Arranged: A Masters and Mercenaries Novella

by Lexi Blake

  When both partners put aside all selfishness and concentrated on the needs of the other, that was when the exchange worked.

  God, he’d thought Taggart had been talking about sex. He’d been talking about love. He’d been talking about how to build a marriage.

  The king and queen would always have to think about their country, but he was more than a king. He was Kash and she was Day, and they could find their own path, their own rule, their own ways to love each other.

  His father’s way had been to keep all his precious memories in a lockbox and try to show everyone how strong he was. Kash could find a different way.

  Day’s mouth hovered over his cock, the heat nearly frying his brain. He wanted to shove his pelvis up, forcing his cock inside those luscious lips, but he held still. This was her time and he was her prize. He wasn’t going to take that from her. Instead, he stared down the length of his body as she leaned over and her tongue darted out, swiping across his cockhead.

  His hands tightened on the ropes, holding himself in place under the sweet lash of her tongue.

  “Don’t you come, my servant.” The words hummed against his sensitive flesh and he could feel her lips there, smiling as she tortured his cock. Her nails brushed against his heavy balls right before she cupped him. “You won’t like what happens if you displease me. We’ll see how my servant feels about a cock ring.”

  She squeezed his balls to brush along the right side of pain.

  His eyes rolled to the back of his head, and he bit his lip to stop himself from blowing then and there.

  “Do you know how beautiful you are right now?” She sucked the head of his cock into her mouth, heating his body until he was sure he would burst into flames. She whirled her tongue over and around and then gave him the barest hint of her teeth. “I love watching you dance on the edge. I love watching you control yourself so you don’t go over too fast and ruin the pleasure.”

  He shook his head. “Not about the pleasure. Want it to last because of you. Want to stay here with you. That’s why I fight. I don’t want this to ever end.”

  He wanted the moment to stay suspended, forever right here with her. It couldn’t. He knew that, but he could draw it out. He could make it last so the memory would feel like days instead of hours.

  “I don’t either. It doesn’t have to. This place where we can be whoever we want to be, it never goes away, it’s merely hidden for a while. But each and every time we’re alone, you’ll have all of me, Kashmir. And when we’re not alone, know I’m waiting for you. Even when we’re not alone, know that I will be your queen, your wife, your love. However you need me, that’s what I’ll be for you.”

  He didn’t need her to be anyone but exactly who she was—his perfect match, the one who could bring out the other side of him, the only woman who could make him whole.

  “Be mine. That’s all I need.”

  The smile that crossed her face was glorious. “Only yours. I only need one servant.”

  “And I only need one queen.”

  She unhooked her bra and her breasts bounced free. She palmed them, teasing him with the sight and the fact that his hands were still tied down. They twitched to hold her, but she merely gave him a show, rolling her nipples and rubbing the satin of that patch of underwear over his cock. He could feel how wet she was, the fabric damp and slick with her arousal.

  It was torture, but the best kind.

  “Kash, are you sure you want this?”

  “Yes, I’m sure I want this orgasm. I will take it over my next breath. If you don’t hurry, it might be my last breath ever, my Queen.”

  She laughed, the sound magical to his ears. “That wasn’t what I was talking about. I was talking about our marriage. Are you sure? Because I was thinking maybe my servant would like to help me out. My kingdom is in desperate need of a prince or a princess.”

  He groaned again, having to bite back the harsh shot of arousal her words sent through him.

  He was going to have a family with her. He was going to have children who ran through the palace, children who laughed and played. Children who he could teach to be the one thing they needed to be—happy.

  “There is nothing I could want more than to serve my Queen in this way.” He stared up at her, needing her to know there was nothing playful about this. “I love you, Dayita. I’m sure. There’s no one else for me from now on. It’s you and me and our family.”

  “Just us.” She leaned over and brushed her lips against his. “And the world, but mostly us.”

  She shifted her hips and he felt the thin crotch of her undies slide to the side as his cock finally found her pussy. Day got to her knees above him, taking him with the bold, aggressive nature he’d come to crave from her. She lowered herself onto his cock.

  Kash couldn’t stand it a moment longer. He tilted his pelvis up, feeling her sink onto his cock.

  “I should punish you for that, my naughty servant.” She moved above him, rolling her hips and taking him as deep as he would go. “But I can’t help myself either. I need you. I love you.”

  “I love you, too, my Queen. He needed her more than he could possibly say. He worked with her, letting her ride him. Her body moved over his, taking what she needed and giving him back everything she had.

  It couldn’t last. When Day’s head fell back and he felt her clench around him, he gave up.

  The orgasm was a flash fire, running through his system and leaving him scorched. Day fell forward, her head finding his chest.

  He could still feel the pulse of the aftermath when she looked up at him.

  “Don’t think we’re done yet, my servant.”

  He wasn’t done serving her. Not even close. He was ready to spend the rest of his life doing exactly that.

  Epilogue

  Ten months later

  Kash stood looking out over the site that would shortly be his new world. It was nothing but a few acres of ground right now, but once the plans were finished and his contractors had brought to life his vision, this place would be filled with all the world’s greatest scientists. It was a place for them to gather, to work, to research and share their ideas. It was a place he hoped could change the world.

  “I thought I would find you here.”

  He turned, a smile on his face because there was nothing he loved more than the sound of that voice. Well, he’d also become partial to the sound of his soon-to-be-born daughter’s heart. The hummingbird thud they heard when the doctor came to visit always made his heart clench. “Two more days and we break ground. I’ve already got meetings with some researchers who are interested in my challenges.”

  She joined him, her hand slipping into his. It felt natural to be connected to her. “Medical or tech?”

  “A couple of doctors who don’t want to work with big pharma. They’re interested in my drive to cure Parkinson’s.” He’d put out the call. He and a few other billionaires had pooled some of their resources and offered the world’s great minds money and labs and housing in order to solve the problems humanity faced.

  He was going to change the world. And if anyone thought they could stop him, they would have to think again. This time he would fight. He wouldn’t stop because soon he would give this world to his children, and he never wanted them to think he didn’t care.

  “Excellent. I heard we also recently received a hundred million dollar grant from Milo Jaye to study pollution solutions,” she said with a smile. “You can thank me for that. I gave his wife all the plans and specifications for my suspension tools. They’re all about suspension play right now.”

  “As long as you didn’t give them any of our toys.” He pulled her close. It was so much easier to be himself now. Something had settled inside him and the world seemed like a different place. A softer, more welcoming place.

  His wife still argued with the parliament, but he’d noticed lately that the women of his country seemed to be louder than before, more sure of themselves. They showed up regularly, standing beh
ind their queen, standing up for their daughters.

  “I never would. How else would I take care of my favorite servant?” Her voice had gone dark and deliciously deep.

  He felt that tug in his groin. Somehow, even though she was almost ready to give birth to their child, she was still the sexiest thing on the planet. She could still make him want to drop to his knees and beg to worship her. “I think I’ll be the one taking care of you for a while, my Queen. You have another monarch to give birth to.”

  He’d successfully argued and won his battle to abolish the antiquated rule of succession that preferred sons over daughters. His daughter, the one who slept inside her mother now, would never worry that she wasn’t enough. She would be queen unless she decided she did not want to be. As his firstborn, the choice would be hers to make.

  She squeezed his hand. “I think that is going to happen sooner than we think.”

  “Is she kicking a lot?”

  “I’m pretty sure I’ve been in labor all day,” she said, as though talking about the weather. “We should probably go back to the palace and call the doctor. I think your mother will get to meet her namesake tonight.”

  Yasmine. Their daughter. Oh, god. He was about to become a father.

  He was a father. He was a father and a son and a husband. He was a submissive and a king.

  He could be all of those things because he was also Hers.

  But first, he needed to get her home so their first child wasn’t born on his construction site. He wanted his mother there. She’d defied all the doctors and was still holding on. Though the queen mother moved more slowly these days, she seemed happier than ever, ready to welcome her granddaughter into the world.

  “Rai! What are you doing allowing your queen to wander around when she’s about to give birth?” Kash asked.

  His guard, his best friend, smiled as he stepped from behind the tree where he’d been discreetly waiting. Kash knew the man would never leave him alone. He would always be there, even when he acted like an ass. “Have you tried to tell the queen what to do?”

  Day was shaking her head. “Walking is good for the labor. Stop being so overprotective.”

  He took her hand and started for the Jeep. When she winced, he scooped her up. “There is no such thing. I am exactly the proper amount of protective.”

  “Really?” she said with a grin, her arms going around his neck. “Who says that?”

  “I do. And I’m the king.”

  After all, the king was never wrong. Kash carried his wife back to the palace and into their future.

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