His Lost Queen by Annie Whipple

BELLE

I couldn’t hold back my groan of bliss as I sank into the warm, bubbling water of the hot tub. This was exactly what I needed. Why hadn’t I come here before?

This was way better than sitting alone in our palace wing with nothing to do. And I guess it didn’t hurt that Grayson was here, too, giving me his full attention.

Okay, so maybe that was the best part.

That and the fact that we were the only two people in the pool area, so I didn’t feel awkward when my body heated as I felt his gaze watching my every move with rapt attention.

I had a funny feeling that Grayson had something to do with the lack of people here, more than likely commanding that everyone stay away while we were in here. I didn’t mind, though. Not one

bit.

I turned to look at my mate, who was still standing at the edge of the tub, looking down at me with an expression that made my lips turn up and my lower stomach flutter.

I was starting to really love this swimsuit.

The room we were in contained an indoor pool lined with lounge chairs, and I put my hands on the edge of the tub and let my legs float up behind me.

I put my chin on the edge as I grinned up at Grayson, taking in every glorious inch of exposed skin with my own heated gaze.

Holy f uck, he was hot. He was standing there in only his swim trunks. All of his muscles were on display, and he was breathing heavily.

My stomach fluttered when I noticed the outline of his hard c ock through the fabric of his shorts.

He didn’t even notice I was studying him. He was too busy studying me and, by the looks of it, trying to get his wolf under control. His my as s which was floating out of the

eyes were latched onto

water.

He licked his lips.

My smile widened. This was turning out to be even more fun than I had imagined.

“Are you going to get in?” I asked him. “Or are you just going to stand there, staring at me?”

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Grayson’s eyes snapped up to mine. He smirked. “Oh, I’m getting in all right.”

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He reached for me the moment he got in the water. I giggled and swam away from him before he could grab me. He growled, narrowing his eyes playfully.

“You running from me, little mate?” he asked, slowly moving toward me.

I grinned, moving away from him with every move he made closer to me. “If you want me, you’re gonna have to work for it.”

“You’re making a big mistake, baby. Running away from me only triggers my wolf’s hunting instinct.”

I bit my lip. We both knew he was more than capable of catching me whenever he wanted, but I enjoyed that we were messing around with each other, just like a normal couple would do.

I craved these sorts of interactions with him.

“You think I’m scared of you?” I asked him. “You’re-

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I screeched when his hands were suddenly on my waist, snat ching me up and throwing me over his shoulder. He spun me around in the air, and I laughed and screamed the entire time.

“Grayson!” I laughed, slapping his back. “Grayson, stop!”

I didn’t miss the way one of his hands gripped my butt, the tips of his fingers suspiciously close to the

part of me that had been begging for his attention all day. It made my entire body freeze up.

I wiggled on his shoulder.

Sensing my change in demeanor, Grayson abruptly stopped, slowly letting me slide down his front until I was at eye level with him, one of his arms still supporting me under my backside.

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We were pressed up against each other so tightly that I could feel his heart thumping against my chest. Our breathing slowed until we were in sync, staring at each other.

“Whatever our souls are made of,” I whispered as I ran my hand through his curly dark hair, “his and mine are the same.”

“Hmm,” Grayson hummed. He brushed his nose up against mine lovingly, running it up and down

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I laughed. “No. Emily Brontë did. Wuthering Heights.”

He smiled in the way he did when I knew he was genuinely pleased. “I like it.”

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I wrapped my arms around his neck, pressing even closer to him. “I missed you. I’m really glad you’re here. I’m really glad you decided to come be with me for a little while.”

He moved back until he was sitting on the built-in bench in the tub, with me straddling his lap, pressed snugly to his chest.

I was glad we were in the water because everything inside of me was starting to feel heated.

“Me too, baby.”

Without thinking too hard about it, I pressed my lips to his.

He groaned into my mouth, grabbing the back of my head and pressing me even closer, swiping his tongue over the seam of my lips, encouraging me to open my mouth for him.

I did, and his tongue immediately dominated mine, taking full control of the kiss before I could stop

him.

He tilted my head to the side, deepening the kiss with more passion. His tongue thrust into my mouth repeatedly, mating with it and driving me crazy.

My hips started to move against his out of pure instinct, and Grayson purred in response. Jesus, the sound of his purr made me feel drunk.

“Spread your legs wider for me, Belle,” he demanded against my lips.

I didn’t need to be told twice.

My knees fell onto the bench he was sitting on, my legs spreading wide to accommodate his large form.

It was a good thing I was flexible, especially since one of Grayson’s favorite ways to make me come was to watch me writhe on his fingers while I straddled his lap.

His thumb found my cli t through the fabric of my swimsuit bottoms and began circling it slowly, massaging it. My lips fell from his as a mewl of satisfaction came from my mouth, my head falling

back.

He stopped his movements momentarily to pull the cr otch of my bottoms to the side, and my back arched in pure bliss when his pointer finger made contact with my bare p ussy, running along my

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073% 11:45 “F uck, I can feel how slick you are even in the water. Let me take care of you, beautiful. That sound good? Is that what you want?” His tongue dragged over my mark and up the side of my neck.

A shudder racked my body. My nod was embarrassingly eager. “Yes. Please. I want that.”

Grayson grinned in satisfaction, and then his long middle finger was inside of me, stroking me.

He shushed my whimpers when he started to push it in and out of me, deeply, running over my G-spot firmly with each stroke.

It was when the heel of his hand started to knead into my throbbing c lit, and he slipped another one of his fingers into my already clenching hole that my lower body started to jerk against his, seeking more friction.

“That’s it, baby,” Grayson growled against the side of my neck where he had been sucking. “Ride my fingers/*

With my hands on his shoulders to help balance, my hips started to rise and fall in faster movements, shamelessly thrusting my pu ssy down onto his fingers.

Grayson leaned back to watch me, blatant hunger etched over every line of his handsome face as he watched me come apart on top of him.

My nails dug into his shoulders as my or gasm took over. Head falling back once more, I whimpered and mewled his name, the pleasure from those rhythmic clenches taking over every part

of me.

It took a while for me to come back down. I didn’t know why, but my org asms had been becoming more intense and much longer.

Sometimes it was so intense that it almost hurt, and I was left quivering and unthinking for several minutes afterward, unable to even process what had just happened and the amount of pleasure I’d experienced.

Not that I was complaining, though.

Grayson stroked me through the entire thing, taking over the movements when I became too mindless to do anything but wait for it to end.

When the last of the tremors traveled through me, I collapsed onto his chest, panting, eyes hooded. He pulled his fingers out of me and hugged me to him, taking the time to suck and nip on my mark.

“Mmm…,” I moaned out when his purring intensified. I loved hearing him purr when he was happy.

Grayson chuckled. “Do you have any idea how f ucking s exy you are?”

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I grinned against the bare skin of his shoulder. “Yeah?”

“F ucking hell,” he swore. “Yeah. I can’t get enough of watching you come for me.”

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“Hmm…” I could feel how hard he was beneath me. He was more than just a little turned on. And that thought excited me more than anything else.

My lips skimmed up his neck until I was right next to his car. “I want more, Grayson,” I whispered. “Can you give me more?”

He growled. “I think we can come to some sort of agreement.” His hands started to move down my hips, intent on making me come again, but I quickly stopped them.

“Not like that. I was thinking we could do something a little different.” I rolled my hips over his, lining my core up with his swim trunk-covered c ock so that it was nestled in between my folds.

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I did it so quickly that he didn’t have time to stop me.

Before I lost the courage that resulted from my intense org asm, I said, “I want you inside of me. I want your c ock inside of me. I want it so bad, Grayson.”

“S hit!” Grayson’s hips shot up at my unexpected request, and I gasped at the feeling.

Taking advantage of our momentum and Grayson’s temporary loss of judgment, I grabbed his face and kissed him with all the intensity and need I yearned to communicate.

I nearly cried in relief when he didn’t try to stop me like I thought he was going to and instead pulled me closer, deepening the kiss.

His hands spanned over my a ss, gripping it, so his fingers fell into the crease.

My hands shook with anticipation as I reached down and started to tug at the tie to his swim trunks. I thought he might be too distracted to notice what I was doing, but I was wrong.

He stiffened beneath me, and it was like the spell keeping him interested was suddenly broken. His lips stopped moving against mine, and the energy between us diminished significantly.

“Belle,” he said. His deep voice sounded miserable and dejected. He pulled his lips away from mine and grabbed my hands to stop them. “Stop.”

“Why? Why?” Panicking, I tried to pull his lips back to mine. “Kiss me, Grayson. Please. Just keep kissing me.”

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073% 11:46 Then they skimmed over his shoulders, down his pocs and abs. I reached for the tics of his swim

pees trunks once again, hoping he wouldn’t stop me again.

“Belle,” he groaned. He grabbed my hands, pushing them away from him. “I’m sorry. You have to stop,”

“No. No, please, Grayson,” I continued to beg. I didn’t even care that I sounded pathetic. I needed. this. We both needed this.

I tried pulling him back, wrapping my arms around his neck, but he quickly grabbed my wrists, prying them away from him with a harsh movement.

I gasped. He had never been that rough with me before.

Then, loud and angry, he yelled, “Belle, I’m not f ucking you the first time in a da mn hot tub! Cut. It. Out.” 1

I lurched back as if he had just slapped me in the face, my heart plummeting so deep in my stomach that it made me want to throw up.

I hated everything about what he’d just said.

I hated that he very obviously didn’t want me in the same way I wanted him.

I hated that it took him yelling at me for me to stop and realize that he didn’t want me.

I hated that he used such a vile word to describe something that was supposed to be beautiful.

I hated that he was rejecting me again.

F ucking. He said he wasn’t going to f uck me in a hot tub. Is that what he thought our first time was going to be like? It sounded dirty. It made me feel dirty.

Embarrassment seized me and rolled in my stomach like a rotating ball of fire. All of a sudden, I felt like I couldn’t breathe..

Go d, what was wrong with me? Why did I keep throwing myself at him when I knew he would just reject my advances and make my heart feel like it was breaking in two over and over again?

I kept on pressuring him. I kept begging him. He had every right to be mad at me.

I wasn’t mad at him though. How could I be? It wasn’t like he had done anything wrong. And it wasn’t as if what we had wasn’t incredible, even without sex. Intimacy wasn’t all about sex.

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It just hurt..

A lot.

The urge to puke was getting stronger.

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I nodded, quickly looking away when tears unexpectedly started to fill my eyes. “Okay. I’m sorry.”

I got off him and hated when he didn’t try to make me stay. “I shouldn’t have kept going when your asked me to stop. I’m sorry.”

“Belle… That’s not-” Grayson said as he watched me walk to the edge of the hot tub and pull myself out. He ran a hand through his hair. “F uck, I’m the one who should be sorry-

“It’s okay.” I interrupted. I tried my best to smile as I grabbed my book and wrapped myself in my towel. You were right. This isn’t… We shouldn’t…” I angrily wiped the tear that fell down my left check.

I was being ridiculous. “I think I’m just going to go back to our room now. And you need to get back to work, right?”

I didn’t wait for him to respond. I started to walk to the door, my chest tight and my cheeks hot.

“Belle,” Grayson called after me, getting out of the hot tub too. “You don’t have to go back to the room. I thought you wanted to stay here and read.”

I waved my hand dismissively. “This isn’t even my book. It’s Minnie’s. Don’t want to get it wet, you know?”

He was suddenly behind me, grabbing my hand. He spun me around to face him.

There was so much pain in his eyes. Did I cause him to look that way?

“Belle… I’m sorry.” His voice was so gentle, so genuine. It made my heart lurch in my chest.

Go d, I loved this man. I loved him more than I have ever loved anyone or anything. This wasn’t worth fighting over. I just needed time to get over my embarrassment, and then I would be fine.

I ran a hand over his scruffy jaw. “I’m fine, Grayson.” A lic. “You haven’t done anything wrong.” The truth.

I leaned forward and kissed his chest since I couldn’t reach his lips without him bending down. “I love you, okay?” The truth. The truest thing I’d ever said.

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He sighed and leaned down to press his own kiss to the crown of my head. “I love you too. So

much.”

The truth. At least, true to a certain extent.

I leaned back. “I’ll see you when you get home from work tonight.”

Neither of us said another word as I turned and walked away.