Total pages in book: 230
Estimated words: 217798 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 1089(@200wpm)___ 871(@250wpm)___ 726(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 217798 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 1089(@200wpm)___ 871(@250wpm)___ 726(@300wpm)
“And what kind of experience is that?”
“You know what I mean. I’ve slept with many women.”
“But you haven’t slept with me. You don’t know what I want or what I need to get hot.” She wasn’t about to tell him that simply being near him was getting her hot. “I want you to forget about all those other women. I’m unlike any from before. Learn how to please me. Let me teach you how to make love to me.”
She saw him still, his eyes heating. “All right. How do I start?”
“Show me what you have to offer me.”
His lips curled up in a decadent grin. “Are we going to play games?”
Only the most important one of her life. “It’s for pleasure, Kash. I enjoy some games. I find them relaxing, and they help us get to know each other better. If you would rather we simply went to bed, I can do that, too. You should know that I was going to run from you today.”
“At the ceremony? Of course. It’s part of the ritual. The beautiful bride is unsure of the king. She tries to flee, but he catches her.”
She shook her head. “I was going to run. I was going to make you chase me. I was going to make you work for me, and in front of all those people. I would have struggled in your arms until you let me go, fearing you’d hurt me. And then and only then would I have placed my hands on either side of your face and brought my lips to yours. I would have touched you and found you worthy and allowed you to take us both away.”
“You would have run from me?” He asked the question in an icy tone, but she couldn’t miss the fact that his cock was already hard and straining against his pants.
She didn’t move from her chaise. Already, her heart and soul were moving into top space, a place where she was in control, where she could relax and have her way. He would accept her or not. “I cannot be that queen from long ago who allowed herself to be kidnapped and taken away. The choice will be mine. The choice to be queen. The choice to have you. I will make these choices not because I’m about to be royal, but because I am a woman and that is what I do. I will not play that game with you, love. I won’t give over and then protest that I had the choice taken from me. I will choose and accept the consequences. I wanted to show them who they are getting as their queen, not some gentle flower who will stand by her man and wave, but a woman who will fight for them as I fight for myself. As I would fight for you.”
“You want to see what I have to offer you?” The chill was gone from his voice. His hands were on the medallion around his neck. He took it off and placed it on the table to the side of her chair. “I wonder what will please you. I don’t think you’re impressed by the palace I’m offering you.”
She gestured to the room around her. “That’s not yours. It belongs to the people. In essence, they’re offering me this magnificent space.”
“A hard woman to please,” Kash mused. “How about wealth? By marrying me, you’ll never worry about money again.”
“All your money comes from oil,” she replied, enjoying the fact that he was playing along. “Again, that belongs to the people. I should thank them with my service to them.”
“Service you can only offer because of me.”
“Is it you or your mother? Because you had no idea I still existed. So I have to ask you, Kashmir, what exactly are you offering me?”
He stopped and for a moment she thought he would laugh and give up the game. Instead, his hands went to the drawstring of his pants. His chest was already on display, each and every muscle beautifully defined. The man was sheer perfection physically. He shoved his pants down and he wore no boxers. No, when he shoved those pants aside, he was standing in front of her, proudly naked. “I can offer you my body.”
She sat up because he was getting closer. “I have a body of my own.”
His jaw tightened, but she saw the light of competition in his eyes. He might be frustrated, but he was also intrigued. He put his hands on his hips, perfectly comfortable with his nudity. “All right, my future queen. Let me tell you what I can offer you. I can offer you the touch of my hands on your flesh, skimming every inch of your body. I can offer the heat of my mouth, my lips and tongue exploring you, tasting your essence. I won’t stop quickly because you’re complex. I’ll have to taste you everywhere, nipping and licking and sucking until I know you by heart.” His hand went to his magnificent cock. “And I can offer the pleasure of my cock. I can offer you everything I have, every trick I’ve learned to bring you joy in bed.”