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“I think it will be uncomfortable for us, is all,” I said. “And what if she goes into heat?”
“Well, we’re going to put her on suppressants immediately, of course,” said the Queen. “Ideally, she won’t go into heat until she wishes to, perhaps on your wedding night.”
“And that will be our first time at all?” I said. “I don’t want that to be when she’s in heat.”
The Queen considered. “No, true, good point.”
“What if I wore something?” I said. “Over my mouth.”
“These are things to think about,” said the Queen. “For the time being, the bodyguard is there. You will sleep separately. He will be present at all times, and you two will not be alone together.”
A cock block bodyguard. Never put anything past the Queen. I sighed.
“I know you don’t like it, Devlin,” said the Queen, irritated. “Honestly, you’re not even trying to conceal it.”
“My apologies, Your Majesty,” I said woodenly.
“I don’t know what you thought it was going to be like once you found your omega,” said the Queen. “But, if anything, it’s more complicated with a mate than without one. And with your omega being so… well, different, it compounds it all.”
“Of course,” I said, bowing my head.
“All right, we’ll return to this subject later,” said the Queen. “For now, I want both of you to be concentrating on getting ready for tomorrow. We’ll have a press conference with the princess consort at 11:00. We’ll spend all morning in preparation for that. You’ll both need to be down to the wardrobe by 6:00 in the morning for clothes and makeup and coaching and everything else. Are we clear?”
“Yes, ma’am,” I said.
“Yes, Your Majesty,” said Eleri, whose eyes were now very, very wide. She looked as if some gust of a storm had blown over her and left her confused and disoriented.
I reached over to take her hand, squeezing it reassuringly.
She let out a breath, and her scent changed. She liked my touch.
Fuck, I wanted her. I wanted her right now.
4
eleri
ON OUR WAY back to my room, we were stopped by some of the palace staff, who said I needed to get an injected implant against my heats.
I hadn’t known something like that was possible. It wasn’t reported on about the omegas. The Queen was too old to be going into heat anymore, and there were very few other omegas amongst the royals. I guessed it wasn’t really considered something for public consumption.
My own heats came on me once a month or so. They usually only lasted twenty-four hours, and I usually drugged myself to get through them.
So, I was fairly curious about the suppressant implant.
“How does it work?” I said as I settled down in the chair in the little room I was taken into. It was like a doctor’s office with an examining table, stethoscopes hanging on the wall, that kind of thing.
“It’s very similar to birth control injections,” said the staff member who was rubbing alcohol over my arm. “This will sit in your arm and give off hormones, which should keep you from ever going into a heat cycle. As long as you don’t, you shouldn’t be fertile either, so the injection functions as birth control as well.”
“But you shouldn’t worry too much about that,” said the other staff member in the room, the one who had asked me a bunch of questions about when my last menstrual period was and that kind of thing. “Because all of the princes have an injection that means that they’re basically shooting blanks. It’s like a temporary, chemical vasectomy.”
“Really?” I said. “They make those?”
“It’s formulated primarily for alphas,” she said. “It’s necessary, though, because they’re so, er, active.” She laughed.
“The truth is, though, with alpha and omega pheromones, there are no failsafes,” said the first staff member. “It is possible that, even with your implant, you could have a breakthrough heat or the chemicals in Prince Devlin’s injection could stop working. It’s unlikely both of those things happen at the same time, however. That’s why we make sure to have both.”
“I could go into heat anyway?” I said.
