Page 51 of His Greatest Treasure

“Glimmer trusts him. Why wouldn’t I?”

“Because you don’t know who he is.”

Alfie smiled. “You’re very sweet, you know. Are you worried about me?”

I felt my face heating up and looked down. “You know I care about you.”

“Because I’m your- your favourite person?”

“Yes, you’re my favourite.”

Alfie smiled at me again and my heart fluttered like flames. He was more than my favourite person, he was my everything. The world began and ended with Alfie. And he didn’t realise just how much he meant to me.

He tugged me closer to him and said, “I grabbed some more food from the kitchenlast night. I think Mrs. Wilson has worked out it’s me but she hasn’t told me off yet.”

“What makes you think she knows?”

“She’s been leaving it in a basket for me. I don’t think she liked me taking things randomly because it messed up her inventory. She’s very strict, you know.”

I laughed and buried my head in Alfie’s shoulder. “Yes, my darling. Can we go and eat some now?”

Alfie held my hand all the way across the field and through the woods and only let go of me when we reached the hut and he began unpacking a new basket of food. For the first time, I realised that this was different things from what he’d been taking himself. I should have realised. There was more order to it and there were individual meals packaged up in Tupperware, fruit and snacks.

As soon as he’d got everything out, Alfie sat down in the armchair and looked at me expectantly.

I grinned and grabbed the dish I wanted, which was a cold slice of pie with salad and delicious, crumbly cheese scattered all over it. Then I sat inmy place, which was on Alfie’s lap. He slid his arms around me and held me tight.

I felt his erection grow under me as I ate, but he didn’t move except to thread his fingers gently through my hair and he didn’t demand anything of me. He just sat there and watched me eat, and I devoured every morsel until I was satisfied. I hadn’t gone hungry in a long time. Not since Alfie had started taking care of me.

“Do you feel better now?” he asked. His breath tickled my ear and I squirmed back against him.

“Yes. I always feel better with you.”

“Me too. I miss you when I’m at the castle. I wish you could come with me to live there properly.”

“This is nice too,” I said. I didn’t want him to dwell on what we couldn’t have and I didn’t want him to risk telling his elder about me. I knew better than anyone what would happen to me if his elder discovered I was living inside his territory.

In the meantime, I could enjoy what time I had with Alfie. I squirmed again, rubbing myself on Alfie’s hard cock.

He gasped and clutched me tighter to him. I twisted round to fuse my mouth to his, thrustingmy tongue between his lips and letting him taste me. The moans he gave when he tasted me always made me ache somewhere deep inside. I wanted more of them. I wanted to fulfil the promise of them.

I wanted more than Alfie was ready to give. So I had to content myself with his mouth and my hand thrust between us.

Chapter 21

Alfie

Ihadn’t expected my father to be the one to tell me about my new tutor. I had just assumed that someone else would do it, but I suppose it was logical that he’d do it himself, since Rhod was no longer there to do it for him. Now he had no PA, Father was going to have to do a lot of his own work.

I wasn’t sure how I felt about that.

Part of me wished he’d just told someone else to do it like everything else, and then it might have been Mother or someone, and I could ask a few questions.

Another part of me, though, felt a shocked thrill at my father talking to me like this, calling me to his office like I was someone of importance.

The clash of feelings meant I got very flustered and tripped over my own feet going into the office and then I forgot that it was rude to look a dragon elder in the eyes and only remembered to lower my head when Lord Somerville’s thin eyebrows drew together in irritation.

“You’re late. I summoned you well over an hour ago.”

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