Embarrassed, Amelia removed her hand from his grasp and closed her fists. She wasn’t ready for him to hold her hands—still. Xikoth understood and let her go.
Amelia was received by Javri who had walked up to her. Other than Zaila, rest of the handmaidens weren’t allowed to step in. The door closed behind her. Javri held her hand and squeezed it.
Nyka visited the human realm where she had summoned Lyrie. Lyrie was now alone in the house where her husband stayed once with her. She missed his presence. Over the past few years when Amelia’s real mother had died, she had come in as Ivanov’s second wife. Earlier she didn’t like him as she was forced to be his wife by none other than Nyka who in turn was given this task by Xikoth. However, over the years she had grown to like him. She hated his daughter from the core of her heart. But Ivanov was fine. He had stuck with her. And now she felt lonely. She would often g
Amelia was left trembling under Xikoth’s ministrations. She had grown so lusty for this man that she didn’t know if she could wait any longer. She looked at him under her eyelashes and bit her lip. She was feeling so naked under his stare that she wrapped her arms around her breasts again. Xikoth opened the armoire and took out a dress for her. He didn’t make her wear it instead he removed his own drape and covered her with that while he became absolutely naked in front of her. She became scarlet red. Xikoth held her shoulders and led her out. He whispered, “I w
“Watch me!” Xikoth demanded and Amelia cracked open her eyes. They were so full of desire and sensuality that he wanted to get inside her. But he wasn’t done. Lust coursed through his veins like an urgent need. His shaft grew longer and thicker and the scent of her arousal made things worse. “You desire me Ilaria,” he said in between licking her and her face flushed. His gaze went to her breasts and he left her clit to crawl up. His erection pressed hard against her. Her breath hitched.
Xikoth woke up to a new day. He had mated with his love. He had bonded with her. The mating bond was in place and now no one could separate them. It was time to tell her the thousand year old secret that he had hidden only for this day.
Amelia’s eyes became wide when she saw Nyka walking in her chamber, unrestricted. And what she was wearing for so revealing that for a second she blinked with shock. Quickly, she covered herself with the silk sheets and was thankful that Xikoth had left.
It had been agonizing two hours and the court proceedings weren’t stopping. Xikoth was only getting ever more impatient with his lust for his wife. It had been such a long wait that every second without her was unacceptable. His gaze went up to the balcony where Nyka was sitting with her nymphs and his disgust for her returned. He averted her gaze from there.
Xikoth’s lips trembled. He had been in love with Ilaria for so long, had remembered her each day, she had been in her dreams everyday, her scent aroused him so to the point of no return, her memories had become a part of his being that it was difficult to let go of her—his Ilaria, his mate, his wife.