26. CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX

CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX

ENDER

Why didn't any of my futures look like the one I'm currently in?

Sera mumbles in her sleep, turning over in my arms as she wakes up.

"Because that was one of the lessons you were supposed to learn."

"Go back to sleep."

"I can't—you're thinking too loud."

"Sorry. It's hard not to."

"Yeah, I get it. If I wasn't so worn out from time traveling—weirdest thing I've ever said—then I would be overthinking, too. Give it a rest for the night, though, yeah?"

"Fine," I lie, and Sera bites me.

Fucking bites me.

"Ouch, hey!"

"Oops," she giggles, tossing my words back at me once again.

Seriously, when am I going to learn?

"Knock it off, or else I'm going to bite you!"

"Promise?"

"Gods, I love you, you little brat."

"And I love you, but since I'm up and you're not going to stop thinking, what do we do now?"

"Clean up the realm. I evacuated almost all the creatures native to The Veil. I'll have to restore the land and then bring them back—"

"You mean we'll have to restore that land and bring them back? Can't you just, I don't know, magic everything right? We do have magic, don't we?"

"Not so much magic as power, and it's literally derived from the land. I don't want to take anything more from it until it's fully healed."

"And yet you keep dressing me up like your personal Barbie doll."

"I like dressing you up."

"Why?"

"So I can take it off later."

She laughs, the carefree sound wrapping around my heart.

Sera rolls over until she's on top of me, and I harden instantly.

"I thought you wanted us to go to sleep?"

"I've changed my mind. Now I want something else—and it's not for you to tease me!"

Tugging her down, I kiss her petal-soft lips, reveling in the silky feel of them against my beak.

My mind tumbles back in time when she wrapped them around my length, and my quorvim jerks at the memory.

Sera ends the kiss and takes my hand.

"Come with me."

"Literally or figuratively?"

"Har har, let's go!"

She leads me outside, the night air cooler than before, but the world around us is finally stable.

"It's so beautiful here. I love it. Let's take a night flight."

I want to argue as my mate's had a trying day, but there's no point.

"There's not," she laughs, and I shake my head, following her lead.

She stretches her wings and then gives a mighty flap.

I'm reminded of when she first was learning and could barely get off the ground.

Now she launches into the air like a rocket, swooping around in delight.

Flying is one of my favorite things in all the worlds, and I'm so glad it's something we can do together.

"And that's not alllllll," she sings, some distance from me.

Before I can ask, she's tumbling into my arms, and I have to focus so that we both don't plummet from the sky.

"Seraphina!" I hiss, and she giggles.

Fucking giggles.

"Oops."

"Such a brat. Why did you do—"

My words cut off when her thoughts flood my brain.

Oh fuck.

"You're so naughty," I moan as her wings stroke over mine.

"What's the use of flying if I can't join the Mile High Club?"

"The what?"

"Never mind. Kiss me, Ender."

My mate doesn't have to tell me twice.

I twirl her long hair around my fist and yank her forward until her mouth crashes over mine.

She whimpers as our tongues lash out against each other.

Sera wraps her legs around my waist, and I break our kiss to hoist her up.

Thank the gods she's dressed in a nightie.

I push it up past her hips until her pussy is exposed.

The scent of her arousal makes my mouth water, and I lick at the wetness already coating her thighs.

"Mine," I snarl.

"Yours," she agrees, canting her hips forward.

My beak runs along the seam of her sex, and I flick my tongue out for another taste.

Perfection.

Next, I nibble at her clit, knowing she loves the slight bite of pain.

Her legs clamp together at the contact, and I force them apart as I continue to devour her.

When I know she's close, I press a claw against her clit before plunging my beak deep into her pussy.

I fuck her fast and hard until she's writhing and covering me in her sweet nectar as she comes.

"You…let…me…come," she finally manages to pant.

"I thought you didn't want me to tease—because I can—"

"NO! No, thanks. Don't tease me. Please just fuck me with your cock."

Her words nearly make me fumble my little elfling.

I struggle to open my pants, and she laughs, pushing my hands aside to do it herself.

She fists my quorvim, and I groan at the sensation of her tiny fingers wrapped around me.

Sera strokes me up and down until I can't take it any longer.

Lifting her up once more, I notch the tip of my length at her drenched entrance.

"Fuck, you're so wet," I grit, trying to go nice and slow.

"I don't like it nice and slow," she snarks, and I smack the side of her ass.

"Be patient!"

My mate lunges forward, sucking and biting at my collarbone.

"In what realm would you attribute the word ‘patient' to me?"

"None," I admit. "Hold on."

It's the only warning I give before I slam all the way inside of her.

I pause as both of us moan at the utter completion of me inside of her.

This is my home.

Sera laughs.

"Really, Ender? My pussy is your home? Guess they got it wrong when they said ‘home is where the heart is'. Apparently, it's ‘home is where the pus—"

She cuts off when I pull back and slam into her hard, just how she likes it.

"Huh, I guess the best way to shut you up is like this."

Another punished thrust punctuates my words. Sera gasps in outrage but doesn't argue.

Can't.

Because I know how much she loves this.

Almost as much as I do.

Slip and my mate's arousal drip down her thighs as I jog Sera up and down my quorvim.

I grip her hips so hard, I know that it will leave marks.

She thrills at this thought, and a dark part of me does, too.

It wants to mark our mate so the world knows that she's all mine.

Instead of being turned off by my possessiveness, Sera grows even wetter.

"I'm so close, please," she begs in a breathy voice that sends shivers across my feathers.

"Are you going to come all over my quorvim?"

"Yes!"

"Are you going to let me paint your pussy with my cum?"

"Oh fuck, Ender, I'm—"

Sera stiffens in my arms, and then she splinters into a million perfect pieces as she tips over into another explosive orgasm.

Her pussy squeezes my length, and it only takes a few more erratic thrusts before I'm emptying myself deep inside of her.

"Holy shit, that was amazing," Sera groans as I fly us back to my bedroom.

I go directly to the bathroom so that we can clean up and soothe our aching muscles in the veil water.

Afterward, I tuck us back into bed, my wings instantly wrapping around my mate.

"Sweet dreams, Ender," Sera whispers in a sleepy voice.

"Sweet dreams, angel."

I smile at the human sentiment, but for the first time in forever, I actually sleep well.

My nightmares finally put to rest.