Page 43 of Queen Takes King
“Is a cherry blossom bothered when it blooms in thespring?”
I took that as a hell no, it didn’t bother him, though he continued to sit there without moving. “You’re not gettingundressed.”
He looked at Rik, as if asking permission, and that irritated me. “Don’t look at him. Look at me. I decide who’s putting their dick in me. Nothim.”
“Patience,” Rik whispered, reaching up to snag my hand. “You’re asking us to overcome millennia of Blood hierarchy in a moment. It’s courteous for a Blood to confirm with the alpha before touching the queen, even if she’s making theorder.”
My fangs throbbed. My pussy ached to be filled. I didn’t have much patienceremaining.
Xin stripped in record time, but remained standing, waiting my next order. I pushed him down on the couch and planted my knees on either side of his hips so I straddled his lap, but I didn’t take him yet. His manner… unnerved me. The hesitation, and sideways glances at Rik, even after I told him I was making the decisions, made me doubt myself. I’d feel like shit if I did something to him that he regretted later, because I was too fucking eager to taste him again and didn’t make sure he waswilling.
“I’m willing.” His voice cracked like ice giving way beneath a heavy load. “More than willing. Though I’ve never put my dick in aqueen.”
I’m pretty sure I gaped at him. “Never? You’ve had sex before though,right?”
“Some. Not often. But my previous queen was not likeyou.”
I wasn’t sure if that was a good thing or not. I started to turn to Rik, doing myself what I’d just been irritated by with Xin, but I wanted my alpha’s steady acceptance. Maybe even confirmation. I didn’t want to be a terrible queen. I didn’t want to mistreat them. Or force them. Or usethem…
“Use me,” Xin ground out. “Please.”
I looked back into his eyes and touched his bond, but as before, his core was too deep. I could find him, sure, if I wanted to leap off the mental skyscraperagain.
“My last queen was cold, calculating, and hungry for power. She didn’t want bodies for pleasure. She wanted blood for power, and my blades to further her position. She had no other use for me. Forgive me if I seem shocked or dismayed by your passion, because I’m not, at all. I’m merely overwhelmed by my sudden good fortune to find myself here with you. That you hunger for my body and my blood is truly a miracle to me. One that I’m eager to embrace.” His eyes crackled with ice and lightning and he finally touched me. He smoothed his palms down my back and shuddered like he’d never touched anything so exquisite before. “May I ask one boon, myqueen?”
“Shara,” I whispered, letting my eyes drift shut as he stroked me. “Yes.”
“May I taste your blood, Shara, myqueen?”
I opened my eyes, sliding back toward confused. He’d had my blood. He’d just licked blood from mybreasts.
Standing behind me, Rik pressed against my back and reached around to cup my pussy. He stroked his fingers deep, making my head fall back on a moan. He pushed two fingers into me, but it wasn’t enough. I wanted so much more. “He means this blood, myqueen.”
Oh. My cheeks heated. I still couldn’t quite wrap my brain around their eagerness for all my blood. “Okay.”
They lifted me up so quickly I squeaked out loud. I’d expected him to touch me like Rik, or even taste my blood from his fingers. Not hold me high in the air so Xin could bury his face between my thighs. But that’s exactly what he did. Rik supported my weight and Xin drew my knees up on his shoulders so my thighs hugged hishead.
He let out a rumbling growl, his shoulders bunching beneath me as if his wolf was trying to tear out of his skin. He clamped onto my clit and growled again, using that vibration to make me writhe in his grip. His fangs scraped tender flesh—not puncturing deep, but scratching, like he’d done to my nipple, and I twitched harder against his mouth. As if my body wanted his fangs. Even there. Climax roared through me and my fangs pulsed, making my whole face ache with need. I needed to bite. I needed his dick. Rik’s. Someone’s. I couldn’t bear this emptiness tearing meapart.
Pushing into me from behind, Rik offered his wrist. I sank my fangs deep, not trying to find a vein. I needed him in my mouth, like I needed his dick. Pressure on my fangs, the taste of his skin and blood in my mouth. So good. Xin sucking my clit, feeding on my blood at the same time. I gripped a handful of his hair and dug into Rik’s arm, holding on for dear life. He didn’t fuck me that hard, not with fangs so near my most vulnerable flesh. In fact, he was already coming, and with his blood on my tongue and me under Xin’s tongue, I couldn’t stop coming either. Rik’s bond sizzled with lava, and Xin’s crackled with blistering frost. The two met in me and exploded into a fire and ice showdown of cataclysmicproportions.
My alpha roared with release and he bit my neck again. Xin turned his head and sank his fangs into my thigh. I bucked between them, unable to stop the surge of pleasure. I would have screamed but I still had Rik’s wrist in my mouth and I wasn’t letting him go. Not until I had Xin’s throat close enough to tradefor.
As if they’d worked together for years, Rik pulled out of me and let me drop down onto Xin’s waiting cock. I took him deep and lunged for his throat as soon as Rik pulled his arm aside. Fresh power soared through me. A blizzard of soft white fur and crystalized ice. The heavy thud of thick wet snow and the deafening silence of the forest just after a storm had dumped a foot or two of snow. Xin’s wolf turned at the edge of the forest, waiting for me tofollow.
I ran after him on four swift, silent feet. Nose in the wind. Millions of scents on my tongue. But it was his blood I wanted, not any deer or rabbit. And I would hunt him… until I caught him in the dark shadows of thewood.
* * *
Icame awake slowly.Aware of being carried. By someone not Rik. It took me a minute to feel skin against me rather than silvery white fur. “Xin? Where are wegoing?”
“Alpha suggested a bath beforedinner.”
I closed my eyes, feeling for Rik’s presence. He was near, his bond immediately flooding my senses.:Myqueen?:
I didn’t know what to say. Or what I wanted exactly. I was sated for the time being. My hunger satisfied. The blood of two fine men pumping through me. My nerves still singing with pleasure, my muscles pliant and liquid. My body felt like warmhoney.
But I didn’t feel like myself.Me.
