LOGINIt wasn't easy sneaking away from the carriage, with the guards standing near the horses, but I did it. Well, they had their backs to the door, so slipping out wasn't that difficult. I crouched down, glancing around before I made a beeline for the forest, not looking back. No one stopped me. The guards hadn't even realised I wasn't in the carriage.Tsk…Drake and the others need to work hard on getting guards who are competent in their work. How will they protect the kingdom if our enemies invade it?Shaking my head at how easy it would be for the enemies to penetrate, I continued on my way. I only knew the direction Drake ran towards, but not where he would be. I just continued to walk blindly, following a trail that wild animals might have undoubtedly left.I didn't bother to hide my tracks. Since Ryth sent the men, they wouldn't hurt me. Hell, I might even meet the men I had seen in the village. They would only take me back and report to Ryth how they had found me in the forest ins
PALTWhy did I cling to him when he wanted to leave? The emotions I felt then were so raw, almost knocking me off my butts. They felt so real, like I had lived through this before. I didn't stop to think about it. Instead, I begged him to take me with him, not to leave me behind. It was so shameless that when he finally left, I couldn't lift my face. I couldn't believe I begged him and was so brazen enough to cling to him.Damn it.I waited until he had run deep into the forest before I contacted Ryth. There was so much I wanted to ask her, to know what the fuck was wrong with me.“I thought you wouldn't contact me anymore,” she said, her voice dark. “What have you been up to? Why haven't you sent any information back?”I let out a sigh. “I haven't gotten a chance to do that… I only got one because Drake just left to… Did you send someone after us?” I asked, putting two and two together.She didn't immediately respond. She took her time. “Were you in the carriage with him? We got a ti
DRAKEI had just lifted him, ready to give both of us what we had been craving, when I heard the sound. It wasn't near, but my ears picked it up. I put him down, frowning as I looked towards the window.“What's wrong?” Palt demanded, not sounding happy at all.I placed my index finger on his lips before he could speak again, shaking my head as I listened.Silence.For a second there, I assumed I had imagined the sound, and would have apologised for breaking through what we had, when I heard it again.This time, it sounded louder.“Someone is coming our way,” I said, my gaze still at the window, trying to make out movement from the Forest.The carriage still rolled through the road, the guards not aware of the danger lurking around. My ears picked up footsteps, the crunching of leaves under their feet as they walked towards us.Palt stilled.“Who's that? An ally?” His voice was soft, a little above a whisper.I shook my head. "I doubt it."I would have known if the others sent guards t
I wouldn't say I didn't love it. I drank it all down, taking the ones that slipped with my index and sucking it in like a starved man. Panting, I looked up at him, my cheeks flushed and eyes dilated. “Fuck me,” I whispered.Drake smirked. Reaching for my cheeks, he rubbed a circle on them with his right thumb. “You sure as hell know how to use your mouth, Palt. You will be the death of us someday.” He muttered those last words like he didn't wish to say them, but had to.I grinned at that. It seemed Drake could see the future. I would be their death. Soon, after everything is done, I will avenge my mate, the same one they killed.He knelt in front of me and placed his hands on my thighs, urging me to open my legs, which I did. My dick was now painfully hard, my hole clenching.“Do you know if this has a cure?” He whispered, almost like he was speaking to himself.“Pardon?”“Your thirst for sex,” he responded, looking up at me. “Moon had speculated about that, but Lud said there's none
He didn't stop me. I got bolder. I stroked him as I looked into his eyes. The purple orbs stared into mine, melting through to get to my thoughts. I had to break away from the stare, scared he could see through me, to the lies and everything. I let go of his dick long enough to get on one knee, but before I could kneel fully, he stopped me, shaking his head.“You can't.” His voice was softer, devoid of the suspicion I had gotten used to. For a second, I got a flashback of a different Drake, a caring, shy one. I knew it was one of those flashbacks because I'd never seen Drake look at me with an embarrassed flush on his cheeks.“Why?” I asked, letting go of these thoughts. It just wasn't the time to think of it. I will have to ask Ryth about it when next we chat. She will know why I keep having these flashbacks that rival everything I thought I knew.“You are pregnant, Palt. I can't let you kneel for me.” He shook his head.“But I —”He placed his index finger across my lips and shook h
The thoughts of the images I saw occupied my mind as we journeyed towards a place I didn't want to go to. Drake sat next to me, unmoving unless necessary. At times, I even thought he had fallen asleep; however, whenever I looked at him, I always found his eyes fixed on me, like he was making sure I wouldn't jump out through the window and disappear into the forest.I had thought about that, though, but I knew it would be futile. Drake would catch me if I tried that.I sat still on the carriage seat, promising myself that I wouldn't speak to him, that I would keep my lips tightly pressed together until he apologised. However, inhaling his sweet scent, tinged with a hint of smoke, woke something in me.Since the last time I spent with Fin, I haven't been intimate with any of them, and now I feel empty inside. At first, I ignored the ache, knowing I wouldn't act on it. Drake had made it clear he had no intention of touching me, at least not until I had gotten enough 'rest'.I fought it u
Dave came to him for protection. He wouldn't give out his location, not even if Adam begged him. At the mention of the bastard he wanted so badly to forget, a cold spike drove through Dave's chest.“Show me,” Dave said. His voice surprised him. He sounded too calm, compared to that rage that was s
He heard the rustle of fabric as Leonard pushed his trousers and briefs the rest of the way off. Then Leonard's hands were on him again, spreading him open. Dave buried his face in the cushion as a hot flush of shame and want washed over him. Leonard's thumb brushed over him, not entering, just tra
“Tell me to stop,” Dave echoed against his skin as he unfastened Leonard's belt with clumsy, urgent fingers. The buckle clinked softly. He got the button open, the zip down, and pushed the trousers and briefs over Leonard's hips.Leonard's cock sprang free, thick and full, curving up against his st
“His mistake,” Leonard said, each word enunciated as if he were speaking to a child, “is his to carry. Not yours. You don’t have to carry it here.”The kind words felt like a blade that sliced through the numb shock he had felt when he got the news, and everything he’d been holding back: the betray







