Page 66 of Princess For All

But it was a month since we implemented it and things were so,somuch better that it was amazing. Noel and Josephine were superstars of efficiency and management. Arpa had really found herself being a right hand and was fierce in protecting not only her sister, but princesses and what we suffered. She was amazing.

I even admitted to her sister’s nobles that I wanted to keep her. Not adopt her, but make her my second. I wouldn’t, but seriously she was that amazing and Lawan was lucky to have her.

Work gotdone. The plan for Ohio University was long up and running. So was University of Illinois, and the vampires who had been lazy and on the chopping block took the threat seriously because in their free time, they got more in place at Salt Lake City’s colleges which had only been discussed in passing. It made sense with all of the vampires living there and hotels online, but it was just done.

Awesome.

The humans were thrilled and could breathe—have more space and really stretch out even. Yes, they were still behind fences and trapped, but it was ridiculously safe and they weren’t stuffed like sardines in a can. They had yoga classes now and—things were awesome.

We had construction going on at the castle again. The city planning was really happening, and it wasn’t a huge focus, but it was happening. The precast concrete was going on in Salt Lake City as planned and—progress. Lots of progress.

We brought in a lot more shifters. More than I could keep up with, but they weren’t all going to be my knights. No, they were sort of “adopted” into the clans where their leaders were my knights. That was their call and that made those people their responsibility. I was just glad because it was more help even if more mouths to feed and people to provide for.

Everyone still took cross-training seriously and—no one was slacking, but we could all breathe. It was morebalancedinstead of people pretending to work and doing dick while the rest of us killed ourselves.

All the human settlements in North America were safe with us—the good people at least. And we’d gotten one in Mexico. They’d figured out something was going on, and apparently Moon and a few others had made contact and handled all the normal drama. Others were planning to reach out to any others left in South America, but we didn’t think there was much.

We’d decided on a coven name, and next month people were going to start filling out applications to officially apply like for citizenship. Say the pledge—all of it. That had taken a bit longer than planned because something always came up. It always did, and our focus was in a million different places.

We handled the situations of those we brought from Fort Knox. They were very clearly not in charge anymore, and a few of the generals even stepped down and were helping in Canada or remote areas as they cooled off.

It was that or Kristof had said he’d bury them under the next mountain he’d make and showed them how easy it’d be. They just couldn’t let it go that they wouldn’t be in charge in the end, especially after seeing how I was “mismanaging” everything.

Right, when they couldn’t do all of this? Whatever.

Boston was up and running now too. We had teams who hunted corrupted during the day with the snakesandwe’d brought in more snake shifters. Not any from Travis’s clan. We were still working on how to handle that or I thought Cerdic might have been already.

Again, there was too much to always juggle.

Things were even good with most of the men in my life. I had my date night with Branko on Wednesdays and Petre had Thursdays. I tended to have lunch and flying lessons with Darius three days a week. Jaxon and I had taken to being bums on Sundays or at least from lunch on. Cerdic and I were working out a few days a week and had had a handful of dinner dates.

Enough that I knew I missed having intimate times with my husband and wanted to get back to that.

Vitor seemed really happy with his current place and the few dinners we’d had. He didn’t need a lot, but he did like giving presents. I think that was—he needed validation more than dates. And he gave me everything I wanted in bed anytime—craved it. It was great.

So that left my cat. We were fine.

Just fine.

Keres had been mostly quiet too. One attack on New Orleans that seemed more like a test. It weirded people out, but it seemed like she was pushing her power or testing if she could still do it. Probably after failing Erebus or pissing Him off.

It would be what I’d do if I’d failed Aether. I wasn’t doing everything She wanted of me. That was very different than failing her.

Well, technically, I wasn’tnotdoing what She wanted. Currently, I was very,veryclose to Tian. He was chained down, but we were about as close as two people could get.

I’d thought he’d regain his sanity after I let the cat out of the bag about Aether’s visions of him. Nope. He traded his guard shifts for a few days saying he needed a breather but then came right back to me when he found me alone and told me he’d done something that impressed me.

So I asked if he accepted still and wanted a reward.

Yes. Yes, he did.

And I learned how fucking hot it was to chain up a man. He found the perfect spot for our fun and I bolted his wrists and ankles before blowing him. I also fed from him and kept him there while Vitor fucked my brains out.

I loved it. I fuckingloved it.

He could get out and we both knew it, but he wouldn’t because of what he risked.

That was where we started, and weeks later we hadn’t progressed much. Today, I straddled his head and let him finally eat me out while I sucked him off. He wasveryinto sixty-nining and oral sex.

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