NIEL POV

"Should I come with you?" Jerah asked as she putting my staff on the hotel cabinet.

I looked at her and shook my head then continue tapping Reigh's butt.

We are at the hotel and I'm trying to put Reigh to sleep for an hour and finally she closed her eyes. She is excited to enter the palace tomorrow that despite how tired she is playing with Hayes and Max, she can't sleep. She's hyper the whole day, that I have to scold her just to put her in bed.

"Are you sure?" Jerah asked again.

"I will be fine Jerah. Beside stop acting as if you are worried about me. If I know, you just want to see Prince Hayes."

"I don't!" She hissed at me making me giggle.

"If you want to talk to him, he's taking rest outside."

We both look at the room door. Max is standing there, with his arm cross on his chest and his body leaning on the door.

"Good idea." Jerah immediately answer. She put down my clothes and went out the room. She didn't even bow to Max.

I shook my head. When it comes to Prince Hayes, Jerah tend to forget anything and everything. She is whipped and bewitched by the prince.

"Can we talk?" Max asked as he made his way inside the room.

"About what?" I asked as cold as I can. I even shift my gaze to Reigh who is trying her best not to leap out of the bed. Her body is tense. I know she want to play with Max again but that will not gonna happen. She knew how strict I am when it comes to their sleep and nap time. She don't want me to get mad because she knew what will happen.

"Everything. About the kids, about us." He sit on the other side of the bed.

"About us? Is there even US?" I asked.

"What do you mean?"

I let out a deep sigh. Since last week, when I was discharge from the hospital, we never had a talk. I even went back to Idris to arrange everything. Actually, he came with me that time as if he don't have a kingdom to rule.

When I went back to Cardial with Jerah, he also come with us with all his men scorting us. He go with what I want and I did not heard any complained from him.

I treated him as nothing the whole time. As if he is not existing. I never talk to him. Not once, but he remained silence. He never started any conversation between us. Only today. Seems like his patiencr run out already.

To be honest, I don't want to talk to him. As much as possible, I want to avoid him. That is the only thing I can think as a solution in our situation. Less talk, less worries.

"Just tell me what you want to say Max." I said. I make sure that I am sound irate.

I heard him let out a deep sigh. "I want a good conversation with you. I don't want to shock you anymore. So please, talk to me." Max plead.

"Papi, talk to daddy." Reigh butt in. I glared at her. She look at me using her puppy eye that looks like almost at edge of crying. "Please papi. Talk to daddy okay?"

"Did I ever teach you to butt in at adult conversation?" I asked Reigh.

"No. You said that it is wrong to butt in at the elders conversation. But you also teach us to reason out if we know that we are in the right side. You also said that not because you are older than us, everything you do and said is right and we are always wrong." Reigh reason out.

"And what is your point?"

She swallowed. She look scared of the way I glared at her but she didn't even flinch on her stare to me.

"Is it wrong to talk to dad? I mean, what is wrong of talking to daddy?"

"You know nothing Natasha Reigh."

"Of course papi, I didn't know everything. I didn't even know what happened to the both of you since we are still inside daddy's reproductice organ. But that's not the point here papi."

She sit beside me with and look at me directly. "The point here is, you are both our parents. You should be in good terms right? You two should talk and clear everything as much as you can. Will it kill you papi? Will it hurt you to talk to daddy?"

I was stunned on what Reigh said. I stared at her thinking if my daughter is really a 5 years old kid. Seriously? How can she even think that way? Did I feed her a wrong milk when she was just a baby? Did she eat any expired food?

"I'll sleep on my own papi. Get out of the room, both of you and talk." She said again then she turned her back at me and lay beside Ryu. Ryu hug her immediately and tap her shoulder lightly.

I looked at them. What Reigh says hit a spot on me.

Will it kill me to talk to Max? Actually it's not unless he decide to kill me.

Will it hurt me?

Physically? No.

Mentally? No.

Emotionally? Depends on what we are going to talk to.

"Niel." Max called me.

"Fine. Let's go outside. I will call Jerah first to accompany them."

"Don't bother aunt Jerah papi. She is molding her love story, so let her. We will sleep on our own." Ryu said while his eyes is close and his left hand is tapping Reigh's shoulder.

"Fine." I said, surrendering to all of them. They teamed me up. What else can I do?

I walk out the room and went straight the veranda that was connected to the living room of the presidential suites we are in. I inhaled the evening breeze to calm down myself.

"Is talking to me that hard to you?" Max said from my behind.

"Talk." I just said without looking at him.

"I miss you." My breath hitched as Max snake his arm on my waist and kiss my neck without my consent. He inhaled in my nape that made me shiver under his embrace.

"What do you want Max?" I'm holding myself tight so that I won't melt in his arm.

Damn this king! I thought we are going to talk? Does talking required a back hug now?

"You and my kids." He answered still hugging me from the back and inhaling the sent of my nape.

"For what?" I look at the dark sky, trying to hold everything in mine. Why can't I push him away?

Oh yeah right self. It's still him who owned your heart and your body. Your heart is taking over everything. Fuck you self! Damn it!

"Do I need a reason to want the three of you?"

I removed his hand in my waist and turned to face him.

Bravo self. You made it.

"I can understand that you want the twin. Will I never asked on how did you know about the two. I will never asked how did you know that they are yours. You're the king after all. You all have your resources. If you want to tell me about it, I'm willing to listen. After all, I think I need to know it.  But me? You want me? I can't see any reason for you to want me."

"I want you because I love you. I need you and I love you that's why I want you. Would that be enough reason?"

"Why? You love me? It's love not loved. Not past tense." I scratch my nape. I can't think clear. I can't get what he mean to say.

"You are my past, my present and my future Niel. It's only you."

I let out a deep breath. "Can we talk in other day. I can't really get you." I said.

I attempt to pass to him but he grab my hand and pinned me on the wall. He kissed me right there.

I pushed him away. "Max, what are you doing?" I hissed at him.

"Kissing my queen." He answered me in a very low tone.

"What?"

"I said I'm kissing my queen, my other half."

I let out a deep sigh. "Let's sleep Max. You're tired. You're not thinking right anymore."

"Who said that?"

"Of course me, unless you are seeing someone I can't see."

Max laugh. I put a distance between us but still not enough for me to escape.

"I'm not tired okay. I'm still thinking right. I kiss my queen and my other half."

"If someone will hear you, this will be a mess."

"No one will dare to oppose what I said."

"How sure are you?"

"1000%."

I just rolled my eyes. He is too confident.

"Look Niel. No one will opposed on what I said. Even all of the minister will hear my words today, they will not complain about it."

I looked at him, confused and curious.

He caress my face and put his forehead over me.

"No one will complain because the night before you left me, I already declared to them that you are my queen."