章 170: One-sided affection

However, apart from anything that came to his eyes at the moment, as long as the one-sided affection did not come from the lady who was staring into his eyes or she returned the one-sided affection of that man, who seemed unable to remove his gaze from her, he was fine with that.

It was fine, although he, himself, as the lady's husband, had not gotten his affection returned by her either yet and had not even had his name called out through her soft voice without the title attached to it.

It was fine as long as she had him in her beautiful eyes, not others. 

"It is good to hear about your friendship with Captain Zilberman, wife. Thank you for telling me that," Canillas remarked with a smile, holding Joanna's eyes in his while, through the corner of his eyes, he caught the young Captain still having his eyes on her.

With his palm still covering Joanna's hand, which still rested on his other arm, Canillas shifted his eyes to look at Admiral Vich.