The Quelling Tide (The Gifted Realm Book 7)

by Jillian Neal

  Her energy spiked hard. His fierce commands almost pushed her over. “I’m gonna fill it so full, baby.” He warned as he dragged his fingertips up and down her slit. “But I want to taste that sweet cum first, then I’m gonna fill you so full of me you’re begging me to set you free.”

  He spun his tongue around her clit priming her before he drew it in his mouth and began to suckle. Her entire body trembled and her thighs locked tightly against his jaw. A moment later, she spilled out in his mouth. Her energy unfurled around him.

  She went wild. Climbing up on her knees she pressed her stomach to the back of the couch. Her body rolled in invitation. “Take me. Make me feel it. I want to feel full of you. Nothing will ever feel as good as you inside of me!”

  Feeling his very cells quake and vibrate in need, Dan unbuckled his belt and dropped his jeans enough to give her what she wanted. “My good girl likes it like that, don’t you baby?” He crowded behind her, and she let her backside slide up and down his throbbing cock.

  “Now,” she demanded.

  With a furtive groan, he grasped her breasts and slipped his strain into the depths of her heat, the only relief to his desperate need. “You feel so fucking good. Take it all.” He ordered as she met his every thrust, and their energy spun in perfect accord the erotic vibrations of the two rhythms becoming one. It drove them to the brink of ecstasy.

  That slick wet heat of her body pressed in around him. He pounded into her and then pulled away coated in her perfection.

  “You feel that, baby doll? You feel us together? You feel me so deep inside of you? It’s all mine.”

  Her back arched as Dan kept his hands holding her breasts as her body contorted in an erotic display.

  “You want more, baby? Ask me like my good girl.”

  “More! Please!” Her begging nearly ended him. He began riding her again spinning his hands around her breasts, lightly twisting her nipples, and then kneading the swollen fevered mounds.

  “That feels so good,” spilled from her lips in lust driven passion as she placed her hands over his showing him how to satiate her needs. It drove him wild.

  Her body shook. He kept one hand on her breasts and slid the other to her clit. “You’re gonna make me lose it, baby. My good girl needs to come with me.” Dan felt her swell and her body tense.

  With another stroke of her clit as he drove into her from behind, she let go, calling out his name. Unable to fight it, the sensations too overwhelming, too perfect, Dan buried himself deeply inside of her and drowned her body in his potent climax.

  Falling to the couch beside her, he guided her into his lap and cossetted her lax body in his fierce strength. “You are amazing.” He vowed reverently.

  Giving him a very satisfied grin, Fionna giggled. “I’m glad our little girl didn’t decide to come find us.”

  “Me, too, cause you know, once I get you going your kinda loud, baby doll.”

  Fionna’s mouth fell open, and she swatted his chest.

  “I love you.” Dan laughed and brushed a tender kiss on her cheek that was now glowing crimson from his teasing.

  “I love you too, and I am not loud.”

  Giving her a slight moan, Dan shook his head. “If you’re not making those sweet noises that drive me wild, I’m not doing something right.”

  Giggling she tucked her head under his chin and him cradle her. “Let’s go take a bath.”

  She stood and Dan pulled the t-shirt he’d been wearing over her head before he closed the snap on his jeans.

  “Don’t guess we’ll be leaving clothes down here like we used to.” Fionna pointed out as Dan gathered everything he’d pulled off of her.

  “That might be difficult to explain.” He agreed as he followed her up the stairs.

  A few minutes later, he helped Fionna into the tub of warm soothing water and then slid in behind her. She reclined against him with a replete sigh. Her eyes closed. Dan could feel her entire body give over to concentration.

  “She feels you,” she whispered.

  Feeling his heart stutter and then fly, Dan was desperate to know what she was feeling. “How do you know?”

  “I don’t know how to describe it. I can just feel it.”

  “Here,” she took his hands and settled them low on her abdomen. “I’ll try to suppress mine, so you can feel hers.”

  Dan let his eyes close in deep concentration as he carefully moved through her rhythms. After several minutes, he felt the tiny quick pulses of his little girl.

  “Do you feel her?” Beaming tears of joy fell from Fionna’s eyes as he nodded. “Does it feel different to you than this afternoon?”

  Using every ounce of willpower he could muster, he couldn’t feel the slight difference that she could.

  “I’m sorry baby.” He felt defeated.

  Still smiling, Fionna allowed her energy to move back into place. “It’s okay. It’s not that different. She just feels sort of safe I think. That’s what it feels like.”

  “It’s amazing, Fi. You’re amazing. I’m so happy, and I love you so much.” He was completely overwhelmed by what he’d felt from his little girl and from his wife.

  “Will you still take baths with me when I’m huge?”

  He planted a kiss on her head. “Even if I have to have a bigger tub installed.”

  They sat in soothing silence for several long minutes. Fionna relaxed and suppressed her rhythms again so that Dan could continue to lock on to their baby girl’s.

  “Oh no!” She groaned.

  “What, baby?”

  “Uh, well.” She giggled. “When someone was distracting me while I was on the phone with his mother, I think I agreed that we would have dinner over there tomorrow night.”

  Dan laughed and couldn’t hide his smirk. “And, I suppose now you’re going to tell me that this is my fault.”

  “Obviously.”

  “It is not my fault that you’re so damn gorgeous, and just the thought of you carrying my baby girl makes me completely incapable of keeping my hands off of you.”

  With a delighted giggle, Fionna shook her head at him. “Well, you just remember that tomorrow when we’re eating corn flake covered frozen chicken casserole.”

  “Ok no.” Dan gagged. “I cannot allow you and both of my precious little girls to have to try and digest that.”

  “I haven’t even told you the worst part.” She confessed as the recollections of her conversation with Dan’s mother seemed to perforate the memories of their lust filled love making.

  “What’s the worst part?”

  “She wants to have some guy over that she thinks you should go and work for.”

  “Dear God,” Dan whimpered as he envisioned his mother’s pick for his future employer. “Did she say whom?”

  “Maybe?” Fionna wrinkled her adorable nose.

  Dan laughed. “It was definitely worth it.”

  “Well, I’m glad you think so.”

  “Trust me, baby doll, that was all I’d been able to think about since Adeline told me that the baby needs to feel my energy often, and you told me that these felt better when I massaged them.” Dan slipped his hands to her breasts cupping them in the warm water. He massaged their heavy mass tenderly.

  Fionna trembled against him, and Dan felt his body respond, but he doubted she was up for another round.

  “Do you think your parents would mind if we walked around their house with your hands on them because it feels so much better when you do that?” She cracked herself up.

  “Hold on, I’m trying to envision the Governor and Marion’s reaction to me telling them that I knocked you up and then explaining to my mother’s choice for my prospective employer that helping to support your tits is the only job I’m currently interested in for the next several months.” He laughed heartily before continuing. “You know, Mom, I can’t eat. I have to keep my hands here.” He squeezed her breasts. She laughed hysterically.

  Dan reheated the water with his hands, and then move
d them back so she could relax against him.

  “But don’t worry, baby. We’ve had quite enough of my parents lately. We’re not going over there. Tomorrow, I’ll call them and bow out. I think I probably should tell them about our next edition.” He caressed her belly again wondering what she would look like in a few months. “Then I’ll call Chancellor Wilshire and accept the position so my mother will shut it.”

  “Are you sure that’s what you want to do?” Fionna lost all sense of teasing banter as she leaned back to gaze up at him.

  “I’m not sure, but I’m taking the job. I would be in charge of recommendations to Iodex, so I would still be connected there. And I have this completely incredible wife, and I’m gonna have this amazing little girl. And they both need to go back to where they were made on a regular basis. I already have this precious, amazing, seven-year-old that I want to be there to see grow up. I want to be at every recital, every birthday party, every single thing, so if I teach then I’ll be home when Aida’s home. Every summer after graduation, I can take all of my girls to Kauai, and we can spend several months relaxing, and resting, and being a family.” He explained all of the many reasons he was going to take a job he was fairly certain he was going to hate. The time he wasn’t at work was all that was going to matter.

  “Oh Dan!” Fionna gasped as tears flowed rapidly down her face. “Are you certain? I don’t want you to do something you don’t want to do just so the baby and I can go back to Kauai.”

  “Fi,” Dan swallowed back the emotion that had come on him suddenly. “A lot of innocent people lost their lives at my hands whether I pulled the trigger or not. I really want to give back. Maybe, somehow, I can teach these kids how to really build a Realm that doesn’t allow people like Wretchkinsides and organizations like the Interfeci to get a foothold. It means a great deal to me to feel like I could better the Realm instead of damaging it.

  “So, I’m certain this is what I want to do, and I was thinking that there’s really no reason that we shouldn’t leave in a few weeks, after Paris and this ridiculous reception.”

  “Oh my gosh!” Her energy flew, and Dan reveled in her overwhelming bliss. “We can live on the farm in one of the guesthouses, the one where you and Garrett stayed. The girls can have one room and we can have the other. Tutu and Papa will be thrilled.”

  “Good, because I’m really thrilled to be able to do this.” It was incredibly cathartic to finally look forward to everything his future held.

  “And you know our little girls can even spend the night with Tutu and Papa sometimes, so I can show their daddy just how much I love him and what he means to me.”

  Dan gave her the moan she was after. “Sounds like a plan, but we may just have to quiet you down a little because I plan on spending most every night of my summer vacations wrapped up deep inside of my beautiful wife.” He felt her excitement and elation mix in equal doses.

  “You’re just amazing.” She turned in the water to indulge him in a fervent kiss. “And you’re sure you’re not doing this just so you’ll be there to terrify all of the boys away when Aida starts dating at the Academy?”

  “There really are a lot of advantages to this job, but I’m confused by this Aida starts dating concept.” He feigned mystification as she laughed at him outright. “If you stupidly decide that you wanna date one of my baby girls, you fail.” He shrugged flippantly.

  Helping Fionna step out of the tub, Dan dried her off. He located the ointment and oils, made of kukui, shea, and coconut, that Tutu had prepared. He guided Fionna to the bed, lathered his hands, and tenderly massaged everywhere she instructed.

  When he finished, he laid beside her giving a prayer of fervent thanks for all they’d been given as he soothed her to sleep holding tightly to his wife and his tiny, precious baby girl.

  Restoration

  ~Rainer Lawson~

  Still horrified over everything that had been in the paper, Rainer refused to stop working.

  “Rainer, I’m tired.” Emily fussed.

  He gazed at her sweetly. “Go on to bed, baby. I’ll finish this, and then I might try and get my office sorted out.” He gestured to the new dishes he was frantically loading in the dishwasher.

  Shaking her head, Emily continued to unload the box she was working on. Rainer heard the slip of metal and rustle of the papers. He didn’t raise his head too busy willfully shutting down the images that haunted him.

  His wife topless on a beach with him right beside her. His hands on her breasts, making love to her in the quelling tides displayed for all the Realm to see. That was his. Those images didn’t belong to anyone but he and Emily. It just wasn’t fair. How could he have let this happen? He shuddered and worked faster.

  “Rainer, we never went through this box. Look, there are letters from your parents.” Emily looked like she was to blame for him never going through the safety deposit box that Governor Carrington had given him on his twenty-first birthday, so many months ago.

  He shrugged. “Yeah, we don’t have to keep them.” He couldn’t stand to think of what his father would think of what had been in the papers.

  “We are not throwing these away!” Emily huffed. Defiantly, she picked up one from the top of the stack and unfolded it.

  He went back to work.

  “Oh, Rainer.” She shuddered as more tears escaped her tired eyes.

  “What? What’s wrong?”

  “Just read it, please.”

  Rainer studied the notebook paper that contained his mother’s handwriting.

  Joe,

  I took Rainer over to Stephen and Lillian’s today. You’ve been gone for so long I can’t remember which city you’re in now, but I know that you’re doing all of this for me and for our precious little boy. He’s growing up so fast. You should have seen he and Logan playing with little Emily today. She’s adorable and already has Stephen wrapped around her finger.

  Today, while Lillian and I were baking, Emily followed Rainer into the bathroom. Lill found them with Rainer’s jeans and Superman underoos down around his ankles, and with Emily’s little sundress up around her neck.

  Emily requested that she be able to touch it to which our son replied that he had to ask his mommy. When we stopped laughing, I realized that it’s like watching my son’s future unfold before my eyes. They’re kismet, Joseph. I just know it. He’s barely four, and he already looks after her constantly. He told Patrick not to be mean to Emily after he’d pulled her little pig tails. The older boys found the bathroom story hysterical, of course. He told them that she is sweet and soft. I’m not certain whether or not she let him touch, but I suspect that might be what he thought was soft.

  I can see the look on your face, and hear your laughter as I write this. He reminds me so much of you Joseph. So protective of me and willing to do whatever it takes to make certain that nothing bad ever happens to us.

  They ran that photo in the paper again today. The one of us protesting at the Academy. I never realized when I pulled my bra off that day that when you actually became Crown Governor that they would print it constantly. But just think, everything that we worked so hard to end, you’ve ended. You rewrote the constitution, and I’m married to the Crown Governor. You’ve made the world a better place even if your wife got a little carried away trying to prove a point at a protest so many years ago.

  Anyway, I’m rambling, and that picture usually upsets you even though I still say they were so much perkier then I don’t mind the Realm still thinking I look like that.

  I wish I could hear you laughing at me. I wish you were here to tell me that you still think I’m beautiful even if our baby is four and I haven’t lost one ounce of the weight I gained carrying him. I love you so much, Joseph. I’m counting the days until you’ll be back in my arms.

  Love, your Magpie

  More emotion than Rainer was capable of sorting through flooded his mind. He tucked the letter from his mother behind the following piece of paper.

  Emily moved clos
er. She’d only read the first page.

  Rainer felt his chest physically ache as he ran his hands over his father’s even balanced script. The reply to his mother’s letter was dated a few days later, and had been written on hotel stationary.

  My baby Magpie,

  I saw the picture in the paper, Monday, sweetheart. I bought every copy in the newsstand just to torture myself as to what I’m not getting to see and feel because of my own absence. That picture has always driven me mad. It’s a horrible tidal wave of confusing emotion. You see, sweetheart, when you whipped off your top and bra to protest the abuse of Non-Gifted women by the Realm, that’s when I knew you were it for me. But when I see other men buying the paper, I feel all of my work for peace and negotiation, my speeches on cooperation and tolerance, go right out the door. I want to sink my fists into anyone who’s ogling my beautiful wife, who is still just as beautiful today as she was baring it all at seventeen years old for the causes she believed in.

  You tell Rainer that I said to behave. It takes quite a bit of pluck and grit to go after a redhead with Stephen Haydenshire for a father and seven older brothers. I’m certain it won’t be too many years that Rainer won’t be informing Miss Emily Anne that he has to ask you’re permission before letting her play, he’ll be asking her to. Tell him not to grow up too much before his old man gets home, and tell him how much I love him Magpie and how proud I always am of him, no matter what.

  You just watch, sweetheart, he and Miss Emily, Logan, Cal, Garrett, all of them, they’re going to outshine us all. I might be home before this letter arrives ~ I hope! I’m helpess without you Mags, and I long to hold you both. I ache to touch you and feel you deep within my soul. If you hear of my getting arrested, you’ll know that I gave in to my desperate desire to assault anyone who wants to gaze longingly at what is mine and mine alone.

  Love, Joe

  Emily was sobbing, and Rainer couldn’t make sense of any of his feelings. A horrible tidal wave of confusing emotion summed it up very well he thought as he read and re-read the correspondence from his parents.