“It was in the way you looked at me.”
“How do you expect me to look at you? It is not a love match, Luella. If you had no powers, would you still have willingly married someone you did not know well?”
The carefree look on her face was completely gone by then. She tumbled out of bed in a huff.
“I am getting dressed now,” she said.
“I thought you did not want people to think that we were not in wedded bliss?”
“It does not matter anymore, Metheus.”
It looked like I would spend some time in the fields that day, after all.