“Hey.” He grins. His breathing immediately grows more ragged. “Whatever happened to letting me sleep?”
“I couldn’t resist.”
My voice is strangled because I’m very close to coming.
He grasps my waist with his hands to urge me on further. I bounce upon his hips, alternating my vertical plane with back-forth rocking and oscillatory maneuvers. His cock rubs and rubs against my walls so that I’m a squirming, quivering mess of helplessness when the pleasure overtakes me.
I throw back my head and let out a harsh cry as starbursts explode in my brain. I arch my back, and I can feel him steadying my hips as I come and come and trash my body and come again and utter unintelligible noises and splash the water all around us so that it slops onto the tiles.
He allows himself to come after my orgasm has subsided, and I can feel the trickle of his warm sperm – wetness against wetness – in the already flooded tunnel of my pussy.
Ohhh, but he feels soooooo good.
“Oh God,” he whispers, “you are so beautiful, Liz, so beautiful. Thank you, I needed that so much.”
I slump against him, my cheek to his wet neck. He smells of soap and water and freshness. His hands slide down my back and his lips nuzzle my wet hair.
“Now let’s really fall asleep before I get tempted to fuck you again,” he says.
I laugh throatily. With Alex by my side, I feel like I can face anything.
A good thing too, because with the events that happen after this blissful morning, I’m going to need all the strength I can get.
5
We are sleeping entwined with each other in my canopied bed, completely naked, when a sharp rap comes on my door. The rapping goes on insistently until I transcend my tranquil state of semi-slumber into being wide and fully awake.
For a moment, I can’t recall where I am. Then the door opens.
I scream, realizing that I’m naked.
Alex sits up and pulls the covers over both our bodies.
“What the hell are you doing?” he demands as Jasper pokes his head in.
“Ah, there you are, your highness. I’ve been searching everywhere for you.” Jasper’s tone is smooth, dulcet, and totally unapologetic. “Your mother, the Queen, has returned from the hospital and requested your presence for dinner. The two of you,” he adds significantly.
Dinner? With the Queen? What time is it?
With a start, I notice that the sky outside has darkened considerably.
Oh my God, I’m going to have dinner with the Queen, and I have nothing to wear. I have nothing to say to her. I’m totally unprepared!
“We’ll be down in an hour, Jasper,” Alex says.
“Thirty minutes is preferable, your highness.” Jasper vanishes. The door shuts with a snap.
Prick.
“Shit,” Alex says, getting up.
“What do I do?” I say, panicking.
He sizes me up and down. “We get you something to wear.”
*
Getting me something to wear within a half hour is goddamned difficult because most of my clothes are completely unsuitable for meeting royalty – that is, proper royalty with all its pomp and splendor, not the beach hut affairs I’m more used to with Alex. I have only one gown – the one that Alex gave me – which is presentable, but I’d left it back home in my sublet apartment in Chicago.
“Don’t worry,” Alex says, “I’ll get you my sister’s clothes.”
“Is your mother really particular about dressing up?”
He hesitates, not wanting to scare me. “A little. But it’s not as if you have to wear a ball gown or anything. This is a private family dinner.”
“What do you wear during your private family dinners?” My heart sinks. Alex’s family is anything but normal.
“Something a little more formal than jeans and a T-shirt, but not to the extent of a dinner jacket.”
That’s helpful.
“What do the women wear?”
He’s getting into his jeans and T-shirt. “Um . . . I’ll have to ask Hannah.”
“Who’s Hannah?”
“My mother’s PA. But she doesn’t live here and we don’t have much time. Tell you what? Follow me and we’ll raid my sister’s closet.”
Dressing hurriedly in a clean halter top and shorts, I pad after Alex. He leads me down a maze of richly decorated corridors with more antiques and bric-bracs than I have ever seen in my entire life. We head out of the East Wing and into another adjacent wing where the royals live.
We arrive at a pair of closed double oak doors. Without knocking, Alex pushes them open.
“Would she mind?” I say worriedly.
“What she won’t know won’t kill her. This is my younger sister Marie’s room, and she’s got more clothes than a Chinese departmental store.”