Chapter 20
twenty
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Kex
While my mate helped her people bathe, I distracted myself from her absence by chatting with the protectors about our supplies and planning what we would need for the return trip.
I busied myself preparing the nest I would share with my mate among the trees, then set about gathering roots to add to our dinner.
When I had more than we could possibly need for the next few days, I sighed and returned to the fire and began preparing a large meal.
I made Rainair help. He cursed me while peeling roots, which brightened my mood a bit.
When at last my mate appeared around the bend in the river, I rose and went to her side. Her hair was wet, and she smelled fresh.
“All done, my mate?” I asked, burying my nose in her neck.
She sighed and leaned into me. “I am, but the others are still scrubbing.” She glanced around. “Do you think anyone would notice if we disappeared for a bit?”
I growled and threw her over my shoulder. She laughed and pinched my ass while I carried her into the forest.
“Sounds like you like my idea,” my mate said.
“Yes, you’re brilliant.” I ran my hand over her ass, and massaged my way between her thighs, wishing she hadn’t bothered to get dressed after bathing.
“I think this is far enough, right?” my mate said, her voice growing husky.
“Braxx have good hearing. Just a little farther,” I said, pressing my thumb against the cloth covering her slit.
With a twist of my claw, I could have her bare, but that would be wasteful.
We didn’t have spare clothes and my mate wouldn’t be comfortable on the return journey with a hole in her crotch.
I found a patch of soft, thick moss and laid my mate gently on the surface.
She smiled up at me, heavy-lidded, and I enjoyed the view, running my hands down her clothed body.
When I reached her legs, I gripped the fabric and tugged, baring her sweet cunt to the forest air.
I buried my nose into her soft curls, breathing deeply of my mate’s arousal, then lowered my mouth to her, licking and sucking her cunt until she cried out in pleasure.
I let my mate have a few moments to rest while I removed my clothes, and the rest of hers. Climbing my way up her body, I pressed my weight against her soft curls and kissed her lips gently. “Should I fuck you now, my mate? Fill you with my cock?”
“Yes. Give it to me hard. I’ve missed having you inside me.”
I lined myself up at her entrance and slowly sank into her, we both groaned.
She was so hot and wet, an utter delight, I would thank Monai for every day for the rest of my life.
I rocked into her, teasingly slow at first, a celebration of reuniting our bodies after several days apart.
“You take me so well, my mate. Your body was made for me.”
When she began tensing beneath me, I leaned back on my knees and pulled her hips up my thighs at a sharp angle.
I drove into her, thrusting deep with each pass.
I kept up my pace, the sound of our bodies slapping against each other filling the surrounding forest. She tightened.
“Yes, that’s it, my mate. Come for me, squeeze my cock with your glorious cunt and make me explode. ”
“Fuck yes, Kex,” she gasped, and then she was crying out, and her cunt squeezed me so hard, my vision went blurry for a long moment, but I didn’t slow. In, out. In, out. In, out. I felt my cock begin to swell, and I thrust a few more times before I bellowed and spilled deep inside my mate.
I collapsed onto her, bracing my weight, and kissed her ferociously before rolling us. Draped across my chest, she lay boneless, my cock pulsing deep within her. She came again, gasping and sinking her little nails into my chest.
This.
This was everything I could ever want from the world.
I held her tight in the cooling forest air and ran my fingertips up and down her spine.
A thought I’d been dwelling on the last few days wove its way into my sex-addled brain, and I couldn’t let it go.
“My mate?” I asked, unsure whether she was asleep.
“Hmm?” she said.
“If you do not believe in soulmates, did you believe you had chosen me to be your mate?” I asked.
She was quiet for a long moment, and I wondered if she’d drifted off.
“Sort of?” she said. She propped herself up on my chest so she could see me, and the motion sank her farther down on my not yet soft cock.
I groaned, and she smirked, then wiggled her hips.
I gripped her waist and held her still. If she kept that up, my mind wouldn’t be present for this conversation.
“I don’t really know that there was a choice about it.
It was more like there you were and I knew I’d never want anyone else. ”
“Hmm, perhaps that is how humans know someone is their true mate,” I suggested.
She snorted. “I don’t think so. I think most humans struggle with it. I mean, I still have fears, that maybe this won’t be forever and what we feel now will fade, but I’m trying to ignore them.”
“This is forever, or for however long you want me,” I said, running a finger over her bare shoulder.
She ran her nails down my chest and ground her groin against mine. “There’s literally no way I could ever not want you, and the longer I know you, the more that point proves true.”
“Good,” I said, and thrust up into her. “I’m quite certain the universe will cease to exist long before my love for you fades.”
“Promise?” she asked.
“Yes,” I said with another hard thrust.
She smiled, but didn’t speak as she moved above me. Words weren’t needed as we moved together, showing our love to each other with our bodies, our breath, and our cries of pleasure.