"Did you fuck my mother?" Alexander asked now standing outside the bath with nothing wrapped around his well toned body. He didn’t care anyways. His sharp and probing gaze never left a surprised Lord Richard. He could see how the ever composed Lord Richard was trying to maintain his cool despite the fear evident on his face. He didn’t require any certification to become an actor.

Lord Richard’s insides were twisting and turning uncontrollably. Could it be that Alexander knew about? But how..or who told him? Was it the queen? Hell no! That was impossible. The Queen was in fact doing the exact opposite; keeping it a secret. But who then? As far as he could remember, only that maid knew about his affair with Victoria. But again, she was not in Valoria.

He had almost forgot that Alexander was there, naked at that, waiting for an answer. Lord Richard lifted his face letting his gaze travel Alexander’s length. He had now crossed his arms over his chest making him look like a god. Hadn’t Lord Richard known him before, he would certainly considered him as one. Lord! He was sinfully beautiful. What! He was a man, and he was admiring another man?

"I’m waiting," Alexander said pulling Richard’s stray thoughts back to the matter at hand. He swallowed the lump on his throat when his eyes landed on Alexander’s face. The no-nonsense look on his face would scare a child away, running or crying. How was he even going to face him?

"I... I’m sorry but I don’t know what you are talking about your Majesty. I... How could I bring myself to even bring a finger upon His Majesties wife? That would be courting death!"

Alexander smirked at the answer before he wrapped a towel around his body. Seems Lord Richard wanted him to play this game the hard way. Maybe he should choke the truth out of the guy. He chuckled darkly at the thought. His fingers were still itching to punch on something and Lord Richard just proved to be the right candidate.

"Now lying will be more than courting death, " he replied holding his fisted hand in a way that made Lord Richard swallow in fear. Was Alexander really going to kick his ass?

Alexander walked in Richard’s direction, his gaze never leaving Richard’s. He could see sweat already breaking on the poor Lord’s face. Maybe he should haunt him more. He bent lower to the floor and picked the glass of wine that Lord Richard had placed earlier. It still had some wine in it.

"I believe this is yours...my Lord," he flashed an evil smile at a trembling Lord Richard. This was a better way to instigate fear, but putting into consideration Lord Richard’s personality, this wouldn’t affect him that much. Maybe I should freeze this room, Alexander thought. Yes! That might be a good idea. Not that he didn’t know his suspicions were true, he just wanted to hear it from the horse’s mouth.

"Take it," he added offering the glass back to Lord Richard. "Weren’t you the one that said the kingdom should avoid wastage of resources during my father’s regime." Lord Richard knew that he was talking about the wine, but deep down, it was more than this. Those eyes! Alexander was as wise and unpredictable like his father. They were more of the same character but Alexander was just damn good at it.

"Thank you," he said wrapping his shaky hand around the glass. His gaze momentarily shifted to Alexander’s eyes and hell... he was too embarrassed to look at him especially with the impending doom that Alexander had a gist of who he was to his mother.

"Go ahead, drink," he urged gesturing Lord Richard to have his drink. And as if spellbound, Richard found himself lifting the glass closer to his mouth. He drank the contents while he watched Alexander at the corner of his eye. What was really going win his mind? Did he want him drunk? Well..he was already drunk to begin with. He was just trying to control it.

"When I learnt that my mother was pregnant, and heard rumors that she could be carrying a bastard child, I was..." Alexander began and watched Lord Richard’s reaction.

"I didn’t care," he added surprising Lord Richard. "Like why should I care? She is a queen and has a right to birth children as a woman. And since father is gone, I can’t blame mother for what she did, though it was foolish of her given she’s a Queen." He sighed. 𝗳𝚛𝗲𝕖𝕨𝕖𝗯𝚗𝚘𝕧𝕖𝗹.𝗰𝗼𝕞

Lord Richard didn’t know what to say or do. In the end, he ended closing his mouth like a fish. Was that Alexander’s opinion about the matter or was it some scheme to get the words out of his mouth, and then he gets an execution later. He knew Alexander knew the truth so why was he beating around the bush. Was this some kind of comfort before he was thrown into the dungeon?

Alexander placed his hand on Richard’s left shoulder before he looked h in the eye. Damn it! Richard cursed. Those eyes was what he hand been trying to evade all this time but now... Those ocean blue pupils were what made one feel like he was being accessed, like an open book. It was like he was spellbound whenever he stared at those eyes.

"I thought who might have impregnated my mother and it’s kinda a maze. Could it be my father?"

"I don’t know," Richard replied even though Alexander had directed the question to no one in particular.

"It couldn’t be. The time margin is so big. Could it be..." Alexander paused and stared intently at Lord Richard. Lord! Was this it? Lord Richard swallowed for the nth time. "You?" Alexander finished, an evil smirk now planted on his face. He could feel Richard shudder under his hold, eveehis shoulders.

"Of course it’s you," he added followed by a laughter. Lord Richard felt lime the world had come to a halt right now. This was what he had dreaded the most on his entire life. It was better off to die in a battle field but this...