Marie Harte - Aftershocks

“You want to know how good you feel to me, let me show you. Let me love you, Ellie. Let me in.” He penetrated her anus and slid deeper, pushing painfully past her sphincter. Then he was in and sliding home.

“Cadmus,” she gasped, feeling so full, so stretched.

“Yeah, baby,” he rasped, pulling out only to push back in. “You’re so tight, Ellie. So perfect.” He rocked against her, increasing his thrusts. “So mine. ”

He stimulated her clit with magic while riding her ass, making her feel naughty and excited all at once. The things he thought about doing to her had her so wet that his finger slid easily into her vagina while he took her ass.

Her mouth over his cock, her pussy under his lips. Coming on her breasts, over and in her ass, up into her pussy. Over and over, until they were one writhing mass of sensation.

“You are…such a…perv,” she managed, closing on an orgasm so intense she wanted to scream. He pumped her a few times with his fingers before removing them. Then he braced his hands on her hips and rode her hard.

“Go ahead and yell, Ellie.” His balls slapped against her folds as he rammed into her. “I’m going to.” He shoved again and came, filling her to overflowing.

As his milky seed slid down her legs, he shifted his mental touch over her clit. She came violently, squeezing him as she clenched her cheeks together, wanting the feeling to never end.

“That, Ellie,” he gasped, “that never-ending feeling of joy. That’s what you are to me. Love is far too tame a word to describe what I feel for you.”

Stunned at his words and his loving, Ellie could only kneel and pulse around him, emotionally connected in a way she had never been before.

“Do you really mean that? You’re okay with all this?” She hated to ask, but she couldn’t take another heartbreak.

“Okay with this?” He pressed harder, and over her shoulder, she saw him grinning ear to ear. “Honey, every time I’m near you I want to come. What do you think?”

“Not this .” She blushed and moved to separate from him.

“Not yet. Mmm.” He rotated his pelvis, and a flare of heat stole through her core. “By the Light, I love your ass.”

She felt foolish. “I can’t talk to you in this position. I need to see you.”

He pulled out, and as much as she wanted to see him, she missed him inside of her.

She turned around faced him. “I’m Djinn, and the Djinn have done some pretty bad things to your family.”

“Jonas saved my life, not once, but twice. He saved my brothers too. Your father provided sanctuary when needed. I’m not so big a fool I can’t differentiate one Djinn from another.” He flushed and stroked her cheek. “I was an idiot when I left you before. But, Ellie, understand. I was in shock. I’d fallen so hard for you, only to learn you weren’t who I’d originally thought. Up to that point, all I knew of the Djinn is what my family had suffered.”

She looked down, feeling his pain like her own. He lifted her chin and met her gaze.

“Ellie, that was all before.” He turned on the high-wattage smile, causing that small dimple in his left cheek to flash.

She blinked. “Are you trying to charm me into believing you?”

“Why, is it working?” He looked hopeful, his eyes twinkling. “I love you, Ellie. All of you. The human, the Djinn, even the little perv who likes what I do to her body.”

She laughed and knocked him back to the floor, gliding over his sweat-slicked body. “It’s about time you admitted it.”

“What? That you’re a perv?” He snickered, and she rubbed her knee perilously close to his groin. “I give, I give. I love you, Ellie. All of you. And I think you know what that means.” He gave her a knowing stare that had her pulse racing. “ Affai” whispered in her mind.

“That you no longer need an affai since you’ve got me?”

“It’s a good thing you’re pretty, because you sure are dense.”

She smacked him, and he pinned her arms between them, capturing her mouth in a loving kiss.

“You’re my affai , Ellie. My love.”

She couldn’t speak. The dreams she’d had, of one day finding someone to love and who’d love her had seemingly come true. Chaos blazed through her mind, her Dark magic pulsing as joy and anxiety coursed through her soul. She wanted to believe in a future with Cadmus so badly. But she was only just now coming to know herself. Could she be what Cadmus truly needed?

At her silence, Cadmus tensed and cupped her cheek. “I know it’s a lot to take in, especially considering you didn’t want anything to do with magic and the Djinn for so long. This is a lot to handle, and as much as I wish I could just work on us, I can’t yet. I have a responsibility to my people that I can’t walk away from.” His speech quickened the longer she said nothing. “I know what you’re thinking. I swear, though, on my soul, that in my heart you’ll always come first. But, Ellie, it’s just that the situation in Tanselm is so precarious now. Look, you’ll have plenty to do there. You’re needed, more than you can possibly know. And I don’t just mean by me. With your help, we can mend the bridge between Dark and Light, we can—”

“Shut up, already. Geesh, you confess to loving me and then you run off at the mouth. I get it, Cadmus.” He visibly relaxed, while inwardly her nerves flared. “As your affai , I’ll live in Tanselm with you. I can do that.” She swallowed around a dry throat. Talk about change. Moving to Tanselm wouldn’t be like moving to another state. Try another plane of existence.

But Ellie had always prided herself on her ability to adapt. Despite a host of flaws, she’d never lacked the courage to do what was right. She’d run from her destiny long enough. The time had come to embrace her Djinn heritage and her future with her soon-to-be husband.

“That’s it?” His eyes glinted with humour. “I don’t have to beg you with jewels or promises of vast power? You’re going to simply accept my life as your own?”

“Now, now, Prince Cadmus. Don’t get ahead of yourself. We’re not married yet. You still have some courting to make up for, and I like flowers and chocolates. Jewellery, not so much.” She relaxed, knowing she’d made the right decision. Foreia, for that matter, was practically pushing her into a delirium of happiness. “Have I mentioned yet how pissed off my father is going to be about this?”

He laughed. “Just icing on the cake, baby. Not that I’ve got anything against your people…exactly. Well, not much of a grudge. Nothing too serious.”

“What happened that you aren’t telling me?”

“Which time?”

She squeezed the nearest appendage she could find, and he moaned.

“I don’t know how you do it. I’m totally wrung out, yet my body wants in you again, right now. At this rate, we’ll have little princes in a year.”

At his mention of children, she froze.

“Ellie?” He sobered. “It’s okay, honey. I was joking.”

“We haven’t used any protection.” She sat up and put a hand over her belly, not sure how she felt about thoughts of his child inside her. Scared and excited, nervous yet exhilarated.

“Not yet, baby. Trust me, when it happens, you’ll know.”

“And our differences won’t matter, you being a Light Bringer and me being a Djinn? I mean, physically?”

He frowned. “Not that I know of. Aerolus married Alandra. Both Marcus and Darius married women from your world, or should I say, from one of your worlds.”

“It’s not that I don’t want kids,” she said quickly, realising how he might take her comments. “It’s just that—”

“It’s too soon, especially on top of everything that’s happening. I understand, Ellie, I do.” He kissed her, soothing her. “Now let’s get dressed before Jonas tries to pop in here again.”