The Cherished Wife

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Charles took her hand and led her to the ticket redemption machine, where he frowned and stared at the machine in front of him instead of doing anything else. The people waiting in line behind them grew impatient and called out, “Hey, you guys in front of us! Are you going to redeem your tickets or not? Get out of the way if you aren’t going to redeem anything!”

Sorry, sorry, we’re almost done!” Noelle hurriedly apologized to the people waiting behind them before she stood on her tiptoes and whispered, “Don’t you know how to use the machine?”

Charles glanced sideways at her, an indescribable look in his eyes. He did not say anything as he gave Noelle a long, knowing look. For some reason, Noelle found it funny as she took Charles‘ phone from him and typed in the number displayed on the screen.

Once the tickets were printed, Charles took them before Noelle could and held her hand in his as they walked away.

Noelle allowed Charles to hold her hand as they walked away from the crowd, and the corners of her lips curved upward slightly as she gazed at the back of his head.

They were getting along pretty nicely with each other now. Besides…

“What are you thinking about?”

Charles‘ cool voice jerked Noelle out of her reverie. The upward curvature of her lips lowered slightly as she shook her head and said, “It’s nothing. Anyway, we’ve got more than half an hour before the show starts. Why don’t we take a walk nearby?” She suggested, “We don’t have to go far. We can look around nearby.”

“Alright!” Charles said as he smiled, “Let’s see what’s around here!”

Charles put the tickets into his leather wallet before picking up Noelle’s hand again, which was still an unfamiliar gesture to her. Charles raised an eyebrow before he directed his gaze at Noelle. “Nelly.”

“Hm?” Noelle asked, craning her head up to look at Charles. “What is it?”

“We’re married, but I know you still aren’t used to our relationship yet.”

“Sorry,” Noelle apologized, feeling somewhat ashamed. “That’s on me!”

“No, it’s not your fault,” Charles said as he placed his hands on Noelle’s shoulders, hunching forward slightly so that his gaze was level with Noelle’s. “You don’t have to feel any toward our marriage. If you aren’t used to this relationship yet, we can start from the beginning!”

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“What do you mean, ‘the beginning“?” Noelle asked, confused.

Charles grinned as he took Noelle’s hand in his and slowly raised their hands into the air, interlacing their fingers. He shook their hands slightly as he said, “We’re a couple.” Smiling, he added, “We can start by being a new couple, and we’ll do whatever other new couples do.” This belongs © NôvelDra/ma.Org.

“Huh?” Noelle had a suspicious tone in her voice. “Are you sure?”

“Yes, I’m sure,” Charles said as he gently touched Noelle’s cheek with his free hand. “Your don’t have to feel overwhelmed. We’ll take things one step at a time. All you need to know is that we’re now boyfriend and girlfriend, and I won’t skimp out on doing anything a boyfriend is supposed to do

with his girlfriend!” When he saw the dazed look on Noelle’s face, he shook his head and said, “Don’t look at me like that. I might not be able to stop myself from kissing

you.”

Noelle blushed as she turned her head away and wrung her hands together, her eyebrows furrowing together as she said, “Quit joking around.”

Charles smiled. “Alright.”

He let go of her shoulders and took her hand in his again. “Come on. Let’s look around and walk off some of the food we just had.”

Though they said they were going to look around, they could not see much because of the timing, which made none of the plans they had in mind work out. The two merely poked around the fifth floor for a bit before heading into the theater.

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