“We—” She began, before stopping to let out a sharp gasp as I nipped at her, leaving her nipple sharp and swollen and beautiful.
“We shouldn’t.” She whispered, but her face told another story, and her leg curled around mine, pulling me tighter against her.
“We shouldn’t,” I agreed, nodding slightly. “But I can’t seem to help myself when it comes to you,” I admitted in defeat.
I’d slept with enough women to know the difference between simple lust and something else, and the attraction I felt now was like nothing I’d ever experienced before. It was just…more. On all fronts.
I didn’t just want to fuck her until she couldn’t walk, though I certainlydidwant that. I wanted to talk to her for hours, until our voices grew hoarse andwe knew everything there was to know about the other. I wanted to unravel her secrets until her loyalty was completely assured. I wanted to see another child in her arms, down the line. I wanted more than I could rightfully claim at the moment, but I burned for it with an untamable desire, nonetheless.
Her eyes told me many things, but chief among them was that her desire for me was just as aching and desperate as mine own for her. But they also revealed her conflict. I’d been playing these courtly games for years, and whatever game was afoot, I could tell she was starting to doubt her place in it.
Whatever Lord Carnelian had her doing, whatever lies she told?—
“No matter what exists between us when it comes to truth and lies, Mini-Dite,” I said slowly, keeping eye contact as I hovered above her, “Tell methisis true.”
Her eyes clouded with worry, but she watched me with the seriousness my words demanded.
“You want this as badly as I do. For what exists between us to be real.” I laid it out there, watching her eyes widen before they softened, growing wet with unshed tears.
“Goddess help me,” she whispered, closing her eyes. When her lashes fluttered shut, a couple of rogue tears escaped, and I leaned down to kiss them off her cheeks. Her eyes opened once more, arresting me with their intensity. “Truth.”
My eyes flared in triumph at the confirmation, and I took her lips once more, running my tongue across her bottom lip until she let me back in, her tongue dancing with mine with the same grace she always danced with.
A loud knock sounded at the door, and I groaned into Jacinth’s mouth as we rocked against one another. I didn’t want to pull away, and hoped whoever it was would take the hint and leave.
Unfortunately, the knocking merely got louder until Alfrikr’s muffled voice came through the door. “Your Majesty.”
“What?” I snapped, glaring at the door and making Jacinth giggle beneath me. I narrowed my eyes at her playfully, thrusting against her and making her giggle rapidly dissolve into a moan. I smirked down at her, and she glared back at me, lifting her hips and circling them against my cock until I groaned, my head collapsing into her neck.
“Your Majesty, you have a meeting to attend.” Alfrikr cleared his throat pointedly.
“Fuck.” I swore at the reminder, panting against Jacinth’s skin.
“Sounds like you have to go,” she said lightly, but her frown was clear.
“You really think I’d just leave you like this?” I murmured, my fingers trailing across her thighs until they reached the apex, her breath catching as they slid under her panties and found the wet paradise awaiting them. I’m not sure who let out a louder noise of pleasure as my fingers circled her clit, two of them trailing up and down before circling her opening.
I thrust my fingers in quickly, even as Alfrikr knocked again.
“One minute!” I called back as my thumb circled her clit in time with the thrusting of my fingers, driving them into her hard and fast to ensure I got her off before I left. What kind of man would leave such a woman wet and wanting, after all?
“Az,” she moaned, hips rotating against my fingers as I drove her to the brink. “Fuck,” she grunted, her mouth pulling mine in for a rough, demanding kiss, the fire in it all-consuming, until I forgot about Alfrikr entirely and nothing mattered except her pleasure.
I could feel her walls fluttering, and crooked my fingers slightly, pressing against the wall inside her, and was rewarded with her tightening up before she released, her loud moans swallowed by my mouth as her orgasm crashed through her, coating my fingers.
I brought her down slowly, while her panting against my lips was rewarded with small kisses supped from her lips and light strokes of my fingers as she finished trembling around me. Her hand came up to my cheek, and she brushed a kiss so soft and beautiful across my lips that I had to close my eyes against the breadth of feeling in it.
Of course, Alfrikr had to destroy the peace of the moment, banging obnoxiously against the door. There was no way he was clueless about what had just happened here, so I was going to have to smash his face in during training tomorrow in retaliation.
After sucking her divine nectar from my fingers, refusing to waste a drop, I lifted Jacinth and brought her to the bedroom. I thought, not for the first time, that the red of Ruby Court didn’t truly suit her. But with a last kiss, I finally dragged myself away from her and opened the door to the hall to glare Alfrikr down.
He glared right back, completely undaunted by my annoyance. “You have a meeting with the others to discuss plans for tomorrow. Get going.”
“What a way to talk to your king.” I joked, making him roll his eyes before pointing down the hall for me to leave.
I made my way down the corridor, only to stop short when I spied Sania walking towards me. The sway of her hips was exaggerated by the gown she wore, which sucked her waist in tightly and left her breasts heaving over the top. I found myself oddly unaffected by the sight, still wishing I could turn back around and spend the rest of the night between Jacinth’s thighs.
“Your Majesty.” She smiled brightly, but I could see the tension around her eyes. “I was hoping to see more of you today at the playground.”
