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“Then do.”
This was the last approval he needed. Alrick lowered his hips to position himself. My whole body shook with excitement. My nails dug into his back as he slowly slipped inside me.
I gasped.
“Does it hurt?” he whispered, out of breath. I could feel his heart racing against my chest.
“No, it feels wonderful.”
I threw my head back and enjoyed the tingling heat his rhythmic motions sent through my body. I could feel that prickling pressure at my center mount again, the same one I’d felt back in the hut when he had pleasured me.
“Alrick,” I whispered his name as I matched the movement of my hips to his thrusts.
“My beautiful elf,” he said, kissing me.
It only took a few more moments until my body tensed again, and I was pushed over an exploding edge of relief. Alrick’s whole body cramped shortly after mine. He kissed me softly once more before collapsing beside me.
“By the gods,” he whispered and pulled me into his arms. “You have bewitched me.”
For a moment, we just lay there in silence, looking at each other, faint smiles on both of our lips.
I was speechless. How could anything feel this wonderful? Would I have ever felt this sort of love if I’d never met Alrick?
“Does it always feel like this?” I wondered, looking at the flickering shadows of the flames on the ceiling.
He laughed. “I’ve spent more years in the arms of the sword than those of women. But no, I don’t think it does. At least I have never felt like this before.”
Alrick gently caressed my belly with his fingertips. It tickled and prickled at the same time.
“Will it be like this always? When we’re married, I mean?”
He shrugged. “I don’t know. My parents weren’t happily married. My father was a brute, my mother miserable. But my midwife often told me the tale of a powerful king who outmaneuvered hundreds of suitors to marry the most beautiful woman in the kingdoms. She was from a much lower birth, but he worshipped her.”
“My parents...” I mumbled. “Will we also have children?”
A strange thought. I was a grown woman, but in certain ways, I felt as if I had just outgrown childhood. I was one of the luckier princesses to still be unmarried and childless at the age of twenty. Some other kingdoms married their heirs at fifteen, but my father and mother always thought this practice outdated and deeply concerning.
“At some point, it will be expected of us, but I think we won’t disappoint.” He smiled and gently brushed his lips against mine. I kissed him back, then pulled away.
“Will we live in the North or South?” I realized there were so many unanswered questions that needed to be settled about this marriage. Would I be a ruling queen or Alrick a ruling king? What would happen to his estate in the North?“It would be impossible to neglect the Rhine Kingdom. It is much larger and richer,” I added, carefully testing the waters.
Alrick grew serious. “I see the logic in that. Only the South, with its powers and riches, can end this war.”
I was relieved to hear that.
“Yet, I cannot simply abandon my lands. They are in dire shape. My people hungry, my horses sick.”
I pinched my lips. Things were already complicated. Yet, they would be with any other marriage as well.
Alrick pulled me in for a long kiss. My body awakened with passion all over again.
“Tonight, let’s not worry about these matters. There’s always the morning for that. Tonight, we’ll focus on us.”
I smiled. “So I take it I am providing the pleasures of a real woman now?” I said, referring to our fight in the hut.
“That depends on how much you pay me for this,” he teased back.
I pinched his upper arm.“Is the entire Rhine Kingdom not sufficient to cover this debt?”
