Ever After by Christina Lee & Riley Hart

Author:Christina Lee & Riley Hart [Lee, Christina]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Christina Lee and Riley Hart
Published: 2018-02-25T18:30:00+00:00

18

Cassius

Cassius could not sleep. He’d lain in his bed for close to an hour, and his eyes had yet to close except briefly each time he blinked. His mouth tasted of brandy from the prince’s tongue. He felt dizzy from it, as though he had drunk a bottle down himself, but really it was Merrick who made his head spin. Who intoxicated him.

The prince’s hands had been upon him. They had kissed and touched, and he had asked Cassius to stay. Why hadn’t he allowed himself to stay? He had spent the entirety of the opera hoping for a moment to claim something for himself. To throw caution to the wind and think of nothing except his wants, his desires, his happiness, and yet when the moment had arisen, when he’d had a chance to lie in bed with the prince, to invite Merrick into his body or to disappear inside Merrick, he had run.

It would forever be one of the most consuming regrets of his life because he longed for the prince in ways he had never longed for anyone or anything else. He was like the most beautiful words Cassius could ever write brought to life. He was the greatest story ever told, and Cassius had denied himself the chance to read him, to study him, to engrain Merrick into his brain and skin and soul.

His prick was heavy, hard against his stomach, but it was more than that. His fingers itched to learn Merrick’s body, to learn what the prince felt like in his arms. To hear Merrick moan his name like he was something. To share his truth with Cassius, a truth that belonged to them.

Without allowing himself to think, Cas shoved from his bed. He pulled on trousers over his undergarments before he jerked a shirt on. Cassius’s fingers shook every moment, but he did not let that stop him. He wanted to live, to pretend their lives were their own, even if it was for one night only.

He pulled socks on his feet before he glanced at the clock. It was one in the morning. The staff did not come alive until five, so they had a few hours together. If he still wants me.

That thought made his fear kick in, made it seep into his bones, but Cassius could not, would not, let it hold him back from this moment for himself…for Merrick as well.

Quietly, Cassius slipped from his room. The hallway was silent. He feared even to breathe as questions circled through his head. What would he say if they asked where he was going and why? Could he lie and say the prince had called upon him? Would Merrick say the same? He knew the prince would, somehow he knew that he would go to any length to protect Cassius. As much as Cassius knew his family loved him, as close as Valor was to him, did he have anyone who had protected him before? He didn’t think he did.

His heart thudded against his chest as he took the stairs as quietly as possible.

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