Page 60 of Hers to Rule

She laughed as he cuddled her closer, basking in the warmth and safety of his body. “Fair enough.”

“And how about us, are we okay?

“Hmm?”

He pulled back so he could see her face, his hand rising to push her hair back behind her ear. “I sprung the bond on you in the middle of a crisis and didn’t really give you the chance to tell me you didn’t want it.”

“I want you, Cisco.” She reached up to stroke his horn the way she knew he liked, enjoying the tension that flared through his body at her touch. “I have for so long I don’t really remember a time before that.” She pulled back on his horn so his chin lifted, and she kissed the hard edge of his jaw. “And now that you’re mine, I don’t ever intend on letting you go.”

He groaned when she bit the tender skin of his throat. “Saints, I love the sound of that word on your lips.” His arms tightened around her to bring her closer. “Say it again.”

“Mine.” She nipped his chin just before claiming his mouth in a blistering kiss. She tugged on his horn again to pull him back. His lips were parted, and his eyes were dark with desire. “Lean back so I can take what’s mine right now.”

He complied without saying anything, leaning back with his hands braced on the desk. She tore open his shirt, heedless of the buttons, exposing the acres of dark muscle like a feast just for her. Mari paused to slip out of her dressing gown, letting it glide down her body as he watched with a hungry expression.

She grinned as she reached for his belt, taking her time to fondle him as she undid his pants. He murmured appreciatively when she finally released the hard length of his cock. She didn’t waste any more time before climbing onto the desk to straddle him. She slid her hands up his chest and to his shoulders, using his body to lift herself up so he was poised at her entrance.

Mari gazed down at him, relishing how he looked up at her like she was everything he’d ever wanted. She stared into his eyes as she impaled herself on him, inch by gradual inch, taking her time to enjoy the sensation of being filled by him. His tail coiled around her forearm to hold her lightly, as if he craved as much contact with her as possible. When she’d taken him down the last ridge, she arched her back and grinded against him.

“That’s right,” Cisco purred as he smoothed one hand over her ass. “Take me slow and dirty. I want to feel every inch of you clenching around me.”

Every inch of you is mine, bavi. The words Dohal had spoken to her rang in her head.

Her necklace warmed suddenly. The metal felt heavy around her neck, more present. The piercings in her body all throbbed at once, potent with her simmering magic. Around her, time slowed to a crawl. She could still feel Cisco’s hands and tail on her and his cock stretching her, but it was as if the time between the seconds expanded. Her power thrummed inside her as her hips continued to move, but much more slowly. Beside her, the shadows shifted and coalesced, gradually becoming the shape of Dohal, as if she’d summoned him by thinking his name.

Dohal began to move before he’d even fully taken shape, the shadows soft and wispy around him, circling them. He seemed unaffected by whatever had slowed time. “I can see why you enjoy this one. He’s very pleasing to the eyes.” He focused for a long moment on where Cisco’s cock pushed inside her in slow motion. “And other parts of you.”

Every sensation seemed more intense at this speed, going on for minutes rather than seconds. Her magic swelled dangerously when his cock reached the spot inside her that always made her toes curl, but rather than receding as it normally did, it was held in that heightened state as what would have been a moment in real time went on and on. She gasped as it filled her to bursting, but she couldn’t hold on to it, and it detonated from her like a shockwave. And all the while, her body never stopped in its slow, torturous glide back and forth over Cisco’s cock, as if she had no control at all of what she was doing.

Dohal made a thoughtful sound as her power swirled around him, curling over his body like a caress before rushing into him. “He enjoys being taken by you this way, your body devouring him. He would give you everything. He would bleed for you, suffer for you, as is your due as his goddess. So why shouldn’t you accept it?”

After a while, when she didn’t respond, he focused on her face again. “He won’t hear if you speak to me. We’re in your mind.”

She didn’t know if it was unwise to respond to him, if it would just encourage him to do… whatever this was. “I won’t harm him.”

“That is such a human sentiment. I’m surprised, hearing it from your lips, considering who raised you.” Dohal shrugged. “What you do with your toys is your business, I suppose.”

“What are you doing here?”

“This is your mind, bavi. You summoned me. I only responded to your call, as I always will.”

She wondered again what that word meant. The shape of it seemed familiar somehow, but she couldn’t quite grasp it. “I didn’t call for you.”

“You did. You thought of me in the midst of this carnal act with your paramour and drew me like a moth to a flame.” His generous lips turned up at the corners. “Which I am very appreciative of, by the way. Watching you claim him like this is enthralling.” His eyes wandered over her body, and she could feel the heat of his gaze as it crept over her.

Her power detonated again when she canted her hips at exactly the right angle and Cisco’s cock whispered over the spot that always ignited her once more. She moaned, long and low. The magic raced out of her and into Dohal, who watched her with a slightly amused expression. When she had recovered, she glared at him. “What are you doing to me?”

“I’m not doing anything. This is your mind. You are sharing this moment with me. Though I’ll be honest, as much as I enjoy it, I’m not sure why. Are you trying to make me jealous?”

She didn’t know if she believed him. Had she called to him? “Are you even capable of jealousy?”

He seemed to consider her question carefully. “I feel a great deal of possessiveness over you. And as much as I wish it were my cock you were taking with such devotion, I know it’s not possible right now.”

Mari didn’t miss the fact that he hadn’t actually answered her question, but there was something much more interesting in what he had said. “Why not?”

Dohal’s black eyes devoured her until she thought she would catch fire just from how he watched her. “Are you looking forward to that as much as I am, bavi? How I ache to feel you trembling under me.” He chuckled when no response came. “I used a great deal of the power I had been hoarding to come to you physically when you called the last time because I knew you were in peril.”

“So you have to recharge before you can do it again?”

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