Chapter 11
CHAPTER ELEVEN
Kaias pulled her to him. He lowered his face to the valley of her neck and inhaled.
She smelled of him, sugar, and a day of work in the heat.
Olivia was so adamant, her body shook beneath him.
Nothing she said made any sense. He couldn't understand a single thing from her mouth, but he understood tears.
“Olivia,” he whispered her name. “You are Olivia.”
“You want me to be something I cannot say,” she whispered between soft cries, “I cannot lose me.”
Kaias held onto her. Was this what she was worried about? Losing herself? Was he asking so much of her that she was breaking in his arms? He couldn't allow that.
It was another thing that made humans so vulnerable. He needed to protect her. But from her tears, he wondered if he was the one causing her pain.
He nipped at her skin, enticing her to focus on something else. Beneath him, she softened, becoming a pliable puddle. Her hands caressed his bone crown, sending a purring growl from his midsection to rise up. His cock jumped at attention, hardening at her touch.
“You are my Kou,” he repeated again.
His guards and Maia were shocked that he used the term for Olivia. It was an older term for their Heartbound partners. Kou was directly from Koureshtka. It meant the goddess sanctified the union. That breaking the union was a sinful act. Anyone who touched Olivia would pay with their lives.
Only Olivia or he could break their bond.
It was a true partnership, something Olivia seemed to understand on a visceral level.
What he was asking of her was selfish and not at the same time.
The title would protect her from Auryn or anyone out for his throne.
She would be seen as a goddess and, as such, should be treated as one.
So why was she fighting it so hard?
He wanted to shake her into understanding. But she started that with her language lesson.
“Mouth,” Olivia said, brushing her lips against his jawline.
Shivers ran down Kaias’s spine.
“Lips.” She said a new word he didn’t know and kissed him again.
He wanted to know what she was saying. The language sounded so different; it spurred his curiosity.
“Kiss,” Olivia whispered. She placed her lips against his and kissed.
Everything she tasted was so sweet. She was killing him with her words and touches. This delicate, beautiful creature was somehow stronger than him, just from her fingertips caressing his bone crown.
“What are you saying?” He whispered to her.
“Mouth is mouth. Lips are lips. And this,” she kissed him again, allowing him to taste her. “It's called a kiss.”
Kaias purred again. She was trying so hard to seduce him, to put him in a place where his power would be stripped away. Little did she know, she was becoming his power and strength. He knew it the moment their hearts thrummed in Koureshtka’s Tomb. Koureshtka wanted him and Olivia to be together.
Like all great teachers, his goddess was showing him through experience. No one ever succeeded in putting him in this emotional space. No one else had ever tried to stand up to him or tell him how they needed to be. Boundaries didn’t exist for him. And yet, here she was, standing her ground.
Kaias lowered himself down and lifted Olivia from the ground. She wrapped her legs around his waist, pushing close to his erection. Kaias kissed her, locking their lips and breaths together. He walked her to the wall, pressing her body against the warm stone.
The sun had set entirely, replaced by the two moons. Koureshtka’s twin daughters watched down at them from the heavens, their light shining into their room.
“Why are you doing this?” He asked.
Olivia panted. She raked her fingertips against his back, making him rock forward. He wanted to tear through their clothing to where there was nothing left but them. Quickly, he moved a hand down to his pants and began to work on the fastening.
“I’m trying to show you how much my life matters.”
Kaias shook his head. He chuckled at what she said.
“Words matter this much to you?” He teased, “So much that you would sell yourself to continue working?”
“Knowledge matters that much.”
Kaias paused. His pants fell to his ankles as he stared into her eyes. Knowledge. Sharing it and being a part of it mattered so much that she would seduce him? He believed she would do it anyway, the way she trembled for him. But there was something in that reasoning that had him thinking.
It was as if they were Vrex and Koureshtka. She would do everything in her power to share knowledge and rule with empathy, whereas he was forced to live in a world ruined by blood and power.
Kaias sighed. “You may be Olivia to the people.”
“What?” She asked softly.
“You want to be Olivia to the people, and I will agree to that,” he kissed her softly.
If this was all she needed to stay with him and to continue to be his Kou, who was he to stop it?
“But in international functions, you are my Kou. You will be Lady Olivia, Consort of the Abyss, Sister of Koureshtka.”
Olivia nodded. Tears flowed down her cheeks as she hiccuped a smile.
“I am Lady Olivia, Consort of the Abyss, Sister of Koureshtka,” she said, the title proudly. “Kou to Lord Kaias.”
Kaias growled in agreement. “What is Kou in your language?”
“We don’t have an equivalent,” she answered.
Kaias nodded, proud that his world had something hers did not encompass. Olivia was so much that he couldn’t pinpoint everything. He wanted to learn more and planned to, starting with her body.
Slowly, he rolled up her silk robes and pressed his erection to her center. Olivia gasped. Her body trembled against him as he felt her opening welcome him. He pushed himself in, watching her lips part slightly.
Kaias captured her breath in a kiss. He rocked into her body, filling every inch of her with his cock. Her pussy shook and clenched, welcoming him in deeper. Her moans rolled up her body as her legs tightened around him.
“You are mine,” Kaias said, driving himself deeper into her.
He pulled away, watching her eyes water in need for him. With a grin, he pushed in deeper, matching her pants with each thrust. Olivia’s fingers dug into his back, breaking his skin and marking her. He growled out in enjoyment, pushing deeper into her until there was no more.
“I am yours,” Olivia gasped out in pants. She rocked into him, moving her hips around his cock.
Signals fired up in his body as he felt the urge to keep going. Kaias pulled back, leaving her wet pussy alone.
“Kaias,” Olivia whimpered out. She tried to pull him to her with his legs, but he held back.
“What are you doing?” She pleaded with him. “Why are you doing this?”
A low laugh rumbled from him. Olivia looked at him with wide eyes of need. He could watch this for days, seeing her need him and beg for him. But there was only so much time, and his own lust would take over. His cock desired its new home.
She was a temptation he wasn’t going to let go. Kaias growled and pushed back into her, feeling her body clench again. Olivia gasped out in pain and lust. She pulled his bone crown and head to him, clashing their lips together.
Kaias bit down on her lips, tasting the beads of red blood blooming to the surface. She tasted so good, enticing and delectable. Pushing into her again, she gasped in delight.
“Don’t do that again,” she panted out.
Kaias chuckled. He pushed in, pulled away, and pushed again. Each time, her body trembled against him. Throughout his life, he had never realized this was what he needed. Not just a body to cum inside, but a partner to feel and experience every bit as much as he did.
Olivia lived life with responsibility and conviction. She matched him in strength and determination. It was astonishing to him how humans could act so brazenly despite their vulnerabilities. And yet, here he was, worshipping a human female the way a man worshipped his partner.
A real man. Not the man his father was or the man Auryn claimed to be, but a man who took control and understood that dominance did not mean force. He was going to force Olivia to stand on his principles, but she was right.
Kaias needed to worship her as her, not as the queen she was going to be. And what a queen she would make. His people would be proud to have her watch over them. Their children would be praised.
Standing before Olivia, pushing his cock into her, and filling her with every essence he possessed was precisely what he needed in life. He wanted to be the change his people needed, and this was the way. The woman before him was the way.
As Kaias finished spilling every bit of himself into her, he thanked Koureshtka.