Evening, the night was supposed to be quiet as people like to go to bed early but it wasn't for some households.

“Please don't take my husband! He didn't do anything wrong!.”

“Daddy! Daddy!!”

The mother and daughter were restrained by the Knights. The mother tried to plead for the man who was being arrested by the other Knights while the daughter wanted to go towards his Father to hug him.. They don't have any idea what's happening but this didn't stop them from asking for mercy and spare them.

Because they know, once caught it was impossible to go back anymore unless the person being arrested could be proven to be innocent.

This is just one of them, while…

Slap.

“What did you do?!”

An angry voice sounded inside a study room, the person who got slapped looked at his Father in shock.

The white hair old man pointed his index finger at his son. He wanted to scold him and beat him but the only thing that came out from his mouth was ‘you’ and before he could do anything to vent his current emotion, there were footsteps coming towards upstairs.

They also heard their families' voices trying to stop people, persuading them to calm down but what could they do? The Knights mightily walked towards the study room, where the old man and his son were located.

Before the old man could say anything, his son was arrested and a person blocked him from speaking.

“Suspected of harming the Royal family’s life. Don't try to help him escape, his Highness' kindness is limited.”

The old man already knew what his son had done so he didn't waste his energy to help his son to escape.

When the mansion became quiet, the old man sighed and told what happened to those confused family members.

“You should rest more.”

Cariell helped Eugene to tuck the quilt on his body, he even wanted to roll Eugene like a sushi inside but the latter stopped him on time.

“If I lay here every day, won't I become paralyzed?”

“That's fine, I can take care of you.”

So, the scene of Cariell hugging the young man on his arms while gently patting his back to help him sleep made the Knight who was tasked by the General to report stunned on the doorway but after all, he also saw almost everything between the two so he immediately come inside and slowly closed the door.

He saluted first before he said,

“Reporting to Your Highness, all the nobles were put in jail.”

The incident just happened this afternoon and his Highness already arrested everyone who's behind the scene of everything, however, for Cariell, this speed is still slow for him.

If he didn't want to separate from Eugene again as he was afraid something would happen when he was gone, he maybe went to those houses on his own to get those people with his own hands.

When he felt the young man on the bed was already asleep so he told the person waiting for his response what he wanted.

“Just follow the General’s order.”

He wanted to torture those people with his own hands but accompanying his baby was more important.

The Knight understood what he meant so he didn't say anymore and left like a thief.

The night was peaceful for them but not for the others.

It was another day, in Riel’s study room, he was busy looking at the plan on the paper but his eyes still looked at Eugene from time to time.

Eugene wandered around the room, it was not his first time at Riel's study but his first time checking every part of it.

De An knocked on the door, told Riel he was needed for something at the moment. Though Riel was still a little afraid of leaving Eugene alone, he still got up from his seat and followed his butler but before that he told the Knights to guard Eugene.

Eugene opened the cabinets one by one, curious about what's inside. Some of them were files while some of them were things. He even saw a few boxes.

Eugene took it and opened it to see. It was a box of cufflinks. The cufflinks have two pairs. He closed the box and put it back, he then opened all of the boxes but he was stunned after seeing what was inside of one of the boxes.

It was a ring, he inspected it and saw an initial carve on it.

“Mi tesoro?”

What does it mean? Maybe I should go to the library and search for that word in the book.

Eugene compared the size of the ring on his finger, couldn't see the difference, he put it on and it fit.

Was this for me? When did he measure my ring finger? It looks good on me.

Eugene looked at it from different angles, enjoying himself when the door suddenly opened. He subconsciously hides his hand behind his back and looks at the doorway.

“You're here!”

Riel smiled while walking at his enthusiastic lover, he was about to hug him when the other suddenly ducked.

A look of confusion could be seen on his face. What happened? Do I smell bad? Thinking like this, he slightly smelled himself.

He wasn't smelly though? Eugene let out an awkward laugh, trying to rack his brain for a reasonable explanation.

“I….I….”

But he couldn't think of anything, it's like his brain had shut down because of his nervousness.

Riel stared at his lover for a moment before he noticed the opened cabinet and the box. He suddenly had an idea why Eugene acted like this.

Cute, want to tease.

His expression suddenly turned serious as he looked at Eugene's eyes.

“You saw it right?”

“Wh..what?”

“I said you saw it.”

“What…are you talking about, I don't understand.”

Eugene looked everywhere but Riel.

“Do you like it?”

With this question, he finally looked at Riel.

“Ha….?”

“The ring.”

“Yeah.”

Realizing that he revealed himself without the other doing anything at all, a crimson spread on his cheeks. Riel was already standing in front of him, he held his hand and seriously said,

“Then let's get married tomorrow.”

Hearing this, Eugene stared at the other with disbelief, isn't this too fast? Seeing his reaction, Riel makes an aggrieved look.

“You don't want to marry me?”

Hey, that's a foul!

“I want it..”

“Then let's get married.”

Riel kissed the other party’s hand before he led it to hug his neck then he put his arms around the others’ waist. Their foreheads lean against each other.

“But, don't we need to plan first?”

“The wedding plan is done, I just need you to choose the suits.”

He kissed the tip of Eugene's nose.

“Okay.”

“Eugene, I love you.”

And with that, he completely took the young man’s lips with his own. He tried to push his tongue and the young man let him in.

His tongue hooks the other's own, then sucks it like a thirsty person who just saw the oasis after walking through the endless desert. Seeing Eugene almost out of breath, he stops for a while before continuing to kiss.

Eugene felt his head buzzing by the man’s aggressive attack, he felt like he was being sucked by a void, but he didn't want to run away from it.

The kiss lasted for minutes before Riel completely stopped. He looked down at the baby in his arms, well, he couldn't let the other stand for too long so he carried the other towards his table, sat on the chair and let Eugene sit on his lap.

He wanted to do it again but seeing his breathless baby, he just kissed the cheek then continued his work while hugging the young man in his arms.