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not needed to come
to see Dragan at all. Dragan had already decided to finish this war
once and for all. He did not need the king for that.
    And yet…
    The king shifted opposite
him now, and as he did so Dragan could not find it in himself to
wish that the king had not come. Because, war aside, he wanted this male
with an intensity that was making him ache. He was so attractive,
and his fidgety movements, the way his eyes kept skipping away from
Dragan’s…those actions only fanned the flames of desire.
    Fanned them hard.
    As did the fact that the
king was asking for his help. Asking , not demanding. Completely
oblivious to the fact that the help he so desired was already going
to be given and in a way that he would be unable to imagine. How to
explain that?
    “ I promised myself I would
have no involvement in this,” Dragan said after a moment. “For five
years I have stood by that promise. Despite the tales I have
heard…despite my own personal disappointment in Maylor’s behavior,
I promised myself.”
    “ And now I am asking you
to break that promise,” the king said. “And I will give you
whatever you require in return for that. Whatever you require.” He paused and
then, for the first time, and Dragan was not sure why he was only
now realizing that it was the first time, he locked eyes with
Dragan.
    That contact hit the alien
lord hard. He opened his mouth to reply, but closed it a moment
later. At first he didn’t know why he had done so, but a moment
later and he understood. No, not understood, realized .
    Did the king realize also?
Dragan doubted it, because although he was sat on the edge of the chair,
cock throbbing, heart pounding, the king was not. And yet…he should have been,
because it was obvious to Dragan then. Obvious in a way that it
should have been from the very first handshake. From the look in
the king’s very, blue eyes.
    This abrupt, overwhelming attraction
was not one sided.
    Not at all.
    Whether he realized it or
not, the king felt it too. It was clear in his slight, hesitant
movements. Clear in the way that he would not hold Dragan’s gaze
for more than a few seconds. And in that moment Dragan realized
something else, and the realization hit with the same force as the
last one had. There was a way to get exactly what he wanted, whilst
giving the king exactly what he wanted.
    The fact that his plan was already in
motion?
    The fact that he was about to ask for
something completely outrageous?
    None of that mattered in that moment.
It hadn’t since he had caught the flash of desire in the king’s
very blue eyes.
    And so, Dragan took a deep breath,
held the king’s gaze and spoke, “Whatever I require?”
    The king visibly swallowed. “Yes,” he
said softly. “For the safety of my people? To put an end to this
once and for all? I will do whatever it takes.”
    And with those words the king sealed
his fate.
    Because Lord Dragan wanted King
William.
    And through this, through doing what
he had already resolved to do, he was going to have him.
    There was no other option
now.

Chapter Five
     
    Lord Dragan was plotting something,
and William knew that it was something he was not going to like. He
could see it in the way the alien lord stared at him. His eyes
slightly narrowed, a questioning look there, and then too the way
he seemed to pause every so often and take deep breaths…almost as
if he was readying himself to pounce.
    Oh, William was not expecting violence
of any kind. Fact of the matter was if Dragan wanted him dead that
would already have happened. But William suspected he was about to
be asked for something that was going to be very hard to give. More
lands for Dragan’s people perhaps? A place on his court?
    Whatever it was William knew he had
little choice but to acquiesce. He had been totally honest with
Dragan. Too honest perhaps. But then, and oddly, the alien lord was
very easy to talk to. William couldn’t quite explain it, but as he
sat opposite the other male