Primrose’s face dropped. "Oh," she murmured, pausing for a moment before forcing a small smile. "That’s alright."
Edmund held his breath. The look on her face hit him like a punch to the gut. He couldn’t bear to ask her to keep walking anymore. Instead, he gently led her toward a nearby bench in the garden.
"Let’s take a break for a bit," he said, helping her sit down carefully before taking a seat beside her. "Besides ... I also want to give you something."
Primrose tilted her head, wondering what kind of surprise did Edmund want to give her.
Unfortunately, she couldn’t peek into his thoughts like she usually could. His wolf, for some reason, was purposely blocking her.
She was still wondering how his wolf could block her ability so effortlessly like that, especially when Primrose was able to hear everyone’s thoughts without resistance, even those of the strongest soldiers.
Edmund’s wolf had once explained that the reason he could filter his thoughts in the first place was because he sensed a foreign magic trying to enter his mind.
At first, his wolf wanted to tell Edmund about it, but when he realized it was Primrose’s ability, he decided to hide it until he found the right moment to reveal everything.
No matter how she looked at it, his wolf clearly played an important role in their married life. That’s why Primrose didn’t have the heart to feel upset whenever his wolf deliberately hid Edmund’s thoughts from her.
"What is it?" Primrose asked, guessing that maybe Edmund had finally finished knitting her glove that Dante had eaten.
To her surprise, her guess was correct.
Edmund reached into his pocket and pulled out a pair of gloves, then held them out to her. They looked exactly like the ones she’d lost. It had the same shape, same color, and they looked like they’d fit her perfectly.
"I’m sorry it took a while to knit them," Edmund said with an apologetic tone. "I’ve been so busy lately."
Primrose eagerly took the gloves, smiling. "Why are you apologizing? It doesn’t matter when you finished them. What matters is that you kept your promise. Thank you, husband. These gloves are really beautiful and look exactly like mine." She paused, then added with wide eyes, "I honestly didn’t expect you to know how to knit."
Edmund replied softly, "Back then, I couldn’t afford to buy new clothes all the time, so I decided to learn how to sew to fix my damaged clothes." He looked off into the distance, then continued, "And to save even more money, I learned to knit too, so I could make blankets and winter coats."
Primrose’s smile froze on her face. She didn’t know what to say because a part of her wanted to comfort him, but another part was afraid she’d say the wrong thing and accidentally hurt his feelings.
After all, she had never lived a life like that.
Ever since she was little, all she had to do was point at something she wanted, and her father would give it to her without hesitation.
That’s why, whenever someone talked to her about their financial struggles, she preferred to stay quiet and just listen rather than say something unnecessary.
But her husband was rich now, so he wasn’t saying those things to complain. He was simply sharing a piece of his past, so maybe he wouldn’t be that sensitive about it.
She didn’t even give him a chance to process the fact that he’d accidentally revealed his own plan out loud.
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