I hurried to shuck off my pants and boots, starting the journey down the steps with far less grace than Fallon had managed. I came up behind her, the coolness of the refreshing water gliding along my skin as I raised a hand and watched it slide off my body. The water dropped to the surface, the sound of the splash far too loud in thequiet of the bath. Fallon whirled on me the moment my hand rested on her shoulder, her eyes filled with gold. Something eternal stared back at me from within her beautiful face, and it almost pained me that my first moment with her, our first time exposed like this, would come when we would watch ourselves like spectators.
When we would be privy to every action, feel the pleasure of our touch upon one another, but know that we were not alone.
She touched her hand to my cheek, cupping it as she stepped closer to me, allowing the press of her skin against mine. I shuddered, taking in the lines of her face as she pressed onto her toes and touched her mouth to mine.
My senses exploded into the taste of her, into the scent of an ocean breeze on a hot day, filling my lungs as I breathed her in. When she pulled back and blinked up at me, I felt the moment the Primordials slithered into me, stroking the inner corners of my body. Fallon grinned, lifting her hand to touch beneath my eyes. I knew my eyes probably glowed with the same gold that had consumed hers, the haze of arousal washing over me as I slid a hand beneath the curtain of her hair.
“Sunfire,” I murmured, using my hold on her jaw to tip her head up once more and capture her mouth with mine more fully. She was pliant in my arms, none of the fight that I’d come to associate with her present as she molded her body to mine. She fit me like she belonged there, nestling into the swells and valleys of my body with hers. She reached between us, taking my cock in her hand and drawing a growl from me that shattered the last vestiges of my control.
Too rough,I thought distantly, warning the greedy, hungry voice that wasn’t entirely my own. We may have shared the same desire, but I winced as my hands grasped Fallon by the waist and lifted her out of the water. I tossed her to the edge of the pool, cursing myself as she landed hard atop the edge. Instead of a grimace of pain, her face twisted into a bold grin and laughter bubbled up her throat.
I stared at her, waiting for her to show signs of pain and barely restraining the part of me that wanted nothing more than to go to her, to spread her wide and plunge inside so harshly that she would feel the imprint of me the next day.
Fallon worried her bottom lip with her teeth, leaning back on one hand and crooking me forward with a finger of her other. She spread her legs wide, hooking her feet along the edge of the bath and baring herself to my view. There was no insecurity in the movement, and I wondered briefly if that was a consequence of the Primordialsriding her body and taking pleasure through her, or merely Fallon’s confidence in her own body.
I hoped that confidence never went away, the woman who knew the spell she could weave over me with her beauty and her body.
I closed the distance quickly, far quicker than I should have been able to move, stepping into the gap she’d created between her legs. I claimed her mouth with mine, plunging my tongue inside the way I would my cock soon enough. She wrapped those long legs around me, pulling me tighter. So tight that my cock pressed against the seam of her, the heat of her core surrounding me and drawing a moan from me. I reached between us, desperate to guide myself inside, to feel her wrapped around me in truth.
She tore her mouth from mine, shaking her head mischievously. “If you want to fuck me, then you’d best prove you’re worthy of my throne and my body first,” she said, running a delicate hand through my deep auburn hair. She smiled as she pulled it, tugging me smoothly down her body.
I smiled against the skin of her breast, cupping her in one hand and tormenting her other nipple with my tongue. Her moan of satisfaction reached my ears, driving the other beings within me to growl in time with me. The sound reverberated off the trees as I slid my free hand between her thighs, covering it in her wet heat as I slid a finger into her and bit down on her breast. She pushed at my shoulders, knowing exactly what she wanted from me andwhereshe wanted me, drawing twisted laughter from me as I lifted her legs onto my shoulders and slid my tongue through her. Tormentingly slow, I avoided the bundle of nerves as she writhed her hips, seeking release.
“Fucking asshole,” she grumbled, tugging on the strands of hair at the top of my head. With startling force, she used that brutal grip to guide me to her clit, sighing happily when I finally smiled into her and gave her what she wanted. I worked her with my tongue, burying two fingers into her tight heat to stretch her open to take me. She shook beneath me, her body going taut as I explored every inch of her pussy, curling my fingers to stroke the spot inside her that made her eyes roll back in her head.
I smiled as I pulled my fingers out, straightening my body and earning a startled glare from Fallon. She’d been right on that edge, her pussy clamping down on me as she prepared for release. “You come on my cock,” I said, guiding it to her entrance. She didn’t push me away this time, arching her back so that she could stare downat the place where we joined. I slapped her clit with my head twice, watching as her oversensitive body jolted in response to the contact.
I glided myself lower, notching it against her as she wrapped her legs around my waist once more, and I drove inside. She was too tight, but so fucking wet that I slid through tender tissue, pulling back and then gliding forward again every time I met resistance.
“Fuck,” she mumbled, dropping onto her back on the edge of the bath. Her hair spread over the grass, looking like part of the sacred nature of this place if it hadn’t been for the way her face twisted in pleasure.
I drove deep, striking the end of her and filling her in the way I’d wanted since I laid eyes on her, unable to control myself. The haze of Primordial magic meant I was rougher than I should have been, taking her in deep, hard thrusts that made her gasp with each one. I couldn’t wait to do it with that strange golden stare gone from her eyes, to look into her natural hazel hue and fuck her and her alone, without the Primordials within us.
I pulled back, snapping my hips forward to drive into her once more. She moaned, her back scraping along the ledge of the bath as she moved with the force of my thrusts. I took her hands in mine, threading our fingers together and pinning hers to the grass beneath her, stilling her body to the best of my ability. I made her hold her position as I picked up my pace, driving in and out of her with sharp, fast thrusts that spoke to the desperation I felt. I needed to fill her, needed to fuck her until she couldn’t remember her own name.
I wanted to erase the separation between us, to mold our bodies into one, and she held her stare with mine as I used her body to do it.
“Harder,” she whispered, her gasps ragged and torn as they came with each plunge of me within her. I gave her what she wanted, guiding one of her hands to her clit and using the combination of our fingers to work it. She tossed her head back, her breathing coming heavy and her cries growing louder. She whimpered as I took what I wanted, her own body seeking its pleasure from it.
“That’s it. Fucking come for me,” I murmured. Her mouth dropped open into a scream as she came, her pussy clamping down on me so tightly I couldn’t help but follow her over the edge, spilling myself inside her. I stilled as I finished, leaving my cock inside her as I lifted her from the edge and pulled her down into the water with me. She wrapped her legs around me to aid in my support in spite of her exhaustion, resting her head on my shoulder as she fought to catch her breath.
I still felt the weight of the Primordials between us, the heat of their attention in my skin. Though they’d given us a brief reprieve, I knew they weren’t yet done with us.
“Are you good?” I asked, taking advantage of the opportunity to speak without fearing the answer would come from the Primordials more than her.
Fallon raised her head, meeting my stare as a swirl of gold and hazel mixed in her eyes. She smiled, nodding tiredly as she leaned forward and kissed me tenderly.
It was a tenderness that came with hope attached, with the possibility for a future we could carve out together. We might not have been the couple people were expecting, but we could have affection between us without a mate bond.
We could have the love that came from choice, rather than destiny. She was the woman I’d chosen, not the one the Fates had determined was mine.
There was power in that.
We would find a way to do it together, united as King and Queen, husband and wife.
TWENTY-THREEFALLON
Etan’s ass hung off one of the steps, his feet planted a few steps lower and his legs spread slightly. Water sloshed around us as I rode him, moving to match his frenzied pace as he thrust up and into me. His brown eyes were even warmer than normal, ringed by gold as the Primordials used us to satiate their lust.
