Page 54 of Phoenix Chosen 2

“We’re home!” I shout. “We’re fuckin’ home!!”

Kalistratos brings us to land in a field on the border of a forest, a short distance from a road to the city.

“Cheesus, it feels good to be a phoenix again,” he says, laughing as we flop onto the soft grass.

I wriggle giddily and push my face against his chest. I wipe the tears off my cheeks, grab a handful of a nearby lavender plant, and take a hearty sniff of the fragrant flowers. It’s real.

“God, I can’t believe it,” I say.

He kisses me and rolls me onto my back. I’m already going for his belt, pulling up the front of his chiton so I can grab his cock.

His tongue presses into my mouth as his hand slips between my legs. I raise my hips, pushing my pregnant belly up as I spread my thighs for him. My cock is already diamond-hard, and when his fingers plunge deep into my dripping wetness, I let out a relieved and ecstatic moan. I grab his wrist and pull his hand closer, reveling in the renewed sensitivity of my omega body.

I’ve got his cock in my hand, and I’m pulling it to me as he pushes my ankles back and hooks them over his shoulders. He sinks into me, and I scream in pleasure and writhe against the wildflowers as he fucks me. My orgasm is on me in just a handful of seconds. I clasp my hand over my cock and spurt my finish into my palm, then share it between our tongues as he slams in harder and harder, then finishes with a final thrust deep into me. His cock twitches, pulsing out his hot seed inside of me.

Slowly, he withdraws. I hold his head against my chest and kiss him.

“My love belongs to you forever,” he says.

I grin at him. He’d said those words to me before we were transported to Earth. Now it’s time to pick up where we left off.

My head is swimming with happiness. Everything about this world feels so right. And this baby… I can feel their power glowing within me. It’s an ability to open doorways that can’t be seen. I can’t explain how I know. It’s like an innate feeling that has suddenly been unlocked inside of my consciousness. Kalistratos touches my stomach, and I can feel his phoenix power with even greater sensitivity than I could before. Our connection has grown, and this child is the medium.

I lean up to whisper in his ear and tell him that I love him—but before I can speak, a sharp and powerful pain, like a stomach cramp from hell, shoots through my abdomen. I jerk and shout in surprise, grabbing Kalistratos’s chiton in my fist. He helps me sit up.

“What’s wrong?” he asks.

“I—”

The contraction pulses through my body again, sucking my voice away. I double over. I’ve never experienced anything like this before.

“Kalistratos,” I breathe. “The baby…”

Shit, how the hell can this be happening right now?

I clench my fingers into his arm as another wave of pain grips me.

“Oh,God. Kalistratos, I think I’m going into labor!”

EPILOGUE

KALISTRATOS

The grand city of Athenos lies ahead of us, bustling and alive with daytime activity. I have Tyler clutched carefully in my talons and hold him preciously against my belly plumage where it’s warm and safe. His pained groans rise over the rush of wind.

Somehow, this is even more frightening than the shadow monsters. I need to get Tyler to someone who can help us, and there’s no time to lose. Being my phoenix form is a sure way to flag the attention of phoenix poachers, especially flying in broad daylight over a place like Athenos, where every road, every checkpoint and every tavern is bound to have hunters looking for prey. I know this will put us in danger, but I have no choice. Without help, Tyler’s life is at risk. The poachers and hunters are a problem I can deal with later. I just need to get him into the city.

I fly over the Athenosian boundary, past the great statue of the goddess of war and guardian of the city, and head south. I pass over the grand temple and see the priests staring up andpointing at me. As I feared, people in the street are stopping to look.

Alyx would be mortified to know I’m so openly using my phoenix form.

Where are Alyx and Airos, anyway? How long has it been since the day Tyler and I were sent to Gaea?

“Arghhh,fuck!” Tyler groans. “Kalistratos, this isnotgood! Wherever we’re going, get there now, because I don’t think it’s a good idea to poop out a baby two hundred feet up in the air!”

I pin my wings and fly with the thermals, scattering a flock of startled pigeons wheeling over the crowded marketplace.

“We’re almost there,” I tell him.

Athenos is the biggest city in the region, the capital, and the hub of trade, government, royalty, academics and crime. This is where Alyx and I cut our teeth, joining up with a gang. I know a healer here who specializes in treating members of the Thieves Guild, who can do their job and keep their mouth shut… but can they be trusted to keep the secret of a phoenix?

I don’t know. But right now, I don’t have any other choice.

TO BE CONTINUED…

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