I frowned without understanding, and moved my lips, but no sound came out. Alec came up to me like a fox behind a mouse. One slow step at a time. I could not move and it seemed that my body did not want that either. Alec easily tied my waist with one arm and brought me very close. My hands went around his strong arms involuntarily. As if I were stuck in a dream, I watched Alec's mouth take hold of my lips soft and slow. I felt a chill in my spine when his tongue started to explore my mouth and I groaned. I was slowly lifting my hands up his arms until my fingers found his hair. The feeling was good and I got lost in the pleasure that that simple kiss was giving me. I'd never felt anything like it, even because I wouldn't allow anyone to kiss me.
Alec's hands slowly descended into my buttocks and pressed my belly tightly against her hard limb. It was then that the sensation of ecstasy mixed with that of panic and I came to my senses. Pulling one of the daggers I was carrying around my waist, I put the tip right under his throat.
- All right, all right, all right! - Alec whispered, raising his arms. - You're free now! I want you to know, it wasn't my fault this time.
- What did you just say? - I asked indignantly. - I said I had something important to say and it was you who tried to seduce me and not the other way around.
Alec let out a laugh and went away and lowered himself to take the sword he had dropped. He went to the trunk where his clothes were and, turning his back on me, pulled the towel showing off his ass. I widened my eyes without believing what I saw. I've never seen a naked man before. Even though I lived among several of them, I had never been devastated by the curiosity of observing someone bathing, for example. Anyway, I had to admit that Alec had a nice ass. Suddenly, a desire to go to Alec and feel her buttocks grew inside me. I even took a step in his direction, but I managed to stop in time to do some nonsense.
- What do you want from me, princess? - Alec asked by wearing his pants.
I hated it when he called me a princess and he'd been doing it ever since he got to the camp. That word reminded me of bad times I'd rather forget.
- Alec, if you don't mind, could you not call me a princess? - I said harsh.
Alec turned to me and smiled.
- Say that again. - he asked for it.
Without understanding, I shrugged my shoulders and put the dagger back on my waist.
- I don't much like being called a princess. - he said, making a face. - My uncle used to call me that and I don't like anything that reminds me of him.
- Not that. - he said approaching me again. - Say my name again.
I frowned again.
- Alec, will you stop fooling around? - he said.
He smiled at me again with a wide and satisfied smile. Alec closed his eyes, raising them to a cloudy sky as if he enjoyed a moment of ecstasy.
- You know what? - He said suddenly. - Only my parents, my brother and my cousin usually call me by my baptismal name. Not even Rose, who's bold enough, has dared to call me Alec.
- You're the one who gave permission to do it! - I fired a confusing shot. - Don't tell me you're gonna punish me for that?
- Not at all! - he fired and then opened his eyes staring at me again. - I'd just like to hear her do it more often.
I shook my head from side to side making a face.
- All right, Alec! Who's Rose?
He rolled his eyes by passing both hands over his face.
- Why do you want to know?
- Curiosity!
- She's a servant of the castle.
- Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. - I disdained. - Your lover, you mean.
Alec frowned and smiled debauchedly.
- How do you know I'm used to lying with the maids?
I looked from one side to the other when I noticed that I had spoken too much.
- Isn't that what most lords do? - I fired as a justification. - They lie with the maids just for fun.
- And how do you know about these things? - he asked in a debauched way. - I thought you were a noblewoman.
I held my breath. That conversation was getting dangerous. I had gone there to tell him that I was real, but had lost my courage along the way. I was devising a plan for how to ask Alec to write a letter to Alistair asking him to protect Aileen without exposing me. Now, with the direction that conversation was taking, I had to get my head in order, not to say something that would complicate me.
- Yeah, you're wrong! - I shot myself a little further away. - I was the servant of a lord and my father dreamed of marrying a man of possessions. When he found out I was sneaking around with a stable boy, he got possessed.
Alec kept looking at me for a few moments and I swallowed it dry as I held her gaze.
- I see! - he whispered and I sighed with relief that he swallowed the story. - So he was your first?
