I lowered my hands to my thighs, and I laughed, channeling Zayden as I tried to lighten the mood, “Just look how you’ve led the three of us and we don’t even like each other.”
She gave me a small smile as she shook her head and puffed out in frustration, “You guys actually like each other… or else you would’ve just killed each other a long time ago.”
I knew what she said was true, that in my core, I actually missed my silly and emotionally stunted friends. I shrugged. “Killing Ajax would be a hassle, and Zayden would be too easy.”
She tilted her head as she smirked, “You would be surprised by Zayden. He is a slippery one.” I nodded because she was right. Zayden would surprise you.
She was silent for a few seconds; lost in faraway thoughts, but I wanted to get one thing out and clear about this whole situation. I wanted her to know how I really felt, what I really wanted, how far I was willing to go.
“Em,” she looked up at me, for once her eyes were clear and thoughtful, “I want you to know that whatever you choose, royal or not, I want to be by your side. I want to help you any way I can. I want to be there for you through the hard shit and the good times. It doesn't matter to me if you want to be the queen or if you want to stay the assassin, I would like to…” I looked down as I whispered out for just the two of us to hear, “I just want to be nearyou.”
I looked up at her, a little embarrassed by my declaration, but glad I said it out loud for once. Her smile slowly dropped as her eyes narrowed on my lips. That was all the warning I got before she tackled me to the stone floor and kissed me like her life depended on it. I didn’t even mind the rocky surface digging into my back because all I could feel was her sweet soft lips on mine and I knew I was in paradise.
I wrapped my arms around her, pulling her in close as I opened up and we devoured each other. Her tongue slipping in, tasting like sunshine and darkness, this intoxicating mixture of light and dark that I wanted to bathe myself in. I let my hands wander her body, feeling everything, grabbing as much as I could to show her how much I wanted this, how much I needed her.
Then I remembered her tears, how upset she was just minutes ago, and I pushed back. I breathlessly blurted out, “I don’t want you to feel like I’m taking advantage of you, or the situation.”
She looked down at me, her green locks creating a shield for just our faces to meet. She flicked her eyes to where we both were, with her on top of me, and smiled. “I don’t think you’re taking advantage of me. If anything, I’m taking advantage of you.” She got a saucy grin as she cooed, “Do I have your permission?”
I blew out a breath I was holding as I trailed a finger down her cheek. “You always have permission to take advantage of me and my body. Always.”
Her smile turned sweet as she grabbed the back of my neck and lifted me up as she sat in my lap. I had my arms behind me to hold me up, legs splayed out, as she slowly got up and started to take off her pants. I moved my hands to mine, but she lightly kicked them away, so I put them back behind me, watching her, waiting for her.
She was fast at taking them off, looking up at me as she pulled them from her feet. “I’m going to want this hard and fast, is that ok?” I wetted my lips as I eyed her body, desire to grab her, to take her, was riding me hard but I wanted her to control this, to feel like even if her life feels out-of-control right now she could control something.
I looked down at my pants, my dick already straining against the seam. “I think that’s going to be fine for me.” I winked at her. She lowered down and crawled over to me, eyes glued to my dick, and I swear my dick twitched in greeting, like it was begging to say hi.
As soon as her hands connected to my pants and the backs of her fingers hit my abdomen, I hissed out at the contact. Maker god, I can’t believe I am here with this beautiful, amazing woman who has turned my life upside down, and I like it.
She tugged my pants down roughly and my dick sprung out, hitting my stomach. Before I could even take a breath, she moved into my lap, grabbed my dick, lined herself up and slammed down. She gasped at the entry and a moan broke from my lips as I felt her wet center wrapped tightly around my dick. Holy fuck, this felt amazing.
She started to roll her hips, and my eyes flew into the back of my head. How can she feel this good? The pure pleasure of being inside this woman was spellbinding. I would never be the same, never want another woman, but this one right in front of me.
I wanted to grab her hips, feel her ass in my hands, but she started to pick up the pace and I needed the stability of my arms behind me. She grabbed my hair and yanked my head back, exposing my neck as she attacked it, nipping and kissing all over it. My breath came out in short bursts as my chest was rising and falling at a rapid pace. Shivers ran down my back as she hit the spots I liked, the spots that made my muscles tighten and dick ache to explode, but I kept it back, wanting to last until after she was done.
She latched on to my ear and bit down hard and I cried out for her. “Yes, oh fuck yes. Take me. Fuck me how you want. Take whatever you need from me. I’m yours.”
She moved her lips to mine, keeping hold of my hair, controlling my head, as she feasted on me, taking me like I told her to do. I felt her clutching me with her muscles and I almost came right then, all the things she was doing to me driving me crazy, but I gripped my fingers into the sharp rocky floor beneath me, giving myself some pain in order to hold myself in check.
She broke from my lips like she couldn’t help it, breathing out, “Oh god, your dick is perfect.” My dick twitched inside of her to let her know he appreciated her cries and words. She moaned as she gripped my shoulders, and it was the most delicious sound I have ever heard. I wanted to hear it each and every day.
For a split second, I thought about what kind of moans Zayden caused her to have, the competitiveness in me rising to the surface, wanting to make sure hers are louder, more breathless, more pleasure filled with me. I looked up at her, about to ask, when I saw her eyes squeezed tight as she started to bounce on my dick. Her tits were in my face and my eyes latched onto her pert, tight nipples. All other thoughts were lost to me.
I pushed up into her, getting deeper. As her moans turned to cries, I knew I was hitting that sweet spot inside her. I started to thrust into her with all my might as she equally slammed down onto me. We worked ourselves into this rough rhythm of equally claiming each other at the same time, both desperate to make each other come.
I couldn’t hold out for much longer, so I balanced myself on one arm and moved the other to rub her bundle of nerves roughly. Soon I felt her choke my dick, tightening those pussy walls so hard I could hardly thrust as deep as I wanted.
Her hands slammed down onto my shoulders as her body shook and she screamed out my name in ecstasy. I kept slamming up into her, riding out her orgasm, feeling all of her juices coat my dick. A shiver of pleasure ran along my dick and I knew I was done for. I roared out my release, both my hands grabbing onto her hips like I never wanted to part from her warm wet center.
She collapsed on top of me, causing me to fall back as we were both taken over in exhaustion. I clutched her to me as she was trying to catch her breath. I could feel her rising and falling onto my chest and in this very moment, holding my woman in her time of need, it was the best I have ever felt in my life.
Chapter 26
Ishould’vebeenthefirst one to leave. That will be one of the biggest regrets of my life, that I didn’t leave the lighthouse first.
It took me a while to let what Hemlock said sink in, to let go of the shock that she was the princess, the future queen. Then, realizing she and I didn’t just have my emotions and issue with the others in the mix, preventing us from being together, but now we would have an entire court of people telling us we were not a good match. That I wasn’t worthy of her.
I mean, I knew that, but when she was just an assassin, I thought we could work through it. I could prove myself to her, eventually. I thought I had that kind of time. Now that she was royalty, the gap between us felt like a canyon. So, it took me a couple of minutes to think about it, process it all. I didn’t even notice when Rykon left.
