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THORN

I held her head as she took little nips of my flesh with her sharp little teeth. Licking and sucking her way down my body.

One of her warm little hands came up to grab my stiff cock as it stood tall and firm between my thighs. “Ummm.”

That was her wanton cry as she focused on my cock and her tongue came out to play with her bottom lip while her eyes were glued to my staff.

When she bent her head and took me into her mouth I bit off the growl that lodged in my throat.

She teased me with her facile tongue and I let myself feel every bit of it. For the first time actually enjoying a woman’s touch.

She was perfection, the way she played my body with her tongue and lips. The way she took me in deep and held me there until I wanted to howl from the pleasure.

Had I not known better I would’ve sworn she’d done this before, and barely kept myself from pulling her head back roughly to ask her just that, when I realized that it was just her natural instinct where I am concerned.

I felt the stirrings of her power and mine as she sucked the essence of my pre-cum onto her tongue.

With my hand wrapped around her hair, I pulled her head up and off before throwing her to her back beside me.

Go slow Thorn
. I had to remind myself that she was an innocent, my innocent, and that although I wanted to cover her body with mine and drive into her until I emptied inside her, I couldn’t, not this first time.

Instead I spread her legs and dove into her taste like a starving man. She was sweet and fresh on my tongue as I ate her.

I could stay between her thighs with my tongue buried to the hilt inside her for hours, but my cock would most likely revolt, and she wouldn’t be satisfied with that I was sure.

Her fingers tugged at my hair until I nibbled my way up her stomach to her breasts. I got a quick vision of my child suckling at her nipple while I sat and watched.

It was so shocking that I pulled back with haste and just stared down at her in wonder.

“What is it, what...?” I opened myself to her so that she could look into me and see what I’d seen.

“Oh wow, is that...?”

“Your son.” I took her mouth because I couldn’t resist and slipped my fingers inside her as I fucked her mouth with my tongue.

She moved against my hand like a wanton, as I caught her cries in my throat.

I saw what she wanted and with a smile, lowered myself until my head was once more between her thighs.

“You like having your pussy eaten lyubov?” she didn’t have the strength to answer, so just pulled my head harder against her heat.

I sucked her little jewel while pushing two fingers inside her, until I reached her maidenhead.

That, I wanted to break on the end of my cock, nothing else would do. It’s something I’ve been looking forward to forever.

A window shattered just then, and the winds blew in cold and dark. In jasmine I sensed a mixture of fear and anger.

Her power was weak yet and she was no match for what had to be faced. I could put it off no longer; there was no more need to wait, and the danger only grew with each hour that passed.

Slowly I eased out of her body with my tongue and fingers, my own anger fever hot.

“How dare you.” I spoke to the dark cloud outside the window, my rage sharper than ever before.

She was looking up at me with questions in her eyes, questions that I could hear plainly with my mind.

She thought I would leave her now, while her body was in such need. She didn’t yet fully understand that her body owns mine, as much as mine hers, and that it was too late to turn back.

I threw up shields around us, blocking her from sight and surrounded her with all the love and warmth I had inside.

My heart warred with my head as I put all else out of my mind and concentrated solely on her, on her perfect beauty, just as I had always imagined it.

One good thing came from the interruption though. I was now much calmer and could take it slow and enjoy her body here in real time and not one of her dreams.

So I took my time and enjoyed the sight of her as I made peace with what I was about to do.

Her breasts were bountiful enough to feed my sons and daughters. Her waist was slender and easily spanned by my hands. Her hips flared gently off and her ass fit into my palms like two perfect goblets.

Pulling her in closer to my naked chest I pressed her front into mine, being sure not to let her feel the full rigidity of my cock which was now at its full twelve inches.

I closed my eyes as I thought of what was to come. There was no doubt that I would hurt her this night with my body, but there was no way to avoid it. The one thing I couldn’t spare her was the taking of her maidenhead.

Still it was the one pain I was looking forward to giving her, her blood on my cock was my right.

The blood rushed beneath my skin, begging me to take, to plunder. My heart bid me go slow this first time, just this once.

Making my way down her body, I placed soft, gentle kisses along her leg, ending at her cunt, where I sniffed her scent, taking it deep into myself.

With eyes locked I licked her pussy lips, spreading them open with my fingers so that I could taste deeper.

She was shades of soft pink there, her innocence plain for me to see as I looked deep into her opening.

I touched the little barrier of skin with my fingertip making her writhe. It was strong that barrier, and I felt great pride and possession, that this was mine, that no one else ever will be here.

I licked her hymen as I closed my eyes in wonder. To think that we had made it here, that we had endured and withstood all that we had to get to this one place.

I positioned myself between her widespread thighs and rubbed my cockhead against her slit with one last reservation.

“This isn’t how I wanted this to go malenkaya.”

“It doesn’t matter, I’m ready.” She ran her hands down my back as she tried to impale herself on the hard piece of flesh that now pressed against her entrance.

“Today we fulfill destiny, tonight we become one.” I plunged my cock into her supple body, catching her screams into my mouth.

I held still letting her get use to me inside her. “It will be better soon I promise Milaya.” There were tears running from the corners of her eyes, tears that I licked away, before taking her lips with mine.

My cock throbbed and thumped inside of her tight clasp but I gritted my teeth and bore it. When she moved her hips beneath me I tested her readiness with a few short strokes into her.

Her legs widened farther and her arms came up around me. “I love you Jasmine.” I took her lips with mine as I plunged into her body over and over again.

She sighed into my mouth as we moved together, our bodies perfectly in sync as I felt her relax and take me all the way into her core.

No woman has ever been able to take me like that before, it was almost a shock that her little body could accept all of me.

“Please Thorn, deeper, fill me.” I watched her in amazement as I fed even more of my hard flesh into her.

The bed knocked into the wall as I pounded into her and she moved to meet my every thrust, no matter how hard.

Her nails scraped their way down my back to my ass, where she dug in as she tried to pull me deeper into her.

Here I’d been afraid to go too hard on her, but her fire threatened to consume us both.

We were both in a race to bring each other the greatest pleasure. I bit and sucked every inch of her flesh that was within my reach, leaving my mark on her.

When I came I pushed past her cervix and tipped into her womb where I spilled my seed, while she came around my throbbing cock.

Her body twitched beneath me as her head went back and her eyes rolled back in her head. I held on tight as the last of my seed dripped into her waiting womb.

I felt the change as her body heated up; then I saw the light that hovered above her navel between us.

Her head came up and down and she too saw the light of our son as he found his way to his mother’s womb.

We clasped hands as both with tears on our eyes, watched the miracle as it happened.
“My son.”
I whispered the words as I felt him, much as I’d felt his mother more than eighteen years ago.

We both broke out in laughter as we rolled around on the bed. “Welcome home Jasmine.” I was still buried inside her, my cock never wanting to leave and her sweet pussy not wanting to let go.

I felt the presence of others as they entered the house though, and knew that playtime was over, at least for now.

Outside the wind picked up and reminded me of the unfinished business we had yet to deal with.

“We have to go downstairs, the council will be here soon.”

“Will they be there?”

“Most likely, I don’t want you to worry malenkaya, nothing will ever hurt you again.”

“Can they hurt the baby?”

“No, their time has passed. Tonight will be about what was done in the past.

They must face judgment. I’ve been working really hard in the last year or so to find enough on them, but they’ve covered their tracks well. I won’t give up though, somehow I will find a way to make them pay for what they did to you.”

My last recourse was outright murder, which I had no problem doing if it meant keeping her safe. But the council would frown on it and life would become difficult for a time.

I wanted her transition to be as smooth as possible and so for years I have held back from killing every last one of the Divecki family with my bare hands.

Their strength was no match for mine, maybe that’s why they were being so persistent with this matter; they needed new blood to revitalize their waning power.

“We’ll go down and see what the council has to say.”

“And then will it be over, or will they always be after us?”

“They’re no longer a threat, your strength as well as mine will only grow stronger from now on, and none would dare come against us.”

JASMINE

Downstairs he was right that the council had shown up. They all watched me very closely as Thorn sat me. There were murmurs and whispers and some of the elder men in the room looked as if they’d seen a ghost.

That Mina person was there with what must have been her family, who were also looking at me squinty eyed.

I felt stronger than I ever have before and with Thorn’s arms around me stronger still. I hadn’t had time to process everything that had passed since I woke up in his bed.

Had I really seen that light? It was almost impossible to reconcile the girl that had left her father’s house this morning with the one sitting here now.

“We have only one question now since you have gone ahead with the bedding, though it seems superfluous. Did you see the light?” A very old man asked that question of Thorn as he kept his eyes trained on me.

“Yes we did, it’s a boy.”

No sooner were those words out of his mouth than there was a screech and something came flying at me.

I never saw what that something was as Thorn knocked it back before placing himself in front of me. They were harsh words spoken in their native tongue, as the room seemed to be in an uproar.

“Settle down young lady, this is not the way we do things, you must calm yourself.” That annoying screech rang out again, and I felt her more stronger than before.

Again she came flying at me, as if the old man’s words had gone right over her head.

Thorn moved quickly, blocking me from her view, which seemed to infuriate her more and more.

I wanted to face her, to knock her on her ass more likely, but each time she came at me, he was there, placing himself between us.

“You won’t touch her, you’ll never put your fucking hands on her.” Had I ever heard him swear before? I don’t remember, but that voice of his scared even me and I knew I had nothing to fear from him.

“Divecki get your daughter under control.” One of the men on the council sat forward in his seat as he gave the order.

When she seemed to be under control and the room quieted again, I had the chance to look at her. She really was beautiful but there was a hardness to her that detracted from that beauty.

I don’t know why I’d thought she was my age. From the story Thorn had told, I was under the impression that she would be, but I see now that she was older than me, and closer to his age.

I felt his hand squeeze mine as I felt a pang of jealousy. Right there in the middle of all those prying eyes he turned my face to his and kissed me. “Stop it, you have nothing to fear from her, I have eyes only for you.”

His words like always, soothed my heart and now I could feel the truth in them, I could see into him to the truth.

“Now you stand accused of murder Divecki, or the conspiracy and hire to do such. How do you answer to that?” The same wizened old man spoke, as all eyes turned to the family in question.

How had they come to be here anyway? No sooner had I asked the question than I saw it in my mind. The council had ordered them here to settle this once and for all, at the behest of Thorn and his father.

“Lies all lies, had it been us, surely you would’ve known by now. We are as an open book to each other are we not?”

“This is the only reason why you haven’t been dealt with as yet. We’re very certain as a whole that you’ve done this, but we have no real evidence against you.”

“Now see here, our family has been under this dark suspicion for almost forty years and we want it to end here and now. As you say, you have no proof.”

“Do not push your luck Divecki, we are still working on it, do not forget that it was here on my property that you carried out your last atrocity. That it was my son and heir that you almost drove mad with your greed.”

“Wait that’s it, they just say I didn’t do it and that’s it?” Just then there was a ruckus at the front door and I heard dad’s voice. He came barging into the room seconds later.

“Azarov what the hell are you doing with my daughter? I finally ran you thoroughly, I know who you are...” He stopped short when he saw the room full of people.

“I’m sorry you had to find out that way. I wanted to tell you myself, but she needed to know first. Just believe me when I say that there’s no need to be afraid for her, as long as I’m alive she will be safe.”

“Why should I trust you? What the hell is going on here and what does it have to do with what happened all those years ago? When your family was here before?” he spread his arms to encompass the whole room.

“I’m afraid it goes back farther than that sir, it’s about your mother’s line...”

“Mom? I don’t understand, what could my mom possibly have to do with any of this?”

“Not the woman who raised you, your real mother.”

“I’m well aware that I was adopted Azarov, but no one knows who my real parents were.”

“I’m afraid that’s not true.” I listened as he told him of his family lineage and all the things he’d shared with me earlier.

I was pretty sure of the outcome, dad wasn’t going to go for any of that hocus-pocus stuff he’s too practical for that.

After Thorn was through dad turned bewildered eyes towards me. “Do you believe all that stuff he’s saying Jazz?”

“I’m afraid so dad, but I had more experience with the unreal before now.”

“What do you mean?”

“I mean that I use to see Thorn in my dreams all those years ago. I always felt things, I don’t know, but I always knew there was something else going on, I just didn’t know that it was this big and complicated.”

“I’m still not sure about any of it. Did he tell you the part about my father being the descendant of royalty?”

At least he could find humor in the situation because he was twirling his finger next to his head when he said this.

“Yes dad he told me everything.” The rest of the room had remained still throughout all of this, to the point that I had almost forgotten that they were there.

Suddenly there was a very strong presence in the room, though I saw nothing, only felt. Everyone, including me, was on the edge of our seats but then dad’s voice intruded once again.

“Okay, but the one thing I don’t understand, how did your mother know how to run all those years, she doesn’t have any of these powers does she?”

“I can answer that.”

Just then I saw myself move into the room, or a replica of me. Thorn and dad came to flank me on both sides, but I didn’t feel fear from this new person.

The rest of the room was in an uproar; voices were raised in question as they took in the new addition.

There was a lot of ‘how, and is she real?’ as she stood still staring at me.

“Babushka.”
The word floated through my mind like smoke. Both men turned to look at me.

“Ekaterina.” That was Thorn two seconds before I put it together. Dad fell back into the chair and I was afraid he was going to have a heart attack.

The two of them had eyes only for each other now, though dad seemed ready to expire.

“How...?” he looked to Thorn and me for some kind of explanation but his mother beat us to it, my dead grandmother.

When had my life become a Stephen King novel? That’s what I get for moving to New England.

“I was the one who told Anna how to keep hiding. From that first night I led her away from here. I’m sorry son it was the only way to keep all of you safe until now. They would’ve killed all of you if she’d stayed here.”

She looked pointedly at the Divecki family who were all trying to escape the room at this point.

All except Mina who was about to lose her eyes if she didn’t stop staring at my future husband like a lovesick puppy.

“Thank you.” Wow, I hadn’t expected that from dad, but I suppose he was in shock. Nothing about this day seemed real anymore, and I was waiting for the other shoe to drop.

“So mom wasn’t crazy? There really were people after us all those times she kept dragging us all over the place?”

“Far from it, she loves you both very much, that’s why she made such a sacrifice. Only at the end her fear was too great and she didn’t want you to come back here to fulfill your destiny.

She still believes that the ones who ordered the murders of you and your grandparents would be successful if you came back here.”

Again she looked towards the Divecki family who were blocked from leaving the room by Bryce and his father, whom I had yet to meet officially.

“How much does she know, my mom?”

“Enough but not all. She doesn’t know for instance that I’m dead and that all of our meetings take place while she’s in a dream state. I usually use a very strong compulsion on her to get her to do my bidding.

She thinks that it’s all a fairytale and I’ve never seen any reason to teach her different. Her mind was at breaking point when I found her, it would’ve been cruel to force any more truths on her.

So I let her believe that I was just being fanciful, but when it came to the danger, she took that very seriously.”

“What now?” I asked the room at large. My grandmother answered me. “Now, the son that you have conceived will grow up to be very strong indeed and will do many things for our kind.”

She’d just told dad that Thorn and I had had sex. I guess he was too blown away by current events to catch on.

Mina was out of her seat at the news of our son. Her eyes were wild as she looked around the room.

“You promised father, you said he would be mine.” What a spoilt, whiny bitch.

“I’m afraid your father spoke out of turn when he told you that young Mina. You were never considered, it was only as a precaution after Ekaterina had been murdered, that your family was even mentioned.

The legend states that it is the Vikov and Azarov lines that will be the bearers. Farther more it is providence that you are all here as there is something else that must be discussed.

As you all know, the society watches over many aspects of our country’s history, from its inception up until today.

“As some of us know, Azarov is not the original name of this family, but Alexeevna.” I guess not everyone knew that truth, but I wasn’t sure about their reactions.

“I see that you all recognize the name. As we can see here tonight the striking resemblance between Ekaterina and her granddaughter, there is no longer any doubt as to her place.

Now as to my reason for bringing this up, this is something that young Thorn brought to our attention some time ago.

They are both descended from the Great, which means their son will be the first born purely of that line in over three hundred years.

As such, anyone who should oppose them or bring harm to either of them will be executed.”

Dad cleared his throat at the mention of execution. “Not to worry sir Peter, all punishments will be carried out in the mother country. Ekaterina, would you care to tell us what you know of these murders?”

Now I knew that I’d fallen down the rabbit hole. Was he questioning a ghost? And why was no one including myself freaking out over this?

We were all acting as though it was perfectly normal to be in a room with a woman who had died almost forty years earlier.

“I wasn’t very careful coming on to the end. I had just found out that my beau was the offspring of The Great. We had never shared such confidences before, but while the child grew inside me, my eyes were opened.

When I realized I didn’t know where to turn. I understood the danger, not just to me or even my son, but to my future granddaughter.” Here she smiled at me before carrying on.

I knew that there were many who would put it together if they ever found out.”

Put what together? the question was a silent one, but she turned to me nonetheless.

“They would put together that both you and Thorn were descendants of The Great and that any children you bear will be of pure lineage. Meaning that the child of the legend will be powerful in more ways than one.

Some would want to protect such a child, while others would seek to wipe him off the face of the earth.”

“Did the Diveckis learn of your secret somehow?”

“No, it was nothing like that. They needed money. Their power had waned over time, and was all but extinct.

They plotted amongst themselves to be rid of me, but they had no knowledge of the son I’d already birthed.

It was Sergei Divecki himself who came to my home, under the guise of friendship. I was so preoccupied and as you all know I’d long had a grievance with my gift and took every opportunity to thwart them.

Besides I had no need to fear another one of the five families or so I thought. That morning I had taken my son, whom I had named Alexi after his father to a neighbor’s house.

The old lady didn’t know that he was mine. I led her to believe that I was doing a friend a favor and had to run out.

When Sergei showed up I thought nothing of it. I didn’t know he had killed me until I felt the poison in my blood.

Why? I asked him as I lay dying on the floor. He callously walked over to the stove and set it to blow while he told me that his family needed the legend more than I did.