The Love of a Prince

Chapters 15. Private Library

The palace secretary took Laura through several doors and hallways to reach a door guarded by two bodyguards wearing black suits.

Seeing them approaching one of the guards opened the door for them to enter.

"Please wait inside Miss Laura, the photographer will be here soon." The palace secretary said in front of the door without going inside.

"Where is Prince Albert ? I saw him talking to the Prime Minister."

"Your Majesty will come soon, please wait inside Miss Laura." The palace secretary repeated his words.

With Laura forced to go inside, the door closed from the outside. Laura was not surprised by what she saw. Prince Albert's private library looks very luxurious and elegant. The books were neatly arranged inside the bookshelf whose height almost touched the ceiling of the room.

There is a desk and chair in the middle of the room there is also a small sofa that is comfortable to read with the size of one person located under the window.

"The room is beautiful but still impressed masculine." Laura spoke for herself.

"Thank you for the compliment."

The voice from behind startled Laura which made her reflexively turn towards the sound that appeared.

"Your majesty, you surprised me." Laura said after seeing who had come.

Prince Albert smiled wryly.

"It is not my fault that you did not hear the sound of the door opening because it was so busy observing the state of this room."

"This room is so beautiful in my opinion."

"You can look through my collection of books while you wait for the photographer to come." Prince Albert offered.

Laura's smile expands upon the offer from Prince Albert.

"Can it really be ?" Laura asked excitedly to make sure her hearing was not wrong.

"Of course you can, why can't you ?"

Laura suddenly woke up. "But shouldn't the photographer already be here with us ?"

Prince Albert walked to his desk and sat there.

"They called the palace secretary, apologizing many times for making me wait."

"Why is that ? Shooting session canceled ?" laura asked excitedly.

Next to Prince Albert's forehead raised as soon as he heard Laura's words.

"It looks like you're happy with the situation but sorry to disappoint you, the photographer will still be done just a little late because there is a tire barrier their car leaked on the way here."

"That's just your thinking, Your Majesty." Laura smiled stiffly covering her disappointment.

"It's good that it's not what I thought it was." Prince Albert smiled mockingly.

"May I have a look at your collection of books ?" Laura asked to shift the conversation, walking to the bookshelf.

"Please, didn't I say it."

"Thank you Your Majesty."

Laura was amazed to read the collection of Prince Albert books neatly arranged on the bookshelf.

"You can read it if there's a book you like waiting for them to come."

"Thank you Your Majesty." Laura said that she did not wait long to immediately pull the book that caught her attention.

"Classical poetry." Laura muttered reading the book cover. Walk towards the sofa and sit there, start reading and get carried away with the contents of the book.

Laura who was serious about her book was unaware of Prince Albert's eyes on her.

The knock on the door from the outside broke Laura's concentration from the book she was reading.

"Lock !" Prince Albert said in a slightly high tone.

The door opened, the palace secretary entered with two men carrying large bags on each of their shoulders.

"All right, we're starting as soon as possible." Prince Albert stood up from his chair.

"I'm sorry for your delay, Your Majesty." Said one of the men with a regretful face.

"I understand why you're so late."

"Thank you Your Majesty." Answer the two men at the same time.

"Then I go out, Your Majesty." Secretary of the Palace. "Please work." He looked at the two men.

"Good." The two men answered back together.

They opened the two large bags they were carrying and began to arrange the tools.

One of the men observed the state of the room to find a position where it was good to take pictures.

Laura returned the book she had read back to its original place, the situation did not allow for her to continue reading even though the contents of the book were very liked.

"How about we take a picture there." Advice one of the men who was holding the camera while pointing towards the sofa that was sitting on Laura.

"Can." Prince Albert agreed.

Laura walked back to the sofa.

"The betrothed of His Majesty sits on the sofa while His Majesty can stand behind or sit on the arm of the chair by embracing the shoulder of your fiancee." Advice that Man.

"I prefer the second option." Said Prince Albert.

"Fine then, Miss please sit." Said the man to Laura who from earlier was just silently observing.

Sitting on the sofa resting both hands on his lap, Prince Albert took a sitting position on the left arm of the chair with his arms embracing Laura's possessive shoulders.

"Can it be more natural ?" Said the man from behind the camera. "Miss can you tilt a little towards Prince Albert ?" he lowered the camera from his face, set their position.

"Can." Laura replied briefly even though she was not comfortable with the position she was in.

Laura followed the photographer's direction, leaning towards Prince Albert.

"Can I set your position ?" he asked again, not satisfied with the pose in front of him.

"Of course, please." Prince Albert answered.

The photographer approached, setting a slight sitting position of Laura who was slightly leaning on Prince Albert's body. Laura's hand wearing her engagement ring was placed on Prince Albert's lap.

"The perfect position." Photographer comments with a satisfied smile. "Well hold on a second, I'll take a picture right away." He added backwards while raising the camera back to his face.

"Smile a little." Say photographer.

Chekerek chekrek

The camera sounds as soon as the man starts taking pictures of them.

"perfect." Said the man as soon as he saw the shots on his camera screen.

"Have ?" ask Laura.

"Yes." Yeah." Answer the man.

Laura moved away but was restrained with Prince Albert's arm still coiled around his shoulder making him unable to move away and could only wait for Prince Albert to stand.

The two men began to tidy up their tools while Prince Albert was still in a noiseless position just observing

Why is he not standing yet ? I'm really not comfortable with our position right now. He was unconscious or pretended not to know with the intent of my words and movements earlier anyway ?

Laura tried to be relaxed even though she was actually awkward with the situation that occurred between them.

"I'll excuse you, Your Majesty." Take care of those two men.

"Yes." Yeah." Prince Albert said briefly.