Earn his trust

"She's pregnant." He confessed, becoming pale all of a sudden. His lips become livid as if he would faint at any second.

His reaction was understandable, it was a scandalous if couple would give up to sexual activities before having married first. It would drastically mark the end of a lady reducing future possibilities of marrying and she would be destinate to remain alone for the rest of her life.

"Oh and here I thought you were a virgin." John say sarcastically and giggled. Seeing his unmoved expression he changed his approach, "okay okay. Sorry." He raised his hands, gazing at the man in front of him that seemed completely miserable.

"You two have to marry as soon as possible. So it won't be a scandal when the belly starts to show." He said getting a slow nod from his cousin. That was the most common and effective solution when outrageous events like that happened.

"This is why I came here. You have to annul the wedding and postpone it so that we can marry first." He required, his eyes were pleading him and his hands went to grab his arm, "please."

King John rolled his eyes, "okay fine."

His grip thighten and a smile formed on his lips, his face from palid became more colored. "Thank you. Thank you."

"Hmmm, but you have something to do for me in return."

He pursed his lips, "predictable."

John continued ignoring his comment, "when I will ask your presence you have to come and do whatever I ask you to do."

"Presence for what? Are you planning something evil?" Victor asked and John tilted his head, like if he was deciding whether to answer or not.

Seeing he was not getting any response to his question beside a doubtful glance he spoke again, "I can help you unless it doesn't include killing someone."

John's lips curved up in a hinted smile, "fine." He stretched his hand, Victor hesitated for some seconds and then shook his hand.

"Don't tell Roselyn about what I told you. Abigail wants to keep it secret." He said staring at him.

"But I have to tell her a reason. She will wonder why our wedding is been postponed." John scratched his head.

Lord Victor shrugged, "you lie to everyone all the time. I don't think it would be a problem to lie to her." His tone of voice was tacky again which meant he recovered well and regained his usual annoying attitude towards the King.

"I will try to invent something. But you owe me, remember." John replied, his voice was low sounding like a threatening.

He gestured to the servant to enter to accompany him out, they both nodded to each other. When Lord Victor finally left John sighed shooking his head. Victor was always the same, loathing him until he needed something. He promised himself he wouldn't fail for his traps anymore but this time he seemed very lost and desperate.

Moreover he didn't want to hurt Roselyn's sister, they already were having enough 'marital problems' to take care of.

Roselyn, meantime, was in her room playing with a wave of her hair curling it around her finger while her mind wandered what they were possibly saying. Wondering if sooner or later she will finally get the privilege of being considered part of the family and be involved in their matters. She was going to become his wife soon and that would involve her in the family that they liked it or not.

Her unconscious mind brought her back to reality abruptly when she remembered that she did the same earlier having lied to him about her concerns regarding Sharon's disapproval. Maybe she should be the first one to be honest next time and share more with him before jumping into rush conclusions.

She heard someone knocking at the door and she knew very well that the maids barely entered in her room and when they did they never knocked on the door, they directly broke in shamelessly without minding if she wanted some privacy or not.

"Wait!" She shouted, fixing her dress and her hair before heading to open the door, just like she imagined, it was John at the door.

"Hi." He smiled shyly, Roselyn returned the smile.

"He just went to offer his apologize about our first meeting." He lowered down his gaze when words came out his mouth then he glazed at her.

"That's a nice gesture of him." She commented. She was glad that her sister met such a nice man.

"He also asked me if.."

He cleared his voice, when it came out strangely low, "if we could postpone our marriage because he wanted to marry Abigail before."

Roselyn's eyes narrowed for some instants than she nodded, "okay. I guess she always wanted to be the first one to marry." She replied willing to sacrifice all the preparations and the thrilling excitement she felt to let her sister's fulfill her dreams.

She owned that to her, if that's what would make her sister happy then she could wait for few more weeks. "Maybe we can take care of Lord David meanwhile." He added, Roselyn nodded at his statement.

He turned around probably willing to get out of her room when her voice's call made him pause, "wait."

He turned his head to face her, "I just wanted to thank you for having told me. I want to be fully honest with you since now on. Just like you are with me." Her smile was genuine and grateful, he remained impassible hearing her saying, then he turned over again and found his way out.

Hearing the door closing behind his shoulders she took a long breath, expecting a different reaction for him, although it was nothing to be surprised of. His strong reputation of being emotionless warned her about his attitude, beside that she seemed willing to believe he would change if for her or at least softened.

Maybe it was too much to ask, and if someone would read through her thoughts they would probably think she was a spoiled ungrateful girl for having the opportunity to be proposed by the King to be his wife and in change obtain the life she always wanted. Truthfully enough wasn't regretting the choice she made, despite she couldn't imagine it was going to be so hard to earn his trust back.