Richard was a man in his mid-forties while Victoria was a woman in her last thirties. The man had a sharp jaw, a pair of eagled green eyes, a muscular body with his height above the average height of men, and brown dark hair with some killing sensual smiles.
He got up from the bed and saw Victoria entering the room. "Why take you so long, honey?" he pushed Victoria to the wall after locking up the door. They left the window half open as the only access for both of them running away from the mansion to the backyard garden before they could ride a horse together to cross the border to the Wallachian.
"I don't have much time…" Richard whispered in Victoria's ear before kissing her passionately.
"You're the son of the king who is ruling in the Bhagavanta kingdom," Victoria looked into his eyes. She could see a flaming spark in his eyes.
"That's the case why I could stay any longer in the day. I don't want people to see us together in this mansion!" he responded to Victoria's statement and kissed her again. They entangled into flaming kisses before Richard brought Victoria in his arms and laid her on the bed. Within some minutes, they shared and completed each other desires and passions.
Victoria wiped some drops of sweat on Richard's forehead and she smiled widely. "You know I love you with all my soul, passion, and blood!" She whispered.
Richard grinned and his heartbeat was running slower to return to its normal rate. "Just wait until I can beat King Dragon with my hand, and I'll be the king of the Emerald Drake as you know that king hasn't any sons as his successor!"
Victoria smiled and stared at Richard who rested beside her. "I believe you will be much of that kind of man."
Richard smiled sweetly and caressed the cheek of the woman who was lying and staring in alluring sight at him. He knew and could sense how big the love that the woman had inside her heart for him. "How about if I can't make it?" He whispered.
Victoria held his hand on her cheek. "What do you mean by saying it?"
Richard sighed. "How about I can't be the king of the Emerald Drake?"
Victoria didn't answer his question directly. "You're the son of King Brutus. You have great ancestor blood inside you, honey!"
Richard sniffed. "A little untrue history of my blood, you know my father is a stepson of my grandfather."
"So, you are worried that the rebellious princess will take away your throne anyway?" Victoria put the hand of Richard on her chin and kissed it gently.
"You mean Princess Chandra?" He paused then he giggled. "She's not so ambitious though!"
Victoria moved up with her head leaned by her right hand. "King Dragon is obsessive with her! I don't know what the reasons made him sometimes act so silly and emotional about that princess!"
Richard smirked. "She's unpredictable as stubborn as hell. I think she has something to trigger a man's ego to defeat her and conquer that woman. Finally, make her heart break into pieces before deciding to leave her broken!" He stopped. "I think she's smart enough to hide who she was truly as a person. A man should be alert with her!"
Victoria smiled. "You must beware with her so!"
Richard inhaled. "Don't worry. She has nothing to use against me and my father!"
"You know, my love, if you can't make yourself as a king of The Emerald Drake, I'll promise you that our baby will be, someday!" Victoria seriously stared into Richard's eyes as that man was trying to kiss her lips again.
"You mean you are carrying my seed now?" Richard put his intention to kiss her back.
"I am not sure right now!" Victoria tried to shift the topic.
Richard wrinkled his forehead. "How if you're carrying King Dragon's seed?" He looked at her with half of the skeptical and jealous sight.
Victoria laughed; Richard was trying not to kiss her as her laugh always triggered him to put his effort into changing those laughs into some moans that came out from her lips.
"I use magic spells. I made him a drink every time he wants me and needs to have me. We talk about many things before he falls asleep because of the medicine!" Victoria explained. "I am not as stupid as he thinks!"
Richard smiled widely as he captured an honesty from that woman. "As you said that you're going to make my child, my son, someday, become a king of The Emerald Drake, the successor of King Dragon, how about Marianne?" He asked as he felt inquisitive about Victoria's plan.
"I am planning to create a battle between Marianne with Princess Chandra. Marianne is so jealous of her as she knew how obsessive is King Dragon to get that princess!" Victoria sneered mischievously.
"Marianne's ambition to become King Dragon's queen and her jealousy towards Princess Chandra, I could use them as a weapon to assault her mentally and then, defeat her." Victoria paused, fondling some strands of hair that falling on her eyes. "She'll be ambitiously defeating Princess Chandra, and she'll try some chances to challenge Princess Chandra just to approve that she is better than Princess Chandra for King Dragon's approval and validation. So, I don't have to dismiss Marianne with my own hands. Princess Chandra will do it for me!"
"Why do you think that Princess Chandra will accept the challenge Marianne create for her?" Richard caressed her cheek and played with her hair in a gentle manner.
"Princess Chandra is an aggressive woman, I think. She acts calm but I am sure that she's so aggressively temperamental because she has been through many hardships and challenges in her life. She could be under control, shut down her emotion but Marianne, you know how she is arrogantly behaving, her attitude could trigger Princess Chandra!" Victoria rose from the bed. Walking to the table next to the bed without any sheets covering her, she poured two glasses of wine. She handed one glass of wine to Richard; she took some sips of hers before continuing to speak about her plan.
"You know what? I've never heard that Princess Chandra has fallen in love with King Dragon so deeply." Victoria paused, shaking her wine glass and looking at Richard as she laid her exposed body beside him.
Richard smiled and took a sip of his wine. "No. I just heard about it, tell me about that story!" He seemed so eager to listen to his woman's story about the love affairs between King Dragon and Princess Chandra. "I've never thought that they had a story!"
"Everybody has a story as a secret, honey!" Victoria looked at him.
"King Dragon approached her after her first love died from a severe illness. She was lost at the time and King Dragon had found a chance that he's been waiting for almost two years in getting Princess Chandra's attention!"
Richard leaned his back on the bed's back and enjoyed Victoria's story.
"Both of them, finally, fell in love with each other. As you said, King Dragon had successfully conquered her heart and strength to become more vulnerable to him. I think Princess Chandra was in love with King Dragon deeply despite their big age gap. Until one day, she found out that King Dragon had backstabbed her loyalty and broken her trust since she found out King Dragon had slept with one of her waiting ladies and her fostering mother, Albertina."
"Wait, you said King Dragon also slept with Mother Albertina?" Richard intruded; his eyes were lifted as he disbelieved with his ears just captured.
Victoria nodded her head.
"What a maniac he is as a man!" Richard swore, "Damn! A kind of bastard! Evil-ish goat!"
"That's why I have never fallen in love with that bastard. You know how hurt I feel inside whenever I make love with him!" Victoria stopped her story, her eyes started to become cloudy before her tears burst out from her.
Richard felt so guilty. He hugged that woman tightly. He could not say any words but what he saw had made him swear how delicious the blood of King Dragon would be.
"I wish I could escape from him. You know how powerful he is. I am only a woman, and I am not a royal member of any kingdom. I don't have any powers that I can use against him!" Victoria cried. She held Richard tightly. "Please, I wish you will be my protector, Richard! Since the day I saw you when we were teenagers, I believe that my love for you is eternal. He could take all I have, my virginity and everything but he can't take away my love for you!"
Richard swallowed his saliva so hard as the woman's confession sounded like a true knife that stab his dignity as a man who should be a protector for a woman that he loved and loved him so deeply.