Chapter One : Eden
"What do you want to do today, Beautiful?" Char asked me over breakfast one morning about four weeks before our first anniversary.
"I don't know. What do you have to do, Handsome?" I asked anticipating a long list of meetings Char, as prince, had to attend with his father and other dignitaries.
"Let's see. I think I have a meeting with an ambassador from Kaothia. Father said I have to go to that. That's this morning. After that the only thing I have planned is an afternoon with my wife. How 'bout you?"
"Only one meeting today? Someone must have messed up your schedule. Let's see. Do I absotively, posilutely have to do anything today? I don't think so. I was just going to help Mandy bake."
"Well if that's it you make sure you're here for lunch and then we can do whatever we want all afternoon. Okay?" he said as he got up from the table to go.
"Okay. I'll make sure we get something good for lunch." I replied.
"It's a date then." He said smiling as he gave me a kiss goodbye.
"Have fun at your meeting." I called as he started out the door.
"Yeah. Loads of fun," Char said sarcastically and rolling his eyes as he walked through the door, "Maybe I should take you with me. That'll make it less boring. What do you think of that idea?"
"That'll be fun. I am sure everyone wants to see how radiant I look half an hour after I wake up."
"As radiant as the rising sun, bed head and all, My Darling Ella." He said coming back for another kiss and tousling my messy brown hair.
"I don't think your hair looks that wonderful before you drag a comb through it either, My Darling Char."
"Never said it did, dearest," Char said over his shoulder as he walked down the corridor.
'That's my husband,' I thought as I also got up. 'My wonderful, handsome, dear, loving, perfect-at-times husband. I must be the luckiest woman in all of Frell- No all of Kyrria to have him.' Smiling I got myself ready for the day.