Love Agreement With The King

Roselyn woke up in the middle of the night sweating cold and crying, her breath shortened and her vision was blurred due to her crying.

"What happened?" John asked as he wrapped his arm around Roselyn's shoulder and pushed her closer to him to hug her.

"I… I had a dream..." Roselyn said in the middle of the sobs.

She departed from John's hug to stand up from the bed, she slowly bent her chin to gaze down at her stomach from where was coming from a weird clatter. She swallowed down, and carefully placed her hand over it.

Tears of emotion filled her eyes and a smile curved her lips up, "I can't believe it." She murmured astonished and in disbelief. Her heart started to race and her hands shook, she turned around to look at John full of joy.

"I-I'm pregnant," she whispered as tears ran down her face, she had never felt happier. That was a miracle, right when she had almost lost her hopes, life blessed her.

John forced a smile, as soon as he heard the news he didn't believe her since he knew how difficult and rare that would be. He walked closer to her to test it with his overdeveloped senses as well, Roselyn took his hand to place it over her belly. John opened his mouth in awe and he smiled, "you are." He whispered.

Roselyn wrapped her hands around his neck and held him so tightly that he almost couldn't breathe for her grip. John could feel all the joy in Roselyn's hug and when the echo of the baby's heart started to race, as a response to his parents hugging together John felt his heart melting in joy.

His eyes filled with tears and before he could keep his emotion under control, he was crying with excitement and happiness.

The way the child's heart beat so intensely and fast made John understand how happy he was to have a baby and in that exact moment, he swore to himself he would do anything within his power to protect them because they were his family and he won't let anyone harm them.

Roselyn departed from the hug and smiled when she saw John crying for the first time after his father's death.

"Are you happy?" Roselyn asked even if the answer was quite obvious yet she wanted to hear it from him.

"I couldn't be happier," he replied in a brittle voice as his eyes shined in happiness and gratitude.

Roselyn kept smiling as she covered her mouth with her hand still in disbelief, was that a dream? She earlier was having a nightmare where she visioned Sharon coming back and trying to get in the middle of them when she discovered such amazing news.

John giggled as he went to pick her only to lay her down on the bed. "This only means one thing." He said as he covered her with the sheets and then placed a soft kiss on her forehead.

"What does that mean?" Roselyn asked with curiosity as the huge wide smile on her lips didn't fade.

"It means.." John leaned closer to kiss her on her lips, "that," he said only to kiss her once again, "I can," he took a deep breath, "spoil you how much I want." John finally finished his sentence murmuring out every single word to kiss her one last time as he gazed at her cheerfully. He could feel his heart so overwhelmed in the joy that he never felt more joyful before, it was like he understood what happiness was and all the times he felt happy before was nothing compared to how grateful he was in that moment.

"I don't need to be spoil..." But before she could even finish her sentence John already disappeared only to appear a few seconds later grabbing a cup of tea and some pastries.

He placed the pastries on the bedside table as he headed to her the cup of tea, Roselyn smiled, she fixed her position and then grabbed the cup.

"No more wine and tea, how considerate are you?" Roselyn asked in a playful tone of voice and John laughed shaking his head, "tea is better in the morning."

Roselyn took few sips of the hot tea while John kept staring at her in trace and disbelief, the child was the sanction of their love and he had never imagined he would be that happy for such new. A year ago when he thought about the love he would laugh at people finding them ridiculous for believing love existed but look at him now, dreaming about a future with the woman he deeply loved.

Roselyn headed the cup back to John and pointed at a pastry on the bedside table, John placed the cup on the bedside table to take a pastry and gave it to Rose.

Roselyn ate the whole pastry in two bites only to exclamation, "it's so good!" She pointed at the other pastries on the bedside table and John giggled as he headed her another pastry.

"Do you know what effect the pregnancy will have on me?" Roselyn asked as she bit the pastry, she rolled her eyes as she smiled when she tasted the delicious cream.

John smiled at her reaction, then he cleared his voice, "the only few banshees that were pregnant didn't have any collateral effect. From what I know it's like a normal human pregnancy."

Roselyn took a breath of relief, she didn't want to turn like Abigail who couldn't control her hunger as the baby grow stronger.

"But we will find out," John said as he caressed Roselyn's leg that was uncovered by the shelf.

"This is a new beginning, Rose." He said covering her exposed leg with the bed's sheet and then traveling his gaze back to her.

"And whatever will happen I will always be with you and will protect you with my own life, this is a promise," John said his voice sounded more like a swear than a statement, like if he truly was giving both his heart and his life in Roselyn's hands.