Chapter 41 The Cold Prince’s Fire

The alpha turned off the main corridor and a smaller one. It wasn’t long before they passed what appeared to be rooms before finally entering one. It was lavish, the opulence even more grand than the rest of the palace. A huge four-poster bed surrounded by light drapes dominated the room but it wasn’t there that Ryedir carried him.

They entered a room with an even larger pool set in the middle than the one in Mishal. Kari could only gape at the steam-filled room. How on earth did they manage to keep the water warm enough to steam? There was so much water.

Ryedir set him down but still kept a tight hold on his form. He stripped Kari carefully, removing the delicate chains first then the sash, belt, tunic and breech before manhandling him into the bath.

Kari opened his mouth to say something snarky about the treatment but the words died in his throat at the look on his alpha’s face. His eyes were dark and intense but there was a wildness to them that set his heart thumping violently in his chest.

Lips met his own with a hungry, almost desperate force and he was pulled to sit in his alpha’s lap. Kari groaned into the kiss as he felt the alpha’s huge length pressing against his stomach, hard and throbbing. Large hands caressed every inch of his body, stroking him even as they splashed warm water against his skin to wash the offending scents away.

It was far more intimate than anything they had done before.

The desperate edge to Ryedir’s actions pulled at something inside Kari. It thrilled him on an instinctual level to be able to reduce the powerful alpha to his basest needs.

His lips felt puffy and swollen from the alpha’s ministrations but he didn’t want to move away. He drowned in the man’s masterful kisses and the hands caressing his skin sent waves of pleasure through him. The feelings were overwhelming in a different way compared to the first time the alpha had touched him. Even all the times since hadn’t sparked this level of want in Kari.

Oh, how he wanted this.

It was hard to remember why he was saying no instead of more. He wondered if that was the alpha’s proximity, the alpha’s need, or his ministrations that sent his own instincts wild. His body craved to fall into this man with abandon, but he wasn’t going to ask for it.

It still wasn’t time.

Kari gasped as Ryedir wrenched his lips away before bodily picking him up and removing them both from the bath. The alpha didn’t even bother drying them, instead choosing to make his way back to the bed and laying the omega down in the middle. He became keenly aware just how wet he was and not from the bath. Slick already wet his thighs and soaked the sheet underneath.

The alpha caressed his hands down his sides and across his stomach as he slid in between his thighs. The touch sent waves of need through Kari and he whined high in the back of his throat. Ryedir covered his form, his lips demanding against his own as one arm pressed into the bed beside his head to keep the man steady. The location of the other hand quickly made itself known as fingers slipped between his cheeks to caress his twitching hole.

His groan was eagerly swallowed by his alpha’s lips as one thick finger slipped inside. Kari could feel his body opening up, welcoming the alpha, asking for more. His body wanted- needed more. His mind might still resist but it was obvious that the omega in him had already chosen his mate. A wet mewl slid free from his throat as a second finger quickly joined the first.

Without even thinking, Kari reached up and wound his arms around Ryedir’s neck, pulling him in even closer. The man’s weight pressed down the length of his body and he pushed up into his bulk form even more as he arched in pleasure when the seeking fingers found their mark. The position was incredibly intimate. They were close enough to feel the entirety of the other’s body against their own and they shared the same breath when their lips weren’t locked together.

Ryedir’s eyes were dark with want and need and the intensity of the way he watched Kari come undone underneath him only sent him higher. Was this the pleasure that could be offered by a mate? He felt like he was drowning in the other man.

A third finger stretched open his hole and Kari quivered as he came with a wet cry. The alpha’s eyes burned into him as he drank in his form but as always, the fingers didn’t stop. The omega writhed as the fingers continued to milk him past his first orgasm and straight into the next. The clever fingers had been mapping him out during their travels and Ryedir seemed to know just how to get him off now.

Kari’s fingers dug into the alpha’s shoulders as he held on for dear life, trembling under the overwhelming pleasure. His alpha’s face remained inches from his own and he continued to watch the omega lose all sense of himself under the onslaught. His golden eyes were blown almost completely black, and he remained perfectly still other than the hands working their magic between Kari’s thighs.

Body shaking, Kari whimpered as he was forced higher and higher still. This time, the orgasm bordered almost on painful and he arched up against his alpha, trying to escape the onslaught.

Too much. Too much yet he wanted it. Wanted to see the heights his alpha could take him. The omega’s mouth fell open in a soundless scream as he came undone yet again. He lay there panting and trembling under the alpha for long minutes before Ryedir removed his still fingers.

It was with slow deliberate movements that the alpha sat up and locked Kari's ankles around his muscled body. It took Kari’s fogged brain a moment to realize that the alpha was on the verge of losing control. His muscles bulged as he strained himself not to move, most likely not to take Kari then and there. His eyes were wild and his breaths came in rapid pants.

Glancing down, Kari marveled at how hard and straining the man’s cock was. It pulsed and twitched under his curious stare. A large hand wrapped around the length and he came instantly. Kari blinked in shock as he was marked by the alpha’s scent, his cum landing over his chest and face. The man groaned and rocked his hips but his hand didn’t move away.

Oh no, he kept stroking, working his length leisurely while Kari watched, breathless. It set something in him alight to watch his alpha pleasure himself like this but he found his hole twitching, aching to be filled by this man and not by his fingers. Ryedir’s hand sped up and he grunted as he came a second time.

They stayed staring at each other for some minutes before the alpha reached out to smear his cum into Kari’s scent gland along his neck. The omega allowed him better access without thought and let the scent of his alpha wash over him.

He relaxed back into the bed and sleep quickly over took his exhausted body.