Epilogue Jalisa Three weeks later
Epilogue
Jalisa
Three weeks later
Ivan’s face popped up on the screen of my communicator when I arrived home from work. His eyes were practically twinkling with mischief. “Want to go somewhere?”
I squinted in suspicion. “Go where?”
“Somewhere beautiful. I’ve already reserved everything. Will you come with me?”
I nodded, and although he still hadn’t answered my question, I decided to play along. “How will I know where to go?”
“I’ll come for you, and then we will go together.”
“How long will that take? You’re hours away.”
He wiggled his brows with a wide grin. “I have portal access, sweetheart. The perks of ending treason.”
I gave a dry laugh and decided to, for once, give someone else control.
I packed for my mysterious getaway and called my job to take unplanned leave for two days since the weekend was coming up, which I felt a little guilty about.
However, I’d proven my worth over the last several months and I hoped that was good for something.
Less than an hour later, Ivan was at my door and seeing him in person felt just as magical as it had three weeks ago at the café.
I kept thinking he was going to forget me, but he didn’t.
He called me every day after he left, recanting random memories of us like poetry, as if to prove that he really had been cured.
I might have had a little trouble processing it all.
The surprise trip was to a lovely hot springs hotel in a fae kingdom that I had not visited since I was a child but remembered fondly. I’d told him about this town, and he remembered. I didn’t believe this would be something from his journal. It was an obscure fact for him.
When we got to the inn, more like a garden with rooms, we got settled and ordered dinner to the room.
For the first night, I wanted him all to myself, again.
We then decided to make use of the giant tub in the suite, and when we got settled in the warm water, sitting at opposite ends because I still needed to see him, I did begin to believe that this was more than a waking dream.
Ivan rubbed a hand up and down my right leg as he gazed at me with a lazy smile.
I was so tired, but I hated to even blink and not see him for a second.
“I was never with anyone all this time,” he began.
My stomach tightened. That had been the fear that woke me up at night.
He could easily fall in love with someone else and even after his memory returned, he wouldn’t want to leave his new love.
“It didn’t feel right. I was waiting for you, and I didn’t even know it.
And I’m not going to wait anymore so I will be moving here. ”
“Ivan…”
He reached forward and grabbed me by the waist before yanking me to him, my legs wrapping around his hips.
“Don’t try to talk me out of it.” He leaned forward and kissed me.
It tasted like the sweetest flavor. My whole body heated as he pressed harder, forcing my mouth open with his tongue.
Every nibble on my lip and dance of this tongue on mine ignited all my nerves and swelled my heart. He was back, and he was mine.
He pulled back slightly, grasping my chin with wet fingers. “You are doing amazing things in Nodoor, Sunshine. There is no other option. Aaron will be broken-hearted, but he’ll survive.”
I huffed. “I think he’ll be okay with Melina and all the new friends they have now.”
He gave a playful grimace. “Nothing can replace me.”
I kissed him again. “You’re right about thaaaat…”
I could barely finish my sentence before he dipped his head and I felt that delicious, forked tongue swipe across my left nipple, lavishing it. Despite being in the water, I could feel myself grow wet, dripping onto his growing hardness.
“I’m going to make you come many times tonight. I hope that’s okay.” He then sucked on my other nipple, tweaking the prior abandoned left nipple with those wet fingers.
I tossed my head back, weaving my fingers through his hair as he lavished me. “I am incredibly fine with that.” I bit my lower lip as I ground my clit against his hardness, a rising release already finding its way to the top.
He pulled back from me, and I clutched him harder to me, distressed by the space between us.
He teased my lower lip with a kiss before pulling away again.
This time, he raised us up on his knees and turned around so that my back was now against the tub.
He then lowered my legs and backed away.
I frowned, and he met my displeasure with cocky grin.
“Sunshine, I want to taste every part of you, and it’s been a while since I displayed my underwater skills. ”
I raised my brows and then nodded my head slowly as he moved further back before lowering his head to the water, his long dragon tongue already snaking out.
He positioned his arms around my thighs, adjusting me, and I cried out when I felt his tongue swipe over my claiming bite.
I gripped the side of the tub, feeling electric as he continued to caress my mark with his tongue.
My pussy practically ached for him, and then I felt his mouth on my sensitive bud, applying the perfect pressure and speed.
I gripped his damp hair and lifted up against his mouth, matching the motion of his mouth.
Never wanting this to end. His tongue slipped inside me and began to fuck me, swiping against my inner walls until it found the spot inside of me that would make me sing for him.
He brushed back and forth, and I screamed his name, my legs quivering in his arms as the intoxicating crash of release forced its way through me.
I pressed my other hand so hard into the porcelain tub I thought I might crack it, although I was not that strong.
He kept going, moving back to my clit, his fingers digging into my thighs, fighting his own need to touch himself.
I crashed again in a wave of ecstasy, arching my back, as the coolness of his mouth continued over me.
I pressed my head back against the tiles, my heart beating loudly in my ears as I waited for my body to move again. “How are you so amazing?” I whispered.
Ivan sat back up, and I watched in a daze as he licked across my nipples again with that dangerous tongue before settling back at the other end of the tub. “Dumb luck, I guess.”
He grabbed the base of his cock, stroking lazily as he watched me come down from my high.
I lifted a heavy arm at him, pointing a finger. “Who said you could do that?”
He grinned, still pumping his fist up and down. “Who said I couldn’t?”
I sat up, trying my best to give him a stern look, but every muscle in my body wanted to relax, including my face. “Me. Only touch yourself when I say to.”
He chuckled and quickly let go, moving his hands to either side of the tub.
“Yes, ma’am.” It would never not turn me on at how much he enjoyed giving me control.
I was always very much aware that as an alpha he could take what he wanted, and yet we were so connected that we did not succumb to roles.
I moved through the warm water to him and moved my fingers to his knot, grazing over it and down to his balls, where I massaged him.
He sucked in a breath and kept his eyes locked to mine, the dragon shape of his irises taking over.
Enjoying the reaction I was pulling from him, I moved my hand up to the base of him and dragged my hand up and down, moving in different directions as I did so.
Feeling every ridge. His eyes fluttered closed as his body shivered under my touch.
I stopped my movement. “Open your eyes and keep them on me.”
He did so immediately, and I noticed his fingers clawed into the tubs, his nails now talons. He was close to losing it. Just what I wanted. I continued to stroke him, increasing my speed and pressure. “Good boy.”
He swore, moving his hips to meet my movements.
His mouth hung slightly parted as he looked at me.
I could feel my body heat again with passion as I watched him, so vulnerable in my hands.
His eyes moved to my heavy breasts, swinging and splashing in the water, and I watched his tongue snake out before he thought better of it, sucking it back in like an obedient alpha.
He was getting closer now, but I didn’t want that. Didn’t want this moment to end, even for a second. I let go of him, and he gave me such an incredulous look, I had to laugh.
“What did I do wrong?” he almost whined when he said it, and my pussy clenched, enjoying my control over him.
I leaned forward and licked across his lips. His mouth parted again to capture a kiss. “Nothing, sweetheart. I didn’t want you to come too fast. I thought maybe you’d rather come inside me this time. And then next time, you can mark me with your scent.”
His reptilian eye flickered at that or perhaps at both. “You’re so good to me.”
I laughed again, my heart squeezing as we got easily back to our old routine and banter. I then moved over him and grabbed his hardness, already dripping with precum, before I easily slid down, ridge by ridge, my own body wet and ready.
He closed his eyes. “Can I touch you now?” he asked in a tight voice.
I began to bounce up and down, the sound of splashing water filling the room. “Yes, you may.”
He wasted no time placing his hands on my waist, careful of his talons pinching too much into my skin, although I enjoyed the borderline pain.
I balanced my hands onto his shoulders as I felt him vibrate within me, every ridge brushing against my sensitive walls.
He lifted me to the tip of his member before impaling me again, his hips jutting up to meet me.
The pleasure unfocused my vision, and it felt as if I were losing control.
We continued like this, a building crescendo of desire, until we snapped.
My body burst again with orgasmic relief, legs shaking as I felt him release inside of me, splashing my inner walls with ropes of his heat.
I screamed his name, unabandoned, as he pushed me further to orgasm against his vibrating cock.
He called my name as he came, releasing words of love and lust, his body spasming between my thighs, nails digging into my ass. I would see the marks later, and I didn’t care. I owned them.
Before I could take another breath, he buried his knot inside of me.
I was filled so tightly that it almost hurt, but in no time, I settled again, like I always did.
He ground slowly, his cock and knot vibrating inside my already-raw inner walls.
I circled my hips, craving as much of him as I could have, resting my forehead against his head.
He moved his hands to my back, slowly rubbing up and down in such a gentle touch that it nearly brought tears to my eyes.
No, I did have tears. They were already leaking down my face.
How long had I been crying? I straightened up and lifted a hand to wipe them away, but Ivan leaned forward, his own face serene, and kissed both cheeks.
He didn’t ask me what was wrong. There wasn’t anything wrong.
We both knew that these were tears of happiness.
He then kissed my mouth again, and I had no idea how long we rocked in the water like that, mouths entwined, bodies united, until we came again.
Unknown moments later, Ivan spoke. “I sometimes dreamed of you. I had dreams of things that seemed so real that it hurt when I woke up. Now I know they were real memories of us. So, you see, even a spell could never make me forget you.”
My heart disintegrated at his words, forgetting how open he’d always been with how much he loved me.
It had made losing him all the more painful.
But he was here now, and there would not be a third separation.
I would put the realm into darkness before I let anyone else come between us.
I crashed my lips against his once again.
He said something in my mouth, and I pulled away, chuckling. “What?”
He gave me a wide, boyish grin. “I said I remember why Yosef didn’t like me.”
I shook my head. “What?”
“You remember when they had that party after the court ball and we got the last minute
invite?
“Ah, yes. Ok, that’s random, but why?”
“He said you were wasted potential as a bartender. And that’s when I called him a turd. So, the reason I couldn’t remember why he was mad at me when I was under the spell was because it was about you.”
I nodded slowly. “Makes sense. He wasn’t wrong though.”
He shrugged. “I know, but no one talks about my omega.”
I kissed his forehead. “I love how you have my back.”
“I love how you have mine,” he replied, still kneading my back. “I think we make a pretty great team. And now that our families don’t hate each other, I think we’re going to be even stronger.”
He was right. We were a team. We knew what we both needed.
Through him, I learned that trusting someone to help me didn’t mean giving up power.
It sometimes meant growing it. And I would do everything with that power to secure our future.
To secure the future of dragon-kind and fae-kind alike.
Every battle that Ivan and I faced proved that we were stronger together.
And I would never let this dragon go again.