Chapter 30: We got side-tracked!?

“Nope! I politely refuse to do such things!” Logan was talking to the nurse in the sick room. I say talking… but it was more of the nurse trying to examine Logan’s arm due to her own curiosity.

“Come on. I just need you to lift your arm up. How hard can that be?”

“It’s in a cast! What else do you need from me!?”

Logan’s arm thankfully wasn’t completely broken, but it may as well have been. The doctors said it would take a couple months to fully heal, but he will be able to use his hand within at least a month and a half.

I feel horrible that Logan had to go through that because of him being married to me.

He was so active before, and now, whenever he goes to see the people that claim to be his disciples, he has this longing in his eyes. I feel really bad about it…

There isn’t anything I can do for him. I can’t cook, I can’t even help him with his schoolwork because he won’t let me. I only manage to cause him pain.

What should I do for him? I can’t let our relationship go any further for fear of him not being able to properly run the Northson Company once he is going to take over. I can’t support him like a wife should be able to…

The least I should do for him is finally learn how to cook.

That’s it! I will learn to cook as fast as I can so I can make meals for Logan! I won’t let him refuse!

“Hey Logan… I’m going to go for a bit. I will see you back at the dorm room in a while!” I turn around as Logan just tilts his head as he watches me start to leave.

I catch the nurse smiling for a split second as she looked at me. Adult women are scary… Wait… I’m a woman too…

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“Please help me Amy!” I yell into my phone in a pleading tone as Amy and I talk on the phone.

“Why would I do that? How do you know I can even cook?”

“I just hoped that you could cook even simple things!” After I shout this I hear a loud sigh come from Amy.

“Fine. Come to my dorm room and I will help you learn how to cook. How are you so happy anyways? Wasn’t it only last week that you were kidnapped?” Amy sounds slightly worried as she asks this.

“Well… I have Logan with me… and I trust that he will help me when I am sad, and he did. He held me when I was scared and comforted me while I slept forfeiting his own to help me.”

“I see… Well then. Please arrive quickly.” Amy ends the call on her end and I put my phone back in my pocket.

Couldn’t I have just gotten Hillary or my assigned staff to help me learn how to cook? Oh well. It is better to ask Amy, she is a friend after all.

After walking into the dorm building I stop and look at the doors behind me.

“Saunderson, I know you’re there, it’s rude to eavesdrop on a woman’s conversation like that.” Saunderson walks in the door of the building while smiling.

“This one sincerely apologizes for following and listening, as it was not this one’s initial intent to overhear the entire conversation. This one was requested by Logan to make sure nothing happened to you while he wasn’t with you, so I declare.” Saunderson lightly bows as he apologizes.

“Well. That’s nice and all… but I would appreciate that you did not tell him what I was doing just yet. I want it to be a surprise for him…” I look down slightly as I feel my face get hot.

“Duly noted. I shall inform him that you have accepted an invitation to eat out with your friends, so I declare.”

“Thanks Saunderson!” I quickly run to Amy’s dorm while still being shadowed by Saunderson… I can’t really tell he’s there, but I know he is there because Logan told him to be… it kind of scares me.

It was also a complete guess that Saunderson was even there… but I should have guessed as much as that.

I stop in front of Amy’s dorm room and knock on the door.

“Amy! I’m here!”

“Quiet down!” Amy yells from inside the room and quickly opens the door, “If you’re too loud Logan will find out long before you can tell him. Anyways, we can’t cook anywhere in the dorms. We will go to the foods room.” Amy puts on her shoes and walks out of the room.

“Thanks for this Amy.” I smile at Amy with a large smile.

“Don’t worry about it. We’ve known each other for quite some time now. I haven’t been able to talk to you as much now that you have a husband now.”

“Yeah… my free time certainly has dwindled and both mine and Logan’s relationship with others has certainly fallen through the cracks.” I walk together with Amy to the foods room.

“Say… if I help you with this… could you… help me with something?” Amy’s face goes red slightly.

“Um…” I tilt my head slightly, “I don’t see why not. What is it that you need help with?”

“Well… I’m not very good around people I don’t know and always seem to come off as a rude girl that’s the head of the disciplinary committee. I just like to enforce rules at school…”

“Well yeah. I’ve known you for quite a while, so I can understand how that could get in the way…” I give her a wry smile as we exit the dorms.

“But…” Her face goes an almost bright red

“What is it?”

“I kind of maybe like someone… but I don’t know how to approach them…” She shyly looks to the ground to hide her face… She’s surprisingly girlish when it comes to these things isn’t she?

“Well… I don’t really know how to help you… my relationship was a forced marriage that seemed to work out. Anyways, who is the guy you maybe, kinda, sorta, like?”

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“Come close.” She looks up and whispers into my ear, “Saunderson Scott…”

My jaw drops as she says this to me. Her face goes even redder and she pulls her hood over her face to try and hide it from view.

“Well… okay. I can’t say that was expected. I was expecting someone like Dominic, as you’ve spent more time with him. You haven’t even spoken a single word to Saunderson… how can you even tell that you like him?”

“I just do! I feel heavily attracted to him! There! Are you happy!?” Amy starts shouting as her face goes the deepest shade of red I think I might have ever seen on a person’s face.

Around a corner I see Saunderson scratching his head with a complicated expression. It looked like a mix of not knowing what to do and wanting to go introduce himself. He sees me looking at him with an evil glare and walks forwards with a pale face. I point to Amy who had now curled up in a ball on the ground.

Saunderson casually walks over and smiles the most unconvincing smile I think I have seen on him.

“Salutations. This one’s name is Saunderson. You look to be in discomfort, may this one help you in any way miss, so I inquire.” Saunderson plays it like he never saw anything.

However, Amy stays curled up in a ball on the ground, completely frozen. Did she break?

“AAAHHHH!!!! He heard me!” Amy starts rolling around on the ground as I look to Saunderson.

“You could have fessed up immediately and it may have ended better than a young woman rolling around on the ground. Not my job to fix this.” I crossed my arms and looked at him.

“I guess that is so. This one shall immediately do my best to rectify the situation, so I declare.” Saunderson gets down on his knees and talks to Amy. “This one sincerely apologizes for listening in on your conversation with Claire… but this one was told to follow her and not let her out my sight for a single second. It happened to be something this one should not have heard… so this one shall take responsibility for the actions this one made, so I declare.”

Amy stops rolling around on the ground and looks at Saunderson with a bright red face and teary eyes.

“What do you mean, ‘Take responsibility’? Shouldn’t you be more sorry and run off?” Amy glares at him.

Well… her bad habit seemed to show up a moment too late as it seems Saunderson has figured her out. I guess my work here is done, and I can just sit back and watch this play out.

“This one wants to start dating, so I request.” Saunderson looks like a real gentlemen… save for the fact he is blushing slightly… wait. Don’t tell me!

“Really!?” Amy jumps up in excitement knocking Saunderson onto his back, “I accept! I will start dating you!” Amy happily jumps around and clings to me, “I got a boyfriend!”

“Okay… good for you… it should be your first real relationship… will you parents approve?” I smile slightly as Amy lands back in reality.

“How would my parents approve!?” Amy’s face changes to one full of despair.

“This one shall inform you of a little known fact. This one is part of the assassination organisation run by this one’s grandfather, so I declare.”

Amy stops for a second before recovering.

“Wait… sorry… my brain is having problems keeping up…” Amy hold her head and starts going through what just happened, “So you have been following Claire since… I assume right after the kidnapping and the person ordering you would probably be someone close to Claire… either Logan or her father.”

“Correct, so I declare” Saunderson nods as Amy walks closer to him.

“Then you should know… everything I said even when I was on the phone with Claire…” Amy’s face goes red again.

“That would also be correct, so I declare.”

“Then help me teach Claire how to cook! She is hopeless at cooking!” Amy points to me while clearly trying to change the subject.

“This one already knows of Claire’s cooking skills. This one’s acquaintance was bedridden because of it… This one shall fulfil his duty as Miss Gardner’s boyfriend, and teach Claire to cook, so I declare!” Saunderson smiles with a renewed vigour as his face goes red from saying his new relationship status.

“Call me Amy!”

“Amy, so I declare.”

Amy nods with a smile on her face as I slowly lower my head.

“Great… I now have a couple teaching me how to cook.” I sigh as the three of us walk towards the foods room after an unexpected delay. I wonder if I should tell Logan about this odd development…

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Hello everyone!

Yeah. An event has come up in my household that I can not ignore and it sadly leaves me with little free time. I regret to inform you that I will not be able to write chapters for 5 days a week now. It never lasted anywhere near as long as I wanted it to, but I have no choice in the matter.

I might be able to post every other day if I put in extra effort, but when have I been known to do that? 

I am really sorry to the people that enjoy this story and impatiently check for a new chapter (I doubt that any of you actually do that for this, but I might be surprised). 

Anyways, sadly there will be fewer chapters per week, due to my lack of free time. I thank all of you for reading my story and I hope you stick with it through this time.

As usual, have a great day/night!