My Substitute CEO Bride (Nash Calcraft)

Tatiana looked at Nash smugly. "Are you about to ask how I can also control fire?"

Nash replied nonchalantly, "You're a dual-element Esper."

Tatiana shook her head. "Make that three. I can also control mud."

Nash was speechless again. This was truly a monstrous talent! In a novel about urban superpowers, she would definitely be the protagonist.

As the charcoal burned, the temperature inside the hut slowly increased. Tatiana took out some meat to roast on the grill and pulled out more than a dozen spices from her backpack.

Having relied on just water to stave off hunger during the day and having expended a lot of energy, both of them were famished. The pork belly sizzled on the grill, crispy on the outside and tender on the inside. It was dripping with grease. Nash practically drooled.

Half an hour later, the two sat on their stools and enjoyed the barbecue heartily. They chased it down with beer. On the grill beside them, there were sides of cabbage, eggplant, oysters, and lobsters being cooked.

After nearly two hours of eating, both were stuffed to the brim. "You should've taken these out earlier, then the day wouldn't have been so hard!" Nash said, his words muffled by the oysters he was eating. Tatiana rolled her eyes. "With the gravity during the day, they would've been instantly crushed into pieces!"

Nash took a couple of sips of beer to cover his embarrassment and changed the subject. "How long will this night last?"

"About three days," she replied.

Nash felt a sinking feeling

the others

what Nash was thinking, Tatiana attempted to ease his concerns. "You don't have to worry about time passing outside. One day on Maligant Mountain is just an hour outside." Hearing this, Nash breathed a sigh of relief. By that calculation, only about two hours had passed outside.

wife?" Tatiana

"Uh-huh." Nash noncommittally nodded.

Tatiana's voice as she prodded further, "Your wife

responded, "She's as beautiful

smiled brightly. "For such a handsome man like you, there must be more

have two women," Nash

that he said that he had a wife to maintain some distance between

beer and guzzled down most of the contents in

is getting red. Don't drink too much if you can't handle

very dangerous. We might not make it out alive, so we might as well

then pulled

of beer from her backpack. She tossed one to Nash and cracked hers open

Mountain. Without his powers, the only thing he could rely on

Nash fell silent.