novelxo Chapter 109
111 Meeting with the nobles When Alessandro woke up, he found himself alone, April had gotten up at some point without him realizing it.
He looked for her in the room, she was on the balcony receiving the first rays of the sun, her reddish hair was waving in the breeze, she looked beautiful, he stared at her and for a moment he felt as if he was going to lose her, as if she was going to fly away from the balcony leaving him behind and that terrified him.
April came back into the room and when she saw that he had already woken up she greeted him.
_Good morning Lessan.
_Good morning, Aby, how are you? _I'm fine, I just needed to have a good night's sleep, I have renewed energy.
_ Did you dream about your mother last night? April knew that every time she told Alessandro that she had dreamed about her dead mother, he worried.
He didn't want to lie to her, but he thought that would be best, otherwise he wouldn't stop worrying.
_No, she doesn't always visit me in my dreams, sometimes days go by without her appearing.
Alessandro got out of bed, approached her, removed a small leaf from her hair that had flown towards her, he showed it to her and said.
_ Have you been awake for a long time? _No, I recently woke up, saw that the sun was rising and wanted to see the sunrise.
_ Why didn't you wake me up? _Because you seemed tired, I know you have a lot of work to do, so I didn't want to interrupt your precious sleep.
_I used to sleep very little, for me three hours of sleep is enough.
_Of course not, three hours is far from enough, if I only slept three hours I would end up sick, so don't do it, I don't want to see you sick.
_Don't worry about it, your husband is full of life, I won't get sick.
April sat on the edge of the bed and said to him.
_Don't do it even if it's not, I couldn't bear to lose you.
Alessandro caressed Abril's cheek, gave her a kiss on the forehead and said to her.
_That won't happen, I will always be by your side.
Alessandro stayed with Abril for a while, then he had to get out of bed even though all he wanted was to hug Abril and stay with her like that for the rest of his life, but he knew that was impossible, as king he had many obligations that he had to fulfill and that day in particular he couldn't stay with Abril and escape from his work, since he had a meeting with the nobles, that day he would be announcing that Cassian's appointment as duke would soon be taking place.
Alessandro knew that this would cause annoyance among the nobles, however, Cassian seemed to have made a decision and he wanted to respect it.
Above all, because that would be of great help, the war would start at any moment and the last thing the kingdom needed at that moment was an internal war, that the kingdom would begin to fragment, they had to be united to be able to face what was coming.
He knew that with Cassian recovered from his injury, many nobles who had created factions before the war would rise again since there were many nobles who felt hatred for him, for not being a puppet that would let himself be bossed around by them.
What they didn't know was that his brother was even worse than him, Cassian never bowed down to anyone.
Alessandro hugged Abril tightly, she patted his arm to get his attention.
_Lessan, not so loud, I can't breathe.
_I'm sorry, I got carried away.