17. Chapter Seventeen

Chapter Seventeen

K rull

I’ve watched several of my firefighter friends fall head over heels for their human women. I never said a word out loud, but secretly harbored jealousy in my heart. Who wouldn’t go to the ends of the Earth to find love like they’ve found? Is it possible I’ve stumbled into such a profound connection, even during the hell Mother Nature just threw at us?

“Can I carry you to my bed, Mara? Pleasure you with my mouth? Make you come until you scream my name?”

“Uh, about that…” She looks almost as unsure as when she was about to leap off that fire escape. Maybe not unsure. Sheepish. “I kinda… lied. Not that I wouldn’t love a replay of last night. Your mouth on me was amazing. But I am on the pill. I just didn’t want you to know. Didn’t want either of us to be tempted to go farther than what I felt comfortable with. ”

“Smart. We were already in an earthquake and a flood. You didn’t want to set the sheets on fire too, right?”

The smile she beams at me is bright and happy because my joke let her know I’m not mad at her for protecting herself. She barely knew me. Of course she wanted to erect some boundaries. It just makes me feel more pleased that she’s sharing herself with me now.

“So now anything goes?” I pause for her answer, because the moment she says yes, I know just how I want to proceed.

“I still don’t like pain.”

“Then it’s a good thing I have only pleasure in mind.”

With that, I scoop her up and dance with her, turning a few circles in the small living room before I cross the threshold to my bedroom. My spirits are higher than they’ve ever been.

“What? No ice tonight?”

“We’ll reserve ice to punctuate acts of God, except for special requests. Is that what you’re in the mood for?”

“Uh, no,” she stammers, but doesn’t elaborate. “I was thinking of something a bit… warmer.”

“Yes, ma’am.” I set her down gently on the edge of my mattress.

Desire flares in her eyes as she looks me up and down. I slowly lift the t-shirt I gave her to sleep in while our clothes were in the wash. Seeing her makes my cock twitch. I’ll need all my willpower to go as slow as I’d planned .

“Much better. Now I get to see my beautiful female.”

When she pats the space next to her, I can’t control my urge to purr.

“That purr is a secret they don’t mention on the Internet.”

“Male orcs purr for their m— females. Does it calm you, Mara?”

“It must have a paradoxical effect on humans, Krull. I’m the opposite of calm. You might even call me aroused .”

“By the look of things, and the scent…” I breathe in deeply through my nose, then give her a gaze so blazing hot I imagine it tells her just how deeply her scent affects me. “I don’t think you’re nearly frenzied enough for us to proceed.”

I draw the pad of one finger up her calf, along the inside of her thigh, and then detour the moment she sucks in a sharp breath and tries to thrust herself into my hand.

A moment later, she regains her self-control and reaches for my waistband. “I want to see you too.”

“Just you wait,” I growl and reach into the bedside table, pulling out a bottle of coconut-scented lotion I use to stroke myself. Tonight, though, I’ll use it on Mara.

“You were certainly in a frenzy this morning,” she says with a naughty smile, looking very pleased with herself.

“Right. What happened this morning is on you, little human, attacking a male when he’s still half asleep. I won’t scold you hard, though—your mouth is too talented. Tonight, Mara, I want to take my time. ”

Her arousal scent bursts at the thought.

“You’re a tease.” Her voice is full of impatient accusation, but between the heat in her eyes and the lovely smell of her need, I’m pretty sure she won’t complain if I edge her for hours.

“Get on your stomach.”

She flips over without a second’s hesitation, an eager smile on her face.

With firm but gentle hands, I knead each aching muscle in her calves, then thighs. Her moans spur me on to work even slower, if that were possible. A patchwork quilt of goosebumps trails in my wake as I inhale her delectable coconut scent.

“Mmmm…” she purrs as I knead her inner thighs and hips. “You missed a spot.” She spreads her thighs for me.

My only response is a dismissive snort, though my cock is pressing uncomfortably against my zipper.

“I already warned you I’m going slow. I’m going to ramp you up until you’re mewling like a kitten.”

She turns her head to gaze at me, a sly smile lifting the corners of her lips. “I defer to you. As you like to remind me, you’re in charge of whatever happens on the mattress.”

“Smart female. Tell me in a couple of hours if you aren’t happy with the results, although no guarantees are implied or intended.”

I wrench her legs open and kiss and nip and lick her cheeks. My goal is to keep her in a heightened state of arousal so she can relax and enjoy this. When I edge closer to her puckered hole, she tries to slam her legs closed, but I’m five steps ahead of her and keep her thighs pried open.

“I’ll stop if you want. Just say the word. Orc’s saliva has antiseptic properties so we’re immune to human germs. But I think you’ll like it if you just relax and allow it to feel good.”

She pauses so long; I decide there are other places on her delectable body I’d like to lick. Just when I’m about to flip her over, she says, “Go ahead.”

I purr as I lick inches from her hole, then ease close to rim her with the tip of my tongue. Her body stiffens, but she doesn’t protest. She clutches the sheets as I slip my tongue inside her tight entrance, dipping only the tip in before pulling out.

“No? Or more?” When I lean to the side to see her, I can’t read her face at all.

“Oh, my,” she gasps. “I never… but… it’s so…”

“Interesting? Good.” I slick my finger with the oil, then mimic the act with that. She’s silent and motionless as I slowly work in and out. Pride races through me when she wiggles, pressing up to meet my little thrusts.

“So brave. Trust your orc and get rewarded.”

Leaning close, I ease back into her with my tongue. Orc tongues are thicker, longer than humans, and I love being allowed this intimacy.

I pull out long enough to say, “Perfect,” before I enter her again, going deeper than before. She rewards me with a satisfied moan.

Thrusting in a slow and steady rhythm, I grip her hips and show her all the love I have to give with deeds instead of words .

“Krull!” Her fingernails dig into the covers.

“The more you relax, the more pleasure you’ll receive,” I whisper.

My free hand finds her wet core, slick with need for me. I trace lazy circles around her other entrance as my tongue delves once again into her back hole.

She arches into my touch and then she relaxes, trusting me to take us both where we need to bet.

“Now, this is the Mara I know and love,” I growl as I take a break to gently nip first one cheek, then another. “Eager. Trusting.”

We establish a rhythm, my tongue and finger in and out in time with her hips bucking upward, her cries of pleasure music to my pointed ears.

“Don’t stop, don’t you dare stop,” she moans as I push both my tongue and finger as far as I can go.

Then I begin to suckle on her puckered hole as I pound two fingers into her drenched core. Her body arches, hands fisting the sheets as her spine bows. I keep my rhythm going as I watch her back, sheened with sweat. I can see her muscles, tightening, coiling, readying for release until she screams something garbled, though I think it’s my name.

My cock is weeping fluid. I rub myself against the sheets, unable to just lie here and watch as my woman reaches the pinnacle of bliss, her muscles spasming in pleasure, both her holes clutching me—my tongue and fingers. She goes limp but manages to twist her head to look at me.

“No words, Krull. ”

“That’s okay.” I rub her ass with my palm, not to arouse, but to help her spiral back to Earth. “I have plenty of words for you, Mara. Beautiful, perfect, and your favorites: good girl. You’re so good to try new things with me.”

I nip one cheek, then the other, and add, “ Almay introch alt belrain, una trin . And you’re all mine.”

She looks up at me with lust-glazed eyes and nods. “Yours, Krull. All of me is yours.”