"You're joking... Is that all you have to say?"
Abaddon slowly stood up from the ground and sighed.
He glanced over his shoulder at Lailah and smiled at her pitifully.
"My darling... I know you're hurting. You are free to feel how you want. But so am I."
"But why aren't you mad?!"
"Because our wife just told me she's the only reason I'm not dead. The matter of secrecy aside, you would have me repay that with scorn?"
Lailah looked away with her fists clenched. She would have her husband take her side.
No matter how smart or logical a person may be, they sometimes do not wish to be so.
Lailah was struggling with that now.
Abaddon felt a shaky hand take his own.
"Don't you think you're being too kind to me..?" Eris asked in a small voice.
"You're wearing the wedding ring I gave you, so no."
"S-Stop joking with me, Abaddon! Is everything that I have told you so easy for you to dismiss??"
"Little bit."
