Pregnancy Hormones

(From Demetrius's Perspective)

After the meeting, I went to my wife's office to check up on her. She was probably taking some look at the documents and chatting with the duke's children. I told her many times to not care about work, but she still did it. I did not want her to stress herself out. Moreover, she was pregnant. 

The sight that I saw right after entering was not something I expected. 

"Why are you crying?" I asked angrily. "Who made you cry?"

"Was it you two?" I asked her knights. "You two made her cry?!"

"No, I mean…," Calix mumbled. 

"It was these two, Your Majesty," the duke's son, Abel, said. "They kept apologizing and Her Majesty got upset about it."

"Damn, you idiots!" I muttered angrily and cupped my wife's face. "Darling, what happened?"

"It's not… them…," she sniffled. "I just… I don't know… It's just… not them…"