The Dark King and his Queen

F I F T Y S E V E N || Conversations

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"She walked in moon dust and stars were sprinkled in her hair."

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Katherine's Pov

For third time tonight, Ashton slings his arm around my waist and pulls me closer with a grunt.

"Seriously Katherine, stop moving."

I turned around in his arms and huffed. Glaring at him while he just laid there with his eyes closed, lips pursued slightly.

I lifted my hand up and flicked his forehead in slight annoyance. His eyes shot wide open and stared directly at me, a small smirk on my face.

He scowled.

"Whyㅡ" he took a deep breath, pinching the bridge of his nose, "ㅡ why in gods name would you flick me?"

"You kept pulling me closer!" I whisper yelled, "There is literally no space between us already. Do you want me to stick to you like glue!?"

"Yes."

I gapped at him, my mouth wide open. That was not the answer I was expecting. He smirked at me and held me tight against him.

Once he was satisfied, he closed his eyes and I rolled mine.

"Go sleep Katherine, we have a busy day ahead of us."

Instead of arguing with him, I decided to do as he said. I moved around a little bit, trying to get comfortable and once I found a nice position, I closed my eyes.

It's almost over

Just a little more..

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Max woke us up after he had a nightmare at 4am and we've been awake ever since. It's about 9:30am and I'm tired as shit.

Well, not exactly, I mean usually insomnia keeps me up so I'm kind of use to getting little sleep. But Ashton however, looked tired as shit and he was grumpy.

I stifled a laugh as he almost walked into a wall. He looked over his shoulder and glared at me. I gave him an innocent smile and he scowled.

"I'm going to take a nap,"

"Does the little baby want me to come with him?" I added jokingly

Everyone else laughed as well but he stood there staring at me.

"Yes, let's go, we don't have all day Katherine."

My jaw dropped and I gapped at him, I was the only one along with Amelia that was shocked. Max and Alex rolled their eyes and muttered the word 'gross'.

I slapped them behind the head and they groaned. They both looked at me and I kissed their foreheads.

As I walked after Ashton, I heard Max say, "It's good to see that she's still crazy."

I chuckled before exiting that room and going to a quieter one where Ashton will sleep. He probably wanted me there because I didn't get much sleep either.

But that's okay, it's not like I'm tired and I don't need a lot of sleep. I can work with 2 or 3 hours of sleep, nothing new.

It's clear that Ashton won't let me though, he'd prefer if I got enough sleep. Besides we're only leaving at 6pm and it's like what?

I checked the time on my watch and it said 10:58am. There's still time to sleep I guess and I don't want to oversleep so I'll put on an alarm.

Or I could ask Amelia to wake us up.

"Ash?"

He hummed in return as I slowly climbed under the blankets with him. He grabbed me by the waist and pulled me closer to him, resting his head on my stomach.

I sighed and ran my hands through his soft hair. I could tell he liked when I did this, he would moan softly every so often and it made me smile.

"What's going to happen after this..?" I asked

He lifted his head and turned around to look at me. His eyes were half closed and he had a small pout on his face when I stopped running my hands through his hair. I bit my lip to keep myself from grinning like an idiot, he looked adorable.

"What do you mean?"

"You have an entire gang and you're after Joey's portion as well because he doesn't deserve it. Naturally, I assume when everything is done, you'll go back to ruling the underworld but we'reㅡ" I stopped trying to think about us

We haven't exactly talked about it, nothing was really clear. But I did know that I liked him, a lot.

He cleared his throat and started playing with a piece of my hair as he spoke.

"To put it bluntly, you're mine and there's no way I'm going to let you go. I'll be taking you out on dates until you're comfortable enough to officially start dating me. We don't have to rush into anything, you have business in the underworld too. You own a business down there but if we get married it'll be our business and I can take care of it while you get another job and live a normal life. Of course you can help with things but I'd prefer if you got a job that wasn't as dangerous and I want you to live a normal life."

He stared at me and I started sucking on my bottom lip. That was a lot and it seemed like he thought about it before speaking.

I mean, I'm not exactly saying no to what he just said because I do want a normal life. I never wanted to get involved in this life but it was the life I was born into.

That doesn't mean I'm going to let Ashton handle it alone. I'll help him with this, we could do it together and I can have two jobs.

Well, technically the mafia part isn't really a job, I'll just help with the confrontations of people who owe us money.

"Now how could I say no to that?" I chuckled, "But I will be helping with majority of the work because I refuse to let you handle it alone and you won't tell me otherwise because I'm not taking no for an answer."

He playfully rolled his eyes, a smile making it's way on his face.

He just nodded and proceeded to lay his head on my stomach. I placed my hands on his head again and starting running my fingers through his hair.

Marriage

Doesn't sound bad to be honest, especially being married to Ashton.

I could live with that..