Mag-log inRHYS' POV.Brayden walked me backward to the bed. My legs were still shaking. My wrists were still bound behind me. The backs of my knees hit the mattress. He turned me around and pressed gently between my shoulder blades. I folded forward onto the sheets, face down, my cheek against the cool silk pillow.The bed dipped as he climbed behind me.He nudged my thighs apart with his knees. Then he stretched out over me, his whole body covering mine, his chest against my back, his weight pressing me down into the mattress.He slid back inside me in one long, slow push.I moaned into the pillow.I was so sensitive after cumming that every inch felt like it was too much and not enough at the same time. My hole fluttered helplessly around him, and he groaned into my hair."Luna, you're tight."He began to grind inside me in slow, deep rolls of his hips that kept him buried inside me, pushing me down into the sheets with every one. My cock was trapped beneath me, rubbing against the silk each
RHYS' POV. With me in his arms, Brayden walked down the dim corridor of the palace like he owned it—which he did—one arm hooked beneath my knees and the other supporting my back. Our soaked clothes dangled from his fingers in a dripping bundle against my hip. A second towel was knotted around his waist, and water still ran in thin streams down his chest. I had both arms locked around his neck so I wouldn’t slip.“Brayden, put me down.”“No.”“I can walk.”“I know you can walk.” He didn’t even miss a step. “I don’t want you to when I’m here.”We turned the last corner and my stomach dropped. Two guards stood on either side of the tall doors to the king’s quarters, rifles slung over their shoulders, eyes fixed straight ahead.“Alpha King,” they said in unison. “Luna.”Neither of them looked at us. But the younger one’s ears had gone bright red, and that was somehow worse. I buried my burning face in Brayden’s neck.“Good night, gentlemen,” Brayden said pleasantly.One of them pushed t
RHYS' POV.Since he had given me the order, I waded toward him. The water swayed around my waist and my heart pounded so hard I could feel it in my throat. Brayden watched me come with his palms braced on the stone behind him, his knees spread wide, his cock standing between his thighs. I stopped between his legs, then sank down slowly into the water, lower and lower, until it lapped at my collarbones and my face was level with his cock.Up close his length was beautiful, the veins running along the shaft, the swollen head dark and glistening with a drop of precum beading at the slit. I wrapped my fingers around the base. He twitched against my palm and a small chuckle slipped out of me.“What’s funny?” he rasped.“The Alpha King is twitching in my hands. Shouldn’t that be funny?” I scoffed, my gaze locking onto his. He rolled his eyes so hard it almost disappeared. I leaned in and ran the tip of my tongue across the slit. Brayden jerked. His thighs tensed on either side of my ch
RHYS' POV.Brayden’s lips against mine wasn’t the rough, claiming kiss from the afternoon. This one felt like he had all the time in the world and intended to spend every second of it on my mouth. His warm lips moved over mine softly, then he caught my bottom lip between his and sucked on it—gently at first, then harder, drawing it into his mouth until a light moan broke out of my throat. He let it go with a wet, slow pull and did it again.My fingers curled against his shoulders. The warm water lapped at my chest, steam curled around our faces, and the whole world narrowed down to the slick heat of his mouth. I slid my tongue past his lips.A low groan rolled out from his chest.His tongue pushed back against mine, stroking and tasting me while I also chased back. Our tongues tangled together in a lazy, wet dance, sliding over each other, curling, retreating, then pressing back in. He nipped at the tip of my tongue with his teeth. I bit his lower lip in return, just hard enough t
BRAYDEN'S POV.Rhys didn't stop asking questions the whole way down."Brayden, where are we going?""You'll see.""I'm barely dressed.""I've noticed.""Brayden."I kept his wrist in my hand and led him through the quiet corridors, down the back staircase, and out through the glass doors onto the terrace.Then he stopped asking.The pool glowed in the dark like a sheet of blue glass. The underwater lights were on, painting the stone edges in soft, rippling silver, and a thin veil of steam drifted off the heated water into the cool night air. Right in the middle of it, perfectly still, floated the reflection of the moon.Rhys stared at it."Oh," he breathed."It looks like the moon fell in," I said.His head snapped toward me. His eyes narrowed."Remus told you that.""Remus told me nothing.""That's my line. I say that to him." He folded his arms
BRAYDEN'S POV."Send me the location," I said quietly, staring out of the arched window at the moon hanging over the palace walls. "I'm coming.""Yes, Alpha King."I ended the call. My jaw was so tight it ached.Footsteps clicked across the marble behind me."Alpha King?"Gina stopped a few feet away, her tablet hugged to her chest, her brows drawn together."What's going on?" she asked. "You look so tense. Who was that?"I looked at her.Gina had raised me when my mother couldn't. If anyone deserved the truth, it was her.But I knew her too well.If I told her someone in this pack had tried to kill my Luna, she would stop sleeping. She would check my food, my car, my guards, and worry herself sick over whether the Alpha King himself was next.And she had warned me. The very first day I told her about the contract, she had stood in my office and told me I was dragging a stranger an







