A Night With The King

“Roseline, Patrick is not my assistant just like Sophie isn’t my mistress, and I am not in love with her either, I can never fall in love with her and she is not the reason I called off the wedding,”

The king explained. Sophie couldn’t help the feeling she got when the king spoke about them, about not loving her, she didn’t expect him to, heck she wasn’t in love with him either but she kind of felt hurt? That shouldn’t be, why would she be hurt by the king saying he doesn’t love her and would never do; it couldn’t describe what she felt but she didn’t like it, she didn’t like anything that was going on in the room and the way they were talking among themselves without even considering that she was still standing with them.

“You say that? You can’t fool me, Lancelot, you are lying, tell me you have never kissed her, tell me you have never touched her, lie to my face that you guys have nothing going on and at no point during your decision to call off the wedding; you did not think about her, lie,”

The princess let out. she was fully pissed again.Please check at N/ôvel(D)rama.Org.

“And you, you knew he had another woman, you made it a point to call and check up on me always but you never told me he had someone, or do you two share her?”

The princess yelled, this time she was talking to Patrick. Sophie felt like hell, the princess was saying hurtful things and she couldn’t even defend herself.

“Heck, no, she is not my type and I don’t go so low,”

Patrick responded. Sophie clenched her hands in a fist, and she felt hot tears gather in her eyes, she knew she wasn’t their class but they were looking down on her and saying degrading things about her in her presence.

“Enough! The both of you stop it, Roseline, why would you open your mouth and everything that comes out of it doesn’t sound like what a princess would say? How can you say such a thing about your fellow woman and in her face, Patrick, I expected more from you,”

The king let out and Sophie thought he was taking her side but then his next words shattered that thought.

“IF you can’t go so low, then why do you assume I would> why can’t the both of you listen to me when I say I have no intimate relationship with her?”

The king blurted out. everything was too much for Sophie to handle and all she could do was stand there with her hands clenched into a tight fist and tears gathered in her eyes that she was trying so hard to fight.

“I shouldn’t have said that but I never thought a threesome was a bad thing, I mean, I might want to try it too someday,”

The princess let out.

“What did I say about you not being a proper princess again?”

the King responded.

That’s already established, Lancelot, I never want to be a proper princess, I don’t even get the fucking concept; anyway, if you guys aren’t having an affair, then why is she here and why are you looking after her so much? Why isn’t she working like the others? Why is your room linked to this place? There are so many questionable things for me to just believe in you, not to mention men can go really low and also, have you seen her? Which man would not want her?”

the princess asked.

“This man, I don’t want her, I don’t love her, I don’t care about her, do you not understand me?”

his raised voice shocked even the princess and there was a moment of silence.

“I think we have established that the woman isn’t the king’s mistress, princess, I agree with him now, why would he leave all the potential women of substance within the kingdom and outside to set for a mere maid? I shouldn’t have doubted it,”

The king’s special adviser chirped in. Sophie wasn’t one to hate someone but right now, she felt so much hate in her heart for the man, he was vile and insensitive.

“Then send her away, Lancelot, if she is nothing to you like you claim, if she is not the reason our wedding is off, then send her away,”

The princess said.

“I have told him that before, he might not have the hots for her but he definitely has a soft spot for her which he has refused to admit to himself.”

Patrick said again.

“Shut up, Patrick, don’t start with that right now, and I am not sending Sophie away just because you want me to, I don’t owe you anything, you and I have no business and you have no right to tell me what you do,”

The king roared.

“And you want me to believe your nonsense? Yeah, right,”

The princess replied. They were just going back and forth and coming to no conclusion and it was painful to watch them throw hurtful words about her. Sophie couldn’t take it anymore, the three of them were just talking. They were talking about her in her presence without even stopping to think that she could hear everything they were saying, they didn’t even see her as a person if they did, they would at least respect her and not talk about her in her presence. She had enough and wanted them gone. She didn’t own the emerald house but for the moment, it was hers and she wanted them out of her space. She gathered her courage and spoke in anger and frustration.

“Enough!”

She let out which got their attention. Good.

“I don’t know what is going on with the three of you but can you all stop making it about me? Can you stop talking like I am not here? I might not be in your class or have a title but I am human too, I am a person!”

Sophie yelled out. She hated that she couldn’t keep her emotions in check, she wanted the tears gone, and crying in front of these people who think it is okay to talk about her in her presence made her feel little, she hated it so much.

“You made her cry, fix it,”

the princess let out, pushing Lance towards her; Sophie backed away from them, if only she could walk away.

“He is not the only one at fault here, the three of you are saying hurtful things about me without thinking about my feelings, like I don’t matter, like I am not human too; I get it, I understand, I am beneath all of you and I get but I think it is best if you all just leave, go and talk about me all you want, call me all the awful names and all but please don’t do it in my face.”

Sophie said. She made sure to point at the three of them and then the door, she half expected one of them to rebuke her for being rude but none of them said a word, and neither did they move to leave. The princess did move, but she came to stand in front of Sophie. Sophie wiped her eyes, ready for whatever the princess had to say to her again.