A Night With The King

“Believe me when I tell you that our time together is not a borrowed time, you love me, I love you, and I am going to make it work,”

He continued as he stood in front of her. Now there was not much space between them.

“There is no line to cross, Sophie, the line faded that day in the emerald house when I kissed you, whatever it was that was the barricade faded that day, when we kissed, I knew, even though I tried to tell myself that it was just sex, tried to lie that I wasn’t feeling anything, it didn’t work. Patrick, Roseline? they both saw through me; the first time I slept in the dungeon with you? Patrick gave me an earful, and asked me if I was in love with you and all. I told him he had nothing to worry about but Patrick was right to have been worried because even though I didn’t know it then, I already felt something for you,”

Lance confessed and paused to just look at her and admire the beauty of the woman who stole his heart.

“Why would I, a king, go as far as sleeping in the dungeon if I wasn’t crazy about you then? Even the day you went missing, I kept telling myself that I wasn’t worried for you, that I was just worried about the diamonds but that wasn’t it. I worried for you. When I found out you were with child, I was so jealous of the man who got to touch you, I still want to hurt him for getting you pregnant and not being around for the baby, what a jerk,”

Lance commented. He lifted his hand to stop her when she tried to say something.

“I don’t care if you are with child and that child isn’t mine, I don’t care if you are not from Otano, I don’t care if you are not royalty, I don’t care about any of those things, I only care about you, you make me happy, Soph and I want you with me all the time,”

He pulled her back to himself because she had been away from his touch for too long and he didn’t like that. She wrapped her arms around him, her baby tummy caught in their middle.

“You are so,”

She said and paused.

“I am so what?”

He asked; she shook her head.

“I love you,”

She said. he knew she was using those words to cover up what she actually wanted to say to him but he didn’t mind, he would rather she talk about her love for him than anything negative. He released her from the hug so that he could look directly into her eyes when he spoke.

“I love you too, so very much and I am going to show you,”

He promised, pulling her to him and once again claiming her lips. It was a kiss of love and a promise that he intended to keep. They stayed like that for a while until she suddenly gasped.

“I need to leave now, you know if I don’t, I would have to wait for everyone else to be done before I can see the doctor, my appointment is less than an hour away,”

Sophie said when they pulled apart, Lance didn’t want to let her go but he had to. He watched her fix the lipstick that his kisses had ruined.

“Aren’t you forgetting something?”

He asked when she just picked up her bag and was leaving, she turned and looked at him in confusion.

“What?”

She questioned. He gestured for her to come back to him and she reluctantly did.

“You need to say the magic words or I am not going to let you go,”

He threatened.

“God, I wish I could show the people how you act with me; I am sure they won’t believe,”

He didn’t care what his people would think of his behavior towards his woman, they needed a strong king and he always made sure to be that when he needed to be but when it comes to Sophie, she unlocks a new him that only her knew.

“Just say the words, you are running late,”

He reminded her.Content bel0ngs to Nôvel(D)r/a/ma.Org.

“I love you, my king,”

She said and even though she had told him a couple of times already, it still brought a bright smile to his face. He drew her to him and kissed her again even though she protested that he was ruining her lipstick.

“I love you, Soph, see you soon,”

He said and kissed her before letting her go, she walked away without looking back at him but he stood in the middle of the room where she had left him just looking until she opened the door and stepped out, still he stood there wondering if it was okay to be this happy, to be so in love. He wanted to keep the feeling he had right now for a long time and to do that, he needed to propose a change.

“I am going to keep her with me and make her my queen,”

Lance told himself as he changed and got out of his chamber. He had a few things that he needed to take care of in his office, they weren’t urgent, he just needed something to keep him busy while he waited for Sophie to return; he had really wanted to go with her to her appointment but she didn’t want him there which sucks but he had no choice but to listen to her.

“I thought you said you are taking the day off,”

Patrick asked when he walked into his office.

“Yeah, I did but Sophie didn’t want me to go with her to the hospital,”

He said and walked to his seat, he could feel Patrick’s eyes following him and knew what was coming.

“You took a day off just to go with her to the hospital? I am glad one of you at least has some common sense. That’s such a terrible idea, you following a heavily pregnant woman to the hospital? It would be everywhere and we don’t want that right now,”

Lance knew that was what Sophie had thought too that made her turn his request down, what they both didn’t know was that he didn’t care about what anyone said, he wanted to be seen with Sophie, he wanted to do things with her. Today is important to her and he wanted to be there too, he only stayed away out of respect for her, okay, he did get a love declaration, and that kind of felt like payment for being unable to be there with her. His smile widened when he thought about it earlier.

“Why are you smiling again? you are acting like a lovestruck teenage boy,”

Patrick commented and Lance caught himself, he directed the smile at him for a moment and laughed at Patrick’s disgusted expression.

“What happened now?”

Patrick questioned.

“Nothing, I am just a happy man,”

It was hard to hide his happiness, not when everything he could think about was that Sophie told him that she loved him. Even though her fear of the unknown future almost ruined their loving moment. He didn’t dwell more on that because he knew he was the one to fix that and show her that they could be together, their love wasn’t forbidden in any way.