Their Hidden Princess (Zora) novel Chapter 199

Chapter 199

“He did,” Maximus said slowly. I nodded. Maximus hummed in return. My heart hammered in my chest like a ticking time bomb.

“You’d have us both?” Maximus asked. I nodded fervently then sighed.

“Please,” I begged.

Maximus nodded slowly. He took a step back towards me and my breath caught in my throat. I was frozen in place as he reached out and cupped my cheek. My eyes were locked on his gold ones, even brighter in contrast to the dark purple circles under them. “Lunerly knows,” he murmured. I nodded. Maximus’s eyes wandered down to my lips. He nodded slowly. I wished he’d just kiss

1. me.

“He’s okay to share?” Maximus continued, still barely above a whisper. I nodded again. Maximus hummed.

“Could be fun, right?”

I snorted a laugh of relief. “Yeah, real fun,” I said. My eyes welled with tears. Maximus caught one with his thumb and swiped it

away,

“Okay,” he said, softly.

“Okay?” I asked. My voice sounded so small yet so incredulous.

Maximus nodded. “Okay.”

I couldn’t help myself. I lunged at him and wrapped my arms around his neck, yanking him down so I could nuzzle my face into his neck. He laughed as he wrapped his arms around my waist and tugged us together. His cheek rested on top my head.

For a moment, we just stayed there and breathed, holding each other and relishing in the fact that we were allowed to be together. After a while, Maximus untwined himself from me. His eyebrow was furrowed. It immediately made me frown.

“Kairos,” Maximus explained. “He’s not going to like this.”

I frowned further. “Probably not,” I murmured. “But we don’t have to talk about that now. Let’s just… live in the happiness we have for now.”

Maximus nodded. Then, his hand came up and cupped my cheek again as he had done moments before. Unlike the previous time, this time he dipped down and pressed his lips to mine. I immediately leaned into it, sighing into his mouth with the breath I didn’t know I was holding.

My hand went to the back of his neck to allow him to angle himself into my mouth more. His hands slid up my ass and settled on my lower ribs. He pulled me to him and we touched like a lightning striking the ground.

Immediately, his lips were hungrier and wilder than they were before. His light hands turned into hungry claws that dug into my ass. His pushed his entire body into mine, curling us around each other. Meanwhile, my lips were ravaged by his. His teeth grazed slightly my bottom lip and I moaned as more electricity surged from his lips.

Maximus took that as a sign to further the kiss. His hand knitted at the base of my ponytail. He pulled, not hard enough to break my red curls, but enough to tip my head back and allow me to look up as Maximus drove back into my mouth.

Then, all of a sudden, his hands were everywhere, everywhere, everywhere and yet somehow, I couldn’t get enough. My body was dying for something – anything – to touch me in the place I so desperately needed to be touched.

“Please,” I begged as I got a half a second to utter those words in the minimal space between us. I watched as Maximus’s pupils blew out. He looked like he was about to devour me.

And I was ready for it.

Then someone cleared their throat. Maximus and I jerked our heads to look at who’d interrupted us. I don’t know who I expected to be there, but it certainly wasn’t Valentin. He gave both of us a small smile.

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“Am I interrupting?”

Maximus let out a low growl. I pressed my hand to his chest and felt his muscle lose all the tension he’d built up in them. I turned and looked up at him. We exchanged a glance before I turned towards Valentin.

I replicated his smile. “A bit.”

Valentin chuckled but continued to walk into the locker room. “I suppose we’re all on the same side now?”

“Zora’s side, you mean?” Maximus said, with a bit of bite in his tone. I pressed my hand to his chest and shushed him but Valentin paid his tone no mind.

“Precisely,” he said as he stood to stand next to us. He glanced sideways at me. “The only team there is, is her’s. As long as that’s clear-”

“Crystal,” Maximus snapped.

“Stop that!” I chided. “Valentin’s right, the only team….”

My head started to feel like it was being filled with water. I blinked at Valentin. It looked like there was two of him.

“Teammmm…”

My voice sounded like it was under water too. Everything about me felt like it was underwater. My legs and arms felt like they were floating all of a sudden. The world was spinning around me. Then, it slipped out from under me. Then I was falling, falling, falling down away from where Valentin and Maximus were looking at me. Just as I was about to hit the ground, I was caught by a pair of arms.

“Dizzy,” I murmured.

“I know,” a hazy voice said above me. “Wolfham get her some water.”

“Mmm, Max,” I reached my hands towards where the outline of Max was. He froze and I frowned. Why wasn’t he running to me? Why wasn’t I wrapped in his arms?

“Here,” came the voice holding me. A glass of water was shoved into my hand and I sucked it down.

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