His tail snaked around her waist, pulling her closer. Hips rocking upward until he could feel the slick heat of her seeping through the thin material of his linen pants, he panted, “Shiya,pl?—”
He let out a strangled moan when she reached between them and freed his cock. It rested against her cunt, hot and throbbing and nearly unbearable. Her lips skimmed his, and she never looked away from his eyes when she began to gently explore what belonged to her.
“I know you probably want me to speed it up,” she murmured, each word a gift between soft, sucking kisses. “But I like being gentle with you. I like touching you. Petting you.”
The tendons on his neck stood out starkly against his skin as he strained to hold still, to let her do exactly as she pleased. She stroked him slowly, each pass punctuated by a reverent little squeeze of the swollen head of his cock that made his eyes cross. Sweat drenched his body.
“Keep this up and you’ll make me come,” he gasped, hips stuttering against his will.
He felt her smile against the sweaty skin of his cheek. “Ilikewatching you come.”
“Fuck.Fuck.”Taevas tossed his head back and squeezed his eyes shut. He tried to think of anything else, anything at all to stop the rising tide of his orgasm. “Please,naine,I want— Iwant?—”
“Easy, dragon,” she crooned, halting her torturous strokes. “I know what you need.”
Alashiya gently pulled his head toward her, urging him to open his eyes and look at her as she rose on her knees. Taevas held his breath as he watched her position his flushed cockhead against her entrance. His claws dug into the soil as the muscles of his spine locked. The urge to whip his wings around and wrap her inthem was a drumbeat in his mind, but he forced it aside, knowing that the pain would ruin this perfect moment.
He wanted to hold her hips, to help guide her down, but he was forced to keep his hands down, since they held his weight. The position left him totally helpless as she lowered herself down, inch by inch.
He’d tried to prepare her, but there was really nothing for it. He was big, she was tight. It was always going to be a struggle.
Taevas watched her expression change as she slowly fed his cock into her body. Her brows pinched and a little of her flush melted away when the head popped past the tight ring of muscle and closed hard around the shaft. She paused, her thighs shaking on either side of his hips, and took several deep breaths.
Desperate to ease her obvious discomfort, Taevas tipped his head to press a dozen fluttering kisses across her lips, her cheeks, and her closed eyes. “My beautiful, powerfulnaine.Yes, just like that. Go slow. Don’t force it. I’m yours. There’s no rush.”
Alashiya leaned into his soft touches. Her arms circled his neck and a soft sigh feathered across her lips. The tension in her brow eased a little. Tucking her face into the rigid line of his neck, she rolled her hips downward.
Taevas sucked in a sharp breath. Every bit of progress was torture. Every pause was a test. He wanted to hold her, to comfort her, even as the beast in him raked his claws against his vulnerable insides, demanding he grab her hips and force her down, to get it over with so they could finish what they’d started.
But he couldn’t —wouldn’t —do that. His Alashiya was in charge now, and it was up to her how quickly her pain ended.
What hecoulddo, however, was distract her.
Beads of sweat slid down his spine from between his bunched shoulder blades as his tail dipped between her thighs. The rattle at the end was a bit too rough to play with, but the side of his tail was smooth and dexterous. More than up to the task.
Alashiya jerked when it slid down to where they were joined. Taevas took a second to indulge himself, to feel the air-tight sealwhere their bodies connected andrelishit, but no more than that. Putting firm pressure on the apex of her dripping cunt, he began to slowly draw his tail back and forth.
“Ah!”Alashiya’s already tight walls clenched hard around him. He hissed, clenching his jaw hard against the white-hot flash of pleasure it caused.
Within a few moments she was rocking her hips again, taking him a tiny bit deeper everytime until, with a breathless sound, she seated herself completely.
They both groaned as she fluttered around him. He swore he could feel her heartbeat throbbing in time with his own. “Beautiful, brave,gorgeouscreature,” he rasped, grinding his hips upward. He resisted the violent urge to thrust, but only barely.
She shuddered. “Taevas…”
“I have you,naine.”He slowed the movement of his tail and changed from a sawing motion to a slow, gentle swirl. “Tell me what you need and it’s yours.”
Alashiya lifted her head from its hiding place against his neck. When she looked at him then, his heart broke and was remade in the span of a single breath.
Her dense lashes were heavy with tears that glittered in the dappled light. They streaked down her flushed cheeks and made her already bright eyes that much more alive. Her lips were swollen and red, and when a shaky breath escaped them, it smelled like honey.
The air around her shimmered, too bright, too vivid. The colors were dreamlike and unnatural, and the air itself seemed heavier than it had a moment before. It seemed to hum with the very thing of life.
Taevas stared at her in awe. He’d been adamant that he was doing her a disservice by allowing her first time to be in thewoodsof all places, but in that moment he became utterly certain that he was out of his fucking mind.
This wasthe onlyplace it could’ve happened. The only place itshould’vehappened. Not in the nest. Not in a luxurious bed orhigh up in his tower. It wasthere,amongst the earth and the plants and the living things that she was so very connected to that he saw the real Alashiya at last — broken down into her raw elements and the intangible substance of her soul.
To have her anywhere else would’ve dimmed her, diminished the sanctity of this holy moment.
