Page 36 of The Dark War

I apologized profusely to Raine and Dean through the link for how sorry I was. I lost myself, upset that my mate was in danger, but they denied my apology, saying it was perfectly reasonable. At least they knew not to hide things from me because of what Kane said.

I was the future queen. I snickered to myself.

“What are you smiling about?” Kane’s husky voice whined, leaning his head back while my lips grazed his neck.

Pancakes, he can read me so well.

“Just thinking how I should relieve some of this tension you are having.” My breath tickled across his neck. Nipping it with my fangs, he growled, pushing his claws into my butt. “You have been stiff all morning.” My pussy rubbed against the soft, tanned leather he was wearing.

He was, indeed, stiff.

“You passed out yesterday, and here we are traveling to the Golden Light Kingdom. Of course I’m going to be tense. You should be resting.” His actions didn’t match his words, his hands pushing me harder into his erection. A giggle slipped my lips, and his eyes darted to me.

Hard and rough, his lips pushed into me. He ravaged my mouth, tongue sweeping into my own. I panted, rubbing my panties on the bulge in his pants. “Well, right now,” I managed to mumble, “I want to take care of you.” Groaning, he let go of my hips as my mouth kissed down his chest, sucking on the barbell that pierced his nipple. He gasped, making my thighs rub together at the thought my body could do this to my mate.

“Baby.” He groaned, trying to pull me up, but I wasn’t going to listen. I trailed down further, untying his tunic until my knees hit the bottom of the carriage floor. Hands rubbing up and down his inner thighs, my lashes fluttered while my hands tugged at the tie of his pants.

“These are amazing,” I mused, tilting my head as I thoughtfully pulled the string. “So much better than jeans. I’m sure your dick appreciates it.” Kane groaned again, sitting up as I pulled down his pants to his muscular thighs. The tattoos running across them had me running my finger through the thick tribal bands. One tattoo, in particular, stuck out. It was new.

“Oh, Kane.” I wanted to pull him into a kiss, but instead, my finger trailed across my name that was embedded in his innermost thigh. It was so close to his manhood; I knew it had to hurt. For any human, this would have been something cheesy, but this was my alpha that had his soul sewn into mine.

“I wanted to do ‘property of Clara,’ but the tattoo artist in the pack said that would be too much.” I burst out laughing, trying to hold my hand over my mouth. Nodding frantically, I leaned forward, kissing him on the lips. “It would have been too much.” I kissed his lips again.

As I leaned forward, his raging erection poked my still-covered breasts. “Pull them out for me.” Kane’s finger pushed down on the elastic that held my breasts in my dress. It was the perfect nursing dress for Evelyn, and apparently, Kane wanted me to continue to wear them long after Evelyn was done nursing. Pulling down my top, his cock brushed over my breasts. The pearl of come on his tip wiped down the front.

“Fucking beautiful.” My own desire had me rubbing my thighs again, and my head dipped lower to lick his cock from base to tip. “Shit, shit.” He pushed my head lower as soon as my mouth opened, pulling him in. “Fuck. Clara, damn.”

One hand trailed down to his balls, cupping them both, massaging as Kane pushed my head further down. Choking, Kane pushed his cock further into my mouth. Something about him taking over the control had my heart flipping in my chest.

“Play with it,” he commanded me. “Play with your clit while you suck me off.” Giana purred in my head, obliging. Lifting my dress, my breasts feeling the cool air from the outside of the carriage, Kane’s warm hand wrapped around my breast.

Rubbing my clit as Kane’s cock dominated my mouth, I felt myself falling apart way too fast. As much as I wanted to be in control of everything now that I had all these titles hanging above my head, I loved it when Kane took me in the bedroom. I forgot who I was, forgot all the troubles, and just fell into a space I could call my own.

“I’m so fucking jealous of your fingers.” Kane strained. “It should be my mouth.” I hummed, pushing my fingers deeper into my pussy. Falling over into oblivion, I hummed into Kane as he spilled inside my mouth. Gulping him down, my hair now a mess from the pulling and pushing from his large hands, he pulled me to his lap, not before he pulled down my hot pink thong panties away and stuck them in his pocket. “For later,” he mumbled more to himself, then licked my fingers clean.

He’s so kinky.

My breasts still hung out in the open, and he massaged each one, his cock becoming hard again. My mouth started sucking on his neck. “Fuck, I need another round.” He growled. There were no breaks when it came to my big scary alpha. Giggling, he pulled up my dress to cover my breasts, brushing my hair out of my face.

“So damn lucky,” he purred, kissing the shell of my ear. “I love you, baby.” I hummed, pulling at his sharp jaw with my lips. “I love you too, Kane. Let’s try and be on our best behavior, huh?”

Kane was not on his best behavior. He scared the bejesus out of everyone that came near us. Now that Giana was streaming pieces of scenes back into my head, knowing they were memories, Kane wasn’t sure of anyone.

He eventually let Giana work on his head the next day, which I wasn’t sure what all that entailed. Whatever power or magic that fell on us was fading, albeit slowly, but it was. Kane now harbored hard feelings toward Osirus, not even sure if he was being truthful to us at all.

If we couldn’t trust Osirus, who could we trust? As far as I could tell, he was so happy to have his mate. Sure, he might have concentrated on his mate more than the bigger picture, but he waited longer than Kane to have Melina. Osirus would never betray us, and Giana agreed.

While Evelyn and I traveled to Atlantis for Melina’s pampering party, Kane was left with the men of the group. Osirus’s three bodyguards, Alaneo, and Osirus’s father, accompanied them. They smoked something that made Kane have a raging hissy fit and threatened to kill everyone in the room.

Not knowing how far mind-links could go, my dumb self forgot to tell Kane where I was going and caused a heap of trouble for Osirus. My panties were involved and were stuck on a crystal ball for a witch to find me. Everyone saw my underwear as my face came into view in the crystal ball, calming Kane somewhat.

My face flamed red when Raine retold the story that the witch had seen. Her brother was grumpy the entire time and went to sit on the beach until I arrived for the evening. Could my brooding alpha not have any fun? I shook my head at how horrible it all sounded. Part of me felt pride in how much Kane cared about Evelyn and me. But still, he was to be king one day, and he had to control that raging temper when I wasn’t around.

“Never again.” Kane growled in my ear. We both sat in the overly large bedroom. It overlooked the ocean that was falling into darkness. The blue moon was rising over the calm waters. It never ceased to amaze me how this moon was always full, so unlike Earth. It never waxed nor waned as I remembered Kane and I’s close first kiss on the balcony overlooking the wolves that partied in the Ever Green pack.

No, this moon was large and alien to me. I didn’t think I would ever get used to its glow. Kane hugged me tightly, listening to the soft snores of Evelyn in the crib on the other side of the wall. Osirus gave us a room with a nursery. Filled with toys, a crib, and a door to give us our own privacy. It was a room that very much reminded me of our bedroom back at the pack house.

“Never again will you be allowed to go that far away from me. I can’t fucking swim that well, Clara, you know that.” I snorted a laugh, patting his chest.

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