A Night With The King

“I still think going to see him in the mood you are in right now is a bad idea, Lancelot, I know he was evil and all for what he did to her but can you just let the right authorities do their job, they already have evidence against him,”

Patrick pressed, when they arrived at the palace, he was hesitating on passing the palace gate. Lance wasn’t having it, he wasn’t going to let him talk him out of going to see that bastard, on the way to the palace, he had finished watching the video just to get a grasp of the whole situation and let just say, it got worst with each new details he finds out, the fucker, threatened her, left her in the middle of nowhere even though he knew it was late, she could have been kidnapped or worst, killed in the wild. How she was able to locate the disgraced queen’s house, was still a mystery well, at least she did something good for once. Not like the queen has ever done anything to him personally, it was his father that sent her away, while he was still a child, she was married to his father’s older brother who was king but passed away before he had a child as a result, his father took over the throne. According to his father, the queen started causing trouble in the palace which was why she was sent away. A house was built for her in the outskirts of the kingdom, she had a choice to stay or find her way and she chose to stay. Lance didn’t want to think about her situation right now as it wasn’t what was important to him.

“Don’t even try to talk me out of anything right, Patrick, take me to him, I get to decide what I do after I have spoken to him, that idiot lied to my face, not once but multiple times, I am not going to let that slide,”

“Right, I should just stop advising you at this point, I should even quit because you don’t even listen to me anymore,”

Patrick complained as he started the car again. He was driving because he had the driver take the car that Lance had driven earlier. Lance turned his attention to him; they seem to be disagreeing on things a lot recently but that doesn’t mean he doesn’t listen to him. He just wasn’t on his side recently and he didn’t like it at all.

“The problem is, you want me to do things the safe way, you want me to marry Roseline even though I told you already that she and I can’t work, yes, I understand it is all my fault, I should have at least made sure we could be married before the whole process started, that was my mistake but I don’t want to make the mistake of marrying her and then living my whole life in regrets, I don’t want to marry and still be having other women, yes, I am the king and I can get as many women as I want but if I am getting married, I want to be loyal to her as I know she would be to me, that won’t happen with Roseline,”

Lance paused. Patrick didn’t say a word and just continued driving but Lance knew he was listening.

“I tried, I tried, we went on dates for one whole week, she has a nasty attitude, but that’s not the problem, I could have easily overlooked that but I can’t overlook the fact that we are not compatible at all, you might not agree but the princess would want the same too, she too knows we are a lost cause,”

Lance told him.

“That’s not what we are talking about right now though, I already removed my hands from that case, you have made up your mind about that, and I hope you don’t regret it,”Content (C) Nôv/elDra/ma.Org.

He responded without sparing Lance a look.

“I won’t regret it, about this other one, I am afraid you can’t talk me out of it either, but It doesn’t mean I don’t need your advice anymore.”

Patrick didn’t respond to him and instead focused on driving. He would come around. They arrived at where the driver was being held, Lance didn’t wait for Patrick before he started walking towards the entrance, he knew the instant the people around saw him as the atmosphere changed and everyone was on their feet greeting him, he waved and walked to the officer at the entrance.

“Your majesty,”

The man said in shock.

“There is a man that was brought here a while ago, I want to see him,”

Lance let out. the man spared him a look before bowing again.

“Your majesty, what man?”

He asked. Lance realized he didn’t even know the name of the driver, he turned around just as Patrick walked in, he watched Patrick speak to the officer and waited. Now he wished he had just summoned the bastard to the palace, he didn’t think of that before. He should have or maybe he should have just listened to Patrick because now people were gathering just to say their greetings to him and he couldn’t just ignore everyone so he had to play along and wave, Patrick seemed to be taking his time on purpose, when he finally finished, Lance was happy to go.

“This way, your majesty,”

Patrick said; it took a moment to follow him because he got taken aback by his use of his title after they had been practically arguing for hours.

“Your majesty,”

Patrick called again.

“What? I was just taken aback by the fact that you are calling me Your Majesty again after practically calling me an idiot for the past couple of hours,”

Lance whispered to him as the officer led them in, Patrick looked his way for a moment and just shook his head. Lance couldn’t ask him what he meant by that as they were joined by the police chief, Lance glared at Patrick.

“I didn’t ask to see the police chief, I need to meet that bastard in person, I didn’t come here for pleasantries,”

He barked out.

“You are not here for that, your majesty, the chief will take us to the interrogation room where the criminal is being kept so that you can question him,”

Patrick politely replied. Lance resisted the urge to tell him to stop faking his politeness, he turned to the police chief who bowed.

“Your majesty, this way please,”

The man said and pointed in the direction that they should go, Lance followed them.

“I want to speak to him myself with no camera on,”

He instructed and was let into the room where the bastard was sitting and just looking around like he was bored out of his mind; the sight of him reminded Lance of the things he had said to Sophie, the way he had left her on her own in the middle of nowhere, he hadn’t seen the video after she left the car but he heard her voice, heard her pleading with the man to not leave her there but the bastard had mocked her and left her there for the worst. His anger was revived when the madman smiled and bowed to him like he hadn’t done anything wrong, Lance turned to make sure they were alone in the room and once he was sure, he approached the fucker, lifted him off the chair and punched him on the face, not once, but severally until his face bled.

“You idiot, I told you if I found out you were lying to me it would be the end of you, you lied to my face, made an innocent woman suffer and you have the mind to be smiling like you didn’t do anything wrong?”

Lance yelled out to him as he let him go and the fucker collapsed to his knees in front of him. Lance took a breath to control his anger but it was pointless as he just had to look at the man’s face to be reminded of what he heard, he walked to him lifted him up again, and made him look directly at him.