Page 146 of Rise of the Queen

My body exploded into orgasm after orgasm until I finally pushed him to his limit. He collapsed on top of me once again. I wrapped myself around him again, still feeling like I wanted to hold him as tightly as possible, for as long as possible.

“I don’t know why, but I feel like I don’t want to let go,” I said.

“That might be from me. That’s how I always feel about you,” he said. He sat up so he could look at me.

“Really?”

“Really. It’s especially strong after we have sex, but I feel it anytime I’m touching you. It’s partly why I can’t keep my hands off you.”

I thought for a moment, a small smile on my face. “I still sometimes have no idea of the effect I have on you,” I said.

“You have no idea of the effect you have on anyone,” he said, his wide smile stretching across his face.

I squinted my eyes at him. “What do you mean?”

“Not a single person could take their eyes off you last night and you had no idea,” he said.

“Shut up.”

He laughed. “It’s true. I’m surprised it didn’t make you panic. Anytime you went anywhere, all eyes were on you. I might’ve really loved that, not gonna lie.”

“Shut up.”

“It’s true. You can ask any of the guys. Vitaliy’s men saw it too. So did Vitaliy. They’ll all tell you. People couldn’t take their eyes off you. I can’t blame them. I couldn’t either.”

I grinned at him. “I do love that you only have eyes for me. Especially when other women are making a spectacle of themselves to try and get your attention.” I reached up and ran my fingers through his dark hair as we were talking.

“You are always the most beautiful woman in the room. No matter what you do,” he said, pushing the curls back from my face. “I might love that about you. My evil side delights in the fact that you’re mine. While everyone else wishes they were me.”

“There are plenty of reasons for them to wish they were you. Not just because of me. I might be the icing on the cake, but that’s it,” I said, laughing.

“You are the icing. You are the cake. You are the ingredients for the cake too. You’re everything,” he said, his handsome smile making me love him just a little more. He sat up, pulling me up with him. “Come. The guys are in the kitchen now and you smell like sex. You need a shower before you’re allowed around them.”

“How did you know they were in the kitchen already?” I asked, as we walked to the bathroom.

He stopped, thinking about it. “I don’t know. I just know.”

I looked at him, trying so hard not to smile. “You liar! You said you didn’t get new level zapped.”

His eyes went wide, thinking he had really made me mad. “I didn’t know!”

I couldn’t hold it in any longer. I laughed at him. He immediately relaxed. “You can feel them, can’t you?”

He thought about it, then nodded his head in agreement. “Yeah, I can tell you the order they came to the penthouse this morning, even. I don’t know why I know that information, but I know that information.”

I giggled as he pulled me under the warm water of the shower. “I think each time we do something new, it strengthens the connection between everyone. We’ve figured out how to communicate with each other, then everything came together last night. It’s not the first time we’ve all worked together, but it was the first time we did it multiple times in one night.”

“I did notice that our demons seemed quieter last night. Even around Henry and the switch-hitter, they were quiet. I can’t figure out why that would be.”

I thought for a minute as he worked on washing my hair. “I hadn’t thought about it, but you’re right. They were much more active with Battista’s associate than they were last night. But there were more demons there last night than with Battista’s associate. That doesn’t make sense. It does seem like they were hiding.” It suddenly hit me. I turned around to face him. “What if they knew that girl could see them and they were hiding from her?”

“Could she see them though? She didn’t notice anything about Stephen or the Wonder Twins. It was only you, me, and Ivan that she saw something different about. Ivan has wings, even. Are you sure she was seeing our demons?”

“Well, no. I’m not. But I bet I know who is,” I said, grinning.

“Andrei. That kid can’t help himself sometimes. Which actually works to our advantage. I bet he knows,” he said. He was clearly amused with the prospect of Andrei snooping through that poor scared girl’s head.

“He’s gonna be so embarrassed,” I said. Can’t say I wasn’t excited about this pending conversation …

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