The lively, cheerful atmosphere continued past eight in the evening. After they had finished most of the food, the group carried their drinks into the dia room.
Blaze Fairchild took the two grandfathers, who went to bed early, back to their respective rooms to rest. Then he washed so fruit and brought it in for them.
Ethan Frost ca over with his drink, stood on his toes, and hooked an arm around Blaze Fairchild’s neck. "Bro, you still have your doubts about ?"
Ethan Frost’s cheeks were flushed, and the sll of alcohol was on his breath when he spoke. He was clearly tipsy.
"Doubts about what?" Blaze Fairchild’s expression was placid.
’If he doesn’t say it out loud, it doesn’t exist.’
Ethan Frost clicked his tongue. "Tsk! None of us are going ho tonight. I know exactly what my mom is planning. And I didn’t hold you back, so are you satisfied? I’m a qualified big brother-in-law, right?"
Blaze Fairchild replied, "Not bad."
"You’re so cold. My sister really has her work cut out for her!"
Blaze Fairchild was speechless.
The dia room had a great sound system and was well soundproofed. Once the door was closed, not a single sound escaped.
It had been a long ti since the family had a chance to truly relax. After singing until their throats were hoarse and talking until they had nothing left to say, everyone contentedly returned to their rooms to rest.
Luna Axton had slept enough that afternoon, so after staying up this late, she wasn’t the least bit tired.
Even Lucky, in her womb, was moving around much more actively.
’It’s probably because I’m so excited. My blood is pumping and my heart is racing, so it’s too noisy for him to rest.’
Luna Axton placed a hand on her belly and thought, ’Mommy’s being noisy now, so after you’re born, you can be noisy at Mommy. Then we’ll be even, okay?’
"I’m going to take a shower first." Blaze Fairchild had had a couple of glasses of red wine with the elders. It didn’t show on his face, but he slled of barbecue and alcohol, and he didn’t want the unpleasant scent to bother Luna.
Luna Axton kept her eyes straight ahead. "Okay, I’ll just be on my phone for a bit."
She didn’t dare look at Blaze Fairchild, afraid he would get the wrong idea and suggest they shower together.
Thankfully, even after she finished getting ready and was back in bed, Blaze Fairchild hadn’t said anything that would make her feel pressured.
The night was late. Luna Axton rested her feet on a pillow, lying on her side with her back to Blaze Fairchild.
Behind her was the warmth of Blaze Fairchild’s chest.
Their pajamas were thin, and the heat from his body radiated into her, making her face and ears burn.
Luna Axton was secretly grateful that it was dark, so Blaze Fairchild couldn’t see her.
But her tense muscles gave her away. Blaze Fairchild’s self-deprecating voice held a hint of a smile. "Relax. You’re in your third trister. I’m not that shaless of a man."
"But you..." Luna Axton shifted, her aning clear.
It was so obvious; there was no way she couldn’t feel it.
"It’s perfectly normal." His voice was low and husky as he placed a light kiss on the nape of her neck, which slled of body wash.
The strange sensation made Luna Axton instinctively shrink back, a soft moan escaping her lips. "That tickles~"
When she moved, Blaze Fairchild pulled back slightly, resting a hand on her waist. "It was so lively today. I was very happy, too."
His voice was very soft. In the quiet of the night, it sounded like the prelude to a lullaby, coaxing her to calm down and slowly drift off to sleep.
"In all my twenty-eight years, I can hardly rember a ti as lively as this."
Luna Axton wanted to say that she hadn’t either.
But she didn’t. She just lay in his arms and listened to him speak.
"Luna, after Lucky is born, I don’t want to make his birth public. I just want him to grow up healthy and happy by our side."
"I also want to have a wedding with you. You like winter, so how about this winter?"
Luna Axton didn’t know why he was bringing this up. "Do you think we need to have one?"
"We do."
His voice was a few degrees higher as he answered, and the resulting vibration in his chest against her back let her feel his excitent.
"Then let’s do it. It’s just that after Lucky is born, I’ll have to balance my studies and taking care of him, so I might not have much ti to prepare for a wedding."
Luna was so wonderful, always going along with him. Blaze Fairchild kissed the shell of her ear. "I know. When I need your input, I’ll let you know. I’ll take care of the rest of the arrangents."
"Okay."
After Luna Axton agreed, the room fell into a brief silence.
Speaking of the wedding, she suddenly grew curious about sothing. "If it weren’t for Lucky, what kind of person would you have married?"
In the moonlight, Blaze Fairchild’s lips curved into a wide smile.
’Luna finally asked the question.’
Blaze Fairchild mulled it over for a mont, suppressing his inner excitent, and answered her in a calm tone, "I don’t know. It would have to be soone I felt a connection with, soone easy to be around."
’If you don’t even know what kind of person you like, you’ll probably never find soone suitable through blind dates,’ Luna Axton thought.
’It’s like buying clothes. You have to have a target—a jacket, a base layer, or a shirt—before you can choose what’s right for you.’
"So out of all the people you went on blind dates with, you didn’t feel a connection with any of them?"
"No."
Luna Axton thought, ’In reality, whether he got married or not was entirely up to his grandfather’s arrangents. For soone like Blaze Fairchild, marriage was probably optional.’
’If that’s the case, then what does our connection these past few days even an?’
’I couldn’t have misread things.’
Feeling a little indignant, she gathered her courage and asked Blaze Fairchild in a voice barely above a whisper, "Do you have feelings for ?"
The mont the question left her lips, Luna Axton instantly regretted it.
’Why did I have to ask? Whether we have feelings for each other or not, haven’t we been living together for over half a year?’
Just as she was stewing in her regret, Blaze Fairchild’s firm and resounding answer ca from beside her ear: "I do."
He did!
In an instant, Luna Axton’s mind went blank. All she could feel was a warmth spreading from her chest as her limbs grew light. Her whole body felt like a balloon, floating in the air.
Blaze Fairchild had feelings for her, just as she did for him.
’This must be the happiness of two hearts beating as one!’
"It was probably that ti when my mother was in the ergency room. You suddenly asked if I was in a difficult position. You were asking about my feelings. I was surprised at the ti. I don’t know if you could tell?"
Blaze Fairchild’s words brought Luna Axton back down to earth, and she tried to rember.
The first image that ca to mind from that night was the dejected figure of Blaze Fairchild leaning against the railing of the skywalk, smoking alone.
"I couldn’t tell. You were smoking, looking really down," she said.
That night, she had learned about Blaze Fairchild’s mother and sister for the first ti, and she also realized that his need for control over her stemd from his own inner panic.
It was also that night that she told him the baby’s nickna was Lucky.
"Before I hugged you, I had to work up the courage, terrified you would push away."
Blaze Fairchild pressed closer, nuzzling against the crook of her neck. "I wouldn’t have. I really needed your hug, and I need this kind of liveliness, like we had today. Because of you, I’ve felt happiness."
The way he did it was like Seventh Grandpa’s little kitten rubbing against her leg, asking to be petted.
Luna Axton’s heart instantly lted.
No matter how tall or decisive Blaze Fairchild was, he was still a man of flesh and blood, with a heart that needed warmth.
She turned over and wrapped her arms around his neck. "Then I’ll hug you every day before we go to sleep and after we wake up."
She didn’t ask if that was okay; she simply made the decision.
’He likes a more assertive, more direct Luna.’
"Luna~"
In the moonlight, he cupped her face in his hands as if he were holding the world’s most unique and precious treasure.
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