06-25-2018, 11:18 PM
(This post was last modified: 06-25-2018, 11:22 PM by Magikeeper.)
"Thank you as well!" Bruce was starting to look outright cheerful, his smile matching his relieved laugh. "Actually, that was after he talked her down. The mademoiselle's first offer was for him to jump off a cliff head-first. While on fire."
The man's look turned a bit more serious again. "Marriage is not so small a thing, but more importantly it was not the mademoiselle's desire for there to have been a bet in the first place. Monsieur Hadrian was most persistent. She thought him desperate, a man whose countless schemes to acquire her had been foiled one time too many for his sordid mind to bear. Surely, this would be the chance to put an end to it forever. Who would have thought he'd been planning for this all along?"
The man's look turned a bit more serious again. "Marriage is not so small a thing, but more importantly it was not the mademoiselle's desire for there to have been a bet in the first place. Monsieur Hadrian was most persistent. She thought him desperate, a man whose countless schemes to acquire her had been foiled one time too many for his sordid mind to bear. Surely, this would be the chance to put an end to it forever. Who would have thought he'd been planning for this all along?"