“Do you really want to do this?” I asked, already steering the chair back to the palace toward the private entrance to the temple as Lord Arnaf took off in a jog around the palace wall.
She drew another shape over my chest armor, a flower maybe or a cloud, I wasn’t sure. The important part was that the press of her little finger left a trail of thrill in its wake. My stomach tightened, and my cock tensed.
“It’s altruistic to share joy with others, is it not?” she murmured, arching her back as I ran my claws along her spine as the cut of her dress left all herleilathasexposed.
“You’re doing it out of altruism?”
“Sure.” She playfully tugged on my ear before kissing my lips. “But it’s your fault, you know?”
“How so?” I had a hard time focusing on this conversation already, barely keeping us on the right path to the temple.
“You got horny all of a sudden, and I felt it. Before that, I just wanted to go home and sleep”
“You still can. I’ll take you home right now.”
She slid a hand down our linked tendrils. “I know for a fact that you won’t make it until home, sweetie. You’re hard like a rock and glowing brighter than the moon already. Even if we fly, you’d probably end up fucking me in the air. Which…come to think of it is exciting. But I want you too much to wait. Besides, we can’t disappoint Lord Arnaf now, can we?”
She slid the strap of her dress from her shoulder. I tugged it lower, then ran my claws over the swell of her exposed breast. She moaned, arching her back.
“You want the lord to see you like this, naked and shaking with need for me?” I growled, yanking her up to her knees so that I could lick her nipple.
To my astonishment, her arousal spiked at my question, but only for a moment.
“No,” she said. “I don’t want anyone to see us. But isn’t there something hot about…um, letting others feel all ofthis.” She gestured between me and her, meaning all the wonderful emotions that were coursing through us right now.
“Love is magic,” I said between sucking on her nipple and kissing around it. “Sharing magic with others is a noble thing.”
Kurai designed the new Source of Joy not as a column like it was in the temple of the First Priestess. From the Priestess’s writings, we now knew she had created it that way to share her joy with our ancestors, who back then were only shadows freely floating through the air. The Priestess built the source up as a column for the shadows to access it from any height. The new Source was shaped as a shorter but much wider cylinder so that more fae could access it from the ground.
The walls had already been put up around the Source to protect it from the day storm. But Elaine and I got inside from the palace, along the path that never closed.
Lord Arnaf was waiting on the other side of the wall. The six tendrils he’d slipped through the narrow gaps between the wall panels undulated impatiently, searching for Elaine’sleilathas.
We moved closer, and three of his tendrils quickly found the three vacant openings in Elaine’sleilathaharness. The other three had to retreat because Elaine’s own tendrils were out and in my possession, and I wouldn’t give them up to any lord, a king, or even a god.
My woman’s love coursed through my veins, keeping me alive. Her lust mixed with mine in an explosive combination that set my blood on fire. I used my tail to lift her skirt because my hands were busy caressing her naked breasts.
Her movements were frantic as she hiked up my skirt, then wrapped her fingers around my hard length.
“Gods…” I hissed, tossing back my head.
The feelers of my cluster reached for her hands, curling around her fingers and sliding up her wrists. She moved closer, straddling my lap with her legs open. The feelers quickly moved over, sliding up her inner thighs, prodding around her opening, and dancing around the hot swollen bud of her clit.
“Oh, Timur, my love…” she moaned, her body trembling.
Her pleasure rocked through me. But I felt my own pleasure rising too. The touch of her hand on my cock didn’t just promise a release, it filled me with pleasure all of my own making.
I knew it would happen eventually. Kurai had felt it first when having sex with Ciara. Prince Rha was now able to feel pleasure as well, even when his tendrils were not connected to Dawn.
The work that the First Priestess had started, the creation of people from shadows, was now continued by other humans. My woman had taught me what joy was. And now, I could feel it too. With time, all the shadow fae in Alveari would be able to feel joy without connecting to the Source or a human. With centuries of life ahead of me now, I hoped it’d happen in my lifetime.
With a soft gasp of pleasure, Elaine lowered her hips, taking my cock inside her. A swell of bliss blinded me. I couldn’t hold back a feral growl, thrusting up, deeper inside her.
“Oh God, yes…” she moaned, hugging my neck. “Fuck me, my love. Just like that…”
She rode my cock while my feelers drove her pleasure higher and higher. I ran my hands up her bare back, hugging her to me so tightly, I no longer knew when she ended and I began. We were one. One heart, one soul, and one all-consuming pleasure.
Our pleasure crested, and we came together, always together. In the storm of our joint orgasm, I held on to her like to my guiding light.
