I told Claude about my uncanny encounter. It was very surprising and I felt like until now, I was still dreaming. I even had to ask His Majesty to pinch me to know if I’m in reality or not.
But instead of pinching me, Claude suddenly kissed me and bit my lower lip which I smacked his head after that. I was frowning when I told him about the part that the moon goddess said about us and our wolves.
“Have you had any idea that your mother has come to an agreement on something?”
“Agreement? Like what?”
“Uh… I don’t know… I felt like the first time I saw her painting was when it was my first time entering the antechamber, I felt like she and your mother had some sort of agreement…” I remember just now the moon goddess’s godly female voice which I also heard at that time when I almost fainted upon seeing the painting of Claude’s mother.
I watched Claude think. “I am not sure… Mother never said anything about it when she was still alive.”
I sighed. Then I frowned more when I realized I was using his arm as the pillow and his body was so close to me.
“When are you going to distance yourself from me?”
Claude looked down. I also looked down seeing his arms draping on top of my stomach. His leg was over me as well, trapping me beside him.
“Oh. Did I make you uncomfortable then?”
I gasped when he pressed his body more to me, putting more of his weight to mine. “Y-You’re heavy!” I exclaimed.
Realizing that we were still here in the chamber and lying in the bed, I tried to push him off me but he wouldn’t budge. “Claude!” I shot him a glare.
Claude just smiled sheepishly but his expression turned earnest. “About the part, which she told you that we must do the mate bond ritual…”
I looked up at him. “Yeah, she told me that before I go to war, we must do it.” That worries me though.
“If we do that, there’s a high chance that you will get pregnant with our pup, Rachelle.”
I averted my gaze away from him as I didn’t know what to say. But I mindlessly placed my hand on top of my stomach along with Claude’s hand. I softly caressed my stomach, feeling like I am already having a pup inside me.
“Will there be a time we have to argue if I must go back to the palace if I get pregnant?” I asked, looking at Claude.
There was an emotion passing through his eyes. “Certainly.” His voice fainted as his thumb gently caressed my stomach, sending tingles down my spine. “But I know you wanted so much to lead the brigade, Rachelle. As much as I am delighted that we have to do the ritual of mate bond, I couldn’t just be the hindrance of your dream… Once you get pregnant, our heir or heiress must be protected at all cost,” he said gently and took my hand to bring it to his lips and left some sensual wet kisses that brought tingles again to my whole being.
I slowly heaved a sigh as I felt my body getting fired up from his touch and the closeness of our body. I looked at his sculpted jaw, wanting to caress it. Then my eyes slowly traveled down to the crook of his neck. I felt something urged me that was where I must mark Claude. I want to mark him right now.
‘Mark him.’ I heard my wolf whisper to me. ‘He is ours.’
“Don’t look at my neck.” I snapped back and looked up to see the lustful expression of Claude.
“What if I want to do the mate bond and still want to go to the war?” I asked, feeling my cheeks getting flared up in embarrassment.
Claude started caressing my cheek before he planted a soft kiss on my forehead. “I can’t get you pregnant, remember? But if you will accept me as your mate, we might even postpone the main part of the ritual of mate bond. The part of being united as one and marking each other. If you accept me wholeheartedly, we can compromise it.”
I gasped when he put more weight on his body and placed his head beside my ear. I slowly took a sigh as his body was pressing right in front of me. I suddenly felt hot and felt something pooled in between my legs.
I shivered when his lips settled on my shoulder, gently placing some wet kisses that turned me on.
“Claude…”
I heard his hot, heavy labored breath as he licked me which earned me a soft moan. It was so delicious, I wanted more.
“I so wanted to have you right now in this very bed. I want you to feel how much I wanted you so bad, Rachelle. I want you to know how I’d been so controlling myself over you, not touching you without your permission… I need to tame my wolf… I must…” Claude paused and raised his head to meet my eyes. His words sent more arousal in between my legs, wanting to spread them so I could feel his hardness.
“You can touch me…” I said mindlessly as I reached to touch his jaw.
He hissed and took my hand away from him. “No.” He laughed shortly. “Don’t invite me like that, Rachelle Simon. Don’t you dare invite me like that, my Luna Queen.”
He raised his body and used his knees to spread my legs. Then he slowly raised my legs by sliding down his knees underneath me. I bit my lower lip, feeling hot when he pressed his hardness to my already pulsating wetness.
“Feel me?” His husky voice hypnotized my whole being so I couldn’t help but nod. I licked my lips as I stared at his eyes down to his lips. I heard Claude’s explosion of a series of expletives when he saw how I looked at him. “You’ll be the death of me, woman.” He shook my head.
“Why?” I blinked and started caressing his shoulders up to his neck. “C-Can you kiss me?” I asked shyly.
‘More, more. Ask for more!’ My wolf was getting excited by this unexpected sensual touch.
I was supposed to push him away but I couldn’t do it. It felt wonderful having his warm body around me and how I could easily turn on just by his simple touch. How did I ignore this kind of feeling a long time ago?
I gasped loudly when Claude started rubbing his lower body to the apex of my thighs. With the delirious feeling, I wrapped my legs around his waist and pushed more of his hardness to me. And I wanted to feel him inside me. I want us to be united as one.
“Oh, yeah, I remember!” Claude suddenly exclaimed and distanced his body away from me.
I frowned and creased my forehead. “What?” I asked, half-annoyed. It made me feel disappointed not to have his warm body that settled with me.
“We can still satisfy each other. Without being united as one until you come back here with a victory.”
What? What did he say? “I-I’m confused, Claude. What do you mean by that?” I asked as I got up.
Claude stood up and helped me stand to hug me which made my heart leap in surprise. “There is always this initiation of mate bond ritual. We can do that without getting you pregnant,” he whispered. His lips brushed to my earlobe that heightened my desire for him.
“W-What is it?” I looked up and saw his hazel orbs.
I closed my eyes in a moment his lips met mine. The kiss was so tender it almost swayed me.
“Foreplay, my love. Foreplay.”
“Huh?” Distorted from his kiss, I slowly peeled my eyes open and looked at him, confused. “Foreplay?” What is that?
I watched as his lips formed into a grin. Then he pinched my cheeks.
“I love how you looked so innocent. Don’t worry, once we do that, I am very sure you won’t be shy with me anymore.” He smiled devilishly.
“Whatever.” I twitched my lips and shot him a glare.
“I might need to speak with Father about your uncanny encounter with the moon goddess, Rachelle,” Claude said as we started departing the chamber.
I nodded. “He might know about the agreement between your mother and our moon goddess.” I was thinking that if his mother never told him about it. Then Grand Alpha King might know about it. “But even so, if he is going to say anything, can you please summon me so I can hear what he is going to say?” I stopped him from walking and looked into his eyes. “It’s important for me to hear it. The moon goddess is hinting that I may be connected to you in the past.”
That’s what I could deduce from what we talked about. She talked about how special Claude and I’s wolves are. It could mean that I am connected to this agreement as well. I told Claude that.
Claude nodded. “Alright. I shall summon you as soon as I hear as Father knows about it.” Then he leaned to the corridor balcony. “But I can’t seem to take care of that at the moment, Your Majesty. We will be busy for the next few days for our wedding.”
“You’re right.” Wedding tasting will soon be happening in the next few days. And even the design of the wedding invitation needed to be tended immediately.
“But I’ll try my best to bring it up despite our hectic schedule.” Claude smiled.
“Let’s grab some tea,” I invited. “Or are you busy today?”
“I’ll mind link Felix that I will be late for the conference meeting. My Luna Queen comes first before anything else.” Claude offered his hand. “Shall we go, Her Majesty, Luna Queen?”
I bit my inner cheek, stopping myself to smile at his gesture. I reached for his hand and nodded. Then I stared at his hazel orbs, feeling at ease just by seeing them.
“Let’s go, Alpha King Claudian.”