Chapter 26
Chapter Twenty-Six
I squirm in my sleep as something brushes over my inner thigh. “Mmm, what?”
“Time to get up, baby.” Jayden’s whisper is muffled from the blankets.
“What are you doing?” I groan as his nose brushes over my pussy. “Jayden.”
“Breakfast,” he says.
His tongue swipes all the way up my slit to my clit and circles around it. “Fuck, I could wake up like this every morning.”
My hips buck and my legs writhe under the covers as he laps at me. Jayden’s fingers dig into my thighs in an attempt to still me. I grip the blanket and lift it for a peek, but Jayden’s shadows rip the blanket away from my fingers, covering him again.
“Don’t look, love. Just feel. Feel my tongue driving into you and then swirling around your clit.” He mimics his words with actions.
I squeeze my eyes shut and do as he commands, feeling the press of his fingers in a bruising grip on my thighs, his shadows writhing against my most intimate places. They’re teasing, stoking the flames higher, into an inferno of need.
Jayden’s love and lust pour out of him with every caress and touch. The sensations are overwhelming in their intensity. White-hot pleasure blasts through my limbs and bright colors flash behind my closed lids.
“Mmm,” Jayden groans against my pussy as he laps at the juices gushing down my thighs. “You all loosened up and ready to head out, baby?”
“What?” I blink at the change in topic. “No, I need you.”
“We don’t have time.” He presses a kiss to my thigh and rips the blanket over his head.
“Why would you even start this if we don’t have time?” I wrap my leg around his back to keep him from moving away from me. “Fuck me, Jayden. Now.”
“So demanding.” He chuckles.
“We’re going into Arcadia today. This is our last chance to be together like this before we go into battle for the caduceus. I need you,” I say, breathless.
“I guess we should make it count, then,” Jayden growls.
He trails his lips up my hip and places gentle kisses across my stomach and up to my breasts. His cock is hard as it rubs against my thigh. I wiggle my hips to get him to move, but he stills me with a hand as he laves at my breasts.
“If you don’t fuck me right now, I am going to flip us and fuck you until you’re screaming for me, Jayden.” I grip his hair and pull him up to kiss my lips.
“Mmm, that’s sexy as fuck. I want to scream for you, love. Do your worst.” Jayden runs his tongue down my neck, eliciting a shiver from me.
I tighten my leg around his back and flip us so I’m straddling his waist and lean back on one hand, gripping his cock with the other. I stroke Jayden once and a moan explodes from his mouth.
“Hmm, look who’s responsive now,” I tease.
“I would have to be dead not to respond to you and even then, I don’t think that scenario is very likely,” Jayden says, breathless.
I lean back farther and gently massage his balls. A strangled gasp escapes him and his hips buck. “You’re trying to end me, aren’t you?”
“Touch me, Jayden.”
“Fuck, yes.” He sits up and wraps his lips around my nipple while sliding his hand between our bodies and pushing two fingers inside me.
The angle is off but still feels amazing. He wraps one arm around my back, holding me so I don’t have to lean back on my hand, and I take the opportunity to stroke his cock along with his balls. A guttural animal sound blasts from him as I continue to stroke him.
“Baby, if you want to fuck me and make me scream for you, I need you to stop teasing me because I’m about to come all over that perfect ass of yours.”
Jayden thrusts two fingers inside of me, curling them to hit that spot that drives me to the brink of insanity. My back arches, pressing my breast into his mouth, and he nips it hard. The bite pain mixed with pleasure only brings me closer to my second peak of the morning.
Jayden lies back on the bed again, his fingers pressed inside of me until I scoot back and line my pussy up with his throbbing cock.
“That’s it,” Jayden moans. “Be my good girl and fuck me until I scream for you.”
With one more teasing stroke and squeeze of his balls, I line him up with my wet pussy and impale myself on him all the way to the hilt.
“Motherfucker,” he yells and grips my hips. “Hades, baby, you were made to ride this cock.”
“Oh gods,” I say, panting.
My walls clench around him as a moan explodes from my lips. Jayden flexes his hips, driving his cock in and out of me from underneath. An idea forms and I bring my swirling electricity to my fingers, just a trickle of the power that I possess, not enough to drain me for the day ahead.
“Love, if you touch my balls with your magic, I’m going to come so hard I black out, and then you won’t get the noises you want.”
“But I think it would be even better than you screaming for me,” I groan.
“Hmm, I can’t let you do that without coming all over my cock first. love.” Jayden circles my clit hard and fast as he pumps his hips into me fucking me thoroughly.
I’m already so close to the edge my magic is crackling with intensity and when I shatter, I lean back and grip Jayden’s balls.
My magic crackles along my fingertips and Jayden convulses as his movements inside me become jerky.
I scream at the same time as Jayden bellows his release, pressing me down on him as he empties himself inside of me in long jets.
“Oh gods,” I pant. “Jayden?”
Holy fuck. He wasn’t lying. His eyes roll back in his head and he slumps on the bed. Leaning over him, I grip his chest, my magic still crackling, sending jolts through his body. A groan escapes him.
“Rein it in, baby. I’m already hard as steel for you again. I can’t take much more,” he pants.
A giddy smile spreads across my face. Jayden has never willingly lost control with me before. He’s always held himself back from me. For the first time since we’ve been together, I feel like we really truly are fated to be together. I kiss his lips softly and rein in my magic.
“I love you,” I say, kissing him again.
“I love you to eternity and back.” Jayden presses his forehead to mine.
The enormity of it all, of what we’re becoming, hits me like a sledgehammer. I would die without this man, so now I can see the depth of the pain he felt when I considered Hera’s deal, when I pushed him away because of a stupid fucking test.
I collapse onto the bed with Jayden and he wraps me in his arms, pulling me so my head is lying on his chest.
“What’s the matter, baby?” He kisses my forehead.
“I just realized how horrible I have been to you and how much I need you.” I bury my head in his chest.
“What’s this about?” Jayden rubs my back in soothing circles.
“Everything, the queen’s deal, how traumatized I was after the test on the island, but I just realized that I was being selfish by being selfless. I know, make that make sense.” A teary laugh escapes.
“You weren’t convinced that I will cease to exist without you until this moment?” Jayden asks and kisses my temple.
“I promise, I am done with all of that. I’m not going to ever accept any deal she tries to give me and I won’t leave you by choice.” I bury my face in his chest.
“I know because I will drag you back kicking and screaming if I have to.” Jayden chuckles.
“And your father would probably cheer you on as you did.”
“There’s no probably about it. That man adores you.” Jayden squeezes me closer.
“Shouldn’t we get up and leave? We need to find Arcadia today,” I say but don’t move.
“Yeah, come on. We should shower and change before getting food. I worked up an appetite this morning.” Jayden scoops me up and carries me to the bathroom.
This time I don’t protest. There’s no point, really. He’s going to carry me anytime he wants and I don’t really want to protest anymore. He’s mine and I love being wrapped up in his arms.
Jayden sets me down on the vanity before getting the shower started and warmed up. My gaze never strays from the beautiful man in front of me. Jayden’s muscles in his back bunch as he leans into the shower to test the water.
“You can’t keep looking at me like that, my love, or we’ll never leave this room and we have a world to save.” Jayden turns, flashing me that smile that always melts my panties.
“You can’t smile at me like that and expect me not to want to jump you.” I shake my head.
Jayden is on me in two long strides. He grips my ass and I automatically wrap my legs around his waist. He turns on his heel and strides with me into the shower. My back hits the cold tile of the shower and a hiss escapes just before Jayden’s lips are on mine.
“I thought we didn’t have time for this,” I say, breathless.
“We’ll make time. I can’t get in the shower with you and not touch you. It’s physically impossible.” He kisses me again and trails kisses down my throat to my collarbone before nipping it gently.
My hands thread through his hair, pulling him closer to me.
The hot water drips a path down my chest and Jayden watches the droplets with a fascination that makes me squirm.
The head of his cock runs up my pussy and bumps my clit.
I tilt my head back into the spray of the shower as my orgasm already steadily builds.
“Jayden,” I gasp, tilting my hips in an attempt to push him inside, but he angles me away from him.
“Hold on, love. We’ll just have to multitask here.” He sits on the shower bench with me in his lap.
“Multitask how?” I wrap my hand around his length and give it a firm stroke.
He grabs the loofah and lathers it up with my body wash before running it along my skin. When he reaches my breasts, he plucks at my nipples and rolls them between his fingers. My back arches, pressing my chest into his hands further.
The loofah runs down my belly but slips from his grasp when he circles my clit with two soapy fingers. My grip on his cock tightens and my head falls back.
Jayden grips the back of my neck with his other hand and presses his lips to mine in a rough, demanding kiss. I press my body to his, stroking him roughly in my grip.
“You have to stop doing that or I’m going to explode, baby.” Jayden groans.
I line his cock up with my entrance and slam down on him, both of us moaning as he fills me completely. His fingers still circle my clit with one hand but his other holds me still. His harsh breaths puff against my skin, fluttering the hair that’s in my face.
“Jayden, I need to move,” I whimper.
“Not yet. I need a second,” he grunts.
I squirm in his lap, wiggling my hips to get the friction I want so badly. He’s torturing me, holding me still on his cock and not letting me come.
Jayden runs his hands up my hips and around my back. I lift my hips just barely and then slam back down on him. Jayden’s hands tighten on my back as I ride him.
“Gods, Beth. You’re so perfect riding my cock like the goddess you are.” Jayden’s fingers circle my clit harder, sending me higher to the edge of the cliff.
My head falls back on my shoulders and Jayden’s teeth scrape along my nipple, only pushing me closer to my orgasm. He shifts and stands with me in his lap, pressing my back to the cool tile wall and thrusting deep inside me with a growl.
“Yes, Jayden, fuck me.” I tilt my head back.
“Look at me, love. I want to see your eyes on me as you come undone.”
My gaze locks on his and he thrusts inside me hard and fast, hitting that spot over and over until my orgasm explodes through me. Every color of the rainbow flashes in my vision as my limbs tremble from the force of it.
“Gods, love. You’re squeezing me so tight I don’t think I can hold back anymore,” Jayden moans.
“Then don’t,” I demand. “Come for me, now.”
Jayden pumps into me two more times, then roars his release and buries his face in my neck where his mark rests on my skin. I run my hands through his hair, waiting for his breathing to steady.
He steps back and drops my unsteady legs from around his waist. I wobble a little before steadying myself with a hand against the wall.
“Let’s get washed up and then go find the others so we can end this mission once and for all.” Jayden turns me around under the warm spray of the shower.
He lathers his hands with shampoo and weaves his fingers through my hair, massaging my scalp as he washes it thoroughly. A groan explodes past my lips as he continues scrubbing my hair and turns me under the water to rinse the shampoo out.
“You know I can do that myself.” I tilt my head back under the water.
“Shut up and enjoy it. Let me take care of you,” Jayden whispers.
“Okay,” I say. “I’ll let you have this.”
His hands are soft, almost reverent, as he runs soap all over my body, washing me the way only a lover can. He kneels on the floor and lifts one leg, and I press my back against the wall to steady myself as he washes one leg and then the other.
“You scared the hell out of me yesterday, baby. I honestly will not survive without you. You can’t keep risking yourself like that.” Jayden glances away.
“If I can save someone or stop something bad from happening, I will. That’s just in my nature. I’ll do what needs to be done even if it puts me at risk. I can’t change who I am. Who I was born to be.” I shake my head.
“I know.” He blows out a breath. “And it’s selfish of me to ask that of you, but when it comes to you, I want to be selfish if that means keeping you at my side. I wasn’t kidding when I said I won’t survive without you.”
Jayden shuts off the water and wraps a fluffy towel around me before stepping out of the shower and tugging me with him.
“We still don’t know what the future holds, Jayden. We may have to learn eventually what it is like to live without each other if things don’t work out the way we want them to. If the queen wins, the world will burn.” I cup his cheek. “And we don’t know what will happen to us on the other side.”