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“I love you too.” I speak so softly, I would have thought he didn’t hear me, had he not stopped dead. I also tense, waiting for his reaction.
“I-I know.” He’s crying, my gentle giant, and I look up into his watery lilac eyes. “But hearing yousay itmeans so much to me.” His smile is beautiful. Black lips curved over his fangs, and yet no smile was more tender than his. “Thank you, my love. My darling. My Queen.” We kissed like lost lovers reunited. Touching, caressing, and speaking without words. When we finally came up for air he turned off the shower and took my hand in his. Vrajan had done this hundreds of times, but every time still felt special. “How about we get dry and I bring you some breakfast to eat in bed? We’ll cuddle and watch the news for a while, and then one of those comedies you like.”
“It sounds perfect.” He leads me into the bedroom and wraps a towel around me, before wrapping a second one around himself.
“Almost perfect.” He purrs and I know where his mind is before he leans down to lick at my bite wound. “For it to sound perfect, we would also have to include all the cuddling we’re going to do, followed by making love to you.” I chuckle and roll my eyes at him, but still blush with anticipation. “I don’t think we shall get dressed today.”
“Oh, don’t you?” I snigger. “You are planning for us spending the day in bed together all day, then?” He pauses, smirks, and chuckles deeply before replying in such a way, if I were wearing knickers, they would have fallen right off.
“Notjustin bed, Valerie. I’m more than happy to unleash my passion on you whenever, andwhereverthe mood takes us.” I gulp and nod up at him with two thumbs up. I second that motion. Yes please. All of it. “But first? You need to eat. You fed me, so now I’ll feed you. Toast or cereal?”
“Toast please.” He nods and backs up towards the doorway.
“Orange or apple juice?”
“Orange please.” I giggle as he pauses with his hands on either side of the door frame.
“Followed by oral sex or fingering?”
“…” I put my hands on my hips and tongue my cheek at him. Cheeky bastard.
“Or would you like both?” His grin widens.
“You’re a fucking menace.” I point at him with a grin.
“That’s not a no?” I laugh and swipe a pillow from the bed to throw at him. He caged his arms over his head, laughing, and once the pillow hit the floor he giggled at me. “Still not a no. Both it is!”
Chapter 30
Vindictive two headed serpent
Valerie.
“Valerie!” I look up from my shiny new laptop, about to give Cassie a call since she she texted me 5 minutes ago to asking me to, when Vrajan marched in like his ass is on fire.
“What’s wro-”
“Hurry! We must leave right now.” Vrajan thrusts both hands towards me.
“Leave? And go where?” We didn’t have any plans today. Other than a sweet little firework show he wants to watch later to mark our ‘5 month anniversary’.
“To the Theskian Council embassy. Quickly.” He waves both hands at me to follow him to the walk in wardrobe.
“What? Why do we need to go there?” I close the laptop display screen and crawl off the bed in a hurry.
“Because that vindictive two headed serpent has done his best to try and bite me in the posterior. If I wasn’t doing my due diligence and checking the council agenda with my own, I wouldn’t have noticed.” He seethed, his hackles well and truly raised, as he whips out a dress bag and places it on the bed.
“Erm…in Galactic standard?” I watch as he unzips the bag and pulls out a lovely yellow dress.
“The bill to debate and vote on Korvian admission into the Theskian Council meeting has been moved from next month, totoday.” His pupils were like stars; they were so narrowed with adrenaline. Space Dracula was hissing with anger. Yikes. “His ID code is all over the rescheduling request, and itappearslike I confirmed the change of date, but I most certainly didnot.”
“Son of a bitch.” I got with the program and started stripping out of my comfy sweat pants and hoodie. “So he changed the date on the sly,andfaked that you knew about it?”
“Yes. He had to, of course, as to not run the risk of one of the other councillors flagging the date change with me. No need, with my confirmation logged on the account.” Vrajan helped me step into the dress and I turned quickly so he could fasten me in at the back. It’s so soft and light, yet opaque. I haven’t seen this dress before. It’s a mustard yellow, which makes me smile. It’s the ‘colour of Queens’. It’s a billowing ruffled charmeuse gown, with a halter neck collar and no sleeves. It still had three hook and eyes that needed fastening at the back, and Vrajan deftly looped them together for me. “Like I said? I was doing my due diligence to look for future meeting slots upon my successful appointment, when I saw the change on the calendar.” He huffed and returned his hands to the dress bag. I hurried over to the vanity table to run a brush through my hair. “Had I not been so forward thinking, we would not have known about the date change.” I saw him take black box from the bottom of the bag in the reflection of my vanity table. “I had to work very hard to get this opportunity to be present for the bill debate, and I doubt I would get another chance if it looked like I simply didn’t bother to attend.” He moved to stand right behind me and opened the box.
“Asshole. How much time do we have?” I braid my long brown hair into the neatest plait I can in a hurry.
“An hour. It will be tight.” I nod and hurry over to tie a thin yellow bobble around the end of my plait. “We will need to leave right away. I am glad I had this outfit prepared in advance for you. I have thought often about this day.” He sighs, clearly dissapointed it’s such a rush. For five months I’ve been right with him as he’s petitioned, debated on the vid calls, gone through interviews, and been insulted to his face. He’s not the only one who’s been thinking about the big day where he can finally stand shoulder to shoulder with the other councillors and properly make his case for admission.I’manxious about it too. I will be keeping my Merchant Caste mouth shut today; I know that for a fact. “I hope you don’t mind, but I had this made for you.” I raised a brow and watched in the mirror as he retrieved two items from the box. Firstly, he draped a long yellow veil to match the dress over my head. It rested on my shoulders and was so light I could barely feel it was there. I touched the bottom right corner and smiled. It’s made of the same material as Vrajan’s veil. Then he placed a golden tiara with diamonds on top of my head to keep the veil in place. “I don’t want to cover your face. You are not Korvian…but…we match this way, don’t we?”
