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Um. Wasn’t that the general idea? I hesitated, just as surprised as he was. “Unless you don’t wantto?”
Rik laughed behind me, hugging me closer. “I’ve never met a Blood who wouldn’t leap at the chance to share the queen’sbed.”
“My queen,” Xin said, his voice hoarse. “Let me kill this fucker quickly so you can use me any way youdesire.”
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Rik
Normally,I wasn’t the kind of man who enjoyed rubbing someone’s nose in crap or beating a man for spite, but that’s exactly what I wanted to do when Kendall Skye walked into my queen’s living room. Or better yet, I’d say Xin’s name myself and smile as the new Blood cut down this unwanted intruder. Though I had no idea exactly where Xin was in the room. He’d disappeared as soon as she’d told Daire to let Kendallin.
My queen. Mine. Don’t touch. Don’t even fucking think aboutit.
He was smaller than I remembered. Even Daire stood a few inches taller than him now. Or maybe we’d grown that much bigger with our queen’s blood. He offered a hand to Daire first, but he only snarled. Kendall dropped his hand with a wry twist on his mouth. “I remember a time when you both begged me to feedyou.”
Daire’s cheeks flushed and he stole quick look at me. Yeah, I remembered that night all too well. It’d been good. I’d fucked Daire while he’d sucked off Kendall and we’d all shared blood. That was as good as it was ever going to get for us in Skye’scourt.
Sucking off a Blood who never shared his own queen’sbed.
Deliberately, I brought up my best memory with him and Shara, letting it play in my mind as I shared it with him. How I’d fucked him while he’d fucked Shara. Her blood burning in both of us.:Don’t let him get toyou.:
Her bond blazed hotter in both of us. :We need to do that again. Andsoon.:
Daire flashed a cheeky grin at Kendall and brought the massive sandwich to Shara. “Now I get to beg my queen to allow me to lick her pussy until she comes, but I don’t have to beg her to feed me atall.”
Kendall’s jaw tightened and he met my gaze. Well, he tried to, at least. With my queen sprawled in my arms, sated on my blood, I was bursting with power, my muscles straining to stay inside my skin. I didn’t have to scream alpha or growl or get into a pissingcontest.
He couldn’t look me in the fuckingeyes.
He dropped his gaze to Shara as she tore into the sandwich. He noted the blood on her sweater. The fresh bite on her throat, though it wasn’t mine. She didn’t even look at him, as if he was beneath hernotice.
Because he was. He wasn’t her Blood and he never wouldbe.
“Thank you, Daire.” She paused a moment and ruffled his hair. He rumbled a purr and draped himself over my thigh so he could put his head in her lap. She looked up at Kendall as if surprised to see him there. “Who areyou?”
“Kendall Skye, YourMajesty.”
She ate another few bites, making him shift his weight from foot to foot. “What do youwant?”
He flicked a quick glance up at my face, not quite meeting my gaze, as if he hoped I’d help him out. Not a snowball’s chance in hell. “Well, to start, your name, please? YourMajesty?”
She tipped her head to the side. “You’re here. Asking to speak to me. And you don’t know who Iam?”
She might not have been raised in a court, but she had an innate sense of how to make a worm wriggle on her hook. Casual royal arrogance. She played the part so well that I almostsmiled.
Kendall actually looked a little pale. Maybe he’d thought he could come in here and throw his prior blood bond around, muscling us into letting him in. Or maybe Keisha was on the other end of his bond, squeezing hard for information. I didn’t fuckingcare.
I could have reached for his bond and listened. But I refused. My queen’s bond shone brightly in me and I wouldn’t sully it by touching an old blood bond that I’d forged fromnecessity.
“I’m sorry, but I don’t know your name. My queen felt her sibs making a connection with a new queen and sent me as an offering toyou.”
“And who might your queenbe?”
He looked at me and Daire with a dazed look in his eyes. “They didn’t tellyou?”
“I don’t give a fuck about who they fed from in the past. They’re mine now.” Shara shrugged and handed the last bit of sandwich she hadn’t eaten to Daire. He finished it with one huge bite and continued to rub on her, purring so loudly that he almost drowned out the other man. “I don’t reallycare.”
He blinked and swallowed a hard gulp. “You don’t care about Keisha Skye, the queen of New YorkCity?”
