Page 70 of The Song of the Void

“—but I’m going to move so agonizingly slow, you’ll regret making me do all the work.”

“How very you, Zephra,” he chuckled. “Putting the man that loves you through such torturous pleasure.”

“Do you feel how wet you made me?” I grazed the head of his cock against me, palming my breasts with a coy grin.

“Mmhmm.” Somehow he kept his cool, though his eyes screamed that I’d better quit playing with him. To me, he seemed the type who wanted to command the pace, but no amount of teasing would make him wrest control away. He watched me hungrily, and just waited. Perhaps he was playing that ‘man in love’ game of pretend too well.

The heat of desire filling my veins ruined my plan to make him beg me for more. I sank onto his shaft until he was buried inside me, reveling in his soft groan. My hair fell like a curtain over my shoulder, pooling beside his head as I leaned over him to clutch at the grass beneath us.

“Oh, god…” I never called out to the god of the Humans, but now was as good a time as any. Reiven filled me completely. I had to pause while I acclimated to his size.

Reiven ran his hands up my trembling thighs, slow and gentle. One dark brow arched. “You’re already shaking for me, Blue?” It sounded like another tease, but the concern there was unmistakable. It lingered quietly in his eyes—the need to hear me say I was alright, that I wanted to keep going.

Yet another thing Reiven Miyasagi did that made my heart sing.

I gave him a smile. “You’re just that good, I guess.”

“Well then, take your time. I’m enjoying the view from down here.” He laughed and pulled me closer for a long, deliberate kiss while my body adjusted to accommodate his length. When I was ready, one gentle rotation of my hips made his eyes roll until he jerked his head back against the grass. “Fuck, you feel incredible.”

The pace I set was as steady and rhythmic as the waves lapping against the shore. Our gazes locked. He massaged my ass, giving me a heavenly smile that flooded me with a delicious ache. The filthy encouragement and praise he breathed just for me made me whimper his name.

“You’re taking it like such a good girl, aren’t you? Keep riding my cock just like that.” Reiven dragged his gaze down my body, as if he had reverently starved for months, and now could allow himself to devour the sweet poison he claimed to be deadly.

“R-Reiven,” I moaned, too blinded by ecstasy to challenge him. Heat pulsed and coiled in my core. My skin felt feverish, despite the cool ocean wind that played with my hair. Overwhelming, intoxicating sensations weakened me until I couldn’t move fast enough to keep up. I whined his name again.

“Fucking hell, you’re tight,” he groaned. “Are you going to come for me?”

“Take over, I-I can’t⁠—”

“‘Take over’ what?”

I was already gasping for air, but that made my jaw drop further. I was desperate. So fucking desperate that at first, I couldn’t put together what it was he wanted me to say. The answer hid in the dark glimmer of his eyes. A veiled desire to dominate, and a hunger to hear me ask for it.

“Take over. P-please, Reiven.”

He gripped my chin between his fingers and forced me to look right into his eyes. “If you look away from me or close your eyes, I’ll stop, understand? So eyes here.”

He’s going to make me look in his eyes the whole time? That’s so unfair. Cruel and unusual.

But the longer I thought about it, it only made the aching need inside me wind tighter. The scent of wood smoke, blown by the tropical breeze, enveloped me. Rei dug his fingers into my ass and hips, holding me in place. He slowly pushed himself deeper than I had taken him on my own, until the pressure and friction hit a point inside me that made me suck in a tremulous breath.

“Right—right there.”

That smug grin I’d come to love quirked his lips. “Right there?” With a strained groan, Reiven began pounding into me hard and fast to keep that white-hot sensation flooding through my core.

Everything intensified. Staring desperately into his eyes, completely at his mercy, I had to dig my nails into his shoulders to keep from falling apart. But soon, wave after wave of pleasure carried me away into an abyss of white sparks until the only word left etched on my tongue was his name. All that tightness and heat released in one exhilarating shatter that thundered throughout my body.

Somehow, I just knew. If I came apart at the seams, everything would be alright. Reiven would kiss every broken piece of me and painstakingly put me back together.

Warmth flooded inside me, and Reiven lay back, a contented grin spreading like honey across his face. Pulling me to lie on his chest, he closed his eyes. “Hmm. Seeing all the emotion in your eyes and how pretty you are when you come undone made all the edging worth it.”

I chuckled, and lifted off his chest to peer down at his face, flushed and satisfied. “Rei, was that us leaping into the void?”

He laughed. “Diving headfirst.”

“Well then, what do you see in that mysterious, hollow space?”

Rei pressed his lips together, staring beyond me up at the sky. A cool nighttime breeze harmonized between us in the silence, rustling the bushes and palms, disturbing the grass around us. Ocean waves melded with the wind, melodic and ethereal. Then there was my heart. Quickened, demanding thuds against my ribs that sang over the wind and waves.