Sleeping With The Enemy (BoyxBoy)

Chapter Fifty Four

--Lucien's POV--
I slept fitfully through the night plagued by screams of agony and terror filled wails of a child amongst the darkness behind my eyelids. I tried to claw through the darkness to find the source of the screams but there was nothing.

I was jolted awake by the shift of the bed next to me and the quick scampering against the wooden floors followed by the loud strained retches echoing off the bathroom tiles.

"You cannot catch a break can you?" I couldn't help but feel sorry for my poor ill husband leaning over the toilet wiping the sheen of sweat from his forehead.

"To be honest, I feel better then I did yesterday" He coughed dipping his head as he was assaulted by a new wave of nausea.

"Still looking very poorly to me, where did my tanned glowy cheeky husband go?" I laughed weakly pulling his hair back from his face.

"He's currently being wailed on by an angry unborn demonoid" He gave a little side smirk reaching up blindly to lay a clammy cold hand to my cheek "But he is fine. And this is more normal than what occurred last night"

"Very true, and I tried to get the coronation cancelled but unfortunately the Head Chancellor will not have it." I gently pressed a kiss to his palm then down to his temple.

"I can manage, Juvia left some painkillers and anti-nausea for me to take. Then after we're going to do something about that orphanage." His face hardened as he sat up fully.

"I'll do the work, you will be resting until Juvia says so" I stood up to fill a glass of water for him.

"Or we could let them all stay here" He giggled knocking back the glass in a few gulps. I was still worried about his very pale skin and dark circles under his eyes but the carefree defiant grin was still there.

"Nice try, we're living up in California away from this zoo. But we will look into the orphanage" I carefully helped him to his feet following him closely back into the bedroom.

"Vince told me that someone like me would have to hide my expanding waistline" Emmett sat down on the end of the bed rubbing his tender stomach softly.

"Unfortunately so, it would conceal how big you are so no one can gauge how far along you are to guess a due date then bombard us and stress you out" I smiled apologetically stroking his hair softly.

"Fair enough, I just wanna get back to California where our family is when this is all done" He sighed pulling his shirt up over his head.

"We will, I'll take care of things down if they're important but otherwise we'll be up there and out of stressful situations" I pulled down the gold and white suit jacket from the clothes hanger and laid it down on the bed next to him.

"This is beautiful, really soft too. Who made this so I can get all mine done?" Emmett pressed his face against the fabric

"I used a small tailor in town to help him gain a bit more profit, he is truly talented. He's sworn to secrecy so if we need to make clothes that conceal, he'll do it no questionas asked"

"Good to know you help out the little guys" He smiled running his hand over the threads

"Put it on, I wanna see you in it" I urged placing the matching pants down as well.

"Yes Sir" Emmett chuckled giving me a mock salute before moving to change his undershirt "I'll look like a General or something" He frowned slipping the clean cut looking jacket over his shoulders and moving to pull the pants on

"Sort of idea" I blushed buttoning the buttons for him and smoothing it down fixing the golden threading on the epilets and straightening the gold embroidery down the middle.