The King. Tiffany Reisz

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СКАЧАТЬ the guest room. Søren stood on the opposite side of the bed, an open silver suitcase in front of him.

      “Very well, then. I’m in your room.”

      “Can I ask you one question?”

      “Ask.”

      “What did you do to Blaise?”

      Søren looked up at him.

      “I’m not going to answer that.”

      “Did you fuck her?”

      “That’s two questions, and no, I didn’t. Are you upset we played? She said she’s allowed to be with anyone she wants.”

      “I don’t care who she plays with. I want to know why she’s lying on my couch in a stupor claiming you gave her the best pain of her life?”

      “The best? I’m sure that’s an exaggeration, but I’m pleased she enjoyed herself.” Søren smiled as he dug through the suitcase of kink toys Kingsley kept under every bed in the house. “I certainly enjoyed her.”

      “So all that about not breaking your vows was, quoi?”

      “There was no sex, and I didn’t marry her. Nor did I take money from her or refuse to obey a direct order from the pope.”

      “What about—” Kingsley made a specific hand gesture.

      “Well,” Søren said. “I did do that, of course.”

      “Of course.”

      “But we Jesuits aren’t nearly so hard-line or heavy-handed as the Curia when it comes to masturbation. My God, there are at least three puns in that last sentence. Entirely unintentional.”

      “Stop joking. This is serious.”

      “It’s not serious. Calm down, Kingsley.”

      “I’m perfectly calm.”

      “You’re speaking in tongues, Kingsley. I heard French and English, and some Spanish mixed in, and you’re speaking them all at the same time.”

      “You’re a priest. A Jesuit priest. And I left the house for one hour and come back, and I’ve got a girl with afterglow on my couch eating strawberries claiming my ex-lover who is now a Catholic priest gave her the best pain of her life. I can’t ever leave my house again.”

      “You know from personal experience it’s in the world’s best interest I beat someone on a regular basis. I spoke to my confessor, and he gave me leave to deal with this side of myself as long as I don’t break any vows. So there.”

      “So there? No, not there. We’re not there yet. You—” Kingsley pointed at Søren. “You’re in a good mood all the time. And you talk. And you’re...nice. Well, nicer.” The word nice hurt coming out. “You’ve changed.”

      “Kingsley—”

      “It’s the girl, isn’t it? The Virgin Queen. I should have known.”

      Søren eyed him with suspicion. “Kingsley, are you—”

      “Give me a second.” Kingsley paced the room. His mind reeled. What had happened under his own roof? He reached into his jacket pocket and pulled out tobacco and rolling papers.

      “What are you doing?”

      “I need a cigarette to calm my nerves. They’re frazzled.”

      “You’re not a dowager duchess. You shouldn’t have frazzled nerves at twenty-eight,” Søren said. “And you shouldn’t be smoking, either.”

      “My house, my rules. It’s a smoking house. Everyone has to smoke in my house. I won’t quit smoking, and if you stay here you have to start.” Kingsley quickly rolled a cigarette and licked the rolling paper to seal it.

      “Then I’ll go back to the rectory.”

      Kingsley flicked his lighter, lit his cigarette, took a long drag and glared at Søren.

      “How do you give someone the best pain of their life without touching them?”

      Kingsley raised the cigarette to his lips again.

      He heard a snapping sound, and the cigarette no longer had a flame.

      For a long time he looked at his cigarette before slowly turning his head toward Søren who held a bullwhip in his hand. Casually Søren coiled it.

      Cigarette lit.

      Bullwhip snap.

      Cigarette not lit anymore.

      He held the stub in his hand split in two.

      “Any other questions?” Søren asked with an arrogant lift of his eyebrow.

      Kingsley pointed at the whip, pointed at his hand, pointed at Søren...

      “Can you teach me to do that?”

      “I’ll answer your questions if you answer mine.”

      Søren threw the whip down on the bed and came around to Kingsley. He raised his hands to Kingsley’s face and lifted his eyelids.

      “What are your questions?” Kingsley asked, trying to blink.

      “Why do you smell like a brothel? Why do you have a gun in your pants? And most importantly, what drugs are you on right now?”

       9

      WHEN IN DOUBT, Kingsley fucked.

      And ever since Søren had caught him taking drugs, he’d been drowning in self-doubt. Now he was drowning in Blaise’s body, a vastly superior body to drown in. She’d made the mistake of looking much too attractive today when she stopped by his office to say good morning. But she hadn’t complained when he’d slipped his hand under her skirt, and she certainly wasn’t complaining now that he had her straddling him in his large leather desk chair.

      “You’re in a good mood today,” Blaise said as she unbuttoned his collar. She dipped her head and kissed his lips, his neck.

      “I have you on top of me. Of course I’m in a good mood.” He skimmed his fingers down her throat and into the V of her blouse.

      “If you were inside me, you’d be in an even better mood.”

      “Are you sure about that?” Kingsley asked. He slid his hands under her skirt and massaged her soft thighs.

      “Only one way to find out, isn’t there?” Blaise bit his earlobe and whispered. “S’il vous plait, monsieur.”

      “Since you ask so nicely...”

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