mythean arcana 06 - master of fate (23 page)

Because no matter how hard she tried, she was falling for him. Of course she was falling for him. He was kind and smart and handsome. And he treated her like a queen.

“Come in!” she called, wanting nothing more than to wrap her arms around him in the water, even while she knew she couldn’t.

He ripped his shirt over his head, revealing broad shoulders and a rigid abdomen decorated with the tattoos that seemed to glow in the light of the setting sun. She could look at them forever. He toed off his boots, then shucked his pants and underwear at the same time. When he straightened, his erection bobbed proudly in front of him, a strong column that made her pussy clench.

Oh boy.
Suddenly treading water wasn’t so easy. 

He strode to the pool and stepped off the ledge, plunging straight down into the water. His head broke the surface a moment later. The water gleamed in his dark hair and his gaze glittered with arousal.

Aurora wanted to swim up to him and wrap her legs around him. But would that be a trigger for him? Explicitly sexual things didn’t seem to bother him terribly, for which she was grateful as hell.

Suddenly feeling awkward, Aurora kicked toward the waterfall. “Come on!”

Quickly, she cut through the water until she neared the falls. They were only about six or seven feet high, so the water wasn’t turbulent at the base. She swam around to the side where large flat boulders were piled upon each other like blocks. They’d make great seating, but she chose to cling to the side instead, her toes just touching the rock at the bottom of the pond.

She turned to find Felix and gasped when his face appeared right in front of her.

“Do you think you can strip off your clothes, shake that pretty arse at me, then swim off?” he growled.

Oh.
Her heart almost shot out of her chest with excitement. 

She turned so her back was against the wall, stood on her tiptoes so her chin cleared the water, and gripped the ledge behind her head so that he could see her hands.

He nodded his thanks.

“Maybe. What are you going to do about it?” she asked.

His silver eyes flashed and she felt his big hands grip her waist. A shiver of pleasure shot through her. He crowded in on her, looming over her, and bent down to kiss her, caging her in against the wall. 

His lips were hot on hers, the water making the kiss slick. His tongue traced her lips and she was quick to part them. He masterfully invaded her mouth, making her shiver against him. When he pressed his broad chest against her breasts, she moaned low in her throat. What she wouldn’t give to run her hands over those muscles, to feel them hard and hot beneath her palms.

“You taste so damn good,” he muttered against her lips. “I wonder what you taste like elsewhere.”

“You already tasted me there.”

He pulled away, his devilish gaze meeting hers. “Best thing I ever tasted. But I mean here.”

He lifted her easily out of the water until her breasts were level with his mouth. She struggled to keep her hands on the ledge as his hot mouth made contact with the cool tip of her breast. The water on her skin made it deliciously slick. Her head dropped back as he sucked and bit, paying attention first to one nipple and then to the other.

“Can I... can I wrap my legs around you?”

He hesitated only briefly, then said, “Aye.” 

Tentatively, she wrapped her legs around his strong waist, moaning when her sex pressed high on his stomach. He stiffened, then relaxed.

“Gods, your pussy is so damned hot,” he said as he shifted his hands to grip her ass. His fingertips sank into the cleft, brushing her most sensitive parts and making her stiffen, then shudder. “Like that, do you?” 

“I like everything you do to me.”

“Good.” He dropped his mouth to her neck and licked the water from her skin before biting the crook of her neck. Pleasure streaked from the spot all the way to her pussy, making it clench on nothing. Gods, she wanted him inside of her.

“More,” she moaned. “I want more.”

He bit her again, then lifted her clear out of the water and set her on the stone wall. “Lie back.”

She obliged immediately. Above her, palm trees swayed against the last wisps of sunset color. When she felt Felix’s hands grip her thighs and spread them wide, her back almost arched off the stone. He could see all of her.

Oh Fates.
She wasn’t going to get used to this anytime soon, but she’d put up with any embarrassment for what she thought was coming next. He set her feet upon his broad shoulders, then gripped her ass in his hands. She felt his thumbs spread her wide before his mouth pressed hot and slick against her.

 A keening cry broke from her lips as he stroked his tongue from the entrance of her sex to her clit. Pleasure shuddered over her skin and she twisted beneath him.

“You canna get away,” he growled against her and tightened his grip on her ass with one hand while smoothing another big palm up her stomach until it rested against her chest, pinning her down.

As if I want to. 

The stone bit into her back, a delicious contrast with the stroke of his tongue, which left no spot unattended. When he slowly pushed two fingers into her sheath, she gasped, “Oh, yes please.”

“So polite.” He sucked briefly on her clit. White light burst behind her eyes. “Ask for what you want, and you shall receive.”

“You. Fuck me. Please, make love to me.”

Felix surged to his feet, careful not to move the fingers inside her tight sheath, and leaned over her, one arm propping him up. 

“Do you mean it?” he asked. His cock had been hard ever since she’d turned and walked away from him, naked. At her words, it had become unbearably stiff, ready to seek its home within her. 

“Yes. Absolutely, yes.” Her words were breathy and her gaze bright, her face lit by the aether stone around her neck. “I haven’t done it before and you’re pretty big, so go slowly, but
yes.
”

Oh, Fates. Oh, holy hell. He’d wanted this for so damned long. It’d been one of the bittersweet dreams that had kept him warm at night when he thought she was gone forever.

But she wasn’t gone forever. She was here, asking him to be her first. 

Her last.
No matter what came at them, he was going to make this work between them. 

He wanted this so badly that his heart felt like it spasmed in his chest. As long as she kept her hands above her head, which she was doing now, he should be fine. His worst nightmare was to have her touch him and trigger the memories. But she wouldn’t.

He leaned down and kissed her tenderly between her breasts, then raised his head. “I doona have a condom. Are you on anything?”

She shook her head, then raised a hand and made a small gesture. A condom appeared between her fingertips.

“Excellent.” He took it and put it on the stone next to her hip. He shifted so that he was back in the water, his gaze on her pussy enveloping his fingers.

“What are you doing?” she asked. “Aren’t we...?”

“No rush,” he said as he set his mouth back on the little bud that held so many nerve endings. He hadn’t had sex since he’d lost her. The times he’d had it before he met her weren’t going to compare, that was for damned sure. Gods, as soon as his cock touched her, he was going to go off in a shameful number of seconds.

He wanted her begging for it, out of her mind. Not only because he was afraid he’d lose it too soon, but because she was tiny and he was not. The last thing he wanted to do was hurt her.

He licked her everywhere, drowning in the scent and taste of her. He couldn’t get enough of it. Of the way her thighs clenched around his head, of the sounds she made when he pleased her.

He slowly thrust his fingers in and out of her, readying her for his cock. As his tongue laved her clit, he curled his fingers up to press against the sensitive spot inside of her.

“Felix!” She jackknifed partially off the stone and he stiffened, but she didn’t touch him. She lay back down and began to twist, her back arching and her cries coming louder.

When her pussy clenched around his fingers, Felix groaned his pleasure against her. Gods, she felt so damn good when she came. He worked her through her orgasm, stroking and licking until her cries died away. 

He gentled his touch, but didn’t stop, intent on driving her up again. She needed to be just on the verge of coming when he finally gave her his shaft. He wanted her aching for it.

“Felix.” Her voice was breathless.

“Once more,” he said, increasing the pressure of his tongue on her clit. 

She cried out sharply. Her pussy was wet and so soft it made his head spin. He withdrew his fingers, then added a third and slowly pushed them into her, his cock throbbing at the feeling of her channel squeezing him. 

She arched her hips and cried out, driving herself down on him. He only managed a few thrusts before he felt the telltale flutter of her orgasm.

Gently he withdrew his fingers, gave her clit one last suck, and stood.

“Now, now!” Her face and breasts were flushed in the light of the aether stone, her lips glossy and parted. She’d stretched her arms above her head, clasping her elbows.

His breath came hard as he shifted her back on the stone, then climbed out of the water and knelt before her.  Once he had the condom on, he lowered himself to lie atop her. A groan tore from his throat when he settled between her thighs. She immediately wrapped her legs around his waist.

He gripped his shaft and guided it to her entrance, aching to feel her around him. His gaze stayed on her as the head of his cock kissed her entrance. Her eyes flared wide as he pushed slowly inside.

He ached to thrust hard into her, burying himself to the hilt in her perfection, but he held himself back. She gripped him, hot and soft and stronger than he’d expected.

Her head rolled as she moaned. “More, more, more.”

He leaned down and bit the soft skin where her neck met her collarbone and continued to push forward until he was seated all the way inside her. The pleasure was so intense that it coiled inside him, a wolf waiting to pounce. When he was sure she’d adjusted and wouldn’t break, he began to move.

She arched her hips, trying to meet his thrusts, her sex clutching at him. The pleasure wracked him, making him shudder until his arms shook.

“Gods, yes. I love how you feel,” she moaned.

He picked up his pace, thrusting into her grasping heat. Her skin glowed with sweat and her face was twisted with a strained pleasure, as though she was almost there but couldn’t quite make it. 

Desperate for her to have that, he reached between them and stroked her clit with his thumb. Her flesh was slick and soft and brought to mind her taste on his tongue. Combined with her scent filling the air, he almost lost himself in her. 

His orgasm threatened, coiling in his balls and at the base of his spine. He stroked her faster, small circles he hoped would send her out of her mind.

She stiffened and went completely silent, as if she were holding her breath. Soon, her thighs shook at his hips and her pussy clenched around him in earnest. An uncontrollable cry tore from her throat as she thrashed beneath him.

The pleasure of her coming around his cock stole his control. He had to pull his hand away from her clit to support himself as his hips lost all grace. He was consumed by a primal need to fill her with his seed, chasing the insane pleasure that beckoned.

He roared as he came, drowning in the most unbelievable feelings. His shaft jerked inside her as her muscles continued to clamp around him, driving him out of his mind. 

The pleasure faded slowly. Eventually, he realized that he’d collapsed to his elbows over her. At least he hadn’t crushed her. She lay beneath him, her eyes closed and a blissful smile on her face.

He was hit with an overwhelming feeling of protectiveness. The dark had fallen completely and he wanted to get her back to her tower. He felt as though he’d stolen the princess and she needed to be returned before midnight.

“Hey,” he said softly. “We should get going.”

“I think we should live here.” She didn’t open her eyes, just rolled her head and kissed his arm.

Tenderness clutched at his heart. “We can come back. For now, let’s go take a hot bath.”

“Oh, you so win.”

He climbed to his feet and helped pull her to hers. “Hang on a sec.” He aetherwalked to the other side of the pool and gathered their clothes, then returned to her.

“Mouse!” Aurora called. 

A black blur raced out of the forest toward them, stopping by Aurora’s ankles. Felix wrapped an arm around Aurora and returned them to her flat.

“Brrr.” Aurora shivered.

“Grab a towel and sit by the fire. I’ll start a bath.”

“I will definitely take you up on that.” She glanced up at him. “Can I kiss you first?”

He wanted to say she didn’t have to ask for permission, but it gave him some warning she’d be coming at him. He was getting a bit better with touch—he’d barely had any shivers of pain during sex—but the warning was appreciated.

“Aye.” He leaned down and she pecked a kiss to his lips, then turned and headed to the bathroom.