A Savage Debt (The Beholden Duet #1) - Zoey Ellis Page 0,17

library, the ones Milly thought she didn’t know about wedged between the boring land ownership laws and the thousands of recipes for pottage, but none of them described what a man’s appendage looked like, only what he did with it. This Alpha’s was huge—a thick, stiff rod that curved up slightly with a seeping bulbous tip, and veins scattering along it.

Her eyes widened as he came toward her, and she almost didn’t register what he was expecting her to do until its warm, wet tip touched her lips. She stiffened, indignant that he was intending to treat her like a whore, but she already knew that was going to happen. She forced herself to calm, and let him rub himself on her lips. The skin was silkier than she thought it was going to be, and the scent that curled into her nose was nothing like she had experienced before. Deep and rich, it was pungent with strong spicy, briny, and caustic tones blended to create something so uniquely complex she couldn’t decide if it was pleasing or not. She took a deep breath of it, and another. And then another.

“Open,” he ordered again, irritation crackling through his tone.

Ana tentatively opened her mouth, but immediately he grabbed the back of her head and shoved himself in as far as it would go.

She immediately retched, but he held it in, the tip almost touching the back of her throat as she tried to accommodate it.

He said something, but she couldn’t hear anything beyond her own choking. With her eyes tearing up, she grabbed his wrist that held her head down and scratched at it for him to release her.

Just when she thought she would certainly choke to death, he finally withdrew from the back of her throat but kept his cock in her mouth. Ana coughed around him,foaming bubbles of her saliva erupting from the corners of her mouth and dripping down to the floor in long, stringy strands.

“Suck.”

Glancing up at his unchanged expression, Ana knew that he was not going to allow her to remove him from her mouth completely. So she sucked on him the best she could, her lips wet from her own spit and the bitterness from the back of her throat strong in her mouth. The taste of him echoed his complex scent, and she lowered her eyes to focus on that, trying to push aside thoughts of where his cock had been rumored to have been.

After a moment, he moved her head down on him, but before he got too far, pulled it back. He repeated this until it became a solid rhythm.

Ana tried to remember to breathe through her mouth but with him being so big, her primary concern was to make sure he didn’t push in too far again.

Finally, after what seemed like forever, he withdrew and pulled Ana’s head back, forcing her to look up at him.

His eyes remained intense and angry. “You haven’t had cock in your mouth before.”

Unsure if it was a question or a statement, Ana shook her head.

“Good,” he said with a grunt. “You are lucky you haven’t.”

Ana frowned, trying to make sense of his words, but she couldn’t think properly. He held her gaze for a moment longer before releasing her.

She bent forward, breathing hard and trying not to retch again as the tears that already filled her eyes spilled onto her cheeks. She angrily wiped them away. No. She refused to get upset. This was what she was here for, she had to remember that. It was for Father.

But the thoughts didn’t reassure her as much as she hoped they would—there was still the rest of the night to go.

Firming her mind, she rose to her feet and returned to stand beside the bed, wiping her mouth as she watched the Alpha, trying to ignore the pungent taste on her tongue and calm the lingering terror of what was to come.

He stood over the tables of food on the other side of the room, and drew something out of his pocket. He cupped his hand so his palm faced upward and held his hand over each dish for a few moments before moving onto the next. When he had done the whole table, he pushed whatever was in his hand back into his pocket and began to eat.

For the next few minutes, he ate from almost every plate. Thick bread, stewed meats, herb cheese, honeyed nuts, and cakes, and other delicious dishes fit for a royal