Scarlett COMPLETED (GxG)

17. Lucy gets an offer

"Can we sit for a moment?" Roy asked, gesturing at the white wooden bench that stood in the middle of the park. "Over there?"

"Yes, sure."

Scarlett stayed behind, sitting at a bench near the bridge where she would wait for her mistress. She tagged along as Lucy's chaperone but would grant her milady and the lieutenant some privacy to talk. She kept her eyes on them all the time, though, as a good chaperone was supposed to do.

After they sat down, Lucy tried to ignore the man's scar as best as she could, but it was as if she was pulled to it.

Roy shook his head, smiling. "Do you maybe want to touch it too?" he asked, amusingly.

"I'm so sorry." Lucy felt her cheeks getting warmer. She probably had the color of a tomato right now. Why was she staring at the man so shamelessly?

"Don't be, Lucy. I know it's strange to suddenly see me like this.

Roy had even longer hair than before, which fell around his face, partially hiding the scar. However, the fringed mark was too large to be concealed completely. It ran from his eyebrow to the corner of his mouth.

"Did it hurt?" Lucy asked.

"I can't remember much when it happened. But later, after I'd woken up? Yeah, it hurt."

"What happened?"

Roy scrunched his eyebrows, looking serious.

"During one evening, I heard screams coming from out of the woods. Turned out three of our own men were trying to rape a woman. Despicable creatures," Roy said and he spat at the ground, cursing them.

"Oh my God," Lucy gasped. "What devils!"

"I got into a huge fight where they left me more dead than alive. I only got off the hook and survived because the woman fetched a few other commanders who came to my rescue. If she wouldn't have done that... if she wouldn't have gone to get help, I would surely be dead."

"Thank heaven. You helped her, and she helped you. You are a hero, Roy."

"Pfff, please." Roy scoffed. "It was simply my duty as a man to help a woman in need."

"Not every man would have done the same."

Roy ignored the younger's praise. "How have you been?" he asked, looking at her with admiration. "You look... happy."

"I'm okay. I'm happy, I guess. Yeah. It's quiet without my sisters, though."

Lucy looked at Scarlett, who was so beautiful, sitting there on the bridge bench while blossom petals fell down on her like pink snow.

Yes. Scarlett made her happy.

"Your family must be blind not to see the adoration you hold for that woman," Roy said.

"...!"

Lucy looked at Roy and saw him watching Scarlett as well.

"She is your lover, isn't she? Has been that for quite a while too, hm?" Roy asked as he looked at the redhead again.

"I-I-"

"There's no need to deny anything. I've seen you two in our garden, in the labyrinth, the night before I left. That encounter was actually the reason I left, Lucy."

"You-you saw us?"

"I did."

"W-what have you-" Lucy swallowed before she looked at Scarlett in pure panic.

Scarlett must have seen her flushed face and panicky eyes already because the maid was hasting in their direction.

Roy waited for Scarlett before he spoke again. "Sit down, Scarlett."