by Sin
“No,” Andrija said quickly. “I invoke the rite of abserespicre.”
Dijana looked to Jakov to see what this meant. She wasn’t extremely well versed on the laws of Braluse and from the look on Jakov’s face, she wouldn’t like this one.
“The rite of abserespicre has not been invoked for over two thousand years.”
Dijana attempted to climb out of the bathing pool but Jakov’s look made her rethink that decision. She sank back into the water and watched as he stormed over to his brother. “Revoke it! Now!”
Andrija shook his head and put his hands in the air. “I cannot. Once it’s been invoked it cannot be changed.”
“What’s the right of abserespicre?” Dijana asked, unsure she wanted to know the answer.
“It is my right as head advisor to the king to request permission to inspect his claim--to sample it for assurance that it is worthy of the king and free from imperfections.”
Jakov growled and lunged for Andrija. “You will not sample my wife.”
“As your head advisor, I can and I will. If you deny me, then you forfeit your rights to her. The rite was placed into effect by the gods to assure the king’s happiness, safety, and the continuance of a strong line of leaders. To ignore it is to spit in the gods’ faces, dear brother.”
“Andrija, please ... I can’t bed another man. My husband’s assured me that he’s mine and mine alone. I’ll be his alone as well.”
Jakov moved away from Andrija and ran his hand over his jaw. “Our marriage will be cursed by the gods if we disobey their very laws.” He sounded so disheartened, so unlike himself.
“No,” Dijana protested. “They’ll not curse us, Jakov. I cannot sleep with him, the fruit of niloticaous may be out of my system and tonight is the night of the red moon.” Moving quickly toward Jakov, she shook her head as tears slid down her face. “I am the Sacerdos, Jakov. I am the high priestess and I assure you that if the fruit is diluted enough that I can, if you release your hold on my powers, assure us a child.”
Jakov looked at her, his jaw dropped and his eyes widened. “Gods,” he gasped, “I was right. You have taken my heart as no other could. You are what I wake for.” He lifted his arms in the air. “My hands, they burn to simply touch you each time I look upon you and my chest grows tight whenever you are not in my presence. I worry constantly that you will leave me. I care not if you slit my throat for hating me, so long as it is you who delivers the killing blow. I want it to be your eyes I see when I leave this world, Dijana.”
She reached for him. “Jakov, I could never harm you. Even when I stood toe to toe with you, telling you how I would, I couldn’t. No part existed within me that would allow me to harm you. I have opened my heart to you and you have taken it into your large hands and held it close. Do not break what you hold by allowing this madness to occur. Let it be you and only you within my body from now until eternity. Let it be your seed that creates a life within me. And let it be our child born nine cycles from this point. No other. Please. I wish to be only with you for all of our life and I want a family with you. We have only tonight to make that work.”
“I am sorry, Dijana,” Andrija said, looking pained. “It was out of anger that I invoked the rite. Never would I have done this had I known you truly loved him. I will go before the gods and beg for their forgiveness. I do not wish to take you against your will. Perhaps they will not punish you. I will tell them to punish only me.”
Jokav pulled his robe off and undid his wrap. “They will punish all of us and you know this.” Casting Andrija a look of disgust, he stepped into the bathing pool. Putting his hand out, he motioned for Dijana to come to him. “Come, my love, Andrija shall not place his seed in your womb. Will you, Andrija?”
“No. I just told her that I will not take her at all.”
Jakov’s jaw was tight and his movements jerky at best. “This will be fixed, now. My wife wishes for my seed to grow within her, as do I. To see her happy I will do and bear witness to anything. Even the sight of my brother taking my wife.”
“No!” Dijana whispered. “I will not lie. There was an attraction between Andrija and myself but I know that it is only because I am the Sacerdos. My mother was right to tell the guards where it was I hid. She knew. She’s always told me that my mate was a great man, one she saw nothing but the purest form of leadership, compassion and power in. She has been so honored to be chosen by the gods to give birth to not one Sabian Antistitas but two that she dedicated her life, and still does, to your cause, your kingdom.”
“Two?” Jakov asked.
She nodded. “I have a sister. I was afraid to reveal her to you. Since I had not revealed myself as the Sacerdos, I feared you would seek out the pleasure of her body, assuming it was she who was the high priestess.” Dijana looked away quickly. “I love my sister with all that I am but I could not bear the idea of you....”
Jakov’s face softened. “Dijana, do you know so little of our ways that you would not understand what you are to me?”
“I am your wife. But by our laws, by your laws actually, you could take any other woman you wish to have. The fact that you have not has made the love I fought so hard to hide from you blossom that much faster.”
Jakov offered her a soft smile. “I knew in my heart the moment I saw you that you were to be mine. My mate. The mother of my children and the only woman I would ever love. I turned my back on the prophecy, on the Sacerdos and focused only on you. Even when I foolishly sought to make you jealous by using the harem girls, I found I could not physically use them. Only you can bring my cock to life. It is a serpent that’s only den resides in you. Your confession of being high priestess only serves to confirm what my cock and my heart already know. You are my true mate and I love you dearly.”
She let out a long breath, soaking in all that Jakov had just revealed. “You love me?”
“Woman, I am on the verge of releasing my hold on your power and you ask a question so absurd that it makes me worry that you hurt yourself with your own gifts.”
“What?”
He chuckled. “Of course, I love you, Dijana.” He smiled. “Now, let us add a child to our union.”
“But, Andrija? I wish to only have children with you.”
“Andrija, ensure my wife that your seed will not enter her womb. And then join us to finish the rite that was invoked.”
“No, I will not come inside your womb, Dijana. Perhaps together, we can call upon the gods and harness their power to create the heir that is so desperately needed.”
Dijana moved toward her husband, unsure of what was to come. Andrija entered the bathing pool next and she stiffened. “Jakov, please.”
He pulled her into his arms and kissed her forehead. “You are my only love and I shall not chance angering the gods and losing you.”
“I am sorry, brother. I was angry and jealous when I called upon the rite,” Andrija said as he moved behind her.
Jakov positioned himself on the seating ledge and pulled her onto his lap. She cried out when she felt the instantaneous spearing of his hot serpent. “Jakov ... oh,” she panted, fitting her channel all the way over him.
“Yes, Dijana, take all of my cock. Move for me.”
She did and the feeling of his massive girth and length in her coupled with the sloshing of the water on her clit made her scream in ecstasy. Hands moved onto her shoulders and she knew that they weren’t Jakov’s. He still had hold of her waist, directing her thrust as she rode him.
Something nudged at her anus and she came to a grinding halt on Jakov. He brought his lips to hers and kissed her feverishly. Their tongues danced around one another, sometimes pushing, sometimes pulling--all the time pleasuring. A sharp pain followed by an overwhelming sense of fullness hit her as Andrija shoved his cock into her ass.
Impaled now, with one in her pussy and one in her ass, Dijana could barely move. The feeling was too much, yet not enough. Jakov sensed her desire and leaned back, allowing her clit to rub against his
tight abdominal muscles and giving Andrija better access to her ass.
She moved in quick thrusts, mostly because of Andrija’s weight pushing on her, and moaned as pleasure consumed her. “I ... am ... so full ... on fire ... ahhh ... yes, more.”
Jakov thrust his hips upwards as Andrija increased his thrusts. An orgasm tore through her just as she felt like she’d be ripped in two. The orgasm helped to relax her and not a moment too soon. Jakov and Andrija began to chant in their ancient tongue and she knew that they’d channeled the gods’ powers as all royal men could.
They fucked her fiercely and came simultaneously. Her eyes rolled back into her head as she felt their seed spilling into both lower holes of her body. Being of healer blood, Dijana felt the instant that her womb began to respond to Jakov’s seed. “We are so ... close,” she said, still riding the wave of their come. “So, close. I’m responsive. The power you’ve harnessed is working.”
Jakov’s jaw tightened as he looked past her. “Brother, you shall stay with us on this evening to aid in bringing the power I need to give Dijana my child.”
“No, Jakov. I would have to continue to fuck her.”
“I know. The only reason I am permitting this union is because I love Dijana and I wish for us to have a family together. There will never be another time after this night.”
Chapter Six
They bathed quickly and Jakov lifted his wife from the water carefully, knowing that her body was not used to this type of activity. He hated sharing her with anyone, but she was right. He’d felt it too--the power they’d harnessed was working. By the time the red moon rose, Dijana would be with his child, he was sure of it.
He motioned for Andrija to lay on the pillows near the edge of the bathing pool, and he did. Next, he placed Dijana on top of Andrija, face down. Pulling on her slim waist, he moved her down so that her mouth was aligned with his brother’s dick. “Take him in your mouth and bring him to climax. I will enter your pussy and continue to spill my seed within you.”
She nodded and grabbed hold of Andrija’s cock. At first, seeing her suck on his brother stabbed at his gut, but when he thought of the bigger picture, he let the anger go. It was good that it was only Andrija that he had to share her with. Another may not have fared as well as his blood had.
Andrija moaned and clawed at the ground as Dijana continued to suck on him. Jakov moved behind her and pulled her hips up slightly. He thrust his finger into her tight pussy and wasn’t pleased with her lack of moisture. Bending down, he placed his mouth over her hot channel and thrust his tongue into her. She cried out, her mouth still on Andrija’s cock and bucked against him. Cream ran down his chin as he continued to eat her out. Her swollen clit was ripe for the picking, so he tweaked it with his fingers as he continued to tongue fuck her.
Tasting how truly creamy she now was, he sat up and grabbed the length of his shaft. Sliding it into her slowly, he savored the feel of her sheath gripping him, fisting him to the point that he wanted to come, shift, and them come again. Andrija must have felt the same overwhelming need to shift because he watched his brother’s leg cover in the fur of the bull. Dijana gasped as she tried to take Andrija’s cock deep in her throat as it swelled to twice its normal size.
“I beg this of you, my gods,” Jakov whispered as he felt a partial shift overtake him as well. The urge to claim her was great, and he parted the lips of her sex and rammed his massive cock into her pussy. She screamed and that only made him thrust harder. He needed to be wild. Fuck her. Come in her. Claim her.
The feel of her painfully tight channel gripping him was too much. He came with a burst that actually knocked Dijana forward. A muffled cry escaped her as she deep throated Andrija, causing him to come too.
The room smelled of sex, lust, and the promise of more to come. Jakov waited until every last drop of his seed had spilled into Dijana before he pulled out of her slowly. His lower portion returned to normal, as did Andrija’s.
“Did we hurt you?” he asked, afraid now that they may have damaged her or caused her harm in any way.
She rolled over and looked up at him, her eyes filled with tears. His heart shattered into a million pieces and unshed tears filled his eyes as well. “Dijana, my heart, my love ... I never met to harm you, please forgive me.”
She shook her head slowly. He fell back and away from her, disgusted with his lack of control. How he had come to love a woman more than life itself in only one short week was something he could not understand, but he did love her--immensely.
Andrija sat up and put his hand on Dijana’s shoulder. “Why do you weep?”
“Because I’m happy, you fools.”
That caught Jakov’s attention. “Dijana?”
She ran her hand over her stomach and smiled up at him. A half laugh, half sob escaped his throat. “We have done it? You are with child?”
Dijana shook her head no and that puzzled him.
“But, you....”
“No, not with a child, my husband, with two children ... the healer powers within me can sense two tiny lives being formed within my womb. We shall have a pair.”
“Twins,” he murmured in disbelief. “We are to have twins?”
“Yes,” she said laughing.
“Twins ... two?”
“Brother, leave the poor thing alone. She answered you already. I am to be an uncle to two of the finest children in all of Braluse.” Andrija said it with love, but there was a sadness in his voice that only Jakov, his brother of all these centuries could detect.
“Come, let us celebrate.” He nodded toward Andrija. “I wish to have a word with you. My love, stay here a moment and rest. I do not wish for anything to happen to the most important person in my life--you.”
* * * *
Jakov pulled Andrija aside in the long corridor. “Tell me what troubles you.”
“I know how much Dijana means to you and you had to share her with me. Never before have you loved and the first time in over five hundred years that you do, I come along and force you to let me sample her.”
Jakov embraced his brother and held him tight. “I will admit that I was angry to start with, but I believe that it was our combined powers that allowed us to channel the gods, thus letting my seed take within her.”
Andrija let out a nervous laugh. “Maybe we did it a little too well.”
“Why do you say that?”
“Because now instead of one child making your new wife’s belly swell, there are two waiting to enlarge her.”
Jakov tipped his head back and laughed with his brother. “I shall love her even if she was to swell with a thousand babies. I shall love her forever.”
“So shall I, in a small way.”
“As you should, brother, as you should.”
Epilogue
Jakov watched his wife as she tried to stand up. Her stomach was enormous, yet he had not told her that, and she had lost sight of her feet some time ago. It mattered little to him. In fact, he found the sight of her swollen with his children wildly erotic and had tried to take her at every opportunity he could. This late in the pregnancy now, he did not bed her as much. The other healers had warned against it, saying that the babies may come too early. He loved her too much to risk her health or that of his children.
Dijana cast him a sideways look. “I’m sorry that I can’t please you on this night, my love. If you want to seek comfort in the arms of another, I’ll understand, just this once, mind you.”
“Dijana,” he said with a scowl. “I disbanded the harem months ago and even if they were here, I would want no one but you. I am fine waiting to sink my cock back into your silken depths. It will be like the first time all over again. I hope to plant more little ones within you.”
“Jakov! Don’t even tease. Everything on my body is swollen and I can barely move.”
“I know, and it is beautiful.” He smiled and was happy that he was out of her reach. “Just think, we have hundreds and hundreds of years to create new lives.
”
She rolled her eyes at him and then grabbed her stomach, letting out a cry. Jakov rushed to her side. “Dijana, shall I call for the midwives and the healers?”
“Y-e-s!”
* * * *
“Sit down,” Andrija said, as he watched Jakov pace the corridor yet again. “They have said that all is going well.”
“I know,” Jakov said, running his hand through his hair. The fact that his brother’s hair was free from its normal braid tipped Andrija off instantly that Jakov was beside himself with worry. “I cannot lose her, brother. I simply cannot. I would cease to exist.”
“I understand, but you are doing her no good running yourself down.”
A guard ran down the hall toward them and Andrija leapt up to head him off. Jakov had enough to deal with as it was. “What is it?”
The guard stopped to catch his breath and glanced back toward the palace entrance. “Drago of Sabian is here. He brings news of raids occurring. Many have lost their lives and now the general that you sent is missing and....”
“Silence!” Andrija shouted.
Jakov moved forward but Andrija put his hand up. “I will see to this, brother. Your concerns are here now, with Dijana and the babies.”
The door to the chamber opened and two healers exited, carrying tiny bundles in their arms. Andrija’s breath caught in his throat until he heard both babies cry. Jakov cried out in joy and made the babies wail more. The healers cast him angry looks and took the babies to be cleansed. Another healer walked out of the room and nodded to them. “The queen is well and wishes to see her king now.”
Jakov swung out to pat Andrija on the shoulder, and caught him off guard, sending him crashing to the ground.
“Andrija ... I am sorry ... I was....”
Andrija put his hand in the air and laughed. “I am fine. Go see your wife. I shall depart with a legion of men to Sabian in the morning.”
Jakov stopped in the doorway. “Take care of them, brother. Not only is Sabian home to our people, it is where Dijana is from. Her family still resides there as do the other Antistitas. Keep them safe. I shall not tell her about this until you have more news. Promise to return to us, you are an uncle now and needed to advise me on the art of fatherhood.”