The Royal Secret

Chapter 11

Chapter 11

Scarlet sat next to James while his parents sat on his right. They were at dinner at his parents’ home. Donny lay sleeping in the nursery with a maid to watch over him. If he woke the maid was to come and get her.

“So, Scarlet,” Beth said. “How have things been? The last few months must have been rough for you.”

“No, not really,” Scarlet said. “I liked having James home for a while. It gave us time to finally talk about a few things.”

“Like what?” Smith asked.

Scarlet looked at James who nodded. She said, “A week after Donny was born, I wrote to Hunter. I have asked him to come here.”

“I see,” Beth said. “And he has replied?”

“Yes,” she said. “A month ago, I received a letter from him. In it, he said that it was time for him to come over. He mentioned a woman named Faith Reneway had married four years ago and had had a son with her husband. He said it was time for him to stop living in the past.”

“Oh my Lord.” Beth said. “How could she do that?”

“Now, Beth,” Smith said, “There is no need to get all worked up. Her father probably forced her to marry the man. We all know that she loved Hunter.”

“It was her father that forbade the marriage,” James said. “She did love him.”

“I didn’t do anything wrong, did I, James?” Scarlet asked.

“No, sweetie,” James said. “Everything is fine.”

Suddenly, she stood.

“Scarlet?” Beth asked. “What is it?”

“Donny,” she whispered and ran from the room.

She was up the stairs before James had realized what she said. She threw open the door to the nursery. The maid stood over the cradle with a pillow held to her chest.

“Stop!” Scarlet screamed.

The maid turned to her just as Scarlet hit the maid in the face. The maid dropped the pillow and screamed. Donny started to cry. Scarlet hurried to him and picked him up. She held him close.

“Scarlet, are you okay?” James asked as he entered the room.

“She was trying to kill Donny,” Scarlet said.

“Dad!” James yelled.

Smith quickly appeared behind his son.

“Yes, James?” Smith asked.

“Take the maid downstairs,” James said. “I want to question her.”

“Come along,” Smith told the maid, taking her arm.

After Smith left the room with the maid, Scarlet turned to James.

“I’ve seen that woman before,” she said, sitting down in a chair. She freed a breast for her son.

“Where did you see her, Scarlet?” James asked, starting to pace.

“At the engagement announcement party,” she said. “Amerna had been talking to her when we were talking. They had an argument.”

“Do you know what about?” he asked. He stopped pacing and came to stand in front of her.

“No,” she said. “We had started our own argument by then. But I do remember both of them pointing at each others stomachs.”

“I wonder why,” he said.

“Donny is almost finished,” she said. “Do you want to change him?”

“I think I will,” he said. “Donny is almost four months old and I have yet to change him.” He smiled. “I have watched you change him enough though.”

“Good then,” she said. She looked down at her son. He was smiling up at her. She smiled at him. “Okay, Daddy is ready to change you for the first time.”

He took Donny from her and set him on the changing station. He looked over at Scarlet. She was doing up her bodice.

“Okay, Donny,” he said, looking back down at his son. “I have never done this before. I didn’t even do it for Katie.”

“You were afraid that you would hurt her,” Scarlet said, coming to stand next to him. “You loved her so much.”

“As did you,” he said. “Let’s get back to changing Donny.”

“Right,” she said.

After a few minutes, they returned back downstairs. The maid sat on the couch while Smith stood staring at her.

“Who are you?” Scarlet asked.

“My name is Hope Reneway,” the woman said.

“Are you related to Faith Reneway?” Smith asked.

“She is my cousin,” Hope said.

“Why were you trying to kill my son?” James asked.

“He is that b***h, Amernas', child!” Hope said. “She was a w***e! I’m glad she’s dead!”

“First off, Donny is not Amernas’,” he said. “He is Scarlet’s son.”

“Scarlet?” Hope asked. “Who is that?”

“The woman who hit you,” he said. “My wife.”

“But… Amerna was pregnant when she died,” Hope said. “You saved the baby.”

“No,” he said. “The baby died before Amerna did. After, I married Scarlet. It was our son you tried to murder.”

“If it hadn’t had been for that monster, Faith and her daughter would be safe!” Hope said. “He beats her every day! And at night….” She looked down for a moment before turning her gaze back to James. “When he found out that instead of breaking things off with Hunter she was planning on running away with Hunter, he beat her! In front of her father and the man did nothing!” She stood and they let her. “But the worst came later for Faith! A few weeks before the wedding to him, she told me she had a secret that she had to tell! She was pregnant. I asked if he was the father. She said no. It was then that I figured out it was Hunter who was the father. I questioned her out it and she finally admitted that Hunter was the father. Hunter had been her first and only lover.”

She walked over to the fire place. She turned to face them, saying, “Six months after the wedding, Faith gave birth to a girl. She looks like Faith so much, which I am grateful for, but sometimes I would catch a glimpse of Hunter in her. It broke my heart when he threatened to take the child from her. He threatened to take the only piece of Hunter she has left.” She looked ready to cry. “When little Charity was born, I went to see Faith. She knew that Hunter would read the article in the paper about the birth and sent me to see Hunter. Tell him that she had just been using him. I was to tell Hunter the baby was a boy named Char. I went and did as Faith asked. Hunter… He just stared at me as I told him. He yelled at me to leave when I finished telling him. I went and a few days later I learned that he had fired the servants and closed the house to visitors. He only wears black now. No one dares go near Hunters house now.”

She looked at Donny before saying, “I wanted to tell him the truth, and I still do. Only, now I can’t. Faith wrote to me shortly after I arrived here that she finally found a way to keep from having his children. I was happy for her. Only, he can’t have children so I never understood what she worried about.” She laughed. “It’s so funny that she loves Hunter so much, but is married to him!”

“Who is he?” James asked.

“When I found out about Amerna and the fact that she was pregnant, I was shocked,” Hope said. “I wrote to Faith and told her. Faith wrote back in a fright that he knew that he knew about Amerna. I told her to take Charity and run. She wrote that he was already on his way over here. As soon as I found out that he wasn’t the father of the child I told her. I swear I could almost hear her sigh of relief.” She looked at James. “Charity and her were safe. As long as he is here they are safe. When I saw him talking to James at the shipyard, I knew what he wanted. I also saw the look he gave Scarlet. I felt sick!”

She looked at Scarlet and thought: I'm sorry, Faith.

“When I saw that I knew it was true. Henry Wakefelt had married Faith when she was sixteen. After Charity's birth, he had married Armena. He is such a bastard. They were both only sixteen. Charity will be four come Summer. She is so adorable.”

“Henry will be leaving in a few months,” Scarlet said. “You may want to write to warn her.”

Henry Wakefelt looked down at the frightened seventeen year old girl on her knees in front of him. He watched as she lightly touched the tip of his p***s. He knew he wouldn't last long this first time with the girl.

“Do it now, Faith,” he said, smiling as he said the name. “Now, my filthy Faith. See how far it will go it. It had better go in all the way.”

The girl opened her mouth and then closed it over the tip of his p***s. He knew that she loved this. He moved his hips a little. She took half of him into her mouth. She started to gag. She tired again and managed to take it all.

“Mmmm,” she said.

He placed both hands into her hair. He felt and saw her start to bob her head as she sucked on him.

“Do it!” he said. “Touch it!”

She kept on hand on his knee. As she sucked she caressed him with her free hand.

He let go of her and pushed her to the ground. She gasped. Holding her hips, he started to press against her, She felt him enter her. She smiled.

Still inside, he rolled over. He looked at her breasts as she sat still on him.

“Now, filthy Faith,” he said.

She began to ride him. She loved to be ridden more, but with him it didn't matter. He grabbed her hips to keep her still.

“Hmm?” she asked as she rotated her hips.

He slowly lifted her up, only to slam he back down on to him.

She gasped.

Scarlet looked down at James. He smiled back at her. She still couldn't believe some of the things that they had just done, that she had done. Like riding James or putting her mouth on him.

He rolled them onto their sides. They faced each other. He was still inside of her,

“That was great,” he said, kissing her forehead. “We should do that more often.”

She smiled as she asked, “Do you think we woke Donny? I don't want to get up right now.”

James looked over at the cradle. He then turned back to her. He kissed her. She ran a hand across the heart shaped birth mark on his thigh.

“No, sweetie,” he said. “He's still asleep. Have I told you tonight that I love you?”

“Yes, while I was-” She broke off with a blush.

“Well, I'll tell you again,” he said. “I love you, Scarlet.”

“I love you, James,” she said. “So much.” She smiled. “Can we do it again? Maybe we'll make Donny a brother or sister.”

He rolled her onto her back and tickled her, which caused her to laugh.

Scarlet slowly opened her eyes. Donny needed to be fed and changed, but all she wanted to do was lie next to James. She looked over at her husband, who was sleeping peacefully. She kissed his cheek and left the bed to get Donny, putting her robe on as she did so.

She looked down into the cradle at her son. He lay on his back staring up at her. He smiled at her. She picked him up and quickly changed him. She then went back over to the bed with him. Sitting back against the pillows, she fed him as James slept.

With a clean diaper and having been fed, Donny, noticing that his father still slept, decided it was time for him to get up as well. As soon as his mother set him on the bed next to his fathers head, he leaned forward and gave his father a big, wet kiss on the cheek. He then looked at his mother and saw that she was getting dressed. He turned back to his father and pinched his arm.

James woke to the feeling of being pinched and realized his face was wet. He opened his eyes and saw Donny's face right next to his.

“Where's your mother?” he asked.

Donny simply smiled.

“Maybe we should find her,” he said. “Or better yet, let's go back to sleep.”

“I don't think so,” Scarlet said. She walked of to the bed and picked up Donny. “Get on up.”

“Can't we sleep a little longer. There is nothing going on today.”

“As much as I would like to,” she said, “We can't.”

“Why” James asked.

“Cause tomorrow is Christmas eve,” she said. “We still need a tree.”

 “All right,” he said.