A Night With The King

Lance waited for her to answer his question. She looked shocked that he knew, surely, she didn’t think that the doctors would not tell him? He was the king. She should have known he would be told.

“Did I make you speechless? Did you think I won’t find out you are carrying a child?”

He asked her. He didn’t know why he was being so lenient with her. he should treat her like he would treat any other person who had the mind to steal from him but she looked so weak and fragile that he couldn’t bring himself to keep yelling at her. Her body was shaking when he got close to her. Even though her voice sounded bold, he could feel the fear in her. Maybe he would have believed her if she wasn’t carrying a child but she was pregnant which could only mean that she had a man who must be the one that she had planned with to steal from him.

“Sophie? Who is the father of the child you are carrying? Is he the one that put you up to this? Did you guys, plan to steal from me together and run away? Is that it?”

He asked. He turned to face her and she had her head bowed again which pissed him off, he marched to her and lifted her face.

“He had no hand in what happened. He didn’t do anything.”

She replied. She was refusing to meet his eyes as she spoke. How can she look so innocent while lying to his face?

“You liar, you will tell me the identity of the person who owns the baby you are carrying, don’t you dare try to lie to my face Sophie, you can’t fool me,”

Lance told her.

“I am not lying, I can’t tell you who the father of my baby is, I can only tell you that he had nothing to do with anything. Just as I am innocent of everything, I know you don’t want to believe me but shouldn’t this be done fairly? Why do I have to be interrogated alone? Why does it have to be that I am the one lying here? The driver has a lot to answer for too. He was there. He should be able to narrate how I shot him and how he was able to escape if I had a gun with me, don’t you think I would have just killed him?”

She asked. Even though she was crying while talking, her voice was still firm and there were some facts in what she was saying. Not like he believed her but she was right about some things, if she had the gun with her then how was the driver able to run away with only a hand injury? And he was able to take the car with him. That part just didn’t make any sense.

“I will be back by tomorrow. You better be ready to tell me the truth,”

He told her as he stood up and walked out. He made sure to lock the door. Not like she could escape from here when there were guards everywhere. He needed to speak with the driver again and ask him more questions. His story was off. If Sophie had people with her and it was just him against them, then how was he able to escape all of them?Nôvel(D)ra/ma.Org exclusive © material.

“Make sure no one else is allowed to enter to go see her except the one coming to feed her. I don’t want anyone else interacting with her,”

He told the guard at the entrance. Lance knew it was late and that he should probably just go and sleep and see the driver by morning but he knew himself enough to know that he would not be able to get any sleep until he hears from the driver. Patrick was about to lose brain cells again.

“Yes, your majesty,”

The guard responded to him as he walked away. He knew Patrick would be waiting for him and he was.

“You took so long, you said you will only be there for ten minutes,”

Patrick let out when he got to him.

“Patrick, can you let me off please?”

He asked walking away. He needed to go get changed and go back to the hospital. He should have spoken with the driver when he had gone to see the doctor yesterday at the hospital.

“You have an important meeting tomorrow and we agreed to get you in bed early so that you will be well-rested and prepared for the long meeting