Chapter 48
Reached the end of her patience? My inner voice was screaming at me to slide my blade across her throat just for the briskness and bravery in her voice. While another part of me couldn’t have been more turned on if I tried.
A snarl threatened to break through my lips as her beautiful hazel orbs stared into my eyes. I needed her to agree for me to kiss her. There was no way I could get away from her now without feeling her lips against mine.
She’d given me quite a slap and my face still stung slightly from it. Nora would have been proud. It was another thing that managed to make me want her more. I quite liked this side of her. Maybe training was helping her grow a backbone and stop being some damsel in distress that I needed to protect all the time.
“Well, husband, I dare you.”
She didn’t know what she was daring me to do, didn’t fully understand. I would take that as a ‘yes’, nonetheless. Tightening my grip around her waist even more, she didn’t flinch, didn’t budge, just kept eye contact with me.
I growled at her, my erection growing painful against my snug leather pants. If only she knew the power she had over me. I desperately wanted to know exactly what she was thinking. Her mind”s voice was a blur of mixed, conflicting motions. She was asking herself what button she was pressing, if it was a good idea or if this was the way forward.
The rain continued to pelt down upon us, our clothes soaking through. I lowered my gaze to see her breasts peeking through her white blouse and I had to control myself from lowering my hand to feel. We didn’t move for a single breath, her chest tightly pressed against mine.
Daring the other to do something, to move, to breathe. Lifting my eyes back to hers, she was looking at my lips as her tongue licked a path of her own. I wanted her. Needed her. Even when she angered me to the very pits of my soul, that pull was still there. I knew where she was every moment of every day. Even in my dreams she would haunt me. Ornella was like a siren. My siren.
What trick was the Goddess playing on me? Sending me someone who not only infuriated me but made me crazy with lust and possibly even love.
She shifted, bringing her leg in between mine and I seized my chance. Pulling her face up until her lips pressed against mine. Pushing my tongue through, it battled with her own, each of us trying to be the dominant one. She lifted her arms around my neck, pulling herself upwards as a moan escaped her mouth.
That mouth. I wanted all of it.
There was nothing I could do to stop my hands as they pulled at the hem of her blouse roughly. Lifting it up, my free hand found her breast. As I pinched her raised nipple, she sucked in a breath against my lips before continuing to kiss me deeply, greedily.
I could easily lose myself to her, inside her. She could destroy me if she wanted. I hated how I had to push her away, to keep her safe from my own darkness, even when my insides screamed for her touch.
Another moan and it was as if the voice in the back of my head shouted, and I suddenly let go. The cool air surrounded us both as I stepped back, her face heartbroken and confused. I couldn’t look at her, this shouldn’t have happened.
“Nicholas.”
“I will escort you home.”
That same invisible force begged me to turn back, to look at her to fix the pieces of her heart I was breaking. She’d told me before how she never believed she was worthy of love, of anything great and I was here showing her how her worries were true. Even if they weren’t.
“Please talk to me,” her voice impossibly sounded even more broken than before.
“I don’t want to hurt you.”
That”s all I could say as I tried to step away but felt her fingers wrap around my wrist tightly, urging me to turn back and look at her.
“You hurt me by not being with me.”
“I am with you every night.”
“No, you’re not. Not as the Nicholas you promised me you’d be. Every night I go to bed next to the king, not my husband.”
I didn’t dare turn fully to see her. I knew if I did, it would break me. She was always the plan to get revenge on her family for what they did to mine. We may have had our history together as children but after I found where the spy came from, I couldn’t face her until I was ready. I needed to have all my pieces on the board.
I didn’t plan on falling in love with her in the process.
“Please, if only for tonight, be my husband.”
That line began to pull tighter, suffocating me slowly. My eyes looked up to meet her gaze and in that moment I could have crumbled at her feet. The loss, hurt and pain on her face was enough to make me rush back to her. To undo everything I had broken, to beg for her forgiveness, to plead with her until my very last breath.
Pulling her into my arms, as her lips reached mine, that same passion and hunger wrapped around my senses. I lifted her up and she wrapped her legs around my waist, pulling me closer to her.
Turning so my body would hit the rock face behind her, I huffed as the stone hit my back. She let go of my lips, looking me dead in the eyes while the rain became heavier.
We didn’t share a single word, but as our eyes met, I knew everything I needed to know. Holding her tightly in my arms, her chest pressed up against mine, there wasn’t a breath of space between us. I desired her as much as she desired me. An ache sprouted so deep within my soul, I thought I would collapse as it overwhelmed me.
Swallowed me whole.
This may be a mistake. This would be a mistake by morning and for that I would face the consequences. My court be damned if they kept me from my wife. I would destroy everything and everyone in their path if it kept her at my side.
Tomorrow, we will face what is to come together. For now, tonight while lost in each other’s arms, I would take her as she wished, claiming each other as our own.
Lifting my shirt over my head, I ripped apart hers, exposing her to the cold rain. Her skin shivering as my fingers ran teasingly up and down her forearms. . She fumbled at my trouser belt and I undid hers. I needed to feel my cock inside her. It throbbed, begging to be released. It had been too long since the last time we came together as one.
I lifted her hips away from me with one hand, managing to push my trousers down below my ass. Lowering her back to her feet, I dropped to my knees.
Staring up at her, I slowly pulled her trousers down the curve of her ass, caressing her thighs as I slid them down. She kicked her riding boots off, allowing me to free her legs from her trousers completely.
Without a word, I parted her legs and threw one over my shoulder, exposing her completely and began to lick her core. My tongue created circular motions across her clit and as she moaned, I looked up at her as her head fell backwards.
Ornella tried to buck her hips, until I held her waist down with one arm and began to plunge a finger and then two inside her. The whimper and moan that came from her as she shivered against my touch could easily have made me come undone.
“Nic! Oh!” she moaned as I pushed in and out, continuing to lick and suck, bringing her to that point of release before stopping.
She protested as her hips tried to move, begging me to continue and give her that release she sought. I waited, just for a moment, enjoying the moaning, and begging she gave me until I stood back up and brought my lips down to hers.
Lifting her up again and wrapping her legs around my waist, my cock found her entrance within seconds, and I drove in without a warning.
Her scream of pleasure echoed in my ears as I lifted her up and down, feeling every ounce of enjoyment and passion that flooded her body. I needed to contain myself until I made her reach that point of ecstasy at least three times. Oh, Goddess how I wanted her.
“You take my cock perfectly,” I growled into her neck with a long, slow thrust.
“I was made for you,” she whimpered against my ear, nipping at the lobe.
Breathlessly, I felt her shudder, a low moan vibrating her chest. She thrust herself against me as I brought her to her first climax. A smile touched my lips as our foreheads touched. Wrapping one hand into her hair, I pushed against her again and again until she came undone straight after.
One thing I was learning to love about my sweet Ornella was how she came again just seconds later after the first time. Something I wanted to enjoy for the rest of our lives.
Using our discarded clothes as blankets then, I slowly brought us to lay down. With her beneath me we never stopped making eye contact. Possibly wondering if I would pull away and hurt her again. As much as I knew I should, I could not. I was hers, to the very end.
Our naked bodies rolled together and I kept us locked together while the rain finally slowed down and the sun lowered in the sky. Her olive skin glistened from sweat and rain as I thrusted deep inside her. Her moans rushed to her lips, causing me to savour the moment. To slow it down, relish in it.
“I’ve missed being inside you,” I panted in her ear as I buried myself within her.
She arched into me, bringing her nails to run down my back. The yearning I felt for her was a fire within me that burned, teasing its everlasting light as it tangled with hers. Looking at her under the glow of the sun, she seemed more radiant than ever before. She was bewitching me with her forest eyes as she pulled me deep within her spell.
Her moans of pleasure came out in waves as she braced herself and she kissed me intensely. I pulled away from her kiss and pressed up on one palm. Her legs fell open, allowing me to thrust deeper than before. Bringing my hand between us, I circled her clit with my thumb. With tight circles, I coaxed her into another release.
Her wet heat gripped me, making me lose all control over my own body. My mind blasted into stars and shows, concealing us in darkness. We were enveloped in a cloud of night sky. I drove deeper, grabbing her leg and bending it at the knee.
Her eyes lit up as she left mine to look above me, her hand reached out as if she were able to touch the stars and as she did, I came inside her. My body shuddered at the sudden relief and as I looked back down at her, she cupped a hand to my cheek and kissed me gently.
“You’re not allowed to leave me, I claim you, Nicholas of the Obsidian Fae. You are forever mine.”
She kissed me forcefully then, claiming me as hers.
Ornella laid against my chest with my arm wrapped tightly around her shoulders. We stared at the sunset until the moon rose above the horizon and Ornella shook under my touch. The temperature dropped, but thankfully the rain had stopped. Both of our horses had wandered off at some point, possibly already halfway back to the castle by now.
“We should head back if you are cold, Annwyl.”
“Not yet.”
She shook her head and looked up at me, her big hazel eyes stared at me for a few seconds before turning away. I leaned down to gently press a kiss on her forehead. The sound of crashing waves and her breathing kept me rooted to the spot. It was the most at peace I had felt in a long time.
“Everyone, I am sure, is wondering where we are.”
“Let them wonder, I want to stay here a while longer. I know once we go back, this moment will end, and we will be apart again,” her voice broke as she uttered the last words.
I’d done this. I’d hurt her. It wasn’t the first time, and possibly not even the last.
I didn’t mean to blame her. I didn”t want to hate her. I didn’t fully understand why sometimes I looked at her and felt unimaginable rage. She looked like her father. The man who sentenced my aunt to die and the one who murdered my parents.
She’d known none of it. She was innocent, save for trusting me. The darkness inside me nagged at the back of my mind. I had to keep it locked away, just for tonight. For tonight I was to be hers. Her husband. Her Nicholas.
I wouldn’t let it break free, no matter how much it banged at the walls of my mind, furious to be free.
“We can stay here for however long you wish, but if it becomes too cold I will take us home.”
“And how would you do that without our horses?”
“I have other ways of travelling as you well know.”
She huffed a small laugh, that precious sound I longed to hear each day. I pulled my arm tighter around her as she lifted her leg up and tangled it within my own.
Bringing her plotting eyes back up to meet mine, her smile was devious as she bit her bottom lip. “Well, then, until then I best make this time with you last.”
She was on top of me before I could even blink. Her plump lips ran across my jawline, down my neck, and continued down my chest until she reached my hip bones. Straddling over me she continued to kiss and nip at my skin. No matter how much my throbbing cock ached for her, she paid it no attention. A mischievous smile played at her lips as she looked up at me and I had to bite back my laughter as she made a path up towards my lips again.
“I think you may have to tell me what to do next,” she whispered seductively in my ear, “I’m afraid, my books aren’t that scandalous.”
She moved back down my body again, settling herself between my spread legs. Ornella stared up at me, that unsure innocence reflected in that forest of hazel. My cock ached for her attention, making it almost impossible to focus on the task at hand.
Squeezing my eyes shut, I prayed for the Goddess to give me strength. This girl would be the death of me, right here and now. The thought alone of what was about to happen had my release impending.
Taking a calming breath, I opened my eyes and locked with hers. Ornella bit her bottom lip, a blush filling her cheeks. Did she know how incredibly gorgeous she was?
“Wrap your hand around the base,” I rasped out, “Then stick out your tongue and lick the tip.”
She did as I instructed, adding in a swirl of her wicked tongue. As if she couldn’t resist the urge to drive me mad. I hissed out a breath, dropping my head to the ground.
“I thought you said your books weren’t that scandalous,” I jested.
“Perhaps I just wanted a little guidance from my king,” she whispered against my flesh.
“Take me into your mouth, Annwyl. Breathe through your nose and relax your throat.”
She did just that, repeating her movements until I was struggling to hold back my release. Pushing my hands into her hair, I stopped her, not wanting to finish anywhere but inside of her. Sensing my hesitation, Ornella kissed her way back up my chest, settling her legs on either side of my hips.
I didn’t think twice before I angled her body perfectly along my length, resting my hands tightly on her hips, I raised her up gently and then slowly entered her. Both of us gasped at the sensations and pleasure. I gave her a second to become used to me again before she started to rock back and forth.
My moans turned into grunts as she rode me, bringing herself close before I stopped her, lifting her off. Her eyes flew to mine in protest before I pushed up and reclaimed my place. She groaned loudly, digging her nails into the flesh of my arms. There it was, the noise I so greatly wanted.
It felt as if the world would come down around us. The feelings intensified as she dragged her nails down to my wrists. Her fingers circled them, gripping tightly before throwing them above my head and pinning them there.
“That’s it, my good girl,” I breathed out a raspy sigh with every movement she made, taking full control.
Letting go of my hands, she ran a hand through the front of her hair. Her head fell backwards, whimpering in pleasure. As one of my hands wrapped around her throat, gently squeezing while the other made light circles around her clit which took her deep over the edge.
A carnal euphoric cry erupted into the air as we both reached our climax together. Exhausted, she collapsed into my arms and I rubbed her back gently, kissing her neck. I couldn”t help but wonder if it would always be this intense whenever we were together.
Before we headed back, I wanted to steal one more time with her. I could feel myself getting hard again already. The power she had over me would forever be unmatched.