My Lady Chef novel Chapter 37

Belmont's POV:

Once we were both dismissed; I asked Ezran to come to walk with me. I even offered to give him the use of my message falcon so that he can write to his duchess.

He was already showing his displeasure but he went with me to my personal space and soon after a few scribbles; my falcon left his perch near my table to deliver the message.

"Is there a reason why you do not like my father to meet your wife?" I asked him once the servant laid the coffee tray at the table and left.

"....." he merely sat down at the table and took the coffee cup and sipped. His red eyes scanned the window with a blank stare.

The same window he looked at before he took off like the Hell hounds of Tartarus was upon him two days ago. He must have seen something through one of his heightened abilities but at that time; he seems very distracted.

"So do tell me...Is she as beautiful as the rumors say?" I decided to tease Ez, hoping to find out what the position of his wife was in his list of priorities.

"Why are you so interested, Your Highness." he grimaced as he drained his beverage before setting it down. " Rumors? What rumors is the ton spreading now?"

"Well, there was someone who said that she looks like a fey queen. Another says that she can charm any man she comes across and...there is also one where she is rumored to be kind to servants." I chuckled. " Then there was that weird one where she has two horns and a tail growing from her butt."

A loud cracking sound from him made me look back and I saw that he crushed his teacup, but his face remained uninterested.

"Oh, and I heard some male nobles taking bets on who can succeed in asking her on her first assignation," I told him, this rumor was a lie but he was not reacting as I had hoped.

A heavy dense aura filled the room for a while as Ez stood up, his dark and light mana suddenly burst forth from his body; the two forces tore apart my shelves and study in less than a second.

"That is not a nice rumor to be spreading around, Bel." his eyes were still calm but his mana was still messing up my room like a couple of wild animals.

"Okay okay, That one was a lie but you have to admit. If your wife is as beautiful as the Lady Lorax then there will be men asking her on assignations. It is the way of the married ton here at the capital." I reasoned out but his face turned darker at my words.

He then grabbed the papers from my desk and before I can react; he threw them up in the air and I cried out when the heartless cad burned it to a crisp.

"I spent all morning drawing those up!" I bemoaned hours of work all gone to waste.

"I suggest you start writing to them all again. Your Highness. In the meantime, I'll show myself out. Thank you for that mediocre cup of coffee..." he harrumphed as he strode out and those wild beasts stopped thrashing my study and assimilated back into the duke's shadow.