"Is it that hard for you?" she says, Liam glanced at her mother, she stared at them like an owl, she gave her respect the moment she noticed his gaze. "Because of you," he says, bowing back to her. Aurora smiles. "I love you" she whispered in his ears happily. He looks at her. "Can I get a kiss now?" he says. Lisa's car had taken off. "Nope, see you soon," she says, moving back. "Aurora?" he sucked his urge back. "Bye," she says, waving, "Don't tell me goodbye, I don't want that" he says, pouting. "Oh, okay later," she says, Liam looked so cute whenever he did that. "Ahem... Samuel" he beckons to him opening the door. Liam raised an eyebrow at her, walking back to the car. He stopped. He turned around, Aurora's eyes popped seeing how fast he walked back to her, He pulled her to his body before she could move. His lips pressed against hers, covering hers, Aurora's eyes opened wide, he grips her waist tight, his other hands pushed her neck to him, having her in
"You amuse me," she says, she lifts her gaze to him, "You make me want you if you stare at me like that," he says, "Are you picking me over your people?" "No, I'm just saying," he says. "Oh, so sad," she says disappointed, it was a reality she had accepted but every time he said he she gets disappointed. "I have to go" he clears his throat, taking his gaze off her, her mother was nowhere to be found. "You chased her," she says, noticing his eyes wander around them. "Well.." he walks into the car, not caring so much about her. Seconds later, Liam was out her sight, she took a deep breath and turned around. She was already missing him and his multiple emotions, she closed her eyes, enjoying the breath and sunlight. Her mother watched her from the door. "Your Highness!" Sania nudges her. "Can you stop?" she says, eyeing them. She was a little embarrassed but she loved it either way. "I have always known the to be King was a romantic" Lia says, they blushed
"Your Majesty, we received news from the Queen" Liam smiled, he hoped she would return to the palace earlier. "What's wrong?" He asked, strolling through his file. "Her Highness is sick" Liam turned around. "Sick?" He says, he had just left her why would she be sick? he raised his gaze at Samuel. "Yes, I think she has the flu?" Samuel's eyes wandered around, he wasn't sure what her sickness was but he heard she had a cold. "Send the royal doctor over" he took a deep breath. "Yes, Si- Your Majesty" Samuel corrected, he took a deep silent breath and raised his gaze at him. "It's okay, Samuel anyone is fine by me," Liam says, seeing expression, he could read him clearly that he was frustrated. "Okay Sire," He says, smiling at Liam. "Is the ship ready?" Liam got up, he walked to his cloth, which were hung. "Yes Sire, are you sure about this?" Samuel says, helping him put it on. "Samuel?" he stared at him, he buried his head down, trying not to look him in the eyes. "I'm sorry I
"Yes, I have an important business to take care of" "Okay, when she wakes up I would let her know-" "No, don't," he says forcing a smile. "Oh okay," "Thank you," he says, "I would leave now" Liam walks out of the house. "Bye then" she bows. "It's fine you don't need to" "I will you're the King" Liam smiled, her mother was more respectful than she was. "Think about me like a son" Liam pays his respect instead. "Sire-" Samuel mumbled shocked. Edward watched him from the car, he smiled, Aurora must really affect him, she was the only one that could do that to him. "Oh I will" she blinked, forcing a smile surprised by his action, he was never nice to her, why now? "I will get going then," he says, walking back to the car. Samuel opened the car door for him. "What was that?" Edward laughed "Paying my respect," he says. "Aurora has some effect on you" He laughs, as they drove away. "That's not your business! why do you keep interfering with mine?" he
Aurora started the test, she glanced at the royal doctor while she beckoned on others to come in, they were two others that came into the house, Aurora shook her head, they were really "We" "His Majesty would like you to run a pregnancy test if you're okay with that," she says, Aurora glanced at her mother, and back at the royal doctor. "What test?" Her mother got up, walking in their direction. "What?" she says, blushing her mind had never gone there, that she could actually be pregnant with Liam's baby, why did she not even think about that, even though the rate of getting pregnant was very low for her but still- she and Liam were very much reckless. "It's negative Your Highness," the doctor says, Aurora turned over to her, she must have heard wrong, as much as she wasn't expecting a baby she still didn't want to get disappointed. "What?" She narrowed her gaze on her mother, taking a deep breath loudly. "You're not pregnant, Your Highness, it turned out negative"
"You must be worried," Sania says, Aurora narrowed her gaze. "Why do you want to inform the palace?" she says, no matter what she wouldn't want them to find out without telling Liam first. "Look at you!" her mother laughed along with Sania and Lia. "Congratulations Your Highness" "What's there?" she holds her smile. "You're expecting an heir... not just any an heir to the throne- so it's a big deal" "Whatever, I don't want the news around" she forced her excites back. She couldn't wait to get a reaction on Liam's face. She had imagined that day thousands of times. "Yes, Your Highness" Aurora takes her hair back, breathing loudly. "Any news on Liam?" She cleared her throat, closing the door behind her. "Ah? His Majesty isn't back yet" Sania says, in a low and respectful tone. "Your Highness, Samuel His Majesty man is here" A guard informs her. "Really?" she gave a bright smile, maybe it could be big news, she did want that. "He's here to deliver a message
"You're scaring me what's wrong!" she chuckles. "Forgive me, your highness!" She buries her face to the floor. "What? forgive you?" she says, What did she mean by forgiving her? in the palace when bad news comes to the Queen by her maids, they are to ask for her forgiveness. "We received news from King Darius..." Her eyes brightened, maybe things worked out well, she guessed with a smile on her face, he would be coming home soon then. "His Majesty is dead!" Lia says Aurora's smile disappeared, she raised her brows unable to believe that, why? how? it was impossible, Liam dead? what sort of rubbish news was that? "What? what rubbish news do you bring here?" Aurora says, moving closer to her. The bells of the palace starts to ring again, she looked out of the window. The palace was dark in a second. "His Majesty is dead!" she drops her head to the ground again. "Why? what? why should Liam be dead?" she breathed, staring down at her. "He didn't make it" Lia continues
"Aurora?" she dropped to Lisa's body, "Hey!" Lisa tapped her. "Your Highness!" Sania and Lia tapped her. "What's wrong?" Lady Gina, titled her head to see what was going on. "Get the Royal doctor immediately!" Lisa yells, "She's always a mess!" The Grand Queen says, walking out of their presence ___________________________ "Thank you Rialto," Lisa says, looking devasted, her eyes were red, and looked down, while she stood right in front of doctor Rialto. "She's gonna be okay, we've given her some pills to calm her down, her blood pressure was high and she's pregnant which is not good for her" Doctor Rialto says, staring at her chart. "What?" Lisa moved closer to her, she must have not heard her clearly. "She's-" she raised her gaze at Lisa, "I'm sorry-" she held her mouth, she looked at the door, "What did you say? Au- I mean the Queen's pregnant?" she had a huge smile on her face. "Yes Princess" she lowers her gaze to the floor. "Wow, that's awesome
"Lisa?" he called, She dropped the knife immediately and looked at him. "Oh, Liam you're back?" She darts at Aurora and back at him. "What are you doing with that?" He asked, coming closer. "Oh, Aurora dropped this, after placing her on the bed, I picked it up" Lisa smiles. "You should be careful with those" Liam giggled. "Yeah, I think she cut herself" She says, Lisa picks the knife from the floor.. "What?" "I am just kidding, but she yelled, cried before going to sleep" Lisa says. "Why?" "She believes Lady Gina's serving girl died because of her" "Thank you, Lisa" Liam glanced around. "You're welcome, well then I think I should excuse you" she breathed. "Lisa?" He called. "Yeah?" She turned around, holding a coat in her hand. "I'm sorry for the death of your grandmother" He says, Lisa looked over to Aurora "Does she know yet?" Lisa cleared her throat, sucking in the flood of tears. "I will let her know" he says, Lisa smiled and nodded. "Goodnigh
"I knew I should have gone to her!" Aurora says. "Stop it, it isn't your fault" "What if that's why she came to my chambers?" she panicked, bitting her nails. "Aurora, listen to me" Liam took her hands off her mouth, "You haven't slept for the past two days... you're pregnant, remember?" He patted her head. "Shouldn't you see, Lady Gina? she has to know" She says, Liam sighed. "Aurora!" he gripped her hands. "Don't tell at me, I am scared" she says. "You have to eat, you're causing danger to yourself" He explained, but Aurora hands kept shaking. "Hey," He held her hands tight. "We would find whosoever that did this okay?" He says.BB "Lady Daniella, How is she?" She bit her lower lips, blinking severally. "Sire?" Edward calls from behind the door, Aurora narrowed her gaze towards the door. "Come in" Liam says "Sire, your presence is needed at court." He bows. "Why don't you get a warm bath and..." He whispered in her ears, "and put on something nice for me?"
Climbing over her, meeting her lips. He pulled away for a second to look into her eyes, "Ready?" He placed her legs over his shoulders, Aurora breath increased and she nodded. Liam pushed into her, holding her head in his arms, Aurora wrapped her legs around his waist. "Liam!" she moaned, kissing his ears, their breathing ragged as they both enjoyed each other. Her moans softly faded away, as hours passed. Few hours later, Aurora was fast asleep when she heard a strange noise, she opened her eyes to the dark room, she touched around and Liam was nowhere to be found. "Liam?" She called, assuming he had gone to shower, Aurora took off the sheets, coming down from the bed when she heard the same noise again, like someone had fallen. "Sania? is that you?" She searched the wall for the switch, "Kara?" she assumed, slowly she walked closer, Aurora trips over. "Oh! Sania? I'm sorry," she says, crawling through the wetness of the ground. Aurora reaches the wall, searching for the
"I am, where did you get this grape from it's really sweet" she commented, Kara and Sania looked at themselves. "Grape?" Sania asked. "Yeah, grapes" Aurora looked at them, smiling. "What's wrong? you didn't get them?" She panicked. "I did... from my parents place" Kara blushed. "Oh, really? when did you leave?" "Ahh, that... my brother brings them twice a week" "You have a brother? does he work in the palace?" She asked, munching on her grape. "No, he's a farmer" Kara says, looking at Sania. "Can you tell him..." Aurora swallowed, "Can you tell him, to bring some more?" She lickef her lips. "It would be an honour!" She bowed, Sania shook her head. "Do you want some Sania? the King must have scared you a lot" Aurora furrowed her brows at her. "No, Your Grace... I wouldn't dare!" She says, Kara chuckled. "It's fine... I wouldn't be mind" Aurora assured her "Your Grace, you need to prepare for the burial" Aurora froze, she has totally forgotten about that.
The palace, bell rang over and over around the palace, it was a custom that whenever a royal had passed on, the bells would keep ringing from the moment the news had reached the King till the next day, and Aurora in her chambers late at night, stared through the window. People from all over the citadel, stood with candles in their hands mourning the late Queen mother. Liam was stuck in her chambers till the next morning. "Your Highness, the King had ordered you to sleep" Sania weak voice says. "How can I sleep knowing my husband isn't fine?" she sniffled, turning around, Sania, Kara and Lia were on their knee in a white garment. "For the..." Sania says. "Why are you all kneeling?" She asked, confused and staring at them. "It's the custom?" "To kneel for no good reason?" she chuckled at their stupidity. "Yes, Your Grace" Kara says, wiping her eyes, Aurora took a deep breath "The King?" "Your Grace, he would..." Aurora hissed. "I need to see him, it's midnight and he hasn't st
"Don't!" Sania stopped Lia from opening the door to Aurora's chamber. "Oh, you're here" Lia says, smirking at her. "Yeah, I am..." she rolled her eyes at her. "Why are you guys outside?" "Don't!" Sania yelled. "What?" Lia and Kara, replied gawking at her. "The king is with the Queen" she whispered. "You mean he left here?" Kara asked. "Yeah, he does that a lot..." Lia says, Sania nudged her, sighing. "So, we should probably wait... till he leaves" Sania says. "No, we should go back" "What? are you crazy? what if she needs us?" "After we left, was that when he came?" "Yeah, that time... Her Highness was in the shower" Sania paused, she looked around and gathered them together. "What happened?" Kara asked. "She won't be needing any," Sania mimicked, laughing. "Needing what?" Lia asked, for further understanding. "Her clothes, I assumed" Sania leaned back, shrugging. "Oh my God!" She held her chest, staring at the man at their front. "Sania..." h
Just as the night crept, Aurora returned to her chambers after a long night with the princess, finally she found her way out, and huffed, closing the door of her chamber. "Your bathe is ready" Sania says. "Help me, get this dress off" She says, turning around, in seconds her dress dropped, she quickly grabbed a robe covering her naked body. "His Majesty?" Aurora asked, side glancing Sania and Lia who arranged her bed. Sania and Lia helped prepare a warm bathe for her, she dropped her robe as she stepped into the shower, it was indeed warm, she loved it, it felt so relaxing letting the water roll down her skin. "Thank you Sania" she says, smiling and enjoying the pressure of the water, this was exactly what she need after dealing with the princesses. "Your Highness," she smiled, "Do you need me to prepare your dress?" Sania asked, Aurora felt a figure watching her. "Oh... Liam?" Aurora eyes met his, he started at her with a smile, He had his hair lying on his shoulde
"But I can't touch you without remembering Robert" He sighs. Aurora looked around the chamber, she didn't understand what he meant by that, but that was the most foolish thing Liam had ever said to her, She breathed wondering what he meant. Aurora thought of asking him what he meant but she couldn't bring herself to, Robert? what did he have to do with touching her? nothing he said made sense to her, there was a serious matter around the corner, with his attitude she couldn't bring herself to ask him why he did that. "You can do that later, for now let's shower huh?" She managed a smile, trying her best to bring up any topic that would provoke him knowing how Liam was, he could be so annoying especially when he couldn't or doesn't want to answer or talk about something. "We should?" He smirks, laughing. Aurora furrowed, he looked like a psychopath with his dull eyes and devilish smile, how could one look so scary without effort. "Yeah, why don't you help me undress?" she cares
Aurora lays on his bed, sleeping as Liam steps in, Rialto sat there watching her "How is she?" "She's fine, she just needs rest, she had a hard time staying alone, plus her experience earlier made her shocked. "The baby?" "Fine, but you shouldn't leave her on her own, so it doesn't develop into trauma, it's bad for her health," Rialto says. "Thanks, is that all?" He glanced around. "Yes Sire, I would leave you now" Liam sits beside her watching her sleep. He would have let her stay in his chambers then things would have been different, she wouldn't have to worry about seeing or getting abused. "Sire?" Samuel whispers "Hm?" He turns over, getting out of the bed. "Prince Edward wants to see you" "Outside" Liam mouths, he turns back and Aurora slept soundly. Slowly he shut the door quietly, "What's going on?" "The princesses are asking for the state of the Queen" "She's fine, let them know that... and Edward?" "He says, Robert would like to see you" "Oh, he's ready