We Decided to Get Married

The blonde woman snorted. “She’s not even sure about staying with him. Are you so desperate to marry you picked up a random woman, Wolfram?”

“…” Wolfram continued to stay quiet. His gaze was not even stuck on anyone in particular.

“Why do you always try to get my husband’s attention?” Delta turned to the woman. “Are you hoping to find someone more miserable than you? Leave him alone. You want him to come early, but this is all he hears. Perhaps he has good reasons to skip seeing you.”

The woman lifted her brow. “And you behave like you’ll be here the next time we gather. Look here, pretty face. You’re not going to be Wolfram’s wife for so long. Women like you are like single-use table napkins—just good for one use and then thrown away.”

Delta then smiled strangely again. “Perhaps. But you don’t have to boast about your very passionate marriage with your husband.”

“Ew, the mental image is so gross.” Xander shuddered, and Janelle slapped his shoulder. He didn’t even care if the blonde woman glared at him like her eyes would fall out soon.

“Wolfram, are you really going to let your wife run her mouth all night?” Zenon glared at Wolfram, who even tried not to choke when Delta spoke earlier.

Wolfram only sneered. “As much as I know, Wolfram is my name, not yours.”

Zenon and his wife frowned at the strange answer, but the collective derisive reaction of Xander, Janelle, and Yuri told them it was supposed to be an insult. That was the only time Zenon wanted to slam at the table. However, their father was already there. It would be bad to make the old man grumpier than he was tonight, especially when his wife was partly at fault. 

He only turned to his wife. “Trisha, calm down. Just let them humiliate themselves.”

“I never expected you to defend me.” Trisha huffed and looked away from the faces of the prettier women joining them at the table. 

It was good Mariska was not around, or else Trisha would feel more defeated. That classy woman kept to herself a lot, but she was viler. After all, the most venomous of snakes struck the quietest.

Soon enough, the main course was served minutes after David arrived. It seemed like they were asked to wait for his arrival before proceeding with the dinner. However, no one knew how much of the food’s taste changed because of their rough start.

David looked around to see how they were finding the food. Yuri was like a classy gentleman, while the second son was like a brutish CEO. Xander ate naturally, while Wolfram… David frowned at his third son a lot for some reason.

Did Wolfram not know how to help feed a child? Eine and Foxley were pretty much eating on their own. It’s just that David didn’t like how Wolfram was only watching Foxley deal with his own food. Even Delta was just letting Eine eat her pasta alone, not even cutting the long strands for them. 

The sight even made the princess hesitant in asking for help.

“…M-Mommy…” the young girl looked at her upset mommy. “I can’t break the lobster’s leg on my own. It’s too hard.”

“You should have thought of that when you ordered for it to be separated from your cheesy macaroni.” Trisha sighed sharply. “You’re always like this, Regina.”

Regina, the princess, only watched her mother break three legs. However, she had a whole lobster in front of her. She then heard her mother say: “You just eat three of them, anyway. Hurry up and eat. Don’t blame me if the meat got too cold.”

The princess only nodded and ate with a grumble. She then caught Foxley looking in her direction. Regina huffed. “What? The first time you’ve seen a lobster?”

Foxley nodded, uncaring of the sneer coming from Regina’s mother. “Is it good?”

“…it’s okay.” Regina didn’t care too much. She wanted to eat as long as it was warm, especially her macaroni. She just ended up finishing the three legs. Without wrestling the lobster like how she would do it at home, she wouldn’t be able to eat most of it.

“Reggie…” Foxley suddenly showed up next to Regina, calling her by a boyish nickname. However, she just turned and saw the boy sitting on the chair between her and Janelle. The boy then smiled at her. “Can I have some? It looks delicious when you eat it.”

Regina pouted before looking at her lobster. “If you can take some. I can’t open it without looking like a savage. Are you willing to look like one for me?”

Foxley brought down his plate and nodded. However, instead of Foxley climbing the table to get to it, Wolfram got up and circled to get to them. He helped Foxley bring the lobster closer to the edge and taught him how to break the tail to get the most meat.

“Wow, there’s so much!” Foxley scooped the whole thing and placed it on his plate with Wolfram’s help. However, he didn’t forget to cut the meat into three parts. 

He then placed the chunkiest part on Regina’s plate with a beaming smile. “Thank you for sharing the lobster, Reggie. If you want anything from our side of the table, I will get it for you.”

“…it’s nothing. Just go and eat.” Regina pouted, but she lowered her head and blushed a little. She even swung her head before diving into her macaroni.

It was so strange, but they all knew how simple the world of children was.

Soon enough, butlers and usherettes came to fetch the children. It seemed David was hoping to speak to the adults alone. Before, it was just Regina, who could plug her ears with her music. Since Eine and Foxley didn’t seem to be that type of child, David told them to take their dessert somewhere else.

“Ahem, I actually called for this dinner to ask about Wolfram’s wife.” David cleared his throat. However, his voice was still so hoarse. “I have not heard anything about you from Wolfram. Would you like to tell us how you two met?”

“I actually called for this dinner to ask about Wolfram’s wife.” David, the father, cleared his throat. However, his voice was still so hoarse. “I have not heard anything about you from Wolfram. Would you like to tell us how you two met?”

“Life had been quite hard for me when the father of my children kept on leaving us for his work.” Delta prepared a story for everyone to hear. “It came to a point where I started incurring debts. However, I ran into Wolfram, and something instantly clicked between the two of us. Since there were no troubles, we decided to get married.”