So You Want To Sleep With Me?..

"Adriele, you will see it sooner or later"

"Hmm"

After her little chat with Killian, she wanted to apologize to Darren, she knew that she went too far with her words, but Darren didn't return until three days later.

Darren is in the room, sitting on the bed trying to tend to his wounds while Adriele was just coming back from a tea party, the Queen had invited her to.

She was bored and could not relate to any of their discussions and again, the majority of the population gave her the stink eye the whole time, so she faked not feeling well and got permission from Delia to leave earlier. As she approached the door Darren sensed it and turned off the lights, it was already night when he came back and he didn't want anyone to know. Adriele walked in and seeing the lights off she wanted to signal Naina to bring a lamp to help her light up the candles but before she could say or do anything, she gagged from behind and the door was shut.

And in the heat of the moment, Adriele struggled to lift her hands and did a shoulder throw causing Darren to fall on his back, he let out a quiet moan

"Who are you? And how did you get in here?"

Adriele asked trying to make her way to the door. But instead of answering her question, Darren whispered "Seems like I should not mess with you anymore, I might get a good beat"

Darren

"Your Highness," Adriele said

"Shouldn't it be honey or sweetheart, we're married now aren't we?"

Now Adriele was definitely sure it was Darren. She finally opened the door and the light extended into the room, she saw Darren still laying on the floor trying to get up. And she hurriedly went to his aid.

"I apologize, Your Highness, I didn't know it was you," She said as she reached out to him. She touched his wound and Darren whimpered but she didn't see it, as the wasn't a good source of light right now. She helped him sit down on the bed, then lit up the candles.

'He put so much weight on me, I didn't know he was the one, now my whole body aches' she thought as she pouted.

Darren tried to hide his wounds by asking her to sleep on the couch.

"Are you done?"

"Hmmm"

"Good, now take a blanket and you can sleep on the couch over there"

"Why? I already apologized for that didn't I?"

'How could you be so despicable you leaned on me and made me have body pains and now you want to increase it by making me sleep on the couch, you monster' Adriele thought to herself

"So you want to sleep with me? Are you sure?"

"Sure of what?" she wasn't getting what he was implying

"Oh, so oblivious, are you sure you can perform your duties as a wife?" Darren said with a wink

Adriele reddened, since she hadn't seen him for long, she had not really thought about it but now, Darren shamelessly brought it up.

"I... it's okay, I will sleep on the couch"

Darren just rolled his eyes at her response. As Adriele walked towards the couch she noticed a red stain on her hand, she pulled her hand up to her nose to sniff it, it was blood. She checked herself and didn't see any issue.

'That's weird' she thought and went into the bathroom to wash up, when a thought hit her, she had touched something liquid on Darren's back but thought it was just sweat.

'Is this his blood?' she thought as she hurried back into the room.

With questioning eyes, she found Darren who was trying to put on his coat and leave. She didn't know what to say, for the short time she had known Darren, he doesn't like it when someone tries to cater for him, he thinks he can do everything alone, without anybody's help.

"Are you leaving?" that was the only question she managed to ask now

"Yeah, want me to stay?" Adriele was silent

"Well since you don't want me to stay, you can have the bed, I am going to be a gentleman and not pressure you into anything" He woke up and started to walk away

"W...Wait," he turned and rolled his eyes at her. "You are hurt," she said as she tried to reach his back but he grabbed her wrist before she could get any closer.

"What are you doing?"

"I want to see"

"Why, for amusement?"

"I..., I just want to help you?"

"I don't remember asking for your help"

"But I want to help you"

"No," he said and he abruptly lifted his back, forgetting he was injured, which made him groan in pain.

His grip on her weakened, giving her a chance to free herself and take off the coat.

"Let go"

"No" Adriele was so nervous right now

"You are acting stubborn already" she pouted

"If you don't let me cater for your wounds"

"You will?" he interrupted her with a malicious grin

"...I will tell the Queen about the wound"

Darren was quiet for a while and then went back to the bed. Adriele started to clean the wound and later on apply medicine to it. He had to sleep on his side so he doesn't feel too much pain. He dosed of immediately she was finished, but he kept rolling and landing on his back, leading to a whimper every time, so Adriele sat beside him, making sure he doesn't turn again. She was up for a while when she noticed his uneven breathing and shivering. She stretched out her hand to his head and neck.

'He's burning hot

'But if something happens to him? No, no

Right now you should think of what to do, he won't like it if I told anyone she thought. She gave him a towel bath and went outside to the servant's quarters and asked the butler to help her in the kitchen.

It was late at night after dinner had been served, the kitchen will be closed by now, so she went directly to the butler. He opened up the kitchen for her and directed her to the ingredients she asked for.

"Your Highness, you don't need to do that, I will do it or you can ask your handmaiden to do so," he said as he saw that she wanted to cook alone

"It's okay, Mr.Butler, I can do it, I dismissed Naina early today, it won't be fair if I called for her again. And my apologies Mr.Butler for waking you up, I just didn't know who else to get permission from, thank you"

"You don't need permission from me to enter the Kitchen and I am obliged to be on duty when needed your highness," he said with a straight face

"But you hold the keys and are responsible for this whole Castle if I make a mistake without your supervision, you will still pay the price for it, but I don't want to get you into trouble,"

This comment warmed the man's heart, he was a man in his late fifties and he had been here and witnessed the birth of the royal kids, many girls had come to the Palace for Killian or Darren but non have been so considerate like her when she came here the last time he just thought she was pretending to win the Queen's favor and would change after marriage but she was still the same Adriele and he could see the younger Queen in here Plus she looks so much like Prince Killian's healer.

When Adriele was done, she took the liquid into the room and helped him take it, she ended up staying up all night making sure he was okay, she finally gave in to the sleep when the sun started to rise.

Darren woke up a few hours later to see the little woman sound asleep beside him.

"How can she sleep, like this, isn't it uncomfortable? She actually took care of me' Darren thought and smiled. He reached out his hand to pull her hair which had covered her face. As if sensing his movement Adriele ruffled in her sleep, hesitated for a moment, and then woke up. Darren quickly regained his posture and closed his eyes, pretending to still be at sleep.