•Benjamin• Would I mind? Of course, I wouldn't. Who would refuse an offer such as this one? I looked at Heather's slender shoulder down to the top of her back. I was laying right behind her but our bodies didn't touch. We were both naked and I wanted to touch her, but scaring her was something that I was not willing to do. My eyes went up to her hair that was tied in a messy bun. I could see that her ears were red and I wondered if she had any clue about how she was making me feel. I wasn't a man who restricted myself and to be honest, I was not going to start any time soon. Although I try to hold myself back when it came to Heather, there was only so much I could do especially when she was naked right in front of me. I moved closer to her and put my arm over her waist. Feeling her tremble against me, I took that as permission to move closer until our bodies touched. Her warm skin was heavenly soft and it smelled amazing. I couldn't stop thinking about how it felt under

•Heather• I stared at Scott in mild shock. I have never thought of something like that, but wasn't paying evil with evil wrong? Didn't it make things even worse? "I can already see that you disagree with me," Scott said. "And I don't blame you. It's ridiculous but it takes a thief to catch a thief, right?" "I don't know what to say about that," I answered honestly. "I apologize for surprising you with my words but that's how it looks like in my eyes." "But are there not better ways to sort something like this?" He hummed thoughtfully. "The King might not look like it, but that man's thoughts are all over the place. He tends to overthink things." I furrowed my brows in disbelief. Benjamin and overthinking didn't go together. He always looked like he had everything under control that I couldn't even imagine him dwelling over his thoughts for more than necessary. "What do you think, my Queen?" Scott's question pulled me out of my thoughts and I looked at him. "About wha

•Benjamin• After the long journey, the carriage finally came to a stop in front of a large manor with a beautiful lawn that was stretched out to the fence. I waited as the coachman got off his seat and came to open the door for me. "We have arrived," he said as he stood by the door and bowed. I nodded and left the carriage while Scott followed behind me. I looked ahead and frowned slightly at the sight of the Duke, who stood with Samantha next to him. "Welcome, your Majesty," Duke Percy greeted when I stopped in front of him. "I hope that the journey here wasn't cumbersome." "It was so, I better have not wasted my time by coming here for nothing," I answered, making him chuckle. "It is surely for the best. Your subjects have been having a hard time and it looks like everything that I'm doing isn't working." "I see. We should head there straight away then." "No. We will go early tomorrow morning." Scott frowned. "May I ask why that is the case?" "The King needs to re

•Heather• I stared at the canvas in front of me and hummed at the butterfly that I was almost done painting. This morning, I decided to add the books that my parents had brought to the shelf in my office. Although most of them were not in my top ten best reads, I liked them a fair bit. During that moment, I came across the notebook where I had drawn that unique butterfly on the day of Diane's - well, my - wedding. Seeing it made me so nostalgic that I had to redraw it on a bigger surface. The drawing was incomplete so, I had to fill most of it with my imagination. It has been almost five months since my marriage to Benjamin and I couldn't believe that I actually lasted this long. Not only did I marry a man who was rumoured to be a barbarian but that barbarian wasn't even as crude as I expected. I got myself trusty ladies in waiting and experienced, for the first time in my life, being protected from my parents. In the manor, nobody could stand up to them but right now, they were n

•Heather•Soft streams of sunlight entered the room through the spaces on the curtains and brought a little brightness into the room. Benjamin and I have been awake for a while now, but we spent our time cuddling in blissful silence.I couldn't stop myself from grinning and I wondered if it was okay to feel this happy. My head rested on Benjamin's chest while he softly ran his hand on my arm.I hummed in content as I rubbed my face against him. I didn't want to be separated from him at all, but I knew that that time would soon come due to our differing schedules."Uhm...." I began, "what are you going to do at the Council?""Duke Percy and I are having a bit of a fallout," he answered, making my brows furrow in doubt."Is it really considered a 'small fallout' if the Council gets involved?""Well, he tried to kill me so, I had every right to hit him."I sat up as I looked at him in shock. "You hit the Duke!?"He rolled his eyes and pulled me back to rest on him. "I thought that you wou