Mated Enemies

I stayed awake long after she’d fallen asleep thinking about all we had to do in the next few days. There’s no way to keep news of her pregnancy to ourselves now that my grandfather knows. I’m pretty sure he’s already told mom and dad and it’s probably because of him that I haven’t been bombarded by them or mom at least.

Tomorrow though, once our presence is made known, there’s no power anywhere that can keep mom away. She mumbled something in her sleep and I comforted her until she settled again. By rights I should’ve taken her to her private palace a little distance from mine, but I’m not quite ready for us to part.

Protocol and policy will soon dictate our every move, or try to at least. But I have no plans to let anyone dictate how I live with my wife. That’s one of the first conversations I plan to have with grandpa since he’s the only one that matters anyway. And if he gives me any trouble I know just how to get him to see things my way.

Bellaque’s roar woke me the next morning and I awakened to find my treasure still wrapped in my arms with her head on my chest. I felt like I was in the middle of a dream. Here, at home, I was more at ease, nothing can come between us here, not that it could anywhere else, but this is my home ground, my playing field, the place I am most at home though I’ve stayed away so long.

Now that we were here I found a new excitement in the place, I can’t wait to share some of my favorite places and sights with her. She’s right, not many are ever given the opportunity to visit the kingdom and none are ever allowed this deep into the royal palace.

She’s the first one here, the first to share my royal bed; she’s going to be the first for a lot of things. As is fast becoming custom, I wasn’t awake long before the feel of her pressed up against me switched my thoughts from one thing to another and before I knew it I was rolling her onto her back and sliding into her heat.

“It’s been hours since I’ve had you!” I whispered the words just as she opened her sleepy eyes. She smiled and wrapped her arms around my neck, pulling my lips down to hers while still half asleep.

Natalia

I can’t get over this place, how bright and clean and warm, I think it’s the warmth more so than anything else that has caught my attention, that and the brightness of the day. Even though night here is nothing compared to the earthly darkness that befalls each day, the difference between the light of day and night are still easily recognizable.

Right now it’s almost diamond bright outside, a kind of light that seems to sparkle and everything seems to shine and standout more. Like the flowers I was now gazing at, each blossom was perfect and roughly the size of my head, and the scent, my fairy heart was very pleased with all of it.

Bellaque walked quietly next to me while the young servant girl Lucien had chosen out of all that had been sent to serve me walked just a little ways behind, as I stayed close to the grounds of Lucien’s palace. He’d left not long ago, as soon as breakfast was over in fact to go see his grandpa who had summoned him as soon as he was alerted to our presence.

He’d used the excuse of me being too tired once I started to have a panic attack at the thought of meeting the sky monarch himself. And when his mother had wanted to come over he’d warned her off, but warned me that his warning won’t hold for too long where his mom is concerned. Pushy I think is the term he’d used to describe her.

I stopped just outside the garden not sure of where to go next. Lucien hadn’t said that anything was off limits, but he had ran off all the other servants that had been bustling about when we first woke for the day. I hadn’t minded the looks and peeks people were taking at me, or the way everyone whispered once they caught sight of me.

I’d prepared myself for that, knowing that I would be a stranger in a strange place. And though I’d balked when Lucien first mentioned that we were coming here, now that we were already here, I’m glad that we hadn’t put it off, that I hadn’t had any more time to make myself crazy imagining what coming here was going to be like.

But Lucien was being very protective to the point that he wanted to choose everyone that will be working near me personally, something I’m sure was not done. Last I heard him mutter to the head eunuch is that no one was allowed near the palace without his authorization; and that not even his mother, or the sky monarch can override his order.