Chapter 160: In love.
King Raff carried the troubles of arranging his third son’s marriage to princess Elarin. When he found her, she was in the gardens, playing with her maids. They were chasing butterflies with nets laughing like forest nymphs.
He stood still for a while watching, mesmerized and besotted. His eyes could not be drawn away from Elarin, she was more beautiful than any woman he had ever met. Her spirit was free, she was without scheming.
In the deep palace where everyone was plotting, all she wanted was his love. Everyday, she reminded him, that he was all she had left in the world and begged him to love her some more, more than he loved others.
So, he spoiled her. More than he had ever spoiled any other woman in the world. Not Risa, not the queen and not Rina, none of them had ever been pampered like Elarin. Amazingly, she did not abuse her power, she did not provoke the queen. She just did things that would make him happy.
She did not rely on her bedroom skills like Rina had done. She did other things like cooking his breakfast, giving him a bath, preparing his clothes everyday. She always checked his boots for holes and other scuff marks.
If his shirt lost a button, she personally sewed it back on. She advised him on simple matters, calmed him when he was on the edge of exploding and encouraged him to be closer with his children. She had even taken charge of Rina’s last two children, treating them as her own.
The little prince Amello was now a carbon copy of Elarin when it came to dressing, he was like a prince of the forest. King Raff had never felt so at peace despite all the stress that he could not avoid as the king.
She was his solace, the moon on a dark night; he was in love and there was no turning back.
"Might I join you ladies." his voice boomed loudly, breaking into the soft laughter of the women.