He tried pulling out, but his knot stayed wedged inside me.
I gritted my teeth. I would just push through the discomfort. "Keep going."
Jaiyen watched my face carefully. "This hurts."
"Yes," I snapped. "I told you it hurt, I told you to go slow."
"I was," he said. "It's not my fault you're not stretching out like you should."
It felt like I'd been slapped. I blinked back tears, wanting him out of me now. I pushed at his hips and blinked through the tearing pain at my core.
"Zara, it's not...you're not..." He pulled but my opening wouldn't stretch around it, especially now that I wasn't nearly as wet as before.
"I'm going to try a quick pull," he said.
"Okay."
He pulled.
Searing pain lit me up, and I cried out.
The door burst open, and the attendant stepped inside. "Miss?"
"I'm fine," I said weakly. "We're fine."
"She's not loose enough and now I'm stuck," Jaiyen said crossly.
The attendant glanced over at the single lit candle and scurried back out.
I didn't know what one candle meant. Jaiyen's face was thunderous now, and I tried not to feel like a complete and utter failure.
How a new omega failed at sex, I didn't know. But that was apparently me.
Priestess Sabine came into the room, her face carefully blank. "What seems to be the problem?"
I wanted to crawl into a hole and die. I looked up at the ceiling, at all the stars in the sky.
"She's not stretching." Jaiyen held still, propped up on his hands.
"That's an easy fix." Sabine's voice was soothing. "Would you two like to work it out yourself, or have some lubrication?"
"We tried it ourselves," Jaiyen snapped. "We've been trying to have sex for a half hour now."
Shame made me turn my head. "I'm sorry. It just hurt."
"Of course it did." Sabine pulled a bottle of oil out of a small drawer.
She handed it to Jaiyen. "I'll give you two some privacy, but please call if you need anything else."
"Alright," Jaiyen said. Sabine left the room and he poured the lubricant between us, rubbing it all over his balls and my pussy.
It was warm, heated, enough to take my breath away. Jaiyen shuddered himself, and rocked himself against me.
It was shallow enough not to hurt too much.
"You want me to help?" I said, reaching for the oil.
He looked down at me, his gaze roving over my breasts and legs. "Yes, touch me." His voice was thick, powerful. His scent was so much stronger, covering me like a blanket.