Sovereign

His Sunshine

Lucellion Pov

"For how long are you going to avoid the topic of conversation your majesty?" For the first time since he'd shown up an hour ago I looked up from my documents. "What topic of discussion?"

Edward sighed, "the reason you've been running around looking for seers and sorcerers of all kinds for the last six months, you didn't even attend the wedding ceremony of Hades and that fae girl you seemed so taken with." My fists clenched, I didn't attend her wedding not because I couldn't but because I didn't want to; I didn't want to see her marrying someone else. I knew that if I attended then I couldn't stop myself from picking up where we left off and I wasn't so selfish as to make everything harder for her than it is.

I had fled yes, but that didn't mean I didn't know every single thing that had happened since. I missed her, gods I wanted to be with her so badly and couldn't understand why. This wasn't anything like the times I'd pursued a woman; it was like she was every part of me that I never knew was missing. It didn't make sense, she had a mate he was alive and well and hadn't rejected her so why did the pull between us grow stronger and harder to ignore since the first time I saw her?

"....majesty, your majesty?" Edward's voice broke me out of my reverie.

"Hmm?"

"I was asking about your visits with the sorcerers and seers, you seemed completely out of it," he asked looking concerned, I trusted Edward with my own life but this... this was something I had to keep to myself until I had met with the Moirai. "I've just been looking into ways to cure the disease without Druid blood Edward," it wasn't a complete lie but that would have to do for now.

Since the Druid borders had closed after the killing of the king's second daughter, they refused to help us. It was funny because it was the very same daughter who had cursed that particular clan all because the clan leader's son had chosen another girl to be his wife. Druids were problematic, I'll tell you that. The problem was of I didn't find a cure soon then they would have to be executed; I couldn't have them feeding off their own kind. Gods, what a mess.

My conversation with Edward was cut off when someone knocked on the door, which was odd because I was not to be disturbed until I left my private office and there was nothing scheduled until late afternoon. Jeremiah, one of my aides came in with a rather anxious expression. "Forgive me your majesty but a letter has just arrived and I have instructed to deliver it immediately."

My eyes lowered to his hand, a jade envelope. Only the royal family of the gods used jade envelopes so why in the world would Zeus write to me? I couldn't imagine his wife taking the time to do so after our last....encounter. "Bring it here," I nodded.

Greetings your majesty;
I know this might come as a shock to you but I am in need of your assistance or rather the new queen of the underworld is.
Hades has made sure not to give Ross any guards of her own and has also stripped her of any maids she had before due to them being in apparent danger. Not only that but he has also exiled her to the Larimar palace for her actions against the knight commander.
It is for this reason that I write to you in hopes of you dispatching an order of knights and servants since lamia are able to live in the underworld unlike my demigods or the fae.
I know you mean a great deal to her from Hypnos and that is why I am asking;also, it would mean the world to her if you came to see her in person at least once.

                                                               Ares, crown prince of Olympus.

I read through the letter a total of five times each time enraging me more than the last. I had to restrain myself from ripping it to pieces; Hades knew that underworlders already held anyone from the surface in low regard and he was using that to turn everyone against her.

It's like he couldn't get it into his thick skull that she didn't want this marriage just as much as him but the situation left little room for choice. This was my breaking point.

"Edward, prepare the second and third division of the scarlet knights for departure to serve as the personal guard for the queen of the underworld-"

"-but the second and third division are meant for the queen your majesty," I raised a brow, I really wasn't in the mood, "did I stutter?"

"No, your majesty..."

"Good, so do what I tell you and also organize enough servants and a few ladies in waiting enough for her as fast as you can, we're leaving for the underworld first thing tomorrow morning."

I can't believe it hasn't even been that long and he's already sent her to a separate castle. I felt pain claw at my heart at the thought of what she had already been put through...my sunshine, at this rate Hades would turn her into himself. Empty.

Maybe now I could tell her about my theory and we could look into finding the Moirai together. Even if things turned out differently to what I thought was the case, I would have no problem being by her side as a lover. However; with how I left things between us after I had defiled her, I don't think she would feel the same now as she did then.

A/N

I don't know about you guys, but I really needed Lucellion back in my life.

How do you think things will play out now that he's back into the picture?

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This chapter is dedicated to sillkpetalls