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Groaning in a peeved voice that was propelled out of your mouth by tossing and turning on the prickly mattress beneath you, sighing in defeat you rolled over onto your back while trying to find interest in the ceiling above you. Struggling to maintain your patience in this uncomfortable atmosphere, you sat up from the bed and swung your legs over the edge of your shared bed to get ahold of your balance.
Usually, you weren't allowed to be roaming around the halls without the maid's assistance. however today — typically tonight, in this case, you had allowed them to take the night off and return to their chambers downstairs because they had worked hard enough to take care of you these past few wicked days you laid down in your “deathbed” awaiting celestial to hurry up and take you away with open arms. Though if anything you didn't want the maids nor the knights to be nagging you to get back into your chamber and to get a good night's rest when you couldn't even do that without your lover right by your side!
You knew your husband was always an occupied man regarding that he was not just an intimating man but he was also the one in charge of the abyss orders. He didn't just only have to order them around but he also had to discuss and supervise to organize a strategy for their top hit. You love your husband you really do! But you can't help but feel a little disappointed that he doesn't try to squeeze you into one of his schedules of spending time with you or checking up to see how you are doing. Heck, he only had peeked through the door of your shared chamber once or twice this whole week you were sick and trapped to be watched over by the maids and the servants. At this point, you see the maids more than you see your husband and that is exactly why you refuse to sleep tonight (again) without him by your side.
Minor stomps rattling to the rigid floor could be heard throughout the hallways reflecting from your floppy slippers and your painful sleep-deprived attitude bouncing off the wide space of the walls surrounding you. Your husband — aether had been overworking himself lately by locking himself in his cage-like headquarters while zoning off and recording information on each document folder laid down on his desk. He was so indulged in the manuscripts that he didn't even notice you quietly slipping into his office like the little cunning fox you are. Glancing over at his miserable (in your description) hunched silhouette, you huffed at his focused amber eyes examining the docs to the point you marched over to his desk and snatched it out of his grasp earning a quick startled gasp from your spouse in front of you.
Aether startled expression soon faded away with a small sigh blowing out from his mouth while his eyes soon began to exchange with soft ones at the puffiness of your chubby cheeks and your bottom lip jutting out into a small pout. You were so difficult yet so adorning to him that he can't help but concentrate his gaze on your facial expressions. Oh, how heavenly your natural e/c iris shines so brightly underneath the moon's purple hue illuminating through the opened curtains stored in his office. He was so mesmerized that he didn't even hear you call out his name a few minutes ago after you snatched his paperwork away from his firm, scarred, yet soft grasp.
“Aether. hello? are you ignoring me now?” you questioned growing out of patience for this troubling man you seem to be married to. Snapping out of his love-sick gaze, Aether's eyes shot back up into his sharp natural formation sighing while rubbing the sleepiness out of his eyes. “Sorry, hun...what were you saying?” Aether murmured under his breath while yawning behind his hand, covering his mouth while blinking away the small tears sprouting from the corner of his eyes.
Sighing out of disbelief you repeated yourself once again so he could hear what you said a few minutes prior. “Are you gonna sleep tonight?” You recited while looking under his eyelids to see a few eyebags that were not there before though from the lack of sleep he had been putting into himself he had to possibly get them from that. ‘Cause, what else would he have gotten them from?’ Surely they weren't contagious so that's not an excuse or an answer.
Before aether could answer your question with an answer clearly to your distaste, you quickly pointed out. “somewhere that's not your office.” rolling your eyes playfully, Aether smiled feebly while running a hand through his long blonde locks. Sighing out of defeat aether breathed out a small “fine” while raising from his seat, to move to your petite figure slowly moving his arms to wrap around your cozy waist while your body warmth radiant onto his cold slender, scarred, and veined hands.
Humming in content aether lowers his upper body slightly to rest his head by your neck. Nuzzling his face further till the tip of his nose tickles the side of your neck close to the nape, rising a small giggle out of you while you place your arms on top of his shoulders while smiling in delight. Before you knew it your and aether's bodies started to sway along with one another, side to side as you can feel aether moving closer into your warmth snuggling close by your neck to the point your messy under-hair is tickling the tip of his nose. As you tighten your arms around his neck more you hear a breathy chuckle bubbling out of your lover's throat, as his vocal cords vibrated against your collarbone.
“What's so funny?” pulling away from his grasp still maintaining your arms wrapped around his shoulders as you smiled up at him shining with curiosity while your smile was filled with pure love towards him. Aether withdrew from your neck and cranked his neck to look down at you and your adorable innocent-looking smile. “Aha...It’s amusing how you went from ‘wanting me to sleep’ to us swaying side to side in the middle of my office.” giggles started to stream out of not just you but both of you! as if your laughter and giggles are just as contagious as your smile.