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’
“What do you have against Sophie? She doesn’t look like someone to get on your bad book, why do you seem to hate her?”Lance couldn’t resist asking. Patrick was acting like he had a beef with Sophie and wanted her gone from his side. “I don’t hate her, she didn’t do anything to me but she might cause trouble for you and I don’t want that, which is why I want you to send her away now that she hasn’t done anything yet; keeping her close would only bring problems to you, I don’t know why you refuse to see it,”“What kind of trouble can she bring to me? You have to give me examples,”Lance queried. “Oh, Lancelot, you have a soft spot for her, let’s face it, you might not have a relationship with her right now, but give it time and you will be making love to her or even falling in love with her, that’s if you aren’t already in love with her, you just beat up a man for her,”Patrick was out of his mind, he was talking nonsense, Lance had no plans of sleeping with or falling in love with S
“Fuck you, is that all you have to say? Why didn’t you call me yourself? My parents, who might I say are already disappointed because I am thirty and unmarried thought I came to your kingdom to make you change your mind, they think I did something, I haven’t seen my mom look so disappointed not even when she found out I got a tattoo at eighteen or when she found me having sex with the gardener’s son in my room on my nineteenth birthday, she looked so hurt and disappointed and I couldn’t even defend myself because I was too shocked for words,”Roseline let out. the little details she gave about herself told him she had been a wild teen. “You had sex with a gardener’s son?”He couldn’t resist asking. He wanted the full tea even though she was currently looking like she wanted to kill him. “Is that what you picked from everything I said? That’s not what is important right now, Lancelot! You have to fix the mess you made, you have to tell my parents and my fucking brother that it was al
Sophie felt bored out of her mind but that wasn’t the problem, she just couldn’t rub off the fact that something wasn’t right and that she might be in some kind of trouble. Ever since Patrick, the king’s right-hand man came to her, she hadn't seen or heard from the king. She tried to ask those who came to give her the basic things she needed about what was going on in the palace and the king but no one said anything to her. She couldn’t directly ask if the king did call off his wedding as Patrick had suggested. She hoped not because that would mean trouble for her. No one would believe she has anything to do with the king, she was in the house where mistresses are kept and well taken care of, she didn’t need a prophet to know that the people who attend to her think she is the king’s mistress. She wanted to shout to them that she was not but it was a waste of time as they wouldn't even say anything to her in the first place. Not knowing what a new day would bring to her made her const
“Are you sure? Because that man just called off our wedding and I have reasons to believe you are why he did it,”The princess said. Sophie opened her mouth to talk, but no words came out, she was too dumbfounded, she had thought Patrick was just saying nonsense when he had talked about the king calling off his wedding but the princess was saying the same thing but what she couldn’t understand was why they both think she was the reason the king would do that. “What? You can’t say anything? Are you happy? I know you must have told him you don’t want to share him with another woman, that’s why he called it off, you guys must be strong for him to be throwing away a union that would benefit his kingdom for you,”the princess went on. “My princess, I don’t know about the king calling off his wedding, the king and I have no such relationship, I am more like a prisoner here, something happened that I don’t know if I can tell you about but one thing is sure, the king did not call off your w