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She turns to me with eyes welling with tears. “If I hadn’t let my feelings dictate my actions…if I hadn’t fallen in love with you…if I’d stayed objective…you could be king by now.”
This? This is what’s making my wife cry?
“Kala. Look at me.”
This conversation reminds me of when she blurted out that she loved me and always loved me. I believe it was right here in the back of this exact car.
This time, she turns to look at me without hesitation. “Gods, you’re lovely when you cry.”
“Idiot,” she sighs, making me laugh.
She looks down at her lap and sniffles.
“I don’t need a crown. I don’t need the fanfare, and I certainly don’t need handsome Uther hanging around. No offense, man.”
“None taken,” Uther replies, not taking his eyes off the road.
This makes Kala laugh.
I lift her chin so her eyes meet mine.
“I would never want to take the throne without you by my side. And now, I don’t want a throne at all.”
“Are you sure?”
I lean in and deliver a kiss that can leave no doubt. A claiming, worshiping kiss, which she receives and returns.
Her soft smile feels lovely against my mouth.
“There was a time when the mere fact that my father said I couldn’t have something would send my ego into a tailspin. Before I met you, before I decided to stop fucking everything up for the fun of it, I would have pushed back. I would have gone to the press and exposed him for everything he put me through. I would have demanded the crown, which is rightly mine. But I don’t want to do that to him. I’m much better off simply letting it go. I’m far more interested in patching things up with my siblings, with my mother. But mostly, I’m interested in simple pleasures with you, Kala.”
She sighs. “Why do you have to be so wonderful?”
I dab away a tear with my thumb, then kiss away another one.
“Because I’m the best,” I joke.
She rolls her eyes, which makes me smile.
“And because you see the best in me, and you always have. And that’s enough for me to build a life with. A family. Eventually.”
I’ve gotten pretty good at guessing what she’s thinking, but I could never have imagined what comes next.
Kala takes my hand and rests it on her stomach. “I hope it’s okay that the family part is starting rather than later, then.”
The gears in my mind squeak to life, and finally, the realization hits.
“You’re…you’re going to have a baby?”
She nods. “We’regoing to have a baby.”
“Good gods,” is all I can say. And then I let out a great whoop and grab a startled Uther by the shoulder. The car swerves, and he recovers.
“Did you hear that, Uther? I’m going to be a father!”
“Congratulations, Your Highness.”
My wife laughs and tugs me away from harassing poor Uther. “Are you sure you don’t want to go after that crown and give your children a shot at the monarchy?”
