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forevercaroline · 3 years ago

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French court chapter 2

For @klaroline-4ever who loves Lexi and Henri. @dumb-bitchculture who is my reign bestie. And @austennerdita2533 who loves Lexi and forbidden love.

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Claude pulls Lexi up on to an empty table and they start dancing. There has to be about five hundred people in the ball room. Tonight’s party doesn’t have a theme just have fun and make noise. Everyone is invited except Charles.

Henri was talking with some of the party guests when he spots his sister pull his fiancé up on to a table and they start dancing together drawing the eyes of the guys near the table. He makes his way over and looks up at them. “May I have a dance with the most beautiful woman in France.��

Lexi blushes as she looks down at him they share a smile as she counters. “I don’t know I’m waiting for the sexiest guy in France to ask me to dance.”

She winks at him, Claude jumps off the table as her brother climbs up on the table. He cups both sides of Lexi’s face so gently as he passionately kisses her.

Lexi’s arms go around his neck as his go around her waist, as they sway to the music on top of the table he tells her. “You look beautiful.”

“Thank you. You look very handsome yourself.”

Both blondes are dressed in party clothes, Lexi is in a short black dress with white heels on while Henri is in black jeans and a white tee shirt.

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Charles is walking down one of the corridors of the castle when he spots his fiancé Nicole leaning against the entrance to the ballroom. “Nicole, what’s wrong?”

He joins her and sees the party going on and his brother and Lexi dancing on a table. “Fifth one this week my love.” Nicole puts a hand on Charles chest to stop him from making a scene like he did with the first two parties, the third one a member of the privy council broke up and the forth party he had the guards break up. “What are you going to do?”

“Go have fun Nicole, this is going to be the last party my brother is throwing.” He kisses her on the forehead and grabs a drink off a passing server. He whispers in her ear and she nods.

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Everyone is dancing when the music stops dramatically everyone looks around to find that the speakers are soaked and the laptop that was playing the music also had a drink spilled on it.

While Claude ushers everyone out Henri and Lexi see if they can salvage the laptop or speakers they can’t they are ruined. “Charles?”

“I never saw Charles, I thought I saw Nicole though.”

“He’s getting Nicole to do his dirty work.” Henri can’t believe the stops his brother will go to. Using Nicole to do Charles dirty work because the king can’t be seen breaking up a third party. If the roles were reversed Henri would never use Lexi to break up Charles party.

Lexi tired from the party and being on edge living in the palace. She knows Charles does not want her here or engaged to his brother. She also knows Nicole likes Henri. Neither of them know to what extent Nicole’s likeness of Henri goes, is it she wants both brothers, is it she is not happy with Charles and she envies Lexi and Henri’s relationship nobody knows.

“Let’s go to sleep.” She holds a hand out and he takes it but also lifts her up bridal style she giggles as she puts her arms around his neck and lays her head on his shoulder.

As they are walking towards their chambers he asks her. “Big wedding or small wedding?”

“I thought we weren’t supposed to plan our wedding?”

He pecks her on the nose. “We are not but if we plan everything in secret and when Charles finally allows us to marry if we have everything ready we’ll marry that day or the next before he can change his mind again.”

“ I don’t want a small wedding like your brother Bash, Catherine mentioned it the other day and it sounded just awful.”

“Charles and myself were young when it happened we were already asleep, the only people in attendance was our older brother Francis his wife and our mother. Charles and I heard about it the next day there were whispers and not just about the the marriage. Trust me our wedding will be different.”

Henri’s step brother’s wedding to his wife was not a happy day for either of them. It was an impromptu wedding in the throne room with Henri’s father king Henry threatening both the bride and groom that if they didn’t marry he would kill them. The bride was in tears scared yelling at the king to stop. The groom was scared but was trying to remain calm and tried to relax his bride. Since they didn’t really know each other when they wed after the wedding they got to know each other and fell in love. They are still together almost seventeen years later.

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Lexi reaches down with one hand while Henri is holding her to open the door to their room. He only puts her down once they get to the bed. “Carrying me over the threshold that might of been the only time you can to do that.”

He turns around from taking his shoes off to slide a finger under her chin and lifts her chin to look at him. “I will carry you over the threshold as my wife one day.” He leans down and pecks her on the lips.

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Henri and Lexi are asleep when their bedroom doors are opened. They are cuddling in their sleep. They are on her side of the bed, Henri has an arm over her their hands are entwined, her back is right against his bare chest. You can see the love Henri and Lexi have for each other. Not only in their sleep but also from a simple touch if they walk past each other to Henri putting his hand out so Lexi can come sit on his lap and lean her head on his shoulder or Lexi holding out a hand. They are constantly glancing at each other lovingly or leaving little kisses on each other’s neck or cheek. Before they moved into together they would spend almost every minute together anyway it was like they were living together already. With them it’s like two souls have found each other.

“Get rid of everything that Is not my brothers.”

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Lexi wakes up and Henri is not in bed beside her instead he is looking at himself in the mirror. “Should I wear feather earrings I think they would look marvelous on you.”

He turns back to the bed still wearing her silver hoop earrings. “This doesn’t bother you.”

She goes over to their mirror the sheet wrapped around her naked body. She leans up and cups his cheek he leans into her touch her earring touching the side of her hand. “How many times have I told you I find you in earrings cute and I know if it was not taboo by society you would rock an earring.”

He kisses her palm and takes out her earrings. They climb back in bed he is sitting up against the headboard while she is laying her head against his chest. “What about your sister the one in Spain would she let us get married?”

“Leeza the queen of Spain as she likes to remind everyone no she wouldn’t let us marry. She actually might be worse then Charles in this instance. For a number of reasons one I am my mother’s favorite child and when Leeza was growing up Catherine was not the best mother. What with my fathers many affairs, Catherine not only raising my oldest brother Francis who was the future king, political schemes. From what Claude has told us about her childhood Leeza was boring and quiet. Charles and I were young but still here for her wedding to the king of Spain. She resents this family for how she was treated. Also she thinks marriage should be of status and if she found out that her siblings were as she would call it marrying under their station she would forces us to separate.”

“She would even force Charles and Nicole to separate?”

Henri nods. “Absolutely in her mind a king should marry a princess not a farmers daughter. Claude would marry a lord and I would have to marry either a princess or a lady.”

She kisses his chest. “That’s awful I’m glad we only have to deal with Charles.”

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There is a knock on the door and a messenger comes in. “Your wanted in the throne room.”

Once he leaves as Henri is getting out of bed Lexi looks around for her red robe its not on the chair where she left it yesterday. “Have you seen my robe?”

“No.”

Henri goes into their closet first as Lexi is coming around the bed in the bed sheet he quickly turns around and faces her. “Do not go in there. There seems to be a problem.”

They get back to the throne room and everyone has gathered. Catherine Lexi and Henri, Claude and Leith. Charles is sitting on the throne with Nicole sitting on the arm looking at Henri seductively, even the lord chancellor Stephan Narcisse is here. “Nicole and I have set a wedding date the end of the summer.”

Henri leans down and whispers to Lexi. “Of course he won’t let us wed but he is going forward with his own.”

“And his fiancé has not taken her eyes off you.”

Before they leave Charles has one more announcement. “Henri your lady friend is not invited to my wedding nor is she welcome in this palace anymore. Guards, Guards please escort this young women from the grounds.”

Two of the guards grab Lexi’s bare forearms and try to take her away from Henri. Both blondes are fighting to stay together and still holding hands. Claude yells to Charles.”Charles stop it!”

His head sharply turns towards his sister. “How about another arranged marriage?”

She gasps as she glares at him how dare he use that threat on her again. “You said after the last one I get to choose my husband this time.”

Lexi’s hand slips out of Henri’s grip and she is dragged away. Both Catherine and Narcisse do not know what to do. If Catherine sides with Charles then she is letting Henri down and if she tells Charles to stop this and to let Henri marry she could be called for treason and she could face trial and possible death. Narcisse is thinking about the good of the country he doesn’t care about who the family falls in love with.

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When she is thrown out of the palace she finds all her belongings waiting for her. Henri runs out to join her. “I don’t have a place to live I don’t have an apartment anymore. I’m going to have to move back in with my parents.”

He wraps his arms around her and she cries into his chest her arms around his waist. He rubs her back. “Claude is calling a hotel right now and setting up a suite for you. We will get you back in the palace soon. He can’t stop me from moving into the hotel with you.”

She looks up at him through tear soaked eyes tears still coming down her face, she doesn’t have any makeup on they took that too. “You still want to live with me?”

“Of course I do these last few weeks have been amazing having you here all the time instead of only at nights and you slipping out in the middle of the night or early morning in the previous nights clothes.”

“And here I thought you only liked wearing my earrings.” She winks up at him.

He smirks down at her and pecks her on the lips. “The earrings are only a bonus.”

“I love you.”

“I love you too.” He wipes the tears off her face.

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