Chapter 45 Royal Business

• Daniel
• As much as I hate it, I have to leave her. I can't be with her all the time; I have royal duties to attend to, but I left her in the care of Dr. Henrietta and my mother. I also sent a quick text to her mother, who's been sending me at least five baby articles a day since I gave her my number, to get the two future grandmothers together. My mother is excited to get to know Annie's mother so she's been all in a tizzy, constantly telling me how much she's looking forward to getting to know her extended family, now more so now that they live ten minutes outside the Palace walls.
• I walk towards my father's study-- the one that will one day soon belong to me. He asked to meet once more about a trade deal between allied nations, the one I was trying to establish a few weeks ago when I was called with the message that Annie had fainted and dropped everything to go check on her. It's safe to say the deal didn't fall through, and it's been in dispute ever since so my father is stepping in to quell the unreasonable of the allies misdirected annoyance of my sudden absence. I was worried that he'd scold me, but my father actually nearly yelled at the foreign official who dared utter the assumption that this deal was of upmost importance-- more so than my wife fainting out of nowhere. Even after the news dropped the other day that she was pregnant, the man still didn't let up on the public criticism that I did the wrong thing.