone I didn’t care for to come here as my wife," Tobias confessed.

Hazel didn’t know what to say to Tobias. It was never a thought to her that he would regret announcing that he wanted to marry her.

"People here like to say that once you have some tie to the palace you cannot get out, but if there is ever a day you want to leave, tell me and I will make a way out of here for you," Tobias promised.

He couldn’t easily leave, but he would get Hazel out if she ever came to feel suffocated. Tobias would let her go far away even if he could never see her again as long as she would be happy wherever she was.

"It’s a bit scary," Tobias muttered, realising the state he was in. He was pitiful. All his friends would laugh at him if they knew.

"What is?" Hazel asked softly. There were many emotions she was feeling right now because of his honesty.

"How much I like you. I need to get out of here before you make me say something stupid," Tobias said, carefully putting her foot back on the bed.

Hazel felt sorry for Tobias because it was a little late for that. "You always say something stupid so why stop now? I kind of enjoy it. If I ever want to leave the palace, I am not leaving unless you come with me so don’t think of finding a way out for only me."

"I don’t mind becoming the kingdom’s enemy for stealing you away. You deserve to be free if that is what you seek. If either of us wants to run, we go together. Promise," Hazel said, sticking out only her pinky finger for the deal.

"Oh, how much you must love me to want to run away with me. I’m touched," Tobias replied, touching his chest.

"Forget it," Hazel muttered, moving her hand back to hold up the blanket.

"I’ll make that deal as long as you promise me something. Don’t wear a nightgown like that on our wedding night-"

"Get out." Hazel used her right foot to try pushing him off the bed.

"Your feet must be getting better already with how strong you are kicking me. How am I to leave when you look so beautiful when you’re angry? I’ll go now so you don’t die from embarrassment because you’re flustered," Tobias said, standing up from the bed before Hazel could injure her foot again.

"Who wouldn’t be flustered when you speak of a wedding night when we’re not yet married? I don’t want to hear anything about it," said Hazel.

"Unfortunately for you, that will be brought up during your lessons. Don’t think too much about it since I don’t plan to touch you that night," Tobias announced. "I don’t plan to touch you according to their schedule. That’ll be between us alone. Goodnight, Hazel."

Hazel pulled the blanket up to her face so Tobias couldn’t enjoy the state he was putting her in. "Good night you fool."