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“Home to bed.” I stroked his cheek. “I think it’s time.”
I never thought I’d hear the regal, serious Nico whoop, but he did, right before shifting and bending to allow me to climb on his back. We’d have to come back and clean up after our picnic, but the ants could have a party with the leftover crumbs until later…until tomorrow.
We flew down the mountain and to the cave entrance in what felt like seconds. He shifted back, and since he’d also not bothered to grab his clothing, he was naked as he carried me through the hallways and to our apartment. “Nico, someone is going to steal your clothes.” It was one thing to leave the board and bits and pieces of food, but the outfit he’d left was made of beautiful fabrics and trims and would be worth more than a lesser would be likely to get their hands on in their whole life. “We should go back.”
He kissed me while fumbling at his bedroom door with one hand. It swung open and we followed it into the room. “No, some things are more important than cloth of gold.”
I struggled to put a few inches between our mouths. “Are you serious? It’s cloth of gold?”
His laughter rippled over me as he strode to the bed. “No, not at all, but you get my point, I hope. You are worth more than any clothes whether cotton or cloth of gold, and I’m not giving you a chance to change your mind.” And with that, my dress was gone, whipped over my head, and he was unhooking my front-closure bra.
“Mate, you’re beautiful,” he crooned. “How did I let you make me wait this long to see you like this?”
“I’ve shifted before, just like you.” Which meant anyone close by saw me shift, as well, and I hadn’t even worried about it. Nudity was part of being a shifter, and most people didn’t stare or even really seem to notice. But serious Nico ran his hands over my breasts, pausing to stroke my rising nipples with smooth thumbs. He was a royal, and one who rarely did any tasks that would roughen his skin.
My nipples rose, and dampness bloomed between my legs before he reached down there and tore away my panties. “I’ve waited a long time for you.”
He had.
“And I for you, although I will agree that I caused most of the waiting.”
“All the waiting.” He petted me from collarbone to the folds that were wetter by the second. “You caused all the waiting.”
“Yes.” Facts were facts. “But I don’t want to wait anymore.” In fact, as he masterfully moved his hands over my skin and trailed his fingertips through my soaked pussy, locating my bundle of nerves, I thought I’d die if he wanted me to wait. “Please.”
“Please what?” A sharp pinch had me gasping. “Do you want me to stop?”
“N-no please! Don’t stop.”
Nico was leaner than he appeared fully dressed, with not an ounce of fat to hide his muscles, but he’d been stroking, caressing, and otherwise driving me higher and higher for a while before I remembered that I could touch him anywhere. Anytime.
And so I did. Feeling daring as I traced the outline of his abdomen and wondering if I dared to do more.
“Anywhere, mate.”
His quiet encouragement helped me again. Gave me the confidence to wrap my hand around his cock and give it a tentative stroke. His indrawn breath helped me to bend down and take a tentative lick. And his hands plunging into my hair guided me in how to please this man who had been so very patient with me. I bobbed my head up and down as I tried to take in as much of him as I could, my tongue graving the prominent vein and teeth scraping his skin before he groaned and used those hands in my hair to drag me up.
“I need to be inside you. Now.” He flipped me onto my back and rose over me, nudging my legs apart. “Finally.”
We made love for hours, and once when we were lying side by side recovering our breath, he reached into his nightstand and pulled out a bracelet that he slid over my hand and onto my wrist. It was beautiful, but almost before I could thank him, he was moving inside me again, and I was wondering if I could stand as much pleasure as these men were giving me.
And I’d only been with two so far.
Gods.
Chapter Fifteen
I woke up in another strange bed, or, rather, not entirely strange because the scent of my mate surrounded me. The scent of Nico. He’d been so reserved before our night together, and if anyone had asked, I’d have said I was sure he would be the same in lovemaking, but what a surprise.
I pulled his pillow to my chest and curled around it, already missing his embrace. His warmth. What had begun on the green mountainside had continued when we returned to our apartment and then straight into his room. Nico’s bed was not quite as wide as Jude’s, but that was as far as I was willing to carry a comparison. They were such different men, both in the bedroom and out, but so special to me already.
I couldn’t lie abed too long, but I needed some time to process what had happened in such a short time. I’d been attracted to him, of course, but totally unable to picture what it would be like to have him wrapped around me, his strong arms holding me above him before settling me on his rigid length. He’d lifted me multiple times as if I weighed nothing at all. A fine shiver ran over my limbs at the memory, and I closed my eyes and just allowed myself to relive the whole thing.
We’d had such a good time together.
So far, the two mates I’d allowed to finish the claiming had been revelations, and I still had one left. Soren. They were almost overwhelming in their magnificence, each of them, and the thought I had decades in which to get to know them was the greatest gift.
Of course, I might not have all that time. With the severe punishment the lessers who had refused to serve at the wedding had undergone, the others were even more upset and more determined to free themselves from servitude, something that was never going to happen with the current High Council.
