"What are you looking at?" asked Emmelyn suspiciously. Mars just shrugged and pretended to be indifferent. He would not tell Emmelyn what was in his heart, that he wanted to see that girl carrying his child.

He would soon turn 27. It was a good time for him to embrace fatherhood. His cousins ​​who were a few years younger now already had several children, either from their legal wives and/or their mistresses.

Hmm .. he had to see the royal physician and discuss what to do to ensure that Emmelyn would get pregnant soon and keep her pregnancy healthy.

They finished dinner in a relaxed manner. Emmelyn felt full because her stomach was filled with all her favorite dishes.

"I'm full," Emmelyn said finally. She ate really a lot today. With her left hand, she resisted when Mars tried to feed her more meat.

"Hmm .. all right," said Mars. He then waved his hand, and Roshan quickly came over to him. The prince then turned to Emmelyn. "What do you want to eat tomorrow?"

The girl suddenly hiccupped. Since she had just eaten her fill, her mind did not want to think about food at all. She immediately shook her head. "Can we talk about it tomorrow? I'm so full right now. If I have to imagine more food, I might throw up."

Mars immediately sighed in disappointment. He was happy to see Emmelyn eating a lot. But now, when he asked her what other food the cooks should prepare for her tomorrow, the girl seemed disinterested.

"Oh," he muttered, disappointed. The man then waved his hand and motioned Roshan to leave. After they were alone, Mars then asked Emmelyn to stand up. "We'd better take a walk to digest the food. Looks like you're full."

"Hmm ..." Emmelyn replied. She did not refuse the invitation because she did feel that after eating a lot of food, it was best to go out for a little walk. If she kept sitting like this, she would turn into a sloth.

The two of them walked out of the castle and took a breath of fresh air. The night had fallen, and the air was getting cold. The moon, which was a full moon last night, now looked smaller. Emmelyn tried to remember how long it had been since she had left her homeland.

Would she be able to return to Wintermere?

Would that chance only come after she gave birth to this bastard's three heirs?

Ahhh .. how many years would it take her to accomplish the job?

Oh, wait... She now remembered that she must immediately find a witch to help her so that she could conceive twins or even triplet so that she wouldn't need to waste time in this castle. If she could do it in one go.. then, by next year, she would be a free woman!

FREEDOM would taste so sweet. Plus, she would get her kingdom back.

With that in mind, she finally decided to ask Mars for permission to be allowed out of the castle. She needed to find the witch to help her.

The prince had said that he would not keep Emmelyn locked in the castle. She was allowed the freedom to go out. However, the girl needed to tell Mars if she wanted to go somewhere.

"Mars .." Emmelyn suddenly stopped in her tracks. Her hand gripped Mars's hand tightly, making the young man startled. He didn't expect this temperamental girl to take the initiative to touch his hand.

"What do you want?" asked the young man with his golden irises staring into Emmelyn's eyes closely. This girl must want something, he thought.

[There is no way she is holding my hand for nothing.]

"Why do you immediately think I want something?" Emmelyn sounded offended as if she was being accused of a crime she had not committed.

[Damn. This bastard just knows I want something from him.]

"Don't you want something?" Mars asked back.

Emmelyn frowned. "I do want something. But I don't like it when you immediately accuse me like that."

Mars massaged his forehead. He turned and looked at Emmelyn. "What is it?"

Emmelyn took a deep breath. Well, there was no need to stand on ceremony with this prince. After all, it seemed like he had gotten to know her very well after spending a lot of time together over the past two days.

This bastard had seen her body in all its glory, and he knew her inside and out now... why would she hesitate to ask this man something?

"You told me that you are going with your troops to Southberry for battle exercise," said the girl. "You are leaving in a few days, right?"

Mars lips curved slightly upwards at this beautiful girl's question. To his delight, Emmelyn remembered his schedule. What a very caring future wife, he thought.

[Ahh .. could it be that this girl already likes me secretly so that she pays attention to everything I say?]

"That's right," Mars replied calmly.

"How long will you be away?" asked Emmelyn in a probing tone.

"About a week," said Mars. "The trip there takes two days and three days of exercise. With the return trip, I will be away for a total of seven days."

"Ohh ..." Emmelyn took a deep breath. "I will definitely feel bored of staying in the castle alone."

"Do you want to come with me?" asked Mars.

Emmelyn hurriedly shook her head.

[Uh, no fucking way. If I come along, you'll fuck me at nights, and your thousands of soldiers would hear the noise we'd be making. How could I face them after that?]

"So, what do you want?" Mars asked again.

He was actually a little disappointed that Emmelyn didn't want to come with him. He wanted to show her some nice places in Southberry. The vineyards there were so beautiful.

"You said I was free to go anywhere, as long as I asked your permission. Since you're going out of town for a week anyway, I ask you to give me the freedom to explore some of the villages around this castle. I want to visit some of my friends."

"You have friends around here?" asked Mars with furrowed brows. This girl was from Wintermere, a colony quite far from here. How could she claim to have friends nearby?

Emmelyn immediately hit the man's arm impatiently. "Of course, I have friends. I am not like you who don't have any friends."

Mars looked closely at Emmelyn. What this girl said just now was not true. She didn't know that actually, Mars had two good friends. However, it still hurt to hear the girl he liked thought nobody liked him enough to be his friends.

Mars removed Emmelyn's hand from his arm and then resumed his steps.

"Hey .. hey !! Wait for me, will you?" exclaimed Emmelyn, jogging along Mars's footsteps.

"You can go, but two bodyguards and Roshan will accompany you wherever you go. You must not go alone," said Mars without turning his head.

Emmelyn's safety as the mother of his children was paramount. Apart from the three people, he would also send an army of bodyguards to shadow Emmelyn wherever the girl went.

Meanwhile, Emmelyn could only frown and massage her temple.

[Damn. He must have thought I am going to run away. So he insisted that I always have bodyguards with me.]

However, this was actually big progress. Emmelyn was free to go out without Mars. She would not be confined to this castle. It would be really boring if she couldn't go anywhere.

Finally, the girl decided to accept his conditions.

"Fine."

"Good."

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From the author:

Ahh... I know you miss our shameless couple. I do too! I'm sorry for not being able to update as frequently as I wanted.

I will end one of my books next week, "The Prince Who Cannot Fall In Love & The Missing Heiress" and am still raking my brain on how to create the perfect ending. So.. it is hard to divide my attention to other books (I have 3 ongoing ones, 4 with this book T_T)

I think, once I get that out of the way, I can focus on "The Cursed Prince". We will have many interesting events to come.

How Emmelyn tried to engage a witch to make her pregnant with twins or triplet.. lol, she is so brave, aye? Being pregnant with one is already a challenge, yet, she wanted to go with many babies at once.

Will she make it or will she get pregnant with only one baby?

Plus, we will have the royal ball to celebrate Mars' birthday and it is how Mars will introduce his lady to the public. Will the queen and king like Emmelyn?

By the way, this is a bit of a back story to this book.

Actually, Mars and Emmelyn were characters from a story I wrote 20 years ago but I never finished. I think I can still find the book where I handwrote the chapters. However, the story is very different from this one.

That other story was about Prince Aristide who was caught by pirates when he was 5 years old. There was a coup in the Genoa kingdom and his aunt escaped with the young prince to save his life.

They were disguised as commoners and took the ship to flee to Gekko, the neighboring kingdom. Unfortunately, their ship was attacked by pirates. The aunt was missing and the little boy was caught by their attackers. The rebellion in Genoa was eventually extinguished and the monarchs were saved, but the prince and his aunt disappeared without a trace.

The king and queen didn't know their only son was raised by the pirate leader who adopted the boy and turned him into the most feared pirate when he turned 17.

He was named Mars, from the god of war. Mars was so good-looking that people would think he was an angel, but soon find out he was the devil once he attacked their ships.

Mars, The Pirate Lord, was famous on the sea and the land and so many kingdoms worked together to catch him, including Genoa, where he came from, and where his parents were the monarchs.

One day, he went ashore and met the most beautiful girl he had ever seen. He followed her and found out she was the princess from the Gekko kingdom. Princess Emmelyn was actually betrothed to Prince Aristide since they were children. As you may remember, Aristide was Mars. However, they didn't know this fact.

Anyway.... since I have left that story untouched for 20 years, I figured it's such a waste not to use the names. So, that's why now we have this book.

IF I have time in the future, I might revisit the story and write it/continue it so you can read it. I will have to find new names for the characters though because I already used them here.

What do you think? Will you read it if I wrote the story and publish it here?