𝐻𝒾𝓈 𝒢𝓇𝒶𝒸𝑒, 𝑀𝓎 𝒦𝒾𝓃𝑔 Book 1

#21 "this, this makes it all worth it"

You closed the book you had been reading and pulled the shawl tighter around your shoulders. The air had started to turn from the balmy summer nights, into the cooler fall ones. Soon the leaves on all of the trees will start to turn colors right before they all fall to the ground. You love this time of year, it is when everything is so colorful right before everything gets blanketed in a world of white and cold.

It had only been a month since your wedding, and yet so much has changed in what felt like such a short time. You were a wife, you were now the crowned queen, you were madly in love with your husband... oh and the most exciting... you place your hand on the small mound of your belly. You recently started to show that there was indeed a little baby hidden away inside your belly.

You smile and let your hand caress your stomach as you continue to let the bond you feel with the growing child strengthen. Visions of your husband picking a child up and laughing with them as they go running through the halls of the palace.

Your lovely daydream was interrupted when a few of the ladies of the court were out walking the grounds and they walked past where you were sitting. "M'Lady, you are looking lovely today." The Countess said as she curtsied before you, "I would venture to say... glowing." Her smile seemed genuine, but her eyes held another story. She apparently had not forgotten your threat to remove her title.

"I would venture to say that you look... almost as if you mean that Countess. And Ladies, you all look wonderful in your new dresses as always."

The other two ladies with the Countess smiled and curtsied before you. "Thank you, M'Lady." They both said.

You smile as you see your husband coming down the walk towards you. "Excuse me, ladies." You stand and place the book you had been reading on the bench.

"My darling one!" He said as he leaned down to kiss you, then he looked to the ladies who were standing close by. "This, this makes it all with it. This makes all the long meetings, the long trips, and hard decisions that I have to make all worth it." He kisses you again, he slides to his knees before you and places his hands on your stomach. "Hello there." He kisses your stomach. "You may go now ladies, I want to spend time with my wife and child."