Page 45 of Princess For All

“United Under Inez,” Kristof said, shrugging when I sighed. “UUI sounded cute. Plus, I love being under you, my wife.”

“Dirty! Dirty, dirty, old fart,” I chastised, failing at not laughing when he did.

“What were you leaning towards?” Cerdic asked which was funny since he was once King of England hundreds of years ago.

“United Coven of American Countries and Species, but it’s kind of bulky,” I grumbled. “I mean if we’re doing both Americas really since…” I glanced at Kristof and he nodded.

“The one coven in Canada did implode. It was overrun and—there’s nothing left and any who survived whatever happened there fled.”

“Right, and Keres now controls the one in Florida. Nothing was really left in South America.” Again, I shrugged. “Just remind the assholes that a female will be in charge and it’s fitting.” I smiled when Josephine snorted. “She gets it.”

She dipped her head to me before focusing on the men who were confused. “America is the feminine form of the Latinized version of the name of Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci. A German man named these continents a feminine name as is tradition for naming continents, so they should remember that in their sexism.”

I did a mic drop—something the twins had taught me—and left the dining room to get back to my day and schedule… As best as possible.

We put together a last-minute meeting after dinner to talk ideas and how to make sure what happened earlier never did again. It included too many people, so it was a packed room at one of the hotels in Salt Lake. I wasn’t sure why there, but I wanted to genuinely hear the ideas. Vitor and Tian had switched out as my guards now.

Kristof had decided it was the right time to introduce Josephine and Noel as helping and temporarily having knight status. We had enough people gathered at once, and it was best to hear it directly from us. I moved to let him get towards the front and handle all of this. The room really was packed, and I ended up bumping into Tian.

Nothing big and something that happened all of the time.

Except it was a weird angle, and while we were the same height normally, I was in heels, so… I’m not sure how it happened. I just know what happened.

The side of my ass bumped his groin. Barely.

But I felt he was hard.

From standing near me. I was the only woman there.

Tian was behind me and Vitor on my other side. Cerdic was on my left. Kristof had been on my right with Sebastian next to him—all of the people around us we trusted. It was just our group.

Some insane part of me needed to check. Some section of my brain that must have actually snapped with all of my issues thought it smart to figure out rightthenif Tian actually liked me.

Or at least wanted to fuck me so much that he got hard for me in serious meetings?

Yes, apparently, I had really snapped.

All I knew was the next time I brushed up against him, it was intentional.

And he was hard. He sucked in a quick breath and I moved closer against him, feeling his erection against the left cheek of my ass.

I really had cracked because it excited me. My husband was standing right next to me—the one I was trying to fix my marriage to—and I was pressing my ass against my guard’s erection. The one I didn’t evenlike.

So of course reality hit me and I stopped, stepped away and focused on what my love was saying at the center of it all. Of course I did, right?

No, I pushed my ass against him more and moved a little bit here and there. I teased his dick with my ass fully knowing what I was doing.

I swallowed a gasp when his hand moved to my hip and he pressed his erection against me more, moving as well. He smelled my hair and I felt his heart beating against my back.

I knew part of the answer a moment later. Aether seemed to realize how crazy people really would be with me and my blood because of Erebus but also just how powerful I would be. Plus, how uncomfortable I always got with how far the sharks went. So now my period didn’t start like normal and nostrils flared which freaked me out.

No, I got… It wasn’t a warning bell. It was—I couldn’t really put it into words. My body didn’t ring. It wasn’t a bell.

I didn’t vibrate.

I just knew. Trust me. I knew.

“I have to use the washroom,” I told Cerdic quietly.

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