Chapter 122
(Undergoing editing)
**GWEN**
I was so horny. So horny that even the mistaken graze of my maids finger on any part of my body had me on mental overdrive. All I needed was Ashton’s touch. To feel their callous hands on me, no matter how. I didn’t care. Even if he did it by force. I just needed him so badly.
That evening when I returned to my room from drinking and talking with Charlotte, I noticed the desire had become severe.
I contemplated going in search of Ashton to entice him into fulfilling his matrimonial duties to me. But what would that make me? A weak woman. I knew he would insult and call me different cruel name and I didn’t want that.
I looked up at the sky and took cognizance of the grey clouds. I think tonight it’s going to rain heavily. Urgh! With the rain, I will feel colder and needier.
I left the window, shutting down the louvres and curtains and made my way to the door. We still had enough time to dinner which meant I could still be by myself without intrusion.
I locked and walked back to the wardrobe to remove my gown, folded it and placed back, grabbed my pink robe and tied around my body, and went to slip under the bed.
The room was dimmer and created a calm ambiance. I lay with my back to the bed and my face up staring at the oval plaster of Paris, lazily. What was Ashton doing now? Is he still very mad at me?
Does he even miss me like I do him?
Why would he not let this thing go?
I exhaled in frustration and inclined my legs, letting the robe slip aside to expose my under legs. My hand managed my temples to curb my hormones if it could. Nothing was working. I faced the closed window, turned away to the back and ended on my back again.
I have read plenty times about self-pleasure and used to think it was not something I cared about. I mean I had someone to do it for me why do it myself? But now, lying here, fully aroused, I found my finger trailing to my breast to circle around my areola.
I packed my right boobs and fonded it tightly, liking the sensation that was heightening inside of me. I quickly untied my rope to leave me naked and reached back to tug at my nipples. I continued tugging at it painfully, imagining it was Ashton biting it and sucking the way I wanted.
My legs were apart and I was totally wet. It happened for my finger down there and that was what I did. I left feathery light touches as I traced the straight hairy line that disappeared to my pussy. I froze beside my clit and fingered it once. I thought I was not going to feel anything, but not sooner, as my finger grazed it, I gasped, tipping off the bed as the friction was electrifying and absolutely satisfying.
“Yeah..” I cried, increasing the pace of my message as I went back and forth clit, intensifying the sensation and tilting for blissful paradise. I needed to climax, by all means, anyhow I could.
I inserted by middle finger in forcefully, took it out, and joined the second finger. I sighed back in the bed and began imitating the thrusting movement of my mate’s hard massive cock when inside me. All I could see was him, all I could feel was him.
Which was why it was not long and I was convulsing as my senses were knocked out as I released hard on the bed. I slumped in the bed as I would when we had a good sex and when I opened my eyes, I could see nothing as everything was hazy and seemed faded.
I closed them back and succumbed to the soft embrace of slumber.
“Your Highness,” I could hear from my dreamland. “Your Highness, wake up.” I felt a hand pat me my shoulder and parted my eyes gradually in irritation.
I thought I locked the door. “What do you want, Kora?”
“The former Queen insisted I ask you to come down for dinner.”
I shut off the bed. “Dinner?” I looked around foggily. “It’s dinner?”
“You a few minutes late, my Queen.”
“Shit!” I threw my legs out, dumping the bed cover beside me. It was when I was out of the bed about to wear my slippers I noticed my robe parted and rapidly knotted it back when I saw the way Kora looked away and focused on things of less importance.
“Please, bring me a gown quickly,” I said as I made my way to the closet. “Something simple and nice.”
“Yea, your highness.”
I urinated fast, washed my face and mouth, and came out. I applied ointment and packed my hair up, pinched my cheeks, and took the gown Kora came back with; a black sleeveless body con gown. It was not that simple as per se, but I was running out of time. This kind of gown exposed all of my curves and in a period like this, this was the least of my problem.
I hurried out of the room for dining room. When I got there, Charlotte and Ashton were there and paused when I walked in. I was hypnotized for a second, seeing him dressed impeccably in a black shirt that matched his black pants.
I snapped out of it and walked to my usual seat to plop down. I smiled hesitantly to the Queen and nodded at Ashton-I didn’t know how to address him or if he would reciprocate.
There was a shift in the atmosphere around here. I felt the gap. Two important people missing from the table was enough to create the gloom. It made things very awkward. If only Abby didn’t leave, then, it might not have been this bad.
The silence while we are even made it more eerie. I
The only sound that could be heard was the random slap of spoon against China wares. And from time to time, I snuck a look at Ashton. One time I caught him regarding me but looked away abruptly when he was caught.
So, he felt me.
Does he also feel my arousal? Does he feel this thing inside of me that yearned for him and wouldn’t mind if he took me right here on this table?
“If you ask me,” Charlotte began after dropping her spoon and picking up her glass of water. “… I will say you two should settle whatever differences exist between you if not for anything but the good of the land.”
She clapped her hands twice and at once, the maids and guards filed out of the room, leaving only the three of us.NôvelDrama.Org © content.
“We are at war,” Her voice grew tenser. “Like it or not, it’s them against us and we can’t have them seeing us as a family with no unity. How do you think they will perceive us?”
“Well, maybe you should ask the bride you got for me, Mother.” Ashton drawled coldly. “Do you even know anything about her?”
“Well, you didn’t care about all that a few weeks ago,” I stoned back at him, my inside boiling over. My arousal was gone instantly replaced by spite. How dare him?
“There you go again…” Charlotte hissed. “I am too old for this.”
Ashton was glaring at me and I was returning the favor in full course. All the time he felt he could intimidate me like this and here I thought he had learned his lesson. I can’t be easily shut down like that.
“Mother, I can’t continue with a woman who would not be submissive to me. A woman who brings nothing but trouble to me, my family and my Kingdom. What use is she to me when she has failed to carry out the one thing that is granted freely to every woman?”
My heart dipped, my spoon clattering to my plate. “W-what do you mean?” I asked shakily, in awe.
“I am only saying, perhaps, instead of fighting so hard to do my jobs that you should concentrate more on making me babies!” He slammed his fist on the table.
“Ashton!” His mother cried. “Ashton… don’t.”
“I am fed up, Mother,” He proceeded without remorse. “She doesn’t regret what she did, all she does is cause more chaos while I am trying to rectify the former ones.”
I was dumbstruck, my appetite gone and fear like a hot iron pressed to my chest. I felt like I was in still asleep and this was a dream. Ashton had joined the wagon?
He-he was on my side. How, when did this happen? He couldn’t have changed this badly. What did I say to warrant this?
“Ash…” I stuttered, my hands falling to my lap. I was visibly shaken.
“I am not moved by your deceptive tears anymore, Gwen,” he cut me off, with his finger pointed to my face.
“Enough! Two of you.” Charlotte hollered. “I can’t believe this.” Tears stung my eyes, but I held them in. Charlotte’s fuming eyes raved as it traveled from me to her son. “You two are so selfish and ensconced in your own difficulties that you are ignoring the main issues at hand because of your personal problems. What kind of leaders are you?”
We looked away from each other, my eyes going to my hands beneath the table. I couldn’t still believe what just happened now. If anyone could question my inability to get pregnant up till now, I never envision Ashton to be the first.
And it had to be now.
“We as the royal family have to improve our thought on how to bring the Kingdom back to it’s former glory. We have to terminate all our challenges and we have to do that fast! I don’t care how we do it. I do not care if you two have to pretend to like each other until it’s over, but until then, set aside this… this stupid behavior and behave!”
She halted… her finger tapping on the table as her eyes hurled fire at us.
“As for heirs… we shall have them. But when all these are over.” she ended with a derisive chuckle as she added, “… goddess knows you can’t bring in an heir in this raging battle.”
Then everywhere went silent. When she stood, her sparkling regal sky blue gown intricately designed with diamonds cascaded down to the ground. “As for your sister, whatever you have to do, make sure she is returned back to the palace, Ashton. Right your wrong.”
And she walked out of the dining room.
The place was plunged into an ear-splitting scream of silence. I didn’t want to be there too. Charlotte was correct about us setting aside our difference for the Kingdom, albeit, I needed to recover from the shock of my mate’s onslaught.
So, I stood up.
“Where are you going?” He asked me.
“To my bed chamber.”
“You haven’t finished your food.”
“I have lost my appetite.”
He scoffed. “You are so stubborn for your own good.”
I balled my fist. I was at his face. “If anyone has told me you will mock me in front of your family for an heir, I would probably call them liars. Yet, you said those cruel words to me, not caring how it was going to make me feel. Do you think I’m not bothered by this? Do you think everything going on is not affecting my mental health? Why do you think you are the only one suffering from this? Why?”
“Gwen_”
“I have been suffering, crying and regretting every decision I took that brought us here today. And today, today you proved to me that you were never on my side,” Tears gushed down my face. “Your mother is right, Ashton. We have to set our difference aside and fight the battle facing us. I caused all this and I am going to do everything I can to repair it. This is your family and it is apparent I am not. Once it’s over, you better accept my rejection and let me go. As you said, I… I am useless to you and your almighty Kingdom.”
With an audible sniff, I took a step back and walked away.
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