Brinda

Family Man

Stroking the long ebony hair as quietly as he could, it had been two days since he wrote back to his father, turning down help from Chiroma, and two days since he turned down Ambika Devi's desire to lay down her life for her people's dark wishes. Sati and the ban placed on it continued to cause a stir within the people but King Adigun had done his best to narrow his mind off of it and everything else ongoing for now.

"These have been the best two days of my life", Ambika Devi chuckled while she ran her finger along his chest hair.

"It is the best I have had in a long time as well", the King mumbled while he planted a kiss into the back of her hand.

Both engulfed in sweet and passionate sweat, they wrapped around each other in their unclad form and breathed in each other's alluring stench with the desire to have another round of awesome sex with the queen coursing through the King's mind.

"What if it is a boy?" Ambika Devi asked while King Adigun gently rubbed her tummy. "Will he bring as much grit and stubbornness as you do?"

The King laughed tenderly and came to silence. "He will hold your compassion in his heart, bear my strengths and also take your beauty. If she is a girl, she will do the same. I need you safe and within the castle while i am away".

The thought had lingered in his mind all along.

"I cannot stand the possibility of anything happening to the both of you", he sighed and gently eased himself into a position where his head could rest on her gorgeous breast while his hand cradled her protruding belly gently. "You two are the future of this kingdom and I mean every word of it".

"Enough of the gloomy talk", Ambika Devi warned before sitting up and casting her naked backside on his chest.

He stared up at her with a wild smile on his face, and gently reached for her breast with his warm pair of hands. She giggled excitedly, leaned forward and then kissed him, before pulling away and racing towards the window overlooking the beautiful sea. King Adigun chased after her, wrapped his arms around her from behind and enjoyed the feeling of having his naked body pressed against hers.

The duo enjoyed the silence for a moment and lurked far into the distance while she planted tender kisses into his arms.

"Your heart races", she noted. "Why does it beat so fast?"

He spun her around and locked his lips with hers firmly before pulling away. "Everything about you sets my soul on fire and I cannot help myself".

"I found life in your eyes from the very first day. I will do anything to be with you till my dying breath, so I need you to promise me, Adigun", she said and called his name for the first time since they had been together. "Promise me you will come back to me".

King Adigun sighed and replied, "I am yet to lose a war, am I not?"

"My father lost no war until you came along", she reminded him. "A man can lose the war with himself and yet win that against his enemies. It will still bring his death".

Her wise words triggered some thoughts and he held a thin smile before masking the disturbing realities with a subtle kiss into her lips.

"You can count on me", he assured her.

Ambika Devi led the king by his hand back to bed, before shoving him into it. She smirked from ear to ear and pounced on him like a child, before snuggling up into his arm with her head rested against his hairy chest. In silence she slept and in silence he counted his blessing for having her and their unborn child.

"I cannot die in battle", he warned himself forehand. "I cannot lose in battle".

He had to do it for them and not just for the kingdom of Brinda and its future. His fall would spell horror for the kingdom, terror to his castle and immense pain and misery for his wife and their unborn child. It might even lead to Ambika Devi's death if those who will be in power decided they had no use for a pregnant woman and the wife to the late Kin who made life hellish for them.

"Guide me", he closed his eyes and found himself praying to the gods.

It had been quite some time since he spoke to them, and with his loyal servant not by his side, it was definitely harder to make sense of how best to go about the entire ordeal too.

"I need my men in shape", he thought to himself.

He had to make do with what he had in Brinda if he was to command any respect after the war. Relying on any warrior from Chiroma would win him the battle without a doubt but at the cost of leaving a sour taste behind for him to deal with.

"Nobody said it was going to be this hard", he chuckled to himself and shook his head. "Nobody said it would be this difficult being a husband, king and a father-to-be".

He was trapped between which responsibility should hold premium concern to him. His heart was with his wife and their unborn child though, but his head wanted to battle; the king craved war and had missed the sight of blood and sand.