Page 62 of Bloody Bargain
I swallowed the succulent morsel and brushed my fingers through his perfect hair. Shimmers of gold fluttered in the air around him like a mirage. I tried brushing my fingers over the coin-like glint, but there was nothing there.
D’abel gripped my wrist and I gasped. He turned me around to look out at the sea and yanked my jeans down my thighs. I held onto the wall, glancing at Dafydd where he sat finishing his lunch. He caught my eye and smiled.
“Having a nice date?” he asked.
D’abel spread my cheeks open and pushed his tongue into my pussy. I mewled, biting my lip as my knees trembled.
“Mhm,” I managed. Dafydd nodded, wiping his fingers on a napkin. A hot spear of embarrassment melted down my spine as my ass jiggled and my breath hitched. But the cook’s eyes slid right over my skin, none the wiser.
“Good. Enjoy yourself, love. I’ll clean up.”
“Not the fish!” I gasped, clutching D’abel’s hair in one blind hand as his split tongue spiraled over itself and fucked me like a toy. Dafydd waved, taking his own plate and turning off the grill.
My b’adruokh hissed, his tail winding around my throat. It pressed against my lips, and I opened for it. A bite of haddock, still warm despite the chill, dropped onto my tongue, and I sucked the savory flavor off D’abel’s tail with relish. His claws dug into my hips, leaving behind pinpricks of pain that made my pussy clench on his muscular tongue.
“Fuck me, husband,” I teased, even if it came out colder than I’d meant. I pushed back on his unhinged jaws, pressing his face harder into my slit. He growled, tail squeezing my throat until I couldn’t speak, could hardly breathe. His tongue popped from my channel and he stood.
A claw dangled another piece of food above my mouth. I tipped my head back, stuck out my tongue, and eagerly slurped it down as he pushed into me. The experience of eating and fucking was beyond decadent. All of my hungers and lusts satiated at once. I swallowed the bite down, and he hissed feeling my throat bob beneath the press of his tail.
“I…” My words broke off as D’abel’s tail left my throat and his claw replaced it, cradling the vulnerable underside of my jaw so that he could bend me back enough to nuzzle my collarbone with his slitted nose. His spikes slid inside me, leaving trails of electricity in their wake. Still well-tenderized from the morning, I took his doubled girth without pain, my pussy fluttering around his shafts as he stroked in and out of me with deliberation.
D’abel nipped my throat. “Say nothing. Just survive with me tonight and tell me tomorrow.”
His words made me realize just how unlikely that was. I stared up at the fiends on the cliffs with tears in my eyes.
“I like you, D’abel,” I gasped. He slowed and eased off my throat so I could speak. It was easier to do it while staring out at the ocean instead of meeting his gaze. “Even your banter. I like it all. I… I love it.”
Seeing Gamil’s sorrow made me remember how important it was to say those things out loud. I’d ripped myself from my family, and the loss of their love and warmth had turned my soul brittle over the course of months. For beings that saw no end, how awful would that frigid abyss be?
However long they could withstand such emptiness, the fallout would be devastating. Cataclysmic. It was the sort of pain that could end worlds. I had a strange feeling that it was the sort of pain that created theauftoo.
D’abel gripped both of my hips and pressed his mouth into the nape of my neck, burrowing his nose into my chestnut curls. His jaw unhinged and his teeth sank home, tapping into the vessels of my throat, through the meat and sinew. A few beads of venom leaking from his fangs soothed the ache and made my channel suck him in deeper as I climaxed.
He paused with his cocks deep and took a draw on my blood. Just a small amount that had him groan in my ear and his cocks jump. He came and pulled out, letting his seed drop to the sandy stones.
Then he slapped my clit with his spikes, carefully withdrew his curved fangs from my flesh, and slid home again. When he fucked me this time, it was with long, thorough strokes. Fireworks exploded behind my eyes, and I gripped the breakwall like the bow of a ship in a storm.
“It doesn’t matter if it’s today,” he panted, “or tomorrow, or centuries from now. Someday, when our time comes, you will die loved and warm and in my arms.” He was so much taller than me that he leaned over my shoulder to show me his grin as he licked his teeth clean of my blood. “If I have my way, it will be several younglings from now.”
I elbowed him as he chuckled. He knew I was about to snap back, though, and slipped his tail into my ass, teasing it with just the tip. I bowed my head, the breeze whisking away the sweat on the back of my brow.
“Shelve it,” I breathed, “for another day.”
“Can you blame me? Elementals are an endangered species. There are only four of us, you know.”
My mind went blank looking for a good comeback as he hoisted my back up against his chest and pounded my pussy until it lit up and pulsated in excitement. He swelled, rubbing all my favorite places with his spikes, and then he was coming into me, hugging me, nuzzling his face into my throat. He banded my chest and belly, keeping us joined as our breath ran wild but our bodies stilled.
“I see my brother in Gamil because I maimed him,” he hushed into my skin with pain in his tone. “I am the reason we were enslaved at the anchors. All four of us, torn apart by Gamil’s vice hunger. My brother betrayed me then, but I never stopped loving him. Anger is not the same as hate,myn chalis.The people you left behind… Perhaps they are angry at you, but if they love you half as much as you deserve, they will never hate you.”
Tears tracked down my cheek and fell from my nose and chin. We stood in silence, joined and clinging to each other. I looked past the ocean at my sister, who would be in college now. My uncle who would have retired. I wondered if Reed still thought of me and if he had found another partner.
I wondered if they were happy without me.
I hoped they were.
Unable to speak, I nodded. D’abel held me for a long time with my pants around my knees and his hands under my shirt. We stared at the sun as it sank closer and closer to the horizon, sharing morsels of haddock and stories about our siblings.
Reigniting the warmth in our souls.
