“Stand, Ferox.”
Rising, he kept his head bowed in respect, arms hanging loosely at his sides.
“Look at me, warrior.”
Lifting eyes glistening with tears and regret, Ferox pulled his shoulders back, the last visage of his pride.
Drusus’s voice dropped to a deep timbre, the tone of inherent royalty. “Ferox, I know what transpired. Ulixes told us everything. I know what Basilius did to you and Zonia. You did what you thought was right for your beloved. Neither my father nor I faults you for your decision. However, I must now have your word that should you ever find yourself in an untenable situation, that you come to me. Do not keep something this important to yourself. We are family and we help each other in times of need. You did not have to suffer in this alone. I am charging you with relaying this to all other warriors so they too will understand that we cannot have secrets amongst us. My leniency only goes so far when it comes to our safety, especially the safety of my mate. Do you understand me?”
Voice breaking, Ferox tried several times before croaking out his response. “I understand, Trejani. You are a great man and I should not have doubted in your leadership. It will never happen again. I am indebted to you for returning Zonia to me. My life is yours.”
Smiling, Drusus nodded at the relieved warrior. “Good then. We are at an understanding. Now go to your mate, you have much to catch up on. Do not come back to this club for a week.”
A trembling smile crossed Ferox’s face. “Thank you, Trejani, you will not see me for a week, this I can promise as well.” Running back to Zonia, he lifted her into his arms and walked out of the door.
Chapter 16
One week later
“I think this is all of it now. I didn’t realize I had this much stuffed into that tiny place.” Glancing over the boxes scattered across Drusus’s living room, Lina felt a pang of guilt at the chaos she brought to his pristine environment. “I’m sorry for messing up your place, Drusus. I promise I’ll get it out of sight soon.”
Grabbing her up into his arms, Drusus placed small, soft kisses across her eyelids, nose, and cheeks before setting her back down. “Sweetness, I love having all your stuff here. It makes it even more believable that you are staying. But honestly, I think we need to talk about the amount of shoes you think you must own. You have me worried, Avelina. I may need to knock out a wall and make the adjoining guest room a closet.”
Laughing, she punched him in the arm and pulled his face down to plant a lingering kiss on his luscious lips. They both jumped when a sultry, teasing voice broke into their cocoon.
“Okay, cut that shit out. You’re making my stomach turn with all the mushy, smoochy-face crap.”
Lina looked over and mock glared at Cassie walking in from the kitchen, Severus right behind her, his words growly and petulant. “You are just jealous…Marcus not loving on you enough, Cassie?”
“Oh please, that idiot? I told him last week to take a hike and hire a house cleaner because I was through touching his nasty drawers and filthy kitchen. What a slob. What was I thinking?”
Purposefully bumping against her shoulder, Severus growled in her direction. “I would like to know that as well. The man was an idiot. You have rotten taste.”
“You, sir, can kiss my ass. You get no opinion because your opinion does not matter one cent to me. You have a lot of nerve, judging my choices. What about the floozy that keeps following you around? I thought I was going to have to toe down with her after she followed me to work the other day and demanded that I stay away from her man. You made that bed, baby, and I shouldn’t have to lay in it. You’re such a slut!”
Severus’s face became a mask of innocence. “Hey, I cannot help it if women find me irresistible. If you would stop bugging me about fixing all the things around your house, then my stalkers would not think we were lovers.” Lina knew the banter was about to get even more heated when Cassie’s hand slapped down on her cocked hip and she tilted her head.
“I do not bug you about fixing things, you offer to fix things, and I just let you. Get your story straight, buster.”
“Now wait just a minute, I know for a fact…”
“Enough!”
All heads swiveled to Drusus. “Cassie. Severus. Out.”
Shrugging, Cassie glared at Severus as they headed to the elevator. Eyebrows raised, Severus’s innocent expression must have touched a nerve with Cassie. Leaning over she hissed up at his shoulder. “See, now you got us in trouble. You always have to cause trouble, don’t you? You are impossible…Steven. Oh, what’s with that sour puss, Steven? You didn’t think I knew your real name? You trying to be suave using the name Severus…like anyone would believe your real name is Severus…puuhlease!”
The elevator doors shut before they could hear Severus’s response.
Lina looked at Drusus as they simultaneously said, “I think they like each other.”
Laughing, Drusus picked her up around the waist and headed toward the bedroom. “Sweetness, I am tired of talking about them.”
“Me too. So what do you want to talk about, my sexy warrior?” She curled her fingers through his silky hair and drank in his heavenly smell. Yum! Nothing smelled better than his musky, cinnamon, uniquely Drusus scent.
“I want to talk about how I am going to devour your plush body until you scream my name.”
She couldn’t help the shiver working up her spine at that growly response. “Well that sounds like the kind of conversation I could get into.”
Tossing her on the bed, Drusus draped his large body over hers, trapping her. Pulling her arms above her head, he clasped both her hands into one of his. Gently grasping her chin with the other, he began kissing her slowly, sipping from her lips and delving his tongue sensually into her mouth. He moaned when she kissed him back in the same languid manner. Pulling back gently, his eyes were warm and searching, voice low and husky. “You are so beautiful, Avelina. I did not know I could feel so complete. I no longer feel hollow, my love.”
Blinking rapidly to soothe the sting of tears threatening to emerge, she gazed at him for long moments then pressed a soft kiss on his lips. “I thought I couldn’t trust any more, Drusus. You showed me that it was possible and I will be forever grateful to you. I was hollow too. I love you.”
Trying to squash the rush of emotions beginning to fill her and keep from bawling like an infant, she went for diversion. “Now, fill me up in that way you do oh so well, my gorgeous man.”
Drusus closed his eyes for a moment then nipped her on the chin, grateful for the distraction from the new, yet welcome emotions that threatened to bring him to his knees. Jumping up, he began stripping his clothes off and tossing them haphazardly around the room. “Get naked, Avelina, I want to feel your skin against mine.”
Shimmying out of her jeans and shirt, she had her hands on the front clasp of her bra when he rejoined her on the bed.
Quickly he moved her hands away and over her head again, groaning his pleasure when he pulled the cups aside and palmed both her breasts. Squeezing her breasts lightly, he pushed the twin globes together and began suckling at a nipple. When she began to wiggle, he situated himself between her legs and pressed her against the bed with his weight. Attention back at her nipples, he pulled one into his mouth and sucked it hard against the roof, sending sharp tingles across her chest.
Crying out at the wondrous sensation, she gasped when he did the same with the other. He released her nipple and started stroking the curves of her breasts with the flat of his tongue, bringing goose bumps up along her flesh. Blowing softly across her wet nipples he nipped at each before sliding up her body and taking possession of her mouth. Lifting to his knees, he moved his hand between her open thighs, sliding his fingers through the wetness saturating her pussy and thighs.
“Gods, you are always so wet for me, baby!”
Moving further back, he popped her on the side of her thigh. “Flip over, sweetness, I want to look at that heart shaped ass.”
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Grinning, she rolled over and shrieked when he lifted her hips, shoved a pillow under her stomach, and yanked the bra from her arms. Leaning forward, he moved her arms out flat over her head.
“Do not move your hands and stay very still.”
Shivering at the deep, velvety dark voice caressing her skin, she nodded and fought to control her movements. She knew that tone and knew well to heed his demand. She loved it when he became serious and focused on her with that gravely demanding voice. The thought that he might land a strong hand across her ass had her entertaining the thought of wiggling just a bit to see what he would do. Those thoughts were squashed when she felt warm hands slide slowly down her back, pausing at the twin dimples above her ass. She felt his fingers swirl around them before his palms moved lower and massaged her ass cheeks, moving the plush mounds out and back together on each move. She felt vulnerable in this position, ass angled high. She was as exposed as she ever could be to a man. She loved that he was worshiping her body with his eyes and hands, enthralled with his possessive touch. The bed wiggled and she felt his hot breath lightly caress against the top of her thighs, directly below the curve of her ass. He was lying down between her legs now.
“Your pussy is so pretty. It is flushed a deep pink and flowering open for me. My cock is throbbing, wanting me to shove it inside that wet heat and take you hard.”
Her body trembled, knowing that he could take her at any second and she would be helpless to stop him. He was so powerful, so in control.
She felt two fingers enter her sheath, twirling softly against the walls. Her pussy clenched in response, her breath quickening as he rubbed a sensitive spot toward the front of her channel.
“Yes, I feel your need, sweetness. You provide such sweet nectar each time I touch you. I need to taste you. Do you want to feel my tongue on your pussy, Avelina? Do you want to feel it pushing inside to pull your cream into my mouth?”
She realized the sound of a low-keening moan was coming from her own throat, her words caught in a jumbled mess of sensation.
Smack! Her ass rose in the air at the stinging blow only to have it pressed hard into the bed as he rose up and slammed his body on top of hers. God! She loved the weight of him pressed against her, his skin hot to the touch. A large hand clamped around both of hers as she moved to reach back, his breath hot against her ear.
“I told you not to move and I asked you a question, baby. Do you know what will happen to you if you continue to defy me, Avelina? Do you know that I can bring you to the edge of pleasure and deny you? I can do that all night, my love. Do not test me. Now answer me. Tell me exactly what you think my tongue should be doing to this luscious body.”
Shit! He was so damn sexy when he growled at her like that. “Oh god, Drusus, I could come just listening to your voice. Yes, I want your tongue scraping across my pussy. I want to feel you push it as far inside as you can. I want you to taste me and never forget that you’re the one that made me so wet and hot. Do it! Please, do it now!”
“Good girl,” he crooned.
He went back into position between her shaking legs before she registered his heat had left her body. Shoving her ass cheeks apart, he pushed his tongue into her pussy, vigorously lapping up her juices. She instinctively arched her hips higher as he brushed lightly across her clit, removed his tongue and pushed his fingers back into her, stroking in and out, as he nibbled, licked, and nipped at the cheeks of her ass. She was beyond rational thought as all her attention focused on the lower half of her body and the raging fire only he could put out. “Please, Drusus, please.”
“Oh yes, I plan to please you, sweetness. Where do you want me to pleasure you first?” Pushing twisting fingers deep, he growled across her skin, “Here?” Running that gloriously hot tongue from the tender flesh below her pussy up to her puckered hole, he released another low growl across her skin as his fingers left her clutching sheath and rubbed her juices across her anus. “…Or here?”
As she felt a finger slide into her ass, she arched and moaned his name. “Oh yes, there, Drusus. That feels so good. Pleasure me there.”
“I want to fill your pretty ass with my cock. I’m going to take your ass, baby, and you will scream my name.”
She groaned and shoved her forehead into the mattress when he pulled more of her slick cream up to her ass and worked in two fingers. She felt herself stretching against the intrusion. “Yes, yes, yes,” she hissed.
“Relax for me baby. You are going to take my cock all the way.”
Vaguely, she heard a snap and warm liquid ran down the crack of her ass. Then she felt a third finger slide easily into her, stretching her further. It wasn’t painful, just different, a feeling so decadent her wet pussy clenched and throbbed with need as his fingers slid slowly in and out.
“Ah yes…I feel you clamping down around my fingers. Relax some more. No, do not move forward. Stay still.”
She felt the bed wiggle again and whimpered as his fingers left her, his knees nudging her legs wider. Her stomach fluttered and she fought the instinct to flee. How in the hell was she going to be able to take him there! She was barely able to take him in her pussy without some struggle. Her thoughts raced.
“Stop thinking so hard, Avelina. You can take me. Hold on, sweetness, let me prepare myself for you.”
Damn! He could read her so well. She willed herself to calm, encouraged by the warm palm running up and down her spine. She heard a click again and then the distinctive sound of his hand rubbing furiously against his flesh, slicking it with oil, before he grabbed one hip and angled her higher. She felt the tip of his thick cock breach her ass and pause. He was panting now, his voice low and sultry.
“Breathe out, baby, and push this luscious ass back toward me. Yes, that way. Relax, do not tighten yet. Good girl, let me in.”
Moaning, she did as he asked, feeling him slip further into her body, gliding against nerve endings she didn’t know existed. “Oh god, Drusus, you’re so big! Stop…wait…please…please!”
Pausing, he allowed her to adjust to his size before moving slowly back out until just the tip of his cock remained. As her breathing slowed and her muscles relaxed, he pushed slowly forward again, gaining ground with each move forward, the intrusion easier as the oil on his cock greased her virgin entrance with lubrication.
“You are so tight, baby, like a velvet throbbing fist against me. Take all of me, baby. Can you take all of me?”
Arching her back, she rose to her knees and elbows, gritting through the biting pain as the largest girth of his cock moved further inward. She savored his cry of pleasure and her relief as he pushed through the tightest muscles and slid all the way into her, his balls slapping against her clit. “Don’t move, Drusus…please…wait…let me catch my breath.” She sighed in bliss as the pain slid away to reveal the pleasure of his cock throbbing and jumping against the sensitive inner flesh.
“Oh gods yes, you are so beautiful! Your ass is stretched tight around my cock. I can see your pretty dark ring clasping and releasing against me. I’m going to move, baby. Get ready for me, sweetness.”
He began to slowly rock in and out of her body, his fingers digging into her hips as he lost himself to the pleasure, his strokes coming faster, his moans of pleasure louder. Her pussy throbbed in response each time his balls slapped against it. Their skin slickened with sweat as his muscled thighs rubbed against the back of hers. Her fingers dug into the sheets as she felt sensation layered upon sensation radiating from her core, spreading an aching heat to encompass her entire body. “Ahhh! Drusus…please…please!”
“Yes, squeeze those muscles, baby. Clamp that ass on my cock.”
Bowing over her back, his thrusts became faster as he pulled only halfway back before slamming into her again, his warm necklace bumping and caressing across her back. Clasping her around the waist with one arm, he planted his other next to her side. His words were guttural and strained.
“Rise up to your hands. Yes, good girl. I
want to complete our mating while I am deep in this tight, hot ass. Mine! Do you understand me, Avelina…you are mine, now let me in your mind. Trust me, baby, let me in.”
She felt a slight nudge against her thoughts, as if someone were knocking at the door to her soul. She willingly flung the door open and let his energy steamroll inside to consume her. Flashes of electric light and warmth flew through her mind. Oh, the warmth! It devoured her, wrapping around her like a hot blanket of pure sensation.
She cried out his name when she felt him fully merge with her. They were one, totally and completely one entity. Every inch of her skin tingled as if a living breathing entity slid around within her. She felt his pleasure at the tight, undulating grasp of her ass around his cock, the triumph of feeling his energy mix with hers, his balls lifting and tightening, preparing for the excruciatingly pleasurable release of cum up through his shaft. She felt his strokes coming in hard and pounding as he slid his fingers to her clit and rubbed furiously against it. She felt her slick juices on her fingers, no…on his fingers. They were one, unable to distinguish one shell from the other. She knew she was lost forever as he growled her name.
“Avelina…come!”
Orgasm slammed into her core, almost painful in its unrelenting intensity. White-hot pleasure shot through her system, seeking an outlet and finding it in every pore of her skin. Her arms buckled, chest slamming to the bed. Teeth clenching, she could only hiss his name as her ass throbbed around his shaft and ruthlessly milked his release from his body.
His upper body lifted off her back as he plunged deeply into her and seated himself fully against her. He roared her name to the ceiling, releasing pulsing hot jets of cum deep into her ass. His hips rolled against hers with each long pulse of his seed until he pulled out of her and collapsed next to her. Weakly, he rolled to the side, pulled her over to him, and wrapped his body around her back, curling her into a fetal position with him.
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