Page 139 of The Royal Gauntlet


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“That’s your mother’s fault.”

Essos isn’t wrong. The moon shone brightly, and our little girl reached for it until Esmaray came to her. I’m still undecided about how to feel toward her, but she wants to be involved in my daughter’s life, and I won’t deny my child a doting grandmother.

“You’re not wrong,” I confirm, settling at his feet. I lean down to inhale the scent of our daughter’s dark hair. I look up at Essos and smile at him.

“You can go back to sleep,” he offers, managing to wrangle one hand free so he can cup my cheek. I lean into his touch, admiring as my smart daughter sticks her hand in her mouth, suckling on it.

“And miss a single minute of this? A single moment of Penelope’s life?” I twist my head to kiss his palm.

Essos gives me a soft smile. “You’re going to have to give up some time so she can become a big sister.” His mouth twists into a seductive smirk.

“Good gods, sir. She’s only three months old. Give me a chance to recover before we try again.”

Penelope lets out a shriek of objection, either to a sibling or waiting, I’m not sure.

“How long do you want? Another week? Maybe two?”

“Ah, the negotiator. No, but maybe. I’m just tired.” I nuzzle the top of Penelope’s head, unable to stop smelling her. No one told me that this is what parenthood would be like, smelling your baby because you can’t get over it or smelling them for a dirty diaper. For now, it’s the sweeter of the smells.

Essos laughs. “You just have to lie there. I promise I’ll do all the work.”

I bark out a laugh and Penelope squeals in response. “How romantic. You really know how to make a girl’s panties melt.”

Essos lifts Penelope, holding her to his chest as he stands. “It was easier when Pom wasn’t keeping us up at all hours.”

The rush of desire I feel watching my husband cradle our daughter to his bare chest is obscene. He must sense it because I blink and the baby is in her bassinet, still awake, but content to just flail about, and Essos is lifting me from the chair. My legs wrap around his hips and I can feel his desire pressing against my softest parts.

Essos slants his mouth over mine, claiming me. My body melts into him as I wrap my arms around his shoulders, my fingers delving into his hair. He grips my ass, squeezing before he eases us both on the bed.

For a moment, he hovers over me, his eyes searching my face before he breaks into a brilliant smile.

“My whole world is in this room. We never have to leave, honestly. I say forget today and let me make love to you until the stars rise again.”

I prop up and capture his mouth with mine. “What are you waiting for?”

I feel his deep rumbling laugh as he reaches under my nightgown for my panties and slides them off. He kisses along my thigh and knee and calf before sitting me up to take off my nightgown. Essos still finds any reason he can to touch me. Even now as he looks down at me, grinning like he won the lottery, his eyes scorch every inch of skin they see, settling between my legs.

He resumes kissing the inside of my knee, then he kisses up and up and up until he reaches the apex of my thighs. His tongue lashes against the sensitive folds and my body bows off the bed. My fingers dig into his hair as I unapologetically roll my hips up. I feel his chuckle against me, and I want to feel it again.

Essos starts touching my entrance, circling slowly in time with his tongue before he dips a finger inside me.

“Fuck,” I whimper, rolling my hips again.

Essos flattens his tongue against my clit, using every trick in the book to get me to the brink of orgasm, and then he stops. I nearly cry as he pulls away from me, keeping his fingers inside me.

“Not yet,” he growls, using his free hand to pull down his sweatpants. His cock springs free, and I want to close my mouth around him and suck until he’s crying formymercy. I reach forward with one hand and glide it along his shaft, relishing as he throbs under my touch.

Essos removes his hand from inside me, and I glower as he presses my thighs wider. He hooks one arm under one of my legs before lying over me, his cock positioned against my pussy. I’m breathing heavily, waiting for him.

“I’m going to fuck you right now. This is not going to be the lovemaking we usually have. I am going to fuck you into next week and you’re begging for an orgasm.”

“All talk and no–Oh.”

He thrusts into me, and I cry out at the sudden fullness of him. His hand hooks around my shoulder as he slams into me, unrelenting. My hips rise to meet him thrust for thrust, just as desperate for this release. Our mouths are locked together as the heady taste of my arousal links us, our tongues caressing at odds with the movement of our bodies.

Our kiss breaks as my orgasm takes me over all at once, invading my every nerve ending with only Essos. My whole being is devoted completely to this moment, completely to us. My nails dig into his sides, no doubt taking skin with them as I moan. My back arches, pressing into him, our bodies moving together, slick with sweat. His own release thunders through him, and he groans, leaving what is going to be more than a love bite on my shoulder.

He trembles above me before withdrawing and dropping onto the bed beside me. Both of us are panting. Essos’s hand draws a line from my mouth down my chest, circling a nipple before dipping back inside me, where I’m sticky with both of us.

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