15 months later

The house has seen some extension since you first visited it. The gaps in the walls are better covered so there's less light leaking from inside them. A freshly made garland made of grass and flowers hangs on the door as usual.

You softly knock in a set rhythm. A few seconds later, the door open and you enter the house.

"Welcome, Lordling," Bera, says while smiling flirtatiously at you. She is wearing a simple nightgown, without any design. Simple and easy for you to disrobe her. You close the distance and rub her stomach, feeling a small bump on her belly, revelling in the fact that she's already pregnant with her second child by you, even though you've just married your queen recently and she has yet to show any indication of being pregnant.

"How is he?" you ask, referring to your first child.

"Ee's sleepin properly at nite, unlike ee's father,"

Bera once told you that she is paying one of her friends to stay with her and take of the baby while she takes care of the bigger baby who comes to visit her often at night. "She's here as usual today?"

"Ye,"

You shrug. You pay her to take care of you and she pays someone else to take care of the child which is kind of fair. That is her decision and none of your business. You come to her and then inside her any time you want; she never questions about your identity. The arrangement between the two of you is that the children born by your illicit relationship will be raised by her and you provide her with generous stipend. This came about during one of your post-fornication conversation sessions when she's pregnant with the first child. While you are an irresponsible father and partner, you are also a selfish man. You will not accept it if she marries someone and your children ended up neglected and even worse, abused. You told Bera about that, and she was amused by it. She then told you that if that were the case, you would have to buy her for the rest of her life.

While Bera saying it in a joking manner, you showed her how serious you are by giving a large sum of money as a down payment the next time you visited her, more than what a harlot like her can ever hope to get spreading her legs at the whorehouse for an entire year. She was a bit intimidated to receive it at first, but you told her that you want her to settle anything that might trouble her and at the same time to make the house a better place for you to visit, which she did.

As a result of that, you have a cozy lust nest just outside of your castle that you can visit anytime you want to fornicate. And fornicate is on your mind as you gesture toward the bedroom with your head. However, Bera seems to have something on her mind.