The Lycans Voted Her Queen novel · Chapter 23 of 24

Chapter 23: The Chair

At dusk the king took my hand.

He did it exactly as he had on the first morning, with his palm under mine.

The whole Hall watched us walk the length of the room.

This time I was not shaking.

This time I was the one who set the pace, and the walk took a long time.

At the far end, on its single step of stone, stood the plain chair of black oak with the worn seat.

Garrick stopped at the foot of it.

"Madam," he said.

I looked up at him.

His eyes were wet.

"Don't you dare make me cry in front of four hundred women," I said.

He grinned.

I climbed the step, turned, and sat.

The oak was hard and old and warm from the fire.

The arms were worn smooth by the palms of every queen before me.

I put my hands on them.

Four hundred women raised their voices at once.

I have never heard anything like it.

It went on, and on, and when Hester finally lifted her stick, it seemed to take her a year to quiet the room.

Hester said the old words.

The oldest woman in the Range set a ring of dried lavender on my head.

Then the women filed out into the cold with their babies and their goats and their tears, and the doors closed.

The fire popped on the hearth.

We were alone.

Garrick was still standing at the foot of the step, a mountain in a green wool shirt, looking up at me.

"The Hall's mine till morning," I said.

"So I hear."

"Kneel."

He dropped to his knees on the stone.

I crooked a finger.

He crawled up the step, on his knees, and stopped between my feet.

I leaned back in the chair and spread my knees, and the skirt I had worn for the ceremony slid up my thighs.

I wore nothing under it.

His breath left him all at once.

"The queen," he said hoarsely, "has no underwear."

"The queen has had a long day."

I hooked my knees over the chair's wide arms, one on each side.

I was open to him, and the firelight was on me, and I felt as bold as I had ever felt in my life.

"Put your mouth on me."

He bent his head.

The first stroke of his tongue was slow, flat and hot, from the bottom to the top, and I gripped the arms of the chair.

"Yes."

He did it again.

His hands came up and held my thighs, so wide apart they trembled.

He licked me thoroughly, and I felt it in my chest and my feet and the roots of my teeth.

"Garrick."

"Mm."

"Don't stop. I want it hard."

He sucked my clit between his lips and flicked it with his tongue, and my head hit the back of the chair.

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