I like it

After eating her meal, she went downstairs to check the flowers in the castle. She also went to the kitchen to check their fridge for some ingredients. She would talk and talk while Gael was listening and. He likes to hear her historical stories and her appreciation for little things that he didn't even know why they needed to be appreciated.

"The moon..." She was looking at the moon while feeling the breeze touching her skin.

She likes the view of the moon, she never get tired of it. Her papà told her once that she was named through the beauty of the moon. Her eyes were as beautiful as the moon which is his father's favorite. It was just sad that... he left without even having the chance to thank him.

Closing her eyes, she smelled the air like embracing it. She exhaled as she looked up to the full moon.

Thank you, papà. You are the best man I have ever met. I love you.

"You should go inside, milady." Gael just demanded because he's worried that she might get cold. His milady did not decline and said goodbye to the moon before walking back inside the castle.

His milady waited for him to close the door of the balcony before walking to her room. This is one of the things he likes from his milady. She doesn't leave him behind even though she could do it.

"Is a concubine really a sexual partner, Gael?" She asked as they walked towards her room.

She was still curious about what they really are. And if they are sexual partners of the King, why would he say he didn't cheat?

"Some concubines are just candidates to be the main wife of the King. And some are just concubines in name, for nobility."

She stopped looking at him shocked.

"Why didn't you tell me that earlier?" She complained and thought about what she did.

She just stressed herself for nothing! She even called the King a cheater! And... And... She demanded to leave her alone! What the hell did she do?

Her eyes directly went to the left wing of the castle, specifically to the breech wood door of the King.

"What have I done?" She gulped and started walking to the opposite wing.

After knocking at the door, she opened it and closed it behind Gael only to realize that she wasn't holding a torch.

So here she is, in the full darkness in his room and no sign of light. But then she heard footsteps making her heart beat faster and later on, she saw a little fire growing somewhere in the dark. It was a torch on the bookshelf. She was too focused on the growing light of the fire and unexpectedly gaped from what she just saw...

"Marido. y-you..."

She saw his left leg when walking away from the light! Did she just see another part of his body?

"I'm naked."

She stiffened, face burning as she looked somewhere in the darkness.

"... to change clothes."

Oh. She thought it was something else. How disappointing.

"That look- says something more."

She looked away embarrassed as she heard a small chuckle making her surprised. W-What was that? Is he laughing? She made him laugh?

"Go back to your room and rest." He demanded calm, without any evidence of laugh anymore. It was like his mood changed in a snap and was demanding her to step out from his room.

"I... I came here to say sorry. W-Will you forgive me?"

He didn't respond, more like a silence.

"I mean... forgive me for misunderstanding you... I was too reckless and didn't think twice. I... I'm sorry if I called you a cheater-

"I like it."

"Huh?"

She was stunned. W-What did he just say?

"I like it when you're jealous."

Her heart spaced out, her body is burning. She can't breathe!

"Milady?"

She woke up after hearing her valet's voice. Now she realized that she went out to the King's room and slammed it to hide her face even though everyone knew that she was in the darkness.

It wasn't planned but she covered her face with her two hands to hide from Gael her reddened cheeks and ran to her room. She smashed herself in her bed and screamed. She then hurriedly went under her manta when she heard her door clicking and Gael entered.

Gael can't see my face now.

"Milady?"

She tried calming down. Inhaling and exhaling, then inhaling and exhaling. Damn! She wasn't expecting that from the King. In her six month life in the castle, he had been cold towards her. He doesn't talk much. And she is not even sure if he is listening to her when reading.

Calm down, Luna.

That night, she didn't sneak out to his room to read him books. On the next day, she didn't sneak out again. Until it became a week, she had never entered his room. She wants to, but she doesn't want to.

Every day, she was fighting with herself whether to go to him or not. She was too shy to face him. And just by hearing his name or anything related to him, her heart would go crazy and she would start to burn, especially her face. She didn't know what to do so she made her busy with any work she could do in the castle.

"Here is ya chocolate-avocado pudding, mi riena." Gael put her snack beside her portraits.

Just to make herself busy, yes, she is trying hard at sketching.

"Thanks." She looked at him and continued erasing what she started again.

Gael watches her sketch and then erases it. Draw and erase it. She would groan when she failed and then take a spoon of the chocolate-avocado pudding and then draw again.

Three hours passed, she stared at the lines of her pencil and formed a flower, no color, plainly kindergarten sketch. She crumpled the paper and threw it at her back and rested her elbows on the glass table with her chin. Tapping her index finger to the table while moving her right toes, she thinks of what to draw.

Gael couldn't stop chuckling as he collected the mountainous crumpled papers of his milady that couldn't stop groaning, scowling, and sighing.

"I'm going to sleep, I'm tired." She stood up from her seat and was supposed to help Gael fix her mess. He finished it in a snap, not leaving any mess.

"That's unfair." She scowled as she walked to her bed stomping her feet and sitting.

"You rest, milady. Have a prosperous night." He bowed his head and turned off the chandeliers and turned on the LED strip lights and the Biel Molten Lava Light above her bed.

As Gael closed the door, she deposited herself to the bed and looked at the beauty of the Biel Molten Lava Light. This light is really pleasing to the eyes and it is very good to use as a 'sleep light'. She sighed and went under cover of her manta.

She hugged one of her pillows and she thought of one thing.

What could he be doing that straight week without her, reading him a book?

But another disapproving thought came into her mind saying that the King can live without her anyway.

"Cleopatra VII ruled ancient Egypt as co-regent (first with her father, then with her two younger brothers and finally with her son) for almost three decades."

She stilled after hearing the voice that had been hunting her dreams. Her heart started to race, her face starting to burn. Is he reading her a book? About Celopatra?

"She was part of a dynasty of Macedonian rulers founded by Ptolemy, who served as general under Alexander the Great during his conquest of Egypt in 332 B.C. Well-educated and clever, Cleopatra could speak various languages and served as the dominant ruler in all three of her co-regencies."

This is unbelievable. He is really reading her a book!

"Her romantic liaisons and military alliances with the Roman leaders Julius Caesar and Mark Antony, as well as her supposed exotic beauty and powers of seduction, earned her an enduring place in history and popular myth."

What a good voice to hear.

She started to calm down as she heard more. She started being attentive and excited to hear Cleopatra's history.

"Her life comes from the work of Greco-Roman scholars, particularly Plutarch. Born in 70 or 69 B.C., Cleopatra was a daughter of Ptolemy XII (Auletes)..."

As he continued reading her words, phrases into sentences, she felt peace. And she had a peaceful sleep.