“That’s it, princess,” Evren spoke against my skin. “Let me hear exactly what I’m doing to you.”
He sucked my flesh into his mouth before he gently lapped at it with his tongue, and I was far too aroused to even consider being embarrassed by the fact that the prince was eating my flesh like a man starved.
His tongue worked me softly before moving faster, a constant change of pace that was driving me crazy, and just when I was about to scream in frustration, Evren spun me around to face him and slammed my back against the stone.
He lifted my thigh in his hands, the one that now held a mark that was somehow equal parts me and him, and his tongue ran over the starlight and shadows just as he hooked my thigh over his shoulder.
The move felt like a direct line to my sex, and I quickly brought my hand down to chase that feeling while he teased me along my magic.
“That’s not happening, princess.” Evren quickly pulled my fingers away from my core before dipping them into his mouth and licking away the evidence of what I had just done. “Your pleasure is mine and mine alone.”
There was no more teasing after that. He widened my legs and sucked my sensitive nub into his mouth in one move, and I quickly gripped my fingers in his hair to keep myself from falling over. The pleasure was explosive and obscene, and I cried out his name as it began coursing through my body.
Everything inside me felt like it was pulled taut, and I knew I was going to snap before I could stop it. “Evren, please.”
He slid two fingers inside me unexpectedly, and he curled them toward himself as he sucked harder on my nub.
“You’re mine, Adara. Regardless of who you dance with tonight or who you’re presented as. You belong to me. Anyone who has you after this will have you with traces of the bastard prince left on your skin.”
His fingers on my hip tightened, and I fell apart with a cry as I rode his face until every drop of pleasure coursed through my body.
“That’s it, princess. Scream my name while they eagerly await you. You are their savior but my demise. You are to ruin every part of me.”
He pressed a gentle kiss between my thighs, then another along the new mark on my leg, before he slowly lowered it and made sure I was steady on my feet. He was still on his knees before me, and as I looked upon him, I could still see my moisture coating his lips.
He lowered my skirt, straightening it back to where it belonged, before he stood in front of me. I was still bracing my back against the wall as I stared at him, and he grinned as if he knew.
“Would you like to know, princess?”
“Know what?”
“What it is you taste like off my lips? It seems unfair that I’ve tasted myself from yours, but you haven’t had the pleasure to know how sweet you are against my mouth.” He leaned forward before I could answer and pressed his mouth to mine. He forced his tongue inside before I could object, and he groaned as I chased the taste of us mixed together with my own.
“I don’t want to take you to this fucking ball,” he growled before taking a step back away from me.
“But?”
He pressed his hand to the wall again, and this time it opened far easier than the last. “But, I must, princess.”
He reached out for me, and I let him take my hand. He pulled me back into the hallway where this all started, and I pressed my legs together as the fact that I was no longer wearing undergarments hit me full force.
“Unfortunately, everyone will notice if you don’t show.”
He placed my hand back in the crook of his arm before he ran his other hand through his hair, then he started forward as if he hadn’t just completely unarmed me. If I was unprepared to face everyone at the ball before, I was wholly defenseless now.
The closer we got to the ballroom, the louder and louder the music became, until the loud crescendo felt like it was teasing the racing of my heart in my chest.
“I’ll be here the whole time,” Evren whispered before he placed an inconspicuous kiss on the top of my head.
We rounded the corner to the ballroom, and a few of Evren’s guards stood watch just outside the doors. All three of them bowed as we approached, and I fidgeted with my dress to make sure there wasn’t an inch out of place.
Would the guests be able to see where Evren’s hands had bunched the fabric and moved it out of his way as he dove into my flesh, or would they see me exactly like the queen hoped?
“Starblessed. Captain.” One of the older guards moved toward us. “The queen is waiting for you.”
Evren nodded once in his direction before leading me toward the door, and I took a deep breath and closed my eyes before I had to face the reality of the night ahead of me.
“Breathe.” Evren’s voice was a plea, and when I opened my eyes again, we were stepping into the ballroom surrounded by hundreds of faces of people I didn’t know.