“My Lily,” he breathed, and she thrilled to the sound of her name, the power that she felt pressed to the very core of her. He moved his hands, so that each held one of her breasts, and slowly skimmed his thumb across each pebbled tip. She rolled her hips, hearing his breath hitch with each pass on his thickness. She raised her body, so that she could be directly above him, and together they positioned his arousal.
His hands gripped her hips, and with a loud exhalation he pulled her down onto him, so that he filled her completely. His powerful arms lifted her, and together they found a rhythm as the sweeping tides of the ocean. Over and over the waves came, until she screamed his name out anew with her release. Her pleasure ignited his own, and her cries were joined by his. Into the night air, he shouted out syllables possibly not heard in centuries:Acchushla!
They rode the ocean together, until the tremors subsided and they lay, her body nestled against his under the moonlight.
* * *
Beloved. He had called herbelovedin the ancient tribal tongue of his people. It was a word he had rarely heard uttered, let alone believe that he would use it himself. And yet in the midst of his release, when he had felt his body barely able to house the ecstasy he had felt, the word had emerged for the woman who had elicited it. His Lily. It felt completely right.
She lay nestled within the crook of his arm and chest, her perfect breasts gleaming in the moonlight, which shone over the contours of her beautiful body. Her fingertips were sliding along his arm, and just that contact alone was enough to cause him to stir once more.
But he was eager to prove to her that what he felt was real, that it was not duty as she had supposed. That what he felt now was larger than anything he had ever felt before.
He took her hand, and raised it to his lips for a tender kiss. She shifted in his embrace, with a soft sigh. “My Lily. Whatsoever you wouldst ask of me, I will do with all mine ability. What might I do to bring you happiness?”
She shifted again, this time so she could face him. There was a smile on her lips, and he resisted the urge to take them again, at least not until she had given him an answer. He wanted nothing more than to dedicate his life to pleasing her, making her proud.
And so he was surprised at her request.
“Col, I would like an actual date with you.” Her voice was husky. “A dinner that we have together alone, without the kids.”
They both smiled at the memory of that first dinner in a restaurant, with both Clover and Brady.
“Can we do that?”
He kissed the tips of her fingers. “As you wish, so shall it be.” The words came out, ere he realized that they were the traditional phrase for yielding to theVixar’scommands. Here, he was merely surrendering to the inevitable.
“We shall do so, the following eve.” Col said, and slid his tongue along the underside of her wrist, feeling her shiver.
“I’ll ask—ahhh—Miller to pick up—ahhh—” His Lily was beginning to writhe and moan as he graduated to suckling one of her breasts again. “—the twins.Ahhh—I’ll make it work.”
The last was said in a rush of syllables as his Lily gave herself over to the pleasure he was intent on giving her. Over and over until the sun came up.
And beyond, if she wouldst but allow it.
* * *
Col’s auburn hair was brushing against her chin, as he was bent over lapping at her breast. Lily was enraptured with what had happened, the clearing up of a misunderstanding that had caused her so much unnecessary anguish. Agonized both of them, apparently. And now, his easy agreement to talking more, so that such an event would be less likely to happen again.
This wasreal. This wasbig.
Dinner, the next night, for just the two of them. She would come clean about everything, about Rey, her real identity, and together they would work something out. Because this was worth working out, and for the first time, she trusted that perhaps they could have a future together. A future perhaps, filled with auburn haired little boys and girls who could turn into huge wolves.
And then his head moved down, his tongue burning a path towards her delta. After that, Lily was solely focused on the here and now.
