A Night With The King

“You are silent, Lance, please think everything through before making any decision because whatever you do now will affect the kingdom in the future,”

“I am thinking about the future right now, what is a happy kingdom without a happy king? I am looking l out for everyone’s best interest, if I am not happy, the kingdom will strive but if I am not? Well, let’s not think about that, just set up a meeting with the elders, some rules have to change and I am going to make those changes, it will be easy to change because those rules are unwritten,”

“Them being unwritten doesn’t make them invalid though, I will set up the meeting, they are going to be mad but for your sake, I hope they agree with you because I would hate to see you being on their bad side,”

Patrick said. Lance knew he was concerned for him but he didn’t have to be.

“They have never been on my side, Patrick, think about it, they only agreed to me being kingdom after I showed them what I could do, if my father had not made me a temporary king before he died and given me a chance to prove myself, they would never have given me a chance after he died, they would never have thought of me in the first place. They only let me continue because they saw what I could do and they didn’t want to lose such a good king,”

Lance said and Patrick nodded.

“Yeah, you are right, no need to brag because if you didn’t have me as your adviser, you might not have been so great,”

Lance smiled.

“Yeah, you are right, you are a great man Patrick and I am glad to have you on my side even though you are a pain in the ass,”

Lance said. Patrick shook his head and muttered something that Lance couldn’t hear to himself.

“What did you say?”

Lance questioned.

“Nothing, just that the princess also said the same yesterday, you both got to realize that I am not being a pain in the ass, I am looking out for you guys,”

Patrick said but Lance was much more fixed on the fact that Patrick was still in contact with the princess, yes he was too, she newly opened a fashion school in Otano and has been in the kingdom more times now, she practically lives in Otano now and he sees her once in a while but he didn’t know Patrick had a close relationship with her, close enough for her to call him a pain in the ass.

“Are you guys a couple?”

Lance asked and Patrick glared at him.

“We are not, where did you get that idea from?”

“Well, you seem concerned about her and that’s not a regular thing for you,”

Lance pointed out. He could feel it, they may end up as a couple if they aren’t already, and honestly, they would look good together, the princess’s carefree personality would compliment Patrick’s uptight and strict personality. A great combination.

The perfect kind of couple, maybe he would talk to the princess about it; she might tell him to go fuck himself but that won’t stop him.

“The princess is out of my league, we both know that, soon her people will find a new man to be her husband,”

There he goes again, talking down on himself. The man had a way of downgrading himself and making seem as if he wasn’t an elite kind of man.

“Don’t you think you are looking down on yourself right now? Need I remind you who your father is?”

Lance asked.

“I know who my father is but I don’t speak to my father, don’t worry, I don’t have feelings for her and she hates me, I am just looking out for her because of her former connection with the palace. Once she gets used to being here, I am going to let her have it and be out of her face,”

No way, Lance knew something happened for Patrick to even want to look out for her.

“You at least kissed her? Come on, spill,”

Lance persuaded.

“You are reaching my king, I am not saying anything,”

Lance took that as a yes and decided not to push the matter, Patrick would find out soon why he was so into helping her and he would be here to laugh to his face when he did.

“Anyway, I want you to prepare a minimal number of protection, not too much though, I want it to be mostly us and I would love for it to just be the two of us but I know you would probably lose your mind so I am saying prepare some guard. I am taking her to my spot, we will spend the whole weekend there and be back either Sunday evening or early Monday morning; before you talk, I know what my schedule for Monday is and I won’t miss it,”

Lance told Patrick who just nodded without arguing which was not what he expected.

“What is this? Why did you agree so easily?”

Lance asked.

“What? I don’t have to argue with you all the time, I told you, I approve of your best friend, she is good for you and makes you smile, I would be a bad friend not to approve but for my job’s sake and the kingdom, I am going to hold on to my disapproval as the special adviser and also make sure she doesn’t have a past that might hurt you in the long run,”

Lance never thought of that until Patrick brought it up and he honestly didn’t want him to run a background check on her but he knew Patrick would do it anyway. He didn’t want to argue over that.

“So? What pressing issues does this king need to solve today before I run away?”

Lance asked. Patrick placed a file in front of him and just like that, he spent the whole morning and most of the afternoon working on kingdom matters.