Page 147 of Fated or Knot

“An interlude, then.”

“Aye. Kiss me,”he demanded.

I straightened, and he lifted me from under my thighs to meet my mouth with his. He drew me close to carry me into the sea while our tongues tangled. His length still brushed past my pussy, so close to where I ached to have him. He rubbed back and forth against me while I soaked him with my slick. I trembled from the extra sensations along our bond, fairly sure our pleasures would combine when he finally slid inside me.

Water rushed between us, and he let me go abruptly to be washed back into the open water. My gills reopened without trouble this time. I bobbed to the surface a few yards away from the hole in the cliffside, where Marius had found a seat on a relatively flat section and balanced his body braced against the waves.

“Come get me, sea spirit,”he thought, watching me swim toward him with a flash of his fangs.“‘Our vessel may be wrecked, but we will survive together. You’ve helped me understand the error of my ways, for to brave the tides alone is to perish.’”

“What?”I giggled. A wave picked me up and shoved me toward him the rest of the way. He caught my arms and held himself in place by digging his heels into the cliff underwater.

“Tides of Treason. Your favorite part,” he said out loud confidently. He also shifted to the edge of his seat and spread his legs so I could settle between them.

I licked the underside of his cock, tasting seawater and just a hint of minty musk.“When did you have time to readTides of Treason?”I asked in disbelief. Last we’d discussed it had been at the end of the train ride to Serian, and he hadn’t picked it up yet. Yet the shipwreck scene was toward the end.

“Shh. You’re thinking too hard.”

Oh, the absolute irony of him saying that to me. He rolled his eyes and braced against the next wave with his heels and hands, while I rested my palms on the rock underneath him. My face crushed against his groin, but I took a moment to kiss his alpha mark and shivered when I felt an echo of how that felt for him, like a zing of awareness all over.

This may not have been my best idea, but I was going to give my kelpie some relief even if the water added an extra challenge. I resumed licking his cock, this time reaching past him to hold on to the back of the shelf of rock where he sat. I hollowed out my cheeks to suck on him, rewarded by a taste of mint, waterlily, and musk as his crown wept on my tongue and my pussy tingled in sympathy.

“Where was I?”he asked, nearly playful, even though his head was thrown back and his mouth hanging open.“Ah, yes. ‘To brave the tides alone is to perish. And I intend not to die today, nor tomorrow, for that matter.’”

“‘Especially not without knowing the feel of your lips on mine,’”I supplied for him. Itwasmy favorite part. I’d reread it so many times that I had it memorized.

The water picked up again, and this time, the wave did exactly what I expected it to. Marius braced, and so did I, but in a different way, as the sea picked me up and shoved me into him. Which, in turn, pushed his cock all the way into my mouth, to the root. I breathed through my gills and gave thanks to the stars that I didn’t have a gag reflex with them open. The one making a choking noise was my male as he tensed all over from having his entire length squeezed in my mouth and throat.

“Foc,” he groaned. Oh yes,focindeed, because my inner walls clenched hard on nothing to mirror him.

The base of his cock throbbed with his heartbeat against my lips. Now I just waited for the next wave to pick me up and push me back down on his length again and sucked on him in the meantime.

“‘The captain took her hand in his and tugged her close,’”I recited, since it seemed he was too overcome with pleasure to continue quoting the book.

The water tugged me away from him but too far, and he scrambled to catch me before my mouth left his cock completely. With his help, I sheathed him completely again as the wave passed us. “I can see…stars…” he said between gasping breaths. I trembled in sympathy, not faring much better.

“‘He could see the stars sparkling in her eyes as they leaned in at the same time,’”he said in my mind, far more composed.

“‘Finally, you appreciate that we’re better together,’”I said for the female’s part of the scene.

“‘He realized she’d been waiting years to hear him admit to such a thing. He’d been a fool not to see how much she cared for him.’”

He caught me again and stroked my hair once the wave passed. His breathing was coming shorter, emerging from between his fangs half pant, half growl as his eyes practically glowed in the dim, final rays of sunshine.

“‘Better? Nay, I dare say you make me the best I can be. As flawed a male as I am.’”

In the meantime, I rode the next wave and felt his knot start to inflate. It was maybe an extra inch around, only testing my jaw a little. Any larger, and it wouldn’t fit in my mouth anymore. I hope I didn’t hurt him when the next flow of the sea forced my lips against his knot.

“And he—fuck, hold on.”

“I don’t think that’s the next line,”I teased.

The sea tugged me away from him, and this time, he clung to me with both hands. He spilled his seed even as the wave rushed to push me back down on his cock. My eyes rolled back as the bond slammed me with his pleasure. I purred from the taste of him, even though it was greatly abbreviated. He drew his legs up and fell right off his perch, hitting the sea with a splash.

“Marius!”I exclaimed, diving after him. The essence lamp followed me underwater belatedly, illuminating the sea below us.

He’d landed in a cradle of rock a couple yards below the waterline, expression dazed but starting to crease with amusement. His beast was already laughing in the back of my head, deep and rich. Stars, name a better sound.

“I’m fine. Just can’t feel my legs,”he chuckled. He held his arms out for me, and I slipped into his embrace. Instead of letting me tug him back to the surface, he flatted my wing-fins to my back and held me. The waves rocked us gently with the lip of rock protecting us from any stronger currents.

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