BXBX NOVEL Chapter 172 Time To Face The Mother-In-Law
After the previous conversation, Lothur and Annaliese said goodbye to Doctor Snee and Sofie, with the medical practice already arranged to take place whenever he was ready.
So, they headed back to the Frost family estate, where Lothur would have to face his angry mother-in-law after being late returning home.
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The moment they arrived at that estate, the first person Lothur and Annaliese saw was Viktoria, who was waiting for them in the living room of her parents\' house.
The Frost family servants had already found out that Lothur had arrived in Peters City earlier and then went to the Morning Star Academy. As such, she and her parents were already aware of this.
Since she was playing a dangerous game with Lothur and still had her concerns about his tardiness, Viktoria could not help but wait for him there.
"Lothur, why didn\'t you return last night as promised?" She asked as she stood before him and looked into those silver eyes.
Each member of the Frost family had to ask permission to leave the city for more than a day, as in the case of what he had done.
Even Viktoria would have to do this since the family needed to know the location of its members and departure and arrival times to know when or not to start an investigation.
Otherwise, how would the family know that a member is missing? How could they send out search or even rescue teams?
That was the point.
Because of this, since Lothur had asked to stay out only until Sunday night, a whole problem had broken out with the possibility of his disappearance or even death.
"Sigh..." Lothur looked at his wife and already felt the headache of having to explain himself to people who normally did not give a damn about him. "I\'ll talk about it with your parents in a few moments, so let\'s leave it to talk about it in one go..."
Viktoria frowned but did not think his answer was bad. "All right, but tell me something. How are you? Are you hurt?"
Annaliese then said. "Sister, don\'t worry about Lothur. He has a good explanation for what happened, so please stay at his side and talk to mother so she doesn\'t take it hard on him."
"Stay at his side?" Viktoria looked strangely at her younger sister.
"Sure, isn\'t that the role of a wife? And as I said, he has reason on his side. Thus, you must protect him from our mother. Otherwise, she can punish him even though he is not at fault." Annaliese explained as she took one of Lothur\'s hands.
Viktoria saw this and then made her move, separating the hands of those two. "Let me see how you are..."
\'Hmm? His skin seems softer and more resistant...\' She touched Lothur\'s hand and soon forgot about spiritually analyzing him as she watched the developed muscles of his left forearm.
\'Why does he seem to be getting stronger and stronger? Can mortals train and have such good results?\'
Lothur felt his wife beginning to feel both his forearms, approaching him in a way she had never done of her own volition before. \'Viktoria... You truly are risking a lot, huh? Well, I can only enjoy the situation.\'
He licked his lips and hugged her. "Oh, dear wife, I knew you were worried, but to greet me with a hug? Well, I didn\'t expect that..."
Viktoria felt the warmth of Lothur\'s arms around her waist and had the instinct to pull him away and hit him on the face. But remembering her carrot strategy, she swallowed that urge and let him hug her.
\'You\'re taking advantage of me, but I\'ll leave it just so you understand what you\'re missing...\' She closed her eyes as she smelled the manly scent of his body.
At that instant, Mabel and Aiken appeared in that part of their residence.
Viktoria and Annaliese\'s mother looked at this scene, her eyes sharpened, not understanding how her precious daughter could allow herself to be touched by that scumbag.
As for Aiken, he just closed his eyes and coughed twice.
"Cough! Cough!"
Upon realizing this, Viktoria immediately turned away from Lothur, red with embarrassment at having been seen like that with him.
Aiken then looked at Lothur and asked. "What happened? Why didn\'t you return last night?"
But before Lothur even had a chance to answer, his mother-in-law said in a harsh tone. "Whatever it is, be prepared to pay for your mistakes! I will no longer accept that you live the way you want and still break the family rules!"
"After explaining yourself, you will spend the night in the punishment hall to learn more discipline." She said as she coldly looked into his eyes.
Annaliese saw how Lothur\'s normally calm expression had changed and then moved in front of her mother. "No, mother. Lothur is not to blame for what happened. It\'s unfair for him to pay for being a victim!"
"Tsk!"
"Victim?" Aiken stepped forward, trying to hear the truth before his wife attacked Lothur a few more times. "What happened?"
"Answering the father-in-law, when I was on a mission with Elke Becker, a friend from Sector-1 of the academy, Elise, Viktoria\'s servant, attacked us."
"What?" Viktoria jumped in surprise, not expecting Elise to dare something like this.
Previously Lothur had suspicions about Elise, but these two had always gotten along badly. So, without any evidence to prove that servant\'s guilt, Viktoria and this family had considered the matter to be the intrigues of the two.
Hence, she naturally did not expect that Elise was, in fact, trying to act against Lothur.
Aiken and Mabel were also shocked by this information since it was a grave situation for a servant to turn against a master.
Lothur might only be a son-in-law in this family, but ultimately he was above almost every servant in the hierarchy of this organization.
"Lothur, what are you talking about?" The father-in-law insisted.
The silver-haired young man then said. "While Elke and I were doing our mission, Elise attacked us by surprise and almost killed us."
"She surprisingly was not a mortal, but a 5th Transformation cultivator!" He said as he gestured with his hands and added some lies to his story. "If it weren\'t because we entered an underground chamber with a strange power acting, we would have died!"
"Luckily, just before she killed us, a strange phenomenon happened there, killing her."
"5th Transformation?" Mabel looked at Aiken. "How is that possible? Doesn\'t that girl\'s record say she was just a mortal?"
"Yes, that should be the case..." Aiken looked at the ground, trying to guess what could explain this problem.
But Lothur did not give them time to overthink it and stated his suspicions. "Father-in-law, a few weeks ago, I heard some people on the estate talking about acting against the family to take power from you."
"I believe that the same person having these traitorous ideas is behind the entrance of a cultivator posing as a mortal into this family."
"Oh?" He looked wide-eyed at Lothur.
"Did someone say that? And why didn\'t you tell us right away?" Mabel said with an ugly expression on her face.
"I had no evidence, and I knew you wouldn\'t believe me." He closed his eyes and shook his shoulders.
"So you have evidence now?" She asked.
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