Page 137 of Queen of Diamonds

“Not yet.”

I swallowed. I hadn’t found the right place to nest in this place. I didn’t know if it was because it felt too much like the mansion I’d grown up in, or if I just needed to wait for my hormones to settle.

“There will be,” he said.

I smiled, hugging him tighter.

We lay like that for a while in silence, but eventually, I propped myself up on his chest and peered up at him, far too curious. “Tell me how you did it?”

He grinned, rocking into me and making me squeak before his thumb began circling my clit lazily again. “You sure you want to know?”

“Tell me.” That came out so much more demanding than I’d intended.

“You’re so fucking hot.” He clamped his grip on my hips so he could rut into me with his knot. “But I don’t know?—”

“Tell me!” I seized his hair, another growl rising in my throat even as my blood heated at the stimulation he was giving me.

His grin was dazzling. “I gave one a poisoned crown,” he said. “And the other I left to choke on a card.”

I tilted my head, catching my lip with my teeth as he rocked into me again. “A… card?”

“Mhmm.”

I moaned as he maintained the rhythm, pushing me right to the edge, but his next words sent me tumbling into the bliss of my third orgasm.

“A queen of diamonds.”

46

GLADE

During the afternoon of the next day, I hopped up on the kitchen island to join Knight as he prepared for a movie night.

The mansion had a theatre room that we’d decided to take full advantage of. However, it seemed they didn’t have a popcorn maker.

Kyan and Zed were in the theatre right now, squabbling over a movie list for the evening while Knight was cooking snacks and fully committing to microwaving a dozen bags of popcorn.

I couldn’t help wondering if it had anything to do with one of our earliest dates, when his pack took me to the movies. Not a flashy date for most, but none of us had normal upbringings, and it had been the most exciting date I think I’d ever gone on at the time.

I grinned as Knight swapped one bag in for another and set the timer before sliding onto a barstool at my side.

“You feeling all right today?” he asked.

I nodded, though I couldn’t catch my yawn. All the drugs made me sleepy at unexpected times.

“How are you doing with all the meds?” he asked.

I shrugged. “There are worse things.” I had to take the suppressants throughout the day and night, but I had a vibrating alarm set for the midnight dose, so I didn’t have to wake them up.

Missing a dose wasn’t an option. Kyan seemed concerned that, if I did, I might slip into heat in an instant. I wasn’t ready for that. Not yet.

Discussing my meds wasn’t why I’d come. “About the other day…” Clasping my hands, so it wasn’t so obvious how nervous I was. “I’m sorry if I said anything about you and Kyan, I mean, that I shouldn’t have.”

Knight glanced at me, a smile on the edge of his lips as he tugged the corner of the popcorn bag he’d just popped and picked a few out for himself. “Don’t be, Princess. You didn’t do anything wrong.”

I nodded, but my chest didn’t ease. It didn’t feel that way. I hadn’t known… I swallowed.

I didn’t want to hurt any of them.

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