“I had it made for you. And in the spirit of ‘no secrets,’yes,it is meant to look like your eyes.” He’d designed it himself with stones mined in Kabuvirib. A small blue sapphire sat in the center surrounded by a haloof peridot chips.
He slipped the ring onto her finger, then climbed over her, sliding a leg between hers to nudge them apart as their mouths came together again.
“I love you,m’ekina,” she murmured, tangling her hands in his hair.
He grinned at her use of the Old Tongue. “I love you too,kalalitani.”He kissed the corner of her mouth, the point of chin, the hollow of her neck.
She mewed, arching against him as her hands roamed his body, grasping anywhere and everywhere she could reach, as if she couldn’t get enough of him.
Kas understood the feeling. He pulled one of her breasts into his mouth, swirling his tongue around her nipple as he lazily walked his fingers down her abdomen.My future wife.
The thought was his undoing, and Kas scrambled down her body, lowering his mouth to her slick center before she could even gasp in surprise. He lapped at her, licked, sucked, and teased. She was the most delicious thing he’d ever tasted, and her little wiggles and whimpers of pleasure reassured him he was on the right track.
It wasn’t long before she moaned his name and her thighs tensed around his ears. He pulled back, earning himself a grumpy little buck in response. But he wasn’t done yet, they were just getting started.
Kas tutted at Nesrina, scolding her snappishness as he sent a torrid current of air to meet the flushed, swollen skin he’d abandoned. She pushed into it.
“Oh! Oh?”
He split his magic in two, leaving one spiral to work her sensitive bud while another cord coasted south, pulsing against her entrance. He liked watching himself work but glanced up to ensure she was enjoying his ministrations.
In ecstasy her eyes fluttered open, as if she’d felt his gaze upon her. Nes nodded, shaky with desire.
“I want to watch you come for me.” His voice was rough with need.
She tipped her head back in bliss as her body constricted around his magic, hot, tight, and textured. Kas worked her steadily, and she rose higherand higher, panting and squirming until she stilled with a shaky breath, then peaked.
His name was a sigh from her lips as she came back down, her shudders returning to stillness. He crawled over her and nuzzled into her neck, inhaling her, and whispering how much he loved her.
“I love you too, so much. So, so much.” She dug her fingernails into his back.
He moaned at the feel of her, at the rightness of it all.
“I’ve never done this before,” Nesrina whispered, suddenly shy. “I’ve only read about it, but...” she trailed off, blushing prettily.
Kas wanted to make a quip about books and boats, but it certainly wasn’t the time. Instead, he admitted, “It’s my first time too.”
“Really?”
“Truly. We’ll figure it out together.”
That earned him a laugh, and a squeeze on the rear. One of her palms gripped his bicep as her free hand wrapped around his erection, guiding it to where she wanted him to be. He moaned.
“Eth ye de mi,Nes. I am yours,” he whispered as his tip pressed against her slick heat.
“Eth ye de mi,” she replied with conviction.
Overwhelming love coursed through Kas, filling him to the point of bursting. He could only assume Nesrina felt the same, based on the way she cried out his name as he sank home.
The act itself was... not as easy as he’d imagined, and it turned out it was quite difficult to come when learning to use muscles in a new manner. But she finished, loudly, then wrapped her lips around his length while he sent out three cords of air: two to massage his aching thighs and one to work her clit while she sucked him to completion.
“Next time,” Nes whispered, snuggling up under his arm, “we’ll get the hang of it.”
“I think we’ll have to practice a lot. It’s the only way to improve.”
“I wholeheartedly agree.”
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