My Useless Tamer Skill Tamed the Emperor novel · Chapter 14 of 24
Chapter 14: Jealous
He said nothing for so long that she counted her own pulse.
"All of it," he said at last, flat and quiet. "Tell me every word."
She told him.
When she reached the crossed-out paw print in the ash, a muscle jumped in his jaw.
"He understands me," said Valdemar. "Every word, all day."
"Yes."
"He sat in the sun and understood you." He rose and walked the length of the empty pool and came back. "And I must ask him, every time, for the same afternoons."
"Valdemar."
"I called him a thing. I said it to your face, with the taste of his meat still in my mouth."
"You didn't know."
"I did not know, and he did, and he kept silent." He stopped in front of her, and his gold eyes were burning. "I find that I am jealous of a cat, Hinata. Of a part of myself. It is the most ridiculous thing I have ever felt."
"He's you."
"He has your afternoons. I have only the dark."
She looked up at him, twenty-four years old and a full head shorter.
"Are you angry at me?"
"No." His throat moved. "At the Duke. At myself. At the curse that took half of every day of you from me, and gave it to someone who cannot even say thank you."
"He said it. With a paw."
"Then I am jealous of his manners as well."
She laughed before she could stop herself, and he caught her chin and kissed her.
It was not careful.
His other hand slid into her hair at the back of her head and closed into a fist.
The small bite of it pulled a sound out of her.
"Tell me what he has had of you," Valdemar said against her mouth. "Each thing. I want to know what to take back."
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