Page 86 of Between Two Kings

Turn around, Temperance.

Tem didn’t think. She just turned around.

Apollo was at the table across from her, seated on the bench, facing outward just as she was. They stared at each other over the aisle. All around them, pairs of basilisks were fucking.

Open your legs, Temperance. Let me see you.

She couldn’t believe he was asking her that. Then again, he wasn’t really asking, was he? He was telling her to open her legs. And Tem was not about to obey.

That’s not flirting. You’re just ordering me around.

Some would consider that flirting.

Not me.

Most women would. And those women would have let me fuck them by now.

Tem rolled her eyes. She would not be baited into pretending she was unlike most women. She was just like most women; she found Apollo blisteringly attractive, and under normal circumstances, she would have fucked him the moment she met him. But he was Caspen’s brother, and he was playing games with her. To fuck him would be to let him win. And Tem was not in the mood to lose. It was time to play her own game.

Open your legs first.

A smirk twisted Apollo’s lips. Even from across the aisle, she could see how amused he was, how deeply it pleased him that she was flirting back. Apollo was lucky Tem was in the mood to indulge him today. He’d caught her in a moment of weakness—or perhaps a moment of strength. Tem wasn’t sure the difference anymore. She only knew that everything inside her wanted to explore this, to see what it would be like to test someone else’s limits.

Apollo opened his legs.

His cock wasn’t even hard, and it was already magnificent. Tem watched as he grasped himself at the base and squeezed. The muscles in his arms rotated as he tightened his grip, moving his hand in one long stroke. He was rigid by the time he got to the tip.

Kora.

Apollo smirked. Do you like that?

Tem had forgotten that he could hear her thoughts. She didn’t want him to have any sense of whether she liked that. It was none of his business.

Come here, Temperance. You can have anything you like.

No.

Come over here and ride my cock.

Still no.

It would feel so good, Temperance.

For you, maybe.

For both of us.

I doubt that.

Do you?

She didn’t answer. Of course it would feel good. It would feel amazing. But Tem couldn’t go over there any sooner than she could go to the castle and bed Leo. There were certain things, no matter how badly she wanted them, that she couldn’t have.

Anything can be had, Temperance.

His hand was steadily stroking his cock, his eyes boring into hers.

Forget it, Apollo.