Owen’s eyes widened a touch though he wasn’t looking at Julianna, but at his nearly emptied plate. It wasn’t the sort of widening that signaled surprise but more of an exasperated ‘wow’ kind of expression. “It’s a figure of speech…” He muttered as he stabbed at the last of his pasta and captured it in his mouth.
He chewed the food and washed it down with wine while Nicholas was dismissed from the table. He waited while Julianna arranged herself nicely, facing him more squarely for their … confrontation as it seemed to be becoming. Her posture was haughty.
Despite the connotation of her posture, she was worth a stare kind of stretched out in her chair that way. Owen looked long at her legs since they seemed to be arranged in such a way that lent themselves to his gaze. His eyes traced the line of her body upwards until they met green eyes distilling disappointment and frustration.
Owen picked up his own wine glass, “I checked out the guy.” He admitted before taking a swig that finished off his cup. Only the tiniest pool of red liquid remained at the bottom when he set it down again. Owen surveyed his wife for a moment while chewing his inner cheek. He seemed to be weighing her up for the next part, though he knew that she already knew.
“And I took care of it.” He shrugged as if it were nothing to him and stared at his fingernails for a moment before pushing himself up from the chair. He still spoke in code. He could have said And I killed him. But for some reason he felt the need to shield Julianna from what he’d done. To sugar coat it as something else.
They were supposed to be enjoying a new life. He thought of his time on the isles as a forever sabbatical from violence and power struggles and all that he'd involved himself in with the CAF. And here it was catching up with him again.
Owen gathered each abandoned plate, stacking them one on top the other along with the silver, and transported them to the sink.
“I take it you completed business with the court today?” He said as if to change the subject.
He chewed the food and washed it down with wine while Nicholas was dismissed from the table. He waited while Julianna arranged herself nicely, facing him more squarely for their … confrontation as it seemed to be becoming. Her posture was haughty.
Despite the connotation of her posture, she was worth a stare kind of stretched out in her chair that way. Owen looked long at her legs since they seemed to be arranged in such a way that lent themselves to his gaze. His eyes traced the line of her body upwards until they met green eyes distilling disappointment and frustration.
Owen picked up his own wine glass, “I checked out the guy.” He admitted before taking a swig that finished off his cup. Only the tiniest pool of red liquid remained at the bottom when he set it down again. Owen surveyed his wife for a moment while chewing his inner cheek. He seemed to be weighing her up for the next part, though he knew that she already knew.
“And I took care of it.” He shrugged as if it were nothing to him and stared at his fingernails for a moment before pushing himself up from the chair. He still spoke in code. He could have said And I killed him. But for some reason he felt the need to shield Julianna from what he’d done. To sugar coat it as something else.
They were supposed to be enjoying a new life. He thought of his time on the isles as a forever sabbatical from violence and power struggles and all that he'd involved himself in with the CAF. And here it was catching up with him again.
Owen gathered each abandoned plate, stacking them one on top the other along with the silver, and transported them to the sink.
“I take it you completed business with the court today?” He said as if to change the subject.
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