The General's Daughter & His Majesty Book #1

Chapter Thirty Nine: An Audience

Queen Nesrin's POV
Sweet scents...

I almost smell edible.

I have enjoyed a hot bath, a great massage and now I am about ready to doze off. I wish I could be allowed to go to sleep but something else is awaiting me. Underneath this floor length silk robe, there's nothing but the skin I was born with. My heart is pounding hard against my chest. A lot has happened today. I have gotten married. I have gotten frowned as the Queen of Chea Niva and now I am expected to get intimate with Dargan. I wish we could leave it at the coronation. We could postpone the wedding night. It's not like we are going anywhere.

"Enough of that. I'll be edible if you keep that up. I don't want his wolves to eat me."

Paula laughed heartily. "You're funny your on majesty."

I'm still getting used to be called your majesty. Just a few months ago I was an ordinary girl in the North with nothing eventful to do but dream. Being a monarch has never been part of my dreams.

"Paula, can you peek in his room and tell me who is there?" I asked.

"Yes your majesty."

The marriage Will be consummated on the king's bed. It's tradition. It cannot happen anywhere else. They would like to bless the bed so that we can have many fruitful nights together. I'm so nervous. I have only been naked in front of Cree, Dargan and it was not fully and my ladies in waiting. No one else.

I turned quickly when Paula returned.

"Three men. I don't know them. The King. The Queen Mother. The Queen Dowager. Your mother."

"What an audience!" I exclaimed.

"And his majesty is asking if you need assistance to find his bed."

It sounds like something Dargan would say.

I got up from the bench. I walked towards the adjoining door. One of my ladies in waiting is opening it. "Wait! I need a second." I sighed. "If you all look away, I can run away. I'll come back tomorrow morning when they're gone."

"Your majesty, it's unavoidable. If it does not happen today, it will happen tomorrow. Or the day after. This will happen according to tradition." Paula told me.

"It won't take long." Another one spoke up. "Some men are decent enough to hurry it along so that the spectators leave content with proof of purity."

"Others like to out on a show." Another one told me.

"And some men can't even get it up with spectators in the room." The fourth one, Judith, laughed. She's the funny one with a twisted sense if humour.

"Judith!" Paula reprimanded her but I'm laugh already. I hope Dargan won't be able to get it up. I will burst out laughing.

"It's all right. I needed that." I smiled at Judith. "Are you ladies going to be there?"

"Yes your majesty. In order to attend to you and the king after you're indisposed we must be there."

"Okay. Open the door. Let's get it over with!"

I stepped into the narrow hallway leading to the open section with a bed. The first person my eyes noticed is my mother. She is standing farthest. She offered me a small smile. Dargan's mother smiled at me too. The three men bowed for me. They avoided eye contact. I finally set my eyes on Dargan. He's seated on the edge of the bed watching me.

"Your majesty," he spoke in an unusually low tone. "Thank you for ending the torment of waiting."

I curtsied for him. "I'm sorry."