Whirlwind Revolution (14 page)

So he did know. Then what game was he playing here? Emrys seemed like a moral man so why put on the charade?

Torr cleared his throat as Emrys picked up the pace, getting some
very
happy moans from me in return. “That’s an interesting tidbit about my grandfather. I never knew any of that, though, he was long gone before I was born.”

“Yes, and interesting how your father never wanted to talk about him. Or that your father was so paranoid that his own heir would plot to take him out someday.”

I shivered as his meaning sunk in. Damn. Torr’s family was about as fucked up as my own. Actually, his was worse. It was a close tie for first maybe?

“I’d say that was shocking or not possible, but I find that it’s not even worth saying anymore,” Torr chuckled bitterly, staring off in the distance.

Here I was having some of the most pleasurable sex of my life, and all I wanted to do was comfort him as his lover, someone who loved him. But he didn’t look at me, turn to me, or even admit we had anything.

Hell, he flat out offered me over to Emrys if the man wanted me.
Makes a guy feel cheap
.

“Move your hands, I want to go in deeper,” Emrys ordered. I let go of my ass and cried out as he slammed into me. I only
thought
he had bottomed out in me earlier. No, no, he had more to give. He moved my knee up onto the table, spreading me out again. Then he pounded into my hole as if it had the secrets to inner peace or something.

I dug my nails into the wood of the table and tried to control the noises I made but I couldn’t. It was just too much. Emrys was playing me like a pro, my hole stretched so wide as he pushed the limits of my flexibility. All the while, Torr
watching
and my conflicting emotions about him blended with my overwhelming feelings
for
him.

“I can go all night, Torrance. So take your time with those lists. It gives me reason to enjoy Hadley again and again.” He saw Torr watching us too. Of course he did. Was that the play? Make Torr admit he was jealous? “It’s time you finish, Hadley.” He grabbed my cock and stroked me twice before I shot my load, moaning like a slut as I did it. Emrys followed me right over and filled me to the brink with cum.

“Fuck, that was awesome,” I gasped as Emrys pulled out of me and plopped in a chair. I couldn’t even move, so there was no point in trying until I recovered.

“Glad you found great sex that you’ve
not been getting
,” Torr bit out as he flipped through pages and started jotting down notes.

“I
love
my sex life of late,” I snarled, waiting until he lifted his head again. “But apparently it only meant something to me. I would never consider touching another man or having my needs tended to by another but I was rejected on a basic level. And then the King of the royal court I’m liaison for handed me over like a party favor to a guest so I thought
why not
?”

Torr turned his head as if I’d slapped him. Fuck him. I was the one whose heart was breaking. Right then, I wasn’t sure he even
had
one.

“I’ve never had such a pleasurable offering when I’ve visited a royal court, that’s for sure,” Emrys chuckled. He rolled me onto my back, still fully dressed besides his pants being open and cock out, and plunged back into me. “Oh yes, best entertainment I’ve been offered in all my years.”

“I didn’t offer him up. I just assured you I had no claim on him,” Torr growled as he scribbled on the pages in front of him. “I’m almost done so make this one quick.”

“Don’t rush on our account,
your grace
,” I taunted, holding back the desire to flick him off. “Take your time and make good choices for the next leaders.”

“You know I already had my top three choices selected, Hadley.”

“Right, right. What’s taking so long then?”

Torr snarled when I cried out in pleasure from the angle change of Emrys moving my ankle to his shoulder. “He wanted insights into the other candidates. I’m giving it to him.”

“If we’re distracting you, we can move to another room,” Emrys offered.

“
No!
” Torr snapped. “I mean, no, there’s no point in that when I’m nearly done.”

“As you wish.” Emrys shrugged and pounded into me, nodding a few minutes later when Torr called out he was finished. Then the man used some type of magic to throw us both into our orgasms. When we were done, Emrys leaned down and kissed my cheek. “You were excellent, young warrior. I pray you’ll allow me repeat performances when we’re at the stronghold together.”

There was a soft hiss in the room that wasn’t a gas leak. It was feline.

“Sure, yeah, I’m
free as could be
.” I gave him a fake smile that hurt even to try for.

“Good.” He slowly pulled out of me, moving his hands down my body as he did as if trying to point out the best parts of my lying there sexed up and sated. Then he tucked himself back into his pants, zipped up, and took the pages from Torr. “Thank you. This will be helpful. I will start with your shifter choices and see who the crystal reacts with. I put a protection spell on the elf Try that should have kept him safe but you can tell the others I have the crystals now that all the heirs have been cleared.”

“I will.” Torr reached behind him and tossed Emrys one of the extra burners they’d picked up. “Only keep it for a week and then get a new one. Let me know if you need anything and the progress. That way you don’t have to appear back here.” I couldn’t help but smirk at that slip but Torr caught it as well. “I know how draining that can be for you when a simple phone call might do the trick.”

“But I have such reason to come back now,” he purred as he fondled my groin until I got hard again. “Perhaps you’re right. The mission must come first. Keep this ready for me, Hadley. I think we will turn the tables next time.” And then he was gone.

“Fuck that, you promised me you were fucking me,” Torr snarled as he was straddling me on the table. “You want to take the great Emrys’s cock in your ass, fine, but if you want to do the pounding into a body, the body is mine.”

“Now you care?” I rasped as I pushed him off me none too gently. I was floored he bothered to say anything or reacted even if we were alone.

His eyes were wide at my response as he frowned. “Hadley, you knew from the beginning I had to keep this secret. That’s not fair.”

“He
knew
, Torr. We both know that so cut the shit.” I slid off the table and started to go down with how gelatinous my legs were. Torr caught me in time and lowered me to my knees, one of his going in between mine, in a very intimate position.

He tilted his head to one side and pursed his lips. “Why are you so mad? You wanted him to fuck you,
enjoyed it
. Or was this some type of revenge because I denied you’re in my bed?”

“No, because you offered me up,” I admitted. When he stared at me with scrunched brows, worrying his lips, it hit me. “You don’t get it, do you?” He shook his head, and I let out a deep growl. “You could have skirted the issue of us being involved and still not suggested he
fuck
me
, offering him a
ride with me
. You could have said we weren’t a thing, but yeah, you like your guards clearheaded, so I can have sex on my own time.

“You could have come up with a hundred excuses why you didn’t want to see another man fuck me. Instead, you give him the green light, and as
King
of this court pretty much offered me up as the entertainment. So you denied me, treated me like a whore—by not caring and then handing me off to your friend.”

“It’s not like that,” he disputed with a whimper, eyes wide as realization set in. “I didn’t want to stand in the way if it was something you want. Okay, part of me wanted to watch you get fucked, but—”

“Jesus, I really just am some toy to you,” I hissed, pulling away from him as I shoved him. “You wanted to see some gay sex so offer me up after denying me so I’d be hurt enough to do it? I could be anyone with a big cock and bold enough to push your limits.
I’m not a fucking
toy, Torr!
”

He swept the air in front of him with his hands, making a big
X
with the gesture. “That’s not what I meant. It’s not about you being—”

“If Emrys comes back tomorrow and wants to fuck me, what will you say?” I held up a hand when he moved back to me, needing him to answer me first.

His head dropped as his shoulders did. “Nothing, Hadley. You’re allowed to do whatever—”

“That’s not what I asked and you
know it
. He asked if
you
had any objections. Now that you know Emrys knew about
us
what would you say?”

Torr flinched and met my eyes. “He can think what he wants but that’s not the same as admitting it out loud. My answer would be the
same
. I won’t be trapped into something by either him or you—”

“I release you from my request,” I whispered, getting to my feet. “This is over. I’ll call Samantha to come guard you. I can’t be around you. Seeing you hurts.”

I yanked on my clothes as I called Samantha to the meeting room. She was there by the time I was redressed. I didn’t even look at Torr as I thanked her for changing shifts and headed to the door.

“I’m sorry you were still with me because of the request. I thought that was
long
over and just a game to free you from admitting you wanted me,” I choked out as I clutched the doorknob so hard I worried I was going to break it. “I see how wrong I was now. You’ll be with Samantha, who
everyone
wants you to take as your consort. You’ll be good together. I’m happy for you both. I’ll call Director Woodrow in the morning about getting a different liaison out here.”

I booked it out of there and knew I needed to go for a fly. I couldn’t even think straight.

“What did you do, dipshit?” Samantha hissed, hearing her loud and clear even as I walked down the hallway to the closest exit.

“Don’t talk to me like that, Samantha,” Torr warned. “This is none of your concern and—”

“Bullshit! You’re my best friend and my King.
Everything
concerns me when it comes to you. That is a wonderful man who would protect you always, put you first, and
loves you
. What did you do to him that he just walked out of here looking like you castrated him and turned his heart to stone?”

“He might like my ass but there’s no way I mean that much to him,” Torr argued. I hit the doors and stripped, taking flight the second I shifted.

“Never once in all the years I’ve known you have I thought you stupid until today. Think about
all
those women who’ve come to you, wanting to be in your bed for the wrong reasons, provide you with an heir because of the prestige that comes with it, and
tell me
you don’t see a difference in the way Hadley treats you. Because I do and I’ve not even witnessed your intimate times.”

“I have a duty to my people—”

“To take a consort that will help stabilize our people. Yes. To provide an heir so your line doesn’t die if the worst should happen. Of course. That’s
it
. Nothing says it has to be by the same person, Torrance! All your advisors hope you take Hadley as your consort. We think he’s the perfect person for you, for the felines, to rule at your side. Yeah, we all know. We’re
felines
. You don’t think they all smelled him on you? You on him?

“Fuck, I’m a lesbian! I’ll be your damn surrogate. You know I was always willing to do that, but I won’t live the lie of your consort when we don’t feel that way about each other.”

Okay so that news just about had me falling out of the sky. I did
not
see that one coming.

“You like men too.”

“Yeah, Hadley would be my type on the rare occasion I go there. You’re not. I’m not yours. And we’d kill each other inside of a week. If I could talk Hadley into my bed with another woman, I’d be a very,
very
happy cheetah.”

I heard a thud and some growling. “Don’t even think about it, Samantha. I can’t believe you’d do that to me!”

“Why? You obviously don’t care about him. Why wouldn’t you want him happy or me? Let someone who could appreciate him have him! This room smells like sex and not with you so what did
you
do?” She was screaming at the end of her taunting, and I wondered just how many others heard their fight now.

I didn’t even realize what I was doing until I landed outside the window to the meeting room, listening to Torr fill Samantha in. When he was done, I almost fell over at her response.

“You really don’t deserve him. I never thought you cold or cruel, Torrance. You should be
ashamed
of yourself.”

He threw up his hands and shook his head. “It’s not like that!”

“Then what
is
it like?” she bellowed, shoving him.