Page 49 of Princess For All

Glad one of us had faith in that because I didn’t. I’d been beaten up too much… And partially by him.

I opened the box and showed him the pink diamond necklace that was a sub collar according to Kristof and my husbands. We’d found it when raiding, and there had been jokes about how it would be pretty on their princess and made them think of a Star Wars princess when she’d been caught by a blob—I didn’t understand it all.

I just knew it was about ownership and sexual games and definitely one person showing dominance over the other. I raised an eyebrow at him. “Do you want me to put this on you, my pretty kitty?”

He glanced at it and swallowed loudly. “I’m honored that the woman I love would give me such a valuable gift. Of course I’ll wear it proudly.”

“Good boy,” I chuckled darkly as I took it out of the box and handed that to Sisay.

I put it on James, glad Kristof thought to put a few chain extensions in it so it would fit. I turned his head one way and then the other so I could see it from different angles but really so that others did. I kept my fingers under his chin as I gave him a soft kiss.

“You were a bad kitty, but you’re stillmykitty, so you’ll wear that until I’m not upset and you give me what I really need. Then we’ll design something together,” I told him firmly. I let my fangs slide out and took in a slow breath as I ran my fingers over his neck. “And you’ll join me in bed tonight with my eldest Night—all night. Unless you object.”

“Never,” he breathed, getting something else was going on from the way the vampires there were whispering. “Thank you, My Princess.”

I gave him another kiss and then looked at all of the visiting nobles. “This isn’t just for show, and I do know what I’m doing. Let’s not have any misunderstandings and risk our alliances. He is mine.”

“Clearly, Princess, and no, we want no trouble,” someone said loudly, several immediately agreeing.

Good. Something was nipped in the bud for once and I got to spank one of my men before another issue spun out.

For once. Maybe.

Hopefully?

We didn’t have sex that night like James maybe had hoped, but he was very happy to hold me while I fed from him and Kristof took me. Over and over again, and I touched James, kissed him and stroked him until he couldn’t give me anymore blood. Then I simply loved on him and my husband, but only Kristoff had me.

“I don’t understand what happened today and most of the shifters were back and forth about it,” James admitted to Kristof when they thought I was asleep.

“She basically accepted your engagement offer like our ways. It makes her able to kill anyone who touches you or your family,” he explained quietly. “She already said it, but it’s the ways of vampires, and princesses don’t do it for shifters. To have you up here overnight while she bleeds and they all think you’re having sex—you’re engaged.”

Vitor took over when James seemed upset. “Even if you don’t say it like that—in our ways. That level. She’s not pushing you to propose. No, she’s been burned from moving too fast.”

“She burned the ground around me and mine,” he whispered. “I get it. I just don’t get why, especially after I fucked up again.”

“It’s because you fucked up again that people think they have a chance of stealing you away and the wound it would be to her and this coven,” Kristof mumbled, sounding too tired. “Or they could pressure you somehow—Trisha probably, and Inez wouldn’t help because you hurt her. Inez sidestepped that, especially after you were so useful in Europe.”

“I’ll deserve it,” James whispered before shifting and crawling into bed with me.

I smiled and snuggled up against his soft fur, really falling asleep as his leopard licked my face and my husband slid in behind me. That was exactly what I needed when there was so much crazy.

And I was the one bringing some of the crazy into my life now. I needed to be smacked for that. I knew that.

I knew that.

But for some reason, I couldn’t stop myself. I couldnotstop fucking with Tian. Every time he was my guard or even if he wasn’t and I had the chance, I was pressing against him or messing with him in some way. I let him catch me alone and told him to finger me, knowing he got blood from me that way.

That was it. I wouldn’t give him more or what I knew he wanted. I was driving him crazy and I fucking loved it.

So I was a psychopath now?

Awesome.

Seriously… Awesome.

I wasmorethan ready for my first official session with Vanessa a couple of days later.

“First, I want to be honest how unsettling the whole thing is with your period, and it will take me a bit to get my head wrapped around it,” she told me. “I didn’t want to start off our time being honest trying to hide that. Also, I’m advising against this.” She gestured to Kristof sitting in the corner of the room reviewing something.

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