Not yet,Riordan teased me suddenly through our bond, and I realized I was leaning over the arm of my chair for a glimpse of her.If you want to know more then you will need to get between her legs yourself.
And then his smug face disappeared under her damned skirts while I was left salivating at his insinuation.
I was riveted, watching as she cried out her approval of the addition of his mouth. Her hands tightened on the arms of her chair as her head tipped back further, and she arched her back in the purest abandonment.
Gods, she wasbeautiful.
Riordan growled his agreement with my thoughts and pushed her legs even wider.
“Say his name when you come,” he commanded her, and the urge to reach for my straining cock again became almost undeniable.
Amira looked over at me with cheeks flushed and lips parted to confirm it was alright, and I nodded. Had I ever wanted anything more than I wanted to hear her crying my name just then?
The anticipation was abruptly more than I could take, and my body was moving before I could stop myself from pressing a kiss against her throat. Riordan growled more of his approval, and Amira made a needy moan that had me feeling suddenly feral as she arched her neck for me. As if she was trying to offer me even more.
I immediately reached out for my bond with Riordan, mindlessly grappling with a ravenous desperation.
“I want to know what she tastes like,” I growled at him in frustration when he repelled my curiosity. My lengthy canines were against her throat, but Amira seemed utterly unperturbed by the aggressive assertion.
“If you want to know more than you will need to find out for yourself,” he repeated. Then he delved right back in with even more fervour that had Amira nearly wild with pleasure. She was going to come. I could tell by the way she had quieted a little and was holding her breath.
“Breathe,” I ordered, even as my hand fastened around her windpipe as if of its own accord. “It makes it last.”
“I…can’t,” she forced out just before her whole body went stiff, and she cried out my name as if in exaltation.
I lost my head without any warning, seizing her throat again as I kissed her with bruising ferocity, devouring her with hunger that she matched.
Riordan was still lapping up her arousal, and I might have taken his place to do as he suggested and find out how she tasted for myself. But Amira suddenly stiffened with what was certainlynotpleasure.
I pulled back, and she made a strangled cry of alarm as she pushed Riordan’s head away from her. My attention snapped to the doorway she was staring at in utter horror, and I saw Chronos patiently awaiting our attention.
How fucking long had he been there?
Riordan resurfaced in confusion, his face flushed and his lips glistening with Amira’s arousal. A fresh wave of scent from her orgasm came with him and almost made me want to ignore the Keeper.
“Metis sent word that a messenger arrived with what seems like urgent information,” the Keeper told the king without blinking at our compromising positions.
Riordan was unsure how to respond to the intrusion. Frustration and confusion seemed to war with his rage.
“What is it?” he finally demanded.
“It seems Rian DorTìodhlac conquered Mionlach.”
Chapter twenty-five
HYPATIA CALLS YOU
Amira
Rian conquered Mionlach.
There were many possible reasons the Autumn Prince may have suddenly made such aggressive moves against his own people. But it was far more likely that he found out about the allies we had started exploring there before the altercation in the Spring Quadrant.
And I imagined the discovery would have completely undermined my letter to Ornella.
Riordan and Orion were now in a private meeting with the king’s closest advisors to discuss the situation and our response to it. Riordan had suggested I should join them, but I’d opted to occupy myself with something that felt a little more within my control. An endeavour that never failed to make me feel like I was making the difference that I so desperately wanted to be making.
It also provided a good distraction to keep my errant mind from obsessively replaying those blissful moments with Riordan and Orion in the archives the day before.
