Gathering Wives with a System

Chapter 385: Lord Level 2, Subjugating Monster Tribes, Did The World Become Easy-Mode When I Wasn’t Paying Attention?

”I’m not leaving you alone in a room with my daughter,” Lucius replied flatly.

”Dad!” Selene turned red almost instantly, the color spreading from her cheeks to the tips of her ears. ”Isaac isn’t like that. He wouldn’t... he wouldn’t...”

She was too shy to complete her words.

Chairman Lucius clicked his tongue, seeing his daughter’s reaction.

”Isn’t like what? You know what people are calling you, Isaac? Girlfriend snatcher. Lustful bastard. Things I don’t even feel like repeating. How many girls did you end up close to within weeks of awakening? I’m not leaving her alone with you.”

Isaac’s lips twitched.

He wasn’t angry since Chairman Lucius was technically his father-in-law.

Moreover, he knew Chairman Lucious was not actually angry and only pulling Isaac’s legs.

If Chairman Lucius were truly angry, Alice wouldn’t be anywhere near him, and Selene wouldn’t have been allowed into this room in the first place.

This wasn’t outrage.

It was a father’s last line of defense, even if he already knew he was losing ground.

”Fine. You can stay,” Isaac said after a moment.

Lucius grunted, satisfied, and took a seat again.

Isaac turned to Selene. ”Why haven’t you used the Bloodline Awakening potion I gave you?”

Selene hesitated.

”That...”

Selene became a little disappointed when she understood Isaac wanted to talk about this.

”I have a drake bloodline. It’s strong, but it isn’t much compared to people you are meeting now. Using a potion on my bloodline feels wasteful. You should give it to someone with a better bloodline. Besides, I’m... not going to fight. I like my office. So using a bloodline potion is wasteful on me.”

Isaac didn’t respond right away.

Chairman Lucius frowned, his eyes had a hurt look.

Selene’s trauma, of when she was kidnapped by assassins, hadn’t truly disappeared.

The trauma was only strengthened after she witnessed the monstrous battles in the Promo Video of Isaac.

Selene was... afraid.

Isaac tapped his finger on the arm-rest and looked at Chairman Lucius. He didn’t want to say this in front of Chairman Lucius, but Chairman Lucius brought this upon himself by staying in the room.

”Selene.”

She raised her head and looked at him.

His next words stunned him.

”You are mine.”

The room froze.

Selene’s breath caught in her throat. Chairman Lucius forgot to blink.

A deep red spread across Selene’s face as the words sank in. Her mind didn’t move past that sentence. It couldn’t.

However, Isaac had not completed his words.

”This City is mine, so is every person living in it. I decide who gets what reward. If I tell you to accept a reward, you only need to say ’thank you’ and accept it. Worrying whether someone deserves a reward or not, is my job, not yours.” Chairman Lucius winced.

Chairman Lucius’s expression twitched.

Did Isaac really have to say those words like that?

He looked to the side and noticed Selene was frozen stiff.

’I don’t think she heard anything after the first sentence. Sigh, this is a disaster.’

”So use the potion,” Isaac finished.

”H-Huh?” Selene blinked, pulled back into the room. ”What?”

”The potion. Use it today,” Isaac repeated.

”O-Okay,” she said automatically.

She stood, movements stiff, and walked out of the room like she was afraid her legs might forget how to work.

Her face was still burning, and Isaac’s words kept looping in her head whether she wanted them to or not.

Chairman Lucius waited until the door closed behind her before turning back to Isaac.

”Did you have to say it like that?” he asked.

Isaac shrugged.

Chairman Lucius gave him on last stare and left without another word.

When Isaac was alone, he leaned forward and covered his face with both hands.

”What was that?” he muttered.

There had been a reason he’d chosen those words.

He wanted to test his own feelings. Perhaps saying those intimate words would help him realize what he thought of Selene.

But when he said those words—

Selene, you are mine.

—immense possessiveness had surged through him.

If Chairman Lucius had not been in the room, Isaac might’ve said something else instead of talking about the city and people.

He let out a slow breath.

”I need to get a grip.”

He couldn’t allow his emotions to control him like this. He was a man, not a beast who moved on instincts.

After a few minutes, he stood and headed out.

Althea was waiting near the central promenade, where the newer buildings blended into the destroyed sections of the city.