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"I am tired. I would like to rest," Seren instructed.
Marie could sense the sadness in her Queen's voice and felt bad for her.
Seren lay down in the bed and Marie helped cover her with the blanket.
"Rest well, Your Majesty!" Marie left Seren alone.
Once again the entire bedchamber was quiet and Seren could only stare at the ceiling. She still remembered how Drayce's expressions changed the moment she said she couldn't take off that veil. The anger was evident in his eyes but he suppressed it. As Marie said every husband wished to see his wife's face, then she realized Drayce being a King could not even see his wife. He never insisted on taking off her veil but instead respected her wish. He cared for her but she always ended up hurting him.
'He is a good man. What if something happens to him when he sees my face? I can't let him get hurt. But he can touch my veil and what if he takes it off even after I tell him the reason. He doesn't look like he feels scared of anything...and...I don't want him to get hurt...that man in the past who had seen my face, he died brutally…'
Seren imagined the incident from the past when she was around seven years old. One man disguised as a guard had entered the tower and had seen Seren's face when Martha removed that veil from her face when she cried to take it off for at least some time. When Martha was busy making food for her on the ground floor of the tower, Seren sneaked out to the garden. There was a change in that man as if something had possessed him. If Martha had not arrived on time, that possessed man looked like he would harm anyone. After that, the man's mutilated body was hung on the outside of the tower's wall and after that, no one ever dared to step inside the tower.
Seren felt scared remembering that incident and sat up in the bed, 'I can't let it happen with him. I need to find a way so he will give up on seeing my face.'
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Drayce returned to his study where Jasper and Slayer were already present. The two loyal subjects greeted his king and Drayce sat in his chair without even replying to them. From the intense look in his eyes, the two could guess something must have happened to anger their King.
"Your Majesty, is there anything that troubled you?" Jasper asked while Slayer stood quietly as usual.
Though Slayer chose to be quiet, he was also worried for Drayce but he knew Jasper will do his job of asking him.
"Leave me alone for a while," Drayce instructed and leaned back in his chair as he closed his eyes.
The two understood something had really affected their king and he wished to be alone. Not pestering him for anything, the two bowed and left the study quietly.
After a while when his two friends left, Drayce opened his eyes and looked like he was lost in oblivion.
'Is she still not comfortable showing her face to me? Does she feel insecure about how she looks and think I might not like her? I have told her already that I am fine with however she looks, doesn't she trust my words yet?'
Drayce could only sigh disappointedly as all he wanted was his wife to trust him and see how precious she was to him.
'Maybe it will take some more time. Can't blame her for not trusting me so easily given her prisoner life,' Drayce continued to console his angry mind, 'I will wait for the day when she will remove that veil on her own and show her face to me. I believe one day she will and that day will come soon.'
Once he was calm, a light smirk painted on his lips, 'Not like that veil can stop me from doing what I really want to do. Just wait for a little more.'
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After having dinner and talking with her servants for a while, Seren got into bed. In the cold weather of night, it was not possible for her to go out. The bed was the ultimate heaven for her as it was the only warm place that made her feel less cold. Her lessons about the royal family and the palace rules and etiquette got postponed again as she was tired after returning with Drayce. Lady Tyra had asked her to rest and they could begin their teachings the next day.
Seren was sleeping alone in the bed and as usual, she was not able to fall asleep. She sighed inwardly, 'It's always so cold in the night even when I cover myself,' she clutched her blanket and closed her eyes as she was forcing herself to sleep.
Not being able to fall asleep, she stared at the huge glass windows that showed the starry sky outside and she missed someone's presence and that comfort, 'I don't think he will come tonight. I angered him and he must hate me now,' she thought as the sadness covered her eyes. 'I wish I never had to wear this veil. I hate wearing it all the time.'
Though Seren always disliked wearing the veil, this time she was not only upset but angry about it. Though she wanted to never wear it, this time that wish was stronger to take this veil off as she had just upset someone who she had slowly started to consider an important person in her life.
Just as she thought he wouldn't come and was busy feeling sad over her situation, she felt the mattress of her bed pushing down as someone sat on it and there was a movement in the bed and the next moment a strong arm surrounded her at the stomach. Unknown to her, a smile painted on her lips.
'It's him,' she thought and couldn't stop smiling pleasantly under her veil. Her purple eyes couldn't contain the happiness she was feeling at this moment.
Soon after she felt his hot breath brushing her nape and he had just inhaled her scent as the tip of his nose touched her skin. She didn't feel scared but instead had goosebumps all over her skin and her heart started beating faster as he held her closer in his embrace.
Drayce could feel everything happening to her and even her rising heartbeats. But he did nothing further as he knew, if he had started, there was no way he would want to stop even if she would beg him. Better be in control and let her know more about it. Once she understood everything and would be ready for it, he was sure to eat her entirely.
"Good Night, My Queen," Drayce wished.
"Good Night, Your Majesty," she wished back, not being able to contain a smile on her lips.
Seren finally felt comfortable and fell asleep as he continued to hold her. Soon the atmosphere in the room turned silent as the King and the Queen fell asleep accompanying each other's rhythmic breathing.