“I hope we can fix this need to want to tear each other apart over our next dates,”Lance suggested. “What? We have to keep meeting? I wasn’t aware,”She let out. ‘You are still in Otano right? We should meet every day until you have to go back home, that way we will learn all things about each other, you said it also that we can’t get married as strangers,”Lance reminded her. “Yeah, sure, whatever you say,”She replied. There was no getting through to her, she was just too stubborn. “I will drop you off at your hotel,”Lance invited as he stood up and she did too. “You don’t have to do that, I have my people with me and I can find my way back to the hotel, let’s not pretend to be close when we are not,”She responded. “Yeah, my bad,”He said and before he could say anything else, she just picked up her bag, and off she went. Before he came out of the restaurant, she was already gone. “That’s one heck of a woman,”He commented. He got into his car too and the driver took him b
“What the hell?”Roseline asked after she pushed away. He kind of forgot what was happening between them and instead, his head was filled with another woman. “Did you suddenly disappear from your body or are you just a woody man with no single romance bone?”She asked and he glared at her. “What do you mean by that?”He fired at her. “I mean, you and I just shared a kiss and it felt like I was kissing a log of wood, that’s the worse kiss I have ever had,”She let out while wiping her lips. “You, did you just, what?”Lance let out. He couldn’t even get the words he wanted to say out. did she just compare him to a log of wood? “What? You can’t get the words out?”“You watch what you say to me, a wood? If you think you have kissed a lot, I can tell you I have kissed twice as many people and this is my worst too and you think I am to blame?”He fired at her. He hated how he had to defend himself against her. “Well, I guess we have a lot more to work on than we thought because I am a
“You don’t get the gist, do you? I know what we talked about; I know what we decided but I don’t see the point of marrying someone I don’t like when I am not going to gain anything from her. If we get married, her kingdom would be gaining more from us, On top of us not liking each other, there is no guarantee that we will be compatible in bed either, We shared a kiss and it was the worst kiss I have ever had, I already said no one can talk me out of what I already decided so let’s keep it at that, there will be no royal wedding unless I find a suitable bride that I can bed too,”Lance declared in a voice that left no room for argument, he could tell that they had more to say but he didn’t care, he was done talking to them, he got off the throne and walked out of the throne room expecting Patrick to follow, if only he could avoid the ear full that Patrick was about to give him, one thing was sure, he wasn’t going to go back on his words, he had nothing to lose if the marriage doesn’t h
Sophie looked up from the book she had been reading when the door that led to the king’s chamber opened. She expected to see the king but instead, his special advisor walked in. Sophie got up fast, dropped the book, and bowed to him. He was second in command and answered directly to the king so he was treated with the same respect as the king, not to mention, he used to be the king’s best friend. “Sophie?”He called out her name. “Yes, my lord,”She let out. She didn’t like how he called out her name. It sounded like he was here to give her an earful. “Listen to me and listen really well okay? I am just going to say what I have to say once and not more than once, do you copy?”he questioned authoritatively. “Yes, my lord. “Good, now I don’t know what you and the king have but it won’t work, I am trying to talk some sense into him but he won’t listen to me so I am talking to you instead. I want you to be the one to discontinue whatever relationship you have with the king,”He let
Lance paused and checked his progress so far, he was tired but for the last two hours, he had seen a lot of progress. He felt relief, the anger and anxiety he felt earlier were almost gone now, he really needed this time away from everything, If only he could do this more often but being king means he has to give away his free time and a lot more other things; the fact that he gives away so much and yet, when he does decide to put himself first, it becomes a problem. Painting was what his life had been all about before he gave it all up and came to Otano to take over from his father. These days, he never has time to paint, he gave it up willingly, he gave up his whole life and they still want him to do more. “Yikes,”He let out and dropped the brush he held. He wasn’t doing anything special right now, he was painting a meadow, the only thing that came to mind when he got here. This place was the only place he could find some kind of alone time, Of course, that crazy advisor of his kn
“Are you planning on spending the rest of the day here?”Patrick asked, breaking the silence. So much for silence. Lance still ignored him. “You know, you can’t ignore me forever, right? You will have to speak to me,”Patrick pressed on. “I still don’t understand why you think it is a good idea to call off your wedding and then ghost everyone, I know you don’t want me to bring it up again but I have to, Lancelot, You should have at least told her when she was still here, she doesn’t deserve to hear about it from someone else when she was with you throughout the week,”Patrick said. This time, his words got to Lance and he stopped what he was doing to give him a look. “Patrick, you are here, aren’t you? If you are so concerned about her, why don’t you go to her kingdom and break the news to her yourself, I mean, it isn’t out just yet, I only told the elders, go tell her, You have one day because by the end of tomorrow, I want the official news out, I don’t need a queen at least not
“I still think going to see him in the mood you are in right now is a bad idea, Lancelot, I know he was evil and all for what he did to her but can you just let the right authorities do their job, they already have evidence against him,”Patrick pressed, when they arrived at the palace, he was hesitating on passing the palace gate. Lance wasn’t having it, he wasn’t going to let him talk him out of going to see that bastard, on the way to the palace, he had finished watching the video just to get a grasp of the whole situation and let just say, it got worst with each new details he finds out, the fucker, threatened her, left her in the middle of nowhere even though he knew it was late, she could have been kidnapped or worst, killed in the wild. How she was able to locate the disgraced queen’s house, was still a mystery well, at least she did something good for once. Not like the queen has ever done anything to him personally, it was his father that sent her away, while he was still a c
“So? Now that your secret is open, are you finally going to tell me what the fuck happened and why you stole from me and framed an innocent woman?”The man looked shocked, like he wasn’t expecting his secret to be known; he was quick to mask the shock but Lance already saw through him, he knew what the fucker was going to say next, and sure enough, he didn’t disappoint, like every other criminal, he lied. “I don’t know what you are talking about, Your Majesty, I am innocent, please spare my life,”He pleaded. If Lance hadn’t watched and heard the things he had said to Sophie, he would have believed he was innocent with the way he spoke but bad for him that he already knew he was lying. “You liar, how dare you lie to your king? How dare you lie to my face? You better start talking, better start naming the people who were involved in the theft with you or you will be facing the consequences on your own, not only did you steal from the kingdom, you blamed it on someone else. If I hadn’