Claimed by the Elven King: Part Two Read Online Free PDF

over a great length of time.”
    Her unexpected revelation hit me like a ton of bricks. I did not at all
like the tiny surge of hope I suddenly felt that my elven husband truly did
want me for me if I had been the exception to the rule. If this had happened
thousands of years ago, I could very well imagine what those women thought when
they saw an elf for the first time. Depending on their beliefs, they probably
had mistaken them for gods. Nowadays, people would either know immediately what
they were like I did thanks to popular media, or they would mistake them for
aliens or maybe even angels. Either way, I didn’t think it would be quite so
easy to find willing human mates this time around.
    “Just the fact that you are here, Emily, has our elder brother and his
wife excited about the possibility of children in the near future,” Saeria
added. She laughed suddenly. “His wife, Irdes, has asked me everyday since the
night of your Consummation whether there have been any signs that His Majesty’s
seed has borne fruit. I haven’t seen the ladies of the court this excited in
quite a while.”
    I quickly looked down uncomfortably at my hands. While they still
wouldn’t come right out and ask, during the last four weeks, all three women
would often drop a hint of their desire to know whether or not I thought I was
pregnant here and there in seemingly unrelated topics of conversation.
    “I don’t think it happened this time,” I said quietly. If anything, the
light period I’d had over a week ago took care of the uncertainty even though I
had kept it from my friends, having not been sure if I could keep my relief
from my expression.
    Once again, Lariel took my hands between her own. “Please don’t let it
worry you,” she fretted. “No one thought you would conceive so soon. I suspect
it will take many moon-cycles, or perhaps even years. The old texts are quite
clear on that.”
    “Besides,” Rinwen added, “your days of fertility will begin again
tomorrow. Just in time for His Majesty’s visit.”
    My head instantly shot up. “He’s coming to see me tomorrow?” I said,
wincing internally at the eagerness in my voice. Dammit…I really had fallen for him, hadn’t I…
    “That’s what the messenger said this morning,” she confirmed. “We were
instructed to have dinner prepared and waiting for you two in His Majesty’s
personal chambers tomorrow evening. I believe he will come for you, himself.”
     
     
     
     
     
     
     

CHAPTER FIVE
     
     
    I was exhausted when Lariel came to wake me up the next morning, having
gotten very little sleep that night out of both anticipation of seeing Sethian
and nervousness. It had been so long since I had last seen him that I felt it
would be like meeting a stranger. Every other time he had come to see me, we
had progressed to sex fairly quickly, and I didn’t want that this time. I
wanted us to just hang out together for a while and just talk, maybe out on the
balcony if he wasn’t in the mood for a walk in the garden—something I’m ashamed
to admit to daydreaming about.
    Yes, I really did have it bad for the elf, but instead of being happy
about it, it only made me angry at myself. I had always thought I had more
common sense than to invest so much of myself into a relationship as uncertain
as this one right from the beginning. Who knew that all it would take was a few
kind words, a hot body, and mind-blowing sex to win me over so thoroughly?
    However, I was determined not to let my traitorous body get in the way
tonight. After everything the girls had told me, I had a month’s worth of
questions for him, and I would demand answers to at least some of them before
going anywhere near a bed.
    After a visit to the royal baths, I was sitting in my bedroom at the
dressing table brushing out my hair and snacking on a bowl of grapes while I
waited for Lariel to return with the Maelenas sisters and my breakfast when the
nausea hit. It came on so suddenly and