"I Love You Too"

His fiancée, Eleanor Sonne, was Duke Sonne's only daughter.

Her breathtaking, youthful beauty needed no description: perfect; words were inadequate to describe her.

She had the same hair and eye color as her father, but the most youthful figure there was in her mother, a beauty that had no equal. Her extreme self-confidence, her elegance in every step she took, and her figure made all the young nobles call her a goddess.

'Though those bastards have called countless heroines goddesses' Theos thought wryly, but in this case, there was no better word to describe Eleanor.

'And so, as his son-in-law, I can look at my mother-in-law as much as I want, hahaha' Theos laughed mentally, with an amused smile as he imagined different scenarios in his mind, different possibilities.

'Maybe I should kill the Duke and keep his wife; after all, she is very important in the novel later on,' Theos thought, considering it a halfway mission. He couldn't defeat Duke Sonne now, and as a man of culture, he wouldn't NTR him either... Or if...

'The best option is to kill him' Theos concluded quickly, feeling comforted with this new purpose in mind.

Perhaps sensing a brief murderous thought about him, Duke Sonne turned his attention to Theos, smiling at him.

According to Theos' recollection, Duke Sonne, as his father-in-law, met him once during the signing of the engagement papers. It was when Theos was 5 years old.

'Did he recognize me?' he thought. The whole engagement was only because Duke Sonne wanted to have relations with the Fallen family. …. And that smile…

But Theos didn't pay much attention to it; he didn't even smile back, just put on a cold and indifferent expression.

Don't worry, I'll take good care of your wife when you're dead,' he thought, but his thoughts stopped when he felt the pressure on his arm.

He turned his head to see Alice squeezing his arms. Maybe it was intentional or accidental, but she was squeezing his arms with her breasts.

Theos said nothing; he enjoyed the sensation, after all, Alice's breasts were not small, and as a man, he could not refuse their softness.

"You still have feelings for her, don't you?" asked Alice suddenly, her voice barely audible, more like a whisper.

"No, I don't have any feelings for her…. I'm going to break our engagement contract," Theos declared immediately, without a second thought, not even considering the consequences of his possible actions.

But that didn't matter to him. The only thing that matters to him now is Alice. The Duke's wife is just an object to be used for the overwhelming advantage she offers him in the original novel. But to Alice, she was not an object, she was his beloved wife.

"And if you want… I can make enemies with anyone if you want, I'll prove my sincerity" Theos continued with a crazy look at Alice, who shuddered as she saw his eyes filled with a mad crush.

Scared? A little… But she loved it, her happiness knew no bounds!

Even her body trembled a little as she listened to him, completely surprised.

"No, you don't have to do that… I completely believe you!" she said with a sweet smile and a blush on her face, after all, the person you're in love with tells you that he would fight against the world for you…. Who doesn't blush?

Theos smiled slightly and reached out to caress Alice's head. "Don't worry about it in the future… I love you, that's all," he said affectionately, stroking her hair.

*Badump*

Alice's heart almost burst out of her chest at Theos' words, and she blushed so much that it spread all over her face, turning her into a tomato, trembling under his words and caresses.

She buried her little face in Theos' chest and hid there. Her answer came sometime later in a low whisper that Theos could barely hear: "I love you too"

He was no different from her, he was also extremely happy to hear those words again and believed that he might hear them even more in the future.

Was it sudden? Was it fast? Maybe, but… The memory of seeing his wife die, all the love he'd received from her, everything they'd lived through, he couldn't help but want to experience and live it all over again.

As a new soul, but with the soul of Theos, he had personality complexes; the original Theos couldn't even imagine Ark killing the Duke to keep his wife just for his benefit. But he imagined all that.

It was as if the evil of Theos and Ark combined to give birth to his existential, without morals, without fear, and although with doubts, what he was more than sure of was that he loved, is loving, and will love Alice.

"I'm sorry for loving someone like her," he could only apologize as he thought of the future and everything they would face together to stay on top and not just live, but become the pinnacle of power…. That was his ambition, to be with her above all else.

"Don't apologize, it was my fault for falling in love with such a wonderful man like you," she replied, still hiding her face in Theos' chest.

He could only shake his head, his smile stretched even wider than usual unconsciously out of joy. 'It's amazing that this all happened because of his insecurity…'

Thinking about it, Theos could only hold back from bursting into laughter.

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