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He recovered quickly and looked me up and down. “What’s it to you?” he said, his eyes flashing.
Then his nostrils flared at me, and I knew he was smelling my slick. Gods, if it was this strong and my heat cycle hadn’t even really shifted into high gear yet, then it would have driven him mad with lust if I’d been in full heat. As it was, it seemed to be urging him into displaying even more dominance. He turned fully toward me, squaring off, like we were about to fight or fuck. He probably wanted me to sink to my knees and suck him off. Why were my lips tingling like I could already feel them wrapped around his thick cock?
“Rude, much?” I asked, deliberately being a smart ass, while stifling the urge to fall to my knees.
“Oh, you think I’m rude? Who was insulting who just now?”
“What are you going to do about it?”
“I…what?”
He was beginning to look adorably confused. It was a different look for such a fierce Alpha. But an omega’s slick was always their secret weapon, and mine seemed to be affecting him strongly. It could completely fog an Alpha’s mind when they really liked it, even if my slick wasn’t quite strong enough yet for that. But apparently, hereallyliked it.
“I asked what you were going to do about me,” I reminded him. “Any ideas?”
“A few.” He took a step closer, and his pheromones flared even higher, a scent like black gunpowder, acrid and fierce, savage and masculine. It occurred to me that I needed to lick him all over. “Maybe more than a few.” His gaze swept over me again, and he inhaled, looking blissed out for only a second, but enough that I had seen his reaction. It flashed over his face and was gone quickly, replaced by annoyance. He didn’t like it that he was so attracted to me. I’d interrupted him, and I’d made him want me. That pissed him off, because his focus needed to be elsewhere. He must have been about to perform some important tasks that he needed to get back to.
“Where’s your Alpha? Whoareyou anyway?” he asked, getting a little aggressive as he pushed me back against the wall with his body. Goosebumps popped up on my skin and a shiver ran down my back. Arrogance like this was a fallback position for an Alpha. His pheromones were working overtime, and I knew he hated the power it gave me.
“I don’t have an Alpha.”
“Are the Alphas here all blind? You have no business being out here on your own.” He put a fingertip under my chin and turned my head to look at my throat. “With no claiming bite? Tell me who you are.”
“I’m nobody.”
One corner of his lush mouth quirked up, like I had amused him. “Interesting. Is that a first or a last name? Or just the single designation, like some performers go by?”
I was beginning to enjoy the conversation. He was being an ass, but then so was I. I made it worse by laughing at him.
“No, just the one name.”
“And is there a title to go with that? Are you Lord Nobody?”
“Sorry, but I can’t divulge any more information. Not even to handsome strangers on the ramparts in the dark.”
“A man of mystery then?” He arched an eyebrow, and I wondered where I’d ever found the nerve to say such things to him. Or anything at all. He was way out of my league.
“And did you just call me handsome?” he asked, taking another step toward me, crowding me even more. His eyes glittered as he tried to stare me down and make me whimper.
I nodded. “Oh yeah, you’re handsome. And what’s more, you know it.”
He laughed out loud at that, because it was true, and he did know it. His laugh was so infectious, I saw one of the courtiers by the doors of the Great Hall smile and glance curiously down the corridor and in our direction through the open door.
The Alpha saw it too, and he quickly took my arm, pulling me deeper into the shadows. I went willingly, not sure what was about to happen, or then again, maybe I was. I’d never been kissed before, and I thought I might be perilously close to it finally happening. The idea was setting off little fireworks inside me. His pheromones were blasting me even harder, and I thought I could easily become addicted to that smell. The noise from the corridor suddenly faded and disappeared and even the faint hint of a breeze stopped as if the night were holding its breath. It was surreal, like we were enveloped in a space of our own, hidden from the outside world.
I was being terribly reckless. An Alpha took what he wanted, and an unclaimed omega, with no bite mark showing possession was an easy mark. I wasn’t in full heat, but he could still fuck me and knot me, even bite me if he wanted to. It wouldn’t be a full mating, but it would do. Nobody was around to stop him.
Not even me.
He put his hands on my waist and effortlessly picked me up to set me up on the ledge. He leaned toward me, bracing his hands on either side of me and closing me in, taking another deep inhalation.
He drew me slowly toward him and took my chin gently in his hand again to tip back my head. He bent down ever so slowly, giving me plenty of time to change my mind if I chose, but I wouldn’t have missed this for the world. I let him press his full, lush lips against mine, gently at first and then harder. His kiss was aggressive and dominant, like I knew it would be, but at the same time, it was dangerously sweet, almost as if he knew this was my first time. There was so much heat between us that I couldn’t draw in a good breath, and I didn’t think he could either. I could feel a hard and massive ridge of flesh in his trousers pressing against me. He slipped his tongue inside my mouth and my legs went up around his waist like they were pulled there by a string. He leaned in farther, his lips ghosting over my neck.
My slick spurted out, and we both groaned. “Gods, who are you?” he whispered in my ear, kissing down to my throat. “Why are you out here all alone?” He tightened his grip on me. “If you were mine, I’d never let you out of my sight.”
His tongue began to probe at my lips again, seeking entry, but just as I opened up for him, a sharp shriek of surprise made us both jump apart. It was our only warning of a visitor and just like that, the spell suddenly snapped and was broken. We both gasped and I lowered my legs as he sprang away from me. Callista surged through the door like a bad smell and glared at both of us.
“Lord Lexington! What on earth are you doing out here? I wondered where you could have gotten to.” She turned a gimlet eye on me, and I could see her start of surprise as she realized exactly who I was. Her eyes narrowed dangerously.
