Kel figured Rin wanted to keep believing he hadn’t been prior to taking the pill, but he knew better. He’d seen how Rin had held his breath when he’d first spotted him in the pool. The way his eyes had scanned down the length of him, taking in the sweeps of golden chains across his chest.
Rin wanted him, at least physically.
Getting into people’s heads was a big turn-on for Kelevra. He liked calling people’s bluffs and figuring out why they bothered lying in the first place. No one was honest, not a single person, but there were levels of dishonesty, gray areas that could be excused away. He wondered what kinds of secrets Rin had, and if they’d be worth all this effort in the end or if it’d turn out to be something mundane and stupid.
Like, what if the guy simply didn’t want all the extra attention and work being in first place meant he’d receive?
Boring.
“Have you been fucked by a man before?” Kelevra asked, watching Rin flinch. “It’s in your best interest to answer this time.”
Rin clearly wanted to argue or curse at him, but he swallowed again and then in a tight voice replied, “Yes.”
“Recently?”
He hesitated. “No.”
Kel viewed the readings to see if that was a lie, but according to his eye Rin was telling the truth. “How long since the last time?”
“Seriously?” Rin growled.
“I’m being—”
“If you say the word kind I swear to Light I’m going to stab you in the other eye,” Rin snapped, then all at once seemed to recall who he was speaking to. He didn’t cower, but a flicker of worry settled over him as he waited for Kelevra’s reaction.
Kelevra was waiting too. Typically, something like that would have set him off and he’d have broken a few bones by now. Not because he minded empty threats, but because when it came to his eyes he was understandably a bit sensitive. There was no rush of anger, however. No annoyance or need to break anything. Instead, his dick twitched.
“Do you want to fight for it?” he asked, honestly surprising himself with the offer. Kelevra was used to taking what he wanted without asking. He’d wanted Rin since the moment he’d first spotted him, wanted to feel that silky sand-colored hair, wanted to taste those lush lips. Wanted to know what he’d sound like screaming his name as he orgasmed around his cock.
What he’d told Rin earlier hadn’t been completely untruthful. He was interested in more than just bedding the cadet. But finding out why he’d blown the competition was pretty low on his list when the other thing on it was sex.
Kel was smart enough to know he could only really ever think with one head at a time and wasn’t even bothered by it. Why should he be? He was the Imperial Prince coddled by his eldest sisters, one the current Emperor of Vitality, the other next in line for the throne. The only time he’d ever be at risk of any actual consequences was if he did something to upset the delicate balance between his family and the Brumal, a criminal organization that ruled the planet right alongside the Diar’s.
Baikal Void, the heir to the Brumal throne, was a friend though. Kel respected him and was respected back, and for that reason, he’d always taken the extra minute to think things through when it came to Void. But anything other than that…
“I’m not having sex with you,” Rin said, but the way he was back to rocking his hips took away most of the finality those words would have carried otherwise.
Kelevra had never forced someone before, not because he found the thought distasteful—even knowing that he should—but because he’d never had to. People threw themselves at him all the time. No one had ever come close to telling him no when he’d come onto them.
Rin had said no.
It was just Kel didn’t care.
“I could put a bullet up that ass of yours right now and no one would bat an eye,” Kelevra told him. He wasn’t trying to be crass, merely matter of fact. People like Rin, the friendly ones who felt things, they needed stuff to be spelled out so they’d stop struggling so damn much. “Instead, I intend to feed you my cock.”
“I’m not—”
“I’m the Imperial Prince, cadet,” he reminded darkly, allowing some of his charming mask to slip, for the real him to shine through. “I fuck who I want when I want. Nothing and no one will tell me I can’t have something, and that includes you.” It was the kind of thing that typically had people scurrying in sheer terror, but Rin merely focused on him, almost as if seeing him for the first time.
“Oh.” The word left his lips and an understanding seemed to come over him. Rin was even nodding to himself now, as though having solved some great mystery.
“Oh?” Kelevra quirked a brow, the first inkling of anger finally making its appearance. He didn’t like the fact Rin still didn’t seem all that afraid of him. Didn’t like that he didn’t seem to be taking this as seriously as he should.
Considering he was a big guy, probably around six foot one, about an inch shorter than Kel, with broad shoulders and a toned body, Rin most likely wasn’t used to being pushed around by anyone. Maybe that was why, even drugged and horny, he was resisting the pull Kel so clearly had on him.
“My turn,” Rin said, not waiting for him to agree before asking, “Do you think drugging me is right, or wrong?”
Kel frowned. “I don’t think it matters one way or the other.”
