Chapter 43: Chapter 43

43 Chapter 43 : You’re not supposed to have a sex life!

“Can you wait for me here for a little bit,” Ella instructed Maria as she got off the carriage, “it’s been a little while since I left home and I just want to pass by and say hi.”

“Of course my lady take as much time as you need.”

The red head smiled and walked towards the large gate that led into the courtyard of the Morrell residence, Ella’s heart was pounding and her anxiety was off the roof. Whatever information William had about Nathan might change everything, would she call off the wedding? Or would she suck it up and brush it off like a good little wife would.

On one hand, Ella was upset that Nathan hadn’t been honest with her, but on the other hand she felt like she couldn’t really blame him considering she had been playing hard to get for a really long time. Then there was the fact that Nathaniel was the only man Ella could ever picture herself marrying, with this curse that she carried around, she didn’t exactly have ‘plenty of fish in the sea’, she just had one fish, a little piranha named Nathaniel.

Gosh she had so much on her mind! Then there was the little episode she had experienced in her room the previous night, now that was terrifying, was it possible that it could be connected to the curse? Wow, and the only person who she could freely discuss the issue with without sounding insane was the same deceiving man she was about to marry. Well this was a load of shyte!

“Ella!” Emma Morrell walked towards her daughter and gave her a hug, “what’s the matter? Is Nathan not giving you enough attention?” She spoke with a smirk, “well that’s what you get for marrying a prince.”

“Mother please stop, I’m only here to see William,” Ella replied with an eye roll, “is he here?”

“he’s out in the gardens, they’ve been spending a lot of their time in there,” Emma responded, “it must be nostalgic for them, you all loved playing in the gardens when you were little, always pulling out my best flowers.”

Ella glanced at the glass doors that led to the garden in confusion, “they?”

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“Oh yes, William, Bahram, Jonathan and Alexander,” Ella’s mother responded, “they’re all here to watch their baby sister walk down the aisle.”

Emma clasped her hands together and cooed in happiness, the way her eyes twinkled when she mentioned ‘walking down the aisle’ one would think she was the one getting married.

“I’ll get you all some tea while you catch up,” Emma responded, “I can’t remember the last time all my babies were all home together.”

Ella nodded at her mother and walked out the door into the gardens, they weren’t as big as the gardens at the royal palace but they held so many beautiful memories for Ella, for all the Morrells actually. Playing tag, jumping in mad puddles, tea parties and so much more, wow, how time flies.

Ella paused when her four brothers came into view and her blue eyes became a tad misty, it had been so long since she had seen them all together like this. The last time they all sat down together in such a manner was years back when they were interrogating a little boy who had written Ella a love letter when she was eight, the young boy was so frightened that he soiled himself on the spot, her brothers were truly a menace to society.

“Ella? Is that you?” Bahram was the first to speak when he spotted the beautiful red head standing and smiling at them.

“Ella!” The twins yelled in unison.

The four men all rushed towards Ella and embraced her in a group hug.

“Good lord Ella look how you’ve grown!” Bahram exclaimed excitedly, “have I been away that long?!”

“I’m surprised that ridiculous beard you’ve grown isn’t proof enough of how much time has passed,” Ella responded tauntingly. She turned to the twins and chuckled, “and I see that you two are just as creepy as ever.”

“How are we creepy?” Jonathan and Alexander responded in unison, each of them knitting their brows and cocking their heads to the side at the same time.

“I’m glad the future queen of Meria could make the time to see us lowly commoners,” William spoke tauntingly, “please do sit down on this soft patch of grass your majesty.”

Ella rolled her eyes and settled down on the grass next to William, Alex and Jon joined in followed by Bahram who kept stroking his beard and mattering ‘ridiculous beard?’ under his breath.

“I can’t believe all of you came all the way for me,” Ella spoke when all of them were comfortably sitting in a circle around the soft grass, “I don’t know if I should be happy or concerned.”

The four men exchanged glances before Bahram spoke up, “Ella why did you really agree to marry prince Nathaniel?”

“What do you mean?” Ella responded nervously, “Nathan and I..”

“And don’t bother lying, I know you don’t love him,” William added on

“Is it because he’s the prince?” Jonathan asked

“No it’s not that,” Ella responded

“Is it because he gives it to you good then?” Alexander asked Ella

Ella’s cheeks turned the same color as her hair, gave what to her good?!

“No! It has nothing to do with that, why would you even think that Alex!” Ella squealed in embarrassment.

“Well despite how good he gives it to you, Nathaniel cannot be trusted,” the expression on William’s face was serious and a little upset.

“Wait!” Bahram glared at Ella, his eyes round and his brow twitching, “he’s been giving it to you?! That bastard!”

Ella ran her hands through her hair and sighed heavily, “I’d appreciate it if we please stop talking about Nathan giving me anything! The last thing I need right now is my brothers discussing my sex life!”

“Youre not supposed to have a sex life!” Bahram roared in fury, “when I get my hands on that prince I’ll -”

“Can we please focus on what we’re all really here for, for just a minute,” William interrupted.

The Morrell brothers simmered down and sat quietly, all except Bahram who was mattering profanities underneath his breath.

“Ella,” William spoke to the blue eyed woman, the sudden change in tone made her a little anxious, she rarely saw him this serious, “I don’t think Nathan is who he says he is, and there are things he’s been hiding from you.”

*

“So you have reason to suspect something might go wrong at the wedding? Are you sure you’re not just being paranoid?” Clovis commented as he leisurely flipped a page in the book he was reading, “your woman is very beautiful I agree but no one is going to steal her from you on your wedding day.”

“And besides, there will be tight security on that day,” Jeffrey added on, “getting into the place without an invite will be close to impossible.”

“I don’t want to take any chances,” Nathan responded, “do you really trust every guest who will be in attendance? And what about the gaurds? How well do we know any of them?”

“Son, nothing is going to go wrong,” king Aldos spoke, “you’re overthinking things.”

“Dare I remind you of the necklace incident that occurred not too long ago?” Nathan pointed out, “I have reason to suspect that someone is out to get us, what’s the harm in taking a little extra precaution.”

Nathan had been uneasy ever since his meeting with William, he couldn’t get rid of the feeling that he had learned something that would put his relationship with Ella in jeopardy. And he had the nagging feeling it had something to do with prince Adam, that was the reason why Nathan had not invited the Gavarian prince to the wedding, all his lies would be put to light of he showed up.

But if William knew something about Nathan lying to Ella about Adam’s identity, there was a chance he would show up at the wedding and cause a scene, Nathan had to be ready for anything.

“And what do you propose we do?” King Aldos questioned his youngest son

“Please tell us your demands so we can get back to doing our own things,” Clovis responded, he had had enough of sitting in meetings like this, it was bad enough he had to do this everyday as the governor of Meria, but now he had to do it in the comfort of his own home too, he wanted to leave and spend as much time resting alone in his room as possible.

“Father I want you to give me command over the royal guard,” Nathan suggested, “I will personally tell them what to do so none of you need to worry about the details.”

“I thought the royal guard only answers to the king,” Jeffrey responded tauntingly, “it’s your wedding not your coronation.”

“Oh father just give him what he wants so we can get this over with,” Clovis pleaded.

“If it will make you feel safer,” king Aldos responded, “then I’ll allow it.”

“Finally!” Clovis stood up and hurriedly walked out of the room, followed closely behind by Jeffrey.

“Thank you father, I do feel safer,” Nathaniel responded as he rose from his chair, “now if you’ll excuse me, I should check on Ella, she should be back from the royal jewelers by now.”

*

Nathn opened the door to Ella’s sleeping chambers and peeped in, expecting to see his beautiful wife to be sitting in her usual spot by the window reading a book, but to his surprise the room was empty.

He walked in and inspected the room, surprised that she wasn’t back yet, she had left over two hours ago. That was strange, he wondered if something had happened at the jewelers, the prince decided to go and ask if the carriage or knights who had escorted her had returned, maybe she was just somewhere around the palace.

As the prince turned to leave the room, he spotted a piece of paper on the floor near Ella’s dresser, he suspected she must have dropped it when leaving.

Nathan picked up the note and browsed through its contests before cramping it up into a little ball, “William..” the prince growled, “What are you trying to achieve?”