The Seducer (Men of the North Book 4)

by Elin Peer

  “Thank you,” Laura said and held the suit to her chest.

  Magni bit his lip, his brows still drawn close together. “I wish you could wear leather on top, but if you want to blend in, I guess that’s out of the question.” He looked down at the weapons. “You should bring some weapons. They might come in handy for you if those motherfuckers won’t cooperate.”

  “Magni,” Khan said and began walking away. “Come join the rest of us in my office when you’re done. The negotiations will begin in half an hour.”

  “Understood,” Magni muttered.

  “You can take Laura to the border afterwards,” Khan added.

  I never heard a reply from Magni, because Finn made sure that we followed Khan and Pearl, and my belly was already in a knot over the magnitude of the negotiations that were about to take place.

  I was a peacekeeper by profession, but helping people solve conflicts with colleagues and family members seemed mundane and insignificant compared to the task that I was facing now. If things blew up in that room, war could break out and millions would suffer and possibly die.

  “Remember,” Finn whispered to me. “All you need to do is argue that we should be together, can you do that?”

  Looking up at him, the edges around my eyes softened. “I’ll argue until I’m blue in my face,” I promised. “If they refuse, I’ll even consider moving here.”

  “You would?” Finn stopped me abruptly, letting Pearl and Khan walk ahead, before he whispered with eagerness, “You would do that for me?”

  I nodded. “I would! It shouldn’t surprise you since you’re willing to do the same for me.”

  Finn pushed his hair back. “But you said that it wasn’t possible for you because of your position and place in your community. What changed?”

  I looked down. “I did a lot of thinking last night when I couldn’t sleep. And it became very clear to me that it wouldn’t be possible for me to go back to my old life without you. I would feel like a ghost trapped between two worlds. It would be a sad imitation of living. My heart would be here with you, and my teachings about inner balance would ring hollow.”

  Finn cupped my face, and kissed the tip of my nose. “I stand by my words; you are the most beautiful person to walk this earth.”

  “Are you guys coming?” Khan called from the doorway to his office.

  “We’re coming,” Finn called back before whispering into my ear. “Everything is going to be all right, and once this meeting is over, you and I are going to my room for a nap.”

  “A nap?” I wrinkled my brow.

  “Uh-huh,” Finn said and gave me a playful smile. “Haven’t you heard that men get tired after sex? With the pent-up desire that I have for you, I guarantee that you’ll be tired too.”

  I smiled back at him, momentarily distracted by his sexual energy.

  “But what about Tristan?” I asked as we began walking again.

  “Don’t worry, we’ll go back to the school later, and when we do, we’ll be smiling – I guarantee it.”

  CHAPTER 33

  Celebration

  Finn

  I carried Athena up the stairs, just to be sure that her leg didn’t bother her.

  “Last time I carried you up to my room, you were wriggling like crazy,” I reminded her with a chuckle.

  “Because I didn’t know you, and I thought you were going to do awful things to me.”

  I laughed. “If you’re referring to having sex with you, then you should know that I’m planning to do awful things to you in a minute.”

  “The difference is that this time I want you to,” Athena said and played with my hair.

  My desire for her made me speed up. When the door to my room wouldn’t open, I set her on her feet and almost kicked it in just to get her into bed.

  “Easy, you big brute,” Athena teased, and opened the door. Everything looked like the first time I had brought her here, and for a second she just stood there looking around.

  “I remember this place as smaller,” she said. “Maybe because I felt so imprisoned and suffocated in here.”

  “You want to go somewhere else?” I asked.

  “No, I’m not scared of you and I’m not scared of this room either.”

  “Well, I’m scared of you.” I chuckled again. “The way you had the Council eating out of your hand was terrifying. If you hadn’t been there, I doubt Khan and Pearl would’ve gotten half of the things they got away with.”

  Athena’s face fell. “Maybe I did go a bit too far,” she said with regret.

  “Are you kidding me?” I pulled her to the bed. “You were magnificent, Athena. All of this would’ve happened in time anyway, the wall breaking down, and you being here to negotiate…” I paused and licked my lips. “It only serves to speed up the process, and that’s amazing.”

  “I just wanted to be sure that Khan had enough ammunition to calm down the restless among your people.”

  “Don’t worry about that.” I kissed her. “Khan will figure out a way, he always does. As long as he’s got Magni on his side, no one will be strong enough to overrule him.”

  “That’s just the thing.” Athena looked worried. “The two brothers don’t seem to agree on much, do they?”

  “Magni just has a hard time adjusting to the fact that Khan seeks Pearl’s advice more than his,” I said.

  “Do you think that can become a problem between them?”

  I shrugged. “They are brothers, they love each other.”

  “I’m afraid history isn’t on your side. Many a ruler has been killed by his brother or vice versa.”

  “Don’t worry about it,” I repeated. “They’re fine. Magni has always been a hothead and Khan knows how to calm him down.”

  While I was speaking, I was removing our clothes, being extra careful with her leg where the wound was still covered by a protective layer that I’d sprayed on.

  “Finn, I’m sorry but I won’t be able to do a lot of exciting positions with my leg,” Athena said.

  “We’ll figure it out,” I assured her, my heart racing when I removed her camisole and lifted my hands to her amazing breasts. “If nothing else, I’ll just sit here and play with your tits.”

  That made Athena laugh. “You say the most obscene things,” she told me, and lay down on her back when I gently pushed her.

  “I like how submissive you are to me.” I smiled. “Now spread your legs for me, woman.”

  Athena crossed both her arms and legs and narrowed her eyes in defiance.

  “Is it my dialect?” I joked. “Maybe you didn’t understand me. I asked you to spread your legs for me.”

  “Maybe you didn’t hear Laura when she said that women in the Motherlands aren’t submissive by nature. She was right, you know. We aren’t!”

  “I heard Laura all right,” I said and removed my briefs. “I just figured she didn’t know what she was talking about.” Like a robot called to its docking station, I pushed at her knees, my focus on her sweet pussy.

  “Hey, my eyes are up here,” she teased and I raised my gaze to her beautiful green eyes. The instant connection between us made our smiles grow.

  “I love you,” I whispered and lowered myself on top of her.

  With only a little hesitation, Athena spread her legs and let me in.

  “There’s nothing like this feeling of being inside of you,” I said in a moan when I moved in and out of her.

  “Is it better than flying?”

  “Oh yes,” I said.

  “Better than fighting?” she asked.

  “Definitely.”

  “Better than…” Athena leaned her head back, exposing her neck, as her words ended in a long moan.

  “Being inside of you is better than anything,” I whispered, planting kisses along her collarbone.

  She whimpered a little when I accidentally touched her wound, and it made me extra careful. “When that leg of yours is healed, I’ll be throwing you around in so many positions that it’ll make you
r head spin,” I warned her.

  “That’s the downside to being petite,” she said. “A big man like you can actually throw me around.”

  “You’re damn right about that, but don’t worry, I’ll make sure you like it when I do.”

  Our breathing was getting shallow, and our movements quicker.

  “Careful; you’re big,” Athena whispered and I tried to hold back, but my desire to bury myself deep within her was so strong.

  When she closed her eyes, I wasn’t sure if it was because she was in pain or because she was enjoying it.

  “Am I hurting you?” I asked and stopped pushing so hard.

  “Just give me time to get used to you,” she said with her eyes still closed.

  “Maybe if I warm you up a little bit. I should’ve thought about that, I was just so eager to get inside you.”

  “No, no, it’s fine, try to move a little again,” Athena instructed and as soon as I did, the friction made shivers of pleasure run up and down my spine.

  “God, that feels good,” I said trying to suppress all the curse words that wanted to spill out of me in a firework of verbal declarations of Athena’s perfection. “I want to marry you,” I exclaimed and planted my teeth in her shoulder, giving her a gentle bite to shut myself up. I didn’t want to scare her with my demands, but making love to her brought out ancient pre-programmed instincts of claiming her.

  Athena was rocking her pelvis rhythmically against my thrusts and her arms were wrapped around my neck.

  For every thrust, I pushed a little deeper and she took me in inch by inch.

  “Marry me,” I whispered against her neck, unable to keep the words back. “I’ll go crazy if you say no.”

  “Finn,” she moaned and it was the sweetest sound in the world.

  “Athena.” I nibbled at her earlobe, and moved down to kiss her sweet lips, my tongue playing tag with hers while my hips circled and pressed all the way in.

  “That’s it,” I said into her mouth and caught her tongue between my teeth.

  Athena pushed at my shoulders, making sounds of laughter, and I let go of her tongue.

  “Now, I have you right where I want you,” I said and nuzzled her nose with mine. “Every inch of my cock is buried deep inside you and you’re pinned underneath me. You’re mine now, you know that, right?”

  When she closed her eyes, and swallowed hard, I stopped breathing. “Talk to me,” I whispered low.

  In a slow movement, she opened her eyes and a sound escaped the back of my throat when I saw how moist they were.

  “What’s wrong?” I asked, feeling a knot press at my chest. Athena crying while we were having sex couldn’t be a good sign.

  When she spoke, her voice was brittle. “It’s a very powerful feeling. Like it’s filling me up from the inside and my heart is too small to contain so much love for one person.” Placing her hand on her chest, she said with teary eyes, “There’s so much pressure in here.”

  For once, I was out of words.

  “Does it hurt inside you too?” Athena asked me, blinking those incredibly green eyes and looking straight into my soul.

  “Ehm… no, not really. I mean when I thought I was hurting you, I felt a tightness in my chest, but that was just fear, I think.”

  “But you love me, right?”

  “Fuck yes!” It flew out of my mouth.

  With a hand behind my head, Athena brought me closer. “Use your lips for kissing, not cursing.”

  I smiled and got to work, kissing my priestess until my jaws were sore, while moving in and out of her.

  All the while the need to claim her grew in intensity and my big mouth just wouldn’t stay closed.

  “I want to marry you,” I said again.

  “Why?” she asked, her fingers nuzzling the hair on my neck, while her teeth played with my earlobe. “Why do you want to marry me?”

  “Because you’re everything to me.”

  “But what would it change? I’ve agreed to be with you. Married or not, there would be no difference.”

  “I would be your husband and every male would know that you’re taken.”

  “But we would live in the Motherlands; no one would challenge you for me there.”

  “I don’t care.” It came out a bit harsh and I softened my voice. “Maybe it’s a Nman thing, but I’m almost shaking with the need to make you mine. I feel territorial, and paranoid that anyone would show an interest in you.”

  Athena stroked my cheek.

  With no trace of humor, I added. “They can’t have you. You’re mine!”

  “Wow, you’re serious about this?” she said and let her hand travel along my body and down to my ass. With a gentle push, she signaled for me to start moving again and I complied.

  “I’ll do it for you because I love you,” she whispered with a soft smile, “and because I don’t want a paranoid partner.”

  “Husband,” I corrected her. “I’ll be your husband.”

  “Sounds very old-fashioned, but if that’s what you want…”

  My abs were tensed up with a tingling sensation of butterflies in my stomach.

  “That’s what I want,” I said and kissed her again. “And there’s something else that I want too.”

  “What?” she asked and placed her arms above her head in the sweetest sign of surrender.

  Pushing deep inside her, I whispered my deepest desire into her mouth, ending my bold statement with a kiss. “I want to impregnate you.”

  Athena gave me a sad smile. “That’s a wonderful thought, but it’s not possible, Finn.”

  “Yes, it is,” I said and brushed her hair back.

  “You can’t impregnate me. Only doctors at the fertility clinics can do that.”

  I shook my head. “Your men have low testosterone and weak sperm numbers, but I’m an Nman. There’s a chance I already impregnated you the last time we were together.”

  Athena blinked in confusion and pushed at my shoulders.

  “Don’t freak out.” Making soothing sounds, I calmed her and stayed inside her. “You love children,” I pointed out, and started rocking back and forth a little.

  “Yes, I adore children, but I’ve never thought that I would be a mother myself.”

  “You’ll be the best mother in the world.”

  My sack was tightening, just from envisioning Athena with our child in her belly. “I hope that you’re already pregnant,” I said. “And if not, I’ll do my best to make sure that you are soon, if you let me.”

  “A child is a miracle,” Athena whispered. “But are you sure that we are ready for something that big.”

  I kept rocking back and forth, while looking deep into her eyes. “I’m sure!” I said. “I’m sure that I love you, and I’m sure that I want to marry you. And I’m one hundred percent sure that I want our children to grow in your belly.”

  She didn’t say anything, and she didn’t stop me when I kissed her and intensified our lovemaking.

  The looks we exchanged were loaded with unspoken words. The fact that Athena silently submitted to my desire of making her my wife, and the mother of my children, had my cock pulsing inside her like a second heartbeat.

  “You’re mine,” I grunted and pushed deep inside my woman.

  “Yes,” she moaned and squeezed me tight. “Finn, you and me.”

  I could have cried from happiness then, hearing her say the words you and me as a complete acceptance of me as her mate. Me, with all my fucked-up childhood traumas and dirty baggage that had haunted me for years. I had seen high Council members bow their head to my woman in respect today. My woman! The thought that she had chosen me of her own free will and not because I’d won a tournament, excited me. There was no way in this life that I deserved her, but I needed her with every fiber of my body and I took her with the ferocious appetite of a man aware of his unworthiness.

  “Oh, Finn, it feels so good,” she moaned in that soft sexy voice of hers.

  Perspiration was forming on my for
ehead and I knew I couldn’t hold it much longer. Her sweet pussy had a tight grip around me and her sounds of pleasure were coaxing my balls to fire.

  “Yes, Finn. I’m coming.” The divine sensation of her inner walls cramping around my cock and her hot breath on my neck, moaning my name in a high pitch of ecstasy, was my signal. Envisioning Athena with a bulging belly, I let go and fired every sperm cell that I had in me. “Yeeeeessss!!!” I screamed out in my own orgasm. “Hell yeees!!!”

  I literally felt my cock shoot spurt after spurt into her. When I was done, I collapsed on top of her.

  “My leg,” she whimpered, making me roll to her side, keeping one leg and arm on top of her.

  We stayed like that for a while, our fingers entwined, our hearts full.

  “I’m hopelessly in love with you,” Athena said and brushed my hair out of my face. “I think I could look at you all day.”

  “That’s because I’m so handsome,” I joked and forced my heavy eyelids to open just to see her gorgeous smile. “Just wait till you see how handsome our son will be.”

  “Or daughter,” she said.

  “If they are born with markings on their forehead, I’m blaming you,” I said with a yawn. “It doesn’t matter though, I’ll love them to death no matter what.”

  “Tattoos aren’t something you pass on, you know that, right?” Athena said. “And the tattoos I have can only be earned.”

  I gave her a tired but very charming smile. “You should get a new one then. A big N to symbolize that you captured and tamed an Nman. That should give you street credit in the coven, don’t you think?”

  “You consider yourself tamed?” she asked with laughter in her voice.

  “Sure, as long as you consider yourself submitted.”

  “For me to have submitted, don’t you need to have dominated me? And if you dominated me, how can I have tamed you?”

  “Argh, the chicken or the egg,” I yawned. “I’m sure you spiritual wise people can meditate on that part for a few decades.”

  Athena opened her arms when I changed positions and I cuddled up against her. “I need that nap now.”

  “Fine, I’ll give you an hour, but then we have to get back to Tristan.”