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Isat on the expansive balcony off my room looking up at the midnight sky. I thought about how if Cass were sitting here with me, we’d probably be pointing out imaginary shapes in the stars. Cass and I had separate rooms here at the Golden Court because he said that he had too much to do while I was visiting, and he did not want to disturb me at all hours of the day and night.
I guess he had been right. I was already wearing my satin nightgown and thinking of bed, but I was fairly certain he was wandering around the Court somewhere, probably still in his tux, talking with High Lord Dumont and the Prince regarding King Vandros’s surprise of the night.
Which was why I was surprised to see Nik lead a gorgeous blonde high fae out onto the balcony to the left and about a floor down from where I sat. I didn’t even know where Nik’s room was, much less that I could see it from my own. I recognized the woman as Nik’s date from the Winter Gala. The woman was tall like most high fae women and hardly had to stretch at all to reach Nik’s mouth. He barely allowed her to graze his lips with hers before he turned his face from her, kissing his way down her pale, slender neck.
He seductively slipped the straps of her dress off her shoulders as his mouth made its way to the hollow of her collarbone. And then he abruptly pushed her onto her knees, showing no concern for her fine gown. The beautiful high fae lady looked elegant, even on her knees with her supple breasts out.
Despite the dark of the night, I could easily see them. I should have turned away, but my curiosity overrode my good sense. Nik tightly wrapped his hand in her pretty blonde hair. With his free hand, he flipped open the buckle of his belt and expertly pulled himself from his pants.
My heartbeat jumped into my throat. He yanked her hair back, forcing her face up to him. And then he drove himself into her mouth. I saw the woman gag on his substantial size, but he did not let up. He kept making hard, penetrating thrusts in and out of her mouth. The woman was able to adjust and take his thrusting, which I could tell was no easy feat.
I found myself wondering if I could take that kind of roughness. Even more surprising, I found myself wanting to try, to find out. And then Nik turned his face toward me, locking eyes with me like he had known I had been watching the entire time. I ran my tongue across my bottom lip and then bit down hard on my bottom lip.
He held my gaze as he punishingly plunged in and out of the girl’s mouth. I found that I was enthralled by his roughness. He thrust one last time and then threw his head back, firmly holding her mouth to him as he spilled down her throat. The blonde rose seductively from her knees. I turned my back to them to walk into my bedroom. I’d already seen too much.
Seconds later, Nik startled me by traveling directly onto my balcony.
“Did you enjoy the show?” he asked cockily, without preamble, like his cock hadn’t been down another woman’s throat moments before.
The wetness between my thighs threatened to betray me. I avoided answering his question.
“Did you enjoy putting on the show?” I sneered. “You know, if you didn’t want someone to see you, maybe you shouldn’t have fucked that poor girl’s mouth on the balcony where everyone could see.”
“Poor girl? She enjoyed every damn minute of it. Almost as much as you did,” he said with a smug smile.
I rolled my eyes, all too aware of the wetness pooling in my panties.
“I don’t need your show. I already had one of my own today,” I deflected.
“You don’t think I know that?” he barked fiercely, closing the space between us.
I gulped down a breath of air. Earlier, I’d been excited by the prospect of someone seeing Cass so boldly have his way with me in the middle of the day. But that was before I knew that Nik’s room was almost directly across from my own. But I bet Cass had known exactly where Nik’s balcony was located in proximity to mine. Maybe Cass wasn’t as servile a soldier as I thought he was.
Well, there was nothing I could do about it now, and Nik had just done the same thing, although ostensibly under the cover of darkness.
“What do you care?” I spat back, stomping into my bedroom. “All you care about is my magic.”
He stalked toward me, dark shadows already forming around him. Sometimes the shadows that formed around him would appear slowly and gracefully and then would hover below his knees, trailing behind him. But tonight, in the blink of an eye, an all-consuming darkness overtook the little part of my bedroom we stood in. The menacing darkness moved with him as he stalked toward me, swallowing everything in his path.
Without realizing it, I had backed up until I was pressed against a sitting table with a large mirror behind it. I bumped against the table and decided to lean on its ledge like that had been my intention all along. He firmly planted his large palms on the top of the table, his arms caging me in.
“I care because…” he began through gritted teeth. Then his gaze flicked over my shoulder to the mirror behind me.
I peered over my shoulder to see what he was staring at. In the mirror, I could see what had captured his attention so thoroughly. Our reflection looked like a silhouette painting of the two of us. There was a haunting beauty to the scene. His dark shadows surrounded us so that all that could be seen in the mirror was his face close to mine. We were so close it almost looked like we were kissing, not arguing.
When I turned back around, Nik was calm once again. He took his palms off the tabletop, then surprised me by pulling the chair out from under the table and sitting in it. I was so used to looking up at him, it was jarring to have to look down at him.
He grabbed me by my knees and effortlessly pushed me all the way up onto the tabletop, forcing me to sit. And then he moved his chair in between my legs, his hands grasping my thighs above my knees. I did what I could to tuck my short nightie between my legs.
“I showed you a good time last night, didn’t I? I was everything that a prince should be for a princess?” he asked.
I peered down into his deep green eyes, trying to figure out where this line of questioning was going.
“I… Yes, Nik you were everything I… I imagine a princess—a queen, even—could ever wantlastnight,” I emphasized. Unable to let whatever this momentary peace between us was last, I added, “But I don’t know why you insisted I be your date when you clearly already had someone else lined up.”
“I didn’t pick you as my date because I was out of options, Alarie,” he rebuked.
My name on his lips caused a sharp jolt of energy to course through my entire body. That sizzling energy settled on my skin where his hands still rested above my knees.
