The man with the beautiful silver hair wore a broad grin on his lips. Although another person, who was not his wife, was now privy to the secret of his affair, but he knew he could trust his younger brother. Otherwise, his head would no longer be on his shoulders.

"Will you leave us alone, brother?" It was more of a command than a request to his younger brother.

Daeron looked doubtfully first at Aegon and then at Edith. He was curious by nature and would love to hear the conversation from the two of them, and at the same time he didn't trust Aegon and didn't want to leave Edith alone with him. "No." Therefore, he answered stubbornly.

Aegon sighed annoyed and threw his head into the neck while he took a deep breath. As he did so, he looked like a little boy again.

"It's okay... we'll talk more later?" said Edith, smiling at Daeron.

It took another moment before Daeron was convinced of her statement and finally stood up. "I would very much like to continue our conversation." He replied with an implied wink, then left the room.

Only when the door slammed into the lock did Aegon walk up to his beloved and join her on the couch. The young woman sat as straight as a knife, and her dress suddenly felt even tighter than it had moments ago. Aegon was the only one of the two who smiled.

As if it were a matter of course, he then leaned in and tried to kiss her, but Edith turned her head away in offense. Now his smile disappeared as well. "What?" he asked.

"I don't want to kiss you." She answered simply and slid further away from him.

Aegon clicked his tongue and shook his head in amusement. "Don't tell me you're still mad about Helaena being blessed with a child? Aemond told me about it." He said almost sarcastically.

"You didn't speak to me for over a week after that announcement and now you expect me to come when you call?" Her voice sounded just as sarcastic as his, even though she was starting to get angry. All these days she had been trying to suppress her feelings, but seeing him again now made it worse. "Even Helaena doesn't talk to me anymore." She added more quietly.

"I think this is a problem between Helaena and you, but I don't see a problem between the two of us." Replied the man.

Edith would like to know if he was really that ignorant or just pretending now. How wrong could one be about a person? She should have known better.

"You've been drinking again." She said, not responding to his statement, because then she would probably yell at him. The scent of wine clung almost constantly to the eldest prince, though it had improved since Edith's arrival in King's Landing, it seemed to have worsened again. "You stink."

"Don't tell me that bothers you now, too?" he sighed, annoyed. You could almost hear his eye roll at that.

They stood at a distance from each other and even though they were drawn to each other, something was also distancing them. You could almost hear and feel the crackling in the air. It was really uncomfortable.

"I'm just saying..."

"You're always just saying, Edith." He quickly interrupted her and got up from his seat to take a few steps across the room. "It's not like that."

"What are you trying to tell me?" she asked in horror, defiantly crossing her arms in front of her chest. She was unaware that she was showing off her breasts and that this distracted Aegon.

"Just be honest with me for once now and don't give me empty promises, because I know you can't keep them..." he sighed, seeking eye contact with her. His violet eyes looked broken and sad, while his heart was already lost. "Do you still feel the same for me as I do for you, my love? Or was it all a lie again?"

His words made Edith swallow. The lump in her throat grew larger, as did her guilty conscience. She knew she had made too many promises, which she could never keep because many contradicted each other, but still it had felt right every time.

"Have you been playing with me, Edith?" he added.

He stood in front of her with hands on his hips while she still sat on the couch. Her folded arms had come loose by now and she was nervously kneading her sweaty hands. She really didn't want to have this conversation now, but it was too late for that and she knew the end of this beautiful thing would come.

Beautiful things never stayed long in Edith's life.

"Why should I have played with you? Do you really think I would be so stupid and take this risk with you for fun?" Without understanding, she shook her head as she spoke. "Aegon, not only have you twisted my head and changed my world view, no, you have my heart as well. Don't you know that?"

With tears in her eyes, she stood up and took a few steps toward him, but the steps she took toward him, he took back to put distance between them again.

The young woman would have loved to scream when she saw him walking away back.

"Don't you believe me?" she asked softly.

"No, to be honest, I don't believe you anymore." He looked at her with serious eyes, finding it hard to maintain eye contact. "Seducing me was all part of your plan!"

Edith swallowed again. "What kind of plan? Aegon... please don't say that. You can't be serious!" she sighed.

"Would I say it otherwise?" he said, proud that his voice didn't break. "You are a liar, Edith Targaryen! A liar! What are you planning? I demand you tell me what you are planning!"

"Aegon, my love, you are drunk." She replied in a shaky voice. It hurt terribly to hear his words. Edith's plan was to prevent a war, but it had never been her plan to fall in love with Aegon.

Neither had she wanted to win his love in order to destroy the Greens.

"Because otherwise I wouldn't have the courage to tell you." He explained brokenly and sat down on the couch table.

Edith would have loved to take him in her arms, but she knew he would never have allowed that.

"It had never been my plan to give you my heart or to take yours. Please forgive me." The heartbreak was beyond description. It felt like it was tearing the young woman apart and like she was on fire at the same time.

But the fire would never have hurt her as much as her own feelings.

"Why didn't you ever tell me about Helaena's condition?" she asked him so quietly that he barely understood her. For a while no one had said anything, and Edith was now leaning against the armrest of the couch. There was still a great distance between them.

"Because I knew you would hate me if I did."

The young woman laughed at his statement. She would never have and could never hate him, especially because of an innocent child.

"A child is no reason to hate someone... maybe I would have been jealous like I am now, but I would never have hated you or Helaena because of it. After all, you two are married...and not us." She confessed to him honestly.

Her hands were still sweaty, so she wiped her hands on her skirt now. Her heart was still beating so fast and way too loud and her sickness and fear of losing Aegon was increasing.

"You're jealous?" he asked curiously.

"Of course I'm jealous, Aegon." Edith sighed.

Again there was silence for a moment until Aegon sought the word.

"I'm jealous, too, Edith." Murmured the silver-haired one. "You will bear Aemond's children someday, and it will tear me apart."

Her hands automatically wanted to reach to the small bulge on her belly, but she managed to stop herself in time. Daeron's statement had unsettled her quite a bit, and she herself couldn't remember the last time she had bled. If Edith was really with a child, she would have a big problem and it would make her task more difficult. She was terribly afraid that she even thought about going to see a maester.

"Aemond is my husband and it is my duty to have his children, just as it is Helaena's duty to bear yours." she commented on his statement, even though she knew how much it would hurt him.

"And for that very reason, you can't blame me or her. You have no right to be jealous, because you should know that I would do anything for you." replied Aegon, avoiding her eyes and staring at the ground. "My children will someday sit on the throne. You should be happy when Helaena gives us heirs."

"Your children? Your sister Rhaenyra's children will take the throne one day, not yours." she reminded him.

"Half-sister." He corrected her, then Aegon stood up from the table and finally approached Edith. "But you have already understood me correctly. My children." he said with some emphasis. He obviously didn't seem to like her statement. "Your and my children would have changed the world, but you chose otherwise-"

"It hadn't been my decision to marry Aemond! You know I only ever wanted you-" she interrupted him breathlessly. Now that he was so close to her, her breath caught.

"You made your decision when you traveled to Dragonstone, Edith."

"I had no other choice! Your mother would never have accepted me as your second wife, and that's no secret." She sighed powerlessly. Her shoulders sagged in hurt, and she didn't hold her head up as high as usual either.

"It doesn't make any difference now, does it?" he sighed angrily. "We should end whatever is between us. As a future king, I have to take responsibility."

He had once confided in her that he didn't want the throne, but his statements now contradicted that.

"I don't quite understand... Since when do you want to be king?" she asked him cautiously, taking a step toward him so that the two were now standing very close to each other. "What's going on with you anyway? Why do you want to end it? Why now?"

Aegon was silent, thinking long and hard about an answer, almost as if his drunken head didn't understand her words. "Because I love her." His answer put another stab in her heart.

"No..." She could only shake her head in disbelief. "I don't believe you."

"Do you doubt my love for my wife? This is treason! " the man shouted, stunned. Edith winced and took a step backwards - he had never yelled at her like that before and it scared her.

"What are you going to do now? Hang me for treason?" she asked him challengingly, her heart beating so fast that she felt dizzy and could hardly breathe.

It hurt him as much as it hurt her; the whole situation was absurd. He loved this woman and yet this was exactly a situation he was creating. He was ending what was so precious to him and what had kept him alive and almost detached him from alcohol.

But only almost.

"Maybe I really should do this! You seduced me and-"

"I seduced you? I think our relationship was mutual, Aegon!"

"You kissed me in that shitty brothel!" he tried to talk his way out of it, but he knew he had been involved himself.

She had fallen for him first, but he fell harder. That's how their relationship had been, and the other way around it will end. He falls first, but she will fall harder.

"And you returned the kiss! You returned everything, as well as I returned everything from you." She retorted against his reproaches. Angrily, she clawed her hands into the fabric of her dress. " Why did you change your mind? Why don't you want me anymore?" she asked in a shaky voice.

The words stuck in Aegon's throat and the room began to spin more and more, but that was much more due to all the wine he had drunk today.

He didn't want to answer, now he just wanted to leave and he did. He gave her a wide berth and staggered with unsteady steps to the door. Edith watched him closely and paid attention to his every step, fearing he would fall at any moment.

Of course, he did not lift his feet and tripped over the woven carpet. The young woman reacted quickly and more or less caught him. "Please be careful..."

"I don't need your help! I'm so sick of you!" the silver-haired one hissed at her and broke free from her grip. Unsteadily, this time he remained standing on both feet.

Edith stayed close beside him in case he staggered again. "But I need you. You know I need you-" she began in a soft whisper, but he quickly interrupted her. "But I don't need you anymore!" he said so quickly and unintelligibly that she barely understood him.

With her big blue violet eyes she looked at him and the tears in her eyes only burned more now. Again and again her heart broke.

"I still don't believe you." She forced herself to say. She didn't want to believe any of those evil words from him, these were not his words.

"Believe me or don't believe me, but I finally realized the truth." Aegon lifted his head up and tried to stand up straight to look more convinced. His eyes were still glazed over, but so much emotion could be seen in his violet eyes.

Much more emotion than he could handle and that scared him.

"The truth?" she asked cautiously. Edith wanted answers, even the ones that would hurt her. She knew so many kinds of pain by now but this one was new and she hated it more than any other.

"You're freaked out because Helaena is with a child... with my child!" he began.

" I did not freak out!" Edith shook her head as she interrupted him, but he didn't let her get a word in edgewise either and spoke before she could continue.

"You're freaked out!" He confirmed to her. "And I don't want to know how freaked out I'll be when you're expecting Aemond's child someday. You probably already are!" His voice trembled and his blurry gaze was fixed on her belly. With her dress on, nothing could be glimpsed, and even so the bulge was barely discernible.

He made Edith's thoughts waver. First Daeron and now Aegon accused her of pregnancy. Slowly she believed it too and she became afraid of the truth. Could she be with a child? She didn't know if she would be happy or not and that scared her even more.

"I'm not." She said therefore, however she sounded little convinced.

"Then soon, Edith. Perhaps as soon as next moon, or even next week!" he reproached her, thence to his lips firmly to keep from saying more.

"Do you remember what I told you at my sickbed? I don't want to have Amond's children, I want to have your children." She reminded him of her words not so long ago. It hadn't been that long ago, and yet the situation was very different now. Where had the love gone? Did he really not love her anymore? "You even promised me."

Aegon's heart broke. He would have liked to cry, as well as she was doing right now. Edith didn't realize it until the hot tears ran down her red cheeks. She quickly wiped it away, but Aegon had seen it anyway.

"I only promised you that because I thought you were dying. You were under the influence of healing potions." He answered her coldly and with a hardness sharper than any sword.

"You're joking, aren't you? I was poisoned, Aegon!"

"Do you actually believe every lie you tell yourself?"

"Lies?! You couldn't have drunk that much. Tell me what this is all about already! If you want to end it, then do it... but please don't keep torturing me here..." she begged him desperately. Her eyes were filled with tears again, but now she let them run and didn't bother to wipe them away. He should see how much he was hurting her.

"Well then, I'll end it here and now." He said seriously. Now he sounded clearer than the last few minutes. Aegon was still drunk and it showed, but because of his stern words, it was easy to forget. "It's already gone on far too long and I've risked too much."

Edith didn't even know what else to say. Everything had already been said and yet there was still so much she wanted to know. But she knew they wouldn't get any answers from him.

Just as she got no answers from anyone here.

Exhausted by her feelings, she sat down on the couch behind her. She propped her arm on the armrest and her head on her hand. "You're not the only one who took a risk, remember that." She sighed again. "But you're right, it was far too risky. Having a child by you would not have been a wise decision."

She didn't want to hurt him on purpose, but she wanted to give him some of her pain as well. Edith's pain was so deep that she was starting to get angry with disappointment.

Shocked, he looked at her and had to swallow hard. "A child of mine would have been a blessing." He then said sourly and just as disappointed as she was - although he had caused the situation.

"No, it wouldn't." She replied so quickly that she couldn't even think about her words. "You should pray that my child will have Aemond as a worthy father." Her hands were still shaking a bit as she stood up, so she buried her hands in the fabric of her skirt again. She didn't want to give it any more shame, she thought as she walked to the door.

Aegon stopped in between the table and the couch, looking after her like an abandoned dog. Outwardly he looked like a drunken fool, but inwardly he was breaking down at his own guilt. He kept telling himself he was doing the right thing.

"So you're pregnant already?" he wanted to know quietly, and at the same time he didn't want to know.

At the door, she stopped with her back to him and just turned her head slightly in his direction. "I haven't bled in a long time. We can all just pray for a blessing." She replied simply.

If he was hurting her, then she wanted to hurt him.

Aegon would eventually regret seducing Edith and then dropping her now that things were getting serious.

Before she could even leave first, he rushed past her without looking at her again or saying anything.

Stunned, she was left in the room and could only shake her head. Not only had he taken her heart, but now he didn't even give her the chance and the last dignity to storm out of the room.

Edith had returned everything, she had wanted him as much as he had wanted her. But she blamed him, because he could have been the reasonable one.

But when had Aegon Targaryen, second of his name, ever been reasonable?

***

oh what has he done... :(

S

hould Edith really be pregnant?
If so, should she keep it, abort it or lose it?

what do you think will happen now?

Have a good day/night♡♡
See you soon:)