A Night With The King

“So? Now that your secret is open, are you finally going to tell me what the fuck happened and why you stole from me and framed an innocent woman?”

The man looked shocked, like he wasn’t expecting his secret to be known; he was quick to mask the shock but Lance already saw through him, he knew what the fucker was going to say next, and sure enough, he didn’t disappoint, like every other criminal, he lied.

“I don’t know what you are talking about, Your Majesty, I am innocent, please spare my life,”

He pleaded. If Lance hadn’t watched and heard the things he had said to Sophie, he would have believed he was innocent with the way he spoke but bad for him that he already knew he was lying.

“You liar, how dare you lie to your king? How dare you lie to my face? You better start talking, better start naming the people who were involved in the theft with you or you will be facing the consequences on your own, not only did you steal from the kingdom, you blamed it on someone else. If I hadn’t been observant and not quick to judgment, that woman would have faced an even harsher life than she already did. Your lies put her through hell, you have to pay for that too.”

Lance let out and punched him again. The punch sent him to the floor, his face bled, he was on his knees and crawled to Lance, holding his legs.

“Please, my king, believe me, I am telling the truth, whatever she said to you was a lie, she was the one, she did everything,”

“Shut up, I know what you did, you can’t lie to my face anymore, I told you the last time we met that when we meet again, the secret would be open but you refused to believe me, I gave you the chance to come clean and confess what you did but you chose to be a hardened criminal; now get ready to be treated like the criminal you are, there will be no mercy for you, stealing and framing someone else with your crime, possession of a gun when you are not licensed to own one, you have a lot of charges against you. If I were you, I would cooperate and let everyone involved suffer,”

Lance told him. The fuckers no longer tried to act innocent, instead, he reminded silent.

“This is for Sophie and everything you put her through,”

Lance let out and punched the bastard again, twice. He straightened himself while the bastard, doubled over in pain, without giving him a second look, Lance left the interrogation room, and he met with Patrick, the police chief, and some other men who were waiting for him at the entrance.

“I want him dealt with until he lists out those who were with him, I don’t want him to get out or face any form of release, am I understood?”

Lance asked and the Police chief nodded, he walked away knowing that Patrick would follow, he got into the car and expected Patrick to say a word concerning what happened but the man just wordlessly started the car.

“You will call the princess and let her know of the development, that’s the least I can do for her, the announcement should be made tomorrow that the wedding is off, I will bear the consequences of whatever happens so don’t worry about it, I know after the announcement is out, there will be a lot of uproar and meeting, sign me up for all of them, this is what I choose, I will be there all through the heat,”

Lance instructed as they drove back to the palace.

“Yes, Your Majesty.”

“As for that bastard, I want him dealt with, I already told the police chief before, I don’t want them to go easy on him, he has to spill everything he knows. Also, he and everyone involved must get max punishment for their offense, make sure it doesn’t take long,”

He went on.

“Even though that’s not part of my job, I will do what I can,”

Patrick responded. At least he wasn’t trying to talk him out of things. There was a moment of silence but it didn’t last long.

“So? Now that you know she is innocent, when are you going to send her out of the palace? Don’t get me wrong, I am not trying to tell you what to do, but with everything that would happen once the news of your wedding cancellation is out, it would be best if she is out of the Emerald House and the palace for good because, no one would believe that you and she aren’t having an affair, even I find it hard to believe, I spoke with her and she said the same thing you said so I just have to believe,”

Patrick let out. the fact that he spoke with Sophie didn’t sit well with him.

“Why did you find the need to speak to her? I told you numerous times that we are not involved in any way, why don’t you take my word for it? When did you meet her? No one is allowed to see her, I made that clear,”

Lance blurted out. he knew he shouldn’t be offended as Patrick was no other person, he was next to him and could get away with a lot of things but that shouldn’t give him a reason to speak to Sophie, knowing what he might have told her made it even worse. He knew he didn’t say nice things to her.

“I had to, you were not giving the right answers, you kept saying nothing was going on but you spent a night with her in the dungeon, moved her to the emerald house, signed her up for antenatal; let me speak on that first, you are not the father of her unborn baby, why did you feel the need to register her for antenatal? She is not your responsibility; do you know the kind of rumor that could lead to? With your plans now, it could even be worse.”

Patrick told him.

“I did what I had to do to make sure she and the baby were okay, she fainted, Patrick, right before she was brought to me she had been hospitalized, I had to make sure she was completely fine, she is pregnant, all pregnant women need to be registered for whatever you call it, you are speaking like I took her there myself, plus, as long as she lives under me, she is my responsibility, that being said, you still haven’t told me the reason you went to see her,”

lance reminded.

“I asked her what your relationship was, I told her to talk some sense into you since she seems to have some power over you but she told me I was wrong and that she would leave once you want her out, now the question is, when are you going to send her away?”

Lance wasn’t ready to answer that question. He couldn’t just send her away just like that, she had no one else in the kingdom, heck, he didn’t even know any of her family members and he was sure she didn’t have any in Otano. It would be heartless to just send her away when she did nothing wrong; if she wasn’t pregnant, he would have sent her back to work as a palace maid but she was pregnant and a pregnant woman can’t work and live in the palace.

“I have not decided on that yet, I will decide that on my own,”

“There you go again, just send her away, how hard can that be? What is there to decide?”

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