Page 142 of Split or Swallow

Tem touched his shoulder.

“Are you sure I should leave? I could wait for you.”

He shook his head.

“I do not want you here alone.”

Tem had no rebuttal for that. After what happened with Rowe earlier, she could hardly argue she’d be safe.

“What will happen at the meeting?” she asked.

Caspen cupped her hip with his hand. Despite telling her she should leave, he hardly seemed eager to get rid of her.

“My recent…exploits…will be discussed.”

Tem thought of the golden claw around her neck. Surely, the quivers would have plenty to say about the fact that Caspen had proposed to a human. And there were also the murders of Jonathan and Christopher to contend with.

Tem shifted even closer.

“Will you get in trouble?” she whispered.

Caspen’s lips skimmed her shoulder.

“Perhaps.”

Tem climbed back onto his lap, touching just the tip of her finger to the head of his cock, which was already hard.

“What will happen to you?”

“That is up to the king to decide.”

Tem paused.

“I thought you were the Serpent King.”

To her surprise, Caspen chuckled softly.

“Only humans call me that. It has no bearing on my actual title.”

This was news to Tem. Everyone referred to Caspen as the Serpent King. He was a legend—the entire village had talked about him since before Tem was born. There wasn’t a single girl eligible for the training who didn’t know his reputation.

“In that case,” she angled her hips, lowering herself onto his cock. “What is your actual title?”

Caspen waited until she was fully seated before answering:

“I am the son of the king.”

Tem was a little too distracted by the way he felt inside her to fully absorb this information. But as she slowly began to slide herself up and down his cock, she managed to focus enough to say:

“So…you’re a prince?”

Caspen was equally distracted. His fingers were wrapped tightly around her thighs, guiding her movements. Eventually, he answered:

“Yes. I am a prince.”

Tem let that revelation sink in for a moment. It was absurd. She was involved with not one, but two princes. At the same time. It was nothing she could have ever predicted for herself.

But she would marvel at that later. Right now, there was only one prince she wanted.