Page 65 of Princess For All

I let out a heavy breath. “And you’re not a broodmare.”

“No, no, I fucking am not, Tian.” She gave me another kiss for answering that. “I’ll be honest that I didn’t even like you.” She shrugged when I couldn’t hide my shock. “I didn’t think you liked me. You’re always annoyed and sighing at me and fucking—”

“It’s not annoyance,” I hurried to say, but she kissed me again.

“Aether showed me,” she chuckled darkly. “Mouse in Her maze and me thinking you didn’t like me stood in Her way. So She explained, hoping all was forgiven and we could fall in love and have all the babies She wants.” She tapped me on the nose. “But I don’t think you’re capable of love. Not love that wouldn’t break me in the end.

“And even if you are… Why do I have to fucking fix another one of you assholes? Why is all of this onme?Why doesn’t She come down here and do it Her fucking self?” She struck fast again and drank from my neck, closing the wound this time. “So yes, I wanted you dead. I was actually planning to do it. Give you a blow job and kill you. Sort of like an apology first.”

“Why didn’t you?”

“You were fun,” she chuckled. “Really fucking fun to fuck with. And I’ve been feeling so much better having this outlet with you. I mean, I wasn’t sure I could do it because it would genuinely hurt the man I love and I would do anything for Kristof. Anything, even have your damn babies.”

My mind raced and my body was still so on fire for her that I couldn’t even think of what to say.

She wrapped her hands around my throat as she studied my eyes. “Should I do it now? Should I kill you and tell them that you did something?”

“You couldn’t lie to Kristof like that.”

She chuckled and rubbed her breasts against my chest. “No, I couldn’t, but good you understand that I’ve made my peace with probably having to kill you.” She kept moving, letting my cock brush against her pussy as she pressed her lips to my ear. “Crack, Tian. Do something unforgivable and—”

I sat her on the table and stilled her hips.

Inez beamed at me, her monster absolutely enjoying the fact she was close to breaking me—torturing me. She leaned back on her hands and nodded to her other breast. “Still want to make that pledge?”

“Yes.” I nodded when shock and a bit of anger filled her eyes. “Fuck Aether. I want to, and I think one day I can show you that I’m worth…”

The amusement came back. “Let me know when you can finish that sentence, Tian.”

I cupped her breast and brought it to my lips, licking the nipple even if that wasn’t what I was supposed to do. “Will you ever let me have you?”

“Probably not.”

That was a lie. The flash of Inez was back and she felt guilty about lying to me. Perfect.

I bit her breast and drank from her, much to her enjoyment. Then an idea hit me and I licked the bite closed but kept massaging her breast. “There are other ways to punish me.”

That flash of Inez came back. She wasn’t willing to go that far.

“I’ve never let anyone restrain me, chain me up,” I told her. “Do it and do anything to me.”

“And you want?” she asked, understanding it was a transaction.

I licked my lips and kept her gaze. “Anything. Anything more that you’ll give me.”

She threw back her head and laughed. “You’re worried I’llmakeyou obsessed, Tian? You’re already fucking obsessed worse than the rest of them and you just haven’t admitted it to yourself yet, you git.”

Inez was completely right. How had I not realized that?

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The plan worked.

Like… Itworked.

Amazingly well. When did that ever happen?

Yeah, I was waiting for the other shoe to drop on that too.

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