Chapter 13: Telling His Queen

-Roman-

I was just sitting in my office. The party we had two days ago had left me no room to discuss with Daphne what had happened, and she had decided to go to her parents’ place the next day before I even woke up. We didn’t sleep in the same room yet. I had decided we were going to do that after she officially became my new Queen. We did eat breakfast together though, and a servant had informed me she had left early. I wondered if she was now the one getting cold feet. It would be okay if she did. It might make it easier for me, but after two days, she came back with a smile on her lips. She knocked on the door to my office and I told her to enter, smiling back when I saw her.

“Hey, just wanted to let you know I was back,” she said as she walked closer.

“How was the visit to your parents?” I asked.

Daphne sat down in a chair in front of me, waving her hand in the air.

“Oh, you know they were over the top thrilled about me now being the next queen,” she chuckled.

Her parents re