He Freed the Kings He Once Chained, They Chose to Bind Him novel · Chapter 3 of 24

Chapter 3: What Su Ming Wants

Su Ming decides for himself and takes what he wants from Ren in the dark; Ryu has been awake the whole time.

Ren worked on Ken's wrist for an hour.

He slid strips of wet linen between the skin and the silver, so the metal touched cloth and nothing else.

He propped the arm on two pillows above Ken's heart.

He pinched a fingernail and watched the color crawl back, slowly, after he let go.

"That's good," he said. "That means blood is still getting through."

"And if it stops?" Ken's voice was thin.

"Then I cut this cuff off your arm myself, at first light, and she can call it a breach."

Ken stared at him for a long moment.

"You'd start a war for my hand."

"I'd start one for your hand and your fingers and the rest of you."

Ken shut his eyes, and the corner of his mouth moved.

"You talk so much," he said. "You never used to talk."

He was asleep in minutes.

Ryu watched all of it from the foot of the bed with his arms crossed and said nothing at all.

Ren pulled a blanket off the bed, dropped to the rug by the fire, and lay on his back.

"The bed is yours," he told the room. "All of you. I'm fine here."

Nobody answered.

The coals ticked and settled, and the lamps burned down to nothing.

He did not know how long he lay there before something moved beside him.

A shape knelt on the rug, long hair loose, with the chain trailing behind.

"You're not asleep," Su Ming said.

"No."

"I've been thinking."

"About what?"

"What I want." Su Ming's voice was quiet and level, with none of the bright edge. "I asked what you wanted from me, and you said nothing yet. I tried to ask myself the same, and I couldn't answer."

"You don't have to answer tonight."

"I'm answering now." He leaned over, and his hair fell around Ren's face. "I want to see what it's like when I choose."

Ren's mouth went dry.

"Su Ming."

"I have rules."

"Tell me."

"You don't ask me anything. You don't tell me what to do. If I stop, I stop, and you don't say a word about it in the morning." Su Ming's hand flattened on Ren's chest. "You keep your hands on the rug until I put them somewhere."

"All right."

"That easily?"

"Yes."

Su Ming laughed under his breath.

Then he bent and kissed him.

It was slow and unhurried, and it was not at all what Ren expected from someone who had been taught to please.

Su Ming kissed him with his eyes open, and he took his time about it.

His tongue slid along Ren's lower lip and then into his mouth, and Ren made a sound he had not meant to.

"Mm," Su Ming breathed against him. "There you are."

He took Ren's wrists and pinned them to the rug above his head, one at a time, and held them there with the chain looped once around his own hand.

Ren let him.

Su Ming sat up astride his hips and unfastened the prince's coat, then the shirt under it, and spread both open.

His palms moved down over Ren's ribs and belly.

"You're softer than I remember," he said.

"I'm a beta," Ren said unsteadily. "We're not built for much."

"You're built fine."

His hand slid lower and pressed over the front of Ren's trousers.

Ren was already hard, and it showed.

Su Ming's eyes lit.

"Look at that," he said. "Someone's been very good."

He undid the laces slowly, drawing it out, and freed Ren's cock into the cool air.

Ren's hips jerked.

Su Ming wrapped one long hand around the base and stroked up once, firm and unhurried, and his thumb circled the wet tip.

"Oh, fuck," Ren said.

"That's right."

Su Ming lowered his head.

His mouth closed over the head of Ren's cock, hot and tight, and the sound Ren made was ragged.

Su Ming took him deeper, with a slow suck and a roll of his tongue underneath, and his free hand cupped Ren's balls and squeezed.

Ren's fingers curled into the rug.

His hands stayed where they were, because Su Ming had told him to leave them there.

He had never wanted to touch anyone so badly.

"Su Ming. I'm going to come if you keep doing that."

Su Ming pulled off with a wet sound and wiped his mouth with his wrist.

"Not yet," he said.

He sat back and pushed his own robe off his hips.

He was hard, and the inside of his thighs was wet with slick, glistening in the firelight.

"I've been like this since the bath," he said, and his voice cracked.

He moved up Ren's body and lifted himself over his cock.

"Look at me."

Ren looked.

Su Ming held him steady in one hand and sank down, a slow inch at a time, and his head fell back.

"Oh," he said. "Oh, gods. That's mine."

Ren's whole body went rigid with the effort of lying still.

Su Ming was tight and slick and burning hot, and he rolled his hips in a deep circle and took every inch.

"Do you feel that?"

"Yes."

"Tell me."

"You're so tight," Ren said hoarsely. "You feel like fire. You feel perfect."

Su Ming moaned and began to ride him.

He set the pace himself, long slow lifts and hard drops that pulled a groan from Ren each time, and the chain on his wrist clinked in rhythm.

"Touch me," he gasped. "Now. Touch me."

Ren's hands left the rug and closed on Su Ming's hips.

He held on, and Su Ming rode him faster, his own cock bobbing and leaking against his stomach.

"Harder," Su Ming said. "Fuck me harder. Show me what you want."

Ren thrust up into him.

Su Ming cried out, a high broken noise, and clenched around him.

"There. Yes. Again."

Ren gave him again, and again, driving up into that slick heat until Su Ming's thighs shook.

He reached down and took Su Ming's cock in his fist.

"Come for me."

Su Ming came with a shout, striping Ren's chest in hot pulses, and his body clamped down so hard that Ren followed him over, groaning his name.

For a while there was only breathing.

Su Ming lay on top of him, face in his neck, shaking.

"That was mine," he whispered. "I chose that."

"I know."

"Tell me it wasn't nothing."

"It wasn't nothing."

Su Ming let out a long, unsteady breath, and Ren felt wet on his collarbone that was not sweat.

He lifted his head to look past Su Ming's shoulder.

Across the dark chamber, on the bed, a pair of eyes was open and fixed on them.

Ryu had been awake the whole time.

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