Life as a Royal’s Breeding Partner

Chapter 212 – Letter From Kelly

Dinner calmed down after that. I don't know if I can really call it progress. It's just another promise that lacks a date, and even Shimmer refuses to give me a date on these things. But with the lack of commands, I can say for certain that if I don't have my Mother by the time this collar falls off, I can find a way to sink this house's chance at the throne.

That is then, and right now, I get to play with my kids again. Done with their little nap and feeding, they are awake and ready to laugh with their Mother—or at their Mother. They seem to love it when I make silly faces, and I know Aurora was messing with me behind my back, their little voices screeching out while I did nothing.

"Alzi, may I join you?" Shimmer asks.

"Sure."

"Thank you. I am happy Elora woke up and removed most of your commands," Shimmer says. Picking up a daughter. "Your kids are just a few months away from the ceremony. They'll get their names after that."

"Why wait?"

"Relic of the past when kids would die often shortly after their birth. I know they are thinking of some names for the kids already. Lottie grabbed the lightning elemental immediately as her precious baby. Then you went and gave her another one," Shimmer says, my child squishing into her stomach and laughing.

"The kids seem to like you a lot," I say, picking up a kid as well. Will they do that to me?

The kid does push into my stomach when I hold her near my womb. Can she feel her youngest sibling?

"Oh, yes, it seems they do," Shimmer says, shifting the kids up against her giant breasts instead. I catch Aurora matching us and finding the same thing. The baby loves the little kids in her womb.

"Are you pregnant?" I ask. "Is that why you liked the bathes?"

"I liked the bathes because I like the heat, and I liked helping my wife relax. It has nothing to do with kids or being pregnant," Shimmer says. "You should have the skill to see if I'm pregnant, right?"

I march over to the annoying woman and give her a kiss on the cheek. The only thing that shows is a bit of pain in her back. I thought mana helped with large breasts?

"Just pain in your back," I say.

"Yes, I got a little banged up in my mission. I'll be better in a few days," Shimmer says. "All of us trying to not burden you and then we just pile on an emotional burden with our secrets. Sorry. But there is no need to help me. The pain is a good reminder that I can be beaten."

"Whatever you want," I say. Is Shimmer hiding things or not? The Princess had commanded me not to get them pregnant, so if she had tried, the collar would've done something about it. But she is almost as strong as the Princess, so maybe she has a way around that? She was able to issue commands to me.

The little ones in our arms didn't care much about our conversation. And they aren't wrong; I'm here to play with my kids, not wonder if I have more on the way.

If Shimmer is pregnant, then so what? She told me nine months, she would be in my bed and letting me fill her up. If she wants kids so bad that she'll do it behind my back, I can make sure to fill her up plenty then.

If she does a good job begging for forgiveness.

"Will we have to wait on names as well?" I ask.

"Yes, dear. We will have to wait as well," Shimmer answers. It's stupid. I'll just name the kid anyway, and they can try to change it.

"Yes, Mommy will win out, won't she cutie?" I say in my best baby voice, getting a little squeak out of the kid. "My kids are so smart."

...

It still doesn't take long for the babies to fall asleep again. Even out of the womb, they have so much growing to do. We didn't get to use the letter as a bedtime story, which is probably best. Aurora forgot how quickly the babies fall asleep when they are just a few weeks old.

I finally got a bath. Shimmer went running off, so I didn't get to ask for a hot bath. Fluvis only has a single bath, and it likely can't stand that heat anyway. But it was nice, just Aurora pampering me. Shyla has a lot of work to do to fix the clothing and come up with new outfits that consider my new need for less clothing.

I guess I can stop calling her lazy.

"Can you read the letter?" I ask, curled up in my bed using a pillow as a teddy bear.

"Yes, my Lady," Aurora says.

Dear Alzi,

I am happy to hear from your new family. I am living with your Mother and her wives, Mai, Yuki, and Nakuma. Yuki and Nakuma often try to complete missions. I was warned a maid would have to read this out, so I will leave it at that.

Proof I am who you are thinking about. Then I will get to your Mother.

I joined the brothel shortly after you were bought. My main job was to help you deliver kids, help tell when you would be ready for the next breeding, and keep you alive after some of the more disgusting parties.

The shortest way to prove it was Mai was with you in the last birth. She fought with me to let you breastfeed some of the newborns while you were giving birth. Eventually, I gave in, and she helped you feed some kids.

Others would be I helped you when Yuki came back nearly dead from some mission she messed up on.

I hope that is enough. I do not know what memories you have that only I would know. Many of those would be events that terrible collar will hide from your mind and I do not wish to be the reason you remember them now.

Your Mother misses you a lot. We all do. She is healthy and growing big. Mai is looking big as well. She is short, and the baby only has one way to grow. We are doing well and trying to find a way to get to you.

Do not worry. Yuki has a silly plan and should have told you that. I do not know if it is going to work, but we are trying.

I was told I may be invited to teach you about being a midwife. I would love to do that and could bring you some things from your Mother or even try to bring her along to use as an example. She is a high-risk pregnancy with her age and twins.

Love you,
Kelly

"That is what it says, my Lady. I did add some words to help it flow better and fix some spelling errors, but that should be the meaning of the letter," Aurora says. "Are those facts true?"

"Yes," I say. "All of them."

"Very well. I will see what I can do to have her teach you," Aurora says, putting the letter in her ring.

I need somewhere to store things. I can't let them have all my things, or how could I ever leave them?

A knock comes on the door. Just as I was hoping to sleep.

"Lady Alzi Princess Elora has invited you to her bed," a maid calls in.

Do I give her another chance? She has been nice over the last bit.

"Is she near some of my kids?" I ask. I will not miss out on time with my kids, even if it tires me out.

"Yes, she would help you feed them tonight if you wish her to," the maid says.

"Fine," I say. I can give that stupid Princess a chance to remove the commands—more than she deserves, but fine. I have some evidence they are keeping their word on things.

"Remember my Lady. If you need anything, a maid will be outside. You can leave if you wish," Aurora says. "I hope this night is better than the last one."

I just moved down another door. Our rooms share a wall, apparently. How good are they at keeping sound inside them?

Inside, the Princess is in a robe, her eyes bloodshot, and her hair frizzled again.

"Thank you, Alzi, for coming," the Princess says, shuffling off the bed and falling at my feet. Her body is in some kind of bow. "I've made many mistakes with you. From the moment I took you till this very second. I've been an idiot, asshole, and I'm sorry. I wish I could give you a date that everything turns out fine for you. That I can take the collar off and marry your Mother. But I can not. I still owe it to my people to ascend to the throne, and I owe it to you to marry your Mother. I can't promise when either will happen or the order. I can promise that the family will take steps to make it happen. On the wedding night, normally, a man gets to pick a wife or two to take to bed and have fun as they wish. Instead I will have that be every wedding this family is a part of to make up for my failure before. Tonight, I am yours. If you wish to have sex, we may. If you wish to have me sleep on the floor, I will. You will be my Lord tonight."

"Pregnancy?" I ask. Maybe I can see if I can get someone with a lot of mana pregnant again.

"If you wish, my Lord."

"If I do to you what I did to the ice bitch?"

"I am sorry to threaten you, my Lord, but my Mother will not let you go unpunished for that. You will have to help me live through it, or you will be made a true slave. That is just the facts," Elora says, her body trembling at my feet.

"Well, lucky for you, I'm tired," I say. "I would love to hold you to sleep. I think that will help you relax unless it would be better for you to hold me."

"I would love that, my Lord," Elora says, getting to her feet. "Thank you for giving me another chance."

"I'm just tired and wouldn't mind a teddy bear. People work a lot better than pillows for it," I say. Can't have her thinking I like her.

"No need to wait then," Elora says, moving into the bed. I scoot in behind her and close my eyes.

Am I actually going to not have sex with a woman while in her bed?

...

I actually made it to the middle of the night without fucking the Princess. All the way to my little ones crying out for food.

The Princess even fed one of them, and we had that walk again to settle them down. A maid showed me how to change a diaper, which is mildly better than having a monster spill its guts out next to you.

Then the Princess just asked to switch places, letting me make it to the morning without sex. It does help that Elora really wasn't in the mood, working through her torment instead.