Chapter 20 #2
His gentle laugh makes a smile bloom across my face.
I really don’t understand how I was lucky enough to have this man become so special to me.
I feel like every moment with him is a blessing.
But I also know he comes with many risks.
It’s like I’m holding this breakable glass in my hands that everyone around me wants to crush.
My world fell apart when I lost everyone…
honestly, I don’t know if I could handle going through that again if I lost Riley.
I press my head against his, and he bites my ear.
“You’re getting lost in your head,” he says.
“I am not.”
“I can tell by your facial expression,” Riley says as Kit nips my nose.
“Ow! You are both evil!”
Kit chitters, thrilled with the assault, and leaps onto my head, tail wrapping around my eyes.
“Oddly enough, the very thing that has allowed you sight has taken it from me,” I say as I pull Kit’s tail down, but then I’m stuck nearly eating her tail, so I position it around my neck while I carry Riley out of the garden.
“She gets whatever she wants,” Riley announces. “If she wants your eyeballs, I have to give them to her. She’s just so cute I can’t help it.”
“Then we have these things,” I say as I flick a soul. It bobs away from me and back over to Riley, like it wants to be comforted because I pestered it.
“Don’t bully my souls.” Riley hugs it, then lets out the biggest sigh. “Torin… what does it mean to be Death? What does it mean to be a horseman? I feel like I’m being told I’m one thing, but… it just doesn’t connect. It doesn’t feel right. I still feel like… Riley.”
I squeeze his legs that I’m holding. “That has to be so hard. I don’t even know how it would feel to go through all of that. But at the end of the day, you are you, no matter what comes your way.”
“I’d just rather ride on your back than a horse. You can be my horse,” he decides. “I’ll even give you sugar cubes and carrots.”
“Oh joy,” I say, not quite sure I’m interested in either. Maybe lobster or steak—
He kisses the side of my head. “And kisses.”
“I do like that.” I turn a corner and am delighted when I see that my power has reached out to this point.
I cover Kit’s eyes as I hurry over to the spot and place Kit on Riley’s shoulder before setting him on his feet, revealing the sight to him.
Riley looks around while I stand here, proud as can be, like I grew all of this shit…
which… I guess in a roundabout way, I did.
My power returning to me is what allowed it to return to life.
“This is absolutely gorgeous,” he murmurs in awe while he gazes at the vines wrapping around an old pergola some villagers had built. Bell-shaped purple flowers hang down from the vines, coloring the whole area in a magnificent light.
“Isn’t it? And look here,” I say, plopping him down on a bench. “There is a sex bench.”
That makes him laugh. “Ah, of course. The most important part,” he teases as he hooks his legs around me and pulls me until I’m hovering over him.
My eyes flick down to his lips. “Am I permitted to kiss you this time?”
“Depends on whether you’re a good enough kisser,” Riley taunts.
“Is that a challenge?”
“Might even be a threat.”
I chuckle before setting a knee on the bench and leaning down to kiss him as my fingers sink into his hair. I nip his lips when they don’t automatically part for me, and he makes a contented sound.
I press my lips against his again and this time, I feel the lightest brush of his tongue against mine.
It’s so teasing, like he wants to show me what’s waiting for me but is refusing to let me take a bite.
I lift him up before I straddle the bench and pull him onto my lap while one hand trails up his bare back, fingers tracing over his skin.
“You are just so tantalizing,” I murmur.
“Well, you’re still evil for making me lose,” he jokes.
I grin. “Understandable. I never said I was a benevolent god.” I press in again, my tongue twisting against his while he draws me in deeper. His finger slips into the front of my pants before another joins it. Both fingers slide down, spreading out on either side of my cock, teasing it.
My cock is already hardening, though it doesn’t take much when Riley is involved. He can simply look at me the right way and my brain fucks off while my dick decides to join in on the action.
His hand sinks down into my pants, guiding my cock out, and then he pushes his own pants down before kicking them off.
Once back on my lap, he pulls our cocks together, the head of his brushing against the length of mine as he scoots closer to me so they’re pressed even tighter against each other.
His hand wraps around our cocks, stroking them in tandem.
Riley moans against my mouth as I pull out a handy-dandy packet of lube.
When I found out there were such things, I was quite thrilled and made sure at least fifteen went into the pocket of every pair of pants I owned.
The look Riley gave me when he forbade me from carrying more than one is forever seared in my mind…
possibly because all fifteen fell out when I reached into my pocket for some money while standing in the middle of a store.
I tear it open with my teeth and squeeze some onto my fingers. He takes it and drizzles some onto the head of my cock, and the cool gel makes me shiver. My left hand slides around behind him before I rub a finger against his hole, teasingly moving over it then pressing against it.
I push my finger inside his tight hole while he draws in a breath, and I love the flicker of pleasure that crosses his face.
I trail kisses down his neck as his hand quickens on our slick cocks.
My finger strokes right inside his entrance, up and down the sensitive wall before I add a second finger and try to find that sweet spot inside him.
Seeing him gasp when I nudge a finger against it makes satisfaction wash through me. Nothing is sexier than the way he shivers and bucks into me while I press down on that spot.
“Oh fuck,” Riley whispers as he strokes our cocks faster before reaching down to the base of mine and squeezing it gently. He knows just how to work my cock.
I had planned on just jerking him off, but when he lifts up, pulling away from my fingers, I realize he wants more.
He takes my cock in his hand and sinks down until the head is against his hole.
And even though I know he can’t see right now since Kit is exploring the top of the vines, I love the way he feels me.
The way he touches me, like he wants to know every part of me.
My cock gradually penetrates his tight hole as he sinks down so tantalizingly slowly that I want to buck my hips and drive deeper into him. I groan at the exquisite ache he makes me feel.
Riley sinks all the way down until my cock is as deep as it’ll go, his body tight around me, then he lifts up and sinks down in one quick motion.
One of my hands slides down his length while the other explores the rest of his body.
I trace my fingers around his hole, feeling my cock thrusting in and out of his beautiful body.
I pull him in for a kiss, his tongue moving against mine as he rocks.
How this man can make sex feel so fresh, so new, so thrilling every single time, I don’t know.
I can’t get enough of him. I just love him so much.
I love everything about him. I want to protect him, love him, touch him, keep him safe…
He groans and tips his head back, riding my cock in a perfect rhythm.
He’s driving me crazy and I don’t even know how he’s cast such a spell over me.
It brings me right to the brink, and when he knows I’m getting close, he rocks even faster.
I stroke his cock, pulling him over the edge as his come strikes my shirt and his ecstatic cry hits my ears.
He sinks down on me while I moan, coming deep inside of him.
Riley’s lips find mine even though he’s nearly breathless. It’s like he can’t get enough of me, just like I can’t get enough of him.
He sinks down and I lean forward, lowering him onto his back before I slowly pull out of him. And then I push his shirt up and kiss a line down his chest, over his nipple, and to his waist. I want to claim every part of him. When I start back up, he wraps his arms around my head, pinning me to him.
“I just want to stay like this forever,” he murmurs. “I’ve never been so happy in my life.”
“Me too,” I say, knowing that things are about to change… but there’s nothing we can do about it. All we can do is trudge forward.
I close my eyes as I carefully lie against him, arms wrapped around him, head on his chest.
I will do everything I can to protect this man… no matter the cost.