Chapter 24 Amaryllis #2
“There’s my good girl,” he smirks, stepping towards me. Leaning down, he places his knuckles on either side of my hips. “Now relax for me, sweetheart.”
My eyes flutter shut as his lips brush mine. Just like before, I melt into him. His kiss tastes so delicious, like dark chocolate and the faintest hints of whiskey. It’s so perfect, so addictive. And it’s almost impossible to think of anything else until I feel something tighten around my throat.
Snapping my eyes open, I lift my fingers to my neck. Kasimir still looms over me, smirking as he stares at my hand. It doesn’t take me long to figure out why. Tied around my neck, with a neat bow is my own purple hair ribbon – the one I lost weeks ago when the Scorpion first visited my bedchamber.
“This is my ribbon,” I say, feeling the satin between my fingers.
Kaz’s grin widens. “And don’t you look mighty pretty in it.”
“Where did you get this?” I demand. “Have you had it this whole time?”
His hand moves to the back of my head, tangling into my hair. “New rule, Ruby.” I gasp as he pulls on my hair, forcing me to look up at him. “No speaking unless I ask you to.”
My cheeks flush crimson. Apart from the ribbon around my neck, I’m completely naked while he’s fully clothed.
“That’s my girl.” He cups my jaw, swiping his thumb across my burning cheek. Before I can react, he pushes me down to the sheets, and I fall against them, gasping.
Kasimir drops to the edge of the bed, pushing my thighs apart. “Look at this,” he tuts. “Already so wet for me.”
He drags his tongue over my core, and stars explode across my vision. Back arching, I claw at the sheets.
“Such a sweet pussy,” he murmurs against my folds. With every lick, another moan flies from my lips. “You’re doing so well, Ruby.”
My heart flutters, and I roll my hips instinctively.
Heartbeats later, my moans turn into yelps. I’m so close. But then he withdraws his tongue, and all the pleasure goes with him.
As he rises to his full height, my entrance throbs with need.
“Please, Kasimir.” I reach for my clit, but Kaz grabs my wrist and pins it to the bed.
“Shh,” he warns, grabbing my thighs. “Tonight, you’re all mine. Even your sweet pussy,” he growls. “And no one touches what’s mine.”
I narrow my eyes, but any protests turn into another moan as he presses his clothed hips between mine.
“Do you feel that?” he growls. Stars, he feels big. Are they all that big?
Biting my lip, I nod.
“Do you want it?” He rubs against me, brushing my clit enough to make my toes curl. “Tell me what you want, Ruby.”
My heart pounds. “I want you,” I pant. “Please, Kasimir. Please fuck me.”
He smirks. “As you wish, Your Highness.” Grabbing a pillow, he shoves it beneath my backside, keeping my entrance angled towards him. Then, he reaches for his breeches and pulls down.
My eyes widen. He’s huge. There’s no way that’s going to fit inside me. Heart pounding, I go to scoot backwards, but his grip on my thighs holds me in place.
“Relax, Princess,” he murmurs. “I’ll be gentle. Just trust me.”
I shudder as his tip circles my entrance, and Kaz groans.
“Lie back down,” he orders.
I shouldn’t. This is my last chance to tell him no. Last chance to leave here with my virtue intact and return to the palace like the ‘fragile, virgin princess’ I am.
But maybe, just for one night, I don’t want to be her any more.
Swallowing, I sink into his bedsheets.
“You’re so beautiful, Amaryllis.” Kaz watches me through darkened eyes. I moan as he nudges my entrance. “And now you’re mine forever.”
His cock thrusts into me.
I scream. Stars, it hurts! What have I done? I never should’ve agreed to this, never should’ve come in here.
Tears blur my vision as I gasp, pushing up from the sheets.
“Shh, Ruby, relax.” A hand on my shoulder blocks my escape. His lips press against mine and any pain is washed away by a wave of warm tingles.
“That’s it, Ruby,” he pants. Smothering my gasps with his lips, he drives into me, long and slow, filling me all the way to the hilt. “Take it. Take all of me. You’re doing so well, such a good girl.”
A loud moan tears from my throat. He drags himself out, then quickens his pace, slamming his hips against mine over and over again. With each thrust the lingering pain fades, slowly being replaced by a deep satisfaction.
My thighs clench. Stars close in on my vision.
I didn’t know how much I needed this until now.
I feel myself melting away, desperately trying to cling on to any sense of reality as I dig my nails into his back.
“So. Fucking. Good.” Kasimir punctuates each word with another slam of his hips. I can barely breathe through the moans in my throat. I don’t know what spell he’s put me under, but I’m no longer a princess. Just a toe-curling mess of screams and moans.
“Kasimir!” I yelp, throwing my head back. His hands find mine, entwining our fingers together.
Everything else melts away. All I can feel is him inside me, dragging his thick cock along my clenching walls.
I yelp. But I barely hear it over the pleasure roaring through my veins. My eyes flutter shut as an orgasm rolls over me.
I needed this. I needed him more than I needed to breathe.
Kaz grips my wrists, holding me in place until he pulls away. Beside me, I hear fabric fluttering past my face, landing softly on the sheets.
But when I open my eyes, my lips part.
His shirt is gone, but it’s not his exposed chest that first catches my attention. Nor is it the deep V of his lower torso, leading to his cock still buried inside me.
It’s his dagger, sliding between my breasts as he drags it towards my belly button.
“Kasimir?” I stammer. “What are you—”
“Shh.” He slides the blunt face of the blade further down my body.
It doesn’t hurt. He’s not breaking my skin. But the fear that he might makes my body shudder in anticipation.
When the blade dips past my belly button he begins to thrust inside of me again.
“Fuck,” he growls as I moan.
I can’t help it. The fear of his dagger melts into the feeling of his cock filling me. It’s almost too much to bear. Every movement sends a rush of pleasure through me.
Kaz lowers the blade to my clit, and I resist the overwhelming urge to grind against it.
“Stay still for me, Princess.” He drags his cock in and out of my entrance, pressing his blade against my clit. “You look so fucking perfect under my blade.”
I moan in pleasure, trying desperately to keep from wriggling as he thrusts inside of me. Holding back a yelp, I grip his shoulder. “Kasimir, it’s too much.”
He lets out a low growl. “Are you afraid, darling?” He keeps one hand on his knife while the other holds my wrist against the bed.
“I could kill you right now, you know,” he murmurs as I shudder.
“We’re alone, and you’re naked except for your sweet bow, and with your pretty legs spread wide just for me… ”
“You’d never kill me,” I say. But then I gasp as he lifts his dagger from my clit. The release sends a ghost of an orgasm rushing through me, making my toes curl as I grind against him.
“You’re right,” He grins. “But only because I’d have to kill myself so I could follow you to the afterlife.” I freeze when his blade reaches my neck. “I wouldn’t want any angels touching what belongs to me.”
Shuddering, I open my mouth to reply, but all that comes out is a desperate moan. The feel of his dagger’s cold steel on my neck makes my entrance clench around his cock.
“Fuck, Amaryllis,” he rasps. With a snarl, he tosses the dagger across his bedchamber, and hugs me to his chest. His hot breath teases my ear until he shatters too. The low snarls in his chest turn primal as he slams into me, hard enough to tip me over the edge again.
I scream and arch my back. My ankles lock around his hips. I never want him to leave me, never want this to end.
But all too soon, his frantic movements slow, and he withdraws out of me with a tired groan.
“Shit, Amaryllis.” He flops onto his back beside me. “I didn’t mean to finish inside you. That was just so…”
“So wonderful,” I sigh.
He laughs, but it’s breathy. Like he can’t quite believe what just happened. Not that I blame him. I can’t quite believe it either.
“I’ll make sure to get you the herb tomorrow,” Kaz continues, clearing his throat. “As long as you take it in the morning, it should keep you protected.”
I don’t know what he’s talking about, but I can’t find it in me to ask any questions. My limbs have all turned to liquid, and it’s a struggle to keep my eyes open.
“Come here,” Kasimir says, pushing himself up. He gathers my exhausted body into his arms until we’re both beneath the bedsheets, our heads sharing a pillow as he hugs me from behind. I shudder, but it’s not from the cold. That feeling is long gone, melted away by his endless touches on my skin.
“Stay with me here forever,” Kaz whispers as my heavy eyelids begin to close.
I’m too tired to reply, so instead I smile and nuzzle into his chest.
“I thought you’d be mine,” he murmurs, wrapping his arm tight around my waist, “but instead I’ve given myself to you, Amaryllis. My Ruby.” He presses a kiss to my ear, and another, and then another, until the darkness finally swallows me.