Chapter 24

"YOU can call me Becca. No need to be formal. We're family after all," she said before the prince consort was taking her hand and bowed to her.
"A pleasure to meet you, Becca. Nick has told me so much about you," Aiden said before Becca was arching her eyebrow at her husband.
"I hope all good things?" she asked before Aiden chuckled softly as Niklaus smirked.
"Well, one can hope, my love," he replied before the young queen moved toward her husband and kissed him in front of them.
Becca averted her gaze before she turned to look at Nick. Her husband was arching his eyebrow before she felt her cheeks were heated.
"Shall we get to our luncheon then?" Ara said as she slipped her hand against her husband's elbow.
Becca nodded before the young monarchs led them to the dining hall. She was walking with Niklaus by her side.
"Well, your cousin surely knows how to make the polite society blush," she whispered before Niklaus chuckling softly. He leaned forward as his mouth was on her ear.
"And for your information, my love, she can hear you," her husband said before Ara glanced over her shoulder and winked at Becca. She closed her eyes as she was leaning her face against Nick's shoulder. Her husband just laughed as they made their way to the dining hall.
The guards opened the door as the royal couple was sitting at the head of the table. There were two sets of chairs and utensils before Ara and Aiden were taking their seats.
Niklaus was leading her to take her seat right next to him which was on the right side of the young queen. As they were seated, the servants were moving around to serve them.
"I hope you like roasted lamb. It was a delicacy for us," Ara said as Becca was looking at the young queen. Becca did not understand what the young queen referred the delicacy to as being a Vampyre or being a royal.
As if a lamb was hard to acquire for the royal family.
Becca smiled as she bowed at Ara. "I am honored to have them today then," she replied as Niklaus was putting his hand on her knee, squeezing it as if to say that she did the right thing.
"Shall we dig in then?" the queen said before they went on to take their luncheon as the royal couple got to know Niklaus' wife who had been converted to join their little secret that had been hidden from the citizens of Niapachad Island for centuries.

NIKLAUS helped Becca to get inside the carriage as Arabella and her husband, Aiden were sending them off. Nick was happy to see that his cousin was doing fine with the new adjustment of being the youngest queen that Niapachad Island has seen in its history.
But she was defying the odds and Nick could not be prouder with his little cousin.
"Come back to visit more, Nick. I'm sure Becca would not mind chatting with me," Arabella said before Becca was smiling at her. Niklaus chuckled softly as his wife bunched her skirts in her hand and took his offered hand to get inside the carriage. Nick went after her as they settled against the velvet couch.
"We'll see when we can come to visit later and tell you in advance," Niklaus said before Arabella smiled as Aiden hugged her waist.
"Have a safe trip," the royal couple said as Nick and Becca waved at them before their coachman whipped the reins after their footman was climbing the carriage.
They moved forward while the royal couple was making their way into the castle. Becca was settling against the couch as she was leaning against his shoulder.
"Was it a good visit? I hope Ara helped you understand some of the changes that might be coming over you a few weeks from now," Nick said as he caressed her soft tresses while Becca sighed with content.
"She is. But there is one thing that I was too embarrassed to ask her about," Becca said before his wife turned to look at his face. Nick was arching his eyebrow.
"And what is that, my love?" he asked before Becca smirked as she leaned closer to his face.
"Why I was suddenly aroused when I was in your presence? Perhaps you can tell me why, my love," she whispered huskily before Nick gripped her nape as he stared into the greenest eyes of his wife. It shone like emeralds as the gaslights were penetrating the window of their carriage.
"I think I cannot answer that as well, my love, when I felt the same way about you after I saw you in that receiving room, looking ravishing in this day gown," he said as he was touching her neckline. Becca shivered before her breaths ragged.
"Will you kiss me or should I make the first move, my lord?" she asked before Nick was pulling her head closer.
"You know I would always be the one to initiate things between us, my love. You should learn that by now," he said before he claimed her lips.
It was a searing kiss as Niklaus had been dying to kiss his wife while he was away in that court, talking about taxes and tenants' payments. He would rather spend some time with his wife in their bedchambers.
Becca moaned in their kiss before she gripped his lapels as she straddled his lap. She was wounding her hands in his lapels before pulling him closer as her chest was hitting his. Niklaus groaned before he broke the kiss and pulled out his pocket watch. Then, he cursed.
"What is it?" Becca asked as her eyes were glazed with lust that Niklaus knew he put them there. He smiled at her before he caressed her cheeks with his thumbs.
"It will be a long time before we're in the privacy of our bedchambers. I don't think I can wait that long," he said before Becca smirked.
"As if you would not take me in this carriage, Nick. Where's the fun in that?" she said before his eyes were bleeding out of their color as the Demon of the darker side was coming out to play with his soulmate.
"Well, if you ask for it..." he said before Becca bites his lower lips. His cock jerked up at the action alone.
"I demand it," she whispered into his ear before he pushed his wife onto the velvet couch as her green eyes bled black as well.
"So be it," he said before Nick kissed her lips again and this time, he would not stop for a kiss only. He will be going all the way to claim her in that carriage ride to their estate.