Prince of Evermore | l.s.

Part 14

Louis turned all pale.
"Did you expect someone else?" he arched his brow at the younger prince.
"Who should have I expected?" Louis tried to keep his cool. He was afraid of what his brother knew.
"Maybe prince Valron?" Louis almost relaxed but then his brother said something that made his heart stop for a moment.
"Or maybe prince Harry?" Louis took his frightened eyes to his brother.
"Leopold, please don't tell anyone." Louis pleaded.
"What is going on with you two?" Leopold crossed his strong arms over his chest, waiting for a response from his younger sibling.

"I promise you, I didn't know." Louis was petrified. Should he really tell him right then and there?
"What? Spill it all." the younger prince could feel the sweat forming on his skin.
"When I ran away my companion was a stable boy. He told me he is just working for one of those princes." Louis looked at the tips of his shoes, feeling like the little boy that had to tell what he had done in the kitchen earlier.

"He wasn't any stable boy as I found out once I arrived back home. Prince Harry was- is the person I ran away with." Louis breathed out heavily.
"And I-" Louis cut himself off, his eyes still on his older brother.
"You?"
"I think I love him." Louis felt his heart beat fast against his rib cage. He had hard time breathing.
"That is very inconvenient." Leopold told him.
"I am aware of that, but brother I don't want to marry prince Valron. If I do I don't know what's going to happen to me in few years, let alone few months." Louis shedded a tear.
"If I understand it right, what you are trying to do right now is to make prince Harry stay for as long as possible?" Louis only nodded to those words.

"We just need to think of a way to solve this."
"This could have been avoided if both of you were doing what you should have. You could have been betrotheds. You both got yourselves into this by being irresponsible." Louis felt little once again. It felt like being punished for riding his horse instead of having a lecture of politics.
"I apologize." he looked to the floor.
"But I want the best for you. I want you to be happy with the one you fell in love." Leopold told him in a much more quiet voice.

"Leopold." Louis looked in his eyes with tears in his own.
"Go now. I will be thinking of a way. If you think of anything, you will tell me before you do anyhting stupid again. Did I make myself clear?" Louis nodded vehemently.
"Of course brother." Louis beckoned his head before he ran back into the palace.

"Louis! I am going to the close villages to greet our subjects. Would you like to accompany me?" king Philip was sitting on his horse with couple of pageboys and knights by his side.

"Thank you father but I will rather read." Louis declined his offer before he ran up the stairs into the palace.
He went into his chamber just to get shocked and surprised by what he found there.
"Good morning, my prince." Harry was waiting for him.
"Good morning to you as well, my prince ." Louis walked up to him and entwined their hands.

"My brother knows." Louis announced.
"He does?" Harry's face turned pale.
"He wants to help us." Louis' eyes smiled earlier than his lips.
"He wants to help us?"
"Yes, did you do something to your ears?" Louis had to chuckle. He was in a butterfly mood, he felt so light and happy.

Harry kissed Louis on the lips. When he pulled away he finally spoke.
"I can't wait for the kiss we will share in front of the altar." he pressed his forehead against the younger one's.
"I can't wait either. I hope it will be soon."

Louis read about love just in books this entire time. He didn't believe he would ever get the privilege to experience such feelings himself but he found love. It was complicated for the both of the boys but their feelings for one another grew stronger day by day.

It had been ten days since prince Harry Edward arrived when prince Valron started to get impatient with the wedding preparations. He went up to Louis' chamber and knocked four times just to get no answer. He got inside but the chamber was empty. He only heard the sound of hoofbeats and a distanced laughter coming from the open window. He walked up to it to see his betrothed canter on his horse along with the prince that Valron grew to despise so much.

"Prince Louis is mine, don't forget that Edward." he mumbled to himself before he left his betrothed's chamber.

Louis and Harry were finally in the forest where they could be with one another as they wished. They got down from their horses backs near a little lake.
Louis immediately began to work on taking down his clothes. Harry tried to do the same but he was too mesmerized by the prince next to him to do something properly. Louis stepped out of his robe and ran naked into the water. Harry tried to be quick. When he was finally done he followed Louis into the water.
Louis swam closer to Harry, tasting the older prince's lips.

They could feel every single part of the other one's body in the water and that made the moment much more intimate.
Harry pulled Louis in, pressing him onto his body tightly as they carried on exchanging kisses.
Louis wrapped his legs around the older prince in the meanwhile.
"Harry." he breathed out heavily when they ran out of breath.
"I-" Louis stared into his eyes with flushed cheeks and swollen lips.
"You are so beautiful." Harry couldn't make himself look away from Louis' face.
Louis hid his head in the crook of Harry's neck, feeling all those tingles in his lower stomach.

He knew what he needed from Harry but he was too shy to ask about it. He didn't know if he even could.
"Harry-" they both got snapped out of their daydream when they heard loud sound of hoofbeats coming their way. They left their horses a little further from the lake and got undressed behind a few bushes. They didn't want to be obvious for someone passing by.

"Quickly." Harry mumbled and they both swam to the shore where they managed to hide behind high reeds.
They could see an elderly man sitting on a vehicle that was horse drawn. He was alone and didn't seem to look for anyone.

"I was so scared." Louis mumbled when they swam out of their hiding spot.
"Me too my prince, but... where were we?" Harry looked into Louis' eyes.
"What do you mean?" Louis wrapped himself around Harry once again.
"I believe you were about to say something." Louis knew but he thought he shouldn't say what he thought.
"No, not at all." he denied.
"Was it..." Harry's hand travelled up and down Louis' back.
"Something about us being naked?" Harry asked and Louis felt even more tingly.

"Could be." Louis mumbled quietly while Harry found his way to his neck in order to start kissing him there.
"I am going to take good care of you, my dearest prince." Louis let his eyes close while Harry kissed the side of his neck. He could feel himself shatter into millions of pieces. He felt too much but he loved it. He was being taken care of just as he had wanted.

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A/N
Hello stars! So I have no idea if the people who used to read this book will get to this update but I am updating after god knows how long. It's been a year... a whole ass year. I wrote it all in one breath today. My writer's block when it comes to this story used to be terrible most of the time but I am back in the game. How did you like the new chapter? How have you been while I was gone? It's so exciting to work on this story again. I love you all!<33

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