To Take What Is Rightfully Ours

Chapter 18. Taking Back The Legitimate Marriage

The morning of their official wedding was messy. But, truth be told, Rhaenyra didn't really expect anything else. Even though she enjoyed official events from time to time, she would very much prefer to stay in bed with her husband all day. But no, Diane kicked Daemon out at sunrise, then told Rhaenyra she could have a few more hours of her beauty sleep and took a nap herself on one of the couches. The princess didn't understand why Diane needed to kick Daemon out so early right until Rhaenyra's other ladies-in-waiting barged in with barely a knock, waking them up again.

'Are you excited, 'Nyra?' Laena asked, helping the princess dress up while Diane and others arranged breakfast for all of them. 'You're going to become a married woman today.'

Rhaenyra smiled and said that of course, she was excited. She was going to marry the love of her life, after all (for the second time but still).

'Did anyone have the talk with you?' Joanna asked then, stealing a grape from the plate that Elinda was carrying.

'What talk?'

'Well, you know. The Talk. About the wedding night,' Joanna explained, blushing at her own insinuation. Diane hid her snort in a cup of wine that she miraculously got from somewhere.

'I bet Prince Daemon would love to tell her himself,' Laena said, wiggling her eyebrows suggestively and saving Rhaenyra from the need to come up with the answer. 'And not only tell.'

The princess laughed at that, knowing that Daemon would be all too happy to repeat their wedding night all over again. After all, if they got two weddings, why not two wedding nights?

'Ew, must you be so vulgar?' Ellyn scrunched. 'There are kids here.'

'First of all, I got my blood so I'm not a child anymore,' Elinda stated. 'Second of all, I have three older brothers who have no idea I know how to listen to their private conversations without getting caught,' she added with a small, innocent smile.

'Elinda, you little spy!' Laena laughed.

'You go, girl. You'll find this skill pretty useful when you're older,' Diane chuckled, putting her legs up on the table much to Ellyn's distaste. 'When I got the Talk, I knew like half of it so the other half wasn't very confusing.'

'Why would you get The Talk? You're not married,' Ellyn asked as if not fully believing Diane. After all, young ladies were not supposed to know about these kinds of things unless they were about to get married.

'Nah. But my father is well aware of just what a daughter he raised.'

'Wait, your father gave you the talk?' Laena asked, and everyone looked just as surprised as she sounded. Well, except for Rhaenyra who knew just what a relationship Daemon had with his daughter. It would be very in character for him to try and educate his daughter the best way possible so she wouldn't get hurt or pregnant.

'Yes. I was two and ten... or maybe three and ten. He might have been just a little bit too detailed but at least I got the picture,' Diane chuckled as if it was a really fond memory of hers. And then she added with a smirk, 'Nyra, you do realize you are gonna be my stepmother, right?'

There was a pause, and everyone burst out laughing at Rhaenyra's gobsmacked expression. In the princess' defense, she realized that marriage to Daemon made her even more closely related to Diane than before, she just didn't think about it like that.

'I bet you have an interesting family tree,' Joanna said.

'And very complicated,' Rhaenyra added.

'Velaryon family tree is no better,' Laena said, tying the princess' dress so she could go and have some breakfast before the true wedding preparations began. 'Gets confusing with all the marriages with Targaryens. My grandmother was her own cousin or something.'