when you walked into your bedroom you shouldn’t have been surprised to see your husband with a book open in his hands. but you were however, surprised since you hadn’t seen this specific book before in your home library. you furrow your brows and walk to the bed where you lay, curling yourself into jason “what’re you reading about?” you inquire “lady jane grey” you suppress the growing smile on your lips. “tell me more about her” jason puts the book down in his lap and begins to explain, “well she became queen after king edward died. she wasn’t aware of this arrangement and was uneasy about this, she was still a teenager though, so I guess everyone would be. a duke came to her one day and asked her to marry his son, she declined because she knew it was only to gain power since she was the new queen. he was infuriated by this and imprisoned her. mary became the new queen after this. she was only queen for nine days before she begged mary to spare her life, and she might have gotten away with it if she agreed to convert to catholicism, but she didn’t. she was beheaded shortly after her husband” he picks up the book and flips to the first page where a picture is displayed: a young woman with a blindfold surrounded by a variety of men “this is a painting from 1833 of her execution” you sigh, taking in the newly processed information. “that’s cheery. anything else in that book of yours?” “marie antoinette, queen victoria, mary shelley, mary anning… there’s a bunch” “I watched that movie, marie antoinette. one of my favorites. I’m not sure who they rest are though” jason’s eyes light up. “I could tell you! only if you want… it’s a lot of information” you fix yourself in a new position. “I have nowhere else to be” he cups your face between his hands and gives you a large kiss on your lips before returning to the book, holding it so you can see. “so this is queen victoria…” and you surely hoped you hadn’t anywhere to go because you sat there for the next two hours listening to his nerdy history stories until he gave up