Threat to the Throne (BxB)

32 | Kings

King Myles POV

Nathaniel is hiding something from me. I know deep down that it's not bad, but I wanted to know so bad. If there's anything by so despised more than people who use others for their selfish reasons, it's most certainly being kept in the dark.

It has been a couple of weeks since our encounter with Victoria in the lounge and we hadn't seen her - not that we missed her, but it was just odd that Nathaniel started acting really jumpy since that day.

I had tried tickling the answers out of him, tried using the puppy dog eyes - which my darling lover found absolutely hilarious, and I still had no idea what he was hiding from me.

"Babe" I tried again, "You still don't wanna tell me what's up?"

He just shrugs with a little smile on his lips, before turning back to the stove, swaying his hips gently to the music that played on my phone. Just seeing the boy so smug made an idea pop into my head - and as evil as it was, it would probably get the answers out of him in no time.

So I get up from with a smirk on my face, wrapping my hands around his waist - closing the distance between our bodies, as his back was now flush against my chest: "You really insist on keeping your husband in the dark?" I ask, intentionally lowering my voice.

And I immediately hear his breath hitch at the sudden change. If I can't get the answers out of him the good way, I was gonna have to seduce them out of him.

"Wh-what are y-you doing?" he whispers, tripping over his words.

"I'm not doing anything" I answer softly, feigning innocence - while on the otter hand my actions spoke a different language as my hands lowered from his waist.

"But-but your hands" his voice cracks, and I could feel that he was cracking in my hold. "W-we're in the ki-kitchen."

"Oh let everyone in the palace see then, because I'm not letting go until you give me what I want."

"I thought the Queen Mother would have told you by now what she told me" he says quickly, clearly distracted by my lingering hands.

"But you know that she's been in and out of the Palace with meetings and stuff, where would she have gotten the time to let me in on your secrets babe?"

"I'm sorry" he turns around, wrapping his hands around my neck. "I just didn't know how you'll receive the news. Plus, we didn't want to say anything just in case the Hillwood doesn't approve" he adds, his bottom lip jutting out cutely, destroying whatever sexiness I had conjured up until this point - as a large grin grows on my face.

"So what's the secret?"

"Please don't tell Queen Mother Harriet I told you" he says, his fingers shooting up to his mouth as he starts nibbling at his fingers.

"Stop that" I state seriously, taking his hand in mine to prevent him from biting his nails. "And no, I won't tell..."

"For the love of everything holy can you please stop cornering my son?" a voice says from behind us, and I didn't have to turn to be able to tell that Queen Mother Harriet had just walked in on us in a rather - compromising position, and Nathaniel's immediate blush was evidence to this.