Chapter 6
Zaos
The rest of the weekend went much better.
Phia turned out to be pretty funny once she dropped her guard a little and started interacting with us.
I was thinking that Hugo was right about her feeling left out while we played that game Friday evening and I hurt her feelings.
I’d apologized three times, and finally, on the last try, she accepted my apology, and we all moved on.
Third time’s a charm… apparently.
She’d even complimented our addition when we’d shown them the plans and walked around the foundation to point things out, which was nice since Hugo and I helped design it.
It was basically just random wood and things all over the place right now, but we could kind of see how it was going to come together.
Now it was time for Phia and Kian to leave, and I… wasn’t very happy about it.
I loved having my brother close by. I’d missed this… this family stuff while I’d been away at college. I honestly hadn’t even realized just how badly I’d missed it until Kian started coming over for regular visits.
I supposed I could ignore it easily when no one else was around—an out-of-sight, out-of-mind kind of thing—but now I kept getting these little sneak peeks, and I was… wishing some of my family lived nearby.
Sure, we had the portal now, which was really great and convenient, but it still felt different.
It wasn’t the same as knowing my baby brother lived in the house next door or my cousin was only a giant’s step away down the hill.
It wasn’t the same as knowing my entire family, our whole coven, was right there, any time I needed one of them.
It wasn’t the same as gardening in my own backyard only to have one of my uncles walk by and offer to help.
I missed them. I really did.
But I also remembered how… crowded I’d felt when I’d lived on coven land permanently. I’d been overwhelmed more times than not. Not because I didn’t love my family but because there were just so many of them and they were always around.
Having my own space was definitely beneficial, especially when it came to my work and school.
And building a home—a true home, not just a house—with Hugo was one of the best things I’d ever done.
If only I could convince Kian to move in next door or something. Then I’d have the best of both worlds.
My brother came over and gave me a huge hug. I squeezed him as tight as I could, and he grunted and whispered, “You okay, bro?”
I nodded. “Yeah, just wish you lived here instead of back there.”
He let out a small laugh. “You know, sometimes I think about moving up here.”
I released him and met his gaze. “Really?”
He nodded. “Yeah, but… I don’t think Dad and Pops would like it much, so I haven’t done anything about it.”
“Key, if you want to move up here, you should do it. I’d love to have you as a neighbor. It would be awesome.”
Hugo moved over and added, “Oh my god, yes. That would be so awesome, Key. You gotta do it.”
Kian laughed, gave Hugo a small hug, patted my shoulder, and nodded toward Phia, who was already standing beside our portal shed. “Not sure it’ll happen. Phia loves living where she is now, so I might end up moving into her place.”
My eyebrows rose. “What? No way. You can’t live off coven land unless Granddad and Grandpa do a shit-ton of warding work on the place. You really think that’ll go over well?”
I wasn’t sure I liked the fact that it sounded like Phia wanted to take Kian away from his family. I didn’t like that at all.
Sure, I lived off coven land, but that had taken… a lot of convincing and rules and wards and all kinds of shit. Would she really be okay with my family doing all of that to her place? Her land?
From her spot by the shed, Phia called out, “What are you talking about, Key? I thought we were going to move into your place once we’re ready?” Apparently, nymphs had better hearing than I realized.
Kian smiled so wide at her I was surprised he didn’t blind the sun. “Really?”
She nodded, smiling, and looking genuine for once. “Definitely.”
My brother threw his arms up into the air in triumph. “Yessss! That’s amazing. I love you, Phia.”
She giggled. “Love you too, tiger boy.”
Kian shot me a huge grin before he ran over to her, picked her up, twirled her around while she giggled, then waved at us and disappeared into the shed.
“Well…” I shook my head. “That was… something.”
“It sure was.” Hugo put an arm around my back and rested his head on my shoulder. “Wanna go inside?”
There was a tone in his voice I didn’t recognize, so I glanced down at him to find him grinning goofily up at me. “What?”
He chuckled. “This is the first time we’ve had the house to ourselves in weeks. No one else is coming over until the morning.”
My eyes widened. “Holy shit, you’re right.”
He smacked my butt and took off running toward the back door. “Race ya to the bedroom.”
With a huge laugh, I ran after him, definitely planning on catching him.
The second my hands touched his hips and Hugo let out a loud laugh, my incubus magic decided to join the party.
Black shadowy tendrils burst from my body and began wrapping their way around Hugo’s arms, legs, and torso as I threw him over my shoulder and smacked his ass.
Only a few months ago, I would’ve been freaking out if my incubus magic came out around someone, let alone began touching them. But lately, I’d started to embrace it.
When I realized how much Hugo loved all of me, including my incubus side, including my incubus magic, I finally began letting go…
a little. But when I truly understood just how much Hugo enjoyed being touched by my magic, I finally felt like I could accept it and even welcome it in whenever we had sex, and even sometimes when we were only cuddling.
Right now, I could feel Hugo’s body already trembling with need, and I hadn’t even made it through the bedroom door yet. My incubus tendrils apparently felt really good against his skin, and the thought made me grin.
Hugo tended to act like I was the only one bringing a lot to our relationship, but he clearly didn’t realize how much he’d already given me in the short time we’d known each other.
I felt lighter. I felt more comfortable in my skin.
Those were no small feats. Especially for me—the black sheep of my biological family, the shy self-conscious kid, the unsure adult, the person scared of his own magic.
I’d never, ever, ever imagined I’d be embracing this side of myself, not like this. I used my magic to take pain away from patients at the hospital, but I’d never used it for… well, for sex. Never.
I’d never wanted to.
Until now.
Here I was, bringing it out on purpose to turn my partner on and make him feel good.
I never thought I’d be comfortable with that. Now, I even liked it. And it was all because of Hugo. He’d given me so much.
And to top it off, he helped me have fun. So much fun. All the time.
That might not seem like a lot to some people, but to me, it was everything. I’d always been a super serious person who wasn’t comfortable at all with himself. With Hugo, I laughed and joked and carried on in a way I didn’t know I could, and I was learning to love every part of myself.
He was healing me.
And I loved him for it.
I tossed Hugo onto the bed, making him screech and both of us laugh. Before he could even right himself, I grabbed his shirt and yanked it over his head before I went for his pants and boxer briefs, pulling them down and off.
“Someone’s eager,” he said with a laugh, reaching for my clothes.
He was right. I was eager. So I stood and stripped my shirt, pants, and boxer briefs off, dropping them to the floor.
Hugo’s jaw dropped, so I leaned over him and brushed my fingers across it, whispering, “You’re drooling.”
He smacked my hand away, wiping at his mouth and making me laugh. His eyes narrowed. “Liar. I was not.”
With another laugh, I pressed my lips to his and climbed fully over the top of him.
He didn’t hesitate to wrap his arms and legs around me, making our skin glide across one another.
My breath hitched when my already hard cock—who wouldn’t be hard when their viramore was naked beneath them? —brushed his.
“Holy shit, baby,” he murmured against my lips. “I want you inside me so bad.”
I nodded, perfectly happy to comply with that.
But not quite yet.
A shiver ran through him as my incubus tendrils began swirling over his skin, touching his arms, thighs, chest, hips, nipples, ass. I sent them to every place I couldn’t touch with my own two hands, making sure he could feel me everywhere.
I broke away from his lips and began kissing, licking, and mouthing my way down his body, giving each nipple a lick and a suck on the way since I knew he was sensitive there.
I could tell he was already getting close, so I eased up with my magic, turning the touches a little gentler until I could get inside him. I could hear his thoughts, and I knew he wanted to come with me inside him. I’d give him what he wanted, but not until I played a little first.
After a moment, as I licked across his belly, I pushed one of my tendrils inside his waiting and eager hole. He gasped and grabbed onto my shoulders, his nails digging into my skin.
A smile curved my lips, and I moved myself even lower until I finally licked across the tip of his cock. He gasped again, nails tightening. I’d probably have marks when we were through. It was too bad my magic would heal them before I had a chance to enjoy them.
I took him into my mouth, sucking and licking as I reached into the nightstand for the lube. We used it a lot and often, so we’d started keeping it within reach.
After I poured a generous amount on my hand—and made a mess on the bed—my finger joined my magic inside my beautiful mate. He yelled out something unintelligible, which made me grin around his cock and chuckle.
“Fuck, that’s… ohmyfuckinggod, Zay!”
I laughed again and added another finger. I watched him throw his head back and push down on my fingers harder, so I knew he was almost ready, and I added a third.
My shadowy tendrils were moving all over his body, making him look almost blanketed by them. He released one of my shoulders and started running his fingers across my tendrils, making me shiver in return.
I could feel it, like he was stroking inside of me, tenderly loving my soul, and yet turning me on beyond belief.
They looked like shadows, but they did have some mass, and I’d noticed that Hugo really liked playing with them.
I’d felt strange about it at first, but it felt so good, and with how he made me feel, how I could sense the love and care and want from him, even with that part of me so blatantly on display in front of him, I genuinely loved it now.
He twisted his fingers through a few of the tendrils and held his hand there, making me smile. It was like we were holding hands, but he was holding it with my incubus side.
He did small things like that to show me that he loved that side of me just as much as the rest.
It was sweet, and it felt good too.
“Fuck, baby,” he moaned out. “You gotta… holy shit, you’re gonna make… make me come, and I… want you inside me. Now.”
I pulled off his cock and kissed my way back up his gorgeous body until I reached his lips.
After a gentle kiss, I removed my fingers but left my magical tendril inside as I added lube and lined myself up.
We’d done this—my cock and a tendril inside him—before at his request. We’d both loved it, and we did it this way nearly every time now.
I slowly pushed my way inside, my tendril gently massaging him open for me.
He felt so fucking good. He always did, and I had to take a moment to breathe deeply before I came way too early.
He let out a small laugh, a giggle, that made me chuckle before I pushed in again.
He moaned, holding me tight against him.
“I love it when you use your magic,” he murmured before he lifted his head and captured my mouth with his.
I bottomed out, and we kissed and kissed as his body relaxed around me.
He pressed on my ass with his foot, silently telling me to move, so I pulled out slowly and pushed back in.
I found a slow but hard pace before my shadowy magic started rubbing against his prostate and causing him to yell out against my mouth.
I slowly sped up my pace, and my magic followed my lead, starting with light touches, then becoming more and more insistent, harder, deeper, making Hugo’s skin and body light up with every touch.
I could feel both our orgasms rising, the pleasure we each felt reflecting back and forth through our bond and making everything feel so fucking intense.
“Oh god,” he moaned out.
I shouted, “Hugo!”
And then my orgasm rushed through my body, sending sparks of electricity through every damn cell.
Hugo’s own orgasm crashed through him, and before I knew it, we were in a loop of pure fucking bliss.
My magic was practically flying around us, swirling over our bodies, brushing our skin as the pleasure went on and on and on.
I wasn’t sure how long we stayed in that place of nirvana, but by the time we came down, we were both exhausted and ready for sleep even though it wasn’t late enough for that yet.
Hugo had his arms wrapped around me as I rested on top of him, squishing him.
“You’re not squishing me,” he murmured. “Stay.”
“Okay.”
He kissed my hair and held me tighter.
A while later, he asked, “Can we stay in bed and cuddle for the rest of the night?”
“Aren’t you hungry?”
He paused. “Okay, yeah. We can grab food, come back in here, eat, and then resume cuddling.”
I laughed. “I like the sound of that.”
“Good.” He kissed my hair again, and when I went to stand up to get the food, he clung to me like a barnacle.
Since he didn’t seem to want to let go, I carried him out to the kitchen with me, both of us totally naked and not caring at all. No one was here, for once, and no one could see inside our home.
I ended up holding him with one arm and used the other to grab some of the leftover pasta salad from the fridge. Maybe not the best dinner in the world, but perfect for tonight. He grabbed two forks, and I carried him back to the bedroom.
We stayed pressed against each other for the rest of the night, even when we were eating.
I loved every minute of it.