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She gave me a long look, and then leaned in. “Fine, tell me. Still, no details.”
I leaned closer too. “He wanted a distraction. I distracted him. But he pushed me a little too far and I got mad, so he said the thing about needing to dominate and conquer, and told me I had to decide whether I could handle it or not.”
She nodded. “Kier has always been very, very intense. I know the reason he hasn’t been interested in anyone in so long is because he feels things too strongly. He won’t accept casual or half-committed relationships. If he wants something, he’s all in, permanently. I’m sure he's shitty at expressing it, but that’s the truth. If he wants you, he wantseverythingwith you.”
“What if I don’t likeeverything?” I asked. “What if he tries to do something—” I saw her face and added hastily, “Like cooking me breakfast—and I don’t like it? Do you think he’d be angry? Would he push me for more? Would he insist that I keep letting him cook me breakfast because of his desire to dominate and conquer or whatever? I don’t want to be trapped, or forced into anything. I really couldn’t handle that.”
Her eyes softened. “With a sealed mate bond, it would be impossible for him to hurt you. I don’t know much about the connections, but I do know that. Even the cruelest, most violent kings couldn’t hurt a hair on the heads of their queens. They were teams—as wicked and dark as that sometimes was for everyone.”
Maybe that shouldn’t have made me feel better, but it did.
“I don’t want to make him unhappy, though,” I said quietly. “I don’t want to agree to this and then change my mind, and have him regret it.”
She flashed me a smile—a genuine one. “Kier has never regretted a decision in his life. He’s far toodominantandconqueringfor that. If he picks you, he’s yours, no matter what.”
My heart warmed rapidly.
Her gaze lifted to the dining hall’s entrance, and her smile grew. “Whatever he did, he must’ve realized he screwed up.”
My head turned just as a thick, warm hand landed on my shoulder.
“I’m sorry,”he said into my mind.“Veil, I am terrible at this.”
“It’s alright. I think we just need to talk about it.”
“I agree.”He sat down next to me.
“You’re talking mentally, huh?” Eisley asked knowingly.
“Of course not.” Kierden snagged my fork from my fingers, loading it up and lifting it to my mouth. I stole it back from him and ate the food.
“We would never,” I agreed as I chewed. “You need to eat something too,” I told him.
“Don’t worry about me, Nissa.”He dropped a hand to my thigh and squeezed.
“I’m supposed to worry about you. We’re mates.”
He made a noise of disagreement.“You’re my female.”
“And you’re my male, right?”
“You guys aretotallytalking mentally. If you weren’t so damn adorable, I’d be annoyed,” Eisley said, interrupting our conversation.
Err, the conversation weweren’thaving.
“We aren’t,” I protested as Kierden said into my mind,
“You know I’m yours, little human.”
“Mmhm.” Eisley didn’t sound convinced in the slightest.
Kierden got up for a moment, and she shook her head at me while he was gone. He returned quickly, with a plate of food in his hands.
“So I take it you didn’t learn anything about the deaths today?” Eisley looked at her brother.
He inclined his head to the side a little, and I realized he was gesturing toward the room we’d been in earlier. “No, we didn’t.”
“That’s disappointing,” she said calmly, though her eyes had widened slightly.
