Page 108 of Call of the Fathoms

Darkness fell upon the cave as night turned the room to silver, with the meager beams of moonlight coming from the hole at the top of the cave. And as he watched her rocking, finding her pleasure on him, he committed this moment to memory.

She was stunning with her dark hair still coiled in a braid, some strands coming out and loosening around her face. The silver moonlight barely showed much of her at all, just giving him an impression of flexing muscles where she braced herself on his stomach. Both of her biceps were strong, bulging with power as she moved. Her abs flexed, little mountains that he knew many other women didn’t have. Not like Alexia.

And then came the rain. Soft droplets even though he knew it would be a deluge outside of this cave. But the raindrops had to wind down through the small hole at the top of the cavern, dripping onto her body in little icy beads. Bumps rose on her flesh, a sign that she was cold.

Her face scrunched as it always did when she was close, and he knew now was his moment to join her. Fortis hesitated, though. Just one more moment as lightning turned the entire room into a bright white glow. She reached her peak without his help, her head thrown back and all her muscles tightening in an impressive display of strength and power.

“By the gods, you are beautiful,” he murmured as she slowly opened her eyes. “Beyond beautiful. A goddess who has taken flesh and blessed me with her presence.”

“Shut up and fuck me,” she said with a soft laugh. “You’re looking pretty good yourself, undine.”

He surged upright, shifting her forward so she could feel the pressure of his cocks between her legs. “Are you done waiting, virago?”

“I’ve been done waiting since the moment you realized you didn’t die.” She hooked her hand behind his neck and used that to pull herself closer.

She teased him on her knees, using her free hand to slide the tip of him through her folds. Back and forth, she made sure that he knew every texture and every sensation of her on his entire length before notching him and pushing down.

They both groaned as he slid into her, the feeling so sublime it was almost hard to breathe. Inside of her was home. It was everything that he’d been searching for for nearly twenty years until this moment with this woman resting on his lap, taking him deep inside of her body.

“Fuck,” she breathed, drawing the word out long and slow. “You feel so good.”

“Perfection, virago. Now move.”

“I don’t want to.”

A surprised laugh burst out of him, and then he palmed both of her hips. “You’ve had a trying day, dear one. Allow me.”

He lifted her up and down. Even though she was heavy with muscle, he could still show her how to move for the both of them. Slowly, he eased inside of her and then drew her back up. He wanted to feel every bit of her surrounding him before he lost his mind.

It was hard to breathe like this, though. He kept his pace deliberately slow, slower than it needed to be, as his breath sawed in and out of his lungs. His control was going to snap soon enough.

Alexia pulled upright herself, still clutching his neck and forcing him to lean back so he could support her. And then she dropped back down on his other cock. Hard. Hard enough that he slid right to the base and both of them groaned with the force of it. Then she lifted herself again and dropped back onto the other one.

Just like he’d done to her before. But this time it was her doing it. Her using all the weight of gravity and her own body to take him. Over and over again, she toyed with him. Teasing him as he had just teased her.

“Virago,” he breathed, trying his best to stay sane while she continued her rhythm. “Come for me.”

“You first.”

“Damn it, woman. Come for me!” he barked, and then she shattered.

He could feel her clenching around him, each muscle coiling around his cock until it was too much. He came, both of his cocks exploding at the same time. One inside of her and the other splattering the stone behind her as he yanked her close to him.

Fortis pressed his lips to the top of her head, holding her against his hearts as they both came down from a high that felt almost impossible to have reached with one of her kind. And yet, he had.

This woman was everything to him and more. And he hadn’t told her that before dying.

“I will never forgive myself for thinking I should die without telling you how marvelous you are. How much you changed my life and how dearly I would have regretted never telling you that you are the other half of my soul. I love you, virago. More than I thought possible.”

She pressed her lips to his chest, turning her head so that she was tucked beneath his chin. “I know you do, Fortis. I am obsessed with you. I hope you know that. I love you more than anything, and I don’t think I’ll ever regret giving up my life for you. The one we will make together will be so much better than any future I might have had otherwise.”

He liked that.

Leaning back on the stone, he stared up into the stormy sky and breathed out the last bit of tension that still existed within his heart. “A future,” he murmured. “I like that.”

Forty-Four

Alexia

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