He chuckles as he swims across the water and my back is suddenly against the cool tiles to help support my weight. "Withhold, and who are you calling your majesty?" "Yes, hold back or refuse to give information." He smiles at me in pride and I try not blush but it happens anyway. Ryder just looks at me for a little while, his fingers slowly tickling back and forth on my thighs beneath the water. I could feel the heat coming and by the way he seemed to take a deep calming breath every now and then to calm himself down he knew it was coming as well. The tingles and shocks that I had always felt when he touched me were getting stronger and warmer but this wasn't the end of it. While he watched me I watched as my fingers slowly followed the drops of water that were making a path down his toned and tanned chest. "Are people going to call me that?" I ask out of the blue my fingers now drawing patterns into his chest. "Call you what?" His eyebrows drew together as his finger slipped beneath my chin so he can see my eyes. "Your majesty and all that, I mean I'm the queen now." With his fingers messaging the underside of my jaw he answers me. "Not all the time. Outside of the castle you will be addresses as that or her royal highness and queen but inside the castle they'll either call you Charlotte or Luna." Ryder's hand wrapped around mine when I didn't reply to what he said, I just didn't know what to say. I had been with him for a two short months already and I had conquered a lot but only once had I been out of the safety I had found in the castle. No matter what else I had to go through Ryder would be there for me and I would be there for him. I'm pulled back out of my thoughts when Ryder presses a small kiss to the tips of my fingers. "You're all wrinkly. Do you want to get out and go to bed?" "And do what?" my voice was flat but I kept my eyes locked with his. He shakes his head lightly finally pulling me back from the wall with a smirk pulling at his cheeks. "Whatever you want?" He was tone was suggestive and it was obvious to what he was suggesting. The way that he sounded so cocky made me realise that tonight wouldn't be his first time. He had done this before and as much as it made me nervous it caused a tightening anger to spread through my chest. I had the sudden urge to rip off the pair of swim shorts he had on and take him myself. "Lottie," he interrupts my thoughts again. "As much as I'm enjoying where your line of thoughts is going but you're wrong." His thumb gently runs over my cheek bone and I lean into the soothing warmth of his touch. "Yes, I've had sex with other girls and the last one was over four years ago, but this will be the first time that it's anything more than that. As corny as it sounds this will be the first time that I make love to someone, to you. Those other girls, when I was with them, it was a way to release my wolf, they didn't have faces and they didn't have names because I had tried to see you. I didn't have a clue what you looked like but the entire time I was thinking of you." Leaning in closer to me his lips softly hover mine and when he continues to speak I feel how soft they are. "Mating with you is what I've waited for my entire life. When we mate not only am I going to come into my wolf and I have my real first time, I'm not going to take my eyes off your beautiful body for one second because I want to see every single detail about it because none of those girls ever mattered it only ever was and always will be you that I care about." Tears were steadily streaming down my cheeks now. Even Ryder was crying lightly as he pressed his lips back to mine in a slow kiss. "I love you," I whispered to him with my arms around his neck. "I love you." His hand settles under my butt again as he carries us out of the cool water of the pool. When the fresh air hits me I realise how hot I am. The water was good for me and very cooling but my heat was slowly getting worse and it's only half past one. Ryder detaches his lips from mine and lowers me to the smooth wooden floor next to the bed. "You're starting to feel it aren't you?" his voice was pained as he lifted up a soft fluffy towel to dry the water that still clung to my now sweating body. Nodding my head I watch as he quickly dries off himself. "How does my touch feel?" When his hands cup my cheeks I moan lightly. Again the tingles cascaded through my body as his skin makes contact with mine, pleasant warmth carrying along with it. "If you were in a true heat at the moment my touch would cool you instead of feeling our temperature differences." His hands continued to massage over my cheek bones. "Lie down and relax for now the heat will take a lot out of you." My eyes move over his abs alerting me to the fact that I was still half naked. "Don't change. If you want to get back in the water it'll be easier." "Can you get out of my head?" Shaking his head he lifted me from my feet again before dropping me down on the extra-large king bed.