A Night With The King

Lance felt sick to the bone, his life had not been the same since he came back to no Sophie or their baby, he hadn’t been able to get a peaceful sleep, how could he sleep when the woman he loved and their unborn child were out there and might be in danger. He still couldn’t believe Patrick, who he trusted so much, was the same person to cause so much pain all in the name of helping him. Well, he didn’t help him, he only succeeded in making his life hell. Three days, three whole days looking everywhere for her but no sign of her. It was as if she landed in Briscout and disappeared, that’s the only thing he could find out. the country that she was from and he sent people there. He couldn’t even go find her by himself because he was caught up fixing the mess that Justin had tried to create. At least that never happened. If Patrick had not been ahead of himself and sent Sophie away without his permission, he would not be in so much pain right now.

With each day that passes, his anxiety gets even higher, he feared that whatever had made Sophie change her identity and run away from home might be after her again and she was very alone and vulnerable. He had Patrick to blame for everything. Speaking of Patrick, he hasn’t seen or heard from him after he told him not to show up near him again. at first, he didn’t care what the fucker did but now, he was kind of worried that he might have handled everything the wrong way, he was still very mad at him for what he did and he didn’t see himself forgiving him anytime soon.

Every day for the past three days, he waited for the call that never came and every of those days, he had been the one to call the people he had sent, they got no news of her. He still hated the fact that he couldn’t leave Otano as there were a lot of things he needed to do and with Patrick gone from his side, it was even harder for him to handle everything. The flooding the night he couldn’t make it home had done some damage in some parts of the kingdom, a bridge constructed when Justin had been king collapsed, the flood hadn’t been so strong but the fact that the materials used were all bad made it happen. Thankfully, no one was hurt because it happened at night and people do not go that way at night but it affected the production sector because the bridge led to a major factor in the kingdom, so he had to find a way to fix it immediately. Reconstruction has already started. Everything happening would have been easy for him to deal with if Sophie had been here but she wasn’t so he was having a hard time. He went back to drinking at night so that he could at least get some sleep. There was no Sophie or Patrick to tell him not to drink, he lost three people he loved on the same day and till now, he still didn’t know how to fix everything and get them back.

Lance walked to his medicine cabinet and pulled out some ibuprofen, he swallowed the pill and drank water. He went about getting ready for his meeting. He had a couple of meetings and also, and he scheduled a meeting with his brother, Justin who had first declined meeting with him but after Lance threatened to have him dragged to the palace, he finally agreed. Lance’s phone rang and he hurriedly ran to where he kept it, hoping that the call he was waiting for finally came, he let out a sigh of disappointment when he checked the caller, it wasn’t the call that he had been expecting.

“Princess? Why are you calling me?”

Lance asked. He wasn’t in the mood for pleasantries right now.

“Hmm, you are also in a mood,”

The princess commented.

“Also? What are you talking about?”

Lance asked impatiently.

“I am talking about your assistant, or best friend, he has been here with me for three days and has been mourning, I can’t keep him with me anymore because I have to go home for a ceremony, if I don’t, the queen mother and former king would literally disown and behead me, can you come to get him, or at least get someone to come to get him?”Nôvel(D)ra/ma.Org exclusive © material.

Lance was speechless for a moment, he knew Patrick still communicated with the princess and even joked with him about being in love with her but he never thought they were close to the point of Patrick running to her after their fight, that was the last place he had expected Patrick to be.

“You guys are so close that he runs to you?”

Lance couldn’t resist asking.

“Yeah, we are pretty close, he grew on me and now I care a little too much about his feelings to watch him suffer, so can you come get him? He isn’t saying anything but I know you both had a big fight, nothing else would make him this miserable,”

Roseline let out. He so wanted to care but then, his mind flashed back to everything that happened.

“I don’t want to see his face, do whatever you want with him,”

Lance said when he remembered Patrick’s offense. This wasn’t their usual banter, this was something bigger, he fucking sent Sophie away and Lance couldn’t just forget that.

“Wait, what happened between you two? The man had been crying for days and even came to me while he was drunk and out of his mind, I say we are close but he is pretty secretive and only presents the best version of himself around me until three nights ago when he came to me all drunk and out of his mind; what happened that made him like that and why don’t you want to see him?”

Roseline questioned. She sounded concerned. Lance contemplated telling her what happened, not a lot of people knew what happened yet. In the end, he decided to tell her.

“He sent Sophie away while I was away for just one day, I was gone for a single night and he sent my woman away and now three days later, I still can’t find her, he sent her away, and didn’t even bother to know where she would go, just dropped her at the airport and told her to find her way,”

Telling Roseline what happened made Lance angry all over again.