Total pages in book: 138
Estimated words: 137958 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 690(@200wpm)___ 552(@250wpm)___ 460(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 137958 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 690(@200wpm)___ 552(@250wpm)___ 460(@300wpm)
The best.
Rapture.
She was not quite finished before he tossed her to the bed.
He moved to his leathers scattered on the floor.
She pushed a hand between her legs and cupped there in an effort to hold what he’d given her to herself.
“I’ll have you again,” she whispered words she’d never said to a man in her life.
“Maybe.” His eyes came to her. “We shall see.”
He finished dressing and, carrying his sandals, he walked out of the room without looking back.
She felt the burn in her backside, the quivering at her nub, the wet between her legs, her blood still singing in her veins, her eyelids heavy, her mind hazed.
She would have him again.
Or allow him to have her again.
She would.
And she would do whatever she had to do to make that so.
Because…
She had to.
King Mars Laches
King’s Study, First Floor, East Corridor, Catrame Palace
FIRENZE
Mars looked from Cassius seated across his desk from him in his study to the door as Chu walked in, carrying his sandals.
Mars smiled.
Chu sat down in the seat next to Cassius, tossed his sandals to the floor between his feet, and stated, “She is mine,” before bending to lace his sandals on.
Mars looked to Cassius.
Cassius was studying Chu.
“Just once?” Cass asked skeptically.
Chu did not straighten from his laces as he turned his head and twisted his neck to look up at Cass.
“Yes.”
After that, he returned his attention to what he was doing at his feet.
Cass sat back and murmured, “The mighty Serena felled by one taste of cock.”
“She did indeed have one taste of cock, and she swallowed my seed when she did.”
Cass’s eyebrows flew up.
Mars beat back laughter.
“Though, in her cunt, she had two tastes of cock, her arse took a tanning that had her dripping, so by the time I thrust in her face,” done with his laces, Chu sat up, “she would have paid to gulp down my seed.”
“You spanked Serena of the Nadirii,” Cass said.
“Yes,” Chu confirmed.
“You spanked Serena of the Nadirii,” Cass repeated.
As his brother had answered that, he didn’t do it again.
It was then, Mars arrested for Cassius started laughing.
It was not loud or raucous.
But it was genuine laughter and Mars had not seen that from his friend in six years.
Cass sobered and requested, “Please tell me she’s not good in bed.”
“She was greedy and selfish. Until I made her neither,” Chu replied.
Mars grinned.
Cass grinned as well.
Something else, it being authentic, Mars had not seen in some time.
“In the end, she was passable,” Chu finished.
“We’ll need to ask you to go at her again,” Mars told his Trusted.
“She has a greedy cunt, she also has a greedy mouth.” Chu shrugged. “This will not be a hardship.”
Chu turned his attention to Cassius.
“This transgression against you,” he began. “How deep does it lie?”
“It isn’t against me,” Cass returned. “It was against her sister.”
“It is known wide she inflicted the wound that killed your brother,” Chu noted.
“It is also known wide that Trajan angled for that battle, hiring ten of the most powerful sorcerers in the land, at great expense, to cast in an attempt to bring down The Enchantments after the return was denied of five women who were lovers or servants of wealthy men in Airen. They had gone to the Nadirii for refuge. These women were not kidnapped and held hostage. They escaped to make themselves safe. It would have been easy to let that situation lie. He did not. He attacked. Thus he sealed his own fate. In a number of ways.”
“So you seek retribution for a bride you barely know?” Chu inquired dubiously.
Cassius stared intently at Chu before he spoke.
“It is not my destiny to take a mate. It is my destiny to take a mate while I build a pre-determined family. I’d barely said a few words to the woman who would share my bed, give me children and be mother to my daughter, before Serena made a move to drive a wedge between us. Her venom was aimed at me, perhaps so her sister would not realize the extent of the envy she holds for her sibling. I did not miss this. Her attack was on Elena. I could countenance an attack on me and move on from it without a thought. But if you attack what’s mine, if you attack my family, you will endure my retribution. It will be swift. Creative,” he indicated Chu with a nod of his head, “if need be. And finally, it will be thorough.”
“And what do you wish from this once I make her slave to my cock?” Chu asked.
“I’ve no idea,” Cassius murmured. “Mars suggested you and your skills. It seemed a good suggestion for the likes of Serena. She would never see that coming. But I haven’t thought that far ahead yet.”
Chu stood from the chair, saying, “When you know, tell me. Now I’m off to test my tethers.”