173 Chapter 173 : Back to ria
Everyone at the table turned to look at the nosferatu prince with different expressions. Finwe scoffed and shook his head, “what are you going on about Aiden, this is a serious discussion and you’re bringing in-”
Aiden rolled out a peice of paper and slamd it on the table in front of Gareth. The prince took the paper in his hand and read through it, as he scrolled through every word his facial expression showed more and more shocked. “He’s not joking..” Gareth mattered in shock, “this is a royal decree dispatching one hundred n to Gavaria, it’s signed and everything, it even have the Cenia royal seal.”
Finwe walked over to Gareth and grabbed the paper, “let see that.” He read through it and shot his eyes to Aiden. “But how, aren’t you just a rogue.”
“I have been alive much longer than you have Finwe,” Aiden responded curtly, “I know how to get things done, why do you think Cenia has not been forthcoming about their political situation. It’s because a rogue took over.” Aiden turned to Gareth, “do want my help or not? You know eting my sister is my goal and I’m trying to insure that happens”
The table went quite for a second, before Gareth responded, “well we do need the numbers, we can discuss the details later I suppose, because I’m curious as well about how you overthrew the Cenian empire.”
“I have nothing to hide,” Aiden responded, “my aim now is to et my sister and that’s it.”
*
Renly landed on a rock and transford into his human form. He had been flying for a few hours towards their hideout and had exhausted himself out, he pulled out his water canteen and took a sip. After that night he had experienced a nightmare, Renly knew that sticking around wouldn’t be the best plan, it was too risky.
He leaved his head back and drew in so air as he tried to relax, but suddenly he heard a rustling in the nearby bushes.
.....
“Hello!” Renly sat up straight and inspected the area around him. He really didn’t like feeling this way, and it didn’t help that it was almost night ti. “Who’s out there?!”
“Renly..”
The man jolted upright and scanned the area around him. “Who said that?!”
There was more rustling in the bushes and Renly’s skin started crawling, more rustling ca and this ti the man got to his feet, he needed to get out of that place as quickly as he could, he had a very bad feeling about this. He quickly began to morph into a bird again, it would be much faster if he flew away.
The black raven flattered it’s wings and lifted itself off the rock but suddenly a hand grabbed it and held it in place. Renly turned back into his human form and held the hand that was now holding his neck, looking at the face of the person closely, Renly’s breathing beca heavy and ragged.
“Where are you off to so quickly little bird?” Renly’s captor muttered. “Didn’t I warn you not to do anything that would put lissa and the child she carries in any danger?”
“Please, I promise I won’t breathe a word of her and the baby,” Renly pleaded, “please just let go.”
“You think you’re afraid now?” The man rasped, “wait until I’m done with you.”
*
A few ters away, Theodora heard the loud scream of a man. She turned towards the screaming and narrowed her eyes in confusion. Who in their right mind would be in these parts of the woods alone? Had they been injured or attacked.
Theodora leapt from the ground and jumped from one brunch to another towards where the scream had co from. She had been out in the forest on Aiden’s ordered to scout the place around and find whoever it was who had been lurking and following them around. Maybe whoever was screaming out there was the perpetrator in question.
The nosferatu woman’s keen sense of hearing picked up faint whimpering coming from her right. She turned and landed in a small clearing, she could hear the whimpering of a man but she couldn’t seem to detect where exactly it was coming from. She walked around the clearing until she reached a certain shrub where the sound was most audible.
She dug her hands into shrubs and gasped when she saw a man with raven black hair shaking like a leaf.
“Please, I’m sorry, I won’t do anything to hurt lissa I swear it, please just let go.”
“Hurt lissa?” Theodora inspected the man and noticed that his right hand had been calcified. “Who did this to you?”
“Please don’t kill ,” the man whimpered .
“I’m not going to kill you,” Theodora assured the man who was clearly terrified. He said sothing about not hurting lissa, wasn’t lissa that elven prince’s girlfriend or sothing? This was strange, clearly whoever had done this to this man was trying to protect lissa but why? And who was he?
Theodora turned to the man, looks like she didn’t have a choice, she had to take this man back to Aiden for further investigation. The information he had may prove useful.
*
lissa had beco restless, the whole night she had just been tossing and turning in bed unable to sleep. How could she not have noticed that she was pregnant? And she was very sure it was Gareth’s and not Elric’s yet here she was living with him as his wife. Gods what would he do to her if he found out she was carrying another man’s child? And didn’t Carol say that he would be returning today? Oh gods!
“Your highness..”
lissa threw her blanket off her face and looked at carol.
“Oh you’re already awake-” Carol narrowed her eyes and inched closer to lissa, “your highness you look terrible, are you okay? Did you sleep at all?”
“I may have had so trouble sleeping,” lissa responded in a low tone, “but I’m fine don’t worry about .”
Carol placed her hand on lissa’s forehead to feel her temperature, “well your temperature is okay.” She stood up and walked to the closet where she pulled out so towels, “let’s get you washed up so you can rest a bit more before the king gets here your highness, he shouldn’t find you looking like this.”
lissa nodded and slipped off the bed hesitantly, she wasn’t willing to see Elric before, but now she REALLY wasn’t looking forward to seeing him. She walked slowly towards the lavender infused bath and subrged into the water, it had started becoming cold so the warm water helped to relieve her nerves.
“Your highness you look worried,” Carol spoke as the placed the towels by the bath, “is anything wrong? Should I get the physician?”
“No!” lissa blurted out, she then sunk deeper into the tub and sighed. If Carol called for a physician he would definitely know that she was pregnant, and he would obviously tell the news to Elric, she couldn’t risk it. Gods if only she could contact Gareth and let him know, but how when she wasn’t even allowed to leave her own room.
“Carol..”
The maid looked up at the woman curiosly, “yes your highness? Do you want to help you wash?”
“No I’m alright,” lissa responded, “it’s just that... there’s sothing that’s been bothering .”
“What is it?”
“First you have to promise you won’t tell a soul Carol,” lissa declared, “not a single soul, not even the king.”
Carol looked thoughtful for a minute but then nodded in agreent, “alright my lady,” she responded, “I promise not to tell a soul.”
The redhead swished around in the water nervously before looking up at Carol, “I think I may be pregnant.” Her voice was so low that even lissa herself could barely hear it. She looked up at Carol and was shocked to see her smiling.
“I already knew you were with child your highness,” Carol responded.
lissa’s eyes widened in shock, “you did?!”
“Yes, I did,” Carol responded with a warm smile, “but I respect that you’re not quite ready to tell your husband about it yet, and that’s fine. The first ti is always a bit scary and we don’t know how our husbands will react. But don’t worry, you’ll be surprised at how happy he will be when you tell him.”
“Okay..” lissa was screaming in her head, gods this was such a ss, of course Carol would think this is Elric’s baby, the only comfort of the situation was that the maid was okay with not telling the king about it just yet. That would buy her ti to find a way to contact Gareth. She needed to leave this palace before Elric could notice anything.
*
In a carriage in the outskirts of the capital Clovis’ smile widened as he peeked outside and saw the familiar buildings coming into view. He didn’t even know he was capable of feeling excited but here he was, excited to see Julia’s beautiful petit face.
“Well you look happy,” Jeffrey comnted curtly.
“It’s not my fault you chose to die alone Jeffrey,” Clovis responded, “maybe if you’re weren’t such a thorn in people’s sides soone would have actually liked you.”
“Love is just a bunch of nonsense,” Jeffrey responded, “it wastes your ti and energy and to top it all off you behave like a total irrational idiot and think it’s okay, why? Because you’re in love. I’ll pass thank you very much.”
“And this is exactly why you’ll live the rest of your life angry, bitter and without a woman,” Clovis spoke, “you see the bad in literally everything.” The prince then turned to Elric and smiled at him, “Elric here knows what I’m talking about, right brother?”
The silver haired king who had been lost in a reverie turned to his older brothers and batted his lashes in confusion, “what? Did you say sothing?”
“Dont you miss your wife?” Clovis asked, “and aren’t you excited to see her?”
“I suppose,” Elric muttered. Honestly he didn’t know if he was ready to face lissa again, they had had a big fight and he had locked her up in their chambers in a jealousy rage. But could anyone bla him, his feelings when he was with lissa were very confusing, sotis he loved her to death and other tis it was pure possessiveness, he really didn’t know what was going on with them and it made his head hurt.
“You see, he looks incredibly tired and drained,” Jeffrey comnted, “why? Because of a woman. I love my peaceful life, so by all ans let die alone.”
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