Chapter 106: What Happened at the Ball? (3)

"Hello, gorgeous."

Kai pulled his hand back a second late and stared at the crown prince in front of him, and before he could answer, another voice came in from the side.

"Whoa. You are pretty."

Kai turned and found the twin princess right there, looking him over with zero shame. She had the same coloring as her brother and a lot less restraint in her face, and she walked a half circle around him before stopping beside Evander clicking her tongue.

"whats your name beautiful one?" She said with a malicious look in her eyes.

Kai glanced at her, then at Evander wondering whether he had just been caught in a sibling love triangle ploy or if he was in one of those weird scenarios where a sibling seemed to love their own sibling a little bit too much...

"Kai."

Evander’s brows lifted a little.

"Just Kai?"

"Just Kai."

She grinned.

"My name is Evander and you have just been chosen as one of many."she said

"What?" Kai was confused.

"You are interrupting," Evander said with a boader line pissed off voice.

"I am doing him a favor," Evelyne replied, then looked straight at Kai. "Listen. My brother has a smooth tongue, and whatever sweet thing he has said to you, he has said to a hundred men and women before, so do not get stupid about it."

Kai looked at Evander. This wasn’t a surprise to him, he was just wondering why she was hovering.

"She always like this?"

"Yes," Evander said.

"Good to know."

"Hey! Rude!!" Evelyn yelped but Kai hadn’t considered that she was within ear shot

The System slipped in while they were still standing there.

[Candidate 007 behavioral profile updating.]

[Preliminary reading: impulsive, socially aggressive, low delay between interest and pursuit.]

[Host should remain aware.]

Kai almost answered it out loud and stopped himself. Around them the upper section was still moving with music below and formal voices everywhere, and for a second the night felt manageable again before his eyes caught on two familiar pressures in the crowd.

Caelum stood near one of the pillars and searched the floor in short brief looks, while Neet remained exactly where Kai had left him, stiff and focused, one bad angle away from locking on.

Evander followed his eyes.

"Those two with you?"

"what?"

"I said are those two men with you?"

"It’s complicated" he replied surprised that the prince had caught on.

"Then we should move before they come collect you."

Evelyne lifted her glass.

"Try not to make a mess."

"No promises and Fuck out of my business chimp" Evander said, and held out his arm.

Kai took it and let himself get guided away from the open upper section at a pace that looked elegant while still being intentional. They went down a side stair, cut behind a screen, and entered a private hallway where the ball noise dropped off and left them with actual space.

Evander stopped and turned to him.

"There, now we can breathe freely without interruptions"

"And by interruptions you mean your twin sister breathing down on our necks?"

"Yes and the two men you are keen to avoid thier detection"

Kai looked at him, surprised by his witty reply, this was the feistiest candidate he had ever handled as far as he was concerned.

"I guess we are both running from something"

"Exactly"

There was few seconds of silence then..

"What do you want from a night like this?" Evander said.

Kai shrugged.

"To show up, get through it, and leave without becoming the main story of anything "

Evander smiled a little.

"Seems oddly specific guess you have the ’main story’ problem alot"

"You have no idea" kai said with a scoff.

"Well too late, You took the mask off."

"Against my will." Kai muttered but he wasn’t sure the prince had heard it.

"Did you say something?" Evander asked.

"Nothing " Kai answered quickly.

Evander accepted that and stepped closer.

"let me show you something"

Kai watched him carefully.

"something like what?"

"Something romantic."

Kai had no good answer for that, because he was used to heat and used to people wanting him, but this version with a private hallway and deliberate pace still sat strangely on him. Evander held out his hand again and waited.

"Come with me."

They left the hallway through a side exit and entered the garden court, and beyond it stood the flower maze with high walls of blooms and green and lanterns set low along the path. Evander checked once behind them, then pulled Kai into the turns until the music from the hall became only a dull line in the distance.

"This is not subtle," Kai said.

"It is private, and I like private better."

In a wider gap between the flower walls, Evander stopped and faced him.

"Dance with me."

"There is barely any music."

"There is enough."

Kai let himself get pulled in, and the steps were imperfect and close. Evander’s hand sat firm at his waist, and every turn brought them nearer until there was almost no honest space left between their bodies. Kai followed until the awkwardness faded and the movement started to feel natural, and halfway through it Evander spoke near his mouth.

"Can I kiss you?"

Kai looked at him.

Oh, hell the fuck no!

[Undisputed Emergency Event detected!]

What?

[Objective: Engage in an impulsive act with candidate 007]

[S tier Rewards are in Session after mission Completion]

And by impulsive you mean kissing him?

[Amongst other things]

What the Fuck.

Kai wasn’t exactly feeling the prince at that moment, but he was always sat for a good reward.

He sighed.

"...Yes."

The kiss came immediately after that, with no speech and no pause, only mouth on mouth getting deeper by the second while their hands started moving with less patience. Evander kissed like a man who got what he asked for often enough to stay confident about it, and Kai kissed back ready to give his best performance yet.

Evander’s palm slid down over the front of Kai’s trousers and found him hard.

"Oh," Evander murmured. "You are already like this."

Well duh dummy.

"Shut up."

"Make me."

He got Kai’s cock out with ease and started stroking him right there in the maze, thumb dragging over the head while his grip stayed firm enough to pull sound out of Kai’s throat. Kai’s back hit the flower wall, and his hips jerked forward into the handjob before he could stop them.

"Fuck."

Evander looked pleased with himself and kept working Kai’s cock in steady pulls, close enough to kiss him again whenever Kai’s mouth opened too much around a breath. The whole thing was messy and fast and completely unfit for a royal ball, and that fact only made Kai harder in his hand.

Then Evander leaned in against his ear.

"You should let me fuck you."

Kai’s first thought was no, and his second thought did not survive the next stroke over the head of his cock.

"...Do it."

Evander turned him, pushed fabric aside, and pressed the thick head of his cock against Kai’s hole with barely enough patience to be decent. He pushed in hard enough that Kai’s hand shot out to the flower wall, and the stretch forced a broken sound out of him on the first full slide.

"Shit—"

"Relax."

"You are thick as hell."

"I know."

Evander fucked into him in short deep thrusts, one hand gripping Kai’s hip while the other braced near his shoulder, and he used Kai’s hole with open appetite and no ceremony. The wet sound of cock pushing in and dragging out stayed ugly and intimate between the flower walls, and Kai bit down on his voice only to fail halfway through because every time Evander drove in he hit deep enough to empty out Kai’s thoughts.

"Your hole is greedy," Evander muttered.

"Do not talk."

"Why? You take cock better when I talk."

"I swear to god—"

Evander thrust harder and cut the sentence apart. For a stretch of minutes there was only thick cock, rough breath, and the ridiculous fact that a second crown prince was buried in his hole while the ball continued beyond the hedges. Kai’s fingers dug into the flower wall, and his legs started shaking as Evander kept fucking him through it like he had all the right in the world to ruin him there.

"Take it," Evander breathed against his neck. "Just like that. Open up."

Kai did. He hated how easily he did. He was literally not feeling this man moments ago.

Evander’s rhythm turned sharper near the end, hips slamming in deep enough that Kai felt every inch, and when the prince finally came it was with a low sound against his shoulder and a hard final thrust that left Kai twitching around his cock. Evander stayed buried there for a second, then pulled out carefully and laughed under his breath like the night had gone exactly where he wanted.

Kai remained facing the flower wall with his hole still soft and wet and sensitive, formal clothes half-displaced, and his brain late to every ordinary conclusion. Hand kiss, dance, can I kiss you, cock in the maze. The whole sequence had fit inside one hour, and that made him doubt his own sanity for a full beat.

Then the clarity hit, bright and stupid and almost pissed.

He fixed his clothes fast, pushed his cock back into place, stepped out of reach, and shook his head.

"This was crazy."

Evander, still flushed and unrepentant, only smiled.

"This was fun."

Kai backed up once, then ran.

Not scared. Just finished enough that if he stayed one more minute he was going to end up against that wall again with his hole open and Evander’s cock back inside him, yes he was that impulsive.

"Kai!" The prince called, Kai looked back to see him still hard and hungry.

"Don’t go" he said to Kai, Kai rolled his eyes smiled and walked off, leaving the prince starving.

"At least tell me your last name!"

Kai didn’t look back, that was enough impulsiveness for one night.