Kian's POV

"It was great being here, Kian. I'll always keep in contact with you all." Jane says as we all stand at the palace gates.

It's been two days since Jane was here and today she's going back to their kingdom.

"We feel great to have you here as well, Jane." I reply with a smile.

She nods and bids goodbye to all of us before getting into the carriage with her son. When they settle inside, they wave their hands to us from the small window before the carriage starts. As the carriage moves, we wait until it's out of our sight and with one last look, we turn back and head back into the palace. While my parents goes to their chamber, we make our way towards us.

"Mama, carry me please." Gia requests Archie as till until now she was walking.

"I'll carry you, baby." I state and immediately lift her up in my hands.

"Papa, I wanted mama to carry me, not you." Gia calls out with a pout.

"Because mama is not allowed to carry you, I'm doing it instead." I say and look at Archie to see him pouting just like her.

"Why is that?" She asks and I chuckle looking at both of the pouting people.

"Mama is already carrying babies so he can't carry you from now on." I reply to her.

After Archie and me finding out about his pregnancy, the next day I told my parents before announcing it to the whole kingdom. It's such a happy moment and I felt there's no reason to keep it secret. When I told my parents, my mother was on cloud nine. She couldn't believe she's going to have another grandbaby, I mean grandbabies. Being so happy, she rewarded everyone in the kingdom with golden coins. Everyone is so happy regarding the news and congratulated us.

"Babies? Where are they? I can't see them." My thoughts come to a stop when I hear Gia's voice.

"For now they're inside your mama's tummy. You can't see them now. In nine months, you can see them." I tell her happily at the thought of seeing my babies after nine months.

"Baby, what's wrong? Why are you crying?" After hearing my answer she starts crying.

I query her instantly and see Archie watching her worriedly.

"Papa, mama always get tired when he carries me. I'm only one and he used to carry me only few times. But now he's carrying more babies and for nine months. I feel bad for mama. Can't you help him carry them instead?" She cries out.

As if on cue, I hear another cry and turn to Archie to see him crying. Surprised by Gia's words and Archie's cries, I hurriedly walk us to our room as the guards stare at both of them weirdly. When we finally reach the room, I close the doors immediately and settle Gia on the bed before pulling Archie to sit by my side.

"Gia, baby, if I can I would help your mama but I can't. They'll grow in his tummy. But you don't worry or feel sad because I'll take good care of him, okay?" I assure her hoping she would listen.

And to my relief, she nods at me. So I wipe her tears and carry her to her room so that I can put her to sleep. As it's already time for bed, she sleeps without delay and I pull the blanket over her before leaving the room. When I reach our room, I lock the door and walk to the bed where Archie is sitting and still crying.

"What's wrong? Why are you crying so much?" I sit in front of him and wipe his tears as I ask him.

"Because Gia cried for me, I couldn't help but cry." He wails before moving forward and sitting on my lap, hugging me tightly.

"Is that the only reason?" I query as I lay us on the bed while holding him securely. I know it's not the only reason.

He stays silent for few minutes before telling me what actually made him cry, "when she said how hard it's going to be to carry more kids, I got scared. I never told you before but when I carried Gia, I really had a hard time. It was even worse while giving birth. I decided I'll never get pregnant again if I ever happen to get back to you. I felt like I would die any time, that experience was scary, Kian."

"Why you didn't tell me this before?" I question gently rubbing his hair.

"When you asked for another baby, I didn't think anything all I wanted was to give you what you want. That's why I didn't tell you. Don't think I'm regretting my decision, it's just that I'm scared of how it's going to happen." He responds as his slowly stops sobbing.

"I'm sorry, Archie. You had to go through everything alone and it left a scar on you. I shouldn't have asked for another baby." I utter feeling guilty of everything.

"Don't be sorry." He says before continuing hesitantly, "Kian, what if all our babies turns out to be girls? I should try until we get a son, right?"

"What nonsense is that? That's never going to happen, I promise this is going to be your last pregnancy. Even if we have all girls, that wouldn't change a thing." I disagree to his words because after knowing his fear of pregnancy, there's no way this is going to happen again.

"But we need a boy who becomes your successor and takes the throne after you." He states as if it's the law.

"To become my successor, it's not mandatory for my child to be a boy. You know even Princess's exist and that there are kingdoms which are ruled by them?" I call out making him nod his head, "yeah, so you don't worry about anything else. Don't think about unnecessary things, it's not good for your health nor for babies."

"Okay, I won't cause any issues to the babies." He agrees yawning.

"Let's sleep now." With that being our last conversation, we drift off of to sleep.

The following morning, I wake up from my sleep and find Archie still sleeping with his head on my shoulder. With a heartfelt smile, I place a kiss on his head and gently put his head on the pillow. I sit up and cover his body with the blanket but stop when my eyes land on his exposed stomach. The thin nightwear pulled up during his sleep and revealing his skin. Though, he's still not showing yet I can't help but gaze at it lovely. Touching his stomach with my palm, I smoothly rub on his flesh with a smile.

"Im not showing yet, doesn't it feel just normal? You can't even feel the babies." I hear his raspy voice and look at him to find him woken up.

"I know that but I still want to touch. Afterall the babies are still there." I comment finally pulling my hand from him and moving closer to him before planting a peck on his lips.

"Good morning! Did you sleep well?" I greet him.

"Good morning to you too. And yes, I slept well." He answers while yawing and rubbing his eyes.

"Rest for sometime more. I'll go and take a bathe." I tell him as I get down the bed.

"I don't want to sleep anymore. I want to eat. Come on, take me with you. I get freshen up and eat breakfast." He says and gives his hands to me like a baby asking me to carry him.

Chuckling at him, I nod as I lift him in my hands and carry him to the bathe area. Together, we get washed up and get dressed before going to eat breakfast. On the way to the dining area, we go to Gia's room and take her along with us as rema already bathed her and got her ready. We eat the breakfast while having some conversation in between and when we're done, I decide to go to work but before that I help Archie by taking Gia to our room.

"King, queen's parents are here." One of the guard informs stopping us as we walk to the room.

"Take them to the room. I'll meet them later." I tell him and retrieve our walk.

"Why are my parents here? How come you didn't notify me about this before?" Archie questions me surprised after reaching our room.

"I wrote a letter to them after finding you. Though they never questioned me about you after you left, I felt it's my responsibility to let them know that you're fine now." I explain to him as I let Gia down and she goes to play with her play paints.

"You didn't have to because it didn't matter to them anyway. I doubt they even knew about me leaving you for three years." He mumbles sitting on the bed.

"Don't say that, if they're not good towards you it's there own willingness. But we have to do our duty. I only informed them but I didn't ask them to come. Maybe they wanted to see you, that's why they're here." I try to make him feel better but my words seem ineffective.

"Forgot about them, take rest and look after Gia. I'm going to work now." I tell him diverting the topic.

"You'll meet them, right? I want to come along with you." He says and stands up, walking to me.

"Archie.." I was going to convince him to stay back but he stops me.

He doesn't have a good relationship with his family. I don't know why they even wanted to visit us but I couldn't say no when they asked me in the letter if they could visit us. Knowing Archie's mindset towards them and in his current position, I don't want him to meet them. For whatever reason they're here for, I'll talk to them. Archie doesn't need to meet them if that only leads to bad consequences.

"I want to meet them." He persist and I sigh before nodding at him.

Asking rema to look after Gia, we both head to the guest room where his parents are resting. When we go there, I find my parents in the room as they four sat at the tea table. As they hear our footsteps, they turn to us. While my parents smile at us, his parents stare at him with unknown expression. I grab Archie's hand in mine and give it a light squeeze. He looks at me and I smile, assuring him. When he returns the smile, I lead us to the couch that's sitting few inches away from the tea table and take our seats.

"Greetings, king. How are you?" His father calls out in a respectful way.

"I'm fine. How are you?" I ask him and when he nods, I ask him the reason for their visit, "what's the reason behind this visit?"

"It's been long since we haven't seen Archie. After you send the letter, we wanted to visit once and see him, and also our granddaughter." His mother replies.

The last time, they were here was on our wedding day and that was last time they saw him. Now, them saying they wanted to see him doesn't correlate at all. But the genuine smile they had on their faces when she mentioned about Gia, makes me understand the situation. I sigh as I think of how this is going to end.