How Long Do We Live For? - Remastered

Hunter gestured her close and when she was close enough he whispered that Arthur had been in a fight.”

She moved close and looked very surprised glancing at Arthur again before nodding that she wouldn't say a thing about it.

Arthur didn’t lift his head much at all.

Hunter nodded.

"Would you like your usual today, Arthur or will you be trying something new?" she asked softly but with a genuine smile. She did get a tiny glimpse of some of the bruising on his face but she wasn't going to say anything right now.

“I’ll have the usual please.” Arthur told her.

Hunter watched them, he saw the slight blush on his sons face and he smiled slightly at knowing what that meant.

"You got it." She knew his order by heart already and smiled softly, she wanted to tell him it was okay and he didn't have to try to hide from her but she also didn't want to embarrass him.

Audrina also ordered her usual as well.

Hunter ordered his usual a she watched his son and Michelle before he leant down to Audrina. “You can see this too right?” He asked quietly so Arthur and Michelle wouldn’t hear.

Michelle wrote everything down, not that she needed to but she always did anyhow. "I'll be right back with your desserts."

Audrina smiled, reaching across the table to take Hunter's hand and give it a small squeeze. "I had a feeling about it the other night when he said he was afraid to tell Chelsea," she replied in a small whisper.

Hunter nodded to Michelle before he looked to Arthur when she was gone. “You should tell her you know.”

"I agree with your father, I have a strong feeling her answer may very well surprise you."

“I doubt it.” He told them. “There are better out there.”

"Arthur, I see the way she looks at you. As a lady myself, I know what I'm talking about." And yet she had missed it with Chelsea.

“Okay, but then how long before she realises that it’s a mistake?”

"You need to stop thinking that way."

“I can’t help it, I’m not exactly someone’s first choice.”

"And how do you know that if you don't give the young lady a chance and tell her how you feel?"

"Just a feeling."

She sighed softly looking at Hunter.

Hunter watched them. "Okay, this is where this self pity ends." Hunter told him. "Arthur I'm not just saying this as your dad but as a fellow man, you're nineteen years old soon, you need to live your life. I have seen you train the strongest of stallions just as I have, I've seen you hunt down a man that tried to hurt your sister, I was brought up in the Viking era and all of that would have already made you a man and any man is able to ask out a girl your age." He told him. "She is in to you Arthur, it's painfully obvious, and you're into her."

She squeezed his hand and nodded. Each thing that was said was true and she knew Arthur could handle it too. "Trust and believe in yourself the same way that we all do."

Michelle returned with their desserts.

Hunter slid his ifingers between hers.

Arthur nodded.

She smiled softly.

Michelle placed each dessert in front of them. "Here you go."

"Thank you Michelle." Hunter told her with a welcoming smile.

"Thanks."

"You're welcome. If you need anything else just let me know."

Arthur nodded.