A Night With The King

“Yes, and she is going to be the new queen soon,”

He informed her.

“You are going to marry her? Then you must be the father of her child,”

She commented and Lance racked his brain to remember when he had told her that Sophie was pregnant but came up with nothing because he didn’t say anything to her.

“Don’t look so surprised, I knew she was pregnant when she spent her time here even though she tried to hide it and did a pretty good job, I am glad you both resolved your issues and you accepted her, she is a good woman and would make a good queen,”

Lance realized that he created a wrong image of the former queen from what he heard about her and not once did he try to get to know her, she was such a sweet old lady when she spoke. Once again, his father was in the wrong, what had he expected from that man anyway?

“It took a while but we are good now. Do you want to move to a place closer to the center of the kingdom? It must be lonely out here,”

Lance suggested.

“Are you forgetting that I was banned from entering into the kingdom? This has been my home for over two decades now, I am used to it,’

She responded. He did think of her ban but now, he didn’t see the need for it, his father was no longer alive.

“I am the king now and I hereby declare from this day that whatever ban you have has been lifted, pick a place you would like to live in and I will make the necessary arrangements for you to move there, you shouldn’t be here anymore, you deserve to be among the people because you saved the future queen’s life,”

He declared.

“Thank you, Your Majesty, it will be an honor, if the king pleases then I would like to move back to my old place within the palace,”

She requested. Lance nodded without overthinking, she could have her old place back, that wing of the palace hadn’t been used in ages; not since she was sent away.

“You can have it back, I will leave instructions for it to be cleaned and you can move in tomorrow or any day you choose,”

Lance said. he checked the time; it was so late now.

“I should let you rest,”

He said and stood up to leave, she followed him to her door. He waved at her when he got in the car. He couldn’t wait to tell Sophie. She would be proud of him. It started raining and before long, the roads became flooded. Even though Lance wanted to return to the palace, it became impossible as the rain increased so he told the driver to pull over at the nearest hotel. He wanted to call Sophie but there was no signal at the hotel due to the storm. Lance went to bed hoping that the rain would be gone by morning so that he could go back home to her. he didn’t like being away from her, he didn’t like making her wait and long for him. He could barely get any sleep.

Early the next morning, Lance was up and out of the hotel even though the hotel management wanted to host him, he promised to be back some other time. A night away from Sophie was all he could take. He tried calling her on the way to the palace but her phone wasn’t going through.

“Patrick, you ditched me yesterday,”

Lance let out when he met his best friend, he expected Patrick to come meet up with him but he never showed up.

“Sorry, Your Majesty, I had to take care of something,”

Patrick responded. Lance nodded and continued on his way to his room, he needed to go kiss his woman first.

“You don’t have to follow me, Sophie could still be in bed, I don’t want her to be shocked by your presence,”

Lance said when Patrick continued to follow behind him.

“Err, the thing is, I have something that I need to speak to you about,”

Patrick said, Lance turned to him for a moment.

“Can’t it wait until I have said Hi to Sophie? I haven’t seen or spoken to her since yesterday and I miss her so much,”

Lance said and continued on his way.

“Actually, I want to talk to you about Sophie,”

“Oh, if it is about the background check you did, I don’t want to know about it, I will let Sophie tell me about herself with her mouth,”

Lance said, opened the door to his room and walked in, Patrick followed him still, Sophie wasn’t on the bed so Lance didn’t bother to tell him to go away.

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Lance announced looking around the room.

“She is not here,”

Patrick said and Lance turned to him.

“How do you know that? Have you seen her this morning? Where is she?”

Lance asked as it was clear that Sophie wasn’t really in the room.

“My king, Lancelot, please give ears to what I have to say,”

Patrick said. Lance didn’t like how he spoke, he didn’t like his presence in the room right now, all he wanted was to hug and kiss Sophie, after that, he could listen to whatever Patrick had to say.

“What are you on about? All I want to know is where Sophie is, I guess the emerald house,”

Lance said and made to walk towards the emerald house but Patrick held him back.

“She left the kingdom, Lancelot, I sent her out of the kingdom yesterday, by now, she would be back in her country or wherever else she chose to go,”

Patrick announced. Lance paused and gave him a confused look, what he just said made no sense and wasn’t even funny if it was a joke.

“You did what? You sent who away? Please tell me this is some kind of sick joke,”

Lance let out. He couldn’t believe what he was hearing, it was the lamest joke he had ever heard; he walked past Patrick towards the emerald house, hoping that what he said was a joke and Sophie was in there waiting for him.

“She is not there,”

Patrick called out but he refused to listen. He walked fast towards the door and pushed the door open.

“Sophie??”

He called out, walking into the rooms and pushing the doors open but she wasn’t in any room, neither was she in the restroom or anywhere within the emerald house.

“Lancelot, I told you that she isn’t here,”

Patrick said and Lance turned to face him with his temper rising.