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And then Cinderella lifted herself up on her tiptoes, leaned forward, and kissed Prince Charming herself.
Because it washerfairy tale.
He kissed her back with all the same heat. And then he pulled her with him, laughing, back to the dance floor.
“We cannot leave yet, my wild little hen,” he told her. Sternly. “So we must dance.”
But the moment they could leave without offending their hosts, he hurried her out of the ballroom and followed his waiting aide to the rooms set aside for them in Graciela’s ancient castle.
“What is it?” he asked as they walked in, when Nina laughed. He shut the heavy door behind them and leaned against it.
Nina looked around. Stone walls, tapestries, and an old standing suit of armor in one corner. A fire crackling in an old fireplace. A weathered yet polished wardrobe. And thick, soft carpets thrown all over to mask the chill of all the stone.
“It’s just...castles,” she said, because it was somehow perfect that they were here, tonight. Making fairy tales real. “They are always the same.”
She walked farther into the room, making her way over to the canopied bed that stood against one stout stone wall and running her fingers over the embroidered coverlet.
“Second thoughts?” Zeus asked, his voice a dark temptation, and she remembered that. He had asked that same question on their first night together, but then he had been poised above her.
The hardest part of him notched between her legs, the pleasure already unbearable—she remembered every moment.
She looked over her shoulder at him and smiled. “Not a one,” she whispered.
And then she watched him come toward her, dark blond like one of the gods his people sometimes claimed his family had descended from. Green eyes that were darkly intent now and laced with that fire that was only and ever theirs.
He came toward her, then turned her in his arms, and Nina thought that surely now she would feel unwieldy again. Swollen and awkward.
But Zeus held her in his arms, he bent her back, and he kissed her.
Ravenously.
And Nina felt as light as air, as graceful as a dancer.
She met his kiss, all the fire within her bursting into spirals of flame that licked through her body, making her fight to get closer. To feelmore. To glut herself on this man all over again.
He kissed her, and she kissed him, and it was different now. Better.
Laced through with a kind of reverence, as if neither one of them could believe that they were here again. In a castle, near a bed, just like last time. Nearly seven months gone by now, and it felt like yesterday.
“I looked for you,” Zeus said against her lips. “You hid well, little hen.”
“I wasn’t hiding.”
But then she was laughing as he lifted her up as if she weighed no more than a feather and sat her down on the edge of the high bed. His hands were busy beneath her long skirts, and she sighed as he ran his palms up her legs, over her thighs. And sighed again when he only brushed, gently, the place where she needed him most. Then moved on.
She remembered this, too. That Zeus liked to tease.
“Were you not?” he murmured, trailing his fingers up the sides of her dress. “You were hard to find, then, for a person who was not hiding.”
But he seemed distracted. He spent extra time on her belly, then found her breasts. Once again, only a glancing caress before he eased her back so he could attend to the complicated fastening of her gown down one side.
“I suppose I was running,” she said, because this room felt like a confessional. This night felt like a brand-new start. “But I didn’t know where I was going.”
His hands stilled. “You only knew you wished to get away.”
Nina smiled again. She couldn’t stop smiling, really. She lifted a hand and slid it over his hard jaw, strong and solid. And, tonight, with that faint rasp against her palm that made all the fires he set within her kick a little higher. Burn a little hotter.
“Not from you,” she said softly. “It never occurred to me that you would come looking. It was my one night with the wickedest, most notorious prince alive.” She felt his lips curve as he turned his head so his mouth was against her palm. “That is the Prince Zeus promise, as far as I’m aware. One night. Never more.”
