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“No, I meant I like Brick foryou,” Anya teases, poking her tongue out at her friend.
Inessa’s eyes turn pitch black as she stares daggers at her friend.
“Enough of that talk,” she reprimands. “And now that we’re at it, enough of hugging our queen willy-nilly whenever the inkling strikes you. She is not some stuffed animal for you to hug. She is your queen!”
Anya just shrugs, not one bit troubled.
“Kat didn’t mind,” she mutters under her breath.
“Kat?!” Inessa bellows, looking like she might have a stroke by Anya treating me so informally. “I swear to the gods, Anya, you are thinning my patience. Help Her Majesty with her clothes while I fix her bath,” she orders.
This time Anya does as she’s told, pulling me back into my chair so she can continue to pick out the leaves and wood splinters that made their way through it.
But Anya wouldn’t be Anya if she didn’t mischievously whisper in my ear, always needing to have the last word.
“You know what she needs? A good tumbling. I bet Brick would be all too happy to put a smile on her face.”
My cheeks heat up as I recall Levi whispering in my ear, saying something far too similar.
Your pussy tasted so fucking good, Kat.
I bet it will feel even better wrapped around my cock.
Does that scare you?
How much I’d love nothing more than to stretch you out, and have you beg me for more?”
“My queen?” Inessa calls out, rushing over to me. “You look flushed. Are you feeling ill? Quick, Anya. Let’s get Kat out of these filthy clothes and into a bath. Quickly, Anya. Quickly.”
I must be in a state for Inessa to call me Kat and not realize her slip of the tongue. I let them wash me and put me into bed, unable to offer them words of comfort since my mind is back in those woods where Levi got the best of me.
After they believe me to have fallen asleep and go to their respective tents, I just limit myself to lie in bed, recalling every detail of our encounter. I trace my fingers over my lips, remembering Levi’s brutish kiss. The way he tasted on the tip of my tongue. The way he forced my body to sing for him with his forbidden kiss.
I never knew this side of him could exist. Never even knew it could even be a possibility. Growing up, Levi had been so different. Tonight, it felt like he wanted to devour me, a predator ready to sink his teeth into his prey.
But back then…
He was the boy that kept the monsters at bay.
Back then, the only music he was interested in was the one we could dance to.
And oh…
How we danced.
Chapter 18
Katrina
Fifteen Years Old
“Where are we going?” I giggle as Teo leads me by the hand away from the main hall where everyone is celebrating my father’s birthday.
My father, the king, always invites his vassals to come up north to Tarnow and spend a month in our castle to celebrate his upcoming winters. It’s the happiest time of the year for me, because I get to see my friends again.
How I miss them when they are not here.
Atlas with his shy smiles and sympathetic ear.
