The Crown's Seduction
Chapter 167: A Powerful Spell**

Chapter 167: A Powerful Spell**

Mineah felt like her heart just leaped out of her chest with that revelation. Nikolai hadn’t mentioned that before at all. He only told her that Vulcan killed his father and that he witnessed how his father suffered before turning into ash, not that... that almost happened.

She bit her inner lip as she watched Nikolai glare at the flying dragon far away from them. The burning desire to kill it was very visible in the flaming wildfire in his amber orbs. She could feel his body trembling against hers. That was how much he was trying to control himself from attacking the dragon.

She inwardly hissed through her teeth. If only that dragon wasn’t holding Ezekiel’s body captive... She would’ve probably even given him her free reign to finish off Vulcan and finally take away the burden and fury still within her husband.

Guilty, she cupped his face and rested her forehead on his as she whispered, "I’m sorry if I’m holding you back, Lai. I..."

"Why?" Nikolai suddenly asked. "Why are you holding me back? Why do I have this feeling that you’re protecting Vulcan?"

Mineah’s face paled. With Nikolai still staring intensely into her eyes, she did her best to defend herself. "I-I’m n-not p-protecting V-Vulcan, Lai," she stuttered. "But w-what if..."

She found her words trailing off as she contemplated what she was about to say. There could be no harm in mentioning what exactly was going on by making it look like it was just a hypothetical situation. That way, she could also see how Nikolai would react to the potential news.

Her mind made up, she cupped his face once more and met his intense gaze. "What if your suspicion is right, Nikolai? What if that dragon had already merged with my brother Ezekiel? And you killed it?" she asked with a whisper. "That’s why I want you to wait till we find my brother, Nikolai..."

"But that’s absurd! My father is the most powerful vampire and even he wasn’t able to fight Vulcan’s soul!" Nikolai reasoned. "And even if Vulcan is using your brother’s body, then there’s no guarantee that it’s still his body! Vulcan reigns over any living thing it fuses to."

"Are you saying that you’ll still kill the dragon even if it’s using my brother’s body as its vessel?" Mineah directly asked. It was a question she feared to ask, but she had to do so now while she still had the courage to voice it.

"I... I..."

Her eyes widened. His hesitant answer sounded so scary to hear that Mineah no longer waited for him to speak and simply sealed his lips with hers.

For some reason, she wasn’t ready to hear his answer. What if he said he would still kill Vulcan even if her brother was still its vessel? She would be utterly devastated, and such an event would surely affect her relationship with Nikolai.

She was already torn between her love for him and for her brother. Just the thought of losing any one of them was making her heart break more than it should. Just knowing the stakes of it let her know that she shouldn’t waste any more time. She had to fuse Ezekiel’s spirit tonight if only to prevent losing either of the most important men in her life. However, she needed to distract Nikolai and put him in a powerful spell tonight for it to work.

Back in the real world, Mineah let out a low moan as their kiss deepened, not minding how roughly Nikolai was starting to kiss her. Feeling a bit needy herself, she moved and sat on his lap while their lips continued in their close contact, neither of them wanting to break it.

Somewhere along the way, she felt Nikolai get up and carry her in his arms inside their tent. She felt her back land on the ground with him hovering above her. She felt breathless as he continued to taste every corner of her mouth while he roamed his hands across her body. She didn’t even notice that she was already naked underneath him, and the same could be said for him.

How convenient must it have been for her husband to have a knowledge of such magic, saving both of them the time in undressing each other whenever they felt like this.

With his ministrations starting in earnest, Mineah gasped as she felt his warm hand cupping her soft mounds, kneading it before diving in and engulfing her taut nubs into his warm mouth. Her hands immediately buried their fingers around his hair, lightly pulling at it as she let out a breathy moan.

The pleasure was starting to get the better of her, but Mineah managed to keep her sanity intact by focusing on what she had to do. While she felt like she was going to slip into a haze of pleasure at any moment, she managed to begin grabbing energy from him while he was too busy pleasuring her. With a spell inside her mind, she focused on the task at hand to prevent herself from going off the deep end into her husband’s touch.

It was a good thing too. With his ministrations getting rougher and more intense by the second, the struggle to keep herself attentive was starting to become a losing battle. She felt him nibble and bite her skin, and surprisingly, it only fueled an intense sensation within her.

Eagerly, she spread her legs wide as she felt the tip of his manhood poking and brushing against her skin. She gasped at the increasingly pleasurable sensation running up her body. She was aching for him to be inside of her, but to her chagrin, Nikolai wasn’t entering her just yet.

"Mine, you... You’re always driving me mad!" he breathed out in a husky tone while planting fierce kisses upon every inch of her mounds.

"Lai..."

Another gasp came out from her lips as Nikolai kneaded her other breast while swallowing the other with his mouth. Their nether regions rubbed against each other as they rutted on one another, and she could feel herself starting to lose control as she incessantly rubbed her already moist flesh against his hardened member.

"Mine," Nikolai growled as she ground against him, his hands gripping her waist as he aligned and rammed himself deep into her already wet walls in one swift motion. "Ahhh..."

He groaned hard as her insides sucked him greedily. He went into his thrusts, his hips pulling and pushing as he hit her in her sweet spot over and over again.

"Lai," she sobbed out his name as she clung to him. She moved her own hips in a circular motion, meeting his lunges with her own as he crushed her body into his.

"Mine, what are you doing to me?" Lai softly mumbled as she wrapped her legs tightly around her waist, urging him to move harder. She wanted him to lose all the remaining control he had left.

She pulled him closer with her legs, and Nikolai cursed. He picked up his pace, ramming deeper into her. Harder... More forcefully... Her body writhed with every thrust, her toes curling up deliciously as she spread her legs further. The spell was almost complete, and she was taking a reasonable amount of energy from Nikolai despite everything that was happening.

Faster and harder, they both finally reached their pinnacle with Mineah’s body convulsing underneath him, and Nikolai letting out a guttural moan as he spilled his juices all over her insides.

Still panting, Mineah uttered the last chant of her spell. Right then and there, Nikolai’s body slumped on top of her.