Page 22 of Queen Takes King
:Greyson told me he was myfather.:
Now I understood better why they’d told her she wasn’t full Aima.:I would not trust a thrall to be truthful. Even if he didn’t deliberately try to mislead you, he might not know the truthhimself.:
:Are the Skolosevil?:
:No more evil than Marne, who tries to lure unsuspecting queens with tainted humans, or Desideria who used me to slaughter hundreds of Blood and entrap their queens. Or me, for that matter. I have killed a great many people, my queen. The human today was the least of mysins.:
Even though we used only the bond to communicate, I sensed a hushed confession trembling in her thoughts.:I burned Greyson up with myblood.:
I saw the torch she’d made of the monster who’d hunted her for years, and felt her underlying horror, not at the act, exactly, but her fierce gladness that she’d done such a thing. I deliberately sent her my enthusiastic approval.:Good.:
I tucked her closer and she nestled her face against my barethroat.
Something I’d refused to offer Marne Ceresa, or any queen who thought to wield me as Desideria had done. After she’d freed me from the prison cell, she’d had to order me to give throat and used her bond as a weapon inside me until I was forced to yield to her will. Feeding my queen had been punishment. Not enjoyment. Certainly not pleasure, tenderness, or dare I say,love.
In the end, she had even tried to kill me by draining medry.
Shara didn’t know how significant the gesture of a bared throat, offered willingly, could be, especially from someone who’d endured forced feedings. I’d seen Daire do it many times, and she’d gone to Rik for affection and comfort the same way. She didn’t have fangs, yet, but even if she had crocodile teeth, I would have tucked her close the same way, silently offering my throat if she wantedit.
:I suppose I could have burned up Catherine’s body today so they wouldn’t have to fake a caraccident.:
:Don’t waste your precious blood on any human, let alone one who’stainted.:
She kissed my throat, her lips soft and tender on my skin. Butterfly touches. Angel wings. She sighed softly, a sound that had the alpha lifting his head, his eyes dark with slumberousheat.
:Do you hunger?:I asked her, sharing that thought with Rik at the sametime.
:Not exactly.:She hesitated, her bond flowing inside us like a silver ribbon of moonlight.:Ineed…:
My intensity rose, as did Rik’s. Nothing turned on a Blood more than when his queen needed. Whatever itwas.
:I want… this.:She gave us an image of her smashed between us, that immediately had Rik rising to his knees and moving closer.:If you’rewilling.:
I met Rik’s gaze over her shoulder, hoping my incredulity didn’t offend her.:Why would we not want this? Or want anything that youdesired?:
Aloud, she whispered, “I don’t want to be like Desideria. Or Marne. Or any other queen who’s hurt you. I never want to make you do something because I’m your queen and you have nochoice.”
“Ourqueen.” I lifted her easily, holding her astride my hips, but I didn’t enter her. “Does not hesitate to take what she desires, because she knows we want nothing more than to fulfill that need, whatever itis.”
Rik moved behind her, straddling my knees, and rubbed his dick in the sweet dark blood pooling between herthighs.
Her desire slid through the bond, heating pearly moonlight to white-hot flame. “Bleed on me. Like you did Daire. Unless you’ve already lost too much bloodtonight.”
“Never.” Rik bit his wrist and let blood spill on her back andbuttocks.
I felt every drop on her skin, the delicious fire that spread like wildfire through her body. She cried out, twisting in my grip, fighting to get my dick insideher.
But I waited. Rik was alpha. He might decide to fuck her on top of me before letting me have a turn. Or he might deny me entirely. She hadn’t specified more than this, that we hold her betweenus.
He bent her lower, pressing her breasts against my chest. My arms trembled, but not from her weight, or from the effort of keeping her lifted above my hips. No, I fought myself. I fought to restrain the pawing, screaming warhorse from hell that pounded inside my body until the alpha had his fill. Or until he directed meotherwise.
Reaching around her, he cupped her pussy, stroking through the blood to make her quiver between us. “Tell us, my queen. Tell us exactly what you want so we may fulfill yourdesire.”
I waited, my heart thudding heavily, aching to touch her again, but afraid to hope she would want to include me again. I had lived with a service I dreaded for so long that I’d given up on ever having something more. Something precious. And now that I had hope of somethingmore…
I didn’t want to lose that joy soquickly.
“I want you both inside me. And I want you both to feed on me while you fuckme.”
