CHAPTER FORTY-EIGHT（Untitled）Naomi

CHAPTER FORTY-EIGHT

Naomi

When morning comes, I give a delighted stretch, body aching in all the best ways. Wranth’s knot filled me for most of the night, locking us so tightly together that I sleepily teased him it was our new tether. My core clenches, and I feel the ghost of it in me. I’ve never felt so full, so completely satisfied.

We talked late into the night, making plans for our future. There are still lots of things to iron out, but for now we agree that we both want to live in Moon Blade Village and make this cottage our home.

And I know just what I want to do our first official morning together here in our new bedroom.

Wranth stirs against me, spooning my back, and I slide forward so I can roll over to face him. Then I dive under the furs.

My hands find his morning erection, fingers playing over the piercings that line the underside. He groans as I replace them with my tongue, teasing his length before sucking the fat head into my mouth and hollowing my cheeks.

Orc seed, sweet and creamy, coats my tongue, and I moan. How delicious! Like caramel sauce.

The furs fly off of me in a burst of light and cool air. Wranth watches me suck his cock, his eyes so intense it makes me shiver.

“Goddess, you’re beautiful,” he growls.

I grin around his girth and take him deeper, stuffing my mouth full of his glorious cock. My hands wrap around the base and stroke. More and more of his delicious come fills my mouth, making my clit tingle with desire. I straddle his leg, bearing down so his knee grinds against me exactly where I need.

My hips undulate, moving faster and faster. God, it’s so hot to see him like this, his whole body straining as I suck on him.

Wranth groans, his hands fisting in the furs as his hips lift to meet my mouth. “My bride, I’m close.”

I speed up, sucking so hard it hollows my cheeks.

With a shout, he comes, orc seed filling my throat. I swallow as much as I can, but it pours out the side of my mouth to splash all over my hands.

The added aphrodisiac sends a jolt of lightning through me, and I grind harder against his knee. I come, my mouth releasing his cock as I cry out.

Huge hands gather me into his arms. Wranth kisses me hard and deep. “My beautiful, amazing bride.”

An hour later, after cleaning up and grabbing some breakfast, we return to the teleportation stone.

Zephyr, Shadow, and Aldronn wait for us, packed and ready to go.

“Brokk and Garint haven’t returned,” Aldronn says.

“I’m so sorry.” I grimace. “I assume they’re somewhere on Earth, but I don’t know why they didn’t find us like Shadow and Zephyr did.”

“They went through the door the second it opened,” Wranth says. “Perhaps it was more erratic at first and flung them farther away?”

“Maybe?” I spread my hands wide. “It did seem extra violent, probably because I opened all the doors of Faerie when I opened that one. Maybe Lukendrevener knows?”

“The dragon has not returned either,” Aldronn says, his voice carefully flat. I get the feeling he’s as upset about the abandonment as Wranth—he’s just better at hiding it.

“Damned dragon,” Wranth snarls. “Let’s get everyone back to Moon Blade Village. I asked Dravarr to call another meeting.”

I ferry all of us to the cleaning stone clearing outside the village, bringing the door crystals along. Everyone waits for us in a repeat of the previous day’s meeting. I pop in and out, moving quickly, these in-realm teleportations easy with the help of the red crystals. In only a few minutes, we’re all there.

Shadow hurries over to Mist and drops his door crystal at her feet. “We have a way to Ketalia!” They rub cheeks, their happy purrs filling the clearing.

Zephyr joins the other unicorns and sets her crystal on the ground. “And the unicorns now have a way to the home plains of Umbria!” One of the black ones pokes their head into the wavering shimmer of the door, then pulls it out when Zephyr bats them with her horn. “Not yet, Dash. You pookas! Always so impatient.”

“Yes, let’s get this meeting started,” Sheevora booms. “You have done it, human witch. You have reopened the doors of Faerie.”

“I have,” I say, holding out the appropriate crystal. “Here is the door to Dularia.”

“Lukendrevener abandoned us and remained in Dularia,” Wranth growls, “leaving before our task was done.”

“He did so at my command.”

“We needed his help! The sluagh attacked! My bride was in danger.”

“I am sorry to hear it, but I can also see you are well.” She tips her huge head, spearing us with one amber eye. “I did not send him on his quest as a frippery. He will find allies against this Dark God.”

Wranth grunts.

I turn to Ashley and waggle Earth’s door crystal in the air. “We have a way to reach Earth now!”

“That’s wonderful!” Her face lights up, and she throws her arms around me in a really big hug. Ashley gives great hugs.

“Which leaves only Avalon.” Aldronn looks at Wranth. “What would you like to do with it?”

“Moon Blade Village has enough of a target on it with the sluagh, kelpies, and ogres already attacking it once,” Wranth growls. “I would not want to bring more trouble to them.”

“I agree.” Dravarr says. “We have many good fighters, but I’m not sure I want my village to face battle on two different fronts.”

“What if I keep it?” Aldronn says. “My guard takes turns standing watch each night. There would always be someone alert and ready to give warning if any of these dark fae come through, and my guards are all well-trained fighters.”

“How will you get word to the rest of us?” Sheevora asks.

“I would like to have a cat sith assigned to me,” Aldronn says. “They could walk the shadow roads and quickly bring the news.”

Mist grins. “We can do that.”

“ I will do that,” Shadow says.

“I would have a cu sith fighter with you as well,” Rune says. “I offer myself.”

“I would appreciate your strong teeth and claws.”

The black wolf shifts into a seven-foot tall werewolf, who stands upright. He’s covered in fur, his human-like hands and feet clawed, and his face halfway between a wolf and a human’s. “And you will teach me how to fight in my dual form. The balance is completely different than being on all fours.”

“Yes!” Shadow shifts beside him, becoming a werepanther. “I will practice fighting like this as well.”

Aldronn nods.

Drake and Bella shift next, first into fae, with pale skin and dark-green and bright-purple hair, respectively. They’re naked and built like teenagers, even though Ashley told me both of them are way older than me.

“Drake, buddy.” The redhead covers her eyes with her hand. “I do not need to see that.”

A laugh bursts from me. “Just be glad he’s not in his dual form. You’d really be getting an eyeful.”

When Ashley shoots me a puzzled glance, I hold up two fingers and point at my groin.

Her mortified groan makes me laugh even harder.

“Change back to dragon form,” Sheevora booms. “Now that the doors of Faerie are open, we’ll need to procure clothing before we can travel the realms in fae form.”

Something strikes me, and I snap my fingers. “So I opened all the doors of Faerie. Doesn’t that mean exactly what it says? All of them? Why are we acting like these are the only five doors?”

“When the doors slammed closed three-hundred years ago, Alarria was a lost realm, hidden at the heart of Faerie,” Sheevora says. “No one knew of any doors leading to it from any of the other realms, which means we also don’t know where any of the original doors are located here—or even if there are any. Your doorways are our only sure means of travel to and from Alarria.

“But what you say is true. Once we’re in the other realms, we can use any of their known doors to travel from realm to realm.”

“Does that mean Avalon is open to everywhere once again?” Wranth asks.

“It does,” the dragon says. “We will have to see if the Dark God notices and what his response will be. I foresaw this difficulty. It’s why I sent Lukendrevener to fetch the other dragons.”

“Oh, god.” Ice clutches my heart. “Avalon connects to Earth, too, right?”

I might have brought magic back to Earth, but no one there knows how to use it yet. How are they supposed to fight off dark fae?