by Ann Jacobs
He clutched her shoulders, brought her up until their hot bodies meshed, male to female, lover to lover. “I fear you’ve taken yourself a sexual dominant as mate. I want to give pleasure to my partner by taking, not by being taken. Will you go willingly or must I restrain you on the platform to show you how I want to love you?”
Garnet’s cunt clenched, for she’d found her own pleasure came by pleasuring her mate. “I go willingly, Master. Not only now but always.”
Romulus bent, using his tongue to caress her scalp, to find and stimulate the erogenous places on her throat, her skull. “You know, it’s incredibly arousing when you touch me this way.”
“For me, too.” He lifted her as though she weighed no more than a feather in the wind. “Wrap your legs around me and let me in.” Slowly, slickly, he impaled her on his cock. His pelvic bone ground deliciously into her swollen clit. The scent of flowers from the garden swirled around them as they fucked, two souls made one days earlier by law, now by their mutual desire.
Heat began in her cunt where he claimed her, spreading cell by cell through her body until she caught fire. Uncontrollable fire that consumed her, made her clamp down on his invading cock as though she could keep it inside her forever. Nothing else mattered. Not wealth or power. Nothing but the sensation of coming…joining…being one with her mate now and forever more.
“Gods yes,” she said when she felt his hot ejaculate bathing her cunt in powerful spurts that seemed to go on forever. “This is the wealth of yours that I claim. Only this. Only your love.”
“And yours for me.”
At that moment Garnet knew, Romulus had given her the wealth she sought. Wealth that would last a lifetime, whether untold wealth or wretched poverty might lie ahead.
As she cradled her life mate in her arms, the words of an old Earthling vow she’d heard a long time ago kept repeating itself in her head. For richer, for poorer…as long as we both shall live…
* * * * *
As the days went by, Garnet noticed the wistful looks on her mate’s face when he looked at Antonio and Xander. Though she loved the attention Romulus bestowed on her, she felt his loneliness.
He misses his life companion. Angry at first, Garnet thought about the years the two men had been together, realized it couldn’t have been easy for either of them when Romulus had brought her home as his mate. Maybe…
Maybe they could all love each other. Though shocked, she’d been thrilled at the touch of her mate and his life companion. She imagined the scene happening now, with the eunuch Xander added to the mix. It would take the loneliness out of her mate’s beautiful golden eyes.
Yes. She’d do it, for love of Romulus—and for the incredible pleasure she knew would result from a caring, loving ménage. After all, they lived together. Why couldn’t they sleep together, too?
* * * * *
“Romulus,” she said that night when he strode into their bedchamber, a tired look on his face. “I’ve seen how you look at Antonio. You miss having him share our bed, don’t you?”
He looked sheepish. “How did you know?”
“I’ve seen you follow him with your eyes. I’m guessing you banished him to please me, is that right?”
“Partially. I love you beyond anything I’ve ever felt for him, but yet…I miss him.”
“You don’t need to miss him anymore, love. Call him and his eunuch. We can all make love together.”
The look on his face was one of wonder. “You offer me this?”
“Yes. It isn’t just for you, though. I found that having two of you loving me was terribly exciting, even though it made me angry at first to know you loved somebody else. Please, Romulus, I want us all to be together.”
He picked up the communicator and issued a terse order to Antonio. Then he went to his knees and kissed her mound. “Your wish is my command.”
* * * * *
Romulus had discovered quickly that his mate liked watching him fuck Antonio. Romulus kept his gaze on her as he claimed his life companion’s ass once more while Antonio fucked Xander and Xander licked Garnet’s cunt. “Come here, my darling, I want to taste you.”
Gracefully she stood and came to him. Her tongue darted across her red, sweet lips before she took him in a deep, delicious kiss. He felt her hands on his sac, gently stroking him and playing with the jeweled barbells there. “I love watching your cock move in and out of Antonio’s ass.”
“Feels good. So do your hands. Don’t stop.” He loved the feel of her small hands on him, rimming his ass, making him wonder if he’d enjoy being fucked there the way Antonio and the eunuch so obviously did. “Put your fingers up inside me.”
When she did he felt an unfamiliar sense of fullness. “Yeah. Now pretend you’re fucking me.”
“Like this, Master?”
“Oh yeah.” Every feeling in his body centered in his cock and ass. His balls tightened against her hand. He gasped with the strength of sensations and let go. “I’m coming.”
“So am I.” That came out as a tortured gasp from Antonio, while Xander sighed his pleasure.
Seeing Romulus and Antonio flushed with pleasure made Garnet feel good yet needy. She knew, though, that her time was near. Gently, Xander positioned her in the fucking swing and restrained her. He massaged her thighs and buttocks with fragrant oil. Her mate oiled her scalp, his calloused hands gentle on her tender flesh, while Antonio slid beneath the frame and began a sensuous stroking of her breasts.
Her cunt was on fire but nobody touched it. She felt like screaming, demanding the release all her lovers had already enjoyed—at least all of them but the eunuch. He should come, too. “Romulus?”
He paused in his task. “Yes, love.”
“Can Xander come?”
“I don’t know. I imagine he can get some pleasure from being fucked, though. Are you feeling sorry for him?”
She thought about that for a minute. “I guess I am.”
“Tenderhearted, aren’t you?” He paused then spoke to the eunuch. “My lady wants to pleasure you. Come here, trade places with me.”
When Xander stood before her and began massaging her scalp, Romulus took his place between her legs and began rubbing his thick cock along the length of her slit. It felt delicious. Because she wanted the eunuch to feel pleasure, too, she lifted her head and took his flaccid cock in her mouth, sucking and licking the slender tool. She splayed her hands over his pliable buttocks, ringing his asshole with a finger.
Xander sighed, but his cock stayed soft in her mouth. “Your mouth feels warm and wet and ever so sweet, but I can’t get hard. You should save your efforts for your Master or mine.”
Garnet felt bad for Xander but she kept trying to stimulate him. Antonio’s touch grew more intense as he began working on her nipples, twisting the rings and suckling first one and then the other. Romulus finger-fucked her ass and cunt while taking her clit between his teeth and blowing on the sensitive flesh. Gods but she wanted to come. Watching the men had brought her desire to a fever pitch, and the stimulation—it was delicious but practically too much.
She felt Romulus straighten and plunge his hot, rigid cock inside her cunt. She grasped him with inner muscles, wanting him to stay…wanting to feel the hot jet of his seed deep in her body. Antonio moved lower, found her clit and sucked it. She sucked Xander harder and felt a small tremor of excitement in his cock.
Pressure built inside her. She shuddered with the force of her orgasm as Romulus came in staccato bursts within her body. When he withdrew and sank into her asshole, she came again, holding on to the eunuch while Antonio and Romulus held on to her.
* * * * *
The next morning Romulus woke with Garnet draped over his relaxed body. Antonio and his eunuch lover lay cuddled together on the other side of the bed.
He felt strangely complete. Garnet had known he missed his life companion, and she’d loved him enough to invite Antonio and Xander into their bed. “Thank you, my darling,” he whispered, drawing her clos
e. “We need not do this again unless you want to.”
“You’d give up your life companion for your mere mate?” she asked, her tone teasing.
“You know you’re not a mere mate. You’re my life.”
“But Antonio’s your life mate. I don’t want you to give him up. I want us all to be together, one big happy family.” He watched with wonder as she rolled over and gave Antonio and his lover wake-up kisses before turning back to him and taking his mouth in a voracious, hungry kiss. “Would you like that, Master mine?”
He imagined having her…and having Antonio as well. He pictured them all becoming close, friends and lovers, sex slaves and Masters. “Oh yeah, my beautiful slave. I’ll like it, a lot. But I love you, now and always.”
Epilogue
Three months later
“I’m glad Prince Arik decided to stop wearing that fearsome mask.”
“Yes. Unlike what was rumored, his face is not so scarred that it frightens small children. I don’t know why he insisted on wearing it for so long.”
Garnet smiled at the two old women who, despite their complaining, seemed happy enough to be drinking Arik’s wine and stuffing their wizened faces at the festival celebrating the six-month anniversary of his son’s birth.
“They have no clue about the pain Arik endured so he could bare his face to his subjects without having them scream with terror.” Emerald shook her head then fixed her gaze on her prince. “My prince went through the seven hells to reach the point where he dares walk among his people. I’m so proud of him.”
Garnet knew that. Their prince was a decent man she knew would make a just ruler for Obsidion. Already smiles were brighter in the Street of Pleasure, as customers and purveyors alike were profiting from the new law that no man could be made a eunuch.
Because of Xander, she’d come to know firsthand that the making of eunuchs was cruel and wrong. The prince’s edict was right. No man should be denied the right to make love or to come.
Business hadn’t slowed at all. Romulus’ fears had proven unfounded. Though some tourists had grumbled mightily about the impending shortage of eunuch sex slaves, those same tourists had for the most part said they’d choose from the emporiums’ available alternatives: beautiful women and whole but sterile males. Antonio and Xander had taken over managing the emporiums’ day-to-day operations, leaving Romulus free to pleasure Garnet although the four still played together often in the ménage a quatre that had begun shortly after hers and Romulus’s mating.
“You seem happy, little sister,” Emerald said, her gaze on Pearl, who would take her own mate exactly one year after Garnet’s mating. “I hope Pearl will find as much contentment with Pak Lin as we have with our mates.”
“I hope so, too.” Garnet would take Romulus’ hot cock—or Antonio’s, or even Xander’s, though his prowess was sorely lacking—any day over that of a sexbot, even one of Pak Song’s best. She imagined Emerald preferred Prince Arik to any bot, as well. Pearl, though, seemed to be anticipating a lifetime with her future mate’s inventory of sex toys—almost as much as she looked forward to mating with the cyborg-maker’s son himself.
That could provide for some discord, but only time would tell. Needing her mate, Garnet looked his way and smiled. As always, Romulus responded quickly, meeting her gaze with a heated one of his own. “Let’s go home,” he said, clasping her hand and nodding his goodbyes to the royal assembly.
Yes, Romulus always knew what Garnet wanted, for she always wanted him. In the transporter, he suckled her nipples while she stroked his golden cock. Soon they’d be home, hearing the sounds from the adjoining suite that told her Antonio was as happy with his mate as Garnet was with hers.
They’d soon strip off their celebratory garments and make slow, hot love. The reality of that love beat her wildest fantasies. Maybe he’d summon the men they both loved to join them, as they often did.
She raised her head and looked into her mate’s passion-glazed eyes. “You know I love you, Master mine.”
“Yes, but I love you more. More than wealth. More than life itself.”
The End
About the Author
Ann Jacobs is a sucker for lusty Alpha heroes and happy endings, which makes Ellora’s Cave an ideal publisher for her work. Romantica®, to her, is the perfect combination of sex, sensuality, deep emotional involvement and lifelong commitment—the elusive fantasy women often dream about but seldom achieve.
First published in 1996, Jacobs has sold over forty books and novellas, some of which have earned awards including the Passionate Plume (best novella, 2006), the Desert Rose (best hot and spicy romance, 2004) and More Than Magic (best erotic romance, 2004). She has been a double finalist in separate categories of the EPPIES and From the Heart RWA Chapter’s contest. Three of her books have been translated and sold in several European countries.
A CPA and former hospital financial manager, Jacobs now writes full-time, with the help of Mr. Blue, the family cat who sometimes likes to perch on the back of her desk chair and lend his sage advice. He sometimes even contributes a few random letters when he decides he wants to try out the keyboard. She loves to hear from readers, and to put faces with names at signings and conventions.
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