Chapter 17
Princess Edaline
Her admiration for her late mother only grew on her way back to her chambers. She wanted to be like her. She wanted to serve her country like she had. As she was walking to her room, she stopped next to her father's room,
"What are you doing?" Asked Fallon.
"Don't scare me like that; I'm going into my father's room before he comes back from being with the twins and triplets (except one). Want to come?" said Edaline.
"Sure, why not." Said Fallon, she looked around to make sure no one could see her, and then she and Edaline slipped inside the room.
She was forced to ignore the pain in her chest as she went over to the room's large bookcase. It was suffocating in there. She saw her parents' bed and remembered how if she had a nightmare, they would welcome her into her bed when she was a little girl. Her throat became tight with emotion.
After a few minutes of scanning the shelf, she found what she was looking for. She pulled down a heavy, leather-bound book.
Then she hid the book and ran to her room as quickly as possible. She threw the book down on her bedroom table. The dust from it flew up, and she coughed, waving it away with her hand.
No one had touched this book in years. She opened the book up, and she gasped with pleasure when a series of notes of plans fell out of it.
"What's wrong?!" Asked Fallon as she saw what she found. Everything was written in the late Queen Isabella's hand.
"Mother…" Edaline trailed off.
"Edaline, let's go, get what you need to get, and let's go," Fallon said as Edaline did as she was told.
She grabbed more other books that seemed to belong to her mother and headed out of her father's room and to her own room. "Did you get what you wanted?" asked Fallon as they arrived at Edaline's room.
"Yes." She said.
"I will let you be then." Said Fallon as she headed to her own room and left her sister.
Edaline went inside and looked at her mother's books. "You were truly an incredible woman…." She said, and then she began reading and studying all the battle plans and strategies that her mother had left behind in order to protect her people.
Queen Genevieve
Genevieve was in her room, sitting in her vanity; she was thankful that Derek had survived the battle. But she wondered if she should tell her father about Courtney; she knew it was a matter of time before her father would ask about Courtney and Kathleen.
Her father hasn't noticed yet because he was too busy focused on Derek, her, and little Lucey. Since Janessa and Kathleen were always hanging out so close, he always thought they were having fun.
While they were hiding for protection during the battle, some of them were in a different rooms. Just as she's brushing her hair, she sees Derek coming, and he puts his arms around her shoulders; she can see a couple of his wounds on his right cheek on top of his arm.
"Hey," said Derek as he gave her a kiss on the cheek.
"Hey," said Genevieve as she stood up and turned around to face him.
"You gave me a scare today, but I'm so glad you're alive because if you didn't, I don't know what I would have done without you." Said Genevieve.
"Hey, don't worry, I will never leave you, Genevieve; I'll always be here for you." Genevieve smiled, then brushed her lips against her husband.
Parting lips for a moment, Derek slowly started taking off her robe and removed his hands from around Genevieve's waist. As he gently laid her onto their bed, Genevieve put her hands on his neck as both gazed into each other's eyes while having nothing on to cover their bodies.
Holding each other a little tighter, the kiss became more passionate. As Genevieve used her legs and wrapped them around the male's waist. Their desires for each other grew with each moment that passed.
"I love you, Genevieve, and I will never leave you."
"I love you too, Derek."
Locking lips, the two became one with each other and made love.