Page 159 of Between Fear and Favor

“I don’t want this to be where you remember what’s about to happen. Can I do something, songbird?” She nodded, and I pressed my lips against hers. Where my hands cupped her ass, where my lips met hers, I surged my divinity toward her. I willed it to do what I wanted, creating something simple so I could keep it up while I was occupied. I wished I could include myself, but after everything had happened, I wasn’t sure my divinity had restored enough to expend such energy. When I broke the kiss, she just looked at me, confused.

“What did you do?”

I smirked as I sank down to my knees, still holding her wrapped around me. When she caught sight of what I’d weaved in her mind, she threw her head back and laughed. I planted a kiss to the center of her throat before she giggled, my lips tickling her sensitive skin.

“You could have woven anything into my mind. A bed, Dewalt! And you conjured a rug instead.”

“There’s candles too!” I gestured around the room, where hundreds of candles would have appeared in her mind. “Besides, it’s not a rug, Nor. Look at it.” Her gaze darted to the ground, what still only appeared as wooden planks for me, and sniffled.

“The tapestry.” Her voice was quiet, and while I didn’t want her to feel any sadness, the sight of a tear in her eye made me feel proud. When I’d accompanied her to the temple last winter, and she’d stared at the tapestry that had been her mother’s, I hadn’t thought much of it. All I had seen was something that cost far too much when her mother had provided far too little. But it had meant so much to her. I’d never forgotten it. “It looks just like it. How—Oh, heavens, Dewalt.Areyou going to have sex with me on my mother’s tapestry?” she shouted into my mind, and I choked in embarrassment.

“I can get rid?—”

“No, be quiet. It’s thoughtful and perfect. It’s also a bit funny, and I want nothing more than…” Her cheeks reddened, and her mouth twisted into the cutest gods damned grin. “I want nothing more than for you tofuckme on my mother’s tapestry.”

I choked on a laugh before I kissed her again. “Every time you curse, my dick twitches. Keep doing it.”

“Where is thatfuckingthing? Get it out.” She bit her lip and smiled, looking at me mischievously, and gods, was I in trouble. She unwrapped her legs from around my waist and began to situate herself on the ground.

“Hang on. The tapestry isn’t real—let me lay my shirt down. I don’t want you to get a splinter in your ass.” I unbuttoned my shirt as fast as I could, and when I finally got it off, she snatched it and threw it down between us. Next thing I knew, her hands were spreading across the planes of my chest, her fingertips delicately tracing my scar.

The scar from the blade which had saved me.

I knew it was Emma; I knew it was her who really gave me the new life. But the blade was the reason for it. The blade was the reason I saw Lucia and found the closure I needed. That blade was the reason I woke up thinking about Nor’s lips.

While she traced my chest, I pulled my pants off, balancing on one knee and then the other, before I was just as naked as she was.

She took me in, her eyes skimming over my cock, before she tilted her head back and whispered, “Gods above, did you really have to make him so big?”

I chuckled before I pulled her closer to me. “You don’t think you can handle it, songbird?” I raised a brow as I brushed her hair behind her shoulder. Her gaze narrowed on me, and her eyes slid back down my body, staring right at the ‘it’ in question.

She reached down, gently dragging her fingers down my sensitive skin, and I felt my dick somehow get harder than it already was. She looked up at me through her lashes. “Do you think I can?”

“Mmm, I know you can.” I slid my fingertips through the delicate skin between her legs and found she was still wet. Even so, I gently pushed two inside her and pumped a few times. She tilted her head back and gave a soft groan. Though she was slick and ready, she was nervous, and she was so tight and I was so, well, big. I sat down on my shirt in front of her, and pulled her into my lap so she straddled me. “Here, you control it this way. If you want. I, uh, I took the tonic. Saski spiked my tea with it the morning we left.”

Nor snorted. “Of course she did.”

I leaned down and kissed those pert little breasts, pulling one tiny, dark nipple into my mouth. She let out a soft sigh as she put both of her hands on my shoulders. I kissed up her neck, kissed her jaw, kissed her chin, then landed on her lips. She whimpered into my mouth as I reached between us, rubbing where she was wet with desire, and I stroked it on my cock, making myself slick. I used my other hand to pull her up by the ass so she hovered over me. When I positioned myself at her entrance, I swallowed and took a breath.

This was it; there was no going back. I was surprisingly breathless when I spoke, meaning more than what I said. “Are you ready?”

Nor nodded, and I used my other hand on her hip, guiding her down so I rested just against her entrance, ready for her to sink down on me. She took my face in her hands and kissed me as she slid down my cock. Her mouth was soft and plump and perfect. A soft cry fell from her lips, and I gently caressed her hair, nervous to touch her as she adjusted to me. Sliding gentle fingertips over her neck, I wished I could make it easier for her. Nor moved slowly, so painfully fucking slow and sotight. She tensed, and I did my best to soothe her, running my hands down her back, up her arms, kissing her gently. She exhaled in my mouth, and I kissed her through the pain.

“You’re so perfect,” I whispered, and every muscle in my body tensed as she shifted her hips. She dropped down further, almost taking all of me, and the moan which escaped her made my balls tighten. Hands on her hips, I gently pulled her down, fully engulfing myself in that tight heat. She panted as she looked down, seeing herself flush against me.

“Skies,” she breathed, and I smiled before reaching between us to rub her clit, eliciting a high-pitched whimper from her lips. She was tight as hell, and her inner muscles fluttered around me. Beautiful fucking torture. I continued moving my thumb over that spot, my other hand rubbing her back, until she relaxed. I watched her chest rise and fall, her breaths getting slower and calmer.

I leaned forward, placing a kiss right below her ear before I whispered into it, “I can get you off like this, if you want, and I’ll love feeling your sweet pussy clench around me. Or you can move, songbird.” Her entire body shuddered, and I put my hands on her hips, guiding her gently, as I tugged on her lower lip with my teeth. She caught on quickly and rolled her body on mine, and I groaned into her mouth, causing her to smile against me.

“Like this? Am I doing it right,Walt?”

I growled. “Don’t tease me your first time.” I tightened my grip and guided her movements more firmly. She didn’t seem to be in discomfort, and I was doing my best to let her lead things, but I wasn’t perfect. She let out a low moan, and I knew it was because it felt good, not out of pain. I chased that moan with my lips, eagerly seeking out her mouth. Her soft lips brokered no argument as my tongue slid past. She rocked on me, elbows tucked in, as I slid my hands all over her body, avoiding the worst of her scars in case I rubbed too hard. I knew I was close to my breaking point, about to take her and make her mine, and the way I ran my hands over her reflected that.

She broke away from my mouth, panting a breath. Mouth open, her hair was loose and wild, and her brazen lust lit me on fire. Pride in the love this woman had for me, the sweet songbird who was mine and mine alone, filled my chest. I slid one hand up to cup her breast and gently pinch her nipple. She gasped, glaring at me over the surprise, and I kissed her right on that scrunched nose.

“I hope you know, sometimes I make you angry just to see how fucking cute you look when you glare at me.”

“Well, now I know so it won’t—” I lifted my hips a bit to meet her, difficult in this position, and she groaned, a deep and delicious sound. “So it won’t work anymore.”

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