IF IT weren’t for John, Alexander would’ve fled the kingdom years ago, found somewhere where no one knew who he used to be and his status didn’t matter. But there was John, who assured he was well taken care of and called him a man a if there were no evidence to the contrary and loved him as if there weren’t a plethora of reasons not to. The other staff of the castle had considered him a slut even before their involvement and now he was all but outcast. There were laws which stated royalty weren’t to marry lower class citizens, though they were allowed to take them as consorts, so long as it didn’t affect their actions as ruler. All of this and so much more left him to feel as if there was nothing but trouble to come of their involvement, but John insisted otherwise and he’d always been selfish.
STEALING TIME AND AFFECTIONS tucked away in secluded spaces of the garden was no strange pastime for them, placated by golden sun and syrup sweet scents of flowers in bloom. It felt like there was nothing wrong, like it was just the two of them and their feelings and nothing laying between. But the tension had followed them on this excursion with the news of the other prince’s impending arrival. It was a subject Alexander did not want to broach but it was inevitable and as such, he supposed, necessary.
“DO YOU THINK the public outcry of you marrying another prince or a peasant woman would be greater?” The words are left to sound casual, but he means them. It was an option he’d considered ever since he’d realized the inevitability of John being made to marry another. “I could be a DARLING QUEEN when your empire is watching and YOUR ALEXANDER be`ind closed doors. It is a sacrifice I’d be willing to make on your be`alf.”
cont. from here. @gcldenplated