The Chosen One: A Reverse Harem Fantasy (The Airluds Trilogy Book 2)

by Nhys Glover

  "If you don't stop teasing, I'm coming out after you," Rama threatened darkly, swiping his wet blonde hair back from his face, his eyes burning.

  "Is that a threat? You do know who you're talking to, don't you? I do bad things to men who anger me." I wondered at my own temerity. I would normally never joke about killing someone, but in this moment it felt right. I was acknowledging who and what I was, and my pride in it.

  Was I proud of killing those men? Not killing them as much as using my power against them. Overcoming the limits they'd tried to place on me.

  Jaron rested his arms on the edge of the pool and looked up at me cheekily, his dark amber eyes dancing. "You can do bad things to me any time you want."

  I leaned down and stroked his cheek. In the next moment a hand gripped my wrist and I was flying through the air. I hit the icy water with a splash.

  It was even colder than Calun had registered it to be. I broke the surface, gasping in shock, pain and mock-fury. Spluttering, I launched myself at Jaron and wrapped my arms around his neck, trying to pull him under. As he was standing on the bottom and I was still smaller than him, I had little chance of doing it. But before I had time to realise the futility of the move, a naked body slid up behind me and I found myself pressed between Jaron and Calun. There was no mistaking their arousal. A pair of hard cocks pressed into me from both sides.

  Calun rained open-mouthed kisses along my shoulders as Jaron claimed my mouth. The heat of them was a stark contrast to the cold of the water. I trembled in their arms and moaned into Jaron's mouth. It had been too long. I had missed these men and their touch for too long.

  Hands slid over my body as the kisses became more passionate. But it wasn't enough. I twisted around so I could claim Calun's mouth, and he was ready for me. He hoisted me up by the butt so my legs could wrap around his waist. It was Jaron's turn to kiss and nibble at my neck, especially the nape.

  Callused hands closed around my rounded breasts. Dark and Rama had joined us. I broke from Calun's mouth to kiss first Dark and then Rama, welcoming them to our play.

  It was an amazing sensation, feeling slick, hard-muscled bodies surrounding me. The water no longer felt cold, but merely cool against my overheated skin. Even better was the sense that I was no longer a fat old crone. Though hardly the lithe girl/boy I'd been when I met them, I was now slim once more and rounded in all the right places.

  And I was empty.

  I reached down and captured Calun's large cock in my hand. He hissed as I placed him at my entrance and let him slide inside me in one slick move. Moaning from the double assault of pleasure from my mind and his own, he threw back his head, muscles cording in his neck and bulging at his shoulders and upper arms. A magnificent beastling taking its pleasure.

  I felt what it was like for him to be inside my hot, tight core again after so long. It was torture to hold back, making it last. I sent him the image of what I wanted to do and he gripped my hips tight so I could do it.

  Letting go of Calun's shoulders, I fell back so my head rested on Jaron's shoulder and my hands could slide down his flat belly and wrap around his urgent cock. My breasts bobbed impudently on the surface of the water. Two hot mouths closed around my sensitive nipples, sucking deeply.

  Rama jerked back and spluttered. "Gods, I forgot about the babes. That tastes so sweet."

  Dark lifted his head and grinned. "Mmm, now I know why those childlings always look so contented."

  But my mind was elsewhere. Calun had started moving me up and down the length of him. I moaned out my pleasure and closed my hands around Jaron's cock even tighter, doing to him with my hands what Calun was making my core do to his cock.

  When the friction inside me intensified, I felt fingers slide between my folds. Dark! As Calun thrust, he flicked and circled my pleasure nub until I slid into my first release. It was not as shattering as I would have expected after so long. It was more like the satisfaction you felt returning home after a long absence. But I had little time to ponder the sensation because, in the next moment, Calun was convulsing inside me, being sucked dry by my inner walls and I was riding his pleasure.

  When Calun came down, he leaned in and kissed the spot over my heart tenderly. With a satiated smile he then slid out of me and floated away.

  "On the edge, Jaron," Dark ordered.

  While Dark flipped me over and sank into me, I found Jaron poised on the very edge of the pool, his cock wet and ruddy. I slid up his thick thighs and wrapped my hand around his waist. I knew what Dark had in mind and I slowly licked up the length of my youngest husband and then, meeting his fevered gaze, opened my lips wide to take him deep into my mouth. I had to hold on tight because Dark was riding me hard, pumping into me with all the pent fear and desire he'd felt during this long and terrible day.

  "I thought we'd lost you," he said, driving harder and harder, faster and faster. The movement helped me move up and down Jaron's demanding rod.

  Rama was sitting on the edge of the pool next to Jaron, doing his favourite thing: wrapping my hair around his cock. It would feel different, having cold, wet hair wrapped around it, but he seemed to enjoy the sensation anyway.

  I sucked hard as Dark pushed me over the edge yet again. Jaron cried out as he came moments later. I swallowed the salty liquid fast and then lifted off him. I slid back into the water, letting Dark adjust his position accordingly. I used my hair to pull Rama into the water again so I could claim his mouth. Dark drew in close behind, thrusting all the while. I could feel what I was doing to Rama, kissing him deeply as I rubbed my breasts up against him each time his brother thrust into me.

  A surge of primal heat rose up from deep within, and the depth of it frightened me. Shaking a little, my body pulsating with need, I broke the kiss by pulling hard on Rama's hair. I dragged his head back so I could devour his throat and neck. My breasts, all the while, were slamming into his chest so hard it hurt just enough to push me closer to the edge yet again.

  When Dark thrust deep for the last time, gasping out his release, I bit down on Rama's neck and came so hard it hurt.

  For a few long moments after Dark pulled out, it was just Rama and me, wrapped in each other's arms. He looked down into my eyes and I saw love shining back at me so bare and so intense it humbled me. When his lips closed over mine again, it was with infinite tenderness, and I wrapped my legs around him as he sank deep into my body.

  For an infinite time we stayed like that, kissing sweetly, bodies joined intimately. I knew my other husbands watched us, satiated and blissful, and it intensified what existed between Rama and me.

  "Do you know how beautiful you are to me?" I asked him against his cold lips.

  I felt him automatically begin to deny my words, but then thought better of it. Instead, he smiled sweetly at me and began to move inside me, a hard throbbing heat that required little to send me over the edge once more. And then again. All the while, Rama moved me up and down his cock, his face a mask of bliss and tension.

  I felt Calun climax again, somewhere nearby, riding my pleasure with me. I came again hard in response to his pleasure, and my channel's contraction sent Rama over. He filled me up until finally I was satiated.

  Boneless, I lifted off Rama and drifted away, floating on the surface of the pond. It was my turn to look up at the sunshine beaming in through the cavern roof. If I had ever known a moment of such sublime peace and fulfilment, I don't remember it.

  Then, as if I hadn't already been overflowing with joy, I felt hands close over my thighs, pulling my legs apart and over broad shoulders so a hot tongue could breech my folds. The deliciousness of the move had me tightening my legs around Jaron's neck.

  I had a passing thought that I was glad the water had washed me clean. But it was just that. Passing. None of us were ever worried about niceties like that.

  Calun swum up beside me, held me up and took one nipple into his mouth, interested to see what breast milk tasted like. He wasn't fussed, I picked up immediately, and I laughed at
his disappointment. But then we were both caught by my fresh climax as Jaron sucked my nub into his mouth. Hard.

  They both left me then to continue my boneless floating. I had heard tell of a large jelly-like creature that floated with the tides. That was what I felt like now. My body still thrummed from the rapid-fire releases I'd experienced, and from the afterglow of so much love. But mostly I just felt at peace, letting the tides take me where they would.

  Sometime later, a warm arm closed around my waist and began towing me to the edge of the pool. A pair of hands from above took my limp body and lifted it free of the cold water. I was cold, I realised in surprise. My skin was wrinkled and covered in gooseflesh and I was shivering.

  A warm blanket was wrapped around me and my body patted dry. I was pulled into a lap on the floor and my hair was rubbed gently free of more water. I drowsed, replete and blissful, wrapping my arms around warm shoulders. I didn't even know who held me so tenderly. It didn't matter. It would have been the same with any of my men. Their love for me was safe and pure and true.

  "Sleep," Rama crooned into my ear. "Sleep, Love."

  And I did. Deep and dreamlessly.

  Chapter Twenty-Seven

  AIRSHA

  I slept for the rest of the day, the night, and all the following day, waking only to feed my babes and drink a little water. It was like I had been awake for moons and was finally being allowed to sleep and catch up.

  When I finally resurface the following night I took time to eat before feeding the babes, Then, while I stared into the fire, my men change their clouts and play with them, which they had been doing during all the long turns I'd slept.

  I thought about the new element I'd added to my magic. Water, even if it was the frozen kind. Now I had air, earth and water to draw on in battle. But what about fire? And what about the times I wasn't in crisis. Could I draw on more than air for those personal, smaller needs?

  Absently, with my mind still groggy, I turned my attention to a little pile of tinder sitting just outside the fire circle. Focusing on it, I drew on fire and directed it at the tinder. Obediently, the sticks ignited, burning out quickly without further fuel. I huffed out a satisfied breath. I had my answer. I did have fire.

  Now to use the magic for something personal. I had not gone back in the pool because I had been sleeping, but the men had, and from the few scraps I'd heard and the impressions from Calun, I knew the cold was becoming more pain than pleasure. I was reluctant to submerge myself in it again, for all I loved to float and make love in the water.

  It would be wonderful to take the babes into the pool too, but they would definitely not handle the cold.

  So what if it wasn't cold. What if it was warm; like a huge bath? If I could create fire, might I not be able to warm water with just a thought? It might not stay that way long, with the constant flow of cold water from the waterfall entering it, but it might be fine for a while.

  The idea excited me.

  'Try it,' Calun encouraged, coming to sit at my side. I grinned at him like a naughty child about to commit some mischief. Yet it wasn't a crime or even a prank to heat water so my men and babes could bathe comfortably. I had to stop thinking of my power as a limited resource I needed to use sparingly and only in emergencies. It wasn't. If the Goddess was limitless, then the power she bestowed on me was just as limitless. Mayhap, I had been the one limiting myself, not Her? Mayhap, I'd had as much and as varied elemental magic as I wanted. It might have only been limited by my imagination and my belief in it.

  I climbed to my feet and walked the short distance to the pool.

  "What's happening?" Dark asked from where he was reclining on a fur with one of the babes sitting up against his raised knees. He was dangling something shiny in front of the babe's face − one of the pieces of jewellery I'd brought with me from the harem, I guessed − while little arms waved about trying to reach it.

  "I'm trying something out. Give me a minute," I replied, not wanting to jinx it before I had a chance to try it.

  I put my hand into the chilly water and drew up the fire inside me, imagining the water as warm as a bath. I didn't consider the size of the pool, the amount of water I was trying to manipulate, I just willed it warm.

  After a few moments, I felt sure the water temperature had changed. But it could have been my imagination or the fact that my hand had acclimated to the water temperature.

  Calun came to my side and slid his feet into the water. I felt his pleasure at the warmth.

  I'd done it. I had really done it!

  I jumped up and stripped off my tunic and breeches, trying not to notice the male attention such a move assured me. With confidence, I dived into the warm pool and cried out in triumph as I surfaced.

  "Well, what's going on?" Rama asked. He too had a babe on his belly, but his was sleeping or dozing. Probably Ramin. Rama always chose Ramin. Even after more than a moon and a half of healthy living, he was still concerned the babe might suddenly stop breathing if he didn't watch him every minute of the day.

  "Take the babe's clothes off, and your own, and come in," I told him.

  He shook his head. "Too cold for Ramin in there. Too cold for me." The babe stirred and Rama sat up with him against his shoulder.

  "Not anymore. Trust me." I grinned exultantly at him.

  Jaron didn't have to be told twice. He'd peeled off his clothes already and jumped in. Calun had done the same. Dark removed Dalma's clothes and handed her off to Calun, who had his arms up ready to take her. I couldn't take either of the babes myself because I couldn't stand up, but I could stay afloat with my arm around Calun's shoulders so I could play with her.

  Dark joined us and let out a laugh of surprise. "This is amazing."

  Rama, curious but still cautious, made his way to the edge and sat down, dangling his feet in the water the way Calun had. His look of astonishment made me laugh. He shook his head and laughed too.

  In a few more minutes we were all in the water. The childlings seemed to love it even more than we did. They splashed and squealed, and when Jaron claimed Dalma and let her go, she swam. Dark slapped him on the back of the head for such a dangerous trick, and my protective instincts wanted to do more than just slap him, but it was obviously fine. Dalma seemed to be more at home in the water than she was on dry land. She cooed and giggled and floated while Jaron hovered nearby ready to catch her if she started to sink.

  Rama tried to let go of Ramin but he couldn't bring himself to do it, so he handed him off to Calun who happily allowed the babe to own the water. Just like his sister, Ramin floated and splashed, completely at ease.

  "I know they're magical, but I didn't expect this kind of magic. Will they start talking soon, too?" Rama asked, only half joking.

  I swam over to him and wrapped my arms around his neck. Feeling his erection, I took advantage of it and slid myself onto it with a deep sigh. Rama shut his eyes as he appreciated the feel of me surrounding him in the most intimate of ways.

  "No coming in the water while the babes are using the pool," Dark told Rama, brows arrowed down in a scowl.

  "Does that include me?" I asked sweetly.

  Dark growled. "No. You aren't messy."

  "Did you not see where they came from less than two moons ago?" Jaron asked in mock-exasperation.

  "That was then, this is now."

  "They'll likely mess up the water themselves. Those two go through so many clouts in a day it's shocking." Jaron couldn't let it go. To him it was supremely amusing to poke the bear.

  "If they start looking like they're about to do more than pee, hold them over the overflow," Dark ordered, unwilling to give an inch.

  I wrinkled my nose. I was pretty immune to bodily functions of all kinds by now, but being reminded my babes might foul the water with poop made me anxious. Rinsing off under the freezing cold waterfall was not high on my list of favourite things to do.

  The others groaned like naughty childlings denied their fun, though I knew Dark was right
. So Rama surprised me when he started walking with me to the far side of the pool where the overflow took the water away deep into the mountainside. On my last visit I'd calculated that the pool probably emptied and refilled with fresh water at least once a day.

  "Are you planning on holding me over the overflow if I start messing up the water?" I asked cheekily.

  He kissed my mouth hard before scolding me. "Focus, woman. I'm inside you and want to appreciate the moment."

  I laughed and kissed his neck. "I'd quite forgotten. Thanks for reminding me." I tightened my core and appreciated the moan I forced from deep in his throat.

  For a while I truly forgot that there was anyone but Rama and I in the pool. His kisses had that effect on me.

  "I'm glad we came here," Rama said into my neck as he began to move languidly inside me. "It's like you've washed away all the bad memories this place held for me. You've done that to so many places in my soul. You're like a light that shines into all my dark places and shows me they aren't as fearful and terrible as I thought."

  I could feel my release approaching and I let his words carry me over. Rama increased his tempo, thrusting into me with passion and something approaching frenzy. In the next moment, Rama gasped, pulled out of me, slid up onto the overflow ledge and released into the excess water.

  Not ideal, but I understood Dark's caution. I splashed water up at the reclining Rama once he'd finished. He looked shattered. But he was still able to fix me with one of his sexy, satiated smiles that had me gluing my legs together and moaning.

  A hand came around me from behind me and clamped over my core, just where I needed it. Calun, of course. He would feel my need and want to meet it.

  'You're going to have us all stacked up over the overflow by the time you're finished, aren't you, My Heart?'

  I giggled, picturing my well-used husbands piled uncomfortably on the edge of the overflow, just as Rama was now. 'Not with the babes in the water. Someone has to make sure they stay floating,' I thought back.