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“Maybe if you stop being an asshole to me, we’ll get along better,”I shot back.
The look he shot me was a weary one.
I changed the subject.“How many more days until the fighting is over? I’m thinking this place will be a sex fest as soon as you give the word.”
The king’s expression turned disgruntled.“You think correctly.”
“You’ll have to give me my own room, then. I’m not sharing the bed you sleep with other women in.”
He scowled.“So you can invite the likes of Uron into your room? No.”
My anger rose quickly, along with something that felt like… jealousy.
I wasn’t calling it that though. And I’d never admit it.“It wouldn’t be wrong for me to have sex with an attractive man who’s been kind to me,”I argued.“I bet you’ve hooked up with dozens of these fae secretly, even while your ridiculous anti-sex law was in place.”
“I have kept every one of my laws, and that one wasn’t my idea to begin with.”
“Because you’d rather have a new woman in your bed every night. Maybe even two,”I spat.
My anger had been rising steadily, and I didn’t know why. Not jealousy; definitely not jealousy.
Probably because he was trying to tell me what to do, and I wanted freedom.
“Because I have no taste for casual sex,”he snarled back.“I grew up with mated parents. I saw how they loved each other. Sex with no emotion behind it is deadening for me.”
His words shocked me right into silence.
My mind went back to the way he’d touched me, in his room. And the way he’d let me touch him.
If he had no taste for it, he had only agreed to it to get what he wanted… and because he knew it was whatIwanted.
New anger hit me hard, but I kept it silent.
I was done with him. Absolutely done. When our bond broke, I’d be thrilled if I never saw the bastard again.
He didn’t say anything else to me as our walk continued, and I didn’t say anything else to him.
The event started an hour or two after we arrived. I remained on the bench in the area that seemed to be reserved for Kierden, the one Eisley had brought me to the night before. He left me there to go figure out the logistics of something when someone asked him for help, and I stayed where I was, entirely alone.
My anger cooled as I sat there, and I settled into a calm state of trying to determine how I was going to act with Kierden. It sounded like he was going to force me to continue sleeping in his room, to prevent me from having casual sex while we were bonded. I could survive another two months or so of that; it wasn’t the end of the world. I hadn’t had sex before, anyway, so I wasn’t entirely sure what I was missing out on.
Then again, I could always spend a bunch of time out at the shops meeting new people. If more of them were as friendly as Uron, I might eventually develop feelings for one of them enough to trust them to take my virginity.
Or perhaps I’d just get tired of holding out and ask someone to show me how it worked.
There were many options, regardless of where I slept.
As I considered my options, I decided to show Kierden the same quiet indifference I gave him in the forest after he rescued me, rather than allowing myself to fight with him again. The fighting only made us both feel things more strongly, which wasn’t good for us.
Eisley joined me after a while, her gaze a bit bleary. She didn’t say much to me at first, but sniffed the air and gave me a weird look.
“What?” I frowned at her.
She leaned closer and sniffed me, then made a face. “You smell like Kier again.”
Oh.
I hadn’t bathed after he… well, touched me. Against the wall and by the pool.Intimately.
