Road to the Crown

12th march 1574

As soon as my body fell lifelessly on the bed, I felt an additional weight pressing me down to the mattress, as my head got buried in the pillow. At first, I was sure that someone managed to hide in the room without me noticing and I would just suffer the face of the Cezar Augustus from the Gludiator movie, but before I could even call out for my strength to fight back, I felt a pair of hands grabbing my clothes before pulling my upper body up and pulling my shirt out of me.

Falling back headfirst into the pillow, I felt two soft mounds pressing against my back, with two harder points hitting me right between the ribs, as a familiar scent somehow reached my nostrils. Before I could even react, I felt a sucking on the side of my neck, quickly reaching the point of being painful, only to disappear as soon as the pain turned real.

Finally able to do anything about the events, I rocked my hips to the back, upsetting the balance of the additional weight on my back, and using this opportunity to turn around.

"What are you trying to do?"

Turning my head to the side, I saw Elia's face for the briefest of moments, before she moved closer and closed my mouth with her lips. Feeling her soft skin cuddling into me, a small bit of my energy returned, only to disappear as soon as she once again moved on top of me and pushed her tongue through the defences of my jaw, ravaging the insides of my mouth without even a single word of response.

But it was strange.

I could clearly tell how unhappy she was with me putting the matter of Pilzno aside for now, so why would she attack me in bed so energetically as soon as I came back? Unless…

Grabbing her shoulders and pushing her upper body away, I looked seriously directly in her eyes, for as long as it took her to avert her gaze.

"I'm asking once again. What are you trying to do?"

While I already guessed her motives, I still wanted to hear her say this directly. Honesty was the most important thing in a relationship, and I would prefer if she confronted me with her troubles in a normal way, rather than trying to accomplish something with her body alone.

"What, can't a wife, or even a fiancee want to spend some quality time with her chubby?"

While looking away, her hands still grabbed the bottom part of her shirt, swiftly pulling it out through her head and revealing the beauty of her upper body in its full glory. Even though we already did it once, even though we slept together a few times, and even though I had my own set of experiences with all sort of beautiful woman showing their charms to me from behind the glass panel of my computer screen, seeing the real breast right in front of my eyes was still something that else.

Despite how I wanted to set this matter straight before anything would happen, my penis had other plans, instantly sucking quite a lot of blood from my body and standing up on duty.

"Elia… Look at me."

Reactions of the body aside, I wasn't going to just let her have it her way. Unless I would hear her problems right from her mouth, I was willing to suffer through the plague of so-called silent days, even if it meant going to sleep with my balls turning blue today.

Thankfully, my request somehow worked, with her gaze finally returning to my face, allowing me to look her deep in her eyes.

"If you have something you want to say or some problem you want to share with me, you don't need to buy my time in this way. While I'm happy to cuddle with you at any time, I don't want it to turn into your way of gaining favours with me."

Instead of going for her exposed breast, I reached for her hands and pulled them closer to my mouth before placing a light kiss on top of her fingers. Maybe it was just an illusion, but it seemed like my words managed to overcome her stupor, melting her stern face but making her lower her head at the same time.

"Why did you ignore the fact that Peter most likely occupies Pilzno? I know that you want to deal with it without shedding too much blood… But you didn't even bother to reassure me that you would reclaim it for me!"

Finally breaking down her defences and openly stating what troubled her for the entire day, I realised what mistake did I make. No matter how I wanted to use all the time I had on hand to make as much progress with the matters that I had an influence on, I shouldn't just disregard her feelings like that!

"I'm sorry. While I could say that I had a lot of stuff on my head, that would be just excusing myself out of the fact that I indeed didn't take my time to reassure you about it. Once again, I'm sorry."

Pulling on her hands, I made her fall on top of me, before moving my arms around her back and pulling her even deeper into a hug.

"I promise you here and now, that no matter what will happen, I will do my very best to reclaim your inheritance, and not use our marriage alone as nothing but a tool to do it. Is that what you wanted to hear, or did I misread your feelings? Please, I'm a soldier, not womaniser, so if you won't tell me, I might misunderstand again, and this is something I would like to avoid at all cost!"

After saying my bit, I could tell something wet appeared on my shoulder upon which Elia's head was resting. As she started wiggling in my arms, I let go of my hold and allowed her to rise once again above me, as she stared down in my eyes with tears flowing down on her cheeks.

"Thank… you…"

As the light sobbing started rocking her body, she raised her hands to wipe the tears from her face. At this point, the last bit of my reasonability lost to her cuteness, making me grab her hips as I kicked my shoulders against the bed, moving my torso up, and pushed Elia's down on the bed.

"Here I come!"