Seventy-eight
My dragon drags his chin to the ground rearranging his posture.
— Burn them all!
SEVEN YEARS LATER
Mila, me, and our children have been living in peace since Lucian’s death. Iris and Julie left, and Thomas allowed Mila to take the throne of the kingdom, along with my children.
— Your Majesty! — I bow, interrupting your conversation with the duke. — Your Grace! — the greeting. — I beg your pardon for my interference, but would you give me a minute of your time?
I had to treat her formally in the presence of the guests.
— Of course! — replied, and then asked the duke for permission.
— I’d like you to meet Her Imperial Majesty, Lana Luttor, Sovereign of Katrun! — announcement. — And His Imperial Majesty, Yeva Petrova, Sovereign of Zimmer!
Mila widens her eyes before the presence of two empresses, totally embarrassed and lost in the greetings.
— There is no need for reverence, Majesty! — smiled the monarch with light brown eyes, black skin and straight hair.
— I...our...forgive me... I said clearly nervous.
— Benjamin says many good things about him! — commented Yeva, owner of blue eyes, fair skin and red hair.
— B—Benjamin? — Her eyes wrinkle when she hears an empress call me by my first name.
— We are friends...longtime friends!
— Would you come with us, Mila?
The intimacy with which the two treat her makes my heart calm.
— Go, I’ll take care of things here!
The security guards take them to a secure area, and all that was left now was the auction to shut down this grueling night.
— Benjamin! — appeared suddenly, a little drunk.
— Where were you?
— Talking to the duchess. Why?
"Oh damn it!"
— Piter, the duke just left here, please say you didn’t fuck his wife!
— Xiu... staggered. — If you don’t tell, he won’t know!
— Argh, you idiot!
— Ah, I remembered — —said taking a sheet from inside the pocket. — Mila had given me this earlier, she said she wanted these items at the auction, not Adam’s stupid list!
— But why did she give it to you? — I question opening the sheet.
— Because if something were to happen to Adam, I’d be the one to replace him, but now the joker’s gone, and I’m drunk, so that leaves you!
"You’re kidding me!"
As my sights descended through the items, my mouth opened in shock at the Queen’s selection.
— All right, can I go now? — grumbled. — I need to piss!
— Yes, but first I need you to call the Queen’s driver...
— And why do you need it?
— Because he knows Thomas' cars, way better than me!
— Whoa, hold on. Are you saying that Mila is going to auction one of Thomas' cars? — he asked excited.
— No, she listed all of his collection!
— For fuck’s sake, I’m not going anywhere!
— You weren’t going to the bathroom?
— Went crazy? — he hit. — I even lost the urge to pee!
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Hours later at the end of the party, I enter the office finding Lana and Yeva saying goodbye to Mila.
— Everything all right?
— All wonderful! — answered slightly tilting his spine, where we hugged. — She has already signed the documents and we will soon return to the title!
— It was a great pleasure, Mila!
— My pleasure, Sovereign!
The two engage with their arms and soon Yeva leaves in my direction hugging me too.
— Take her to meet Zimmer, I’m sure she’ll love it!
— For sure we will!
— Don’t take too long to show up, Benjamin, you haven’t been to Katrun for centuries. We all miss you there!
— It’s been a while since I’ve visited them. Let’s talk more about it on inauguration day, what do you think?
— Excellent idea! — agreed. — See you Mila!
They follow with their guards, leaving only me and the Queen in the office.
— What you — —unexpectedly my mouth closes, when I am forced to dodge a rubber thrown at me. — MILA!
Mila stares at me furious, propping her fists on the table.
— Went crazy, what did I do this time?
— Why didn’t you tell me? — He roared.
— I didn’t want to spoil the surprise!
— You invited two Empresses to my prom, and yet you set up a royal appointment behind my back, Benjamin!
The rank of Emperor was conferred through an appointment made by other sovereigns, who valued the power and fitness of the chosen one. Currently there were only two imperial monarchs in the world, and they were Lana Luttor and Yeva Petrova. Women, Empresses and Sovereigns of their own nation.
Dallnalia’s laws are not the same as the rest of the world, each nation had its own rules. Lana and Yeva had never set foot here, because the readings established by the Clifford’s went against everything they defended and implemented in their homes.
They were just and honest Empresses.
What made Clifford’s most angry was that the only sovereigns in the world were women. But now that that name has been erased from history, things will change.
— Lana and Yeva hated Thomas, when I mentioned his name and told him everything he did in Dallnalia, they were fascinated, crazy about the possibility of naming a third Empress. Mostly because you’re a woman, and you share the same convictions as them.
— They’re vampires, aren’t they?
I expected a question quite different from that.
— You were always very good at using your gifts, in fact, you were the first vampire I ever knew who could hear a human’s heartbeat from a distance when it had just been transformed.
— Praising me will not exempt you! — she is hard. — Was it you? — questioned me leaving confused. — How old are they? — she gets so nervous that she barely breathes when she throws her questions at me. — Have you really only turned four vampires in your entire life?
"Wait, that’s not anger. It’s jealousy!"
— Have you lied to me all this time? — I march to her, watching her suspicions drive her anxiety. — It would be quite a coincidence, Benjamin Bennet, to meet the only sovereigns on the planet!
— Mila — I try to touch her, but she pushes me.
— NO! — HE CRIED. — THEY WERE HIS LOVERS, WEREN’T THEY?
— WHERE DID YOU GET THIS? — I get angry looking for your hands.
Again she pushes me, and when I try to hold her again, her hands hit my chest pushing my body away.
— "Oh, Benjamin, don’t be late to show up, we miss you so much..." she mimics Lana’s voice as I corner her against the wall. — YOU BASTARD! — he told me filling me with slaps that I can deflect.
— Can you stop and listen to me? — I ask losing your wrists once again.
— You slept with them did not sleep? — she insists. — TELL THE TRUTH, DAMN —
— OKAY! — I surrender, but without leaving her. — I’ve slept with them, but —
— YOUR SCROTUM! — SCREAMED PUNCHING ME IN THE SHOULDERS. — I KNEW, KNEW I HAD FUCKED THEM. YOU IDIOT, BASTARD, YOU —
— That was hundreds of years ago, Mila, it was before Iris, first of all!
— I SAW THAT THERE WAS SOMETHING WRONG WITH THE OTHER ONE SAYING "Benjamin says many good things about you!" — she copies the voice perfectly, making me silly. — AT THE TIME I WAS WONDERING WHERE HAD LEFT SO MUCH INTIMACY BETWEEN YOU, BUT NOW I UNDERSTOOD EVERYTHING!
What makes her most angry is that I do not return her attacks, nor lose patience. I think she expected me to yell, leave, or even swear, but the way I react is totally contrary, provoking even more her leaving.
— You look so beautiful jealous!
"Incredibly beautiful!"
— JEALOUSY? — laughed cynically. — Who said I was jealous?
She’d rather go out on top.
— Yes, jealousy, I see inside your eyes!
— I’m not jealous, Benjamin! — said with full chest, ceasing his slaps. — It would even be inappropriate to feel jealous when I’m about to marry another man, don’t you think?
"Now she took it hard!"
— What did you say? — I clasp my fists, watching her tilt the corner of her lips in a cynical smile.
"Daughter of a mother, what a cunning little woman!"
Only her to turn the tables like that. One minute I was mocking her face and the next she was laughing at me.
— Do you really want me to repeat? — She throws her sarcasm at me, face to face.
— Repeat Mila...repeat! — I challenge her rigidly, squeezing my teeth in the mouth.
A loophole. My demon was watching her inside me through the small opening of the door, waiting for her words to echo just so he could rip my flesh revealing itself.
— Okay... she leans against my chest, feeling my uncontrolled breath, and takes her mouth to my ear, uttering the words. — I am engaged...engaged to another...I do not belong to you!
— All right Mila, you want to play...let’s play then!
I activate my red eyes letting my animal out, when I brutally grab her two arms causing a jolt in her body.
— Benj —
With frightened eyes, I cut her lines as I rotate her entire structure fast leading her straight to the wall, where her hands automatically rise against the wall, protecting her face. There she trembles full of perplexity releasing an oscillating breath, and I use my strength to tear the back of her expensive dress, tearing the entire seam until the pearls begin to fall to the ground, next to the diamonds.
When I turn her back to me I see that the only piece that stayed on her body was her black lace panties, plus her stiletto heel. His eyes had also changed color, swimming in a reddish sea laden with lust. My actions had continued with the withdrawal of my blazer, and the tie wrapped around my neck.
— I want to see you say it belongs to someone else while I’m fucking you! — I say sitting her on the table.
— What are you going to do? — asked the sighs watching my hands sweep everything on the table, including the notebook.
I fit between her shy legs, opening them wide more so I could lay her back on the table. Her legs bent at the height of my hip, help when I grasp the upper part of her thighs, pulling her all over to me, sliding her body over the marble until her pussy hits my covered member.
She gasps as she feels my hands wander in the center of her defined abdomen until she reaches her perky breasts, where I squeeze them filling my hand.
— Hot as fuck!
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