Transmigrating from a zombie world to become the mecha kings wife-Chapter 610: A separation moved up.

Scarlet slipped into the seat next to Esong as Esong’s were wandering around the dining room. Since everyone was already gathered there for a meal, she figured that he was searching for her.

There was a running joke between her and Fey that Esong could not live without her. Scarlet often laughed it off but she had a feeling it was not a joke. His eyes were always searching for in every room. Just like now, she assumed.

"Is it me you seek?" she whispered into his ear?

He turned his head and smiled, along with an honest nodding of his head. He made no move to deny it at all.

"Ho! you are not even subtle at all." she punched him on the arm, lightly.

Deep down, she actually loved it and it warmed her that he loved her so much.

"I am giving this meal thirty minutes then me and you are getting out of here for a personal day." he whispered to her.

"No work?" she asked.

"No work." he answered definitively.

"Aren’t you busy?" she asked.

He put an around her and the look in his eyes changed. His eyes were suddenly heavy lidded and had a quality of seriousness which told her he had some bad news to share.

Her stomach dropped, because she had a feeling about what it was already.

"It’s time, isn’t it?" she asked in a small voice.

"The day after tomorrow." he told her.

That was too soon! It was not the time she thought she had left with him. They had six more days, that was the original plan. A sudden furiousness and panic engulfed her body. Some of the cutlery on thr table started moving as if the ground was shaking.

"No." she whispered furiously.

Esong grabbed her hand and said, "Let’s talk alone."

"Esong, Scarlet. Is something going on with you two?" Dorian asked loudly.

She faked a smile and shook her head. "We are fine dad, Esong just wants pancakes which we didn’t prepare. Please excuse us, but the rest of you should enjoy the meal."

This was a conversation which needed absolute privacy where she could maybe yell, and maybe cry without everyone asking about her troubles. This was Esong’s secret mission and not even her family could know the truth until after he left.

Willingly, Esong asked them to be excused from the table and he followed Scarlet to their wing, going all the way to her sun room because that’s where she found peace the most in the castle.

"Alex, lock every door, no visitors granted access at all levels." she said.

"What about Justin?" he asked her.

She closed the shades in the room manually, blocking out even the sun as if it was not welcome to their conversation. "My dad and his uncles are taking him to the zoo. He will not look for me till dinner time I reckon."

She whirled around and faced him, worry on her face. "You said we had time."

Her voice was accusing, and so were her eyes which looked at him with fierceness. Her emotions were changing second by second.

Esong stripped himself of his cloak and armor first, hoping that it would give her time to calm down. He had been expecting this the moment Ian sent him the update. All the other mecha warriors that were going for this mission had gone home to say goodbye to their significant others.

All they were allowed to say was that they were going on a mineral searching expedition. But he didn’t need to sell such a lie to her since she already knew the truth.

"There was a breakthrough. I can’t really explain but the time is now. Not right now but we have three days at most before it seals up again and our spaceships won’t be able to squeeze through. Supplies and weapons are already being sent through the crack as I speak."

Scarlet took a deep breath and sat down on the carpet. She crossed her legs and rubbed her belly, wondering if now was the time to tell him that she was pregnant. On one hand she didn’t want to let him go for this information with such heavy news weighing on his mind but on the other hand, not to tell him was rather unfair. He was the father of the girls after all and he deserved to know.

Esong sighed as well and he sat down beside her. "Please don’t cry. We agreed that there would be no tears. We have discussed this day coming many times, we have fought over it and made our peace with it. If you cry, I just might chicken out."

A flash of red immediately appeared in Esong’s eyes. "I would stay if I could but I can’t. I must do this for both of us before winter comes." His eyes trailed to her stomach before looking back up.

When he mentioned winter, Scarlet’s right hand rubbed her stomach and she sighed. The children were definitely coming during winter, in the first or second month according to Narcissa.

Hopefully she would be back from.....she forced herself to break her thoughts.

Scarlet lowered her head into her hands and took in deep breaths, in and out nervously. There was a question on the tip of her tongue. "What if you don’t come back?"

She couldn’t bring herself to say it however because if she did, she would end up crying. If she cried, then they would have one of those tear filled ugly partings with no good memories and she desperately wanted good memories.

"It’s okay, calm down, just breath." she told herself. Even if she asked him to stay, she herself would be making an off world trip soon....to Xeno. She filled her mind with thoughts of visiting Xeno quickly.

"You should wear this." Esong raised her head and dangled the pendant which the banshee had brought for her from Apheitos.

She was surprised to see it with him. She touched the hammer just to be sure that it was the same pendant. She felt a resonance of a hammer banging against something and she recognized as the same one.

"Where did you find this?" she asked him.

"It has been on your bedside table for days now. You touch it but never put it on. I think it will look beautiful on you."

He slid behind her and put it around her neck in only three seconds, way too quick to be normal and certainly not giving her enough time to reject it.

"I have seen something like this before, on another world. It was in an common market, being auctioned off by an old man and the offers for it were ridiculous. They say it protects your thoughts from those who wish strip you of them. It’s a shield for the mind from the world. Maybe it will protect you from another lunatic like general Sang who wanted to search your mind." he told her.

Scarlet indeed felt different, in her mind. It was as if a part of had quieted down. Since it was already around her neck, she decided to test it out.

"Severus." she called.

He didn’t respond, and that was unusual. Severus always responded to her. She touched the hammer on the pendant in surprise. Did it also stop her from communicating with others using her mind?

"Scar," he called her.

"Mmm." she stopped playing around with the hammer and looked at him.

He smiled and presented a plate of different foods which he had grabbed from the table and told her, "Eat something first. These are our last hours together, for a few months anyway. I intend to spend as many of them loving you as much as possible."