Chapter Fifteen: In the shadows

Chapter Fifteen: In the shadows

In the gloominess of the room, his face was so close to Jamie that she could smell the syrupy fragrance of his scent. She couldn't place the scent. It smelt foreign yet it was so pleasing to the nose.

Jamie wanted to taste it. Just to place a little kiss below his chin and run her tongue on the axis of his neck but instead she hears herself telling him to stop that she would have breakfast with his family without making a fuss.

Why did she say that? Jamie wanted to bite her tongue but the words just kept coming out. She concluded that what she was feeling was so alien to her that she wanted to stop it before she exploded completely.

"I will have breakfast with the rest of the depraved royal family, his highness. You may unchain me now" Her whole body screamed at her in defiance.

She expected him to pull away but she could see him face darken just a little bit and when he finally spoke, his voice was gruff.

"You will be the perfect symbol of a wife in love with her husband. You will play it so well that Lady Melvin will believe it, Won't you my sweet little dove?" Alexander held on to the little sanity he had left.

He had being with a lot of maidens. He had more mistresses in his lifetime than his mates. Women skilled in the art of love making and eliciting passion from him but somehow this inexperienced sassy little princess made everything new and enticing.

He watched the confusion on her face. He knew she was wondering why the opinion of Lady Melvin mattered to him. Princess Janessa of Namura had no idea that her new groom could read her like an open book.

"Why does the opinion of a mere relative matter to a king?" She asked him at last.

"It doesn't. I just don't want to hear Lady Melvin talk about how her daughter is the best match to be Queen over Western Hemisphere" Alexander grunted.

His body was still on top of Jamie but his hands held his body weight. The last thing King Alexander wants was to crush his new Queen.

"Is she pleasing to the eye?" Jamie had no idea, why the idea of another woman with Alexander almost made her shudder. She couldn't be jealous of another woman being with a man she so detested. It was impossible.

Alexander had no idea how to describe Eloise to his new bride and so he went with the easiest answer "She is not a troll if that is what you are asking"

"Somehow, your barbaric customs of marriage between distant relatives almost makes me queasy. Eastern Hemisphere has since stopped such nonsense"

Alexander raised his head and looked at her, biting down a smile.

"Did I detect a hint of jealousy in your voice, her majesty?"

"Wait! What! No! I am not going to dignify that question with an answer, his highness. I hate your guts, remember?"

"Be honest, Monisha. You are attracted to me just as I am to you"

"I would rather be attracted to a goat, Milord. They have better manners, they don't think or do wicked things to unwed princesses and mostly, they don't kidnap their bride" Jamie looked shocked as soon as she finished her statement.

Had she just compared the most powerful king in Derkal to a goat? Even the most patient man can lose their mind when compared to senseless creatures like goats. Was Alexander going to order for her execution? Jamie wanted to apologize but somehow the apology was stuck in her throat.

"Do you know I have killed for lesser crime?" Alexander roared at her.

"I think I should apologize for hurting your feelings Milord"

"You think? How about we skip the apology and go right to the punishment, Janessa?"

Before Jamie could object his tongue was in her mouth, again. In all truth, she had silently wished he would punish her that way but she had taken an unnecessary risk. He could have easily demanded her head be brought to him and that would have been the end of it but she was glad for the life she had now.

Jamie tried to touch his body but the chains on her hands prevented her. it prevented her from moving at all as the alien sensation swept through her almost leaving her limp and senseless without the relief of wriggling at least.

She might not had openly invited this sensation of a tongue but raising his head, Alexander merely wished to look at her face, expecting only to see the appearance of visual pleasure, he felt himself.

But he did not even catch a glimpse of her face, so instantaneous and insistent was his tongue that he barely had time for air. He especially liked it when he tried to take away his lips but she wouldn't let him.

My little tigress! Alexander plunged like some writhing sea monster into her gaping lips; it all but overwhelmed her senses as it sought some unreachable terminus near Jamie's core.

Alexander without removing his lips from his duty, unhooked one of Jamie's chain. He thought it was rather selfish of him to torture her further. Most importantly, he wanted to know whether she would push him away and put an end to the sensational and overwhelming feelings that swept through him. It wasn't really love-making, he had not yet gone beyond her mouth yet he had never felt so alive ever before.

"Do you want me to stop?" he asked in a croaky voice but all she did was moan.

"Your breakfast would get cold, his highness" Jamie's lips trembled a little.

"Let it"

His inexorable mouth was parting her shaking lips again, sending untamed tremors along her nerves, evoking from her sensations she had never known she was capable of feeling. And before a swimming dizziness spun her, turning her world completely upside down and it came too late to Jamie what she was about to shamelessly do. She was kissing him back.