Wife of The Demon Prince
Chapter 149: Making a fuss

Chapter 149: Making a fuss

The next morning, as the sun rose from the horizon. Ara slowly opened her eyes to the warm sunlight filtering softly through the curtains of the large window. She’d slept peacefully until dawn, countless thoughts swirled in her mind. Most of them about Hamon.

Ara turned her head to the left side and found it empty. She breathed a small sigh of relief.

Her thoughts suddenly went back to the time when the Boxton family were destroyed in her past life, the grief she felt when she saw her father and brother’s dead body hung on the tree, and the time she ran away from Findara. Those memories used to replay in her mind everytime she closed her eyes at night in her past life.

Not a day would pass where she wouldn’t be reminded of that hell. Even after Hamon took her to join the army, the grief she went through blinded her eyes from anything else, but her revenge, to give justice to her family’s death and kill the man who was the root cause of her family’s downfall. And after returning to the past, the memory of her death in her previous life added to the rest.

But since when did she start having days when she wasn’t chained to those terrible memories? Now that she thought of it; returning to the past seemed to have a greater effect on her than she’d thought. As all the bitter memories started to fade away into a nightmare, she didn’t want to ever revisit those terrible memories again.

In her past life, No matter how much time she spent with Hamon, her mind was always wrapped in one thought; to avenge her family’s death, she never saw Hamon in any light. She’d cry herself to sleep all night, train herself to the extent she wouldn’t have any energy to move the next day. Even then he had shown her concern, but she’d always brush him away.

But now, her heart was slowly taking those terrible feelings of grief away, and was now being replaced with Hamon, he had unexpectedly took hold of her thoughts, she didn’t know when it all started but he had much to her surprise captured all of her thoughts and entangled her in this tiny web where she couldn’t take her mind off him. But was it alright to let it be that way?

Nevertheless, just because she was starting to see Hamon as a man, it didn’t mean she would let her family’s safety down. Nothing would change from her old plans to have more power in the kingdom. To help Hamon take the throne was her number one mission, and even if she couldn’t do that, she wouldn’t let him fight the queen alone or the army of the king of Dumbarton in the future.

_Would my feelings get in the way of my plans?_

Or maybe she should wait until Hamon was crowned as the king and after bringing the enemies down, then she could let the feelings flow freely. She’d have to suppress all these feelings for now to avoid any distractions from her original plans.

As Ara was thinking through everything in her mind, she suddenly felt a long shadow loomed over her, she tilted her head to the side with a small frown, and saw Hamon looking down at her with his eyebrows drawn together.

"Is your knee hurting so much that you can’t get out of bed? You are awake but still laying down." He said as he sat next to her on the bed, he’d been waiting for her to wake up so he could check her knee for any dislocation. He wasn’t willing to take any risks when it came to his wife, not in this lifetime would he sit still and watch her get hurt.

Ara was about to open her mouth to say something, but before she could talk, Hamon tugged aside the blanket and raised her dress to reveal her knee.

Ara looked at him surprised, "Hamon, what are you doing?"

Hamon’s eyes fell on her slightly swollen knee. He frowned as he lightly rubbed her knee with his hand, "You lied to me last night about not being hurt, right?"

"My knee is fine, the swelling will go down itself given time." She said.

Hamon’s frown deepened, "Go down itself? Do you expect me to watch it go down by itself? Not on my watch, wife."

Hamon stood up and looked towards the door, he called the maid waiting outside, "Go and get the royal physician immediately!" He ordered sternly. The maid scurried away quickly, as the atmosphere around the crown Prince was terrifying.

Ara just watched the scene from behind in bemusement. A small injury like this didn’t require this much of a fuss, she wouldn’t even consider going to a physician for such a small injury if she was at the Boxton mansion.

Few minutes later the maid arrived with the royal physician, who was a middle-aged man with a goatee. He carefully inspected her knee then glanced up at Ara after checking the injury, he smiled, "Fortunately, Your Highness. It’s not as serious as a dislocation. All you need to do is apply some ice, and since you said the pain isn’t severe, I don’t have to bandage it. I will_"

Hamon, who was hovering closely behind the physician suddenly chimed in displeased, "Did you just say the injury is not severe? Can’t you see her knee is swollen? I want you to keep my wife’s knee in place. Make it normal, that’s why I called you here!"

The physician felt a cold chill ran down his Spine with the displeasure in the crown Prince’s voice, "Y-your Highness, there’s nothing I can do, it’s just a minor injury that doesn’t need treatment. I_"

Hamon shot him a warning glare, the physician suddenly felt his throat went dry in fright. It wasn’t his fault, there was nothing he could do to make the swell go down immediately.

"You have a single job, and you’re still making excuses. Maybe I should plug out your eyes so you could see well that her knee is swollen." He threatened nonchalantly, he then added when the man didn’t move," Are you going to check again or you want me to rid you of your eyes?"

The physician shook in fright and bowed, "No, No, Y-your Highness. I will treat her injury, I came prepared with my medicine, I will make her Highness’s knee better right away." He assured then took his bag with a shaky hand, he brought out bandage and some ointment, though it wasn’t very necessary he didn’t want to incure the wrath of the raging prince. He’d known the Prince long enough to know he doesn’t give empty threats. He wasn’t ready to lose his precious eyes!

Ara just watched with her jaw slightly dropped in surprise. She couldn’t help but feel embarrassed. She was aware her injury wasn’t as serious as Hamon made it seemed like, he was just being unreasonable over a minor injury, but she couldn’t disagree with him in the presence of the physician. They were a picture of love to all of the people in Findara and she didn’t intend to question his honor, no matter how trivial.

She watched as the physician bandaged her knee with a shaky hand after applying some ointment. Ara glanced at Hamon’s face, he offered her a smile and raised his hand to caress her cheek gently, "Make sure not to get hurt again next time, wife."

Ara’s heart fluttered at his gesture and words. She started to realize she was losing control again. No one ever doubted her whenever she said she was fine. Everyone believed her, even when she was suffering. No one tried to uncover her hidden wounds like Hamon did.

The physician finally finished with treating her knee, before he left he gave some medicine that would help with the swelling to Hamon. Hamon stared at the bandage wrapped around Ara’s knee before he turned to the maid standing on one side, he gave her the medicine, "Get the medicine ready..." He paused and glanced at Ara, then instructed the maid, "Tell the head kitchen maid to make what I requested earlier, bring the breakfast here along with the medicine."

"Yes, Your Highness." The maid backed away and hurried out of the room. Ara gazed at her overprotective husband with a small smile. As the eldest daughter of the Boxton family, there was nobody to worry over her and make a fuss about little things like he did. Hamon’s concern for her seemed to warm her body...It felt good though. She thought.

Ara didn’t know how to express the feelings in words, but she was touched by Hamon’s care. Was it possible to not fall further for him with all these things he was doing for her? Was it too late to stop feeling this way towards him?

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