“I know the feeling. I’d just lost my home and family when he found me. I thought he’d come to kill me for the Emperor. Instead he gave me a new life and purpose. Come with me, I’ll introduce you to everyone.”
Epilogue
Six months later
Tessa leaned forward, kissing her husband’s neck and hugging him so tight it almost hurt.
“A message arrived today,” she said. “My mother will be here in about a week. She’s very excited to meet my new husband.”
“I’m happy to hear that,” Daaron said, reaching down with one hand to rub her slightly swollen belly.
The Danubians were thrilled about the pregnancy—they took it as a sign that the Goddess looked upon their lifemating with favor. He wasn’t sure he believed in the Goddess, but he’d never been happier in his life. And now that they were becoming a family, everything seemed different.Brighter and better somehow.Glorious.
Tessa reached up to kiss his mouth and he lost track of his thoughts. He’d always been a man of lusty habits, able to go two or three times a night, but the speed his c**k rose to meet her was almost embarrassing. It was always this way between them.Intense. Some day he’d have to figure out a way to draw things out a little more.
She pulled back from the kiss, and smiled up at him. Then she looked at the bed pointedly, and gently pushed his chest. Daaron fell back, taking her with him. He reached for her br**sts, but she stopped him, giving him a smile that was pure woman—filled with mystery and a knowing wisdom that he could only wonder at.
“I’m really excited to see my mother again,” she said, dropping kisses along his chest. “I hope it won’t offend you, but I have an old-fashioned way I’d like to show my appreciation.”
He looked at her, hoping desperately it would involve her lips on his body.
“Helping your mother is the least I could do,” he said. “You’ve made my life complete, Tessa. You don’t owe me anything.”
“You might think that, but I’m feeling a rather urgent need to make myself clear,” she said, giving him a smile. She dropped her head, kissing down to his nipple, suckling it with gentle insistence. Then she flicked it with her tongue and looked up.
Accepting defeat gracefully, Daaron relaxed against the bed, allowing her free reign. After a moment’s pause, she leaned down and bit his nipple.
He started.
“Just making sure you’re paying attention,” she said, and gave the tiny hurt a gentle kiss. Then she nuzzled down his body, finding the gentle rises and swells of his muscles and ribs. When she reached his stomach he froze, every part of his body focused on the feel of her lips grazing his sensitive flesh. With agonizing slowness, she kissed, licked and nipped her way to his navel, then darted her tongue inside. He felt it right at the base of his cock, as if a string connected the two spots. His balls tightened, and he clenched the muscles of his ass to keep from rearing up at her.
She gave a low laugh, full of power, and Daaron felt it run through his bones. He’d never heard anything sexier in his life. After long moments spent toying with him, she allowed the bottom of her chin to brush the tip of his straining cock. Once, twice, the skin catching as moisture welled up from his eager slit.
Tessa laid her cheek against his stomach and flicked her tongue out quickly, swirling it around his c**k head. He gasped.
“I’d heard that men like it when women do that,” she said, her voice all innocence. “I take it that rumor is accurate?”
He gave a groan, incapable of offering her any other answer. She opened her mouth, resting her lips against the round head and deliberately licking his slit, poking it with the tip of her tongue.
“Salty,” she whispered.“Yum.”
Daaron took a deep breath, trying to focus on the moment. Pressure built in his balls. He knew he’d come too fast if he wasn’t very, very careful. She was a heady drug, one he couldn’t begin to resist.
She sucked him in like a piece of candy, her mouth barely fitting around his girth. She reached down with one hand, finding his testicles and cupping them. Then Tessa rolled the orbs between her fingers, pulling at them within the sac of skin. He shivered and she sucked him in deeply, continuing to roll and tug at his testicles.
Daaron closed his eyes, awash in sensation. He took deep, gulping breaths, desperate to calmhimself .
He wanted to savor this moment, and yet the more she touched him the greater his urgency grew.
He’d gotten blowjobs from the best, most expensive and exclusive pleasure workers in the Empire during his old life, but their skilled touch was nothing compared to Tessa’s at that moment. She was far from expert—for all her boldness, she was still perfecting her technique. Every once in a while her teeth grazed him. It should have hurt, but instead it turned him on. There was something so amazing, so sexy, about having been the first man inside a woman’s body. Each time they made love it was special, beautiful.
A blessing.
As the thought passed through his head, her tongue found the little notch on the underside of his c**k head and flicked it. Suddenly he couldn’t think at all, he could only sink back into the exquisite, amazing feel of her mouth sucking him as she toyed with his balls. Then one wet finger slipped lower, trailing along his perineum to his anus. She massaged the opening gently until he relaxed, and slid her finger in. She found the swollen bump of his prostate and he stiffened and gasped.
Holy shit, when had she learned that?
Rubbing it, she pulled her mouth from his c**k and he opened his eyes. She looked up at him, a strange little smile on her mouth.
“You really, really like this, don’t you?” she asked, her voice filled with wonder.
“You have no idea,” he replied. “Please don’t stop. I think I’m going to die if you don’t touch me more.”
She flicked his c**k head with her tongue again and he shuddered. Pre-come welled up in the slit. Her tongue darted out again and she tasted him, her finger massaging his prostate, working it until he shivered and moaned.
“Mmmmm, that’s nice,” she said. “I’ve read about this, but it’s fascinating to learn about it in a bit more…hands-on kind of way.”
She dipped her head once more, playing with his cock, nuzzling it and rubbing it against her cheeks, swirling his fluid around her face. That was just toomuch, he couldn’t take any more torture.
Daaron reached down into her hair with both hands, gently guiding her mouth to his cock. Tessa took the hint, sucking him in deeply as she stroked his nether gland steadily. She seemed to understand that he’d had enough of teasing, that it was time to take things seriously. She sucked and his c**k hit the back of her mouth. Then she swallowed and he slid into her throat. Holy Goddess, that was new too. The tightness of mouth and throat was almost more than he could handle. His c**k was so hard, so hungry and eager for her body that he wasn’t sure he’d last another minute.