Mage Queen: Dark Sculptor Novel 03

by D. R. Rosier

  When she didn’t move, I knew for sure she was a virgin, and had just gotten a lot of advice from Saria from earlier, which wasn’t the same as experience.

  I ground up into her gently while squeezing her ass, drawing a surprised gasp of deep pleasure from her lips, showing her it was okay. At least she hadn’t been intact, so she didn’t have to deal with the pain of that this night.

  She started to swivel her hips slowly, and sat up a little straighter. I enjoyed the view, as her firm supple breasts started to sway very slightly with her exotic movements, and my hands found a perfect home on her mouthwateringly thin waist. The sounds of pleasure from her mouth increased in both frequency and volume, as she looked down at me and into my eyes, somehow managing to look sultry and awed at the same time, her face was a study in pleasure.

  She started to twerk her hips, and bounce on my cock, drawing a gasp from my mouth, and a look of blissful ecstasy and excitement filled her eyes as I started to match her speed and firmness in a reciprocal rhythm as I stroked up into her.

  She was so tight, and the satiny liquid friction along my length was milking me hard with every stroke. It was all I could do not to explode right there, but I’d be damned if Karana didn’t come first the very first time we made love. She was building up to a big one, I could see it on her face, feel it in the way her body responded to my touches and the pleasure my cock was having on her. Feel it in the way she was losing herself to the pleasure, and the moment.

  Just as I was about to give up, and cheat using the vibrator, she cried out in tremendous release.

  “James!”

  She trembled as her back arched and she froze above me.

  I pulled her down against me, gripped her ass, and started to stroke up into her. Not too hard, her convulsing sex was almost too tight to move, but also completely soaked as she flooded my cock with liquid bliss. I stroked her hard enough to extend her orgasm and finish me off in a big way as I lost the fight against the pleasure of her body.

  I grunted, “Karana,” as I felt my legs go numb, and gasped as I buried myself hard one more time, and then started to shoot up into her tight willowy body.

  The look of vulnerable pleasure in her eyes was intense, and I knew she was seeing the same in me as we rode out the pleasure, as my cock continued to pulse and fill her with my essence.

  Then she collapsed against me, and I held her in my arms and stroked her back, as we fell from our heights of rapturous bliss.

  Karana kissed me languorously, with breathless passion.

  “If I’d known it was going to be like that, I’d have decided quicker.”

  I laughed, “I love you too.”

  I felt an effervescent joy rise in me, that this incredible woman had chosen to stay with me, and the rest of our family.

  She said softly, “It was never about you, you know? I already knew you’d make me feel complete as a mate, as a woman with the man she loves, for… a long while now. I also love Saria like a sister, and care a great deal for Regina as well, they will be the women a woman needs in their life. So, it wasn’t about being isolated either.”

  I nodded, “Life balance is important. Career and family?”

  She shrugged, “Career. My family can visit, but I took pride in my accomplishments, and that’s what took me so long. I needed to discover what I’d do on my own, apart from you, Regina, and Saria. Stifling that part of who I am, would have only poisoned those other parts with you and them, you know?”

  I nodded, “I do, I was worried about a similar thing with Saria, until she became an instructor. So, what did you decide?”

  She smirked, “It was your gift that gave me the idea. There are going to be a great number of mages with their power released. A lot of them will be trained by family, but a lot will not have that option, as many of their parents and grandparents will be apprentices as well. I’m going to start a mage school of sorts, apprentice many at once. Given my reputation, several of the elves will come to the edge of the forest to learn from me, and I suppose I’d accept humans too, perhaps work with Irwin on it? It will be very… satisfying, and something I know I’ll love to do.”

  I smiled, “I should have seen that coming, given your love of all things magic and mage.”

  She kissed me softly, “We have one more surprise for you.”

  Then she called out to Regina and Saria, who entered the tent, already stark naked.

  She asked, “Will you bond with me now? All of you?”

  “Yes,” I said, my voice a little strained with emotion. Wasn’t it supposed to be the other way around?

  Whatever, she was mine, fuck the details and traditions of my old world.

  I kissed her, passionately.

  Regina laid on our right and put a hand on her thigh, and Saria laid on my left and put a hand on her ass and squeezed, which made them both giggle.

  I started to harden inside of her, she’d never gotten off me. I supposed they didn’t need to touch me, we were all already bonded, but now all three of us needed to be touching Karana to bond her to all of us.

  Then my mouth fell open, as Saria’s voice started to chant in an alien tongue. I was taken by the quality of it, focused, powerful, and so beautiful to my ears.

  So, that was my surprise, and the spell they’d been giggling over earlier in the morning. Karana had been planning this seduction and bonding since this morning. That little minx! Not that I minded, I was flattered by the effort.

  Then Saria’s magic slammed into all of us, and the world around us, the feelings of our bodies, as well as our five senses, disappeared.

  There was only one soul before me this time, while I knew Karana was being shown all three. Or at least, one soul not currently connected.

  He soul shone with generosity, love, and power. I knew at the merest glance, she was as wonderful and complicated a person as I’d come to know, and even more so. She had faults too, dimmer spots. She wasn’t perfect, but she was perfect for me, just the way she was. I loved all of her, and reached out toward her soul as she reached out and entwined hers with mine.

  Her soul was stunningly beautiful.

  With a flash of light, the world came back to me, and I was rock hard and completely filling my new mate. She was as soaked as I was hard, with new lubrication mixed in with the old. I grabbed her ass firmly, bent my knees, and started to drill up into her. Not as hard as I could, I suspected with as tight as she was, it would be a few days before I could truly ravish her, but it was hard enough to take control. She bounced on me like a rag doll as I held her hips, and her gasps and sweet sounds of pleasure drove me to greater efforts.

  It wasn’t long before she gasped in ecstasy, and her eyes rolled back in her head at the pleasure of it. This time I had no trouble holding on through her milking convulsions, and I pounded up into her to drive her toward her third without pause.

  Then I felt Regina’s and Saria’s hands start to wander both our bodies. They pinched nipples, caressed balls, and otherwise raised the level of pleasure to new heights for us both. Especially as Regina’s magic started to spark in both our bodies, and I lost myself in the intense pleasure of being inside and taking my new mate from the bottom, along with my other two mates to witness and enhance that pleasure. All while staring up into awed and loving red eyes.

  It was a loving and intimate moment for all four of us.

  It was going to be a long wonderful night, I still had two mates to sate after that, not to mention my water nymph…

  Chapter Sixteen

  The last three days of the trip to Malburn, I was smiling so much it felt like my face might break.

  Seriously, I couldn’t stop myself, I’d tried, and I even started to disgust myself after a while. All the drama, hopes, worries, and moments of unnecessarily borrowed heartache had been so damned worth it. My only comfort was that Karana’s smiles of sultry joy were just as goofy as mine. I just hoped we got it under control before we reached Malburn, or the court would eat us alive. />
  Karana was as insatiable as the rest of my mates, and extremely eager to try just about everything I could come up with in bed. She was as sweet, generous, and loving as my Regina, but far less submissive and often challenging. She liked to be on top, and in control, but like Saria would submit if I earned it. I liked it, as much as I liked Regina’s almost constant submissiveness and devotion.

  I say almost, not because Regina challenges me like Saria sometimes does and Karana almost always does, but because sometimes she’s playfully naughty and teasing. Not in a challenging way though, if that makes sense? It was just the way she drove me crazy, to seduce me into taking her hard and fast like a rutting animal, which was her aim I think. My Regina truly got off hard when I took firm control of her, she liked to submit, but liked having no choice in it even more. I had a feeling she also loved that she could make me lose it like that.

  All I knew was I was surrounded by three breathtakingly beautiful mates, each in their own way, and each of them was a strong and powerful woman in their own right. Regina might not have ever challenged me, but she was a formidable whirlwind when dealing with others on our family’s behalf. I’d never deign to call her weak and retiring, she was just as strong as my other mates in her way.

  I was also loving it, they probably could have run circles around me if they wanted to, but all three of them respected me as head of our family, even with Karana’s challenging if still sultry behavior, which was mostly in the bedroom, not outside of it.

  Outside the bedroom Karana hadn’t really changed much at all after our mating, she was still flirty, playful, sultry, and dripped predatory sensuousness in all her movements. The only real change there was that the sexual tension between us wasn’t painful anymore, it was pure anticipation for later that night, and that made our flirting even more comfortable for us both. She was just different in private and our sex life, which should have been obvious to me after that first time. After all, she’d been a virgin, and had still taken charge of our first time.

  Perhaps different was the wrong word, it was the intimate side of our relationship that was new, so in truth I was just learning about another facet of my lover, that I just hadn’t known about until that night.

  We didn’t run into any other issues on the road to the city, nor did we talk about our mission, which was healing and taking home sixteen elves, while trying not to get caught in Sera’s snare. We’d already exhausted the possibilities there, and there was simply no reason to stress it and belabor it further, not until we learned exactly what the queen wanted.

  Saria’s spell knowledge expanded to all the basic protection spells of a novice mage, as well as at least one offensive spell in all the different elements. I was very impressed with my blue-eyed and silver white haired goddess. She was still reserved and constrained her instincts in public, but there was a lighter side of her now that I saw on the road. I wasn’t the only one that loved Karana, and my petite sexpot’s joy in adding the sister of her heart to our family was obvious.

  I did add a few more spells to my ring as well. I spoke to my mates about many things, our future and our dreams, but Karana loved talking about magic, and was always happy to help me adapt something. Sometimes it went fast, sometimes I had to experiment for quite a while before it worked right, but she never minded.

  Regardless, by the time we reached the city of Malburn I had organic spells to heat or cool the air around me to keep it comfortable, and the organic spells to create lights without heat. She also taught me other protection spells.

  When the house was finished it would be easy to add all the things I wanted to add using house plants I’d make magical. Closets that cleaned clothes, tubs that filled with hot water, lights that went on in a room when someone was present in it. The rooms would be dust free and clean up themselves, the floors scoured of dust and dirt, though stuff that wasn’t garbage would still have to be put away by us. All rooms would be free of germs and pests, and we’d have house wards that would block magic and ablate magical elemental attacks. I knew how to do it all already, through my ring thanks to Karana, so it would be easy to duplicate around the house when the time came. All the hard work was already done, I just needed to copy the spells into house plants.

  I also had no doubt, now that she was family, Karana would be adding mage wards of her own to my efforts.

  Using the heating and cooling spells, I could also create a better more stable oven heat than burning wood or coal, and a cold box to cool wine or spirits and keep food fresher. I was looking forward to it all, and spending a lot of time with my three mates between healing. I could heal so fast, that I wasn’t sure that would take up more than an hour a day. I’d have plenty of time to enjoy my mates and future children.

  Regina would be with me almost all the time, and easiest to maintain intimacy with. She would run the household from my side, and we’d raise the kids together. Karana and Saria would help too with the latter, but both have their own careers. Regardless, I’d make sure we got personal time together every day, no matter what it took we’d figure out our schedules.

  Spoiling my mates, as they took care of me, would take a lot of time now that there were three of them. I’d never forget my family was more important than anything else, everything else was replaceable, they weren’t. I supposed I had Cynthia to thank for that deep conviction, I’d never take my mates for granted as I once did her. Cynthia and I had our lives planned out, we were happy and in love, truly happy, and I’d lost all of that when she walked out on me because I hadn’t been maintaining our relationship with intimate moments, and time. I’d made excuses, and put it off for far too long because of my career.

  The thought of one of my mates doing the same, would stop me from making the same mistake. I loved them all to distraction, but neglect could kill that love, just as it had with Cynthia. I wouldn’t take the chance, or gamble with it.

  Regina could call it spoiling them all she wanted, I wasn’t taking the chance of losing their love. They may have taken their vows seriously on this world, and maybe they couldn’t leave our household, but that didn’t mean our house had to be filled with love and happiness. We could still grow apart and lose it all, even while we continued to live together. Fuck all if I was going to let that happen, so… that was the plan.

  Three mates would be harder, but also easier at the same time. When I spent intimate time with one of them, the other two could pick up the slack for an hour or so with kid emergencies, or unexpected drop ins to the house. So yes, more effort to maintain three intimate relationships, but I didn’t think actually finding the time to do that work would be hard at all.

  Our elven escort melted into the wood when we started to see the first signs of the city. It was maybe two more miles to the city that was at least that big, almost entirely filling the valley it was in. It truly was huge, as we approached the line toward the gates. Farmers from the surrounding farms were dropping off produce for tomorrow’s market, and other merchants and visitors from either Dulcier back east, or Garlis further to the west.

  This time our greeting was different, as we led the five horses toward the gate.

  The guard turned and nodded to what looked like a page, who took off running down the main avenue toward the castle over a mile away in the center of the city.

  He said, “We’ve been expecting you this evening. Please head straight for the palace.”

  He followed my glance and looked at the two pack horses weighed down with fifteen bundled swords each. He walked over and examined what he could see.

  “Just take them to the palace, you don’t want to keep nobles waiting, and I just sent off that runner. The page by the stable can give it to the castle’s weapon blacksmith, and you can go down there to haggle over prices when you find a moment.”

  I nodded, “Thank you…”

  “Bryce, my lord, and your welcome.”

  The four of us exchanged glances, and their faces verified my thoughts. The game had already s
tarted, and the queen’s opening move had been to roll out the red carpet.

  I’d never been to Dulcier before last time, but I had been in this city.

  The change was almost shocking, and further bolstered my belief the queen was a far better ruler than the king had been. The people in the market were bold, and the chatter loud as we walked through. We got more than our share of glances, my two elven mates stood out, but like Dulcier no one looked alarmed. Mostly curious looks, along with a few leers that I clenched my teeth to ignore, and even fewer looks of disgust at an elf being in their city, but no one acted violently.

  It was hard to define, there wasn’t a tenseness here like there had been, which after only a week or so was startling. The women were as bold as the men, perhaps confident in their new ruler and the new law, they didn’t seem worried at all about catching the wrong kind of attention. The last time I was here, over a month ago, the women had been far more meek and unobtrusive.

  It was a heartwarming thing to see, but I had a feeling for this level of change to happen so quickly, the queen must have made some very messy object lessons out of rapists for the populace. A good thing in my opinion, but one that illustrated her being a good queen, didn’t mean she wasn’t ruthless and that I didn’t have to walk on eggshells around her.

  It took us about a half hour, at a slow walk through the thick crowd to get to the castle gate. The guards simply nodded at us, as if we were important guests, and it kind of freaked me out. Several pages came forward to take our horses, and assured us when we mentioned it they’d not only deliver the swords, but our packs as well to our rooms.

  I wondered what the bill for five-star service would be.

  No one mentioned our weapons at all, and we walked across the courtyard and into the door. There were four guards against the wall, and a young woman waiting for us.

  She was eighteen or nineteen, clearly full grown and adult, but she still as they say, had the blush of youth on her cheeks. She had a perfectly tanned creamy complexion, and was about five foot six. Her face was lovely and had a delicate beauty, but in that moment, it expressed annoyance, and her sea foam gray eyes were slightly narrowed in haughty displeasure.