Theo grunts on top of me and my chest jiggles every time his manhood impales me. My body arches and I grab tightly onto the sheet. He continuously calls my name every time he thrusts. His voice still sounds like music, but the pleasing quality in it is replaced by the knowledge that he's not only doing these intimate acts with me.
He finally releases inside while my back touch the sheets again. He licks the corner of my mouth while waiting for his shivers to die down.
"Kaiya, is our lovemaking becoming boring for you?" he asks.
"I'm good," I answer. My chest is still heaving from attempting to catch my orgasm, but failing to do so.
"You want me to spice it up?"
"Spice?" I ask.
He sits up and takes my hand. He kisses it before saying, "Yes, to make it more enjoyable."
Rather than making our sex more enjoyable, shouldn't he be thinking about how to ensure his harem women get pregnant? But after acknowledging it, pain shoots through my chest again.
"How?"
He reaches for the bedside table and opens it. He takes the things out and places them on the bed. I pale at the sight of what will make our sex more enjoyable. It's an assortment of balls, leathers, clamps, feathers, and some other weird-looking items that I am not sure how to describe.
"Are you okay? You don't like any of these?"
I grab my chest and look at him. Aside from his harem, is his interest in me dwindling too? Is that why he is suggesting these?
"It's fine, my King, if that's what you want."
He sighs before his fingers lightly brush over my lower lips. "Kaiya, stop calling me your king. If I hear you calling me that way again. I will punish these lips."
I flush a deep scarlet and look away. Damn this mate bond. Even if I already know who he is, I can't help but be attracted to him.
"So?" he asks, making me look at him again.
"Yes, Theo."
He grins but says, "So, according to your reaction upon seeing these, you don't like it." He gathers all the toys and is about to return them to the drawer when I stop his arm.
"It's okay. Let's do it, Theo." Is this being pragmatic too? Like what Harbin had said?
Yet, he still hides the toys. Then, he turns to face me and says, "If you don't like it, just tell me, Kaiya. I don't want to add to your pain."
"But you want it!"
"And you don't, so let's leave it at that."
He stands up and gathers his clothes. I know he will return to his harem again, and I can't do anything but persevere and try to dull this gnashing pain.

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It is already late afternoon, after a tea with Harbin, that I choose to walk back to my room. I need to eat and take a bath before Theo appears again. Suddenly, a woman of slight build bars my path.
"Miss Kaiya."
Meeghan comes forward and asks, "What do you need, Miss?"
"I am Glynis Bugh from the Penrose Kingdom. I am from the King's harem and I would like to talk to Miss Kaiya Pitchford."
"And what do you need from my mistress, Miss Glynis?" Meeghan asks again.
"I need to ask her something related to the King's harem."
I raise my brow, is this what Harbin is telling me? Some problems with the King's performance on his harem? Their first attempt to use me is to talk? Ain't that tame? I was expecting something crazy.
"Ask about what, Miss Glynis?"
Glynis looks around, to my guards, to Meeghan, and then back to me. "I can't say here. Can't we talk in a private room instead?" she asks.
"I don't think it's a wise idea, Miss Kaiya," Meeghan warns.
But this girl is small. I don't think she can hurt me. "If you will usher us to this private room you are talking about," I say.
A moment later, the girl walks towards the inner rooms of the castle. It's a place for the guests, although right now, most of it is vacant. Only the harem women and their servants are staying there.
After several rooms, Glynis stops in front of a door. It's similar to the other doors. Same wooden color, same width, and length, even its distance to the other rooms are the same.
"If you'd enter inside, please," she ushers.
I am about to enter the room when she stops Meeghan. "Only Miss Kaiya, please."
I nod to Meeghan. "I'll be fast, Meeghan. You don't need to worry."
"But-"
"Please…" Besides, I am also curious about what these women have in store for me. I wonder what they are planning to talk about?
Meeghan nods and retreats. Grateful for her trust, I step into the room, which smells strongly of scented oil. The lighting is dim since the curtains are too thick to let the light in. In the middle is a king-size bed covered with a thick screen.
Glynis steps away from me and the woman from Penrose, which I know as Coe Wren approaches me. However, I get distracted by the sounds coming from the bed. Smacking and sucking sounds.
"Coe Wren," she extends her hand, but I did not take it. She's one of the women with her child killed due to poison before the fire engulfs the previous harem house.
"What do you want to talk about?" I ask.
I hear a squeal from the bed. I am about to turn my attention to it when Coe claps her hand and women surround me. In my shock, they take my clothes off my body. It is too fast that I didn't have time to react before I am fully naked in front of her.
"Hmmm, you are not as beautiful, but you have a lovely body."
"What is this?" I ask. Five women are holding my arms. They might know that I am a werewolf.
Coe nods at another woman, and then they opened the blankets covering the bed. I take in a breath. It is my mate, a naked Theo sitting at the center. Three women are surrounding him, one on his back, another on his side, and the other woman is kneeling over him with her hand around his shaft. Very intimate.
I swallow the jealousy and the pain and try not to look at Theo's face. I also start to cover myself, conscious of the eyes on me, but mostly, I can feel Theo's eyes and no matter how much I disdain the feeling, my body is enjoying it. This mate bond is worse than a drug.
"Miss Coe, it is working!" the woman says and starts sucking Theo again.
I can't help the flinch when I see her placing his entire length in her mouth. I steel myself and clench my jaws. I know this is already happening, but really, this is so hard to see.
"He is the King. You should share him."
Then I hear the moans of the woman. I glance at them, which I instantly regret. She already takes Theo inside her. She is gyrating against him, being defeated by her own pleasure, while Theo's eyes are on me. I look away.
"Are you about to cry, my dear?"
I glare at her. She is acting as if she is the Queen already. I search for my clothes and see most of them being hugged by Glynis. "Give it back!" I bark, which only makes her take a step back.
I need to get away from this room. Meeghan is right. I should have not entered, but I am too curious that I am here now. Then I remember Harbin's words. I hope he learns that this is what Theo's harem women have in mind. Use me to arouse him, so he can impregnate them. Tasteless… and very painful.
Suddenly, there is the sound of a person's body falling to the ground. I hear Theo's steps, which have become so familiar for the past few weeks. I flinch when he's become too near, but instead, his hands enclose around Coe's neck.
"What the hell do you think you are doing?! Did I give you the authority to call my lover here?!"
Instead of cowering away from him, she fixes her eyes on him. "If we need heirs, I think this is the only way to fix your erectile dysfunction," she says.
His hands tighten around her neck, and I become afraid that he will snap it. "You are not allowed to use-"
"Theo!" I reach for his arms to loosen them. Coe Wren might be a minor lady, but she is still a Lady. If she is killed here because of someone like me, I don't think that anything good will come out of it.
"My King," I call. Theo shifts his attention to me and I continue, "It's fine. I am yours."
I move closer to his body, and he takes in air in my proximity. I touch his chest to calm him down. I take his other arm and let him touch me, wherever he wants, even the places that are supposed to be intimate.
I touch his cheeks and whisper, "I am here to serve you. Always."