"So you want Ogawara to stay as a gargantuan backwater at the mercy of someone or something else?" "Surt?" He turned off the stove and faced me with his arms folded on his broad and thick chest. Man, can this guy stop being sexy even for a second? Well, I guess I will have to get used to it now that we are married. "If that's what's going to happen, then we just changed Ogawara's sponsor from the Royal Household to House Rosenbaum," he said irritably, to which I shook my head in denial. "Surt, I am your husband now, the Chief Consort. What's mine is now yours, and what's yours is mine now. If you gave me your province, then I, in turn, gave you what I have—the personal wealth of my family since we are in a single house now technically. If you forge

