Page 42 of Queen Takes King
“Who?” He murmured, that low rock-troll rumble that vibrated through mybones.
It took me a moment to remember what we’d been talking about. “She never referred to him by name, but she called him a dying god, father ofmonsters.”
Rik lifted his head. “Your father was a god that fathered monsters? Xin, ring anybells?”
His tone told me he knew, but he was looking for confirmation. I lifted my face from his arm and looked across the couch at Xin. He didn’t move or say anything, but the intensity of his eyes seared me. Wolf eyes. Hungry. So hungry. The better to eat you with, mydear.
And yeah, I knew Rik had done this on purpose. He’d reminded me of the other Blood, who sat so silent and still that it was easy to forget him. Even me, his new queen. I only now realized the other two Blood had left the room too. Again, probably deliberately. Though I didn’t know if I wanted to have sex on thecouch.
Xin’s eyes flickered a moment, a sheet of silver flashing through the darkness of his eyes likelightning.
“Xin?” I asked softly, my attention locked on him. “Do you know who my fatheris?”
He swallowed so hard I heard it. “Typhon. Father of monsters. Ancient god of Greece I believe. Myqueen.”
Rik carefully pulled my hair to one side, baring the curve of my neck. He brushed his mouth against my skin, ever so softly. I trembled. My fangs distended so fast and hard that I made a sound of shocked discomfort. Blood dripped down mychin.
Staring at me, Xin didn’t move other than a fine shimmy of his powerful, lean body. He wouldn’t make a move toward me. None of them would while I was with my alpha. Not untilinvited.
His gaze followed the thin trail of blood that dripped down my chin and splashed another stain on the sweater. I didn’t have to use our bond to know that he was imagining what my blood would look like trailing down my breasts. If I’d allow him to lick it off myskin.
“Yes,” I saidsimply.
And he was there, eager, his mouth on my chin. Rik tugged my sweater over my head. I hadn’t bothered with a bra. My lip wasn’t bleeding enough to drip that much, so I gouged myselfagain.
Xin didn’t plant his mouth over the small wounds. He only licked my chin, my throat, following the thin trails ofblood.
:Give him more.:I said to Rik through ourbond.
He sank his fangs into the top of my shoulder. I felt his hunger, the surge of power that hit him at the first swallow. Then he lifted his mouth and allowed my blood to flow down my breast before closing his mouth back over thewound.
Xin lapped my breast in slow, sinuous strokes that melted my bones. His fangs scraped gently, and I shuddered at the thought of him sinking them deep. I didn’t know how much blood he’d get if he bit me on the breast, but I was willing. His tongue slid under my nipple, lifting it into the heat of hismouth.
The tip of fang scratched across my nipple and I moaned. Such a small thing, but it sent chills down my spine. Good chills. Chills that made me think about the delicate sharpness biting elsewhere. He flashed his eyes up at me, all wolf. Allpredator.
I ran my hands through his short, choppy hair and stroked the planes of his face. I wanted to shake his silence. Find what made him crack open and bare his soul to me. I wanted to know him, inside and out. I wanted to hear him come. Not softly, quietly, but a loud roar ofrelease.
I wanted him to come apart at theseams.
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Istoodand unbuttoned my jeans. Xin made a low, strangled sound and I looked up at his face, surprised I’d already broken his silence. I hadn’t even done anything to tease himyet.
His eyes were locked on my crotch even though my jeans were still very much up. Then I remembered my period. I must have fucking ruined another pair ofjeans.
“You’re breeding. So young. Alpha, forgive me, I had noidea.”
“It’s just my period. We’re pretty sure I’m notbreeding.”
“There’s nothing to forgive,” Rik added. “I’m driven hard by my instincts, yes, but as she says, we don’t know that she’s breeding. She needs all her Blood now and she doesn’t want just me. I wouldn’t try and drive any of you away, even if she wasfertile.”
I appreciated that he saidtryto drive any of my Blood away. Because yeah, if he tried to send Xin or Guillaume or Daire away when I wanted them, he’d have a fight on his hands. I loved that he was alpha and the biggest, baddest Blood, but now that I’d had a taste of several men, at once and separately, I wanted them all. I wantedmore.
“And you shall have more, my queen.” His voice rumbled deeper. “All the Blood you can call. We’reyours.”
My stomach rumbled but I didn’t want food. I wanted blood. I wantedBlood. “Does it bother you?” I asked Xin as I shoved my jeans down mythighs.
