A Night With The King

Lance looked at the photo that Patrick showed him, it was a picture taken yesterday at the hospital, Sophie looked so beautiful in the photo that he spent over a minute just looking at the photo, if he didn’t know her, he would have still been fascinated with her if he saw her looking the way she does and the caption was true, the baby she was carrying was his.

“Flip the pages and you will see more, whoever took those photos has been following her for months, there are several photos taken of her each time she goes to the hospital including one where you were with her,”

Patrick pointed out and Lance flipped the pages of the magazine. There were several photos of Sophie, each was so beautiful that he stopped and admired her every moment. She was beautiful physically and model-like pretty in the photos even though she barely had makeup on. He noticed she liked her hair in a messy bun and also liked her red lipsticks, those were the common things in the photos. Also, the most common was the smile, she had a smile that could draw anyone to her. If she could smile so brightly in photos where she wasn’t aware that she was being captured, he was sure she would even be more-prettier in normal photos. The only photo where she wasn’t smiling was the one that he appeared in and he felt chills when he remembered what happened that had made her so sad, knowing what he knew now, he knew it would have been so hard for her, she had to carry the burden alone because she couldn’t tell him he was the dad and being the fool he was, he kept cursing at the bastard who turned out to be himself.

“Still can’t believe I am that bastard,”

He voiced. He still couldn’t accept that all the while he was cursing at the man who got her pregnant, he had been the one, and it would take a while for him to get used to it.

“What? Why are you suddenly a bastard? What did you do?”

Patrick asked in confusion, Lance almost laughed at his expression. He had to remind himself once again that he couldn’t tell Patrick yet that the child Sophie carried was his.

“Nothing, I just feel I should have gotten her sooner, I wasted so much time, do you see how pretty she looks, I am so lucky she picked me,”

He went on while admiring how beautiful his woman looked.

“What? You have lost your mind, haven’t you? We are talking about something serious here Lance,”

Patrick pointed out.

“I know, I have to give it to whoever took these photos, they are so good at their job,”

He answered, still flipping the pages, a whole magazine full of pictures of his beautiful woman. He got an idea from just looking at the photo, he would run it up with her later and if she agrees, she would have a maternity shoot before their baby is born.

“Stop looking at that and take what is going on more seriously,”

Patrick let out and took the magazine from him. Lance finally gave his full attention to Patrick.

“Patrick, the only thing wrong here is that her photos were taken without her permission, nothing else matters, our relationship is not some big top secret, I intended for it to be public knowledge from the beginning, I am only holding back because of Sophie and not because I am scared or worried about anything else, this, isn’t a problem; taking the photos without consent is the only issue I have right now,”

Lance told Patrick who stared at him in disbelief, his new default look when they are together.

“Wow, love does make a man lose his sense of reason, I don’t even know what to say to you right now because you won’t even listen, too busy ogling over a woman whom you literally just left a few minutes ago, drop that magazine,”

Patrick let out when Lance tried to pick up the magazine again.

“Fine, I am going to get Sophie to take a couple of Photos so that I can have my own magazine,”

He said and Patrick just shook his head, the man was so done with him.

“Anyway, whoever took the photos should not be allowed into any of the palace’s official events, since they are going to be sneaky, let them do that and stay off the palace,”

Lance warned. If what they wanted was to be sneaky, then there is no need to let them have access to any official events.

“You know I already did that but that doesn’t stop other press from talking about the photos and the possibility of the child she is carrying being yours,”

Patrick said.

“Yeah, is there a problem with that?”

“You don’t see the problem?”

Patrick asked.

“I don’t see a problem there, Patrick,”

Lance already knew the baby was his, even if it wasn’t, he would still have claimed her to be his because once he married Sophie, both she and the baby would have been his. Now he didn’t even need to wife her to claim his child, still, he was going to marry her because his life would be incomplete if she wasn’t part of it. On that note, he needed to speak with the elders soon. That was the most pressing, he wasn’t going to listen to them, rather, he was going to tell them what he wanted and if they refuse, he won’t hesitate to tell them to go fuck themselves. It would cause him trouble but they would get over it in no time, however, if he let anyone talk him out of being with Sophie, he would never be able to get over her.

“Patrick, I need you to set up a meeting with the elders, I am going to have the discussion with them once and for all,”

Lance told Patrick who didn’t look pleased.

“Is that your way of cleaning up this mess? What are you going to tell them? That you will marry her? Will you tell them too that the baby she carries isn’t yours or are you going to claim the child? Do you know there will be consequences if that’s what you plan to do? If maybe, by any chance, you both end up married, when you give birth to your children, how would you explain to them that the oldest child can’t be the ruler?”

Patrick was asking too many questions and was going far into the future, what he didn’t know was that there would not be a problem between his unborn daughter and his other future children because his daughter would always be the right heir. He wanted to tell Patrick but he knew he would not believe him and might end up saying shit about Sophie, like her wanting to pin another man’s child on him. He didn’t want to hear any of those things about his woman, Patrick would find out in due time that the child Sophie carried was his heir. The rightful heir and his flesh and blood. Even if she hadn’t been his, he would still have wanted her to be the heir because she was born first and she is part of the reason he got Sophie. If he hadn’t found out Sophie was pregnant, he would never have let her out of prison and he would have not gotten to know her, he would have probably married the princess or someone else who he would never love. The baby stopped all that and he was grateful to her for it.