Page 106 of Warrior's Reign
Well,excuseme.“I have nothing you want?” She smiled at him. Lohail’s eyes narrowed a fraction.
“That’s enough,” Vykhan said.
She shrugged. “You’ll have to tell me eventually.”
“Eventually, perhaps.” His hand wrapped around the back of her neck, massaging. “But not now.”
“Fine. Why don’t you two humor the female and tell me what kind of offensive you’re expecting and what you’re planning on doing about it? We can’t use deadly force to defend ourselves if the point is to clear my name—” She stopped. “Maybe I’ve been operating on a faulty premise. Thatisthe secondary goal, correct? Other than to reveal Adevega as the snake she is?”
“It is,” her betrothed agreed, and brushed a kiss on her forehead. For Vykhan, this was a wild PDA. The wine wove through her veins, a river of temptation. She snorted. That sounded so stupid.
Somehow she’d wound up curled in his lap, her ear pressed against his chest. Between the sheer fabric of her so-called dress and the silk of his shirt, she might as well be naked. Was aware of Lohail’s burning gaze. The growing throb between her legs.
Sliding a hand down her thigh, she brushed the tips of her fingers between her lips, finding her bud. It ached.
“Lohail?” Vykhan prompted, voice hoarse. He grabbed her wrist, putting it back where it belonged.
She made a face. “Spoilsport.” She turned her head and pressed a kiss against Vykhan’s shoulder.
“They won’t follow right away,” Lohail said sourly. “It will be a day or two for the sake of appearances. When they ‘discover’ Reign’s location, you’ll have another few hours to prepare for an attack after that.”
Reign ran her fingers through Vykhan’s hair, lifting a lock to study it under the club lights. It gleamed blue and purple. She rubbed it on her cheek, then dropped the hair to study the strong line of his neck.
“They’ll give you an opportunity to surrender first,” Lohail continued, a slight edge in his voice. “Which, naturally, you will decline. Even if you accept, they will say you declined. Adevega won’t allow you to leave my custody alive.”
Leaning forward, Reign opened her mouth and kissed under the side of his jaw, taking a tiny little lick of skin for herself.
Vykhan inhaled. “Stop playing with Lohail, Reign.”
“It’s notLohail’slap I’m sitting on.”
Lohail snorted. “Can we go back to business?”
“Jealous?” she purred.
A damn devil chortled in her ear, and she sat up, sliding a leg over Vykhan’s lap and straddling him, her back to Lohail. The scrap of black panties was there for decor and nothing else. Her groin nestled against his and she smiled, pleased at his body’s reaction.
Silent, her ass. Not with a hard cock like that. She undulated, just a little, and lifted her arms to braid her hair back from her neck because she was suddenly scorching hot, and the curls were sticking to her neck.
Finished, she placed her hands on Vykhan’s chest and glanced at his face. Then stilled.
His eyes burned. Pulsed with heat and something else. Strong fingers wrapped around her wrists, and the sparks that more often than not happened when he touched her, started back up. A flash of light under his silk shirt as the electricity intensified.
She undulated again, gasping at the friction of his hard length between her thighs.
Suddenly he grabbed her around the waist, pulling her off his lap and setting her onto the couch.
“Sit,” he growled. “Behave.”
Reign glanced at Lohail and almost flinched from the naked dislike in his eyes as he stared at her. No—not her. She glanced at Vykhan. At his arms. Froze.
After that she didn’t move. They thought she was drunk, of course, but she’d used the wine as a cover to test them both. Draw out more information about what was happening under the rug.
Fine, a little drunk, but not enough that she couldn’t think. Just like males to assume she couldn’t hold her liquor. Riiiight. They also thought she wasn’t paying attention, but by the end of the evening she knew that Vykhan and Lohail were working together to flush Adevega out all along.
“Reign,” Vykhan murmured.
She lifted her head, pressing the back of her hand to her mouth in a half yawn.
