The Alpha King Call Boy
Chapter 133

My car pulled up to the curb just in time for me to glimpse Alexander hopping out of the driver's seat of a Bentley he'd just parked nearby.

He jogged straight to my door and beat my driver to the task of opening it for me.

"Hey, gorgeous," he said, extending an open hand.

"Good timing." I let him pull me out of the backseat and take away my briefcase.

Naturally, I wondered what he'd been up this afternoon. Where he was coming from. But when I texted him on my way out of the office, letting him know I was getting out of work early, he had only responded, rather mysteriously, that he was also just returning from the city and would meet me at the palace.

And my training was quite clear on this subject. My Alpha had a right to his privacy. It was not my place to ask him questions about how or where or with whom he spent his time.

"How was work?" he asked as we walked to our room.

"It was great." I had to clench my teeth to bite back what would have been an enormous smile. I was thinking about that twenty thousand dollar bonus I'd just gotten. "It's very good to have Conrad back."

"Yeah." Alexander was distracted... his eyes were loitering on my cleavage.

"Still thinking about that, huh?"

"Haven't stopped."

I'd made him a promise earlier, and I kept it: he tore that button-down dress open shortly after we were behind closed doors, and the look on his face while he did it was pure enjoyment. Then he made good on his own promise, taking care of me like he said he would.

When we were both finished, and he was relaxing his body beside mine in bed, he leaned close and whispered into my ear, so earnestly I had to believe he meant it, "I missed you today."

I didn't really know how to respond. It was not something we really said to each other. Especially not after only being apart for less than twelve hours.

So I didn't say anything.

But I didn't want to hurt him. My big, tough Alpha could be sensitive, sometimes, when it came to things like this. Intimate, love-like games didn't mean as much to him, I don't think, as they did to me. He wanted to do that stuff for fun, and sometimes got his feelings hurt when I wouldn't play along.

I couldn't do that stuff with Alexander, though, because he wasn't really mine. Not forever. Our relationship had an expiration date, and so it also had limits.

I turned toward him and planted a soft, slow kiss on his cheek right beside his lips, the way he had been doing to me lately in the mornings. I hoped maybe this gesture, an almost-kiss, was enough of a response.

Alexander wrapped his arms around me and kissed the top of my head.

The next thing he said was a change of subject. "Any interest in an early dinner?" he asked.

I was interested in this, yes, and so that's what we did. We enjoyed a big, early meal in the dining room, and then took a little stroll out on the grounds in the hour before sunset.

We chatted easily, talking about Nina coming in the morning and our plans for breakfast with her. About seeing Grandfather in a couple days. About work and Conrad and all kinds of things.

He dropped me off at our room and performed a quick change when it was time for evening training with his pack. He said he might come to bed late tonight. He apparently had a lot of work to do with his men, some problems he was trying to resolve.

I relaxed in bed with a book, thinking I could enjoy some unwinding time, but that did not last long. My next memory is Alexander dragging the flattened book out from under my arm, turning off my bedside lamp, and creeping into bed with me feeling damp from a shower and smelling like pine.

I was awakened in the morning not by my alarm, but by a text from Nina.

Alexander and I had been cuddling and snoozing for hours, ever since we woke up naturally in the early morning. It felt good to be horizontal, resting my body and letting him hold me and soaking in his strength and warmth, and I was dozing when the text notification chimed.

Nina: Hey Fi... I'm here at the palace a little early. Just pulled thru security, actually.

I jolted upright with needless panic. My sleepy brain was piecing together what was happening.

"What's wrong?" Alexander asked groggily.

"Nothing. Just Nina. For some reason she's already here."

He looked at the time on his phone. "Why?"

"I don't know."

I texted: Why? Didn't we plan on 9? It's 745...?

Nina: I know. I'm sorry! I've just been up since super early.

Me: I am still in bed.

Nina: Don't worry- I'll keep myself busy. Just lmk when you're up

Alexander had gotten started on something that distracted me. He was petting me, stroking the inside of my thigh.

"Well?" he asked. "What's the deal?"

"I told her I'm still in bed. She's just gonna have to wait a few minutes till I can pull myself together."

I wondered whether Nina was just abusing her security pass on purpose for fun, or if perhaps was up to something this morning.

My best friend's intentions were always good. But she was also often a bit too fearless. Reckless might be an even better word to describe that quality of hers.

I texted: Give me 30?

Nina: Take your time, babe

Alexander's hand drifted up between my thighs. I sank back down into the bed and curled my body in toward his. He started playing, gently, with his fingers on me.

"Let me get you off before you get up, hmm?"

I couldn't say no to that. "Okay... I don't want to keep her waiting too long, though."

"I'll make it quick, then..."

What great customer service this call boy provided for me, I thought to myself mischievously. It was a dirty, kind of shameful thought that came to me out of nowhere, but for whatever reason, it turned me on.

Alexander kissed my neck and started fingering me teasingly. Then, very quickly he got rougher with it. I ground my hips down hard against his hand, making him growl.

He brought his face close to mine and held his lips an inch away from my lips, threatening me with a kiss. His golden eyes were lust-filled and daring. He kept that posture until I couldn't take the tension any longer and started to o****m, and he held onto me tightly until the earthquake rippling through me finally slowed and then stilled.

Then he asked meekly, while slowly withdrawing his hand, "Is that all you want, baby?"

I moaned. "No. Give me a little more."

He smiled and set to work shifting both our bodies around. He pressed my legs apart and situated himself in between them, and then started rubbing himself against me, sliding only the tip easily up and down a place where I was already very, very wet. "You're not worried about your friend?" he asked.

I opened my mouth to answer, and suddenly he entered me all at once, growling as he did.

He buried his face in my hair and began thrusting his hips. He was breathing deeply, his hot breath tickling my skin as he dragged on my smell. The feeling of air rushing in and out of his nostrils sent a shiver down my spine.

"I changed my mind," I said between gasps. "She can wait."

Alexander

Fiona needed some more time than I did to get ready. She wanted to wash and blow-dry her hair. So I told her I'd go replace and entertain her friend for her.

I showered and dressed, told Fiona to text me when she was ready, and locked our bedroom door behind me.

It didn't take long to track Nina down. When I saw her, she was already walking straight in my direction. Her hair, a different vibrant color every single time I saw her, was bright white today.

It looked as though she was heading back toward our room from the training field. Beyond her, Kayden was standing some hundred yards farther off, watching her walk away. He and I made eye contact and he nodded like he'd catch up with me about this later. So Nina had sought out my Beta for a chat, it seemed.

"Hey, Nina."

"Hey, yourself." She flashed me a grin, looking sassy as ever and oddly comfortable strolling the palace halls on her own.

"Taking a little self-guided tour?"

She smirked up at me. "You're the one who trusted me enough to give me a security pass."

"I did do that, huh? Should I be regretting it?"

"No, no," she said, in the gentle way you'd soothe an anxious child. "Alex, I'm as trustworthy as they come."