She reaches up, gripping the edge of the doorframe as I drop to my knees.

“You think I’d just bend you over and fuck you like one of the whores, Princess? No, I’ve been dreaming about the day I’d get to be inside this sweet, wet cunt, so I’m not rushing it, not even if a thousand armies surround us. They would have to pry my dead body from yours. I’m going to take my time worshipping you, fucking you, and reminding you that you have always belonged to me.”

“Crux, we don’t have time—” She moans as I press my mouth to her cunt, silencing her for once. Despite her protests, she throws her legs over my shoulders and moves her hips, begging me for more.

Our fight turns into a different kind, and I can’t resist sliding my tongue down her wet folds, tasting every inch of her. There might have been others before, but right now, she is mine, and I’m going to show her how good that can be. Slipping my tongue inside her channel, I taste her sweetness with a groan, my hands flexing on her hips to pull her closer.

My cock jerks with desire, leaking within my trousers, but I ignore my own hunger and focus on hers as I slide my tongue up and flick her little bundle of nerves. She cries out, her legs clenching around my head. Chuckling, I pin her with one hand, the other sliding down so I can thrust my fingers into her, filling her channel like I will with my cock. I stroke her as I attack her clit, and she gasps, riding my face and hand. Her legs shake around me, and I know she’s close, so turned on by our foreplay.

“Crux,” she begs, “please don’t stop.”

“Not even if a thousand men were attacking me,” I reply, nipping her clit. She jerks with a cry, so I do it again as I add another finger and stretch her.

Her channel clenches, so tight and hot, and then she comes.

Her thighs constrict, choking me as she screams my name for everyone to hear. I could die a happy man right now, and even as my lungs beg for air and dots dance in my vision, I lash her clit. I’m on the verge of passing out when her thighs loosen, but I tug her closer again, needing more.

“Crux.” She falls from my hands and kneels before me.

Her face is flushed as she reaches out and rubs her thumb across my lips. With her eyes on mine, she pulls back and sucks her pleasure from her finger. “My turn,” she declares, and before I can react, she pushes me back to the floor and crawls up my body.

She tugs my shirt open, exposing my chest, and then her mouth moves across my abs, tasting my muscles as she slinks up my body, leaving me grunting and struggling beneath her.

“No wonder men give everything for one night with a woman like you. I haven’t even had you and I’m ruined, Alyx. If you ask me for a kingdom right now, I’d give it to you. If you ask for a thousand warships, an army, I’d give them to you. I would give you anything to keep going.”

“All I want is you,” she promises, kissing up my chest before licking her cream off my chin. “Fuck me, Crux. Fuck me like you’ve always wanted to. Show me.”

Not needing to be told twice, I hook my leg around hers and roll. She smacks into the floor as I slide a dagger free, then I cut up her dress, exposing her tight body to my gaze. I lay my dagger over her heart—a promise. It’s my first dagger, the one I used to make my initial kill, and now it’s hers.

My weapon is hers, just like I am.

“Scream for me,” I tell her as I undo my trousers and free my aching cock, letting her look me over before I slide up her body. I lift her leg and wrap it around my waist as I press to her entrance. “Let them hear the assassin defiling their queen-to-be.”

Her mouth opens to deliver a witty retort, but it dies on a silent scream as I slam into her tight, wet cunt. I force my length deep inside her, making her take every inch. “That’s it, Princess.” I fight her tightness. She’s wet, but I’m big. “You were made for me, so take every inch of me. Don’t you dare pull away. You’re stronger than that.”

Her back arches into the air as I bottom out and pull back. I thrust forward, sliding into her body. My eyes drop to where we are joined, and the sight of me finally claiming my girl makes me wild. My muscles bunch like I’m in battle, my emotions lashing at me. I hammer into her, slamming her into the floor with each thrust, and she cries for me, begging for more. Leaning down, I yank the remains of her dress away and seal my lips around one of her nipples.

She clenches around me so hard, I groan, fighting to keep up my brutal rhythm. I need to fuck her harder. I need her to remember this every time she looks at me.

I know I never pushed her hard enough before because she begs silently for more, lifting her hips to take me deeper as she tugs my hair. I wasted years of us being together because I was too worried about losing her. I won’t ever again. I’m hers and she’s mine, at least at this moment, and that is all that matters. Even if she never loves just me and wants others, I love her enough to hold onto her. I’ll stay, even with a dagger in my gut, knowing I’ll never be her only one.

“Mine, you’re mine now, Alyx,” I say against her nipple before leaning back on my knees to watch her while I fuck her.

“Only if you make me come.” She smirks, tilting her hips to take me deeper. When I slide my fingers through her messy cunt and rub her clit, her eyes roll back in her head.

“What were you saying?” I ask.

They open and my girl, never one to be outdone, clenches around me, making me groan and my hips stutter. Her smirk tells me she did it on purpose, and I want to laugh. She can never give up the fight, even flat on her back while taking my cock. She’s in control and she knows it.

“Fine.” I bite down on her nipple, leaving a bloody ring of teeth marks behind. “I’m yours, and when I make you come again, you’re mine. I’ll go out there with your cream on my cock while you dance and play merry queen, all while knowing my cum is sliding from your pussy.”

“Fuck. That’s so hot.”

“My dirty fucking queen.” I drive into her harder until we practically slide across the floor. Leaning down, I grab her hands and pin them above her head, lacing my fingers with hers as I pummel into her cunt. Our breaths mix as we both groan, both of us chasing our release but also not wanting it to end.

Pleasure spirals down my spine like red-hot fire, drawing my balls up, and with each thrust into her wet cunt, I’m lost. Pressing my lips to hers, I whisper, “Come for me, Alyx. Let me feel your pleasure. Let me die a happy man.”

As if my words are the catalyst, she groans and closes her eyes as her pussy tightens around my cock, fluttering as she comes. I watch her orgasm play across her face, memorising the sight, but when she wraps her legs around me, keeping me buried inside her and whispers, “Then fill me with your cum, let me feel it,” I can’t hold back.