Page 73 of Queen Takes King
This man was dead. Either a thrall… or somethingunnatural.
My first instinct was to pound him into a smear on the ground, but she’d dreamed this man. Like she’d dreamed the king. She must have need ofhim.
And what my queen needed, she received. Or I was noalpha.
:Keep an eye on him,: I told Xin and Daire.:Guillaume and I will deal with Leviathan if he triesanything.:
:Understood, alpha,:Xin replied. Then he blurred and disappeared. Through Shara’s bond, I felt him closing on our new guest, though the man was too focused on our queen to realize death hovered at his side once more. If he tried to harm our queen, we would learn how well druid magic worked if he had nohead.
I turned back to myqueen.
Ribbons of blood ran down her forearm and droplets glittered on her chin, throat, and breasts like the finest, most expensive jewelry in the world. She opened her eyes, meeting my gaze, and my heart stopped. Waiting for hercommand.
She ran toward me, eyes glowing, fangs glistening in the night. She launched against me, but her fangs couldn’t penetrate my rock troll’s hide. Not unless she shifted to her cobra queen.:Shift. Get inside me. I want my alphafirst.:
Normally my queen’s wish was my command. But I didn’t comply right away, no matter how hard my dick was. I widened my stance, holding my queen high on my body, and then I met Leviathan’sgaze.
He burned. Thirst knifed through his gut like he’d swallowed half a dozen of Guillaume’s blades. Desire blazed through him likewildfire.
But his pride kept him frozen inplace.
Leviathan did not bend knee to any queen no matter how he burned forher.
I could forgive a great deal, especially mistakes made with love, like Daire’s, when he’d worried for my safety in our cobra queen’s coils. But Leviathan’s greatest sin was his willingness to kill her to save himself. That I could not forgive. Not unless he made the realization that he would die, gladly, simply because she lovedhim.
I gently set her back down on the ground and crouched over her like a sprinter ready to surge at the firstshot.
My challenge was clear. “Come, Leviathan. Try to take my queen from me. I’ll rip your fucking headoff.”
He stepped closer, eyes blazing. “She won’t let me have my beast. It’s not a fairchallenge.”
“Unleash his beast, my queen, and I’ll still rip his fucking headoff.”
She rolled over and rose to her knees beneath me. I hovered over her back, ready to leap over her and smash the fucker into the ground if he so much as thought about touching one hair on her precioushead.
“I’ll unleash your beast, Levi. But if you shift now, I’ll never feed you again, let alone fuck you. Accept my alpha. Or get the fuck out. I don’t reallycare.”
“That’s not the way thisworks.”
Her spine stiffened, her bond ringing like drawn steel in my mind. “Oh really? Am I not your queen? Then I believe this is exactly the way it works. If you want your beast, you can have him. And you’ll never touch meagain.”
“Because I’ll kill youralpha?”
She snorted with disgust and turned back to me, ignoring the other man completely. “No. Becausehe’llkillyou.”
And that was the secret she had finally come to understand. My power came fromher. Her love, trust, andmagic.
I was alpha because shewilledme to be alpha, and I could do no less than fight for and protect my queen. Because I loved her, and believed in her, and she in me, there was nothing that would make me doubt her power, or her right to be my queen. Let alone my ability to serve as her alpha simply because she willed it to beso.
She lifted the silver chains of moonlight she’d wrapped around the dragon living in Leviathan’s bond, casting her magic aside. The dragon was free togo.
Staring at her, I went to my knees and allowed the rock troll to fade as she’d ordered, surrendering to her will. She wanted me. She’d have me. Even if Leviathan shifted and tried to tear meapart.
Climbing up my body, leaving bloody hand prints on my chest and shoulder, she took my cock inside her. I shifted back on my heels, seated deep inside her, and offered her my throat. I knew it made me vulnerable. I’d come as soon as she bit me, and a Blood was never as easy to kill as when in the throes of passion with his queen. I truly believed that was why queens took multiple Blood. So at least one Blood could stand guard while she blew another’smind.
She pressed against me, sinking fangs into my neck so deep. So exquisite. It was like being fucked in the throat. I roared with climax and she drank me down, gulping my blood like a woman dying of thirst. Maybe she was. Maybe we all were. Because I couldn’t keep my fangs out of her, either, even though I knew she’d just bled a huge circle around hernest.
:G.:
