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“We… he and I are friends,” said Devlin. “Sometimes, we take advantage of each other’s handiness for sex, I suppose, it’s not…” He stepped closer. “It’s nothing like this,” he said in a gravelly voice.
“And that woman in the tabloids from a week ago?”
“I… no,” said Devlin. “I’m not in a relationship with anyone.”
She surveyed him.
“Look, you’re an omega,” he said. “You understand what it is when you’re trying to have sex with people who aren’t like us. I’m sure you’ve had more than one sexual partner at once.”
She drew back, lips parting. “Y-you’re not… that doesn’t upset you?”
“Why should it?” he said. “It’s natural for people like us to need a lot, to be insatiable.” He picked up a lock of her hair. “The way I feel about you is different than I’ve ever felt in my entire life, and I have a strong, possessive streak when it comes to you, and maybe I could be satisfied with just you, only you, maybe that would be enough. I think that sounds incredibly romantic. But I don’t want to make promises that both of us have problems keeping, is all. Not when I understand that we have needs.”
“It was only once,” she said softly. “I didn’t know what was happening. I guess it was a heat, but I didn’t know. I let them do things—there were a lot of them—I begged them. Afterwards, everyone looked at me like I was some kind of whore. I…” Her face twisted.
He pulled her into his arms and soothed her into him, whispering into her ear, her skin, kissing her. I couldn’t understand what he was saying, but she liked it. She arched her head back, exposing her neck, and he put his mouth on her there.
And I knew that I couldn’t let them do that.
But fuck if it wasn’t hot as all hell.
“I thought you’d hate me for it,” she moaned. “I swore I could never tell you. I thought you’d—”
“Even if I get jealous, sweetling,” he growled, “that’s my garden to tend, not yours, never yours. I want you to have whatever—whoever—you need, do you understand?”
She pulled away, eyes wide. “You’re not serious.”
“I adore you,” he said, pulling her back against him. “I worship you. I want to indulge you. I would fuck you right now, if he wasn’t there stopping it.” He pointed at me.
I squirmed.
“But I can’t,” he said. “If you need sex, we can work something out, but it needs to be discreet, so don’t go calling a boyfriend, and you probably shouldn’t leave here. Tonight might be out of the question.”
She was stunned. She made a noise in the back of her throat that I interpreted as her not believing he was so cavalier about this.
He seemed to think she was annoyed he was telling her to deny herself. “I won’t either, all right? I’ll go back to my room and we’ll both just tend to ourselves tonight.”
“Obviously,” she said, backing away again, untangling herself from him. “So, you were planning… what? To have Rohan be handy for you this evening?”
He raised his eyebrows, charmed. “Oh, sweetling. You’re jealous.”
She twisted her hands together again. “I thought you would be… different about this.”
“I’m not pleased about it,” he said. “I would like to try it, really, the two of us, just us. But if the Queen is serious that we can’t have each other for weeks, I think it’s absolutely unrealistic to think I can be celibate until then, not when I’ll be smelling you for hours every day. And I wouldn’t ask it of you either.”
“But—”
“You don’t know what an alpha’s drive is like,” he said in a low, rumbling voice.
It made my stupid cock jerk.
And the air was suddenly full of a sweet, intense scent. It was choking and overwhelming and basically the best thing I’d ever smelled in my life. It was coming from her, and I wanted her in a way that overrode everything inside me.
I started across the room for the omega.
The prince already had her, in his arms, tucking her head down, his mouth on the nape of her neck, his teeth—
I yanked him off.
