Daniel fumbled blindly and fell over on top of Elakdon. They’d landed on the couch, and somewhere in the periphery of his conscious mind, Daniel noticed Elakdon ended up lying halfway up Seldon.
But that one goal in life consumed Daniel. His dick in Elakdon’s ass.
“Self-control, cub,” Elakdon said.
The wording sparked something in Daniel, and flashbacks to Caledon and him in the library, and waiting for the elevator, and Daniel lying on the desk in the Lord’s office swam through the thick fog of lust. He heard Caledon’s voice, but he wasn’t sure it was real. It was a gentle whisper in his ears, constantly reminding him of self-control.
The need to soothe his itch was difficult to resist, but Daniel pushed at it and focused on Elakdon. Daniel scooted down and slipped off the couch to kneel between Elakdon’s legs. He pushed them back and buried his face between Elakdon’s ass cheeks licking and nipping.
The strength of lust was far more than anything he’d ever tried, but rimming the King helped. It suppressed the fog of lust enough for Daniel to contemplate lube, and he fumbled against the side of the coffee table, looking for a drawer. There were always drawers in the coffee table. But this wasn’t Seldon’s coffee table.
Confusion mingled, but only for a second.
“Use your dose. I love that,” Elakdon said.
Daniel released an oral dose and managed to smear it everywhere. He released another into the King’s ass before introducing fingers.
Elakdon moaned, and the sound sent a wave down Daniel’s spine, and his cock jumped in excitement and throbbed harder. Elakdon’s cock stood beautiful and thick close to his head, and Daniel wanted to taste him. He plunged his mouth down on the waiting cock, taking in as much as he could. A strangled cry escaped Elakdon, and Daniel moaned around the shaft in his mouth and tried to hold back, but every physical sense had zeroed in on the man whose body and pleasure he was manipulating.
He pushed in another finger, moaning along with Elakdon as the King ground his ass down onto the fingers.
“Now, now, fuck me now,” Elakdon panted.
Daniel drew back off the cock with a loud pop, and the hard member slapped against the King’s treasure trail with a slippery and erotic sound.
Locking gazes with the King, Daniel moved up and positioned himself.
“Self-control,” Elakdon whispered, and Daniel heaved for air as he slowly breached the slick and prepared muscle. Elakdon’s face scrunched up for a second, then his features softened, and he drew a deep, shaky breath as Daniel slid all the way into him.
Finally, Daniel was in, and he shivered from trying to keep his orgasm in check. He wanted to soothe the itch racing over his skin and the lust coursing through his body. He didn’t get more than a few thrusts in before Elakdon locked his legs around Daniel’s waist and drew him in tightly with his lower legs, keeping him still.
Daniel shivered and whimpered, but he was far from as strong as the old King, and he was given no room to move.
“Focus on my fingers,” Elakdon whispered as he ran his fingers from Daniel’s flanks to his spine with feather-light touches just hard enough to not tickle. “Focus on filling your spine, feel it fill up by moving slowly.”
Elakdon eased his leg’s grip around Daniel’s waist, still running his fingers from sides to spine. Shivering from trying to keep himself in check, Daniel rocked in and out of Elakdon, trying to figure out what exactly the King found so important to torture him with when all Daniel wanted to do was come.
But as he managed a slow pace for a while, he felt the shimmer move like when feeding, but it settled differently. “Oh fuck, what is that?”
“As a Royal, you can feed above your level, but pleasure has to be given to be received. The objective has to be to give pleasure, not just to focus on your own stimulation. Go slow.”
Focusing on the shimmer to his spine gave Daniel a sense of control even though the lust daze still wanted him to just let go and thrust faster. But he remembered this feeling. The first time he’d sucked Caledon off on the couch and edged him until he screamed for release.
Oh, that had been so fucking hot, and now was not the time to think of something so delicious. It still tipped Daniel’s hard-tried self-control, and he lost his resolve for a few thrusts, but then regained his footing. Elakdon kept stroking his back to call attention to the feeling.
Daniel calmed down again and settled into a rhythm of long and slow strokes. The shimmer pooled and moved up his spine as if it was being filled up. Then it suddenly seemed to empty and move away from his spine. “What’s happening?” Daniel asked while Elakdon writhed and moved his hips.
“Find it again, seek out that feeling, change it up to keep it.”
Daniel propped himself up to look at Elakdon and tried a few things like thrusting harder, grinding his hips a bit, and finally he found a tempo and hip move that not only coaxed moans from the man he was feeding on, but made energy rush and pool in his spine, faster.
“Yeah, yeah.” Elakdon’s head lolled back, and his eyes fluttered closed.
The energy trickled down Daniel’s spine and made his dick very sensitive. He couldn’t stop the orgasm, but it didn’t matter. He wanted more, and he wasn’t going to be released from the need before Elakdon reached his.
“Look at me,” Daniel whispered.
Elakdon did, even though it looked like he just wanted to float away on a cloud of pleasure. The orgasm claimed Daniel, and he groaned loudly and lost the rhythm in his hips.
The King looked pleased with himself and commenced running his fingers across Daniel’s back. Once the waves of the orgasm ebbed away, Daniel’s focus returned to the fingers and the energy pooling there, but again it seemed to slip away. So Daniel did as before and tried to find a way to turn the tide.
Elakdon gasped loudly and threw his head back, and the tide turned. He mumbled something in another language, but it sounded enticing. “Follow. Follow the flow,” the King gasped and reached behind him to grab the armrest.
Bringing that beautiful man to throes of pleasure ignited Daniel, and his entire focus turned to find the balance of energy flowing to his spine. It was almost meditative.
Elakdon convulsed and came, and the energy in Daniel’s spine rushed to his crotch, sending a flood of intense pleasure through his body. Another ten thrusts, and Daniel’s second orgasm claimed him, leaving him a quaking and sweating mess on top of the King. And Seldon, Daniel finally realized. Elakdon’s shoulders and head were in Seldon’s lap, and dark green eyes and a crooked smile met Daniel when he managed to prop himself up to take in reality.
“I love teaching this part,” Elakdon said, panting.
“What part?” Daniel asked, his throat parched, and he barely had enough saliva to wet it. Elakdon’s semen stuck to both of them, and the scent of it helped produce saliva as the urge to lick it up claimed Daniel. He climbed lower and laved at it, groaning as he found the taste delicious in a whole new league.
“Royal feeding can be a rare treat depending on how much effort the Royal put into focusing on giving pleasure only. Huge amounts of feeding energy can be released.” Elakdon shuffled himself off Seldon’s lap and up on his elbows so he could watch Daniel lick his stomach. “You certainly know how to claim focus on pleasure.”
“We call him a seductor,” Seldon said.
“Fitting.” Elakdon grinned, his eyes slowly returning to a lighter gold. “But the focus on the one you’re with needs a bit of work. The pooling of energy I directed your attention to is from feeding on higher energy. It’s a lot less pronounced when feeding on lower energy, but it’ll teach you to focus on it, recognize it, and be an irresistible source to your people.”
Daniel definitely liked the sound of that.
“I bet you’ve been called both vain and an attention whore in the human world, haven’t you?”
Daniel sat back. “Yeah.”
Elakdon untangled his leg from between Daniel and the couch and stood. “In t
he Cubi world, those two attributes are desirable. Especially as a Royal. You are to be the epicenter of your people, their fountain of strength to evolve from. You’ve probably already found out you taste different, right?”
Daniel looked at Seldon who nodded before he leaned in and licked at Daniel’s stomach. Daniel settled back and let Seldon clean off the King’s spunk and let him feed on it.
“I just don’t know how much. How pronounced, I mean.”
“I’ll help you explore it. It took me about six months to work it all out, and that was with the help of a Royal. Some things differ, others are the same. Some we have to grow into, others evolve with our dose, and others again we have to learn for ourselves. We’ll get to all that when we have time for the Empowerment.”
“Wasn’t this it?”
“No. Royal Empowerment is a lot of doses.”
Thirty-six hours, Daniel remembered. “Oh, man.”
Elakdon buttoned his pants and snatched his shirt on his way to the door. “Geodin, we’re ready for you.”
Chapter Eight
F eeling full and a bit lightheaded from the dose, Daniel shuffled into his clothes and collapsed against Seldon. Elakdon took a seat in one armchair, and Geodin in the other, while Caledon still sat by the desk with a load of books.
“Full?” Seldon asked, stroking Daniel’s hair. Daniel smiled at him, theatrically. “Good. Then Elakdon and Geodin would like your undivided attention.”
Daniel gave them just that, and Geodin fell into all-business mode. Daniel only saw that intense look in her eyes when the Council met. Or during the trial where Seldon’s punishment for dosing Daniel early had been measured out. Daniel sat up straight, consciously noting that there was a pad and a pen at the end of the table if he needed it.
“The soldier from the train,” Geodin said, cocking her head as if she wanted to assess Daniel’s reaction.
“He escaped?” Daniel asked.
“No.” Geodin smiled and shook her head, and Daniel apparently reacted in a way that eased her mind. He could only guess at what she’d expected or feared. “We’ve had a few chats with him. He’s given us a few names.”
“You already know about my official title as the sovereign ruler of your Kingdom. At least in the human’s records,” Elakdon continued. “Tomorrow, we’ll be meeting with representatives of the human government and the ones in charge of Human, Cubi relations.”
“Am I going?” Daniel tried to imagine how that would go, and he kept coming back to the fact that he was to be hidden. Geodin shaking her head made Daniel ditch his train of thought and wait for them to explain.
“I’ll be going in your stead,” Seldon said.
Daniel nodded. “Geodin will know who’s best for it.”
“What do you mean?” she asked.
“Seldon and Caledon are my right and left hand. Whichever of the two are best suited to represent me and aid in this matter is something you know best.” Daniel felt naïve because he really did trust her that much, but he also knew he was far too young to take the responsibility he really wanted to.
Out the corner of his eye, Daniel caught Seldon studying him. Nothing got past the big man, and he probably saw right through Daniel’s attempt at diplomacy. But instead of feeling overlooked in matters of grave importance, Daniel felt grateful for the support and safety the big Incubus offered.
“Actually, our right and left hands have official areas to help control.” Elakdon pointed to a Lady who Daniel hadn’t talked to a lot. “Great Lady Laudin is my left hand, and thus my advisor and the one responsible for all foreign allies and their shared human nations’ relations. She, too, will come tomorrow, but cloaked. Seldon, as your right hand, is your advisor and responsible for your Kingdom and shared nation relations.”
“Will you tell me about what goes on tomorrow?” Daniel asked.
“Of course,” Seldon said
Elakdon continued. “We have no idea what the humans have prepared since being given the news that a rogue Colonel and Lieutenant have collaborated on sending two hundred soldiers into The Great House of Dahlidin, apparently with the objective to capture Cubi. We believe that to be the case because they used non-lethal weaponry.
“Today, Geodin, Seldon, and I have spoken to some of the Cubi working outside the Great House as intermediates between the Grand Council and the humans. They’ve gathered information for us to use in backup plans, and we’ve worked on setting up personnel for every perceivable plan of action, both defensive and offensive.”
And now Daniel knew why he was out of his element. It was a military strategy being outlined to a child by a thousand-year-old King of a nation who’d always been at war with the humans in one degree or another.
Daniel looked at Seldon, and the old Incubus’ eyes revealed old knowledge and understanding of the ramifications that meeting could have. The couch dipped, and Daniel turned his head to find an equal depth of understanding in Caledon’s purple eyes.
However inept Daniel felt, he also felt strong and rich for the allies he had. The conversation with Elakdon in his room a few days prior left Daniel thinking that the one task he could, or rather should, focus on was also the one task he hadn’t been able to keep up with because they were in hiding, and the Cubi people were spread out all over. Daniel had to get stronger, and fast. He had to be able to dose his people so they could evolve and thrive.
“Is it for easy security that we stay here? I mean, hiding me here?” Daniel asked.
“Yes and no,” Geodin said. “We have safe houses all over, but we do fear that the increased activity around this house will, at some point, call attention upon it.”
“And if I’m to live up to my duty and Empower my people then there’ll be even more activity around here.”
“Which is why you don’t,” Caledon said.
“I’m inept at just about everything else. We should at least make sure I can rise and Empower for the good of my people.”
“Wise decision, young Prince,” Elakdon said. “It sounds like you’ve evaluated the size of the pie and how much you can chew at a time.”
Guard Lord Afdon stepped out of camouflage next to Seldon and faced Daniel. “Moving you will give you a life on the road where you’ll never stay in one place for long. You will be traveling every area of your Kingdom, and not have a place to call home.”
“Meaning changes all the time.” Daniel nodded, thinking. He hadn’t done too well with changes since he’d been snatched up by the Cubi, but he’d sought out change the morning he’d decided to seek out his fortune between the skyscrapers instead of taking the school bus. He’d once looked to a future where he traveled the world to be in movies and photo shoots. He wondered if he’d just gotten really bad at changes because the biggest changes in his life were also the ones he’d had no say in. First being collected, then being empowered, then becoming a Prince. But the possible changes now were some he had control over. And more importantly, he had Seldon and Caledon by his sides—the two Incubi who had been with him every step of the way and gotten him through the upheaval.
“Maybe a time to reflect will do you good,” Caledon said.
“May I share a tool I use when having to weigh big decisions?” Geodin asked.
“I’d very much appreciate it,” Daniel said.
She smiled and reached for the pad and pen. She then drew a line down the middle of the page before writing pros at the top of one side and cons on the other. She then turned the pad and pushed it and the pen to Daniel. “The question you will be evaluating is, will you leaving here to tour your Kingdom, be for the better or worse.”
Daniel rephrased the question mentally a few times. Would him leaving be for the better of his Kingdom? His people? Him? He then saw the idea in not placing one over the other as he’d then have to weigh those as well. Shrewd old Succubus. Apparently, his expression communicated that because Geodin smiled knowingly.
“How long do I have?”
“Tomorrow morning,
we leave for the meeting,” Elakdon said. “We’ll be gone a few days, max. Seldon will keep in contact via your Royal Guard or Marcadon. As his hunger has risen to almost match that of a Royal, I will take this opportunity to thoroughly Empower your right hand.”
Daniel glanced at Seldon, and if the oh-shit expression at being dosed by both Caledon and Maldon back when Daniel was still an Untouchable had been funny, the pure horror now made Daniel sputter laughter.
“What?” Seldon snapped.
Caledon leaned forward and looked at Seldon. A grin spread. “Oh, the big control freak is not happy.”
“How so?” Elakdon asked, a smile tugging at the corner of his lips.
“Seldon is a bossy bottom,” Daniel said, getting his fit under control.
“Oh, I enjoy just about every way of feeding. Don’t you?” Elakdon looked at Daniel. “I mean, do you have a preference that isn’t mirrored in the Cubus you Empower?”
Daniel had never contemplated that. He’d topped Marcadon and Chas, and bottomed for Talidon, Heimli, and Paledon. There hadn’t been a lot of talk about the arrangements before they’d tumbled onto the bed halfway lost in hunger and lust. It kinda just evolved. Except with Marcadon because Seldon had power fucked Daniel during a dose. With women it was different, yet who controlled the pace or a balance of it was different from Geodin, who preferred Daniel to do so, to Rosadin, who was as much a bossy feeder as her dad, and Ms. Clark who was an enthusiastic equal opportunity feeder.
The feeding with Elakdon had gone down very differently from what Daniel had considered before the dose. He’d thought Elakdon would top, but once he was dosed, Daniel had very different ideas.
“When you dosed me, what was your preference?”
Elakdon smiled. “That you topped. Either way, that’s another Royal trait for you to contemplate.”
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