Herald of Steel

Chapter 1192: Subtle Worries

As the morning rays filtered into Alexander's room, his very first memory after waking up was that of an intense splitting headache and an extremely painful throat.

His entire body felt very heavy and when Alexander tried to speak, he found it very difficult even just to swallow a gulp.

In fact, simply opening his eyelids hurt.

Alexander instantly understood what was happening to him, i.e.- his previous worries had really come true and yesterday's dip in the freezing cold water had come to bite him back.

He was running an extremely high fever.

This made the man groan in his heart because he had a lot to do today- the most pressing of which was discussing what to do regarding Anoon and Achillas with Lady Miranda.

And Alexander was quite eager to do that because the sooner he could get that done, the sooner he would be able to come up with his next strategy. Alexander even thought he could reinforce his forces with these new deserters once they were processed, something he was in absolute dire need of.

So initially he tried to force his way through the pain.

*Cough*, *Cough*, *Cough*,

His efforts were rewarded with this cracking cough as try as he might, his willpower proved too weak in front of his grave, debilitating condition.

This croaking noise was enough to quickly rouse the lady sleeping next to him out of her slumber and even from a distance she could feel the heat coming out of Alexander's body.

Touching him caused Lady Nanazin to let out a whispered shout,

"By the gods! Alexander!"

Alexander was burning up!

And judging by his temperature, he was burning up quite badly.

It felt almost painfully scalding to touch him, while to Alexander, the same, normal temperature soft, supple hands suddenly felt unnaturally cold and chilly, almost like ice cubes that were being dragged over him.

"I'm.... ahhhh mmmm!"

Towards the alarmed shout, Alexander tried to first reassure her that he was fine.

However due to his sore throat, he found it too difficult to simply produce any coherent words, and when he tried to look at her, just the dim wintery sunlight caused his eyes to sting the moment he tried to open them.

Alexander was foolish to even try such a thing and could only let out pained moans while cursing his current state.

"Rest. You don't need to do anything today,"

There had already been letters sent to Alexander regarding this, subtly asking him for a 'loan'.

They were of course flat out rejected at the time since Alexander knew these were not actually loans in Ptolomy's eye but more like taxes, ones that would never need to be repaid.

So he used the excuse that he had just had a war with Tibias that required hundreds of millions of ropals in men and material, and whatever he had left would be needed to restore the war torn lands to deny the request.

However, if push came to shove, Alexander could easily offer these few tens of millions of ropals for the man to forgive and forget this

And so, in reality, Alexander's greatest opposition surprisingly came from the lady herself.

Lady Nanazin had clearly indicated that she wanted to break away from Ptolomy completely, not simply wanting to settle for a status quo. And the way she wanted to do so seemed to be by having a child with Alexander.

Because she knew this was the absolute sure fire way to do it.

If the lady was to get pregnant, the equation for Alexander to appease Ptolomy would completely change If

Not only because that would break the tacit understanding between the two parties had in this gross tradition, i.e.- enjoying another's spouse but never producing bastards, but much more than that, if it was to be a boy, it would also pose too a grave challenge to Ptolomy's succession.

No sane man would allow this.

It was knowing this that the queen would not only wildly swing her hips and beg Alexander to 'breed her' or 'impregnate her' during their many session, but also would always try to make Alexander finish inside her, such as by locking her legs around him and pulling him closer towards her.

Alexander lost count of how many times he had filled her baby room with his gift till now, making the still very tight snatch overflow with his creamy goodness for he found the sensation exquisite.

And although that had not been a problem till now because they were still using the herbal contraceptives, there were days Alexander could instinctively feel the fertile lady's womb was ovulating and he feared one of these days, she was going to ask to do it 'raw', and he could be unable to say 'no'.

Of course, given Alexander's huge position and Lady Nanazin's absolute powerlessness, he could forcefully deny her request and make her obey regardless.

But given how much this innocent lady had suffered throughout her life, he felt too much of a scum to use her and then heartlessly discard her just like that.

That's why even though Alexander knew this would likely bring disaster to him, he found it too hard to reject her.

'I will have to find a comprise. Maybe make her disappear or give her a new identity.' He thought to himself.

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