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  That day was the beginning of many spent much the same. It wasn’t long before the whispers around the palace were of the great love the Emperor and his Empress bore each other.

  That love seemed to spread a warmth over the palace and beyond and the people were enamored of the happy couple who were unlike any ruling monarchs before them.

  The Empress was lauded far and wide for her generosity of spirit, when it wasn’t her beauty being talked about that is.

  And the Emperor, who’d long held his own ideals about rule, had successfully implemented change that benefited not just the ruling class, but the commoners as well.

  Because of her time spent at the village of the damned, Empress Mia had firsthand knowledge of what was needed to make the place more suited to human life. And it was her work there that really propelled her into the hearts of the people.

  When she wasn’t bringing about change for the less fortunate, her days were spent with her children who also benefited from her unconventional ideas about how a child of the royal blood should be raised.

  And even now, three years and three children later, she still had a standing engagement every afternoon at the Orchid Palace with the Emperor. It was one of the many traditions they’d started together.

  Now as he moved in and out of her body, a body that had grown used to his and was no longer shy and reserved but teased and seduced at every turn. She whispered words of lust in his ear. Words that she knew would incite him to giving her what she wanted.

  His roar before he pulled out of her body and put her on her ands and knees before driving back into her forcefully made her laugh. She knew how much he enjoyed her laughter in his bed.

  She looked back over her shoulder at him now as he pounded away at her, no longer afraid of harming the child they’d only just learned she was carrying.

  In fact it was that news that had sent the Emperor over the edge, as it had each time he’d heard the words spoken.

  Each time she’d said the words, I’m pregnant, something inside him always seemed to take over and nothing would do until he got inside her.

  And now was no different. But always he’s afraid that he’d hurt her or the child and always she teased until he’s ready to lose all control.

  He slammed his cock into her over and over even as in his mind he warned himself not to go too deep. But it was no use. She arched her back deeper, and spread her legs wider, opening herself up even more to his powerful thrusts and he was lost.

  Their hips pounded into each other as he body accepted his forceful thrusts. Thrusts that sent him deeper and deeper each time. He was wild and uninhibited when he sunk his teeth into her neck and marked her.

  Wild when he felt her tighten around him and pull as if in a hurry to draw the seed from his body. And even wilder when he reached around and held her hardening stomach where his child now grew.

  EMPEROR JAI

  Just like the first time. Each time I’m inside her is like the first. With the return of my memories of that night, without the haze of fever to dull the edges, I no longer shy away, but embrace.

  She’s the only woman I love, the only one I’ve ever shared this with. The only one I’ll ever want to share it with. Even with my son or daughter already nestled in her womb, my hunger for her was immeasurable.

  Because our couplings were about more than producing an heir. She’d done that already and more. No, when I take her it’s for the sheer pleasure of a man taking his woman. A woman accepting her husband’s love.

  Behind these doors, there’s no Emperor and Empress, only Jai and Mia. Two hearts that beat as one. “Stop it Empress!” She was riding herself on and off my cock harder and harder, making my cock drive in deeper when I wanted to hold back.

  The way she moved, sensual, feline like. The beauty of her form before my eyes. Back smoothly arched, hips slender and the firm globes of her ass.

  And when I reached around and beneath her to take her milky tits in my hands, the feel of their firmness made my cock grow harder inside her.

  She didn’t stop her torment but instead used the muscles of her tight cunt to entrap me and make me lose my senses until I was thrusting into her hard enough to hurt.

  I reached for her hands, clenched around the sheets and covered them with mine as we came together. “Yes, cum with me beauty.” There’s nothing I love better.

  I felt the heat of her juices as they exploded around my cock and spilled my seed in a furious torrent. Still she milked every last drop from my sore balls until I had nothing left. She laughed at me when I growled into her neck.

  “Why are you so bad?” I pulled out and dropped down beside her, drawing her into my arms. The child in her womb was already making her tired and she was soon asleep there on my chest.

  I looked up to the ceiling as my life flashed before my eyes. All that had transpired in these past years since I found her and brought her back. How much I would’ve lost had that not occurred.

  Like our days spent together like this, or the evenings we spend with our children, our little ones who will never know the heartache we’d both suffered.

  I’d asked her for a daughter to love and she’d given me one, followed by a son almost ten months later. It was a scandal in the palace and many counted on their fingers and figured out that the Emperor had barely given his wife enough time to heal from one birthing before he was planting another child in her.

  Of course I expect to hear the same scolding lecture from my mother this time as well. But how can I help myself?

  That time right after she gives birth, her body so ripe and fecund, it’s all I can do to give her the few weeks it takes for her body to heal.

  And she’s no help, my little tease, as her body wanted mine as much as mine hers during that time and she’s the one more often than not that seeks me out.

  She smiled and got closer in her sleep and I wondered what devilment she was dreaming up for me now. It’s a fact that she keeps me on my toes. Me, and the rest of the kingdom.

  My love for her only grows stronger with time. And on those rare moments when I remember how I almost lost her, I just hold on that much tighter.

  I’ve kept my promise to make it up to her, and have spent every day since doing just that. And she’d kept her promise to me as well.

  The promise to find a way to allow my brother into the palace without issue. She’d done it in her usual forceful way. It was something she wanted and so it was done and no one dared question her.

  Her virtue was known and praised by all so that even the retainers and those ministers who had in the past frowned upon my brother’s constant visits to the palace no longer found fault.

  If it was something their beloved Empress wanted, they would see that her every wish was fulfilled. And she in turn lived up to their ideal of what a true Empress should be.

  It got so I wasn’t sure which of us they cared for more. But it didn’t matter. She was my pride and joy, just as I knew all those years ago she would be.

  As to my daughter, that little miss was fast following in her mother’s footsteps. Headstrong, brave, smart. She was the pride and joy of her uncle Des who had been appointed to the Empress’ guard.

  Eunuch Van had taken the Crown Prince as his and even though the child had his own retinue of staff, was always in some scuffle with the Crown Prince’s chief eunuch. Something I stay out of as mush as the two of them try to draw me into their battles.

  As I drew my wife closer to my heart I could not help but to once again give thanks. Something I do at least once a day as the enormity of our love hits home.

  I kissed her brow and closed my eyes to get some rest as well. Soon enough I’ll have to return to the court and deal with the day’s issues, to be followed by time spent with my children in the garden as they play with the puppy who was really the center of it all.

  “Jai?”

  “I’m here my heart.”

  “Do you think we’ll have another Princess this time?” My ey
es flew open at the threat.

  The End