Page 31 of Alpha's Magic

I sagged back, feeling relieved. “Three days? I was worried about him.”

“No more than he was worried about you. He’s fine now, although when I arrived, Harrison had confined him to a room in the tower.”

“What? Is he all right? Where’s Harrison? Why would he put my omega in the tower? Tell your brother I need to see him right now.”

“Settle down. It was only for a day or so—long enough for me to get here from Igella. And he had no idea who Leo was, because all my men were dead. You and Leo were the only survivors, and you were unconscious.”

“But the captain…”

“He died of his wounds right after he managed to tell the gate guards you were in danger in the Doleful Forest. He was a good man and will be deeply missed.”

“Those damned arrows were poisoned.”

“Yes, Leo told us. He managed to keep you alive until Harrison arrived with his healers. I was actually impressed—Harrison said that when he rode up on the scene of the attack, Leo was the only one still alive and unharmed. He had his hands somehow inside your body and he told Harrison he was ‘plucking out the poison.’”

“What?”

Lex shook his head. “I know. It sounds crazy. He said his father taught him healing techniques.”

“Gods.”

“Indeed. His methods were crude, but he kept you alive until Harrison’s healers arrived. They worked on you for hours to remove the poison infecting your body. The question is, who attacked you? And why?”

“I’d give a lot to know that myself.”

The door to the room opened softly and we both looked toward it. A small figure had come in and was turning toward the bed. “Lex, please don’t fuss at me, but I couldn’t sleep, so I had to come back and…”

Leo gasped sharply as he saw me and then sprinted toward the bed to throw himself on top of me. I barely had time to get my arms up to wrap around him.

He straddled my body and began kissing my face all over. Maybe I should have been embarrassed for Lex to see it, but I wasn’t in the least. I was too glad to have my omega in my arms again.

“I believe I’ll come back later,” I heard Lex said softly as he retreated.

“Oh gods,” Leo said between kisses. “I was so scared. I tried my best to heal you, but your king arrived, and he thought I was hurting you. He stopped me, though I tried to tell him. He wouldn’t listen to me.”

“I know, sweetheart. Lex was telling me. He said they put you in the tower. Was it awful?”

“Well, it wasn’t too bad. Harrison tried to be mean, but he sighed when I cried and begged him not to make me leave you. He rolled his eyes at me, but he let me stay with you until we got to the palace. Then his healers took you away. Harrison took me to interrogate me, but when I kept crying instead, because I was so worried about you, he lost patience with me, I think.”

“I’ll have a word with him.”

“No, it was all right. I wasn’t really crying. I saw how it affected him, so I was using it to gain his sympathy.”

At my incredulous expression, he shrugged. “He wouldn’t listen any other way. He wasn’t too mean after I told him we were married, and that Lex and Rory could back my story up. Of course, I didn’t have a ring to show him, so…”

“I’m sorry, baby. I’ll buy you one as soon as I can get to the market. Or perhaps we can have Harrison send his jeweler here.”

He got excited at that idea and jumped to his feet to pull off his boots and his clothes so he could climb in bed with me and press his bare flesh into mine. I thought he must really like jewelry, seeing as how he always wore a necklace around his neck that he told me Grimora gave him. He snuggled up beside me, and pulled up the nightshirt I was wearing so he could slide his hand down to my groin and take my balls in his hand. Slowly, like he knew exactly what he was doing, he began to massage and caress them. I stiffened, as my cock began to get very interested, despite how weak I felt.

“You just relax,” he whispered to me. “Let me handle everything.” He bent to his task, touching his tongue to my scrotum at first tentatively, and then seemed to gain momentum as he continued to lick. If I hadn’t known how innocent he truly was, I would have been incensed with jealousy. But apparently, he was only doing to me what I’d done to him, or so he said. He told me so very sweetly and asked me if I liked it. Since I’d started moaning about halfway through the job, I told him he could assume I very much did. He rewarded me with a huge smile and soon began slathering his tongue over every inch of my balls, sucking each of them one at a time between his lips and rolling them over his tongue.

The heat of his mouth almost made me come, despite how weak I felt, but I willed myself to hold on, wanting desperately to fuck that sweet mouth. I gripped the sheets in both hands and waited until Leo raised that beautiful face, shiny with spit and tears.

“I was so scared,” he said, as a sob escaped his lips. “I thought the poison would k-kill you.”

“Oh baby,” I said, reaching for him. “I won’t ever leave you. I promise.” I knew even as I said the words that it was a foolish promise to make, but I needed to get that look out of his eyes.

His eyes glazing over, he nodded and took my rigid cock in his mouth again. Using his tongue up and down the length of it, he paid special attention to the head, swirling his talented tongue over the ridge each time and dipping down into my slit.

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