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“Yes.” I reached up and pulled him back down. I wasn’t finishedyet.
I’d fallen under his spell and enjoyed the rough play. His dominance had me soaking wet. Our tongues tangled, and I lost myself toTalin.
“You can open your eyes now.” His hand released my breast and he turned me by the shoulders to face him. “You’re so delicate and gorgeous. I hope to get to taste you for real oneday.”
I gasped, still catching my breath because if I readied to explode into an orgasm each time the princes kissed me, I didn’t think I’d have time for anythingelse.
“Shall we go?” His fingers intertwined with mine and we strolled to the front of thecarriage.
With a hand, he helped me up at the front to sit next to Raze, then he squeezed in besideme.
“Where did all of you learn tokiss?”
Talin smirked and picked up the reins, while Raze placed an arm around my shoulders, holding me close and kissing the side of myhead.
None of us exchanged a word as we traveled onward, the road bumpy, and the whole time I concentrated on enveloping us in a white bubble. Fizzing and popping energy crackled across my arms, and I pictured a shield protecting us. I clenched my fists and steadied my energy, keeping us safe. Untouched. Unaffected.We are safe.We won’tchange.
“Me either.” Talin drove the horses through the open gates and down the long cobblestone path, flanked by pines, cloaked insnow.
My nerves stirred as we approached a huge manor house made of red stone. More like an enormous treasure box with dozens of windows and a pointyroof.
One guard stood outside, wearing a long, black coat, hands stiff by his sides. What if he killed me? Was it even legal in their world to bring humans onto royal grounds? And where would I run? But if that were the case, surely the princes wouldn’t have brought mehere.
Raze climbed down from the carriage and offered me his hand. “Mylady.”
I half-laughed, half-choked, and whispered, “I don’t think I can dothis.”
“All you need to do is smile and leave the rest with us. Be yourself. Remember, you’re Talin’s personal caretaker. And I promise, nothing will happen to you.” His smile tugged on myheart.
I swallowed past my dried throat. Talin looked my way with a raised brow. So much depended on this, and rather than fall into a puddle of panic, I accepted Raze’s hand and steppeddown.
A chilly breeze fluttered through my hair, and I joined Raze. We strolled behind Talin, who headed into the house past the solid metaldoors.
Gazes followed us, and I glanced over to a guard who sniffed the air, his nose wrinkling my way. Yep. This would be fun. And I couldn’t stop shaking, feeling like such a fake. I was terrible at pretending to be someone else. At school, I’d once gotten booed off the stage at eleven years old because I hadn’t been able to remember mylines.
Summoning my strength, I lifted my chin and strode into a carpeted room with paintings in golden frames everywhere. In the center of the first room a marble statue of a bear on hind legs towered overus.
Raze nudged me and pointed his chin to the carving, then pointed to himself. He mouthed the words, “I’m bigger thanthat.”
I couldn’t help but laugh as we entered a room with velvet-covered seats fanned out in front of a grand fireplace. The fire crackled and spat embers into the metal guard. A carved mantel displayed a scene of bears in battle. Too vicious for my liking. Cream curtains framed the oversized windows. Sunlight pouring in bathed the elaborately carved display cabinets filled with various figurines of bears in various poses. Bronze candelabras stood tall against the walls every few feet, the white candlesunlit.
“Welcome. Welcome,” came a man’s voice from behindus.
We turned inunison.
An older man with graying hair and his middle as round as a barrel rushed toward us. He was buttoning up a black and golden jacket around himself. When he glanced up, I saw he only sported one eye, the other covered by a patch. Healed claw marks, which I assumed were from his initiation as a child, crossed that missingeye.
“Your Majesty, Talin?” His voice rose, and he halted in the doorway, his expression fell, and his mouth hung open. “How are you feeling?” He half-bowed in front of Talin, yet his gaze bounced from Talin to Raze. He approached Talin and embracedhim.
“Why would you assume he wasn’t well?” Razeasked.
“Rumors had said you were gravelyill.”
“And yet as your prince, the Medved house hasn’t paid me a visit to confirm firsthand if such rumors weretrue.”
The older man rubbed a hand over his mouth and glanced over his shoulder at the guards in the hallway. He waved a hand at them, and they dispersed. “Prince Talin Ursa, I am but a servant in this house, and despite my protests, we were forbidden to contact you or yourbrothers.”
“We are here now.” Talin’s voice climbed, his frown deepening. “Where is my cousinRek?”
