“Are you taking your fertility control every day?” Claude asked as soon as we were done making love to my bed. He even gathered me in his arms as I snuggled closer with him.
“Hmm.” I nodded. “I never fail to forget and take it.” I caressed his cheek while I was leaning against his chest.
“Good to know. You are about to engage in the war so I do not want you to conceive yet because it will take away the part of leading the brigade,” he said softly as he kissed the top of my head.
I nodded before I looked up to meet his eyes. “You are so considerate and willing to sacrifice for my sake, Claude. How can I do the same thing, returning the same fervour?” I asked as I felt my chest tighten, feeling emotional to have this man as my mate and my husband.
His gaze softened. “Ray, you do not have to do anything to return the same fervour. Just having you with me is enough that you are making me happy. Do you understand that, love?”
Love… That was his endearment to me. It was so cute my wolf was purring under his touch.
His sweet gesture was making me fall for him more.
Nodding, I sighed in relief. “I still want to do something for you. You have done so much for me as well.” I caressed his face looking at him lovingly. “I am foolish that I even rejected you back then… But have you really come to like Duchess Amelia before?” I asked, and couldn’t help myself to bring out the issue that broke us apart.
Claude kissed my forehead and shook his head. “No. I never liked Amelia before. Even from the time, we haven’t met each other,” he said.
I frowned. “But you two are so close with each other.”
Come to think of it. I saw her at our wedding but she never approached us anymore.
“And she kissed you and you… kissed her back.” I averted my gaze and was about to separate from him when Claude forced me to look at him.
“I did not kiss her back. She just suddenly kissed me, Rachelle. I never responded to her kiss.” His expression darkened. “She is someone I need to entertain for political reasons not to flirt with her. At that time, we were having a negotiation that I needed to send her abroad-to the Yuanzhong Kingdom to discuss with the Bureau of Customs about the importing and exporting of the Waevalon Kingdom’s goods. When you saw us at that time, I didn’t expect that she would ever do that to me. Especially because her purpose was to hurt you.” He held my cheek when my eyes were getting teary-eyed as things had come to be cleared at once. “I never forgave her. I even forbade her to come to the palace again unless she is being invited for some reason.” He looked into my eyes. Sincerity was written in them. “You may not accept us at that time but I remained loyal to you, Rachelle. I never even once fool around women even from the time we haven’t met each other. We were both virgins-”
“You don’t seem like a virgin to me. How come you are so expert in pleasuring me?” I cut him off when he said that we were both virgins when we had the mating ritual and the time we did the foreplay.
Claude huffed, chuckling. “Hmm… How do I even know it?” He hummed. “Perhaps, reading erotic romance books helped me?”
My eyes widened. “You’re reading that kind of genre?” I huffed and laughed afterwards.
He grinned. “Well, it helped me.” He leaned his lower body to my bottom when his hard shaft was gliding through the opening that made me shiver in delight and bit my lower lip. “It’ll be a shame if I didn’t read anything and didn’t know how to pleasure my Luna Queen, hmm?” His hand went south to take care of the bud that was so sensitive and acknowledged Claude’s alluring touch.
Under the blanket, I spread my legs a little as his fingers were coated with our essence and inserted three of them inside me. Even so, Claude remained a straight expression while I kept hearing a slurping sound.
I moaned softly and whimpered. “B-Back to what you were saying,” I said as I turned over to hand my leg to his hips.
Claude took that as a chance to insert his manhood inside me. Slowly, he looked at me as his breath became heavy.
“As I said, I was a virgin, too. That happened to become so good for my mate it made her mind lose herself from my touch.” He grinned as he slowly and passionately took me with his cock wrapping inside me.
I whimpered and nodded, agreeing how true that was. “I’m… I’m somehow relieved… I thought you were like any other man. I knew that they already fooled around before they came to meet their mate…” I said in a difficult tone with a delicious low moan coming from me when his pace was making me aroused more.
Claude grinned. “How about you? Did Cairo and you have been in a relationship before?”
I gasped when he suddenly slammed inside me causing me to widen my eyes to look at him as a loud moan came from my mouth.
“G-General Cairo and I are…” I paused and moaned when his pace slowed down.
“Are?” He gripped my waist. His annoyed expression was visible right now.
I was panting heavily as beads of sweat were covering my whole body. “… are…” I inhaled sharply when his pace got faster. “… are friends… I… Oh, Claude… General Cairo is… my inspiration. I always… look into him…” I clung to his shoulder as my breasts were bouncing up and down with his pace. “Oh, Claude… You’re so good…” I closed my eyes as I felt his cock inside me, making me feel good.
“You have no feelings for him before?”
I shook my head. “No… I never had that… Perhaps, adoration… Because he is the greatest general I have ever known.”
I heard him scoffing. “It seems that isn’t what Cairo looked at you.”
“I have no feelings for him. I was just excited when he praised me because a General like him noticed me.”
“Is that true? You don’t even like him?”
“Um…” I slowly opened my eyes to see him looking at my expression with the way he was taking me. “Crush… I have a crush on him but it stayed like that.” I looked away. “I don’t like him anymore. I-It’s… It’s you that I like now, Claude…”
My chest was pounding inside my chest as I averted my gaze from him. I was still moaning heavily but he stopped. Creasing my forehead, I looked at him, bewildered.
“What-”
“You are making me happy, Rachelle.” He kissed my cheek with a smile on his lips. But he frowned a little afterwards. “But I am quite annoyed that you have a crush on him… It means that you have feelings for him before.”
I gasped, panicking. “No… The feeling wasn’t that deep, that is what I said…” I was about to touch him when he sealed my lips with his.
He got up and positioned himself in between my legs. “Would you like to try a different position?” he asked, grinning. “This… I can tell that you have feelings for me. Is that right?” He caressed my inner thighs.
Biting my lower lip, I nodded. “I-I do have feelings for you… even from the time, I rejected you…” Ah, shit. This was so embarrassing that I even had to admit it. But it made me feel more confident to admit it.
Claude smiled. “And I feel the same way. I am so jealous that you two are being sweet before the mourning ceremony. I even had to knock out a tree.” He scoffed.
Gasping, my eyes widened. “T-That was you who did that?!” My jaw dropped.
He rolled his eyes. “Out of jealousy? Yeah.” He shrugged like it was nothing to him. “Nevertheless, why does he have to be so sweet to you?”
I got up and covered my naked body with the blanket. “He only looked at me as his sister, Claude. That is why I only looked at him before with a look of admiration because he noticed and praised that I became the first female Battle Commander.” I cupped his face. “Rest assured. You are the man I want to cherish and adore, Claude. I regretted that I didn’t listen to your explanation before. It’s just that…” I looked away. “I was hurt because I caught you kissing Duchess Amelia. Back then, I was really considering accepting our mate bond… but that happens…”
I could feel my heart shattering seeing Claude and Duchess Amelia kissing each other which Claude already explained that he didn’t kiss her back. It was all Duchess Amelia’s fault so she could spark a dispute between us.
Claude saw the despair I had been keeping. His eyes looked hurt when he saw me and how I was hurt when I saw them in that position.
“Oh, Rachelle… P-Please forgive me. I was hurt, too…” A sob uncontrollably escaped from my lips and tears cascaded down from my eyes. I was about to distance myself so he couldn’t see my vulnerable side but he held my face and stared at me. “Love…”
“I-I’m alright…” I lied. “It’s just that…”
“Just be honest with me. We are in this together. Tell me how much I hurt you-”
“But it is not your fault. It was Duchess A-”
“Just tell me!” His voice raised. But then he realized. His expression softened. “We’ve been hurt. If you are being honest, then I shall do the same.” Claude kissed my forehead. “Love, be honest with me please…” he begged.
With his words, I let myself show my vulnerability. I showed him the emotions I kept when I was hurt seeing him that he was kissed by that duchess. I cried my heart out.
“I was hurt… in pain… I did the unthinkable that hurt you, Claude… We both suffered from my action,” I said through a sob. “I’m sorry, Claude… It is also my fault why you suffered… I am so dumb that I didn’t listen to your explanation but instead…” I paused as I didn’t want to say anything anymore.
Claude cradled me in his arms. “I’d already forgiven you, Rachelle… You just did what you thought was right… to protect yourself. I am very sorry, too, for not telling beforehand that I am the Alpha King. I also would like to apologize that I had been planning to take revenge on you for hurting me… But everything had changed. I no longer have that thought. All I want is to be with you… us, fulfilling our duties as Alpha King and Luna Queen. And become parents for our future pups.”
I nodded my head, sniffing. “Yes, Claude… I would love to have that future.”
We finished this by making love until dawn. Our hearts were going more in sync now that we have cleared up the misunderstanding. It was such a relief that we had this communication. I never wanted this to last.