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Ch.6: What happened last night
When Miranda woke the next morning, she found her face pressed in to a warm chest. Then the night before came rushing back to her. She shivered.
Dentwood seemed to notice even in his sleep and his arms tightened around her. She felt a small smile tugging at the corners of her mouth. 'Maybe he won't be so bad after all.' She thought. She snuggled in closer and fell back into a deep sleep.
Finally, after about an hour, she was awoken by a loud sigh. She opened her heavy eyelids and looked up. She saw Dentwood's equally tired but beautiful eyes staring back at her.
He smiled. "I don't mean to make you uncomfortable, but you look beautiful when you sleep."
A deep blush broke out on Miranda's cheeks and she quickly averted her eyes. She felt the deep rumble in his chest and knew he was laughing. Her cheeks burned even brighter.
"Miranda," he finally said. "You have nothing to be embarrassed about. I was only telling you the truth. You do look pretty when you sleep. When you're not crying that is." The smile faded from his voice.
"What happened last night?" She chanced to look up and wished that she hadn't. The look in his eyes was one of genuine concern, and it made her eyes well up with tears once again. Just when she was feeling no one cared, Dentwood comes into her life and the compassion was almost more than she could handle.
But she knew she needed to tell him. He at least deserved that much after holding her all night while she cried like a baby.
"It was a dream I had that started it." She said softly.
"Tell me about it." She took a deep breath and started in. She explained the dream, the hurtful words her mother had said, everything. When she was done, she snuggled her head closer in his chest. "Then it all hit me. Where I was, who was with me, what had happened."
She took a deep breath and inhaled his scent. It was wonderful. She just couldn't tell exactly what the smell was.
She looked up at him. I-I felt better when you held me." She blushed as she said this, but continued on. "I want to thank you. You were forced into this marriage to. I did nothing but make it harder on you and you didn't have to do what you did last night. So thank you."
Dentwood smiled down at her. "I was happy to do it." She smiled up at him but made no move to get up.
"So what are we required to do today?" she asked. He shrugged his shoulders. "Whatever we want. I was given the day off and as far as I know, you haven't been assigned to any duties yet."
She nodded her head. "Well…Um-"she said shyly. "Yes?"
"I um-I wanted to know if we could stay right here a little longer." The last part, she buried her head in his chest and rushed the words, but he still understood her. A smile tugged at his mouth when he answered. "I would love to."
She looked up and gave him a shy smile before laying her head back down on his chest.
They spent the better part of the morning laying in bed and talking. Getting to know one another. Finally, a growl from Miranda's stomach reminded them that it was well past lunch time.
They both reluctantly got up and made their way to the spacious sitting room, neither bothering to change into proper day attire. There was already food waiting for them and they sat down to eat and continued their discussion.
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After they had eaten, they agreed to go on a walk through the palace just for the sake of doing something. Miranda took Dentwood's outstretched arm and they walked out into a long corridor. There were many other doors along the way.
Dentwood seemed to know his way around, so Miranda just let him guide her.
Before long, they came upon Emily and Seylin going about their daily duties. Emily ran up and embraced Miranda. "Oh my dear! You're my daughter-in-law now! I never got the chance to talk with you after the ceremony. I trust everything went well." Miranda shook her head and smiled.
"Everything went fine." "Good, good. And I hope my son treated you well." Miranda smiled. "He was the perfect gentleman."
Emily practically beamed. "I told you he would treat you well." Just then, Seylin stepped up and hugged Miranda as well.
"Well, my new daughter-in-law. It's wonderful to have you in the family." She smiled. "It's wonderful to belong." Emily and Seylin both gave her a sympathetic look before declaring they had to be on their way, with promises to stop by later.
With one last hug, they were off in the other direction. Miranda and Dentwood continued their walk in silence. They went to the large library, stacked with books from floor to ceiling. The bookshelves went all the way around the room.
It was two stories high and one of Miranda's favorite places in the whole kingdom.
They spent an hour there before venturing outside in the gardens. It was beautiful out there to. She loved to look at all the crystal looking flowers and trees. So they stayed there for awhile, just enjoying each others company and the peace and quite.
Suddenly, they heard a noise and turned to find the source. Both were shocked to see Marak Catspaw walking towards them, not seeming to notice they were there.
END CHAPTER
Well I hope you like it! Sorry for the cliff hanger. And Thanks for the review on the last chapter. I appreciate it. I hope yall like this chapter and please review!