Chapter 16
Tino
Hane arrived with our breakfast and informed us that Willow would stop by in an hour’s time. I couldn’t help but fearing it was bad news, but I decided to stuff my face and ignore it for now. She would be here soon so worrying would be a waste of time anyway.
“Did you ever…” Tair began, looking almost shy. “Find someone else before you were shunned?”
“Like a friend?” I asked, not really getting his question. He still had a lot of my letters to go through, but he’d see I remained friendless until my banishment. Not because I was bullied at first, but because no one could compare to Tair, so why would I even bother?
“No, like,” he blushed, then swallowed nervously, like he desperately wanted to finish his question, but it also pained him to ask.
“A lover?” I guessed. He nodded, looking even more pained.
“No,” I quickly said, wanting to ease his worries. He sighed with relief, but now I had to know too. “Did you?”
He shook his head quickly, then smiled. “It might sound stupid, but I was waiting for you, and if I never found you, I would simply be single forever and get a lot of animals to keep me company.”
I laughed. “I had the same idea. I would be the crazy dog man in my early years and then the crazy cat man as I grew older.”
He began laughing too. “Why in that order?”
“Because I wouldn’t be able to run around playing with the dogs when I got too old, so that’s when the cats would get their turn at my endless love and affection.”
He just shook his head at me, grinning widely. “Gods, I love you.”
I leaned over and was just about to kiss him when knocking started at the front door. I groaned, not ready to deal with Willow yet.
Tair seemed to share my unease, but still rose to answer the door. Willow was smiling brightly and I hoped it meant good news.
“Can I come in?” she asked politely and Tair blushed and apologized as he stepped to the side allowing her access to our cabin. I was still sitting on the couch with our half-eaten breakfast in front of me, but she simply sat down in the armchair, waiting for Tair to join us.
“I come with good news,” she began, smiling even brighter. “The twenty mages that were working on how to properly hide your magic have finally found a way for us to shield you.”
I was so damn happy I could cry. I should’ve felt bad for hating on her when I thought she was wasting her time doing other things. I’d genuinely thought she and Nujik were the ones who had to figure out how to shield us.
“That’s amazing!” Tair exclaimed, sending me a blinding smile. I mirrored it and winked. It made him blush, but Willow didn’t seem to notice.
“It really is! We need ten mages including the other true leaders, to help us maintain the magic while you bond. I know it might not seem romantic, but we need to keep you safe,” Willow explained, giving us a knowing look.
She wasn’t a bad person, and it seemed she truly cared about our needs.
Even if there wasn’t anything else to do than bond while ten mages stood outside and waited.
Fun times.
“So, when can we do the ritual?” I asked, knowing we might be celebrating too early.
“In one hour,” she announced, then stood. “I’ll tell the other true leaders now so they can get ready.”
I suddenly felt what I believed to be performance anxiety. Tair took my hand in his and gave me the smile I’d only ever seen him direct at me. It was my smile. His silent support worked wonders on my nerves.
“Silver will be adding a silencing ward before we start. I’ll make sure that it stays in place for two hours,” she said as she opened the door.
“As soon as you’ve received your magic and have bathed or whatever you need, come out and join us to add your magic to the ward.
We can’t stay out there working forever, and the ward will protect you after you’ve added your magic to it, making us free from shielding you. ”
“Thank you,” Altair said and I nodded, grateful I was given the chance to claim the man I’d always loved.
We decided to bathe separately before bonding, since it would simply be too hard to resist knowing we would soon be allowed to truly have one another. It also gave us something to do instead of us just buzzing with excitement until they’d knock on the door, alerting us we could begin.
I sat freshly showered on the bed. We’d left the bedroom door open so we could hear them knock. The curtains were drawn, offering us a semblance of privacy.
“This is so weird,” Tair said, having just finished his own bath. He sat down next to me, a towel wrapped around his waist. I myself had pulled on some boxers, not really seeing the point of getting fully dressed.
“It definitely wasn’t how I expected our first time together to go,” I agreed. “But it will still be the most important day in my life nonetheless.”
He gasped softly and sniffed. “The most perfect day,” he agreed, kissing me softly on the lips. “I still can’t believe you’ll soon be mine forever.”
I couldn’t either.
“Forever,” I said, resting my forehead against his, knowing if we continued to kiss, we wouldn’t stop at kissing.
Then the most amazing sound came from the front door. Four knocks.
It was finally time.
“Fuck!” Tair blurted loudly, surprising me. “We haven’t even decided who tops.”
I burst out laughing. “And here I was worried you’d changed your mind on us,” I teased.
He swatted my arm. “This is serious! Who tops?!”
“Me,” I shrugged, knowing I actually didn’t care, but we needed to decide on one of us. “You can top me next,” I offered.
“You’d be okay with that?”
“Sure, why wouldn’t I be?”
He shrugged. “We haven’t really talked about what we each wanted to do when we finally did have sex.”
“But neither of us knows what we prefer yet,” I reminded him. “I thought we’d each get to try out both and see what we prefer, but for now I’ll just start.”
“Oh, yeah, that makes sense.”
I could tell he was as nervous as I was, but we sadly didn’t have the luxury of taking our sweet time. Knowing ten mages, including our friends, were out there working their magic, made me move quicker.
Thinking we had all day to explore each other, I offered, “Tonight, I’ll let you fuck me, but it won’t be until I’ve mapped out every tiny part of your body.
I want to take my time with you. Savor you.
But now, for our first time, there isn’t time for that.
” I removed my boxers and grabbed the lube from the bedside drawer, where I’d put it when Xarius had handed it over awkwardly.
Something we would never mention ever again.
Tair let the towel fall to the floor and instead of getting on the bed, he sank to his knees in front of me and started licking my hardening cock.
“Fuck,” I groaned, letting my head fall back as I counted to ten in my head. He had somehow worked up his courage and was now swallowing me down. I wouldn’t last. This was amazing. More than amazing.
He pulled off and the need to kiss him silly took over. I needed to show gratitude, to somehow thank him for the mindless pleasure he’d just given me. He grunted in surprise as I smashed my lips to his as soon as he stood. I pushed him down on the bed, still with my lips sealed to his.
The lube lay beside us, so I grabbed it, letting go of his soft lips as I needed to focus on my next task; getting him ready for me. He tucked his legs up and showed me every part of him. I could tell he felt vulnerable, but our years of friendship and love allowed me to calm him enough to relax.
I would never hurt him, and he knew that.
I might have been the one who’d always gotten us in trouble, and Tair the level-headed one, but now I felt like I needed to be the one in control, the voice of reason.
And the way he sighed as I kissed his neck, allowing him to relax further before I breached him—that just showed me I’d been right.
“I love you,” I said, slicking my fingers with the lube, then breached him with one finger. He gasped softly; his eyes locked on mine.
“I love you, too.”
Then I kissed him again, working my finger faster, knowing I wanted him fully prepped before I took him.
The mages outside wouldn’t make me rush through this part.
And I found that I loved prepping my Tair.
The soft gasps of surprise, the moans, the squirming.
It was intoxicating. Like I was learning something truly new about the man who knew me better than anyone.
Soon we would know every single thing about each other’s bodies, and I reveled in the knowledge as I worked him up to take three fingers easily.
I’d let my eyes wander over his body as it became flushed, but then I found his entrance swallowing my fingers entirely too enthralling to look away from.
But a whine from him had me staring back at his face.
His expression was filled with so much desperation and want.
We didn’t need words. I knew he was ready now.
I leaned up and kissed him, removing my fingers, much to his whimpering protest. Then I sat back on my heels and quickly lubed up my cock.
It had been neglected for far too long, and I winced a bit at how aching it had become.
I didn’t mind it though. I’d fully enjoyed myself as I focused on Tair and his pleasure.
He presented himself to me again, this time with a red and puffy hole, ready for my taking. I lined up, looked him in the eye and then started pushing in.
“Oh,” he exclaimed in surprise as I breached his rim. Then he took in a deep breath before I eased further into him. Again, we didn’t need words, our past, trust, and love, allowing us to communicate perfectly in this moment without it.
I bottomed out and I simply couldn’t hold myself back anymore. I needed to claim him. To bind him to me forever. He seemed just as eager, pushing back and using his heels to pull me further inside him. I took the hint and started moving.
“Fuck,” he gasped, clearly just as into this as I was. I couldn’t wait for him to top me too. I wanted to know how it felt to be full of him, claimed by him. He was so warm and tight around me. So perfect. So mine.
I braced both my hands on either side of his face and thrusted faster, sliding in and out, the slick sounds of our bodies meeting the only sound in the small cabin bedroom.
The only light was the sun that couldn’t be blocked out completely by the curtains.
I was giving everything I had to make Tair see stars. I wanted him completely undone for me.
I removed one hand and started stroking his perfect dick, the movements clumsy, but it felt damn perfect.
He moaned, tilting his head further back into the pillow.
Then almost as if a switch was flicked inside of us both, I flipped us, not an easy or graceful thing to do, but he seemed to need the same thing as I did.
He rode me, his eyes intent on mine as we gasped and groaned, slowly reaching the peak together.
Then he rested his hands on my pecs and I found one of my own hands resting over his heart.
Suddenly, light burst out of our palms, lighting up the whole room.
Pleasure unlike anything I’d ever felt rushed through my body. It was euphoric. It was magical.
“Fuck!” I shouted as I came inside my soulmatch. My bonded. My Tair.
He gave the cutest moan as he came too, painting my chest with his cum, leaving his mark on me, like I’d been fully claimed by him. Which I had.
We panted for breath, both just wide eyed and sated. The magic we now held bubbled under our skin, desperate to charge and be let out.
“That was so perfect, Tino,” he said, finally voicing aloud that what we’d just experienced had in fact happened.
“It truly was,” I panted, not ready to let him go yet.
“How long before we need to join them?”
I groaned. “The sooner we go out there and add our magic, the sooner I can get you back in here again.”
“Let’s get dressed then,” he said, clumsily getting off me and finding some random clothes. I took his towel from the floor and wiped his cum from my chest. The way he wobbled on his legs proved his body was just as affected as mine.
“Here,” I said, softly wiping his ass as it leaked some of my cum. “We can shower properly after,” I promised with a kiss to one of his ass cheeks.
“And get some food before round two,” he grinned.