Page 62 of Princess For All

“She’s—”

“I know,” she snarled, the monster coming back and her fangs even coming out. “I know what she is better than you do, Tian. I’m just like her.”

“You’re nothing like her,” I argued.

“I’m just as much a whore of a God as she is, and it’s probably dumb luck Aether chose me instead of Erebus,” she growled. “Watch, it was the two of us, and she died, so He picked her or something. We don’t know. All I know is she had nochoicein all of this just like I haven’t. You cannoteverunderstand what that is for us. Never.”

“You’re right, and I’ve seen you understand more than most,” I whispered. “Even how Kaitlin’s nobles let you best her after giving vows to protect her.” It shocked me that her monster was more than angry.

Which was part of the reason her monster came about. It was a shield just as mine was. Inez saw those failures and warning signs and took steps emotionally and mentally to protect herself.

Protect herself from what she saw as being inevitable one day.

She was smarter than most to see the reality of it and worry because the hearts and minds of people were fickle.

“That is good information we needed, and you do deserve to be rewarded.” She smirked letting me know it would be more punishment too since I’d touched on nerves of hers as well.

Her saying that sparked her words earlier for me again and I realized something, grabbing her wrist when she reached for my pants. I searched her eyes, seeing vulnerable Inez who thought she was going to be rejected instead of her monster that could be as dark as mine.

“You saw something,” I breathed as my anxiety slammed into me, I quickly tried to control my heart rate and let out a heavy breath to release the anxiety. Too much filled her eyes too fast and let me know that I was right. “You remembered something. You keep saying rewards, but it was one reward—it didn’t start as rewards, but it did, didn’t it?”

“I didn’t say you could touch me,” she bit out, her gaze focused on where I was holding her.

Instantly, I let go, and I saw her monster was happy that I obeyed like a good boy, but I crowded her, sniffing her hair like she loved.

Like that fucking leopard did that I wanted to kill most days.

“Please, tell me as my reward tonight,” I begged her, actually begged her. “Tell me what you saw.”

She struck fast and sank her fangs in my neck, drinking deeply from me but just as fast pulling them out and not licking the wound closed in punishment.

But I still fucking loved that she drank from me. We both knew it.

She took a step away and used her power to slash at me. I was ready for the pain to follow… Except none came. I glanced down and saw she’d only hit my clothes.

Inez smirked at me when I only looked at her in surprise, not hiding that I was also impressed. She did it again and again until my clothes were rags hanging off of me.

“Feel better?” I asked, genuinely wanting to know if that had helped her.

She snickered. “I need to practice.” Her eyes ran over my body like a caress and I instantly went hard, something she liked a lot.

Inez liked to be desired. We all did, but she did especially after all she’d been through even before finding out she was a vampire, then even more so after her husbands broke her. Now she was almost obsessed with it after learning what her family had done to her.

“Do what you want with me, but tell me what you remember,” I begged.

She tilted her head as she studied me before meeting my eyes, the monster fully out at what I’d said. “You’re going to have to pick there, Tian. Do you want what I remember or what Isaw?”

Oh shit. I let out another heavy breath and then a second when I realized what she saw involved me.

She chuckled when she grasped I’d figured it out. Inez moved back to me and licked her bite closed as her fingers danced along my cock. She kissed my neck. “Yes, I remembered something. Something disturbing that made me very grateful that you had a big part in saving me even if Darius abducted me. I saw part of my training that you made sure didn’t happen.”

“Is that why I’ve been being rewarded?” I swallowed loudly. “The only reason?”

She slowly sank to her knees and stared up at me, letting my dick hit her face. “Is this a reward, Tian?”

“Yes.”

“Is it what you want?”

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