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Sighing, I nodded, reaching for her hand. “I can see why you feel that way, but I haven’t hidden any of myself from you, Zephy. What you see is what you get.”
She lifted her head and peered at me.
“Does that worry you?” I half-joked, but I was genuinely afraid of the answer.
“I’m not sure yet,” she admitted, but I could see that her guard was lowering. “You told me that you and Stralia were friends, that she wasn’t a problem—”
I leaned in and silenced her worries with a long, deep kiss, but halfway through, she stopped me. “You can’t quiet my concerns by distracting me, Cade,” she murmured, her luminous eyes pleading.
“That’s not my intention, My Queen,” I reassured her. “I was only trying to comfort you.”
She swallowed. “I’m not comforted. I’m worried that this will continue.”
My fingers stroked her face, and she exhaled, her lids dropping as she succumbed to the pulsating sensation of our connection.
“There is nothing to continue because it’s as I said before—there is nothing happening between Stralia and me. In fact, just before you arrived, I told her under no uncertain terms that if she arrives in my suites again, she will be escorted from the palace permanently.”
I waited for Zephyrine to show pleasure at my declaration, but sadness overtook her face.
“Zephy… I want this to work between us,” I insisted. “But if you are going to look for problems at every turn—”
“I can’t help it if they’re in front of me at every turn!”
I grinned, unable to resist reacting to her snappiness. My palms cupped her face fully now, and I drew her into a kiss again. This time, she didn’t resist in the least, and a wave of desire washed through me. I lifted my lips to nuzzle my mouth against her ear and whispered softly.
“You have nothing to worry about,” I vowed. “Not with me.”
Once again, my lips crushed to hers, and I felt the last of her resolve slip out of the oblong windows of my suite, her arms encircling my waist eagerly.
Chapter12
Zephy
Electrifying bolts rushed through me as the tip of Cade’s tongue prodded through my open lips. The doubts I had about him and Stralia lingered, but they were impossible to confront with the power of his body pressed against me.
My own mouth responded, sucking back gently, his eyes closing in sync with mine, our embrace growing tighter on both ends. I felt him release a sigh, the friction of our tongues urging his movements, and he grew more aggressive. Suddenly, I found myself pinned to the mattress of his bed, on my back.
I gasped, staring up at him as he lifted his head and bit his lower lip.
Was this allowed? Could I do this?
I had no illusions about what was expected of me once we were married, but beforehand? Could I give myself to the King like this? Did it sully our union in some way going forward? This was not something any tutor had ever taught me in preparation for queenhood.
It didn’t matter. My reservations melted away, dissolved as Cade’s lips fell onto mine again to rouse yet another torrent of heat through my small frame.
My arms linked up around the base of his neck to tease the thick strands of dark hair, and he instantly relaxed his intense kisses as if my touching his head calmed him. His hold became gentler, the kisses lighter as they lifted to explore my cheek and neck. Goosebumps painted my flesh, and it felt as though Cade explored every one of them along the way, searching every pore with his mouth and tongue, leaving no part of me neglected.
His nose nuzzled into every crevice, escalating the foreign but sweet sensations overcoming me, my grip on his hair tightening inadvertently as he lowered himself over the curve of my throat. My head bucked backward to allow him access, a soft shiver rushing through me over and over again.
“My Queen,” he whispered in a voice so low, I almost didn’t hear him.
Oh, how that had annoyed me the first time he’d said it, but now…
Is he only doing this to distract me?A sensible, irritating voice of sensibility rang through my mind, but I silenced it, fully closing my eyes as I arched up more, guiding him along the buttons of my dress, toward the swell of my breasts.
His hands cupped them, exploring the taut, hard nipples, teasing them before exposing them to the open air. I wriggled against the material to free myself and let him see me in all my nakedness. I was fully ready for whatever he wanted to do to me, the pulsating between my legs growing more intense with each second.
I moaned when he latched onto my right breast, heat spiking through my entire form, my legs rising to wrap around him, drawing him closer. It was then that I felt the bulge of his thick, hard cock, as ready for me as I was for him. I let out another groan of pleasure, Cade’s lips fixating harder as his hands reached beneath me to cup my ass, drawing me upward. I released my hold on his hand to free him of his clothing restraints, my self-control fully diminished now.
