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Chapter 3
Looking at the girl in front of her, Kel could not believe that it was her new servant. Ella's eyes had changed colour, from the dull brown they had been to the excited, sparkling green they now were. Her once filthy, matted hair was long, silky, light brown, and hung down to her shoulders, with just a few natural curls to it. She was about 5 feet 8 inches tall and in one of Kel's old dresses she had outgrown. Ella was positively bursting with light and life, when just 2 hours before she had been somber and half dead.
A man quietly entered Kel's room without knocking and, not seeing Ella, quietly steps up to Kel and wraps his arms about her waist, then starts kissing her in the neck.
"Uh, Dom? There is someone else in the room," Kel tells him, trying not to laugh.
"What? Oh, hello, who are you?" he asks of Ella with his arms still about Kel's waist.
"I'm Arella Castor, Lady Kel's new servant, sir," she replies as she curtseys.
"No need to curtsey," he tells her. "So you're a Lady now are you?" asks Dom of Kel, with a boyish grin on his face.
"Keep up that attitude and your sleeping alone tonight," she warns.
He walks out the door, pouting, and closes it behind him. As he does Kel breaks out in laughter.
Once she had recovered she asked Ella "Please don't tell anyone Dom and I are together. We don't want others to know."
"Of course I won't milady. Whoever a woman shares her bed with is her own concern," Ella says, unaware of the tear slipping down her cheek.
"Ella did he rape you?" Kel carefully questioned. When she nodded Kel sent a sparrow for Neal/
When he arrived Kel asked him to see if Ella was pregnant.
"Nope, she's not pregnant," he told them resting a hand on each of their shoulders. "But YOU ARE!" Neal looked at her, shocked.
"WH-what did you say?" Kel stutters.
"Kel, you're pregnant. You're about a month pregnant."
"Crap," mutters Kel. "Neal please leave, but DO NOT TELL ANYONE!"
"Okay, okay, goodbye Ella," and he was gone.
"Milady, do you know who the father is?" Ella wanted to know.
"Of course! It's Dom. One night when I was at Fort Steadfast delivering reports and getting supplies, my friends decided to have a party. Needless to say, both Dom and I got so drunk that we don't remember what happened. We woke up in my room, in my bed, naked, and under the covers. My pregnancy ward was on my dresser, because I had forgotten to put it on. Dom and I have been secretly seeing each other for about a year and have been engaged for about 5 months, so it isn't like we hadn't slept together before, but I'd always had on my pregnancy ward. Please, don't tell anyone I'm pregnant," Kel pleaded with Ella.
"Of course I won't milady," was her reply.
"Now I just have to figure out what to tell everyone."
"You could use herbs to kill it, so that it won't come to term," Ella suggested.
"I couldn't do that! I could never kill my child," Kel was surprised Ella had even suggested it.
"Well let's go down to supper now. You can eat with Tobe and his friends," Kel told the girl.