A Night With The King

“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.Nôvel(D)rama.Org's content.

“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 all you, that I never made you do anything,”

She blurted out.

“You made me do it though,”

He corrected.

“Wait? What? I made you do what? Don’t lie on me, you did everything by yourself, we went out for a whole week and you didn’t see the need to tell me to my face that you don’t want to marry, you had to wait like a coward until I was out of your kingdom to tell the world, that’s a shameful thing to do,”

She let out.

“Roseline, you and I both know a marriage between the two of us won’t work, not only are we not compatible at all, we can’t even have sex,”

Lance reminded her, since she seemed to have forgotten the disaster that was their first kiss.

“I told you we would work on that, you never said anything about not wanting us to be together after the kiss, you should have told me, it was our first time, when you left, I thought about it, and promised myself that I would do better that I will try and make things work between us, I was ready to compromise, I was ready to do anything to make us work, but you just had to go ruin everything,”

She fired at him, and for the first time since she walked into his chamber in anger, she looked genuinely hurt.

“What happened already did, Roseline and there is no going back, you can’t make us work, I don’t want to be married to you and that is final,”

Lance responded. It was harsh but it was the reality, he couldn’t go back and announce that the wedding was still on; he didn’t want to, either.

“So, the rumors are true?”

Roseline asked. The sudden switch-up came as a shock for him, he didn’t even know what rumors she was talking about.

“What rumors?”

He was sure it would be something baseless and stupid.

“That’s you have a woman, while I was here, I heard a rumor that you have a woman in some place that only you have quick access to, I didn’t really mind because kings are known to keep mistresses, but you call off our wedding because of your other woman? That’s crazy,”

She let out. for a moment. Lance couldn’t get any words out, he didn’t even know something like that was being circulated, of course, he expected people to talk once he moved Sophie to the emerald house but he didn’t expect it to get out of the palace.

“Where did you hear that from?”

He asked.

“Oh, you are not denying it, so it is true? So, the real reason you tried everything to make us incompatible was because of her? The reason you couldn’t even kiss me properly was because of your loyalty to her? Why didn’t you just marry her in the first place? Why did you fucking add me in the mix just to humiliate me?”

Roseline blurted out, her whole mood changing again, this time, she looked and sounded even angrier.

“I don’t know what you heard but I don’t have a mistress, yes, I do have a woman in the emerald house, like you heard but everything else is wrong, she is not my mistress,”

He corrected but she didn’t look like she believed him. Well, he didn’t mind if she believed him or not, it would not make or change anything, Sophie had not hand in why he chose not to marry her. Whether she was in the picture or not, he couldn’t see himself marrying Roseline. the more he spoke to her, the more his decision sounded better. She wasn’t for him.

“You are lying, you are bloody liar, Lancelot, you are a coward too for making a mess, knowing fully well that you already have a woman, you are a messy man for trying to get me too even though you have another woman,”

She yelled at him.

“What the fuck are you saying? Do you even hear yourself right now? Let’s say you are right, let’s say I have a mistress, do you think that will stop me from marrying or having other women? I am the king, I get whatever woman I want and whatever number I want, I am not obligated to stick to one woman, think about it,”

Lance told her. She was underestimating him and he hated it. Of course, he had no plans of keeping other women once he got married, it is what other kings before him did but that’s not what he wanted to do.

“Not if you are in love with the said woman, not if she has you wrapped around her fingers,”

The princess yelled right back at him. Love? He couldn’t remember the last time he felt that emotion. It was a long time ago and it didn’t work out, he didn’t even want to think about it. Somehow, this woman thinks he is in love with someone, Sophie? That’s the only woman he was keeping, the woman who the rumors were about. He wasn’t in love with her. She wasn’t even in his league, if he ever got with her, she could only be his mistress, not only was she from the lowest part of the society in the kingdom, but she was also a foreigner, it would never happen.

“You don’t know what you are saying, Princess, I don’t have anyone that I am in love with, I don’t have a mistress, I called off the wedding because I don’t want to trap us both in a fruitless marriage that is already doomed to fail even before it started. I am saving us both from future embarrassment and problems and I am done talking about this or trying to explain anything to anybody, I am not obligated to explain things to anyone, my words are final.

Lance told her.

“Fuck you,”

She let out. turned around, and walked away, he let her go; he sat on the bed, hoping she would not come back, he didn’t want to deal with her again.

“What did you do to her? What did you say to her?”

Patrick asked as he almost ran into Lance’s chamber as if he was being chased. Lance glared at him, if he was here to scold him again, he would not be getting any reaction from him because he was done with the topic already as he told Roseline.

“Lancelot, what did you tell her and why did she request to go see Sophie?”

Patrick yelled out, and his words got Lance on his feet.

“What do you mean? Why would she want to see Sophie?”

“You tell me, you are the one who spoke to her, just so you know, I couldn’t stop her and right now, she would probably be at the emerald house talking to your woman,”

Patrick disclosed. Lance already at the door that leads to the emerald house, turned around at Patrick’s words.

“She is not my woman, what are you on?”

He let out.

“Well, according to your almost wife, she is your woman, the one who might be the reason you don’t want to marry her, I told you that’s what everyone would think, if you had just listened to me and sent her away after you found out she was innocent,”

Patrick let out, Lance wanted to go get Roseline out of that place but he needed to put Patrick in his place too, he was acting as if it was so easy to send a woman who is a foreigner and only ever lived in the palace into the kingdom on her own while she was pregnant with the child’s father absent, he might not be a good person but he couldn’t do that to Sophie, not now. Or maybe he wanted her close to him where he could see her. He didn’t care, he just wasn’t ready to send her away and no one can make him do that.