Chapter 13 Sunshine and Tangerines
Chapter Thirteen
Sunshine and Tangerines
NYX
The scent of sunshine and tangerines brings instant peace to my soul as Hekate’s white hair flows around me, brushing against my cheeks while she giggles quietly and kisses me.
My once forgotten heart screams at me to tell her how I truly feel, how deeply her love has planted itself within me, forcefully giving meaning to life for the first time. She has no idea what she means to me.
Rays of light from the large bay windows in my room dance across her pale skin, the white sheets rumpled and wrinkled from our long day of enjoying each other’s company in the Realm of Light.
“I’m proud of you for who you’re becoming, Nyx. For the progress you’ve made lately. You should be proud, too.” Her glowing sky-blue eyes lock with mine as she brings her face closer, so close I can taste the air she breathes.
Straddling me, she wraps her soft thighs around my waist, guiding my hands beneath her lacy dress until I’m firmly gripping her hips.
Gods, she is like a warm breath of fresh air, so inviting and intoxicating and more perfect than anything or anyone should be.
I feel the heat building between my thighs as she gazes down at me.
“Should I be proud? How might the gods and my king and queen feel when they discover all you have really been teaching me this past year, Hekate? Like… how to kiss,” I croon, leaning up and brushing my lips softly against hers.
“Or how to make love.” Wrapping an arm around her waist, I flip her onto her back, pressing my body into hers as I roll with her.
Heat flares in her eyes and my heartbeat quickens at the squeal of shock and delight that rushes past her lips, breathing life into me.
Lowering my head slightly, I drag my tongue across her lips and shiver with pleasure over her suffering, a soft moan humming within as she realizes I won’t yet give her the satisfaction of kissing me.
“Or how to fuck.” I lick my lips and give her a teasing smile and then she can’t take anymore, gripping the sides of my face and pulling my lips to hers.
She suffocates me with her kiss, with the desire pulsing through her until I no longer remember how to breathe.
Pulling away slightly, her eyes are contemplative and sure as she brushes strands of my dark hair away from my face.
“I do not care what the gods or anyone else thinks,” she whispers, teasing the sensitive skin along my spine, her fingertips dancing slow and torturous strokes against me.
She smiles with satisfaction as the pleasure of her touch makes my body shiver in response.
“I only meant to be a mentor and a friend, someone to teach you how to wield your power. They can be angry if they wish, Nyx, but I never meant to fall in love with you. I do not believe either of us could have stopped this.”
Her words send a thrill through me like I have never felt before.
No one has ever loved me. Not even my own mother who was so desperate that she sacrificed my soul and my future for a manipulative demon.
He promised her everlasting love so long as she promised him a child who would one day be powerful enough to free him from the fiery pits of the Underworld for good.
She never loved me. She was insane. The king and queen pitied me when they took me in as a newborn babe, discovering that my mother had been slaughtered by the same demon she went to bed with to birth me, but they, too, will never love me.
I am simply a tool, a weapon, a mixed-breed fool who wanders through life with no one who truly cares, thanks to my mother. My demon blood makes me unlovable.
“You cannot love me.” I shake my head, averting my gaze. It does not matter how many times I might hear her say it, a hundred times, a million times, even, I still would not believe it.
I have never felt worthy of love. I never will. Despite that, I refuse to let someone as perfect as Hekate slip through my fingers. I will be better for her. One day I will accept her love and find a way to give it back to her times a hundred. I will do whatever it takes to keep her forever.
“Well, I do.” The sun begins to set outside my window and the darkness settling in is illuminated by the blue glow in her eyes.
“Not only do I love you, Nyx. I know you love me, too.” She nibbles at my neck playfully, smiling at the look of shock written across my features as her words wash over me.
Grabbing her wrists and pinning them above her head, I slowly and torturously drag my tongue across her lips, burning on the inside as her eyes roll back and then snap shut, allowing herself to get lost in the pleasure. Her body shivers beneath me as she presses her hips into mine.
“Let me show you exactly how I feel about you, Hekate. Let me taste your desire on my tongue. Let me hear the desperation escaping your lips as you call out my name again and again.” Pulling her bottom lip into my mouth, I suck on it gently, savoring her quiet moan that vibrates against me.
“I cannot bring myself to tell you how I feel, not yet… so let me show you instead.”
I grip the fabric of her dress, pulling it up and over her head. She eagerly wiggles free of it and carelessly tosses it onto the floor. As I kiss her from her neck to her collarbone, the warmth of her chips away at the walls of ice I have kept my heart locked within for far too long.
I will let it shatter to pieces for her.
Her body trembles and blue specks of her magic swirl around the white light of my flames, the colors glittering and dancing and filling the entire room with our power.
I make my way down to her breasts and her magic brushes against my skin, so desperate and hungry and needy for more.
Pulling her nipple into my mouth, I graze my teeth lightly against it, my clit tingling as she grips the nape of my neck, holding me there and arching into the warmth of my tongue.
Her sweet cry of pleasure pushes me over the edge.
I need to touch her, to feel her, to taste her like it could be the last time. I cannot wait any longer.
My magic surges as I gather it in my fingertips, using the vibrating thrum of a small flame to trace small circles around her belly button and across her chest. My arousal floods my senses so fast and hard I am nearly burning from the inside out, watching her glow with celestial light as she whimpers and begs and writhes against my power, her legs spreading wide as my magic teases the spot right above her clit.
It’s too much. She lets out a breathless moan, sucks her bottom lip into her mouth, and as her eyes firmly lock on mine, the fire inside me cannot be contained.
I must refocus in order to put out the flame, to avoid letting my newly found magic consume us both.
“Say it again, Hekate. Tell me how you feel for me…”
I refuse to touch her, removing my hands from her skin until she utters those beautiful words once more. My flames persist, though, the gentle, warm tingle of them climbing up her legs and settling at her hips.
“I love you, Nyx. I will always love you.” Her words are merely pants of breathless, desperate need.
“You are perfect,” I whisper into the skin at her hip, then lazily drag my tongue up her ribcage and bring one nipple and then the other into the warmth of my mouth.
I let her fully kiss me at last and she loses all control, our lips crashing together and our tongues silently expressing exactly what I am too scared to admit.
Our kiss is deep and passionate enough to merge our souls together for eternity, binding us together as if we are fated to be.
In this moment I know exactly how I feel for her.
I know what she is to me. She is everything.
One day I will be strong enough to tell her.
I will no longer be afraid One day I will be everything she needs me to be.
As she moans against my tongue it makes me wetter, and as she grips the sides of my face to kiss me deeper, the ice around my heart shatters completely. I always knew she would be the one to set my heart free.
Sliding my fingers across the slickness between her legs, she loses all control, grinding her hips hungrily against my skin.
“Nyx…” Her whimper is barely audible, but my lips curve up at the corners as I watch her fall apart so beautifully.
The need to taste her consumes me as she gives in to her pleasure, succumbing to my touch and relinquishing control of her body over to me.
Lying down on my stomach in front of her trembling, spread legs, I push two fingers deep inside of her wetness knowing she cannot take much more.
She is too easy to please. Too easy to push over the edge and send spiraling into an oblivion of pleasure.
I know she is close already. Her muscles tighten around my fingers harder with each thrust, so eager to fall apart around me.
I flick my tongue across her sensitive clit and her back arches as she begins to grind into me, gripping the silky sheets between her fingers.
She savors every second of my tongue against her skin, moving her hips in small, slow circles as she comes closer and closer to the release her body craves.
I will never tire of her. I will never tire of this.
Pushing my fingers into her deeper and faster I bring her clit into my mouth, sucking on it like the delicacy it is, like the sweet blessing that she is.
The desire between my legs builds and burns and tingles, each second of pleasuring her making my need for her grow.
I need her now even more than she needs me.