CHAPTER 17 – How Do I Tell You This?

R.P.O.V

I woke when the light hit my eyes a few hours later, and I sighed in contentment as I felt the warmth coming off Moses. But the content-ness was gone a moment later when I realized that I didn't tell him that I spoke to my father.

I couldn't stop my brain thinking up hundreds of ways that this could end. And I felt the fear trickling into my heart, and I felt my stomach knot as Moses turned towards me in his sleep.

I sighed as I pulled him closer to me, needing to be as close to him as I could before everything might come to its end.

I felt his arms twist around me, and I smiled down at his sleeping face, happiness rushing through me for a brief moment.

I let my body relax next to his as I slowly drifted into sleep and warmth.

M.P.O.V

Ramses woke me with an elbow in the ribs. My eyes popped open only to see that he was still asleep, and that he clearly hadn't meant to wake me.

I sighed as I lay back down and relaxed before my body stiffened again as I recalled last night.

"Where in Ra's name have you been? I have been worried sick about you!"

But Ramses didn't answer me – he simply looked at me, and then his eyes dropped to the sheet tangled around my waist before working their way back up to my lips, and finally stopping at my eyes.

"Ramses?"

I had never gotten an answer. Ramses had merely made me his again and again before we drifted to sleep. And I still had no idea where he had been.

I sighed as I looked at the Pharaoh's sleeping face. He looked so much like a little boy when he was sleeping, and I couldn't help but be drawn in by his charms.

I smiled as I removed my arms from around him so that I could get out of the bed. It suddenly came to me that I hadn't been out of the bed since Ramses and I had started this.

I glanced at Ramses before getting dressed and quickly leaving the room. I breathed as sigh of relief as I walked down the unlit hallway before stopping at a window to see the sun come out from its hiding place.

At the sight of the reds, oranges and gold's, I couldn't help but be reminded of the Pharaoh I had left in bed.

Ramses was the light of my world, and without him, everything felt dull. But now that I had him, I didn't know how long it would last before he got tired of me.

I looked at the ring he had given me on the night that he had made me his right hand man. It seemed so long ago, but it made sense now.

He had been marking me as his from day one. And I had had no choice in it.

I knew not of how long I stood at the window thinking about Ramses marking me as his from day one. Of how I had had no choice in the matter, and how soon this could end.

I was angry and upset, and I felt betrayed.

How dare he? I am a person too!

R.P.O.V

The sunlight hit my face and I forced my eyes open, breaking the layer of sleep that was holding them shut. The first thing I noticed was that Moses wasn't in the bed, and that I was cold without him.

I felt a frown on my face as I got up slowly and called my servants to help me get dressed.

After I was dressed and had eaten some grapes, I walked the hallways trying to find Moses, and when I was found him, I was shocked with where he was.

He was standing at the window that looked out over the garden. It looked like he had been there for some time.

"Moses? I have something to tell you. But I don't know how."

When he didn't speak, I took it as my cue to continue. "I spoke to my father yesterday, and it seems that he has known about us for some time now, and he is allowing us to stay together." I took a breath before I said what I really wanted to.

"Moses, will you stay and rule the world with me forever?"