After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World novel Chapter 284

Soon came the time to finally leave, and Althea saw them off to the gates. Kimmy hugged her goodbye, while Micheal shook her hand.

Matthew also extended his hand to shake her hand, though his eyes were fixed on her occupied ring finger.

"Where’s… your husband?" He asked but paused immediately, regaining some of his lost tact. "I mean if you don’t mind me asking."

"We were not together when the migration happened," She politely responded, "But he will come for me."

Althea said so with confidence. Don’t ask her why she knew, it was her intuition.

Matthew stiffly nodded, pushing down the sadness, and politely said goodbye. He then turned his body to join the other two. _{freёweɓnovel.com}

The three Lords once again thanked her profusely before heading away, minds still bugged by the plethora of worries they’d have to face, among many other things.

As they walked far, nearing the center, they agreed to separate and meet with their respective teams.

Of course, not without a tad of flirting, courtesy of Kimmy. "If you ever want to have fun, call me~" She said, winking, already figuring out how to upgrade the Village Center to do so.

The two men nodded stiffly, and Kimmy—seeing as neither man wanted to speak with her (for now)—reluctantly went away.

Watching Kimmy leave, Matthew finally couldn’t help but ask Micheal. "I have a question."

"Ask away." The other man said with a cool smile as they walked.

"You said before that you know of her family."

"Did I?"

"Did you know her husband?"

"Maybe."

"How is he? I mean…"

"I know what you’re trying to ask," Micheal said with an unchanging voice and Matthew flushed in embarrassment of being seen.

"No one is better, unfortunately." He made a rare sneer. "Even in his job, he could be said to be the best."

Matthew paused, blinking. This guy looked so impassive but he really felt very palpable annoyance coming out from him at this moment.

Hey, could it be...Michael had a beef with Althea’s husband?!

"You… have an animosity with him?"

Micheal shrugged. "Well, in our previous life. But not much of that matters now, right?"

Matthew sighed, nodding, though he couldn’t help but feel a bit curious about the details.

The two then reached the inn and separated with their own thoughts, putting other things aside.

No matter what, they had already built their home.

Now they had to do everything to protect it.

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Some time later, on the side of the inn where the Bellugans stayed in, Raine greeted the Lord when he received news of her return.

"Was the harvest good? Did we get a lot of information?" He paused and thought of the topic that interested their lord the most.

"Did you get close to any of the two lords, milord?"

Kimmy’s shoulder slumped but it was only because she remembered all of Althea’s warnings.

Raine saw her sad and was not surprised, assuming her flirtations didn’t click. Those were powerful men, after all, so he just assumed Kimmy was rejected and hurried to comfort her.

Raine patted her hair and spoke, "Well, Fable did mention a lot of handsome men here. I have indeed seen someone with different hair colors—"

"We have no time for that." Kimmy cut him off.

Raine was quite startled by Kimmy’s rare seriousness and was even more surprised when she started giving rational orders one after another.

"Buy all the resources you can, we’ll go back to the territory today." She said, in stark contrast to her plans to stay for a long time and shop her heart out.

Although Raine was a bit confused, he nodded and followed her orders to a tee.

Something serious must’ve happened during that meeting.

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