Chapter 31

"OH? And where do you have in mind for such a trip?" he asked before Becca bites her lower lips.
He groaned before he pulled her to straddle his lap as he claimed her lips. Becca gripped his nape before she was thrusting her tongue to mingle with his. It was the most sensual thing any female had ever done to him.
Not that he did not have many shares of females before his marriage but no one gripped his heart as Becca did. It should terrify him but in the end, Niklaus would be happy to give his heart to Becca and no one else.
He was confident that she was his soulmate.
"Now, shall we discuss this wedding trip for us, my love? Or would you rather have something else before that?" Becca said as she cupped him through his breeches. Niklaus was biting back a grunt as he lifted her into his arms before he moved toward their bedchambers and growled in her ear.
"Finishing what you started first, my love, then we can do the thing that you want to discuss with me," Niklaus said before Becca chuckled softly as they went to their bedchambers.
Satisfied hours later they were panting and breathing heavily as Becca was leaning on his hard chest, Niklaus was holding his hand before his head and smoothing Becca's hair as they were staring at the ceiling. He smiled before he asked Becca about the wedding trip that she wanted.
"So, will you tell me now why you want to go on our wedding trip so suddenly?" Niklaus asked her before Becca was leaning on her elbow as she turned to look at him.
"You know how we're arranged to be married like my mother wanted. I was about to protest this marriage first before I actually fell in love with you and then I thought we're never been on our wedding trip ever since our marriage weeks ago," Becca said as she was biting her lovely lips. Niklaus laughed before he kissed her hand.
"And you think this time, we should go on the wedding trip because...?"
Becca rolled her eyes as she was staring at her husband. She knew that Niklaus wanted her to tell him that she had fallen in love with him and would love to be away for a while to have him all to herself.
Not that she should be telling her husband that, considering her upbringing. But what the hell?! She would not have what she wanted from her husband unless she told him what she wanted. Becca shrugged.
"Maybe I just want to devour you all alone without anyone to interrupt us and no one will gossip about it?" she said innocently before Niklaus laughed.
"That, my love, is the reason I love you," he said before Becca smiled.
"And I, you, my love," she said before she was kissing her husband again. Niklaus groaned before she broke their kiss as she was smirking wickedly.
"And of course, if we go on the wedding trip that was overdue, you can get away from the responsibility to rule the Higher Court and making some decisions and meetings while you can spend that time having me waiting in your bed, day and night, my love," she whispered as she was brushing her lips against his jaws and throat. Niklaus angled his neck so that Becca could kiss it.
"Hmm, your proposal is hard to ignore, my love," he said as Becca was nipping his neck with her canine.
"I know. And I am famished," she said before Niklaus cradled her head to his neck.
"Then, take what you want, Becca," he said before she punctured her canine to get that sweet taste of his blood inside her mouth again.
After the blood-feeding and Becca was sound asleep, Niklaus went to his study as he was tying the robe before he was sitting at his desk. He pulled a parchment paper and put his quill inside the ink before starting to write a letter to his cousin who was the queen.
Niklaus bit his lower lips as he was trying to find the right wording and to appeal to his cousin so that he could be dismissed from his duty for a week.
Or if he was feeling ambitious, for a fortnight.
Niklaus sighed before he put the quill on the parchment and just spoke from his black, dark heart about his real reason for being away since Becca had been completely honest with him. It moved him and by using that reason alone, he hoped that his cousin, Queen Arabella would be too.

AARABELLA was reading the new parchment that was sent by her cousin a few hours earlier in the morning. She never thought that Niklaus would be polite enough to ask her for some time away with his wife in the country but to think that he would do this for Becca...
That lady must be special to her cousin.
Arabella smiled before Aiden kissed her shoulder. She did not realize that her husband was there in her private room as she was reading the parchment. Arabella turned to look at Aiden who was reading the letter that was sent by Niklaus as well.
"Was he serious? Nick had written a letter to you to ask for some time away with his wife?" Aiden asked, arching his eyebrow as he knew that the Duke of Belikov never bowed to anyone.
Never, unless it was his cousin in this case, Arabella as she was the young Queen of their country.
"I know. It surprised me as well but I think it's sweet and they have been overdue for one as well. So, what do you say, husband?" Arabella asked Aiden before he looked at her with an amused look.
"You're the queen. It's your call, my queen for I am only your humble servant. But perhaps you should do it quickly for I am lonely when you're not in bed with me," Aiden said as he was biting lightly her neck.
Arabella chuckled before she decreed that the duke was off from duty for two weeks before she removed herself and her husband to their private chambers to spend some time in bed for Arabella knew it was hard to keep a willing husband who was bent on seeing to her pleasure, as well his.
And she had hoped that Becca would have that too with Niklaus when they were away on their wedding trip to Moorgis.