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23. Heated shower.
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The Prince's Mistake, The King's Heir 28. An apology.
Effie's Pov Ava never got the chance to land another hand on me.Alpha Tobias crossed that marble floor so fast it barely registered as movement at all, one instant still framed in the doorway and the next already between us, his back to me, putting his whole body between Ava and wherever she'd been reaching next. Alpha Knox was a half step behind him, and when he finally spoke again, I understood, with a cold little jolt, why Ava's face had drained of every bit of its color."Say that again." His voice had dropped into something low and utterly dangerous. "Go on. I want to hear you call her that to my face.""Alpha Knox, I—" Ava's composure slipped straight down the middle, all that vicious words from a moment ago gone like it had never existed. "This isn't what it looks like, I only came to bring a tart, I didn't realize she'd be the one answering the—""I watched you raise your hand to her." Alpha Tobias hadn't moved an inch, hadn't raised his voice at all, and somehow that made
The Prince's Mistake, The King's Heir 27. Crazy guests.
Effie Pov Ava held a covered dish in her hand, something that smelled, even through the cloth draped over it, like a honeyed apple tart still warm from an oven. For one disorienting second, standing there with the door handle still cold under my palm, I thought I might actually be imagining her entirely, conjured up out of some old, half-forgotten nightmare about Hollowmoon and everyone in it who'd ever looked at me like I was something to be managed rather than spoken to. Then her smile, the polite, practiced one she must have worn walking up to the door, faltered and died right in front of me, and I knew with sudden, sinking certainty that I wasn't imagining anything at all. "You." The word came out of her flat and disbelieving, the dish nearly slipping from her grip before she caught it again. "It's actually you." Her eyes swept over me, head to toe and back again, taking in my feet, my hastily laced dress, the loose, unbound state of my hair, with the exact same cruelty I r
The Prince's Mistake, The King's Heir 26. Uninvited house guests.
Effie's Pov "Up," Alpha Tobias commanded, already crossing the room toward me before I'd even finished setting my teacup down."I can walk to the bathroom myself," I said, for what had to be the hundredth time since waking up in this palace, though we both already knew exactly how much weight that protest carried by now. "It's not even that far.""I know you can." He bent and slid one arm beneath my knees, the other behind my back, and lifted me off the bed like I weighed nothing at all, the easy strength of it still something I hadn't quite gotten used to. "I'd still rather carry you.""You say that like it's a reasonable answer." I looped my arms around his neck anyway, because fighting him on it had never once worked and my pride had mostly given up trying. "What if I wanted to walk for the sake of it? What if I missed walking?""Then you can miss it for another day or two, until that ankle's finished healing." He carried me through the open bathroom door, steam already curling th
The Prince's Mistake, The King's Heir 25. Thoroughly.
Effie's Pov I woke up squeezed so tightly between two very large, very warm men that for a moment I genuinely couldn't tell whether I wanted it to end.Alpha Tobias had an arm slung heavy across my waist, his face half-buried in my hair meanwhile Alpha Knox had somehow claimed my hand again in his sleep, fingers loosely laced through mine against his chest, his breathing slow and even. It would have been almost sweet, waking up tangled in all that warmth, if my bladder hadn't chosen that exact moment to remind me, rather urgently, that I had to make a beeline towards the bathroom.I tried, very carefully, to wriggle free.It did not go well. Every inch I managed to gain on one side, Alpha Tobias simply tightened his arm without ever fully waking, pulling me back against him like my escape was a problem to be solved in his sleep. I tried the other direction instead, pressing gently against Alpha Knox's chest, and got exactly as far before his hand closed loosely around my wrist."Whe
The Prince's Mistake, The King's Heir 24. Aroused.
Effie's Pov The bed dipped on both sides, Alpha Knox to my left and Alpha Tobias to my right. Two walls of heat and muscle boxing me in. I stared up at the ceiling trying to anchor myself in something mundane while my heart hammered against my chest like a creature trying to escape its cage.Not to mention my damn wolf was purring inside me. I thought wolves only got this way for their mates only?The bed was not meant for three. Or perhaps it was, but not for three like this, not for two Alphas and one thick, fleshy omega who took up too much space, who spilled over edges and between bodies, who couldn't seem to make herself small enough to disappear. I was acutely aware of every inch of my body, my thick thighs pressed together, the heavy swell of my breasts rising and falling with each nervous breath, the soft curve of my stomach that rose and fell with my breathing, the generous spread of my hips taking up more than my fair share of the bed. I could smell them. God, I could s
The Prince's Mistake, The King's Heir 23. Heated shower.
Effie's Pov "Alpha Knox, I mean it, put me down—"He set me down exactly once, on the closed lid of the toilet seat, which was not even remotely what I'd meant by the request."There," he said, entirely unbothered, already crossing to the enormous sunken tub against the far wall and turning the taps until steam began curling up off the water. He reached for something on the shelf above it, and a moment later the air filled with the soft, clean scent of something floral as foam bloomed across the surface. "Better?""N... not even a little." I pushed myself up off the seat, testing my weight gingerly on my bandaged ankle. "I can run my own bath. I've been doing it myself since I was ten.""I don't doubt it." He didn't so much as glance over his shoulder. "However, you're not doing it today."I opened my mouth to argue further and found myself, a moment later, with his hands at the hem of my borrowed nightgown instead, and every word I'd been about to say simply forgot how to exist."W
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