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Briar folded in her lips and whacked my arm. “If you can refrain from talking for more than a minute, I shall answer your original question.”
Obediently, I waited with my arms banded around her.
Satisfied, she cleared her throat. “I was hoping to find documentation on the treatment of born souls. Perhaps a particular record of the past that might help when you approach the Crown. Something I might be able to use as well, to propose that Mother also reconsider the law in Autumn.”
I leaned back. “That’s what you’ve been doing?”
“During a few visits, yes. Whenever I have a free moment.”
Briar spoke as though this were an obvious step for her to take. Yet for once in my infamous life, my tongue stalled. I gazed at her, warmth flooding my chest.
She wanted to help.
We stood in the heart of the mightiest weapon of all, a place of learning and knowledge, yet I’d poured through these archives before. I tried not to get my hopes up that she would find anything beyond the details of the law itself. That, and soulless logs listing the names and conditions of each prisoner who’d ever been swallowed whole by that law.
Seasons almighty. At this rate, the woman would slay me.
When I asked if she had made progress, her eyebrows crinkled in frustration. That expression testified she wasn’t making as much headway as she’d wanted. She had a pile of chronicles yet to go through.
In the meantime, Briar shared her ideas, solutions about how to treat the mad and possibilities for those like Nicu, who needed special care. We hunkered deeper into the stacks and debated in hushed tones. I told her the points I planned on making to the Crown, then deliberated the strengths and drawbacks with her.
Gleaning Briar’s insights for the next hour boosted my mood, to the point where I started to feel naughty. My palms sank to her ass, and my thumbs slid across those delectable spots where the crescents met her thighs.
Briar’s eyes bulged, and she suppressed a grin. “Poooooet,” she drew out, part chortle, part reproach.
“I could devour you senseless,” I swore whilst drizzling a finger between her collarbones. “I could open you up, right here against these books.”
“Don’t you dare. You’ll ruin my concentration.”
“Is that so? Though I’d relish the challenge, I can’t imagine it’s that easy.”
“It wasn’t until you existed.”
“Mmm. Does that mean you enjoyed what my mouth did to you last night?”
She squirmed, my words reaching the right places under her skirt. The deep, damp, honeyed places that I still felt melting on my palate.
Another peachy flush consumed her cheeks. “Very much. I’ve never felt so …”
My lips quirked. “In that case, I have a confession. I’ve never feltso, either.”
“Liar.”
“Only if we’re being literal, sweeting.”
Despite Briar’s teasing, genuine uncertainty crossed her features. “Aren’t we?”
My voice took on a raw edge as I ducked my head. “Would you like to know how you taste?” When she shivered, I pressed her harder into the bookshelf, my chest flush with hers. “I still feel your beautiful pussy on my tongue, slick and tart as the rest of you. I still feel your pleasure throbbing on my lips. I still feel your release like it’s my own pulse.”
As Briar’s breathing stuttered, I pulled back enough to relish her slack features. “Princess, I never wanted to kneel before a ruler so badly in my life. My mouth has been parched for you. It’s never been that way with anyone.”
Her dilated pupils clung to mine, seconds before she hissed conspiratorially, “I can’t believe we’re talking about this in a place of antiquity.”
I chuckled like a deviant. “Such a daring princess. But shall we find out just how daring you are? Hmm? Because we can do more talking.”
Temptation snuck across her features. “It would be wrong.”
“Your breathing doesn’t sound like it would be wrong.”
