Chapter 98

His expression turned tender before wrapped his arm around my shoulders.

“Okay, let’s get you back to bed,” he said, pressing a kiss to my temple.

Vanessa let out a little laugh as Candido walked with me back to the room I’d been given.

As soon as the door closed behind us, Candido dug into his jacket and pulled out a small knife. I stopped him before he could slit his palm. I pulled the knife from his hand and tucked it back into his jacket.

“No.”

He stiffened his jaw. “Hedy, I know what my aunt said, but you have to know that I—”

“Usually listen to absolutely no one,” I said.

“I am perfectly fine.” His voice was firm, but his eyes were red-rimmed and sunken into his face. There were dark circles around his eyes, and he looked ready to fall asleep at any time.

“All I want right now is to snuggle with you.” I looked up at him. “Can’t you just give me this? It’s less painful.”

His nostrils flared. “That’s not a good idea.”

“Why?”

“Because I want you desperately.” He said. “And you’re not of age. I don’t want that sort of temptation, and neither of us…” he shook his head. “Neither of us is in a state to think straight… It’s dangerous.”

I took his hand and towards the bed. “I trust you.”

It was true, even though I hoped that he would lose control and give me the one thing I wanted. Just the thought of him ravishing me like in one of those romance movies, all passion, lust, and tenderness, sent a shiver through me. I wanted that more than I could say, but I didn’t say that.

If he knew that’s what I wanted and that I was hoping to tempt him enough to give it to me, he’d leave and avoid me. For now, I was just tired, and I really wanted to sleep next to him. It wasn’t the whole fantasy, but it was better than nothing.

I pulled him onto the bed and beneath the sheets before curling up to him. He was tense against me though he wrapped his arm around my waist and pulled me closer, breathing in deeply.

I felt him growing hard against me. His breathing grew more labored, and I bit my lip, squirming as heat pooled in my gut. He grunted.

“Stop it,” he said, his voice a gruff whisper. “Sleep.”

He tightened his grip around me, and I smiled, breathing the scent of his cologne deeply and falling asleep in his arms as if it were a dream.

I moaned, twisting as pleasure sparked and raced through me. Hands slipped over my waist and through my hair, gripping tightly. I shuddered as teeth grazed my neck. Danger and desire raced through me. My blood felt electric with pleasure. I felt it rolling through my body as the hands kept drifting across my body, kneading and squeezing. One of them grabbed my breast and rolled a nipple just hard enough to make me shudder and twist.

The arms around me tightened.

“Just this,” Candido’s voice said gruffly.

Was it a dream? Was he really doing this to me? I wanted it to be real. I let him play with my nipples and slip his hands under my shirt, gliding across my bare skin and down into my panties. I shuddered and arched.

He hushed me gently, sliding his hand between my legs and groaning.

“You’re so wet… Have you ever touched yourself like this?”

My face burned, and I shook my head. How could I? It was embarrassing just to think about it.

“Keep it that way,” he growled. “Only I get to touch you here… You’ll come to me when you want this…”

I keened and twisted in his grip.

“You’ll come to me whenever I want to touch you, won’t you, princess?”

“Yes,” I gasped. “Please… Please, more?”

“Not yet, princess,” he nipped at my neck, and I cried out. His fingers glided easily between my legs before one of them slipped inside of me. I tensed and rolled my hips into his hand, pressing back against the hard line of his erection that was pressing into my back.

“You’re so wet and tight. Just for me, aren’t you, princess?”

“Yes,” I gasped. “Please, Candido. Please…”

I grabbed his wrists, trying to get him to give me more, but he pulled his fingers free of me and trapped my arms against my chest with his other arm, locking me in place before shoving his fingers back into me, filling me with so much pleasure I could barely think. This felt so real, so much more real than the dream I had before.

“Please, more,” I gasped. “More. I want more. I’m so close.”

My eyes rolled back as the pleasure started to build almost painfully. I clenched around his fingers, trying to get more, but he slowed the movements of his hands.

“You’ll come when I say, princess. You’ll learn what it means to be the mate of the alpha king.”

I wanted to sob and plead for him to just let me come like he had in my other dream, but he wouldn’t. He was toying with me, pushing me right to the edge and holding me there. His breathing was rough in my ear.

"That's it, princess. My sweet little girl, you’re soaking the bed.”

“Candido, please. Please. Please,” I sobbed, rocking against his hand as he started to curl his fingers inside me. My eyes rolled back. “Please.”

“Who do you belong to, Hedy?”

“Candido… Candido, please.” I gasped as he jerked his hand, thrusting his fingers into me deeper and twisting.

My orgasm was right on the edge, but I couldn’t reach it without him. He had me trapped.

“Who do you belong to?” Candido growled in my ear.

“You,” I gasped as the pleasure crested and carried me out of the dream into a deep darkness.

I woke up with a gasp. My heart was hammering, but I was alone in bed. I heard the shower going in the bathroom and figured that Candido had woken up. I sat up. My skin was tingling. I drew my hands over my body, trying to figure out how much of that had been a dream and why.

The shower turned off, and he walked out with the towel around his waist. The front of it was tented, and my face burned. His cheeks were flushed though there was no steam coming out around him. He looked a little pale, as if he had taken a cold shower.

“C-Candido?”

“Damn it.” He scowled. “I told you… it was dangerous.”

“What… do you mean?” I asked. My eyes widened. “You… You were… Did you?”

He crossed the room and kneeled beside the bed, taking my hand. “No. Not once did I touch you last night.”

He sounded so earnest, but it was so disappointing that he hadn’t. Didn’t he know that was all I wanted?

“Then… Then what?”

He blew out a breath. “We… were dream walking.”

He tilted his head. “Well… more like dream sharing. Have you ever heard of it?”

I shook my head.

“It usually happens after mates have bonded fully,” his lips twitched. “In our case, because we’re golden wolves, we have so much history, and we were so close last night… We are already demonstrating signs of bond completeness…”

I worried my lip. “So… you did… do that to me?”

He flushed. “Not… exactly. I… It was… It’s hard to explain.”

“You… wanted to do that to me, though,” I asked, hopefully. “You… still want to?”

His eyes darted up to look at me, and his nostrils flared. His eyes darted down to my lap before he met my gaze.

He licked his lips. “I… would like to do a lot of things to you, Hedy.”

I shuddered at that. “Candido—”

“But, you’re not of age.”

I groaned. “Plenty of people have sex before they’re of age! And it’s not like I’m not old enough to!”

Candido stood and turned from me. “We aren’t most people.”

I got up. “What does that mean?”

“It means that on our wedding night…” Candido said. “I want you to be… as whole as you are right now…”

My eyes widened as he glanced at me. “I know… you weren’t raised religiously, but I was.”

I frowned and sat down. “What does that mean?”

“A bond… can change depending on how mates enter their bond and marriage,” Candido said softly. “There is nothing to be done on my end.”

I crossed my arms. “Because you have so much more experience than I do?”

“Because I’ve killed.” I lifted my head and looked at him. “I know you believe that the years between our ages mean very little, but they mean a great deal and can mean a great deal to us when we marry.”

My heart fluttered. “You keep saying when.”

He smirked. “Do you think you can escape me now, princess?”

My face heated. His eyes were heated as he stared at me. I wanted to escape as if he was a ravenous beast ready to eat me, but a knock sounded on the door.

“Your Majesty? Miss Hedy? We need you to review the interrogation tapes and… some other information has come in.”