42. Hayden

42

HAYDEN

I wake up the next night to Millie's sobs in the bathroom. Throwing the bed sheets off my body, I run towards the sound of her fast heartbeat. Every step I take, I can't help but wonder who I'm going to hurt for it. Walking behind her in nothing but my boxers and silver chain with the Drago emblem down my neck, her warmth calls to me like it always does.

"Baby, what's wrong?" I urgently ask, gripping her shoulders comfortingly. She stands in front of the mirror, and I watch her skin dip in where my fingers are in the reflection. She's in her silk black-laced gown that flows just below her knees, and she's already drying her tears with her knuckles. She has something in her hand, gripping it tight like she's frustrated.

"It's nothing, my love. I'm sorry for waking you up." she apologizes softly. I reach over her shoulders slowly and take her hand. She looks away while I pry her trembling fingers open.

It's a pregnancy test.

I swear my whole world stops, and I have the biggest smile on my face.

"It's…negative. I'm so sorry, Hayden." Millie sits down on the closed toilet with her face in her palms, hiding her disappointment while using her black waves of hair to mask her emotions further.

I place the test back on the sink and tense up. Scratching my temple, I close the distance.

She really wants this. I really want this. I wish I could take that disappointment away from her. It breaks me to see her sad after every negative test. She wants to become a mother so badly before she has to consent. It breaks my heart, but I know it will happen. It took my mother around six months of trying with my father to conceive me and two months with Kallum. We talk about having our first child almost every night. We spend our nights making love, teaching her about the underworld of Immortal's Country, picking out boys' and girls' names and nursery themes while I work and she studies.

I pick her up bridal style and take her in my arms, and she holds me tight. The entire time, I kiss her everywhere, and I can feel her body relax as the seconds go by.

Once I make it to the balcony, I sit her on the rail and open her legs until I settle in the middle of her inner thighs. I tilt her chin up to meet my gaze as the moonlight and crisp air dance against our skin.

"You are a blessing. You are perfect. I promise we will have our little Drago running around soon. I love you, and you are enough for me." I press my lips against hers, and she lets out a heavy sigh as she kisses me back harder.

"How do you manage to always say the right things to make me feel better? To make everything just… better ?"

"Just comes naturally," I sigh with a careless shrug, move her hair out of her face, and tuck it behind the shell of her ear before continuing. "I have this effect on everyone." I sneer with a wink, hoping it makes her smile. Her mouth drops open, and she pushes my shoulder away playfully with a scrunched cute nose and a smile that will always have me on my knees in a split second.

I place my hands on either side of her waist, caging her in.

"Your nightmares have stopped." I point out, changing the subject. For nights since after I brought her back to the Cathedral, she would dream about losing her father to Cole. Just thinking about the man who got to taste and see Millie's pussy makes me want to revive him just to kill him all over again.

"Yeah, they have ever since you chased them away every night with how hard you love me." she swings her feet side to side.

It's true.

I spend every minute making sure she has everything she needs, and when I'm not with her, she lives in my head.

"I miss my dad," she admits through pursed lips.

"I know."

"I won't be able to see him again once I turn into a vampire, right?"

I grind my teeth at the thought of her dying to reunite with her father. I don't know how to answer that.

Cooper comes strolling through and nestles his head underneath Millie's hand. He's licking her fingers until she pets him back on the top of his head. He's a part of my guardsmen. He guards the Cathedral and always protects Millie. She asked Nash to give Cooper to her, and he obliged.

"When can he start sleeping in his own bed?" I groan, frustrated that I have to share Millie with Cooper. I cross my arms over my chest, teasing her.

"Never," she turns over her shoulder with a pout as she scruffs his neck. She knows I can never say no to her. A knock on the door causes Millie's smile to curve into a frown.

"Meeting on the phone, Hayden. King Bane wants to talk." Holland announces on the other side of the door. My shoulders fall, and I cringe.

"Duty calls." I sigh as I turn to the closet, ready to clothe myself.

"Can I come?" Millie's hand stops me before I can walk away.

"Millie, I don't want to bore you with my work, and you have to study. You have an exam next week."

"I want to go." she hops off the railing and walks past me like she's not asking anymore. S he's telling me .

"A congrats are in order." King Bane's ancient voice booms over the speaker with a cold tone. King Bane is the Immortal King of the East. I sent him an invitation to the wedding, and I'm guessing that is the reason for the phone call.

"Thank you." I quip, taking a drag of my cigarette as Millie wanders around the room, studying every corner like she's intrigued by the history.

"I'll do my best to attend the wedding. I would love to take my wife and sons to meet the new future queen of the North. I haven't been to Montana since…" I tune out King Bane's voice when Millie gets on her knees between my legs with a mischievous smirk. She always manages to distract me just by breathing. She pushes my knees apart and unzips my pants. Every single nerve inside me explodes with liquid fire at the anticipation. Before I can move, she shakes her finger, side to side, like she's ordering me to freeze as her cheeks pinken. I sense her slick pussy already dripping beneath her underwear, making my mouth water.

I can't believe she's doing this. I can't get off the phone, and she knows it.

"Millie," I warn her to stop with gritted teeth as she takes hold of my cock and pulls it out. Pre-cum already glistens at the tip, but before I can say another word, her tongue flicks it like she's eager to taste me.

This woman .

"I'm sorry?" King Bane's voice pulls my attention away, and I stare at the phone in a hypnotizing daze.

"N-nothing. I thought I?—"

Millie's hot mouth closes in on my cock, and she starts to suck. I close my eyes and grind my teeth when her tongue flicks me up and down. I tilt my head to the side.

Oh, she's going to pay for this .

"Okay," King Bane clears his throat. "Listen up, King Drago, not everyone agrees with you marrying a Valkyrie, but because—" I tune him out again as Millie takes me to the back of her throat over and over again until tears leak out of her eyes and down her cheeks. My dick twitches and grows harder, and she just smiles like it's a challenge to get me off the phone. Saliva drips down her chin as she gives my tip another world-shattering suck before she inhales another deep breath.

I grip the chair handle until the wood chips. I'm about to destroy this whole fucking room if I don't get inside her right now. I am pretty lustful for her blood, and I could drink her in as I punish her.

She stops sucking, and I groan out, frustrated.

Why did you stop ?

I growl into her head so King Bane can't hear.

"It seems to me you're on a very important call," she whispers.

She's fucking teasing me.

She walks away from me, making my balls draw up tight, and I'm begging for her to finish what she started. But King Bane's voice forces the nirvana she encases me in to drift away the more he goes on about how the council favors me due to fear.

If you don't finish what you started, expect to be punished .

She ignores me, and that drives me even more crazy. She shrugs as she snakes her hand into her panties and starts to finger herself. She sits her tight perfect ass on the edge of the table so I can get a good view. She closes her eyes as she pleases herself on her palm. Rubbing her swollen throbbing clit in treacherous circles, making me fucking feral.

She's close to climaxing. Her heart rate speeds up, and her toes start to curl. Is she about to finish without me? I don't fucking think so.

Her mouth pops open, and she brings her other finger inside her mouth, sucking it like she's begging me to fill it with my cock.

Goddammit, Millie .

I bite down on my knuckles, my fangs slicing into my hand until dark blood flows everywhere and drips on the phone.

"King Bane. An emergency popped up, and I have to let you go. I'll call you back soon." My tone is murderous. Millie recognizes the change in my demeanor; her eyes shoot open, and she drops to her feet. She's going to run?

She springs away, darting towards the door. She didn't think I would end the call, and now she's going to regret it.

"But King Drago, I'm not finished." King Bane protests with a stunned tone.

Click .

I grab her, slam her ass back down on the table and wrap my hand around her throat as my tongue dives inside her mouth. My pants slide down to my ankles, and I drive my cock all the way home into her tight pussy, not letting her catch her breath.

"You thought you were being cute? You thought you were going to tease me and let another man hear you come? You thought you would just distract my work and important phone calls and get away with it?" I snarl into her ear as I rail her hard and unremorseful.

"Take it. Take every inch and every drop of my cum, Millie."

Her eyes roll to the back of her head as every single thrust hits that one spot inside of her that drives her crazy. She wraps her legs around me as she moans.

"I'm sorry, I—" I cut her apology off with the palm of her hand as I continue to fuck her.

"No. Too late for that." I pull her hair back, grab a fistful, and expose her neck. She screams as I bite her, and everything feels out of this world as I drink. The only time I'm happy is when I'm inside her, hearing her heartbeat.

"Taste yourself." I swipe her blood with the tip of my finger and drive it into her mouth so she can taste what I do. She sucks like a good fucking girl, and I grin as my cock grows harder.

"Hayden, oh my, fuck . Don't stop!" She chants and bites her lip. With blood dripping down her neck and chest, she cries out my name as I mix pain with pleasure. Her breasts bounce, and her nipples harden against my chest as I continue to fuck her ruthlessly against the table until she's begging me to stop for the entire night, and cum is dripping down her trembling thighs.