Page 38 of Royally Tempted

“Ryk, could you give us a—”

“Say no more,” he chuckled at Landon. “I assume you’ve got enough gas to get your own asses back to the palace in that thing?” He nodded at the pickup, and my brother nodded.

“Well, that’ll be all from me then.” He turned and nodded at Emma.

“Remember what I said, sweetheart.”

Emma grinned as she hugged him. “You know I will.”

“Gents.”

Our cranky, sarcastic, bad-ass head of security tipped an imaginary hat at us before he headed to the chopper, started the rotors, and slowly lifted away, leaving us and Emma alone on the cliffs.

She turned to us, her face full of that fierceness, her eyes blazing with emotion as she took a stop toward us.

“I never—”

She never got a chance to finish before all three of us were suddenly surrounding her and swooping her into our arms. Emma moaned, melting into us as the three of us pulled her tight. I tilted her chin up, and before she could say another word, I did what I basically decided right there to do for the rest of my life: kiss her, and love her, fiercely.

I kissed her heatedly, groaning into her soft, pouty lips before I let Landon pull her away. He claimed her mouth next, kissing her with a growl as his hand moved to cup her ass possessively. Joaquin took her last, kissing her mouth and pulling her against him until they broke apart gasping for air.

“I can’t believe Ryker fucking polygraphed you,” I muttered. “Remind me to have a word with him.”

Emma giggled, throwing her arms around me.

“It wasmyidea, you know.”

“We never should have doubted—”

“You should have,” she said quietly. “It’d be weird if you weren’t nervous,” she said with a wink. “Didn’t you once say that to me?”

“Slightlydifferent circumstances,” Landon purred. “But yes.”

The four of us moved back to truck, pulling the back hatch down and climbing into the bed. We lay back, staring out at the sun dipping over the horizon on the ocean as Emma — the one, perfect, incredible girl that all three of us had fallen for, snuggled up to us.

“So what happens now?” she said quietly.

“Well, now we clean house back home,” Joaquin muttered. “No more fucking around. I’m done waiting for this council to deliberate this, and they’ve just proved that they’d rather torpedo all three of us than actually do anything.”

“Wearethe princes,” Landon said with a shrug. “We could just disband the council and declare ourselves a united governing force.”

“The people might not like it,” I said pensively, stroking my jaw. “But then, the peopleneeda working government.”

“You know you three have some of the highest approval ratings in the kingdoms?”

I glanced at Emma and grinned. “Is that your personal opinion?”

She giggled. “Well,obviously, I’ve got fairly high approval ratings of you, but then, I might be biased.”

“Multiple orgasms will do that,” Landon chuckled, making her blush bright red as she turned to pull him into a kiss.

“Okay,yes, but I mean by the public. By your people. The paper does these approval things all the time for regents and rulers, looking for whoever they’re going to try and dig into in the press next. But you guys always came back with these glowingly high numbers.”

Landon sighed dramatically. “Like I said, it’s the multiple orgasms.”

Emma groaned and needled her finger into him as Joaquin and I chuckled.

“Betternot begiving anyone multiple orgasms,” she pouted.

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