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136RHEA'S POVThe rays of sun cast on my face and I shifted to feel my head resting on something hard and warm. Popping an eye open, I raised my head to see Estefan sleeping with his hands around my body. I positioned my head on his chest to get a good look at his face. I used my fingers to remove the strand of hair on his face before moving to place a kiss on his lips.His hands tightened around me before I could pull away and his lips moved against mine.“Good morning.” He smiled when he pulled away.“When did you home yesterday?” I traced my finger on the side of his face. “You look stressed out.”“I came in sometime close to midnight,” he replied and my eyes widened. “Why were you out till that time?” I sat up on the bed beside him.“Anna called me when I got home after meeting Miss Sofia. She was worried about Esteban so I had to go back out to look for him.” He stretched his body and yawned. “I'm so tired. I wished everything that happened yesterday was just a terrible nightm
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RHEA'S POVThat night, I called my dad to tell him that Estefan and I would be coming down to London for something important. I choose not to go into details and leave it to Estefan to explain to my father face to face.Estefan said the court gave his father one week to make his decision about his brother becoming the Crown prince. Though Prince Eugenio cannot take over the throne until King Estevan passes away Estefan is convinced that Prince Eugenio wouldn't wait till then to ascend the throne.He wanted to use the one week his father had to chase any hope that his real brother was still alive. That was the only way to save his father's throne and guarantee his safety.We sat on the dining table, having breakfast while the maids took our traveling bags to the car. As I was eating, Leah's call came through and I answered it.“Hello.” “Dad said you and Estefan are coming to London today, is that true?” she asked. “Yes, we have something important that we need to take care of.” “T
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ESTEFAN'S POV Esteban went back to his room as soon as Anna left the palace. My father glanced at Mom before turning on his heels and walked to the elevator. “He's never going to forgive me, is he?” Queen Carina sighed as she watched her husband walk away.“I'm sure he'll come around, just give him time.” Rhea moved closer to her and rubbed her shoulders.“Are you two going to London?” Esmeralda asked, looking back and forth between Rhea and me. “Who is going to help Dad if you leave?" she said to me. “Trust me, we won't be gone for long,” I assured her. “We are going for something important that might end up resolving our situation, so I want you to give Dad the moral support you can while we are gone.” “Okay.” She nodded. “I'll go talk to Dad before we leave.” I ruffled her hair before walking to the elevator. The elevator stopped at the fifth floor and I went to my dad's study after checking his room to find it empty. I knocked on the door and he responded, “Come in.” Pushi
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RHEA'S POV I opened my eyes to a familiar environment and I sat up to see that I was in my old room. Climbing down from the bed, I yawned and made my way downstairs to find Leah feeding Dylan his food in the living room.“Who's the good boy? You're the good boy,” Leah said in a funny voice, trying to batter Dylan up to eat his food.I chuckled and walked closer to her. “I didn't expect you to be so good with babies.” “What do you mean?” She raised her eyebrows at me. “I practically raised you when Mom and Dad would leave you with the housekeeper and go to work all day.”“I have to admit you did a good job then,” I smirked. “I grew up into a fine young lady and I didn't even take after you.” She hissed and turned back to Dylan. “You should be sad you didn't.”“Whatever.” I waved her off and sat next to her. “Do you know where Estefan is?” “Mrs. Anderson said he dropped you off and left for Dad's office which was an hour before I came home and I've been home for one hour thirty minu
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RHEA'S POV “You look beautiful,” Estefan said as I stood in front of the mirror in a black short off-shoulder flare dress.He was standing next to me in a white Dior shirt and black pants paired with a black jean jacket.“The dress is tighter than when I got it.” I turned from side to side, checking to see if my stomach was bulging out in the dress.He wrapped his hands around me from behind. “It's just an effect of the pregnancy, you'll get back in shape after the baby is revealed.” He placed a kiss on my exposed shoulder. “Besides, I think you are more beautiful with your chubby cheeks.” I stepped away from his hold and turned to him with a glare. “Are you saying I was ugly when I was skinny?” “What?” His eyes widened in horror. “That's not what I meant.” “Then what do you mean?” I folded my arms.“You know what? Forget I said anything.” He picked up his phone from the bed. “You'll only end up twisting all my words.”I rolled my eyes and turned back to take one last look at my
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ESTEFAN'S POVI stepped into a diner close to the Knight Tech building and I spotted Asher sitting on a table for four alone near a window. I took my seat in front of him and he raised his head from his phone to look at me.“Your Highness.” He bowed. “I didn't expect you to be here early. “ “I'm a punctual person and I don't like people wasting my time,” I replied as I checked the time to see that it was two minutes past the appointed time.“Where is he?” I asked. “Have you spoken to him?” “Yes, he's going to be here soon,” he answered. “He called saying he had to report to work and finalize his impromptu off day.”“I thought Mr Knight said he would be taking care of that.” “He did send a message to his department head but they still have to make sure that his absence doesn't affect their work in any way.” I nodded in understanding before folding my hands and waiting for Cameron to show up.“I'm a bit curious,” he started. “Does my aunt maybe have anything to do with the Queen of S
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RHEA'S POVAll I wanted to do was rush back to Spain and give everyone the good news but I had promised to spend Leah's birthday which was two days away. Estefan and I decided to leave the day after Leah's birthday, that way we would still have two days to prove to the court members that King Estevan son before the announcement.Estefan had called Esmeralda that night and asked her about the situation in the palace. She told him that everything was just as we left it. Everyone was ignoring each other and the reporters were still camped outside the palace. She even mentioned that Princess Antonella came to visit after we left, and she overheard her telling King Estevan that she tried talking to some court members to support her in approving Estefan as the Crown Prince but they refused because Prince Eugenio already brought them over to his side.And she also mentioned that Princess Antonella insisted that King Estevan divorced his wife and kicked Esteban out of the palace if he ended
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ESTEFAN'S POV Back in Spain, the car drove into our house and the palace guard opened the door for Rhea to step out. “I have to get to the palace, I'll be back soon.” I kissed her forehead.“Okay.” She nodded before stepping out. She waved as the car drove out of the compound.The palace gate was still full of reporters and the palace guards who were preventing them from going in. The guards opened the gate and shielded my car from the reporters till the driver drove through the palace gate.I stepped out of the car and made my way to the fourth floor. Without knocking, I pushed Esteban's room door open to find him playing video games. “Get dressed, we are going out,” I ordered before turning to leave.“I'm not in the mood to go anywhere,” he replied, stopping in my tracks.Turning him with raised eyebrows, I asked, “Did I ask you what you are in the mood for? Get dressed and meet me in the living room.” I walked out of the room before stopping in the hallway when I remembered some
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ESTEFAN'S POV “Estefan,” Rhea yelled from inside the room and I glanced at Mrs Dutchman who was standing with me in the kitchen, before leaving the pan on the burning stove and running to the room.“What's wrong?” I stepped into the room to see Rhea standing with her legs apart in front of the closet. “My water broke.” Her eyes widened as she stared at the water on the ground.“Okay, no need to panic,” I said but I was the one panicking because I had no idea what to do.“She'll go into labour soon, we need to get her to the hospital.” Mrs Dutchman walked past me who was standing at the entrance, looking confused. I shook my head and got myself together before moving close to Rhea. She placed one hand on her huge baby bump while I held the other hand and supported her back with my other arm as we walked out of the room.“Fuck!” She cried out and squeezed the hand that she was holding. “That hurts.” “I'm so sorry.” I caressed her back as she kept walking.“We need to hurry up, the
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LEAH'S POV “Asher, there's something I want to talk to you about,” I started as I sat next to him on the couch while he was busy typing away on his laptop. A few days ago, Asher brought up the topic of our wedding. He wanted to talk to my parents so that we could finalize the wedding date and start preparing for it. Like I told Rhea, I wanted to discuss the issue of not having babies yet before we proceeded. “Okay, but check this out first.” He placed his laptop on the table so that I could see what he was doing he was looking at.I raised my eyebrows when I saw that it was a picture of a house, a beautiful house at that. “What do you think about it?” He asked.“It's a beautiful house and I love the design too.” I nodded.“Would you love to live there someday?” He continued. My face scrunched in confusion. “Why are you asking me that?” He scratched the back of his head. “I'm thinking of buying the house for us. I don't want us to live in this apartment when we get married.” “
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RHEA'S POV ONE WEEK LATER.“Do you think we should go with the Spiderman theme for the nursery?” I asked as we drove to the hospital because Esteban was getting discharged.“Why would you want to use a Spiderman theme for a baby girl?” Estefan looked up from his phone with raised eyebrows.“It's not a girl, it's a boy. I know that because I'm the one carrying the child.” I folded my hands. “It's called mother's instinct.” “It doesn't work that way.” “It does.” I countered. “Why don't we ask Mom when we get to the hospital?” “Fine.” He averted his eyes from me and focused on his phone.The car stopped in the hospital parking lot. We stepped out and made our way inside, heading straight to Esteban’s room.Esteban was heading out of the room with Mom and Esmeralda when we got there. “I told you not to waste your time coming.” He rolled his eyes at us.He had insisted that we didn't make his discharge a big deal and just meet him in the palace later. But Estefan and I being the adaman
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ESTEFAN'S POV That morning, the doctor confirmed that my father had slipped into a coma and had no idea when he would be awake. Some of the court members visited the hospital to confirm it before they decided to proceed with their plans of making Prince Eugenio the ruling king.Princess Antonella contacted the officer and he told us the arrest warrant would be issued soon.I made Esmeralda and Mom stay in the hospital with Rhea and Esteban while I went to the appointment ceremony with Princess Antonella and her husband. We were sitting in the front row reserved for the member of the Royal family and the court members proceeded with the ceremony when everyone else was present.My feet bounced and I kept looking at the entrance of the palace Grand Hall, waiting for the police to walk in. “What's taking them so long?” Princess Antonella asked as Prince Eugenio was invited to the podium.“I have no idea.” “They have to arrest him before the ceremony is over or else he will be untouch
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ESTEFAN'S POV Esmeralda and I were standing in the hospital reception when medics rushed my father who was lying unconscious on the stretcher into the hospital. My heart stopped when I saw the blood all over his white shirt. “Mom, where is Esteban?” Esmeralda ran toward Mom who was following Dad's stretcher with tears rolling down her cheeks.Before she could reply, Esteban's stretcher was rolled in by the medics. He was still conscious and groaning in pain. “Esteban, hang in there. You're going to be fine.” I followed the nurses as they pushed him toward the emergency room.“Please, make sure Dad is okay.” He groaned in pain as he spoke.“Dad will be fine, just worry about yourself.” I stopped as they went into the emergency room.Mom broke down in Esmeralda's arm and they sank to the ground while I watched them, trying so hard to control my tears. We sat outside the waiting room, watching nurses going in and out. “Where is Estevan?” Princess Antonella shouted and she ran towa
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ESTEFAN'S POV“Go back there and check for the CCTV camera,” I ordered the bodyguards. “We need to find the people who left her there.” My bodyguards reported that they found Rhea lying in an alley. If I could get footage of the person who left her there and get him arrested, we might be able to get him to mention Prince Eugenio's name and add it to the list of his crimes. “Yes, Your Highness.” They bowed and left the room.Esmeralda walked into the hospital room with Mrs Dutchman who was holding a basket of food. I made her go back to the palace last night, even though she insisted on staying. I should have expected that she would be early the next morning. “Your Highness, I brought you some food.” Mrs Dutchman placed the basket on a small table and dragged me to sit on the chair in front of it. “I'm very sure you didn't get anything last night. Her Highness would get mad at you if she found out you have been starving yourself.” She was right. I didn't get anything to eat the wh
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ESTEFAN'S POV I drove like a maniac to the palace and rushed into the living room where everyone was sitting. “Where is she?” I asked, breathing heavily. My father stood up with a dejected look on his face. “Prince Eugenio has her, and he won't release her unless I announce him to the Crown Prince.” My heart dropped at the mention of Prince Eugenio's name, and my shoulders slumped in defeat. After everything I did to save my family’s legacy, everything was going to go down the drain because I couldn't protect Rhea. If only I had chosen to let that maid go and follow Rhea to the hospital. I pulled on my hair before I picked up a vase beside me and smashed it against the wall. “Fuck!” I yelled. “Estefan, calm down.” Esteban rushed to hold me. “How can I calm down? I don't know what that bastard is doing to her. She must be scared all by herself.” I cried as I spoke. “I should have gone with her to the hospital. This is all my fault.” Esteban wrapped his hands aroun
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ESTEFAN'S POV “Thanks for your help.” I walked toward the elevator with my bodyguards behind me. I took one of the regular elevators to the second floor. As if luck was on my side, the elevator stopped to reveal the kitchen maid holding two suitcases with her mother behind her. Her eyes widened upon seeing me, and she turned to make a run for it, but she stopped in her tracks when her eyes landed on her mother. I smirked, knowing she couldn't leave her mother behind to save herself. “Help them get in,” I ordered my bodyguards, and they stepped out of the elevator to usher them in. Gabriela shook in fear as she and her mother stood behind me in the elevator. The door closed, and I held the elevator before turning to her. “What's going on? Why isn't the elevator moving?” Her mother raised an alarm, looking at me and my bodyguards in fear. Gabriela kept her head down in fear, tugging on her mother's skirt. “What is it? Why are you quiet?” She turned to her daughter, e
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ESTEFAN'S POV “You have a phone call,” Rhea brought my phone to me in the bathroom. She answered it and put it on speaker since I couldn't answer it in the shower. “Good morning, Your Highness, its Doctor Enzo,” the caller said. “The DNA results are ready, you can come pick them up.” “Thank you, doctor,” I replied and he hung up. Rhea left the bathroom and I finished up before joining her in the room. She sat on the bed, typing away on her laptop while I got dressed.“I have an appointment with my obstetrician today, do you think you can come along?” She asked as she closed the laptop. “What time?” I stood in front of the mirror and buttoned my shirt. “11:30, can you make it?” She stood up to help me with my tie that I still haven't gotten the hang of. “I'm not sure, but I'll try.” I wrapped my hands around her.I had to get the test results and explain everything to my father before the meeting which I was informed was scheduled for 2pm.“If anything comes up and I can't make
