A Night With The King

Lance didn’t know how to take what Sophie just told him. He couldn’t believe all those months he thought he dreamt of them together, it really happened. What kind of man doesn’t remember such a memorable night, of course, he remembered but just in a different way, that dream or at least he thought it was a dream hunted him for months, and at a point, he wanted to talk to her about it but he had not wanted to sound like a weirdo who a predator, on the day he had sent her that errand that started everything for them, he had wanted to talk to her about it too but they never got the chance because he had stupidly believed a driver who turned out to be a thief over her.

She was staring at him, as if she hadn’t heard what he had said earlier or maybe she was shocked about the fact that he remembered.

“Sophie,”

He called but she shook her head and pointed at him.

“You mean to tell me you remembered that night but you thought it was a dream?”

She asked. She looked like she was going to cry and he didn’t want her to cry, he couldn’t stand seeing her cry.

“Please don’t cry,”

He told her. She shook her head again.

“I don’t want to cry, I am just a little out of it but I am okay, why would you think it was all a dream?”

She asked. He knew what he was about to say would sound stupid because he ought to have known.

“When I woke up, I was alone in bed, it was still early in the morning, and there was no trace of anyone in the room so I just thought I had a very realistic explicit dream about you; I wanted to ask you the next morning just to clear all doubt because it felt so real but you avoided me all day and when you finally came, I had made up my mind not to bring it up because I didn’t want to put you in an uncomfortable position,”

Lance explained.

“Wow, all the while I thought you forgot,”

She voiced more to herself but he heard her away.

“You should have stayed with me that night,”

He said. if she had let him wake up to her, it would have stopped a lot of things from happening, especially the theft incident.

“Lance, you are the king, I was just a maid, I was scared, I was so scared of the consequences of my actions that I ran away, when you didn’t talk about it, I did my best to put everything behind me but then I found out that I was with child and then,”

“And then I accused you of something you didn’t do, not just that, I exposed you and our child to danger, God, Sophie I messed up,”

He let out, reaching for her hands and pulling her up so that she was standing in front of him.

“You had no idea, it wasn’t your fault,”

Lance couldn’t believe she was defending him when it was all his fault, if he remembered what he thought was a dream correctly, he was the one who had pulled her to the bed with him, the one that kissed her first, the one that stupidly forgot about it and also the one who sent her to jail, it was all his fault, everything that she had to suffer was because of him, there was nothing to defend.

“Don’t try to defend me, my love, I know what I did, I messed up a lot, don’t cut me any slack just because you love me, I don’t deserve it,”

He told her. Even if she gets mad at him, he would not fault her because he was totally in the wrong.

“I am not trying to defend you, Lance, I am just saying the truth, you didn’t know and even though you didn’t know our baby was yours, you still accepted me and the baby, you still loved me, and were ready to accept my baby too,”Content from NôvelDr(a)ma.Org.

She pointed at to him, looking directly into his eyes, he saw the sincerity and love for him in those eyes, and the feeling that washed through him nearly crippled him, he didn’t know what he did to deserve such love from her but what he did know was that he was going to cherish it and grow with it with her by his side, he wasn’t going to let her go. Never.

“Now you have to say yes, when I ask you to marry me, you can’t say no, you are not allowed to say no,”

Lance told her. She shook her head but he didn’t let her say anything negative.

“Don’t even dare say that’s not possible because I am going to make it possible, I am the king Sophie, I have power and I am going to use my power to keep us together, you just have to trust me,”

He told her and pulled her into his arms, she didn’t protest.

“I wish I had your kind of confidence but I do trust you,”

“Good, just trust me and I will fight for us Sophie, for our family,”

He whispered, and kissed her hair softly.

“Why do you believe me so easily? I thought you would not believe me. I thought you were going to rebuke me and chastise me for trying to pin another man’s child on you,”

Sophie voiced. Lance couldn’t deny that if she had told him earlier, he might not have believed her, he wasn’t proud of himself for it but he was glad that she kept it from him until now, until he knew her enough to know that she would not lie about something like that to him, until he fell in love with her.

“Why won’t I believe you, you are my Sophie and you will never lie to me,”

He told her, patting her back softly and feeling complete. He loved her and their unborn child already and even though a child wasn’t part of the plans he had at the beginning of the year; he was glad that they were going to be parents; and that the person carrying his heir was someone he loved so much. Their baby and every other child they would have in the future would be born into a family of love; it would be different from what he had. He pulled away from the hug, and lifted Sophie’s face so that she was looking directly into his eyes, there were a few tears even though she promised that she would not cry.

“You said you won’t cry,”

He scolded lovingly.

“No, this is happy tears, do you know how hard it was to keep the secret? Especially that day that I gave us both a scare when I started bleeding, I was so scared that I might have lost the baby and you would even have the chance to meet her,”

She said in an emotional voice. He was thankful that nothing had happened to the baby that day.

“Nothing happened, our baby is okay, we are okay, that’s all that matters. I need to apologize to you,”

Lance said; she shook her head, trying to stop him but he knew he had to, he owed her and their baby an apology for not being the best father and lover. He should have done better.

“Don’t say I don’t need to apologize because even if you can forgive me easily, I need to apologize to my baby, I have been a baby daddy and she isn’t even born yet,”

He went along with the pronoun that Sophie has been using for their baby. Sophie smiled at him lovingly; she loved him so much because why else was she so forgiven?

“Baby, if you don’t mind taking off your dress,”

He said and she glared at him.

“You horny king, really? Right now?”

She asked. She got the wrong idea, not like he didn’t want her but right now, he wanted her to take off her dress for a whole different reason.