Claudio Belles took a sip of his milk, the white foam frothing slightly around his lips like an afterthought.
Edward the Third stared at his lips, eyes slightly darkened, and reached up to wipe the milk foam from around his mouth.
The movement was natural.
“Are you the Dragon’s Gate Gangsters?”
Claudio Belles nodded, then looked down and stirred the bowl of millet porridge, saying lightly, “The Mr. ito of the Dragon’s Gate Gangsters likes me, that’s why he wants me to stay with him.”
Eduardo Tercero’s handsome face, steepened several degrees colder.
“Doesn’t he know you’re my wife?”
Claudio Belles continued with deliberate provocation, “Yes, but that young lord of the Dragon’s Gate Gangsters probably loves me too much to want me as I am.”
Eduardo Tercero’s eyes grew cold.
The Dragon Gate Gangsters, true, would not let the Dragon Gate Gangsters live in peace in the future.
He is a thief of women and seeks death.
Claudio Belles looked up, put down his chopsticks, put his hand to his chin and looked at Eduardo Tercero with teary eyes, “Eduardo Tercero, I don’t have to be you, there are a lot of people who love me, so if you don’t love me, there are a lot of people who love me. ”
Eduardo Tercero wasn’t bothered by this, he just looked at her with a smile, “If you didn’t want me, why did you risk running away from the Dragon Gate Gangsters?”
“I didn’t like being held captive by him.”
“Claudio, marry me.”
An abrupt marriage proposal, unprecedented.
Eduardo Tercero’s weak expression, as if to say, Claudio, it’s a beautiful day, let’s go for a walk.
“President Eduardo Tercero, you are not proposing marriage with as much sense as you should.”
Claudio Belles puffed out his mouth, spoon in hand, slapping the porridge in his bowl, clearly disgusted.
Eduardo Tercero looked at the strawberry muffin next to him and said, “This muffin was made by me, don’t you want to try it?”
Claudio Belles took a bite with a teaspoon and then saw inside the cake, embedded in it, a diamond ring.
“…”
A flock of crows flew over Claudio Belles’ head.
The woman frowned, looking at the dirty diamond ring: “President Eduardo Tercero, who taught you to declare yourself like that?”.
Eduardo Tercero saw that this was not right and frowned slightly: “What is it, not right?”.
“No, of course it isn’t. It’s a bad way to hide a diamond ring in a cake in this day and age.”
Edward the Third: “…”
That old K, what a shitty idea to give him!
May he be sent to the great wilderness next!
…
A month later, Eduardo Tercero and Claudio Belles celebrated their big wedding on the island of Serban.
Serban, Eduardo Tercero’s private island.
The wedding was a low-key affair, with only close friends and family invited.
…
Six months later, Eduardo Tercero resigned as head of the Hidden Organization and moved in with Claudio Belles.
All over the world, they left their footprints.
After seeing the world, the two returned to their private island to start making children.
…
Another six months.
Early one morning, still asleep.
Eduardo Tercero’s cell phone kept ringing, with orders to return to his post as head of the Hidden Organization.
Eduardo Tercero looked at the woman sleeping soundly in the crook of his arm. A year after their marriage, no longer exposed to those fish killings or the people of the organization, her ever-vigilant habit of light sleep had gradually changed and now she was in his arms, sleeping deeply and soundly.
It was very valuable for people like them to have a good night’s sleep.
Edward the Third gently withdrew his arm, took the phone out of the bedroom, stepped out onto the balcony, looked at the blue sea and the seagulls flying not far away, and picked up the phone.
“Hello, what’s up?”
The old K there was eight million: “President Eduardo Tercero, the cabinet situation has been so tumultuous since you left with Madame, that the President has strongly urged me to get in touch with you to get back to presiding over the situation.”
Edward the Third raised an eyebrow, holding the phone in one hand and the balcony railing in the other, gazing at the wonderful view not far away, and hooked his thin lips.
“But I am married to a woman who is not acceptable to the people of R.”
“The president gave the order six months ago that, whatever the condition of the wife you have married, you are to return and object no more!”.
Eduardo Tercero, however, was dismissive and let the sentence drop in a haze: “I’m really relieved to have the weight off my shoulders now, and I’m obsessed with that feeling.”
Old K looks up at the sky: …
…
Inside the bedroom, Claudio Belles stirred, reaching out without touching Eduardo Tercero’s person, and woke up with his eyes open.
He looked up at the white curtains of the billowing veil, at the blue sea and the blue sky outside, another fine day.
He got up.
He went into the bathroom and washed.
It wasn’t long before a shout came from the bathroom.
“Edward the Third!”
The man who was on the balcony talking on the phone, hearing a scream, thought something had happened and rushed from outside the balcony.
“What’s wrong?”
Pushing open the bathroom door, he saw Claudio Belles sitting on the toilet, his long hair disheveled, like a little maniac, with a pregnancy test in his hand.
With a sullen little face, Claudio Belles handed the pregnancy test to Eduardo Tercero: “Look for yourself what you have done!”.
Eduardo Tercero took the pregnancy test and scanned it, he was a big man who had never used one of these things and naturally didn’t understand it.
“What does this mean?”
It showed two red bars, one dark and one light.
Eduardo Tercero was more concerned about whether his body was wrong somewhere than this pregnancy test.
Eduardo Tercero held up the pregnancy test, one long leg over one knee, and asked the small woman sitting on the toilet with a somber look, “What’s wrong, don’t you feel good?”
Eduardo Tercero reached up and pushed her long, unruly hair behind her ear.
Claudio Belles looked at him, eyes sad but hopeless, and reached up to push it away, saying softly, “Don’t touch me now.”
“…”
Edward the Third thought it was her period; she hadn’t looked good whenever she’d had one in the year since the wedding.
“Are you on your period? Not enough belly?”
Eduardo Tercero’s cell phone, leaning against the sink, was still on hold, on the line with Old Man K.
Old K, hearing President Eduardo Tercero’s affectionate tone, gasped; President Eduardo Tercero did not want to save face, become a slave to the wife.
Claudio Belles came out of the bathroom and Eduardo Tercero followed him with the pregnancy test.
“Claudio, what’s wrong?”
Claudio Belles scratched his hair in annoyance and turned to look at Eduardo Tercero. “I didn’t get my period this month.”
Eduardo Tercero said patiently, “Then let’s go see a doctor?”
He walked over to her and tried to hug her. Claudio Belles reached out and placed her hand against his chest, her watery eyes looked at the man with pity.
Eduardo Tercero’s head ached slightly at the sight of her.
Claudio Belles took a deep breath, looked straight into her dark eyes and said in one word, “Eduardo Tercero, I am pregnant.”
“…”
For about five seconds, Eduardo Tercero did not respond, he just stood there, staring at her in amazement.
Seeing Eduardo Tercero like that, Claudio Belles guessed that he didn’t want the baby either, after all, it had come so suddenly.
He bit his lip, took a breath and said, “Eduardo Tercero, I’ve thought about it, this child, we can do without it for a while, after all, we just got married and we haven’t had enough of each other, if…”
Edward the Third’s eyebrows drew together before he could finish the sentence, “Why don’t you want the child you have for me? This child, he must stay.”
The man’s tone was commanding and firm.
“…”
But she didn’t want it. She didn’t want to be pregnant.
Claudio Belles dropped straight onto the bed, clutching a pillow to one side and covering his face.
Eduardo Tercero was startled and rushed to embrace her, “Claudio, you’re pregnant now, don’t move dangerously.”
“…”
Eduardo Tercero pulled the pillow away from her face and saw her sad, pretty little face.
Claudio Belles’ delicate eyebrows furrowed, flattening her red lips as she looked at Eduardo Tercero bitterly, “Eduardo Tercero, I don’t want to have a baby…”
Eduardo Tercero lifted her onto his lap and coaxed her, “Women always have to have children, you’re not too young, if you have them soon, your body will recover well.”
As soon as he said this, Claudio Belles glared at him, “Are you saying I’m old?”.
Eduardo Tercero reached out and touched her hair, rested his forehead on hers, looked at her deeply and said in a mute voice: “Of course not, Claudio, I really want to have a child with you and me. Whether it’s a boy or a girl, I will spoil it and give it the fatherly love it deserves.”
That was the childhood he was missing and wanted to give to his child.
Although Claudio Belles didn’t want to have children either, the sudden arrival of this child gave him an inexplicable sense of motherhood.
There was someone in the world who was so magically linked to her by blood, the fruit of her love for Eduardo Tercero.
And she could do nothing to abort this child.
Claudio Belles threw his arms around Eduardo Tercero’s neck: “Will you still love me when I have a baby and lose my figure?”.
After the wedding, Eduardo Tercero realized that it had never been him who felt insecure, but Claudio Belles.
The stronger and more stubborn a woman is, the softer her heart is.
Perhaps it is because of her experiences as a child, growing up and surviving in an extremely insecure environment, that her sense of security is very small, so small that she needs Eduardo Tercero to feed it little by little.
Eduardo Tercero looked at his wife with a soft gaze and a slight smile on his forehead, “In your eyes, don’t I count as a man who has seen the world?”
“Yes, you count as a man who has seen the galaxy.”
Eduardo Tercero brought his small face close to her, the tips of their noses brushed.
Eduardo Tercero said, “A man loves a stream because he has not seen the sea, and I have seen the Milky Way, but I still love only you.”
Claudio Belles looks at him with a sweet smile.
The atmosphere was still, when suddenly a call came from the bathroom.
“President Eduardo Tercero ~ President Eduardo Tercero ~ are you still there?”
Claudio Belles wrapped his arms around Eduardo Tercero’s neck and, slightly startled, looked up at him and asked, “Why do I hear old K’s voice?”
Eduardo Tercero took Claudio Belles off the hook, “The phone forgot to hang up.”
Reaching the bathroom, he took the phone off the hook.
“President Eduardo Tercero, when are you coming back?”
Eduardo Tercero picked up the phone, came out of the bathroom, looked at his wife who was by the floating window, not far away, and said to the old K on the phone, “I’m going to be a father, I don’t have time to come back and take over the Hidden Organization, you guys will figure it out.”
With those words, he hung up the phone.
Claudio Belles opened the curtains and the windows, and the sun and the sea breeze came in from outside.
“Is R so bereft of talent, no one but you for the position of Master of the Court?”
Edward the Third smiled and moved closer to her, wrapping his arms around her behind her waist and lowering his head to kiss her cheek, his large hands gently caressing her flat belly.
“Claudio, you’re going to have my baby.”
The tone in her voice was one of genuine relief.
Claudius Belles cocked his head to one side and teased, “Is it so much cause for joy to have a child?”
“Your child and mine.”
Edward the Third buried his head in the back of her neck, sighed deeply and said in a deep voice, “Claudio, I love you.”
Claudio Belles turned, wrapped his arms around her neck, stood on tiptoe and kissed her thin lips, “I love you too.”
The stars rolled, you are the ideal on earth.