The King's Unbreakable Wife-Chapter 258: Tea (3)

Once Sophia was removed from the table it was easier for the women to relax though Emma tried too hard to get too close to Alessandra. Hazel was able to witness Alessandra’s kindness when she invited a young woman named Heather who had been an outcast because she stopped listening to one of the social queens in town who happened to be Edgar’s mother.

Hazel found Alessandra to be the most mature once more as she had welcomed a woman who once tried to court Edgar to sit beside her. Hazel couldn’t see herself doing it. Not now or in the future.

The arrival of a maid brought the announcement that the women were now free to leave the room and roam the palace.

Hazel looked forward to having a more private conversation with Alessandra, Eleanor, and Heather. She, unfortunately, looked Emma’s way and found the young woman pleading with her eyes to be able to join the group. "Finally, we do not need to be cooped up at this table. Alessandra, Eleanor, Heather, and Emma."

Hazel knew that it might be a mistake to add Emma to the group when already she didn’t get along with Eleanor and she was annoying Alessandra by wanting their husbands, who were old friends, to meet.

Hazel was the first to stand first. "I hope you will all join me to stretch our legs. No more fighting please or I will respectfully have to send you away from my side."

Hazel had enough drama for the day and could not take any more of it now. She had too much drama in her life to be putting up with drama involving others.

"Come along, Duchess. Hopefully, we run into your husband so that I can see if he is glowing too," Hazel teasingly spoke as she held Alessandra’s hand. She had a feeling that the couple had a wonderful night when they returned home from Grant’s party.

Hazel would have an exciting night with Tobias after watching him defend her. There was nothing more exciting to get you into the mood to pull your husband to the nearest room like watching him defend you.

Hazel fanned herself as she thought of the time she had done it. She had even surprised herself then. It had been some time since she did something so unlike herself with Tobias. She had to try it again.

"Are you having dirty thoughts, Queen Hazel?" Eleanor asked as she knew what the fanning meant.

"I am. Can a lady not want her husband? I must see him now. He is with two of his friends who are not yet married," Hazel said, offering to set Eleanor up with them. "I can put in a good word."

"That is kind of you but I don’t have plans to get married right now," Eleanor answered.

"It is good that you want to wait. It is not all that they make it out to be. They’ve spent our youth telling us how wonderful it is to get married and that we should rush to do it quickly. It is nothing like what they fed to us," Hazel confessed.

She would always speak the truth instead of being like everyone else to rush her peers into marriage.

"I love Tobias and I would not change the time that we wed but there is so much I had to learn about on my own. They fed us the good side of marriage and left us in the dark about the troubles. I don’t mean to scare you," Hazel said to Heather and Emma. "It is wonderful but I urge you to properly prepare yourself."

Three years later Hazel was still trying to understand what it took to be a good wife. What concerned her most was how many young women were going into their marriages without any idea of their night duties with their husbands.

Hazel wanted to speak about it but it wasn’t her place and she would upset the families.

"What do you think about marriage, Alessandra?" Hazel asked.

Alessandra thought about it carefully first and then answered, "I think it is wonderful because of Edgar. What makes a good marriage is who you decide to marry. I don’t know if I would ever be happy as I am now with Edgar with anyone else and I don’t want to find out."

"I urge you to find someone you can share your troubles with. You can freely state when they’ve done something you don’t like and they are willing to make a change not to do it again. That is how my marriage has been working well so far," Alessandra added.

Hearing this, Hazel thought of when she should tell Tobias about how she had been recently feeling. He was patient but for how much longer would he wait? And there was something she felt that he needed to share with her.

"I look forward to being married. I do not see what could be so bad about it. We will learn to love each other as time goes on," said Emma.

Alessandra and Hazel could only smile. Both knew a story about the man Emma was arranged to marry and it wasn’t their place to share it. Each hoped that before a wedding could take place and ruin Emma, a conversation would be had.

Hazel led the group to Tobias’s private room just as Edgar, Dominic Carson, and Rafael Callahan had walked out. "Are you going somewhere?" She asked as she knew that Tobias had a full day planned with his friends.

Had they all decided to bully her husband and leave him or did something else happen?

Hazel became worried when they all looked saddened by something, "Why do you all look so down? Did something happen?"

"Another young lady found dead."

Hazel couldn’t believe that it had happened again. Tobias wouldn’t be able to enjoy the day with this kind of news. She looked at his door, knowing he had to be feeling like he was failing once more. He was doing everything in his power to catch the person behind this but he was yet to find a clue.

"Oh, is Tobias inside alone?" Hazel asked as she walked to the door. She got her answer from the knight Rafael nodding his head.

Hazel could not play host at the moment when her husband was in a terrible mood. Cheering him up was her priority. "I’m sorry ladies but I need to be excused for a moment. Excuse me," she said, asking for space to enter the room as the men unintentionally blocked her path.

Hazel entered the room and closed the door behind her so their conversation would be private. No one needed to see Tobias in this state. "Tobias it is not-"

"There is another one, Hazel," Tobias spoke over her.