A Night With The King

“Lancelot, I am this close to shaving off my hair and it is all because of you,”

Patrick yelled out as they walked into his chamber, but Lance ignored him The man has been on his case all morning ever since he told him he had given instructions for Sophie to be moved out of the dungeon. He had reasons for making that decision and he wasn’t going to back out no matter what Patrick says.

“Now, you are ignoring me!”

Patrick let out in frustration.Nôvel/Dr(a)ma.Org - Content owner.

“I am not ignoring you Patrick, I am tired and want to rest, I have been up all day and about the affairs of the kingdom and now I just want to rest,”

Lance said as he took off his clothes and walked towards his bath.

“I will let you rest if you let me, need I remind you that you are not allowed to take a mistress until two years after your marriage and you are not even married yet, your marriage is barely two months away. A month and eight days to be precise, you can’t take a mistress now, it is too close to your wedding. If you had mistresses before, you would have been told to do away with them already, now you didn’t have one but suddenly you are getting one?”

Patrick was out of his mind. He was saying nonsense, Lance had no thoughts of making Sophie his mistress and he was already rethinking his decision to get married.

“She is not to be my mistress, Patrick, I don’t know where you are getting that from,”

He corrected. There was a moment of silence as he showered but he knew it won’t last. He wished Patrick would just trust his judgment. After he spoke with the driver, he noticed that his story wasn’t adding up, he was switching things up and barely giving a direct answer to his questions, he figured there may be more to what he had said the night of the incident than he didn’t let on, like he had not been expecting him to question him again which led Lance to think that there might be some foul play. No, he wasn’t just letting Sophie off the hook, she was still the main suspect but she was a pregnant woman and the dungeon as good as he tried to make it, wasn’t a place for a pregnant woman and he needed a place where he was sure no one would interact with her and the best choice had been the emerald house, nowhere did he think of her as his mistress while making that decision, Patrick had been the one to put the idea in his head, not like he was going to act on it, he wasn’t one to take another man’s woman.

To be honest, he wasn’t ready to have any woman right now, Patrick would be even madder if he knew what his thoughts were right now. Lance knew his decision might hurt the kingdom but he couldn’t push through with the marriage thing when he couldn’t even stand his soon-to-be wife, it would be better to end it before it even began than to get married and live unhappy with a nagging woman who might need him and he won’t be there. Lance got out of the shower and picked up his towel, he wiped his body before tying the towel around his waist and stepping out of the bathroom. Patrick was on the floor with tab in hand and typing away, his hardworking best friend who he was giving a hard time with his decisions. He felt bad for always making Patrick almost lose his mind but there was nothing he could do to stop it as he was constantly changing his mind. He admits that he still has a lot to learn and unlearn and that not everything would turn out well in the end but that doesn’t mean he won’t do it.

“You know, right now you look so at peace just typing away, can we just stay like this until you have to leave? No nagging,”

Lance walked to his wardrobe and wore his robe.

“If you listen to me or act like a king, we won’t have me nagging, honestly your majesty, you are making a mistake by taking a mistress, it is not right,”

Patrick bemoaned.

“Patrick, did I tell you that I am taking a mistress or did you just assume that because I can’t remember saying I want one,”

Lance let out.

“Yeah, you didn’t say the word but you had a prisoner move from prison to your dungeon and right after that, you spent a night alone with her in the dungeon, and days later, you move her to a place specifically reserved for the king’s relaxation, a place where the king’s mistress of the moment are kept, do you think I need words to read what is there?”

He made sense with how he spoke but he was wrong and it was his duty to correct him. He got on his bed and looked at his best friend who was now standing and glaring at him.

“Yeah, I know how it all sounds like but I am not taking her as a mistress, I just want her to be in a place I can easily access,”

He explained but Patrick didn’t look convinced.

“Care to explain the kind of easy access that we are talking about here? Do you need easy access so that you can go fuck her whenever you want? Is that it?”

How did the man manage to turn everything he says into sex talk? He never even thought of that until he said it.

“Listen, Patrick, I think you are projecting here, I haven’t slept with Sophie and I don’t want to, I can’t say the same for you though, you seem to be more interested in talking about sex, do you want to get laid? Is that it because I can arrange for you to get some,”

Lance told him. Patrick wasn’t having any of what he was saying.

“You are twisting things,”

“Oh, I am? I can say the same for you Patrick, you keep twisting what I am saying and making it seem like I am doing this to get inside her panties when that’s not what I want. She might have stolen something important to the kingdom or at least helped someone do it and I am trying to get it back, I don’t want to go about it the harsh way seeing that she is carrying a child, what’s not clicking?”

Lance let out.

“I get what you are trying to say, your majesty,”

“No, Lancelot, just keep calling me Lancelot! We are alone and talking as friends,”

Lance corrected.

“Sure, Lancelot, I get what you are saying but you are not getting me, even I misunderstood your intentions what do you think others in the kingdom would think? If words get out that the king is housing a possible criminal in the emerald house? What do you think the elders would do? Think about it, Lancelot,”

Yes, Lance knew the elders might not like how he was handling things but he didn’t care he was king and at the end of the day, his words were final, plus he made sure words won’t go out.

“I will handle the elders if they find out Patrick, I made up my mind to deal with Sophie my own way, stop pestering me about it,”

He warned.