Page 29 of Fae Crown

And there she was. Elowyn again. A pair of orbs floated above only her, singling her out, as if the queen were getting off on her suffering as much as my own.

When she felt my attention, Elowyn’s eyes flew to mine. Her face was screwed up into deep grooves of agony. Tracks of tears glistened along her cheeks. One lonely one pooled at the corner of her lip. She drew in a ragged breath that shuddered through her chest, drawing my eye to the swells of plump breasts, like pretty cakes.

Her eyes never leaving mine, she rasped, “Your Majesty.” She swallowed loudly enough to reach through the haze that still coddled me a little, that still held me in a gentle cocoon that fought vainly to isolate me from my actions.

“May I … please join you?”

With a predatory jerk, the queen spun her head toward Elowyn. First surprise, then calculation slid across her stare.

“No,” the queen answered, but didn’t look back at me—waiting, I understood, for Elowyn’s reaction.

Elowyn didn’t disappoint. She pressed a hand to her chest as she seemed to struggle to breathe. “Please,” insisted the woman who’d defied the queen with such strength in the great salon I wouldn’t have believed hercapable of begging, much less to a woman like the queen. And yet…

“I’ll make sure you … like it,” Elowyn added.

The queen cackled. “I already like it. Isn’t that right, Rush?”

When her attention fell to me, I made my lips move, smile. But despite my efforts, no response slipped out.

“I’ll make sure he’s as ‘eager to please’ as he was last night,” Elowyn continued, and the queen snapped her attention back on her. “You were watching, weren’t you?”

What in dragonfire was going on now? Last night, what?

Elowyn evaded me when I tried to snag her attention.

“Maybe I was,” the queen finally said before cupping her hands around her own breasts and squeezing.

“Then you liked what you saw.” It wasn’t a question.

Another squeeze of her tits, as if that were some sort of clue to what the fuck they were going on about. “Maybe I did.”

Elowyn stood, and Ivar was suddenly beside her. Was he drinking blood too, then? Was it responsible for his recent changes?

“Let me show you,” Elowyn urged, tears still tracking down her cheeks. The one that had quiveredat her lip had broken free and rolled slowly down her chin toward her neck.

Transfixed by its progress, by her suffering, shared inexplicably with me, I watched, thewhooshing in my head increasing in volume.

“Fine,” the queen said. “But if it’s not what I saw last night, you’ll be done.”

With what, exactly, wasn’t clear.

Ivar shadowed her steps until Elowyn was beside the bed, and when she crawled onto it, pausing only to kick off her heels and gather her skirts in her hands, he remained close. His hand rested on the hilt of his cutlass.

As if Elowyn were an actual threat to the queen, who couldn’t die by worldly means.

Whowasthis woman?

As Elowyn neared, my body warmed, yielded, seemed even to want to stretch to be closer to her. The stranger I’d only met this morning…

But all at once, even with the queen splayed out beneath me—especiallywith the queen splayed out beneath me, each of her folds spread open so crassly—all I could see was Elowyn.

Elowyn’s face, lips, hair, shoulders, arms, and breasts, nipples I longed to spy. Her eyes, oh, how her eyes held mine. Their depths churned with a violet I couldn’t place, that I was certain I’d never seen before, and yet it felt like … like … home.

Without a word to me, she sidled up beside me, her skirt falling across the queen’s thigh. Her hands bracketedmy face, and with more tenderness than I’d ever felt, she drew my lips to hers. When she kissed me, it was like I could breathe deeply again.

When the queentskedin disapproval, I discovered my arms wrapped around Elowyn’s shoulders, pulling her against me across the queen. I hadn’t registered doing it. Was it the poison, or was it some other magic?

After a hasty glance at the queen—when I was still anticipating her lips against mine again—Elowyn wrapped a hand around my dick, lowered her head, and dragged her tongue along its tip.

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