Ace's POV
We returned home after a month of supposed intense training and no one seemed to suspect any different. We couldn't wear our wedding bands, so Emilia had kept both of them together, threaded onto the locket I had given her as a wedding gift.
We tried to keep our distance as much as possible when we got home, we knew we had to inform our parents about the change of our status, but to be completely honest, we were both shitting ourselves about telling them. We had put it off for now and were trying to strategize, about how we would tell them about our deceit.
Emelia was our main concern, where my father hadn't mentioned a thing about my upcoming engagement, Emilia's party was in a week, her mum had taken up most of her time, roping her in to organise the party, which was taking
