Page 106 of Joy Guardian
“I want this, Dawn,” I said. “ I want him. Just tell me how to ease his pain.”
“The only way is for him to come. Like lots. Many, many times. And he would need to come from all of his…um, feeler-dicks at once. Do you…like anal?”
I coughed at that question. My elbows bucked, sending medangling along Kurai’s back. My mind reeled at the fact that my baby cousin would ask me something like that. Some part of me would never accept the fact that Dawn was a grown woman now, older than me.
“Um, not particularly, no.” I winced, trying not to think about Dylan and all the cruel ways he had used sex as a punishment for my “mistakes.”
“This way.” Rha directed us across a wide courtyard with geometrically arranged flower beds between mosaic walking paths.
The guards opened the metal gates for us, and Kurai barged into a grand hexagonal hall. Even from my upside-down position, I could tell the queen’s mansion was beautiful. But I got no chance to admire the marble walls or the gold filigree over the wooden window shutters.
“The bedrooms are down these stairs.” Rha led us to a circular opening in the middle of the hall. Surrounded by the railing shaped as a honeycomb, the opening held a wide spiral staircase.
On the level below, Rha opened the ornate double doors leading to an opulent bedroom fit for the queen.
“I’ll leave the guards at the door. If you want to stop what he’s doing to you at any time, just call them in,” he said to me.
“Do you want me to stay here too?” Dawn offered, helpfully.
“No. I’ll be fine.” The last thing I wanted was for my baby cousin to listen to me having sex, which judging by everything that had happened so far, promised to be wild and likely loud. “How long does this mating fever last?”
She drew in a long breath, gazing at me with worry and uncertainty while Kurai hauled me into the bedroom, rattling the chain in his hand.
“Three days,” she said. “I’ll make sure to send you food.”
Kurai kicked the door closed, shutting us in the room and away from the rest of the world.
I expected him to drag me to bed at once. But he put me down by the door, then roamed the room, inspecting the six wide pillars that surrounded the hexagonal platform with the bed on it.
“Help,” he rasped, glancing back at me, then quickly averted his eyes as if just looking at me would make his body combust with lust.
Opening one of the manacles on the chain he’d brought with him, he locked it around his left wrist.
I came closer, apprehensive but not really scared. He still seemed in control, and as long as that was the case, I knew I didn’t need to fear him.
“Lock this.” He slammed his back against the pillar and brought his arms around it behind him.
“You want me to chain you to it?” My heart squeezed with compassion.
He rolled his head my way along the pillar, meeting my gaze.
“Please.”
The tenderness in his eyes wrapped around my heart like a velvet ribbon.
Under normal circumstances, I’d never restrict his freedom. But nothing about this situation seemed normal. I promised to trust him, so I did what he asked me to do. I lifted the manacle, brought the chain around the pillar, and locked the restraint around his left wrist.
“Like this?” I asked, holding his hand.
He nodded.
“Place your hand on the chain…repeat the spell…” he said in a low, strangled voice, then started to recite a spell.
I repeated the strange sounding words that I only partially understood. The meaning of what he was doing was finally clear to me as the spell progressed and the metal under my hand heated, sparkling with gold.
“A chain will not hold a fae in mating fever,”Prince Rha had said.
And maybe a plain, ordinary chain would not. But Kurai was making it stronger by using his magic. He needed me to do it with him, so that he wouldn’t be able to release himself once his self-control was gone.
