A Night With The King

“You will find out soon, for now, we need to get ready as we have to leave this morning, sadly, our vacation has ended and now I need to go back to being king,”

He said in a regretful tone, he loved being king but he also liked how the last two days have been for them, it felt normal, and normal wasn’t what he got a lot.

“Sure, we can always come back on other weekends, you don’t have to look so sad,”

Sophie consoled.

“Of course, I am stealing you away from the palace every opportunity I get,”

He responded and kissed her again.

“Good morning, little one,”

He greeted his little princess and the future queen of Otano. She jumped in excitement when he touched her through the baby bump. He couldn’t wait to meet her in person, he promised himself that he would be a great father, making sure not to be a parent like his father had been.

“She loves you a lot, you know that right?”

Sophie mouthed.

“I feel it and I love her and you just as much,”

He responded and kissed the baby bump and then Sophie

“You are going to be the best dad, I can already tell,”

Sophie said and Lance nodded.

“Of course I am, I won’t be strict with our daughter just because she will eventually take over as queen, I will treat her like my little princess while teaching her all she needs to know to become a good queen in the future when I retire,”

He promised. Sophie looked shocked.

“Why are you looking at me like that?”

He questioned.

“You are going to make our daughter the queen?”

She asked.

“I am not going to make her queen, I will help in training her but she is already a queen from the moment she was conceived,”

He told her.

“Wow, I am pregnant with a ruler, wow, I didn’t know a girl could rule in this kingdom,”

“Yes, a woman can be queen, being a ruler is not gender-based here, in Princess Roseline’s kingdom they do that but in Otano, the oldest child is the heir except in cases where the oldest isn’t qualified like what happened with me and my older brother, If I had another older sibling, it would have been them and not me, but I was next and when Justin messed up I took over, of course, I will make sure our daughter is qualified and you will be there too to teach her the right ways,”

He told her with a proud smile.

“I will do my best,”

She replied. his phone started ringing, he rolled his eyes because he already knew who it was that would be calling him.

“Aren’t you going to take your call? You know if you don’t take it, Lord Patrick will be here in the next few minutes,”

Even Sophie knew who was calling. He grudgingly got out of bed and took his phone.

“What?”

He asked as he kissed Sophie on the forehead one last time before he walked out of the room, she didn’t need to hear Patrick scolding him.

“Are you on your way back already?”

Patrick asked; Lance didn’t like how he sounded over the phone and he feared that something must have happened while he was away.

“No, is there something I need to know?”

“Yes, I heard some disturbing news this morning about your brother, I have had him on my radar for a while now and I just found out he is holding a meeting with the elders soon,”ConTEent bel0ngs to Nôv(e)lD/rama(.)Org .

Patrick revealed, at first, Lance didn’t think much about it but the fact that Patrick was telling him meant that it was serious, he didn’t want to believe that the elders would agree to meet Justin after all he did.

“Don’t tell me they agreed to meet with him?”

“Yes, they agreed, as far as I know, your brother has been up to no good recently, he has been going around the kingdom, and now I think he has been gathering allies,”

Patrick revealed. Lance felt his blood boil.

“What? Why would Justin do that and what do you mean that the elders agreed to meet up with him? What kind of games are those people playing?”

Lance barked out, he had to reduce his voice a little as he didn’t want Sophie to hear and panic.

“I don’t know the full details yet but according to my source, he has been meeting with them individually for months now and they seem to have forgotten what he did, not just the elders, he recently visited the disgraced queen,”

Patrick revealed. Where before, Lance would have immediately been mad at the former queen, now after how she helped Sophie even though she knew nothing about her, he couldn’t bring himself to be mad without first finding out from her, maybe it was time for him to pay her a visit, he hoped she wasn’t working with Justin because that would remove any grateful feelings that he had towards her. Justin was an enemy of the throne and the elders knew better than to entertain him.

“I will go see the former queen, for the elders, send me a list of those that he has spoken with, I need to know those that have been dining with an enemy of the throne,”

Lance ordered.

“You might need to know that a good number of top people, not the elders this time, he is gathering people, they were in a meeting yesterday and from what I gathered, they will still be there, he is planning something and I sadly don’t know what it is, but I have a feeling he is planning on taking the throne from you,”

Patrick revealed. Lance didn’t want to worry but he knew his brother enough to know it was a stunt he could pull, Lance knew he needed to put a stop to whatever his plans were before it got out of hand, he wasn’t about to fight Justin for a throne that was rightfully handed over to him, for a kingdom that he spent the last two years building with his blood, sweat and tears.

“Do you know the location of their meeting? It is time for me to meet with that loser,”

Lance let out.

“Yes, I know their location and I can send it to you,”

“Do so,”

He said and hung up, Patrick sent the location in a few minutes, and he walked back to the room he shared with Sophie.

“Soph, I am sorry but we have to leave now, I will drop you off at the palace, I have somewhere I need to be,”

He announced.

“Did something happen?”

She asked with concern, he didn’t want to make her worry about him so he couldn’t tell her anything.

“It’s not to be worried about, just get dressed and let’s go,”

He said and went over to wear his clothes expecting her to do the same but when he finished dressing up, she was still not dressed, he wasn’t feeling good but knew he couldn’t take it out on her.

“Why aren’t you moving?”

He asked in the calmest voice that he could master, with how he was feeling.

“You don’t have to drop me off, whatever it was that you have to do sounds urgent, why don’t you leave with the cars, you can’t go somewhere without proper protection and there is already a limited number here, you can go ahead and the other car can take me back,”

Sophie suggested. Now he wished he brought more aid, even the ones that had come with them had been sent back, it was only one car around.

“No, I can drop you off at the palace and be on my way, there is only one car around right now, I sent the other back to the palace when we arrived, if I leave you here, you will have to wait for someone from the palace to come get you,”

He replied. He didn’t like the idea of leaving her on her own.

“Is the place you have to be on the way to the palace? I mean would going to the palace not make you waste time? If it will, then you shouldn’t bother about me, just get someone from the palace to come get me,”

She suggested again. she was right, if he had to go drop her back at the palace, he would have to travel a longer distance to get to the location that Patrick sent, and by then, Justin might have left.

“Are you sure you will be okay on your own? The only other person that would be around would be the security man at the entrance,”

He told her, watching for any sign of discomfort but there was none, she just smiled and nodded.

“I will be fine on my own for a few hours, don’t worry about me and go do whatever it is that needs to be done and I will see you when you get back to the palace,”

She said with a bright smile. He didn’t have a lot of choice.

“I will make the call, I love you and I will see you soon,”

He said and reached out to wrap her in a hug. For her and their baby, he couldn’t lose the throne and everything he had worked so hard for. He wasn’t going to let anyone take from him, especially not a loser like Justin.