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-William-

William's father laughed amused at his son's interruption.

"So... son." He said and walked over to this William. He placed one of his large hands on William's shoulder. "Show me where you live."

William pressed his lips together quickly and then put his mask on. It had been a long time since he had worn it and it felt strange. He almost felt uncomfortable wearing it.

"I live here, father." William answered his father quietly. He locked eyes with him and hoped that he would behave. A very amused expression appeared in his father's face.

Oh no...

"Oh... Is that so?" he hummed and threw a quick look over at Jade. "Well... I guess things are done differently around here." He said very quietly and smirked at his son. "As I told you long ago; I don't care when you consummate your-"

"Father." William warned his father sternly. "There won't be any heirs if you keep talking." He added quietly. "And you will be childless if you keep talking." William added and nodded towards Jade's father.

He then threw a glance at Jade's parents and then turned his gaze back to his father. They were all looking at him, but only his father looked amused. The other two looked confused and suspicious. His father's mustache twitched quickly from left to right before he suddenly turned towards Jade's parents again.

"Do you really trust these two, underneath the same roof?" he chuckled impressed. His right index finger pointed at Jade and then at his son before he clasped his hands together.

William could see the color disappear from Jade's face, but William was a little better trained than her in hiding instant reactions. He hid his very well because the slightest hint of truth in this situation would put Jade's father into a fit of rage.

"Barely." Jade's father scoffed and crossed his arms. He did not sound like he heard what William's father was actually saying... The question was really; Do you really not think they are meeting in secret?

"From the sound of it you have had to keep them apart as well?" Jade's father continued.

A low chuckle erupted from William's father and he watched as his shoulders jiggled a little.

-Jade-

She wanted to disappear into the ground. Her father thought that he was doing such a great job with making sure his daughter's honor was intact. What he didn't know was that he had failed a long time ago... and if William didn't get the king to stop talking, her father would soon have to face a very bitter truth.

William and Jade locked eyes. The only sign of William feeling the same panic as she did was his eyes, and it wasn't something anyone could easily see. You had to know his looks to see that he was screaming on the inside.

"I never tried to." The King suddenly answered her father.

Jade felt like her feet couldn't keep her standing. It almost felt like she was standing on a slippery rock, trying her best not to fall down. She clasped her hands nervously in front of herself and swallowed. The king clearly not done talking.

"I was very determined when I was in my son's age... and if someone would have tried to keep a girl as beautiful as your daughter away from me, I would have found a way to-"

"With all due respect your grace..." Jade's father interrupted the king. He raised his hand against the king as to silence him.

Jade felt her heart beat so hard in her chest that she wanted to lean against something. But all she had was Liz, whom was scrutinizing William as closely as her father usually did. The difference was that Liz could actually read him, and if she found out about what they had done, she would not be merciful... Jade figured that was why William looked as stone cold like he used to. It was to not let Liz figure him out.

The king smiled kindly at her father and waited for him to finish his sentence.

"... I do not mean any disrespect when I say this, but please do not speak of my daughter in such a way..." Her father said calmly but his voice was still stern. Jade did not know where her father got this courage, or stupidity, from.

But maybe I got my big mouth from him as well as my temper... She wondered to herself.

"My apologies, your grace." Jade sighed and crossed her arms. "My father is-"

"It is quite alright, child." The king said with a warm look on his face. "Your father is right. I shouldn't have said what I was going to say. You are after all his precious daughter. Whom's hand he very graciously gave my son." He continued and then met her father's gaze again. They nodded quietly towards each other. Like they had agreed on something the others didn't comprehend. "Which I am very thankful for..."

-William-

A while later William managed to get his father out of the house, and they were taking a walk through Jade's father's gardens. They had things to discuss, and William needed to make sure he wasn't going to get murdered because of his father's big mouth and for his amusement.

"What was that earlier? Are you trying to get me killed?" William asked when he was sure that no one could hear him.

The only sound around them was his voice and the crunching sound of their steps in the snow.

A laughter was the response he received from his father. A heartwarming but annoying laughter. William put his arms behind his back and clenched his jaws in order to keep his temper in order. Which he had gotten much better at since he came here...

Jade's father did truly test William's patience sometimes. But he wouldn't give the farmer's daughter up for anything in this world so he had been given no choice but to endure it and control his temper. It has almost cost him Jade when he first met her father...

William's father's laughter awoke him from his thoughts.

"Are you still laughing? I am sorry, do you have another heir? Is that why you are putting my life at risk?" William hissed.

"I am sorry, my boy." His father barely managed to get the words out between eruptions of laughter. "But apart from Liz's scolding eyes and the threat of Jade leaving you... The girl's father is the only one I have ever seen being able to make you so uneasy!" He wheezed and continued laughing.

"I am not as amused as you are, father." William muttered and kept walking as his father stopped for air.

"I know, and I enjoyed every second of it! I still am!" He called out after him.

William rolled his eyes, but a smile spread over his lips. He quickly let it die so his father wouldn't see it. If he did, he wouldn't take William seriously.

"I could tell. So could Jade." William scolded his father. "I think you upset her..."

The last words were a cheap trick to see if it would make his father stop teasing him. He was mistaken.

"The two of you deserve it!" his father exclaimed as he caught up with William. "The looks on your faces were proof enough that none of you had the patience to wait until-"

"I do NOT want to have this conversation with you!" William growled. "I cannot believe I have to tell you this, again! Do not get me killed when I am finally happy." He tried his best not to sound like he was begging.

The old man suddenly got a much softer expression in his eyes. His laughter died out.

"Are you happy? Truly?" His father asked and cleared his throat. Hope glistened in his eyes and then it quickly went our like a candle in the wind.

"Yes." William answered in a sigh. "Why do you ask?"

"I am happy for you, William..." His father told him warmly. "But I still need you." He said quietly and he didn't look so happy for William anymore. "I cannot afford you being exiled or willingly accepting it."

"I never said that I-"

"I have managed to convince our most important allies that your future wife isn't a murderer." His father held up a hand, interrupting him.

"Thank you." William sighed and it felt like a weight had been lifted off of his shoulders.

However, he wished that he could have done it himself and not been hiding all this time. He almost didn't dare think of how little their allies thought of him right now... What they thought of his father doing the things he was supposed to do himself.

"Do not thank me." His father said with a grave tone. "I barely managed and I think your friends did most of the work for me..."

William thought of his friends for a second. He couldn't remember when he had seen them last... Was it last summer maybe? He hadn't sent them a single letter since he had found Jade. Shame filled him momentarily when he realized that he had completely forgotten about them... and now they had convinced their fathers to honor their alliances with his father.

"You will have to prove yourself to them now. I am afraid that you will have to leave her sooner than I know you would like to."

"What do you mean?" William asked his father. "Why do I have to prove myself to our allies? They already now-"

"There is a war coming William." His father interrupted him again and William felt his patience escape him every time his father did this.. "I will tell you more when you come home."

"I am not coming home, father." William told him very direct. "I will not hide anymore, and I will be honored when to inherit the throne after you. You know this, but I am not coming home. I will leave for the north as soon as Jade and I are married."

His father nodded. He didn't look happy about it, but William could see in his face that he was happy that William wasn't giving up his claim to the throne.

"What is this war you're speaking of?" William asked quietly and looked over his shoulder.

No one was around. He couldn't believe that he was going to have to leave Jade shortly after their wedding. All because of his mother, and that servant who had accused Jade of attempted murder.

"Your mother's brother has broken our alliance since the news of the fire reached them. They are-"

"They believe that Jade tried to kill her, don't they? They are as thickheaded as mother." William muttered.

William was not surprised that his uncle would take his mother's side. Even though his uncle had never despised him like his mother did, the man had never seemed to like William nor his father. It was strange that an alliance existed in the first place, especially when his parents' marriage hadn't played any part in it. But all of that didn't matter now, the alliance had been broken.

Mother must have sent him a letter, spreading the lies across the boarders...

"Yes, he truly is thickheaded..." His father answered.

William frowned in confusion. If he had said this before he had most certainly earned himself a scolding for speaking ill of his mother, but now his father agreed with him? He didn't speak the words out loud... but the lack of them said just as much.

"Why did you not tell me this in your letters?" William asked and wondered how he was going to tell Jade. "How could you not tell me that there is a war coming?"

"I had my hands full! I tried convincing your uncle that it was all lies but he doesn't believe me." His father defended himself. "But do not worry about that now..." He said calmly and grabbed his son's shoulders.

"You just told me that my mother's brother and his bannermen has declared war against us. All because of something Jade did not do, and you want me to not worry?" William scoffed and rubbed his jaw.

Father is either delusional or he doesn't think that they are a real threat... but he would never be so stupid or naive... There just be something else...

"I told you that I would tell you later, but you had to know." His father reprimanded him calmly. "Now sit in it." He added. "You cannot force me to do something and then scold me for it."

"I have to talk to Jade." William breathed out heavily and returned to the house without another word.

-Jade-

William lifted her up on the counter in the kitchen and entered her, rock hard. She cried out from the feeling of him and his hands pressing them closer together with a firm grip around her butt cheeks.

William had returned from the walk with his father and practically ripped her clothes off while promising her that his father made sure that they were alone. He had even locked the door which would most definitely look suspicious if someone came home. But Jade hadn't objected for long, instead her hunger for him matched his for her.

Jade's body had had plenty of experience of his size and gotten used to him... but she still gasped every time he entered her. It was never enough. She always wanted more.

William kissed her so deeply she whimpered against his lips. He lifted her left thigh around his hip while thrusting himself into her in a pace which forced her hold on to the back of his neck with one hand, the other one rested against his chest, but she loved every second of it. Every hard thrust.

A low growl was the only thing coming from William but it had Jade seeing stars. She felt the hairs in her neck stand as he buried his face in her neck while he took her right there and then. Just as roughly as she wanted him to, without having to tell him. He knew.

William seemed distant but still so present and starving. Like he wanted all of her, but still... she could feel that something was keeping him from her.

"Where are you?" she whispered and moved her hand from his chest to his cheek. He fused his lips to hers. As if to stop her from talking.

"I am here..." He groaned as he thrusted himself into her. Jade breathed heavily and enjoyed the waves of pleasure crushing into her. "...with you."

Jade smiled at his lie. She stroked his cheekbone with her thumb.

"No, you are not." She moaned and bit her lip when he filled her to the fullest.

"I am." He promised her and locked eyes with her for a second.

Jade's voice broke into pieces when William suddenly dragged her out a bit from the counter so he could thrust deeper into her. His right hand cupped her left breast and the fingers teased and played with her nipple in the most amazing way.

She whispered his name, almost begging, and moaned as he thrusted himself harder into her. It sent ripples of euphoria through her and they had barely just begun. Or at least she wanted it to be the beginning... It had been days since their last night together.

"Yes?" he asked darkly with a drop of sweat running down his face. "What do you want, Jade?" he groaned and took her breast in his mouth and sucked on her nipple until she screamed.

"I want to come." Jade whined with a broken voice against his lips when he kissed her hard.

The air from his quiet chuckle hit her as he continued taking her roughly on the kitchen counter. Her thighs were twitching and she needed release. Now.

"Already?" he whispered teasingly. "... but I am not done with you... I am never done with you, Jade." He groaned in her ear.

"Please." She whispered and stole a deep kiss. It had been so long... She wanted what only he could give her. So badly. "I can't take-"

William didn't wait for her to finish before he placed his thumb on her lips. Jade met his dark blue eyes and they were as aroused as hers felt. It almost felt like she had a veil of lust over her eyes.

If I tease him enough he will have to give it to me... He never let himself come before me... She thought and wondered what devilish thing she could do to him to get her way.

She parted her lips and placed them around his thumb. She wanted him to send her over the edge with his fingers while he was taking her right where she was. And what would be better than to tell him this way?

The dark sound that came out of William as she sucked his thumb was almost enough to send her over the edge. Her little plan had worked because she could feel all of his cock tense up inside of her.

"Seriously?" he groaned with a very pleased but also tormented voice. He placed his forehead against hers and watched her closely as she continued with what aroused him beyond words. "What should I do with you... my queen?" He asked and withdrew his thumb from her lips. His were parted as he did it, he looked completely lost to his own lust.

"Touch me." Jade begged quietly and dug her nails into the back of his neck as the wonderful waves of her upcoming orgasm started hitting her.

It made her so deliciously frustrated when William teased her and forced her to tell him what she wanted.

William thrusted himself into her so hard that she screamed out loud again and she knew it was punishment for not letting him finish what he was going to say.

"Touch me...?" he mumbled and waited for her to finish his sentence. Jade threw her head back from the latest thrust. William stopped her by grabbing her by the back of her neck, forcing her to watch him as she answered him.

"My king." She wined airily from the exquisite torment he was putting her through.

"Where do you want to come, Jade?" He asked her in a groan before kissing her demandingly.

"Here." She whispered.

"Are you sure?" He sounded so confident that he was going to be able to give her what she wanted. It caused her to whimper, yearning for the sweet release she knew was coming.

Jade nodded breathlessly in response and watched with drunk eyes as William got down on his knees and placed her legs over his shoulders.

Their gazes met for a second before he devoured her completely. She was left completely unable to construct whole words as his hands pushed her closer to his mouth by her buttcheeks. His tongue and sweet kisses rendered her undone within minutes...

. . .

"Are you going to tell me the truth now?" Jade whispered. William was kissing her softly along her neck after they had both climaxed, violently and loudly. They were both out of breath and she felt her chest rise and sink with every breath she took.

"I'd rather stay like this..." William answered quietly. Jade heard that he was hiding something, and that he knew that she had already figured it out.

"Tell me, William." She cautioned him with a soft voice. All she had to do was to raise a brow, and place a finger against his lips to keep him from kissing her.

"Fine..." He sighed and reached for his underwear and trousers. He quickly stepped into them and then grabbed her face with both of his hands. A slow kiss was his last attempt to delay whatever he was going to tell her. "I can't..." he sighed and pulled his fingers through the dark brown hair. "It will ruin everything." He continued and looked to his right.

"Well, it clearly ruined everything for you, so why not for me as well?" She comforted him and turned his face towards hers again with her hands.

"Because I love seeing you so happy..." He answered her and the dark blue eyes gave her a warm look. It filled her with more love than she already held for him. "... and I know that you won't be after I tell you."

Jade raised her eyebrows at him, daring him to tell her. William sighed and Jade could see him cave.

"Just tell me... You know that I will not stop until you do."

She had expected a quiet chuckle and a warm smile, but nothing of the sort came from him. All she got was a pair of worried but still strangely calm dark blue eyes.

"When we get to the north, after we are married..." He began and watched her as he spoke, to make sure that she was listening. "... I will have to leave shortly after."

Jade swallowed.

Well... He wasn't lying... I am a little less happier now... She thought bit tried to hide it.

"Alright, because of what?" she asked.

"There has been declared a war..." William explained. Jade narrowed her eyes and felt her brows knit.

"I haven't heard of any kingdoms in conflict or... even any king trying to overthrow someone..." She disappeared into her own thoughts. The memory of her saying almost the exact same words to the blacksmith Ulger before William took her with him flashed before her eyes.

"The war has been declared against my father's kingdom, or rather me..." William clarified and woke her up from her thoughts. Jade's eyes widened.

"What?" She whispered.

"Do you want to get dressed?" William asked her suddenly. He nodded at her naked body. "I think the others will get back before we are done with this conversation."

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I hope you liked this chapter, I hadn't planned on the steamy scene being quite so long but hey, I got this feeling and I just sort of went with it (lol). But that only means more chapters for you so... something good came out of it ;)

Love Jenny