After a while Zarah entered Antares 'room and bowed deeply."I hope you had a good sleep my lord.... Forgive me for my late coming my lord." Zarah said with her head down. She had received word from Levi that Antares had woken up and was calling for her but she couldn't directly go because she was supervising every activity taking place in the castle.
Antares who was nonchalantly seated on his bed, looked at her and gave her a gentle smile before replying.
"Don't worry, it's not that of a big deal anyway you can raise your head "Antares said while he was gesturing her to raise her head "I just wanted you to prepare for me a bath because I feel a bit sticky and smelly." Antares said as he was sniffing the armpits of his long white tunic.
As a man from the modern era, he did not like when he was stinky, him or his clothes though he had done marathons of gaming where he could go days without stopping, he would only eat fast foods and energy drinks.
"It will be done as you have demanded my lord."
"Good and can you a new set of clothes for me, nothing flashy, I just want something comfortable." Antares said while remembering his favorite baggy clothes from his previous world.
"Even in this world I swear I will bring you guys back to life again." Antares thought of this while clutching his hands and remembering his favorite clothes.
Then he remembered.
"Which reminds me, how long have been asleep" Antares asked as he stood up and stretched his body.
"You have been asleep for a day and a half my lord." Zarah answered.
"Damn that long." Antares thought then he said "I should really get an alarm clock or something."
"Never mind I was just talking to myself."
After that Zarah left and came back with a tray with a number of things that Antares did not recognize.
As Zarah was walking Antares kept looking at her never blinking. It would not be an understatement to say that she was the most beautiful girl he had seen in both his lives, top models and movie stars wouldn't hold a candle against her.
He looked at her body figure and he could tell that her Head maid attire was hiding a lustful body that could make even a monk forget about abstinence.
He looked at her like a predator but Zarah did not mind her King's behavior but in fact she liked it instead, it was not a secret for all the people working in the ant king's palace that Zarah had dedicated her whole life to serving Antares and never leaving his side even when he was affected by the mana pollution and was quarantined.
Then she entered a room located at the upward right corner of his room.
"I'll get the bath ready lord Antares." Zarah said as she entered then closed the door of what seemed to be Antares' personal bathroom.
He opened his eyes widely and looked around, he had not looked around his room since he had woken up, it was quite big but it was a bit empty, apart from the bed the room had no other furniture part from the big wooden wardrobe near his bed.
When he got down from his straw bed, he felt the cold stone floor which sent a small chill throughout his body.
"Damn, that cold as ice, guess I can't mess with the winter of this world huh." Antares as he walked to his wardrobe.
He opened it and saw there was nothing special inside.
He almost cried with disappointment because he expected more from the wardrobe of the king of the ant tribe.
"I should stop getting my hopes up." Antares said as he closed the wardrobe as fast as he opened it.
"My Lord, your bath is ready." Zarah said from within the bathroom.
Hearing this Antares went straight to the bathroom and he was greeted with a sight any man would die for in this world.
Zarah was wearing a black corset style bra with laced up detail in the center that enhanced the shape of her bust and a coordinated thong that highlighted her perky Ass. This really gave her an hourglass figure.
Her dark brown hair had become wavy which gave her a certain charm and her dark seductive eyes plus her glossy lips really finished the little resistance Antares had.
"Come in my lord." She said with a calm yet seductive voice.
Antares was standing at door trying his best to regain his composure because if he didn't who knows what would happen.
Antares' body moved on its own and he found himself standing right in front of Zarah.
She was may shorter than Antares but it was something that he liked.
She removed the tunic from Antares' body revealing his naked body and she directed him to get in the large rectangular bathtub.
Antares' bathroom was really different from his room, it even had tiles, a mirror on the wall and a large space inside, as a modern man he could have called this an effort compared to his stone floored bedroom.
At the moment Antares was completely naked in the bathtub relaxing but he could not completely relax because Zarah was on the other side of the bathroom preparing some oils for him.
But this didn't seat right with him though he didn't dislike the presence of a beautiful girl with him in his bathroom but it was that if things went any further, he wouldn't what to do.
Yes, Antares Antis formerly known as Harry Waterson is a virgin and he had never tasted the forbidden fruit not because he didn't want to but he always feared women, the only women he was comfortable with for some reasons were the nun who looked after him at the orphanage he grew up, his ex who cheated on him and Zarah.
In Zarah's case he came to a conclusion that it was because Zarah had looked after him even when he was in a coma because of the mana pollution that his body was used to her presence.
"Alright my lord, please come nearer." Zarah said this and it startled Antares who was facing the wall.
The bathroom was lit by candles and there was a special sent that perfumed the room making this a little to romantic.
From the dark corner, Zarah came out while removing the hair that covered her left eye in a seductive manner. "Beautiful." Are the only words that could come out of Antares'mouth.
"You flatter me my Lord." she was very pleased by her lord's compliment.
Antares quickly turned his back to her and went back to face the wall.
Zarah saw this and didn't mind her lord's bashful behavior.
As she was on her way to apply the oils on her king's back, her foot slipped on the wet tiles and she let out a sharp gasp as she fell backward.
Just before she could hit the ground, strong arms caught her midfall, she looked up into the intense eyes of Antares, his naked body pressed against hers. At the moment the tension Antares had been suppressing ignited. Without a word Antares tilted her chin upward, their lips met in a deep, hungry kiss.
After a while their kiss broke "My lord." Zarah whispered her voice full of lust. "I'm…." He hushed her gently, his not as intense as they were eyes but vulnerable. "Say my name" he murmured "Not my tittle."
"Antares…." she hesitated but, in the end, she said it.
Saying the name of her king so casually tasted forbidden on her tongue, but it sent a shiver through then both, Antares removed the hair covering her forehead and kissed it gently then he carried her in a princess carry into the tub with him.
"I've wanted this...you….us.... the moment I laid my eyes on you. "Antares whispered, he didn't know what was going on with him but all he knew was that he was on fire.
Zarah was laying on him in the bathtub, her heart racing, a testament of love she had for her king. She listened to him and she couldn't be more grateful to the Gods who had brought her king to him. But....
"Antares, as much as I would love to spend the rest of the day here with you, I cannot ignore my duties as the head maid and I…" before Zarah could finish her sentence, Antares planted a kiss on her lips.
"Do you trust me" he said seductively.
"Yes"
"Then don't worry." As he said that a pair of shinning red antanea grew from his head and began vibrating.
Meanwhile, in the courtyard of the palace in front of the Ant king's tower that proudly stood in the middle of the palace, Levi and Eli could be seen sparring with each other, each one of them not letting the other rest, by now the ground was damp with sweat, since they had received Antares' blessing the had been sparring with each other nonstop.
Just as their blades where about to meet they heard a voice they knew a bit too well.
[ BOTH OF YOU STOP RIGHT THIS INSTANT.]. they heard Antares' voice in their head. At that same moment they kneeled on one knee with one hand on their heart with head bowed.
"We greet his majesty." They answer with strength and respect.
[ Listen well because I'll make it quick, Zarah is unavailable at the moment, so I need you to take care of the palace in her absence, Can I count on you]. He made it seem like a question but Levi and Eli knew that it was an order they couldn't refuse.
"Yes, your highness we will carry out your order" they answered with the same tone they had before.
[Good]. Then Antares severed their telepathic link.
As Levi and Eli stood up, they looked at each other and grinned mischievously, they knew what their king was up to.
"Way to go king Antares." Said Levi while wiping and invisible tear.
"I always knew he had it in him" Eli said
SCENE CHANGE
Back in the bathtub, Zarah was looking at Antares' antennae and didn't know what to say.
"There now we've taken care of that" he retracted his antennae and held Zarah's waist and pulled her closer to his face "why don't we continue where we left things off."
As he was about to kiss her, she gently pushed him and stood up in front of him. She looked at him right in the eyes and said "I have taken care of you for as long as I can remember and I have devoted myself to you with all my strength but I always hoped that I would give more, give you my everything." she looks at Antares with burning passion in her eyes.
"Is it because I'm your king...is it because my tittle makes me superior to you?" Antares said this because he did not want to repeat the mistakes of the past, his girlfriend, the only who man that he ever loved cheated on him with another man and it left a deep scar on his heart, if he was going to pursue a romantic relationship with Zarah, he had to make sure that she was consenting to it as well.
"No, I wanted to be with you because you are you, Antares….And because something burns brighter in me when I'm with you." Zarah answered as her hands reached for her back. "I love you Antares." She whispered.
She removed the black corset style bra she was wearing, revealing her generous breasts, she threw her bra to the side then proceeded to remove her thong revealing her love nest to her king.
Antares looked her naked body and all that could be said was that he was in a trance at the moment, never he would have thought that he could get a woman like Zarah, she confessed her love and wanted to give him….
the forbidden fruit, something he wasn't expecting, all in all he was grateful to Antarion who brought him to this world.
"Tonight, I give you my body and soul, to you and only you, Antares."
Then Antares pulled her in for an embrace, they spent the rest of the day to each other body and soul.