by James, Honor
“Wasn’t going for subtlety, Raphael. You still have much to do before you can have your meal. If you’re lucky, you’ll get it done while there is still stew and bread left. Though given that the others are already digging into their meals—” He gave a slow shrug. “Better hurry, old friend.”
Rissa watched Raph hightail it out of there and shook her head. “You are bad, you know that right? There is always plenty of food left over. Of course it might mean that the cook will give him a hard time, but she would feed him.” After a lecture. “But I’m also kind of glad. Happy that I get to spend some more alone time with you.”
“Of course she will feed him and Gabe. I had her set plates aside for them both,” he said, kicking the door shut. With a bump of his elbow, he had the lock turned and moved toward the table near the balcony. “Come and eat, Princess, you need to keep your strength up for the coming days.”
“I think that sounds like a very good idea. The coming days are going to be very, very trying. But I will have you and the others at my side so I think that I will survive them. Will you?” She was worried for Michael. He had been apart from people for so long she wasn’t sure how being around so many now would affect him.
He looked to her and lifted a brow. “Will I what, love?” he asked, seating her. Moving around the table, he sat down. Passing her a bowl of stew and a piece of the fresh loaf, he sat back with his own food. “What’s going through your head now, Rissa?”
“Honestly? I’m worried about you, Michael. I’m worried about how you will handle being around so many people again. You have been alone for so long, I am truly worried for you,” she admitted quietly.
“I didn’t like people in the first place when I took a position in the guard. But it’s taught me a number of things. Thankfully, I won’t have to be around too many at all times. As your husband, I can’t hold the position of Captain of the Guard. I also know that Raph and Gabe have been sharing the position unofficially. I think we should make it official. It gives them fully access and a lot of leeway. With the division of the position, they can do more and cover more places.”
“Good thinking. I hadn’t for a moment thought of what would happen when you returned. I hate to admit that, but it’s the truth. I think that we will find our way. I just worry for you, Michael. I know that you have never truly liked people in general, and I guess that’s part of why I worry. It’s who and what I am, love. I’m a worrier.”
“You needn’t, Rissa,” he said with a lazy-looking shrug. He settled his napkin in his lap as he glanced her way. Breaking a piece of bread off, he sighed. “I do not like people most days. But I also know that I can’t hide away forever. Not if I want to have you in my life, and I most certainly do, Rissa.”
“I know, but I happen to really like worrying about you. You are mine and I will worry about you. You worry about me as well, don’t you? Admit it. You worry a great deal about me and what is to come. I know that you do.”
“Not so much,” he said, chewing on a piece of the bread. “I worry about what someone is trying to do to you. I don’t worry about you so much, since I know you will speak up if something is bothering you. Or your face will give you away and I’ll ask. Plus there are two others who watch you like hawks as well.”
“This is true. I’ve never really been one for hiding what I’m thinking and feeling at any given time, have I? I blame that fully and completely on you. You have always told me to speak my mind. To always give the utter and complete truth no matter what. So yes, I am who I am because of you and I don’t plan on changing. Ever.”
“You’d better not, took us long enough to get you just how we like you.” He gave her a slight smile and a wink. “The truth is better than any lie you could dream up. Lies only build and twist. The truth is always best because you never have to remember it.”
“Agreed. Now then, enough of this. I know you are worried about what is happening, but for the moment, and any moment where we are here in our rooms, I want us to only think of us. Nothing and no one else. Just simply us, okay? We will have to deal with everything else at another time to be sure, but for now I’m happy just being able to have you here sharing a meal with me, Michael.”
He wiped his fingers on the napkin and nodded. “Agreed, Princess. Behind closed doors the worries of the day do not come. Only us and our future.” Michael lifted his cup and took a drink, his eyes watching her over the rim. “So, what would you like to speak on, Rissa?”
“I would like to speak more of our future. I think that the immediate future should hold my future husband, and now mate, stripping me and us trying out that massive bed there. I really like that idea.” She was as insatiable as her mates were. More if she really had to admit it.
“That is an option,” he agreed. “But, you should really finish your meal first, Rissa. Then, and only then, can we do whatever you’d like in that large bed over there. I, for one, am starving. It was a long journey and we had a very early breakfast. So, eat,” he pointed to her meal.
“You make far too much sense,” Rissa teased Michael but did as he had instructed. She began to eat, her desire to be with him evident in how quickly she plowed through the fare that he had brought for them to share.
“Don’t make yourself ill, Rissa. You do, and I’m not getting within ten feet of you,” he said quietly. “You know as well as I do, with my sense of smell, you’re on your own for that. Anything else I’m there for you, sweetheart, but never that.”
“I don’t plan on being ill, but I do plan on eating quickly. You seem to forget just how much I love food and how quickly I actually can eat. Don’t worry so much, Michael. I really am okay.” Rissa’s tone was reassuring.
He just made a noise in his throat. She wasn’t sure it was agreement or not. He kept eating, but he was watching her closely. Predatorily, if she wanted to stretch a little. He licked his lips slowly and her attention drifted. “If you’re done, I’ll see if one of the pack will take the dishes back to the kitchen.”
“I am very done.” She watched him and the way that he moved. When he took their dishes away, she licked her lips again and felt the heat between her thighs increased exponentially, and she shivered in reaction. “Hurry,” she whispered desperately and began to peel out of her clothes.
He shot her a look full of promise and then stepped out of the room. He wasn’t gone long, and when he returned, it was without the tray. The heat in his eyes had grown, the beast starting to prowl in his gaze as he stalked toward her.
Lying back on the bed, Rissa lifted her hand to Michael and nearly purred when he took it. “I need you,” She growled right back at him. “How about you and I get ourselves fitted together? But that means you need to get naked.”
“Can’t do that while you’re holding on,” he pointed out. Damned logical wolf. “Unless you had the thought of assisting getting me undressed. Was that your master plan, Rissa? Distracting me with your sexy little body and, while I couldn’t think, stripping me down?”
“Damn, I would likely tear something if I undressed you. All right. Get naked, my big wolf, before I expire right here waiting on you.” Happiness and joy danced in her eyes, and laughter was clear, along with pure joy.
“You would hardly expire, Rissa.” Michael stepped back and began to remove all his clothing. He was going slow. He was teasing her, the sneaky wolf! “It hasn’t been that long since you’ve had one of us between your legs, little mate.”
“And yet here I am aching in need for you, my mate. Here I am about to rip your clothes off of you myself.” Her eyes watched him with hungry desperation and need. “And you know that you can’t wait to be between my legs once more as well. Admit it.”
“You already had your chance to help me disrobe. Now you get to wait, as long as I wish.” He smiled slightly. “As to the last, it is the truth, I cannot lie about that. You have very lovely legs, long and shapely. And you have a sweet little pussy that, even from here, I can see is weeping with your need.”
“I’m not taking forever, Princess. But, yes, I think you should touch yourself, Rissa. Let me see you pleasure yourself.” Michael folded his shirt and placed it on the jacket he’d removed moments later. His hands dropped to his belt buckle and undid it. Then his pants were undone, but he sat to pull off his boots.
Rissa’s hands dipped between her legs, and she began to stroke herself. Her fingers slowly moved over her silky folds, watching him as she did so. Biting her lower lip she whimpered. “Oh God.” She watched him as she moved her fingers over her clit.
“Press to your clit, Rissa. Rub at it slowly,” he advised, getting to his feet. He rid himself of his pants and padded to the bed. Michael climbed up and sat between her legs, pushing her ankles further apart.
Rissa did just that and rubbed her clit just as he instructed her to. She began to rub her clit furiously and watched him as she did so. She licked her lips and shuddered. “God that feels so very good,” she moaned. “It would feel even better if you were to replace my fingers with your mouth.” She moaned.
“Only if you are sure, Princess.” He did, however, move, shifting to lie on his belly, his breath moving over her hand and pussy. “Let me have your fingers, love. I need to ensure they are properly clean.”
She lifted her fingers and shuddered when he cleaned her fingers with his mouth. “And am I?” she asked with a shiver of pure delight. “Clean, that is,” she added and licked her lips. “If not, I think you should try again.”
He caught her wrist and slid his tongue slowly over her fingers. “Those are most definitely clean. But, I do see a spot that requires a little cleaning.” Michael released her hand and lowered his head. His mouth settled on her pussy, his tongue sliding between her swollen folds to her clitoris.
Rissa’s back bowed and she whimpered. She moved her hands to his head and held onto him as she did so. Lifting her hips to his mouth over and over, she moaned while he lapped at her clit and pussy lips.
“Mmm, tasty.” His lips moved against her pussy. His tongue slid along her slit, anus to clit, slowly. In the next moment, he was lapping at her. His tongue stroked into her and then circled her clitoris slowly.
Fingers clenched and unclenched in his hair and shuddered as she did so. “More.” It was a sob of desperation and need. “Michael, more.” Her voice was so clear that she wanted him to be inside of her.
He moved two fingers over her, spreading her folds wide. Flicking his tongue to her clit, he met her gaze and smiled. “What more do you want, Princess?” he asked. Dipping his head down, he sucked on her clit lightly, his teeth scraping slightly.
“You.” Rissa’s voice came out in a sobbing sound. “I need and want you inside of me, Michael. Now.” It was said with a low growl of need and desire. “Please,” she begged him even as she lifted her leg to wrap around him and pull him closer.
“But I’m not done enjoying my treat yet,” he said. His tongue slid over her pussy once more so she knew just what he was talking about. “But, since you demanded with so much need…” He shifted up to his knees and lifted her into his arms and lap. His cock rubbed through her swollen, slick folds.
She shuddered and bit her lower lip. “God yes.” She moaned happily. “Please, inside of me.” He was teasing her, his cock rubbing up and down her folds, brushing against her clit over and over again. “You are killing me in such an amazing and wonderful way.”
“Wrap your arms and legs around me, Rissa. Then I will let you have me, but not a moment before.” He scraped his teeth slowly over her throat, down to his mating mark, and nipped. A jolt raced through her each time he did it.
Doing just as he instructed, Rissa wrapped her arms and legs around him and shivered in reaction to his body flush to hers. “Like this?” Rubbing her body to his, she shivered. “God you feel so freaking good.”
“Now just relax and take me in,” he said. He lifted her hips, and then she could feel his cock pressing into her pussy. “Let me slide right in, Rissa. Take a deep breath, and as you let it out I’ll slide you down.”
She did as he instructed and shuddered when he slid deep into her body. “Oh Gods yes.” It felt perfect, so very, very good. “That feels perfect. You feel perfect.” Rissa loved feeling him deep inside of her body. She loved the way that it felt when Michael was inside of her.
“Now you can either move on your own, use your arms to slide up and down, or I can move you with my grip on your hips. There are all sorts of options, Rissa,” he said softly. Michael’s hands slipped under her ass and lifted her up. She slid back down slowly, his hands controlling her movement.
“That feels so very, very good,” she moaned. “Please, don’t stop,” she begged him. “Especially when you do that.” His hands tightened on her ass as he moved in and out of her body. That was what she needed! “God yes.” She shuddered.
“You’re so tight.” His mouth was next to her ear. His words were soft, husky, with a hint of a growl. “So hot and soft. I can feel every muscle as you tighten and loosen.” One of his fingers pressed into her anus, stroking her in time to her movements up and down his cock.
“That feels so good.” Her words were rough against his ear, her breathing coming faster and faster. “I want you to take me there. I want to feel you in the back hole as well, Michael, not yet though. Right now this feels too damn good to let go.”
“We will do that after you come,” he said quietly. “Turn you around and play with you for a while.” Michael brushed his lips over her cheek. His teeth found her ear and tugged a little. “If you approve of my plan, that is.”
“Oh I very, very much approve of your plan,” she assured him. “I happen to very, very much approve it. I just think that we need to put it into action sooner rather than later,” she begged him. “So make me cum.”
“All in good time,” he told her. Another nip to her neck and he nibbled down to her shoulder. “I like having you on edge. Where you’re almost coming but can’t. The buildup is good, makes it all the better when you explode.”
“Yes the buildup is good, so very good, but just make sure that you don’t let it build for too long or I will lose my mind. Just, please.” She begged softly. “I need.” So badly, she needed and hungered for this man.
“You won’t lose your mind. You’re too strong for that,” he said. His teeth scraped over her shoulder, and then his tongue slid to ease the sting. “I have a feeling you would retain every detail just to punish me later. That I fully believe.”
“I would try.” She let her nails once more rake over his skin. “But god only knows that there is only so much a person can take, and you are killing me in the most amazing of ways.” She loved it, too. Even though she complained, she loved it when he took his slow time in making love with her.
Chuckling, he lifted her and let her slide down slowly. “You do tend to get rather impatient, don’t you?” he asked. “Always one that wanted answers immediately, hated delays in doing activities, and the Gods help us if we ever tried to keep a secret from you.”
“Exactly. I blame you for that one, though.” Rissa arched her neck and shuddered when he moved his hands over her body. Licking her lips, she moaned. “Oh God, there.” He was hitting so deep, so perfectly, that she was sure she was going to expire any moment.
“Not my fault at all. I think it’s your parents giving you everything your darling heart desired. You were the favorite child, after all. Yes, you were the only child, but still the favorite. It was those too-big eyes, cute looks, and the little half dimple you have. Sucked us all in,” he growled. His arms wrapped around her, and he began to slide his cock in and out faster.
“And you love it,” she teased him and shuddered. “Oh yes, right there.” Her body began to move over his as well. She started to mo
ve desperately and eagerly over him. Her nails and teeth ran over his skin and she whimpered. “God yes.”
Holding her up, still, he slammed into her again and again. “My sweet little Princess. Mine.” Michael gave a deep growl, one that vibrated through her nipples. In the next moment, he bit the mark he’d given her at their mating. Not hard, but enough that she felt it through her entire body.
Rissa’s scream tore through the room, her pleasure rolling off of her in waves. Shuddering and squeezing him tightly, Rissa came harder and faster, her whole being right where she needed it to be, with him.
His seed splashed into her as his hold tightened. The growl built into a near roar. Both their bodies shuddered, pushing closer, clasping tighter. After long minutes, Michael moved them slightly, putting her flat on her back, with his body braced over hers.
“I needed that far more than I can possibly express. Thank you for being with me, staying with me, and accepting me for who and what I am.” Rissa rubbed her cheek to the side of Michael’s neck and grinned. “And for making me scream. God I love when you do that.”
His teeth nipped at her jaw. “I like making you scream. Means that I’ve pleased you, and that’s deeply satisfying to me and my beast.” He lifted his head, his lips brushing over her cheek. “You look amazing as you cum, your expression so pure and satisfied at the same time.”
Rissa’s cheeks turned pink, and she tilted her head down. Even though he couldn’t see her, he could feel her emotions when she spoke. “Well, I happen to love it when you make me come, and if it’s something that you enjoy, too, it only means that we get to do it a great deal more. That’s very good in my eyes. How about yours?”
Michael’s finger tipped up her chin, his eyes waiting and trapping hers. “Anything with you is a good thing. Why are you embarrassed, Rissa? What is upsetting you enough to make you all pink? There shouldn’t be anything between us that embarrasses you, little mate.”
“I know. I really do. As for why I am blushing, it’s because I never thought I would be so free or so uninhibited in loving. I like it. No, I love it Michael. I love knowing that with you I can be completely and fully free.”