To my secret relief, he was unable to perform and soon gave up.
I sensed his frustration as he lay next to me. “It changes nothing, My King.”
It’s better this way actually.
“Such a great frustration for a man such as I, to have such a beautiful wife, alluring from her toenails to her forehead, and be unable to enter her.”
“I’ve told no one, My King.”
“Do not. Not so much as a whisper to a maid.” He said sternly. “Though you’re forgiving, our people would not be. They’d say our marriage was unconsummated.”
It was.
“They’ll cast you from this castle when I’m gone.”
“What do I do when you are?” I asked softly. Feeling a bit fearful. Though I was strong, there was still much I relied on him for.
He’s my guarantee of safety.
Though I looked forward to being Queen to run the realm, something I’d been learning for a year now, I feared what might happen.
“Consider Bartholemew,
Alaric. Asking me how long I’d thought I could hide from him. A lot longer than I had, it appeared. “What do you want?” I lurched off the wall but met his solid chest. He had me caged in such a way, he was inescapable. His breath warm next to me. Still tainted with the hint of some wine. And far too close. “I’ll call for my Guards.” I gave him a hard shove but found his body utterly unrelenting. I tried to twist away but he caught my elbows and held me to him. “Do you think any of them would hear you before I silenced you?” Silenced? Killed or knocked me unconscious? As far as his question, no. He’s far too fast. “What do you want, Alaric?” I said acidly. Working hard to hide the fact that he had me trembling so hard that I felt like my legs would give out. “You know what I want.” His yellow eyes slid down my face and neck to the low cut of my
When I only nervously licked my lips, he touched the bottom of my chin. Lifting it to draw my eyes to his piercing blue ones. “Are you so sure, you don’t want me to take you now?” He reached intimately to caress the inside of my thigh, over my dress, slipping his hand up. Inch by inch. Bunching the fabric against my center. His hand finding the place already superheated. My hands fluttered and I dropped my head back on the wall, completely unprepared for his nearness. Or the effect it’s having on me. Swallowing hard, I fought for control. I knew it was nowhere near a Mating Moon. So why am I reacting so wildly? *** I could feel the response of my she-wolf. Writhing just under my skin. My arms rippled like a wave under my skin, as my body struggled against the change. Don’t. I willed myself. Trying to even my breaths, to slow my racing heart. “How long has it been?” He taunted. “Since y
Things changed the day that I was eating in the banquet room. I’d settled down to some eggs and steaming linked, sausage for breakfast. The Dining Hall was relatively empty. As it usually is when I come to breakfast. It seemed I was generally the only early riser. Which was why I did it so often. I liked the peace of being the only one in this great hall, save for the guards near the mantle and door and a sprinkling of servants cleaning, I was the only occupant. I sawed at the bit of sausage with my knife and took a delicate bite. Savoring the spicy, tangy flavor. Nearly oblivious to the presence of the servants working diligently around the room. A man feeding logs into the fire and a few maids dusting. A servant stoking the fire, threw in the last log a bit carelessly. Which was what first drew my attention to him. Servants are not usually so careless for fear of reprisal. My blue gaze flitted over t
Huffing I whipped my hair to keep moving, purposefully hitting him with what hung over my shoulders. He turned his head, seeing it coming. His eyes flashing in unholy fury. I gripped the railing to rush up the stairs but his hand landing over mine and pinching it in place stopped me. I turned to look over my shoulder at him. “When are you going to learn that some things are simply out of your reach.” “You’re not. Though you’re trying damn hard to be.” Succeeding. But I certainly couldn’t argue what he was saying. I’d worked hard to place myself far from where he could get to me. Now I’m a queen. And he still won’t let me go. I looked at the man thoughtfully and realized he wasn’t going to back down from this. I need to throw him off his game. To control him. He’s a wild card I need to rein in. I eyed him assessingly. Recalling the way his arm had shot
Months passed. Months of him finding assassins, and those that’d hire them, to kill me. Him dispatching them, before they could get anywhere near me. One after another. Until even I’d heard of his many triumphs. His decimation of killers. He’s certainly diligent. And though he cast me prolonged side-eyed looks when he past me in the long halls, he didn’t demand payment. But I could tell from the annoyance on his features that he was growing further and further impatient. Wanting me to make good on my word. But if he thought I’d catch him and offer it to him, he was insane. He’ll have to ask me. And even that thought chaffed my nerves. Would I? Even then? I needed him in a very practical, primal sort of way. I was a female, with little power. And not particularly beloved by the people of the Enderon realm. Whereas he, he had somehow become one of
“What?” I stared at him stunned. “I can smell your sex.” He whispered. “You’re wet. I could slide right into you, without the slightest ripple.” He promised. “Come in here, Lara. Let me have her…” “No! The bailey.” I cried. Backing up. I stumbled at the bottom of the stairs and had to turn and run up them. I could feel Alaric’s eyes on me, though he didn’t move. I knew that it had been exactly as he and I had both predicted. My she-wolf wants to mate. And she’s chosen him. Well, I hadn’t. So she’s going to have to go without. But I knew depriving her for long, was going to do me in so I had to come up with an alternative. I found myself staring out the window of my chamber thoughtfully. At the forest beyond the meadow. Nothing moved down there. I’m safe. The problem was getting past Alaric to get out there. If he catches me heading o
I was extremely skittish after that. Careful to avoid him at all costs. Requiring breakfast in my chambers in-case he was one of the guards who now stood in the Banquet Hall. I knew Alaric would find me again. He’ll want more of what he tasted. Still, I was unprepared when that day actually came. I’d barely gotten up for morning rituals. Wrapping my hair into a loose braid over my shoulder and heading out of my chamber only to find my maid to order breakfast. But when I stepped beyond the doorway, I was snatched nearly off my feet. He rounded and pushed me against the wall. His mouth descended with crushing force. Alaric. I knew instantly who it was. I could smell his alluring, male scent. Hear the rumbling growl in his throat that told me he’d lost all patience. “The King!” I objected. Stunned when my shoulders hit the wall. He stood several inches above me and pressed his body to mine
I wanted to back out. I didn’t want to go. But I’d given him my word and I knew that the hell he’d make me pay this time would involve public humiliation and possibly the murder of my husband. The man who’s name currently protects me. I put on a simple muslin dress with laces up the front and a pull over vest. Walking across that meadow on hesitant feet. I drew a long breath, trying to control my feverish sweating. I clenched my fists and fought the urge to run back to that castle the way I had that first day. Maybe I could persuade them to keep him out. I looked back. “You’ve come to far to run now.” Alaric stood at the edge of the trees. Concealed from the view of the towers by a broad tree top. His shoulder rested against the trunk and his arms were crossed over his muscled chest as he watched me. Sensing what I was thinking. I rather disagreed with him. I thought I could make it back. “Come
He can do this all night. I realized in horror. Wondering how I’d ever survive it. I’d taken many wolves when I was the pack bitch but there had been breaks between the males then. Times for me to recover before the next awful interaction. Not now. As soon as he’d finished, he was taking me again. I could barely catch my breath. I was so tired that my body shook limply. But I knew what he was doing. He’s going to force me to change. Everytime the pleasure climbed through me and exploded, I came closer to her. I was realizing he could do this to me all night. He’s showing no signs of relenting. Nothing I can do. Nothing I can say, will stop him. I realized the awful truth. Limply letting him take me. Even as I was thinking it, my core tightened again. Sending surges through me. Even more powerful than the last time. White hot heat burned through my being, and I felt my muscles cooking like lava and bones starting to snap. I huffed in exhaustion. Barely noticing this strange
His length was impossible. Seeming even bigger than the last time. His whole body was tight. Every muscle bulging as he resisted turning himself. Knowing that he might lose control entirely if he did. But the words that came from him next were the last I could’ve ever suspected. “Tell me, Lara, and I’ll go a bit easier on you.” “Tell you what?” I spat. Unable to focus on anything but my straining body and the sore spots and ached each time he brushed over them. “What broke you.” “Nothing!” I screamed. “I’m strong. You’ve never broken me.” He paused momentarily. Holding my narrow waist in his hands and staring down at me so long that I felt the need to twist and look back at him. “I didn’t say me.” I shook my head adamantly. “Tell me.” He caressed more slowly. Painstakingly pressing in and then easing that torrid length back out. Bit by bit. “What happened to you before the Asara. What destroyed you so badly that
I woke to strange smells, too much heat and a hand cupped around my breast, pulling it further to the center. There was tugging on the little pink crest that seemed to have a direct line down to the center of me. Making it reflexively tighten there. Creating an ache and a tension that reminded me he was still there. He didn’t remove himself. We’d both fallen asleep with him still planted within my sweet hollow. And he’s not about to leave now. He moaned and became a bit forceful. Suckling that fleshy bit more roughly. Nipping it between his teeth and stretching it. Making me cry out at the shocking pleasure of it. I couldn’t see any light to gauge the time, but I could feel the lustful aggression still rolling off him. Indicating that it was obviously still night. Still the pink moon. The Mating Moon. He pulled harder and my fingers bit into his scalp, already tangled in his hair. Maki
He felt me tightening around him. I saw the triumph crossing his masculine features as he felt the telltale quakes that whispered I was soon to shatter. Then my back arched. Exciting him further. He cupped my breasts, balancing them against his palms as he rode me harder. Feeling them leap against his hands. The small, hard nipple crossing the crease of his fingers as our pelvis’ joined again. I gave a wolf whine as the pleasure made my legs vibrate, my vision blur and my mind flood with pleasure until I was utterly lost to the sensation. I soaked him when I climaxed. Slicking all around him and seeping out to dampen his sack. “Yes, mate. Come for me. Show me how good you are…” He was grinning as he thrust in and held it, enjoying my surrender. I went limp, exhausted from the exertion of every muscle in my body jerking tight and then releasing until they could no longer tighten. But his next words made my heart sink.
I twisted to look at him but saw only conviction in his eyes. The hardening of his jaw as he slowly shook his head. Leaning back to give me a long, meaningful look as he purposefully stroked his hand down my spine. Making the skin tingle in a warm trail that I could feel even as his touch stopped. He wouldn’t. But his excited grunting and moaning, and the ferocious flexing of his biceps as he pumped violently combined with that steady look, he was giving me, indicated he wasn’t going to stop. I knew a moment of renewed panic. “Alaric, it could-” “You’re mine, Lara!” He growled as he tipped forward over me. His stomach tightening in a ripple that climbed through his chest. I felt him surge inside me. “Mine!” He roared. I could hear the animal inside him snarling as it overtook him. Wanting to possess me in every way that was physically possible. Wanting to own me. I was stunned at his sh
I was always the one in control. And I wasn’t ready to give that up. I began struggling against him. My thighs thudded into the edge of the table, and my hips ground into it as I tried to escape him. Tried to slide away from him. Before I fully turned and welcomed him as a mate. There would be no turning back if I did it, this time. He’ll keep me forever. He was callous and relentless. He was grunting. Slamming harder and harder into me. The wood table scraped along the stone beneath it. Swaying slightly with each hard thrust. Rocking and creaking with his movements. Giving him just enough mobility to push forward and then bringing my own weight back to him. Offering him the next hard entry. Invading the center of my body as he speared into me with such force that I was losing my mind. All sense of thought was vanishing. My face was flushing. My hair was prickling. I clawed the table n
He threw my skirts up. Forcing them under my stomach and shoving me down to pin them against the corner of the table beneath me. Then pulling the back of my skirts up over my buttocks. Exposing me to his lush perusal. I closed my eyes tight against the aching vulnerability of the situation. The burning humiliation that heated my face. He’s going to take me. I could feel his eyes roving my pale skin. I felt him palm one firm buttock. Squeezing it to fully appreciate its suppleness before turning his hand downward to palm all that sweet flesh. He groaned in pleasure. Pressing himself against me. Grinding himself along my crack in his hunger to have me. He’s already hard as a rock. I heard his buckle loosening again, feeling my body tightening in fearful response. “No!” I cried. Shaking my head wildly. Tossing my blonde hair around me like caught in a whirlwind. “I’ve changed my mind. I don’t want this.”
I’d long ago vowed to never be commanded by any male. Not after they’d all owned me. Treated me like a hole to please them and nothing more. I’d spent hour after hour in a dark shack. With sweating males rutting away at me. Down on my hands and knees on a dirt floor. My body jerking upward. Occasionally they’d yank my hair. Or spin on their palm before they brutally smacked my ass. Sometimes, if they were particularly cruel, they’d push into my ass while they did all of those things. Trying to hurt me. Body after sweaty male body. Drowning me in that horrible moldy, blood-soaked odor as they took from me what I had no choice but to give. So, I’d become in control of who could tell me what to do. Until now. Until Alaric. In that moment I both hated him and desired him. "Alaric, please." I whispered fearfully as he returned to pin me against the wall ag
Alaric was right. I was already wet for him, but my pride demanded I not admit that my foolish body was reacting even though I didn't want it to. Damn him. "Alaric, stop." I whispered it so weakly, even I knew I didn't mean it. He laughed. "That's not what you want, is it?" He purred against my cheek. Making goosebumps rise on every inch of my flesh. Making bits of fur push at my pores trying to rise. A primal growl erupted from my throat. And I felt the tingling behind my eyes that told me they were changing to yellow. Suddenly every shadow in the black dungeon came to life. Blooming into hazy shapes I could now identify. "Are you ready to be treated like a true female, rather than a princess trying to demand what she wants?" He released my body, and I felt a chilly sense of loss combined with a great sense of relief. My leg dropped back down and he took a step back. I'd withstood this onslaught. Pride int