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Chapter 22 - By your side.
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Rule of a ruthless King Chapter 23 - Talking of consequences.
Three days later:I had awoken with an ache in my back and a bottom numb from sleeping in the hard chair all night. I looked up to see Nathaniel sleeping soundly and my hand still wrapped around his. I stretched out my limbs then stood up, taking a cool washcloth and wiping it lightly across his forehead. He had been taking a few more spoonfuls each meal time and lugging down more water, but he still seemed unaware of where he was and who we were. Luckily, the doctor’s medicines and oils had helped to reduce the purple and yellow blotching around his eyes. I looked at him thoughtfully.. As much as I didn’t want him to hate me, his survival would be enough and over the last few days it was all that I had wished for.The day we had cleared the village, I had sent Matthias to see Nathaniel’s parents and bring them to see him. As soon as they talked into the room, his mother broke into tears, while his father looked at him with love and worry. I realized as soon as I saw them, that they w
Rule of a ruthless King Chapter 24 - Prince of love.
Once again, I had sat with Nathaniel all night, and as soon as his parents arrived I told them of the good news that Nathaniel had spoken to me last night. He was still confused, but he was aware of me being with him and today I felt ever more optimistic about his recovery. His father helped me prop Nathaniel up on pillows to feed him his morning meal of oats and tiny pieces of apple as his mother sat on the other side of him, holding his hand. He opened his mouth for each spoonful as usual but suddenly stopped and his eyes opened wider than they had last night. He stared at me, his eyes wandering all over my face as if to take in all of my features. “Aurelia!” He whispered.“I’m right here” I replied softly.“I thought... I thought I dreamed about you being here. But you look so real this time.”“I am real Nathaniel, it’s ok.” I gently took one of his hands and held it up in his view and pressed it against my cheek. “See, I am real”.The corner of his lips tried to tug into a small s
Rule of a ruthless King Chapter 25 - A new reign.
Two days later:I looked in the reflecting glass at my long silky silver gown and my neatly curled hair that tumbled down my back with a few loose ones pinned back from my face with my mother’s ruby and silver grips. The dress was also my mother’s. Poor Maude spent hours last night pinning and altering it to fit it to my skinny frame, but ever since I saw her portrait hanging on the wall in her drawing room, I knew I wanted to look as elegant as she did on her coronation day. Maude added a touch of rouge to my cheeks and my lips as my skin was still pale and pasty from months of no daylight. She had managed to make me look healthier than I actually was.Maude finished straightening out the back of my dress and stood up behind me. She put her hands on my arms and looked at my reflection. “You look so beautiful, my dear... It is a dream come true to see you like this today”, She sniffled.I smiled at her and placed my hand on hers. Nerves were erupting in my stomach, but it was more the
Rule of a ruthless King Chapter 26 - For our people.
I sat with authority as I waited for the councilmen to take their seats. Once they were settled and all looked to me, I started with the matters of today. “Good morning gentleman, first things first, have you all come to a decision with Edric’s punishment?”“Yes, we have your majesty!” Mr Williams replied. “We feel it is in the best interest of the people, to have Edric sentenced to death, by beheading. We can have a platform and can have a reliable executioner ready in just a matter of days. We think it best that the whole kingdom is witness to his demise. It may give them some relief to see justice taking place.”“And you’re all in agreement with this?”“Yes ma’am”. All the councilmen nodded.Then George began to speak. “Your majesty, as brutal as it is, the people need to see some sort of punishment for all that he has done. We need to make a statement to show them that we have taken his merciless actions very seriously and have not condoned any of it and it’ll help the people to s
Rule of a ruthless King Chapter 27 - The good and the bad.
One week laterI sat in a tall velvet chair at the hill of the village, with Mallon seated next to me, Matthias and two of my other close guards, Kole and John behind me on our wooden, platformed viewing area. I could see all the way to the foot of the village with two crowds of people standing by and waiting with the footpath as passageway in between them and it was quiet... eerily quiet. The sun shone, but the dark clouds were beginning to form over our heads as if on que to shadow this particlar day. To many this must feel like a joyous occassion and I couldn’t blame them, in fact I understood thier anticipation for what was to come. It was if today marked the officiliality of the end of Edric’s reign.To my right was the erected stage where the executioner waited with his sword still in its sleeve at his hip and his black cloaked mask covering his face. This was to be my first time witnessing an execution, while my father enjoyed dragging people here to their deaths for even the l
Rule of a ruthless King Chapter 28 - I do.
Two weeks later:Excited, joy, pure happiness were all understatements for how I felt today. I was giddy with love and glee while Maude saw to the finishing touches of my vail as she draped it over my face. My long white, silk and lace gown draped down to my feet and the trail sat beautifully behind me as it flowed across the floor. Maude was wearing a new special dress, one I had demanded she had made by our seamstress. She hadn’t owned a dress of her own for years and I wanted her to feel just as beautiful as I did. She blushed profusly when I gushed at how incredibly pretty she looked in it. But now it was her gushing over me as she continuosuly wiped stray tears away from her cheeks.There was not an ounce, not a speck of doubt in my mind or my heart that deterred me away from marrying Mallon today. We had been waiting for this, for weeks now and not just because we found it so increasingly hard to keep our hands off of each other but because we had wanted to be together so long a
Rule of a ruthless King Chapter 29 - Love and friendships.
Three days later:Since our wedding night me and Mallon made love the moment we were alone in our room at the end of each day. He was right of course... by the third time we made love, my whole body completely melted into his and all my nerves I had before had vanished. It was such a powerful, exhillerating explosion that swept through my entire body and released on his penis as we both had peaked together. I knew from Maude’s descriptions what reaching peak meant, however she never told me what it would feel like and the incredible pleasure it could bring. Once Mallon had known I was just as pleasured now as he was, he was even more eager for us to be alone. Each night we would make love until the candle’s light went out and when morning came, we would do it again. And I stuck to my promise of calling him my husband each night and morning and he reciprocated by lovingly calling me his wife.The last three days I felt as though I was walking on a blissful cloud a bounce in each step I
Rule of a ruthless King Chapter 30 - Kingdom of peace.
Four weeks later:Over the last few weeks, me and Mallon had been in constant communication with Aldrich In Ailingdale. Through his and our most trusted messengers we had finally signed and sealed our peace treaty, bringing our kingdoms together. Aldrich had also included in his letters that he had been in many talks with his allies in hopes to convince them to allign with Northleye. He spoke of how at first they all had refused to join forces with the king of greed of Northleye but that once he had told them of Edric’s removal from the throne and the new queen in his place, only too soon did I have letters from kings and queens in other kingdoms wanting to know more of me and the current state of my kingdom.I was only too eager to tell them of all the work we had done for our people who were now living in their new homes. All thier old shacks had been torn down to make way for a more variety and prosperous village market. Our Tavern had been refurbished as the roof had been falling
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