chapter 48- the night before the ball
It was the middle of the night, when there was a pounding on my door, one that woke me up with a jump start, fo didn’t get a chance to ask who it was, it was Constance, the old maid that somehow knew Marie.
the king, he is” I didn’t wait for her to finish her sentence, I was out of the bed in an instance, running past her and taking to steps at a time to get to him room. panic filled me. The worst was coming to mind as I ran to his room, was he attacked? Was he poisoned? Was he? I forced my mind not to go that far. He was safe. There was nothing wrong.
I pushed his door wide open hoping to not find anything that would make it unbearable to exist, I had already lost one person
already.
I scanned the room, my eyes falling on a bare chested Helios.
It looked like he was dressing up but was frozen with confusi wear, one that left little for imagination.
on his face as he saw me standing there with my transparent night
“Luzia?” he asked as if not believing his eyes that I was here. Truth be told, I had only been here only once. The memory of the time I was last here caused me to blush in embarrassment.
“Helios” I said in a calm voice, which was the opposite of what I was feeling inside. I wanted to scream. I wanted to melt but most importantly, I wanted to lick those well–defined abs.
blinked my eyes rapidly to get rid of the thoughts I was having. I almost slapped myself on the spot for those thoughts, “you barged in” he stated, as if he was still trying to process what I did.
“that I did” I answered rather smartly
“why?”
“why wouldn’t i?” I felt too tensed
“is anything the matter?” he finally asked, squinting his eyes in the dim light to see me. I moved back a bit so he wouldn’t see my dress properly, or at least the lack of it doing anything. Like that was going to do anything. I thought, mentally rolling my eyes.
“I should be asking you that, my king” we stared at each other for a while before I decided to leave before it got anymore weird. I didn’t know how that was even going to be possible.
“good night my king” I said giggling to cover up my true thoughts. I was so going to kill Constance.
“Luzia?” he called one more time causing me to stop but I did not turn back to look at him.
“yes?”
“I might be trying to be a respectful gentleman by giving you time to adjust before I take any step with you. But I may be forced to look for every man that has roamed this floor in the last hour and pluck his eyes out for seeing you in that dress the next time you come out with that dress” he said it in the most unbothered voice ever and somehow, he still made it sound so.. I shook my head trying to remove the thought from my head
“okay” it was more of a squeak that an answer because I had lost the ability to say proper and coherent words the moment he said
that
I rushed back to my room to find Constance on the bed “there was nothing wrong with Helios was there?” I looked at her, crossed
arms and all.
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chapter 48- the night before the ball
“no” she said with a childlike grin.
you care to explain what happened?” I looked at her ready to bite her ear off, but she didn’t even seem to be bothered by it.
She just shrugged, looking at me with mischief. “I was bored and I thought I could have a little fun and it’s your cycle you know, you would soon be in heat. I thought you could have some fun yourself” she wiggled her eyebrow and looked at me. I made a face. This was definitely not something I was going to talk to her about.
“good night Constance” I said opening the door even wider for to go but she crossed her leg on the bed.
“no, I am not going anywhere, not yet at least” she said smiling at me. “so, did you actually not get it on? Or is Helios a quickie because that would be a shame because in my days..”
“Constance!!” I was mortified. She hadn’t even said anything but I wanted to scrape out my ears and burn them in the fire.‘
“fine fine, I would let you go to bed” she faked sadness. “I hope you are ready for tonight?” the ball had been planned for today. After today, I was officially going to start my job as the queen. I was a ball of nerves but I wasn’t going to show it, that was a sign of weakness and I couldn’t be weak.
“I would hope so” she gave me a smile.
“Marie would be so proud. She said looking at me with this motherly eye. I swallowed the lump in my throat.
“come here” she said pulling me in for a hug. “you would do great dear, trust me”
She said under her breath. “I know” I mumbled. 1 didn’t know that, but the fact that she believed that was enough for me to believe that myself
If she thought I could do it, then I definitely could. “now, get some sleep, who knows, you might be lucky tomorrow” she winked at
- me.
I looked at her shocked. This was a part of her that I had genuinely never seen before and it amused me how she could act this way.
“remember, if you go on top, make sure to ride him f..” I slammed the door in her face before she could get out anything and scar me for life. I went back to be, getting back to sleep more easily than was able to the first time. In some way, I knew the day was going to end well for me
Or at least that was what I thought.
