Chapter 26 #2
This was it. Gods, I really hoped I didn’t screw this up somehow.
Kai didn’t seem to mind my inexperience, but I wanted everything to be perfect.
What if I didn’t move right or panicked in the middle of everything?
I wrung my hands against my lower stomach, then quickly moved them to my sides and grabbed the blankets so I wouldn’t look nervous.
But a couple minutes of laying like that, and I thought I might look stupid, so they ended up clasped on my stomach again.
“Hey.” I jumped at the sound of him so close. How long had he been standing there?
His eyes creased in concern, and I felt him gently probe at my swirling emotions. I tried and failed to lock them down.
“Talk to me?” he asked, stepping closer so I could see him better. His silhouette hovered at the end of the bed, looking down at me and all my exposed skin until goosebumps rose. His warm hand made soothing passes up and down my calf, connecting us and offering me someplace secure to anchor myself.
“I’m fine,” I fibbed, and then my legs shook. Traitors.
Kai’s hand paused at my ankle as he stared at me. “No, you’re not.” He bit his lip, “But that’s okay.”
Up and down my legs, his palms eased the tension from my locked muscles.
He seemed perfectly content to stand there and touch me.
Just like this. His fingers dug into small knots, breaking them apart before they could truly form, and all the while a steady stream of satisfaction thrummed from his side of the bond.
I wasn’t sure how much time passed like this, but eventually, my tension eased.
Embarrassment quickly filled the silence.
“I don’t know why I’m so nervous,” I whispered. If he could see my face, it would be unrecognizable in its color. Cherry red. Gods, I really had issues, didn’t I?
I spent so long avoiding this moment while also secretly dreaming about it, that now I didn’t actually know what to do.
How did I handle this nerve-bending tension and excitement all at once?
Kai’s palms pressed into the mattress beside my head as he crawled over me.
He kept his body safely hovering over mine, only the faint brush of his towel touching my skin.
“It's because you know that once we do this, there’s no going back. You’re mine.” His eyes softened. “Just as I’ll be yours.”
I nodded, my gaze fixed on his. Yes. That. Belonging to him. Us belonging to each other. All of it. The thought sent a thrill down my spine, and I wiggled. Kai smirked, like he could feel my need finally pushing ahead of my apprehension.
“Do you want this?” he asked. It was an olive branch. A get out of jail free card, if I needed it.
I nodded again, and he tsked, “Say the words, so there’s no confusion.”
“Yes,” I whispered. “I want this.”
He inhaled and ran his nose up the length of my neck. “The things I’m going to do to you, princess.”
Promises, promises.
But then he stepped away and cool air replaced where he once was. Returning to the foot of the bed, he dropped his towel and stood before me, unashamed and utterly delicious.
“Take a deep breath,” he commanded. “And when you’re ready, just nod. I’ll handle the rest.”
I did as he said. One focused breath, then two.
I wanted to do this. I was ready. I gave a subtle, but sure nod, and a ghostly touch wrapped around my ankles.
Kai’s shadows brushed cool kisses over my skin, gently nudging the inside of my legs.
I frowned and looked away from them to see Kai holding back a grin.
He raised a brow, and his shadows tapped on me again.
Ah. I got the message. With a shy grin, I slowly spread my legs apart, stopping when I thought my feet were far enough.
My knees still touched, and a thick sliver of shadows played a game of peek-a-boo over them.
Peering at me one minute, then diving down to tickle my skin the next.
“A little more,” Kai encouraged.
I opened them an inch. “There?” He shook his head, and my knees separated just enough to see him standing between them. “How about there?”
The damn shadow started wagging back and forth like a finger telling me no, and Kai chuckled. “I think we can do better than that. Don’t you?”
My mouth went dry in anticipation, and I swallowed. “We?”
Multiple bands of his magick caressed my thighs as they slowly circled around them.
With gentle, playful tugs, they opened me fully until there was nowhere left to hide.
Kai stood there, arms crossed, watching as his shadows positioned me just the way he wanted.
The look of hunger on his face filled me with confidence, and I relaxed even more.
Something bumped me, and I glanced down to see a condom and a small bottle of lube rolling over the mattress with the outward press of my leg.
“Eyes on me, princess,” Kai instructed. “Don’t worry about those right now.”
My knees were bent and pushed wide, heels resting on the edge of the mattress. A brave glance down my body showed Kai’s large cock perfectly lined up, all he had to do was push forward. But instead of reaching for the condom, his hands gripped my inner thighs and squeezed.
The muscles only slightly resisted, and he kept rubbing them until they obeyed his command to relax.
If he kept looking at me like that…One hand left my thigh to dig into the crease of my hip.
His thumb stretched over, running through the proof of my arousal to swirl around my clit, and just that small touch was almost too much after what we had done in the shower. I grabbed his wrist to stop him.
“I’m still a little sensitive,” I said, and he smiled.
“I know.”
No warning. No more slow, introductory touches.
Kai dove right in and shattered all coherent thoughts with a well-planned strike against my senses.
Two fingers plunged inside me while that thumb kept featherlight circles on my clit.
Shadows held my ankles hostage, so no matter how I arched, my ass wasn’t going anywhere.
There was a mouth on one nipple and a pinch of fingers on the other. Wet suction and teeth. Pinch and pull. Persistent fingertips against that spot on my walls, and I was gone. My toes curled when the waves kept going, easing off only for Kai to add a third finger to the mix.
“One more.”
I shook my head. “I’ll die.”
Kai laughed against my neck but didn’t slow his touch. “You can take it.”
I always thought he believed in me a little too much. Still, despite my protests, my release was building again. This one was going to knock me out, I just knew it.
“If this… is some kind of punishment… for making you wait so long to bond…well played…” I gasped.
Kai leaned over, making sure to catch my eye before he answered. “You’re tiny, and it’s been a while,” he said, scissoring those fingers as if to make a point. “You’re going to need all the help you can get to take me.”
Well, when he put it that way.
It didn’t take long for me to come again.
Kai built off the back of my second orgasm and sent me screaming headfirst into the third.
That shower was well and truly wasted because my body was covered in a light sheen of sweat, and even my wet hair felt like it needed to be washed again.
As I lay there catching my breath, I watched him tear open the wrapper and slide the condom down his long length.
He tossed the foil square somewhere over his shoulder and grabbed the bottle of lube, applying a generous amount.
Wrapping his fist around himself, he worked his hand up and down.
The sound it made…The way he looked at me while bringing obvious pleasure to himself…
It was almost indecent. Gods, but it made me squirm in all the best ways.
Gripping the base of his cock, Kai rubbed his thick head along my slit, bluntly pressing in with a roll of his hips. He pulled back and moved forward again. Stretching me. Filling me. Going so slow I had no choice but to feel every single inch of him.
“Easy, I’ll go easy,” he said, his breath tickling the damp hair at my temple.
I didn’t mean to tense up. His shallow thrusts were gentle, each one easing him further inside, but damn was it getting crowded in here. I cried out at the sting when he flexed his hips a final time and buried himself to the hilt.
“Are you okay?” His hands roughly cupped my cheek. “Tell me if it hurts, princess.”
It felt like he was in my ribs. He froze above me, not daring to move as I tried to find words to describe what I felt.
Static. I couldn’t grasp anything. Our eyes locked, and I tried to explain all the turmoil in my head with a few blinks.
Able to read me better than I could myself, Kai pulled out, flipped me over, and in one move, pulled my hips up and slid all the way back inside.
“I knew I’d fit,” he growled. “You were made for me.”
He ground small circles against my ass, lighting up nerves inside me I didn’t even know were there.
From this angle, there was no pain. We fit together like perfect puzzle pieces, and I rocked back against him with a moan.
Kai curved his body along my back, gripped my hips in a bruising hold, and began to move.
He’d withdraw almost all the way before pushing in once more, the head of his cock bottoming out with each thrust. My body clutched at him tightly, like it didn’t want him to leave.
Like it could draw him in so deep that we’d become one.
The bond in my chest was a wildfire. Overheating pulses of his pleasure and mine spiked when he slipped his hand beneath me to stroke my clit.
I couldn’t control how I clenched around him in response.
“Fuck, Eryn. Princess,” he groaned.
It was building again. My fists ripped at the sheets as I fought to hold on.
The bond stretched tight, burning like a thousand suns until I thought it would burst from between us as a visual livewire.
There was a pounding in my head so strong I almost wondered if it was real. Deep. Kai was so damn deep.
My face was pressed into the mattress, and I wildly bit at it as pleasure stacked level upon level. My sensitive skin, the sparks Kai drew from within me, his finger flicking across my clit, all of it swirled together—coiling tighter and tighter.
“I need you to fall with me,” Kai begged, voice ragged as he tried to hold on.
A familiar, cool strand of magick squeezed between us and made its way down my back.
I knew what he was about to do but there was no preparing for it.
Kai was an ass man, and as I was coming to find out, I was more than okay with the benefits of that.
The blunt shadow brushed between my cheeks, pressing, pressing…
The tightness in my core snapped and together we fell over the edge, our voices crying out in one sound.
Something happened between us. Somewhere between one breath and the next; a bridge opened in my mind, and waiting at the other end, was Kai.
He wasn’t physically there, of course, but it was him.
All of him. His emotions and dreams—his thoughts.
I knew all my crazy had to be screaming at him from my side as well, but it didn’t seem to bother him. His warm breath bathed the back of my neck as he caught his breath. Arms still clasped around me, cock softening inside me…I’d never felt more at peace.
You are so fucking beautiful.
My eyes widened as the echo of his voice lingered in my mind.
Kai?
His chuckle vibrated my back.
Surprise.
I laughed, and it jostled him, still half hard inside me. Wincing at the movement of now tender muscles, I wiggled to try and get comfortable again. My legs had absolutely no feeling, so me and those abused muscles were stuck here for a moment.
Did I hurt you?
His concern made me smile…and it was an unexpected turn-on. Well then, I didn’t think I’d have to do much convincing to get my body up and awake for round two.
Can we do that again?
Blatant male satisfaction blasted down the bridge as Kai ground against my ass.
Maybe give me a second to catch my breath and turn the bass down in my head, I teased.
I might die if my heart didn’t slow down and calm itself. That pounding I heard hadn’t gone away. It was worse.
That isn’t you.
“Ezra, stop fucking banging on my door!” Kai shouted over his shoulder. “We’re obviously a little busy in here!”
Oh. Maybe that wasn’t my pulse racing in my ears then. Honest mistake.
The bedroom door burst open with a fling of splintered wood, and then Ezra was there, standing only a foot away.
He didn’t appear to care that we were both buck-ass naked and connected by a cock, but I still dropped over the other side of the bed to hide all my personal bits.
His distorted shape was clear over the mattress, moving back and forth in an agitated dance, and there was something white in his hand.
“You better have a good fucking reason to—”
Ezra frantically waved a piece of paper in the air. “She’s gone! They took her!”