Capítulo 1181: Putting Things Right
When Audrina woke up, she was lying in the sa bed as her husband.
When Abaddon was really tired, it was easy to think he was dead.
His chest stopped rising and falling because it was no longer taking in air. His body had gone into an ultra-conservative state where even the tiniest actions were being paused to build up energy reserves again.
Once Audrina saw him in that state, she knew that he had been lying about feeling fine.
She hadn’t seen him this exhausted since he ca ho from living his life on earth.
When he was like this, it was almost easy for her to forget about the monuntally dangerous thing he had done.
But it wasn’t long before Audrina recalled what happened again, and the look she was giving her husband changed.
Abaddon woke up to find Audrina putting a collar with a leash around his neck.
“…Dare I ask why this is happening?”
“Every ti that I take my eyes off of you, you’re wandering off to get in so kind of trouble or do sothing unnecessary. From now on, you’re not leaving my side.”
“…Sothing unnecessary, huh?” Abaddon repeated quietly.
He reached for Audrina and ran his fingers along her smooth, porcelain neck.
The warmth coming off his body was like a furnace. But Audrina didn’t mind it. Rather, she wanted him to keep his hands exactly where they were.
Abaddon fashioned his own collar around Audrina’s neck, with a leash that was even shorter than his.
“Are you not happy to see your mother again…? Do you wish that I had not done it?”
Audrina couldn’t say that either of those things was necessarily the case. “I just… don’t understand why you did.”
“Because I could. Because it was for you.”
“I have long made my peace with my mother’s passing. To see her again, in our house no less, when we already have so much going on, is just… It doesn’t feel like the right ti.”
Audrina interlocked her small, delicate fingers with her husband’s larger, rougher ones.
He brought the back of her hand up to his lips and held it there. Closing his eyes to rember the texture of her skin, the cool feeling of her hands, and the sweet scent coming out of her pores.
“…It’s rare for us to get a ‘right’ ti for sothing. There is always going to be sothing or another taking place because of who we are and who we’re destined to be. So, I took an opportunity that was right in front of because I thought it might make you a little happier. I didn’t concern myself with anything else.”
Abaddon pulled Audrina in by her leash. The heat of his body was almost searing, but all the more intoxicating.
“I am sorry to spring this on you. I’m sure it must be a bit overwhelming, and I honestly thought I’d have the ti to break the news to you beforehand… Dealing with Nihil took by surprise.”
Audrina stared holes into her husband, their faces close enough to kiss if they felt like it.
She tilted her head and rested it on his neck. “…Why?”
“To make you happy.”
“I was happy before. Was your goal to make my heart implode with joy?”
“Would it have put in conversation of world’s best husband if I had?”
“Don’t joke. I think we already know Darius holds that title.”
Abaddon pursed his lips at her poorly tid joke, making her laugh. As if he would lose to the dwarven dragon who routinely forgot the birthdays of his wives and their middle nas.
Audrina gradually stopped laughing and beca suspiciously quiet. She looked at Abaddon again, this ti with a bit of a shaful thought in her mind.
“Did you do this for my mother… because there was part of you wished to change?”
Audrina knew that she had changed when her mother died. She beca more cynical. More materialistic.
She filled the hole in her heart with a vanity that she still to this day hadn’t managed to let go of.
She often got told by her children and her relatives that she was boujee, or that she thought she was better than them. She never really let it show just how much those comnts bothered her.
But that didn’t an her husband didn’t know.
He craddled the back of her head with his palm and ran his fingers through her hair.
“I have known you were perfect from the very first day I fell in love with you. There is nothing I have ever wished to change.”
Audrina smiled discreetly to herself as she leaned further into her husband’s embrace. “Even if I won’t eat your grits?”
“….Well, there may be so things that I-”
Audrina bit her husband hard.
“Joking, joking…” He laughed weakly.
“Mhm. Sure…”
Abaddon pulled Audrina away and smiled at her. “You’re spending too much ti in here with a face you’ve already spent billions of years with. Don’t you think there’s sowhere else you’d rather be?”
Audrina caressed his cheek warmly. “As if I could ever get tired of looking at this face. Even if it is a little bit young for my tastes.”
“You like that it’s young.”
“I do.” Audrina sighed dejectedly. “If only you weren’t unwell, you could learn just how much.”
“W-Well I’m not that bad, so-”
“As if. Lailah would strangle us both and that… might be appealing on it’s own, actually.”
Audrina shook her head.
“No, no, I need to get up.”
Audrina rose out of bed just as it seed she was going to think herself into staying.
She rushed towards the door with a bit of nervous excitent that wasn’t there before.
That sight alone imdiately made Abaddon feel as though all of his decisions had been worth it.
However, Audrina seed to know what he was thinking.
When she was halfway out the door, she looked back at her husband for a long ti without saying anything.
“…Having second thoughts?”
This ti, Audrina didn’t take the bait and smiled at him exhaustedly.
“You need to learn to deal with your compulsion to fix everything. No one’s life has been perfect, but they make us who we are. It’s not your responsibility to change that. You can’t always protect us from life, honey.”
Abaddon’s smile faded, and he nodded without trying to defend himself. “…I understand.”
Audrina started to close the door and leave her husband to rest.
“Still… thank you.”
When she left, Abaddon let his head flop back onto the pillow.
He stared at the ceiling for a long ti, the darkness of the room gradually creeping in to comfort him.
Naturally, his mind drifted towards the last few hours of his life.
Oblivion claid that they’d taken sothing from Eternity. With the day he’d had, Abaddon could no longer say that wasn’t true.
He wondered if that kind of thing would make him easier to spot by certain outside visitors.
Abaddon couldn’t forget the way those seven had locked eyes with him when he viewed them from afar.
Surely, they would recognize his gaze the next ti he laid eyes on them. But would they see him, or the sum of what he had consud?
Abaddon wasn’t sure of the answer. But he knew for certain that they would be arriving soon.
And that massive army that followed them would no doubt be coming to do more than just sightsee.
He needed to make sure everyone was ready. But how exactly does one prepare to fight an army teeming with lifeforms beyond the scope of their comprehension?
After thinking about it for a mont, Abaddon was actually glad.
His sister was currently more mad at him than she had ever been in their entire lives. Not only had he sidelined her, but he had given her a son as well.
And at tis like this, nothing would make Kanami feel better than having a nigh impossible task to prepare for.
And an apology…
–
Audrina heard the noise before she even reached the living room.
A trembling, persistent sobbing that couldn’t have co from any rational adult.
…Or maybe it could.
Audrina walked into the dia room and saw them from behind.
Isabelle was a verifiable ss who cried on her mother’s shoulder with breathless, snotty sobs.
Their mother looked like she had tried to be comforting, but after around thirty minutes of this, she had simply given up and let her child cry out what she needed to.
“There, there, mommy’s here, ommy’s here…” The woman didn’t even take her eyes off the screen as she inserted sliced apples into her mouth.
“MOMMYYYYY!!!” Isabelle’s sobbing intensified and drowned out the noise of the housewife fist fight happening on the big screen.
Gathering all of her courage, Audrina clenched her fists and approached them from behind.
She stepped in front of the two won and temporarily blocked their vision, but her mother didn’t seem to mind much.
Rather, her eyes were pacicked.
‘Please don’t you start crying too.’ They seed to say.
Audrina let a single tear slip down her cheek as she smiled in disbelief, the reality of this mont just now sinking in for her.
“…Hello, mother. I’ve missed you.”
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