by J. E.
She let out a soft sigh and let her fingers play in his chest hair. “And where is this elusive will, anyways?”
“I have it,” he said, his body a stunning statue before her as he lay there motionless, not even the rise and fall of his chest from heavy breathing. “Gold means little to me, except for when it can buy power. A Lord would bring influence. Control. Power,” he let his fingers curve about her breast and squeezed. “A big step.”
“And Loren is quite... malleable. He was ready to give up before... well, I suggested a few things. Fuck, I’d say he had given up.” She just wanted to stay there on that ruin of a couch for the rest of eternity, though. “Do you sleep?”
“No. Not quite,” he said in response to her, though with his eyes closed and his body as still as a corpse, she could have easily been fooled. Though the still partially turgid member that rested against his lower abs—a testament to his desire for her that it had any life left in it after their full night of debauchery—stirred just so every now and then to thwart the impression.
“You can handle Loren well,” he added. “I have no doubt. And we shall discuss details on my uses for him later. I trust you know how to wrap a man about your little finger enough to not need my lecturing,” and she could see the faintest hint of a smirk there, betraying his humour at the idea.
“Oh, no, I’m completely helpless,” she teased back. “Fuck, if there was a hint that I was helpless it was only because I had no clue of anything about Zarach, and after he took me to his upscale club... Well, naive seems a lot better than sexpot sometimes.”
“You did not fool me,” he remarked with a wry smile. “I watched you work from the shadows these past few days. I saw your shifts. Your subtleties. Your cunning,” he let that last word roll off his tongue so appetizingly. “I will tell you more of my plans in time as you need to know. As you become of greater use to me,” he added, his tongue licking along his upper lip... no, his fangs, she realized.
She breathed in his scent that still reminded her of a far off exotic desert and smiled down at him. It was genuine, and affectionate, and she quickly tried to disguise it as her fingertip traced his jaw. “So do I have time for a cat nap before I save the world?”
“The boy will not awaken until you wish it,” he said, and with a smooth, fluid motion he slipped from their position and stood up, hoisting her curvaceous form into his arms and hefting her with no issue. “So take all the rest you need,” he said in his deliciously dark voice, smiling to her as he carried her out of the room and past the stairs in their nudity.
“This is going to take some getting used to,” she purred. It was a lie. She was only too eager to be lifted around by him, like some feather light toy.
He took her to Zarach’s old room, that richly appointed little fortress that was bereft of windows, and had too many locks for an interior door.
With an exceptional ease, he put Anjasa up over his shoulder, shut and locked—all five bolts and locks—the door before moving to the bed. He tossed her upon it and climbed in after to lay beside her. “I will rest here,” he said.
“Paranoid fucker, wasn’t he?” she sighed and let herself feel sorry for him. It was just a brief, fleeting moment, but she mourned what they could have had, and let herself feel thankful for what she’d received in turn.
Power. She understood what he said when money was only a tool to get it, and the kindred thought made her smile.
Jaral had said he didn’t sleep, but he laid there at the center of that large bed upon his back, his dark brown body on display before her as he pulled her to him and held her close, looking for all the world as if he were ready to fall asleep. Or die. His cool flesh was countered by the abundance of thick, warm blankets at her disposal though.
“He was both paranoid and reckless,” he intoned to her. “The most obnoxious of combinations,” and he sighed at the wasted time. Even those who had no shortage of time, like herself, could lament wasting it upon a disappointing fool it seemed.
She certainly knew she hated it. Even spending the night with a man who couldn’t bring her to a boil was enough to sour her mood. How long had Jaral put into grooming Zarach? It didn’t matter. He was no more, and in his place was Jaral.
A man worthy of her time and devotion.
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