15. NASH

The moment I had control over my hands and body again, I used it to work magic, not literal magic though, on Ara's cock. On my knees at the side of the bed, I pulled his shorts off and spread his legs to get full access to my reward. His cock bounced with a rhythm of its own, producing precum from the tip that threatened to dribble down his shaft.

Ara had laid on the bed, craning his head up slightly to watch me give him head.

Who needed food when I had all the nutrients I could possible ever require coming out of his cock?

I sucked until my ass repeated back the throbs of his cock, almost as if they were communicating with each other in morse code, and the translation to it would've been, fuck me .

"Baby," he said, reaching out to stick a finger under my chin. "I don't want to wear you out. Are you sure?"

This was mostly new to me, and the most I'd ever had sex with any one person ever before. "Lay back," I told him. "I'm going to show you my skills."

Skills I'd practiced with suctioned dildos on the back of hardcover books. It was a surprisingly good way at learning to ride cock without the mess of another person being all up in your guts. Even if that's the entire reason I needed Ara right now, was so he could make a mess inside me.

Fresh from my bath, I climbed my naked body on top of his. I sat on his abdomen and pushed his t-shirt up over his head and arms.

"Where do my hands go?" he asked, placing them on my knees. "If you're taking control, I want you to tell me what to do."

"Firstly, can you scooch yourself on the bed properly, head at the pillows," I said. "And then, I want your arms above your head. I don't want you to do anything."

Ara moved us with ease, dragging up half the sheet and comforter with him as we repositioned. "I don't get to touch you or anything?"

"You can, but only when I say," I told him. "Because you said I was in charge, right?"

"Well, you do possess enough power to control me," he whispered.

I chuckled. "You're funny." I tried to emulate the first time we fucked in his bed. I knew we weren't going to break this bed as I lacked the sheer strength that came from a vampire bearing down on you. I started at his neck, kissing and teasing his skin with my teeth. Pulling away occasionally as I worked my way down his torso, I view my handiwork of light blue love bite bruises already healing. "You like it?"

He nodded. "Any time you're touching me, I like it," he said, touching my face.

"Ah, your hands are supposed to be up there."

His hands went back above his head. "I'm sorry." A big smile on his face. "I won't do it again."

When I reached his cock, it was coated in precum. He had such little self-control in that department. It made me feel even more lucky. I got to lick it clean and watch his teeth sink into his lips as I touched the sensitive uncovered tip of his cock. From his tip, down his shaft, all the way to his balls, I sucked each one individually and listened to his moans.

The complete mind-altering urge to ride his dick from dusk ‘til dawn had vanished. I was here to take my time and experience all the pleasures his body had to offer. Each individual pleasure on each of my senses.

I mounted him, his cock bounced around the moment I was straddling his hips. I reached around to grab it and with all my slick, his cock slipped inside, thrust base deep as he hitched his knees up. It threw me on his chest.

"I couldn't help it," he said, wrapping his arms around me and fucking me with the motion of his hips. "You teased me too much."

Biting him turned him on more, coaxing moans and begging me to bite harder. I did, right up until I drew blood from his chest. His blood, cold to my lips sent an adrenaline fueled spark through me. I pulled out of his arms and leaned back, forcing his knees to go down.

"I'm on top," I told him.

"Ok." He wiped the blood from my chin. "I don't like being teased."

Slowly, back and forth, I was riding his cock, feeling it move with me. It was as deep as it was ever going to get, but the knotting had started, stretching me out, pushing my stomach to bulge, at least it felt like I was bulging on the inside. "I like teasing you," I said, collecting my breath.

"I'm still the Alpha." He planted both hands on my thighs. "Don't forget that."

I placed my hands over his, squeezing as hard as I could. "Or else what?"

"I like this feisty side," he said. "Or else I'll—I'll—" He bit his lip and closed his eyes. "I can't think of anything. Or else I'd pin you down, or, or else I'd fill your body up with bite marks."

The burst of strength his blood gave me was enough for me to peel his hands away and then pin them to the headboard. In that position, I continued to buck my hips back and forth, pushing my cock harder against his torso and through his soft body hair. It tingled in all the good places.

My eyes rolled back as I let go of his hands, my body seized slightly, cuddling to his chest as I came. The bulb above smashed with a pop and crackle. Opening my eyes, I noticed we were hovering above the bed, and quickly came crashing down with a thud.

Ara wrapped his arms around me. "I told you, you're powerful." He groaned in my ears as his cock throbbed, hurting my hole with the way his knot pried me open and lodged him inside.

Words were formed but unsaid.

"The bed didn't break," he whispered.

It was what I'd planned on saying.

I continued to lay on his chest, taking his load.

Whatever energy had been present when that had happened was gone now. I couldn't believe it was me, or even real, but I'd seen our bodies fall. I'd felt the bounce. And the bulb. sure, there were explanations for that, except I didn't want to think of those. I'd done that too.

"I think I've been missing out on this," I whispered to him, playing with his chest hair.

"Me?" he asked, stroking a hand down my back and tracing the length of my spine.

"No, well, maybe." I was struggling to form sentences. "Drinking my feelings. I never wanted to let my family down, but I left now. I feel light and free."

Ara cock slowly fell out of my ass. "Still feel light?" he asked.

I whacked his arm. "Mentally, spiritually, yes, I feel light."

"I know what you mean. There was a time when I was under my parents thumb too. When I did everything to impress them, and the minute they were out of the picture, I think I had a mental breakdown. Not for the reasons you might think either."

"I'm thinking it's because you were relieved."

"Ok," he chuckled, his laugh vibrating against my face. "So, maybe you do know the reason."

"I just wish we didn't have to come all the way out here to be together."

"Well, we could be together wherever we are," he said. "But here is the safest place, and that's all I care about right now. Your safety."He hugged me tight and tried his best to kiss my forehead.

"Not too tight," I said. "You know what you did to my insides."

"I'll kiss it better for you," he said, his hand going as far down as possible to reach my ass. "Does it need a kiss?"

I pawed his chest, pulling his hair into a fist. "Maybe later. I'm not taking any chances. So, if you'd head out or something, I don't want you listening."

We readjusted. "I have supernatural hearing. No matter where you are in the house, I'll hear."

Heat rushed my body. I'd known that about him, but hearing it from his mouth, it made me feel some type of way, add it wasn't good. "Oh my god. Just go, and clean this glass on the floor."

"Of course." He kissed my hand. "I don't want my baby getting hurt."

There wasn't much glass on the ground, only two large curved shards from the bulb, and a couple of other smaller bits that were visible from the light in the bathroom. As I sat on the toilet with the door shut and a towel as a sound dampener at the bottom, I wondered what my family were doing right now.

Melize had probably moved into the apartment. Rhone was still dodging as many calls as possible. My parents were begging to stay at the compound. I should've told them to go with Melize. But I wasn't going to be reaching out to any of them from here. And I definitely couldn't portal jump such large distances either.

I should've been full of joy that I'd escaped the fate my parents had attempted to force on me. Instead, I still had a small sense of dread. I didn't know what the future held, and I couldn't help Ara read any of the books either. But at least I had the garden, and that would be the only place anything would be growing.

For as long as I could remember, I'd always hoped to practice little bits of other magic. Witches were so stuck in their ways to only practice one. They seemed forced to it, and base their entire personalities on it.

I was going to use earth magic to make the soil full of nutrients, water magic to bring rain, air to create breeze, and fire would be a no-go. I always thought of fire as destructive, and every fire witch I'd met or lived with was up their own assholes.

Ara knocked on the door, pulling me from thought planning. "I don't want to spend our first night sleeping alone," he said.

That was wild. Our first night. It genuinely felt like we'd been together for half a year, but maybe that was the gay aspect to all of this. Public opinion stated that gays moved faster when it came to relationships. We were just proving them right.

I had one of the best nights of sleep that night, laid on his chest with my limbs wrapped around him as if I were a vine growing to keep him close.

When I woke the following morning, still holding Ara close, I almost thought I was dreaming. Nobody had attempted to comb through my mind in the middle of the night. Whatever I'd done yesterday had helped me reinforce my defenses. Playing in the dirt had a bonus to it.

"You're finally awake," he whispered to me as I moved.

"Yeah." I yawned. "How long have you been awake?"

"Like an hour, maybe ninety minutes. I wasn't keeping count."

"You should've—"

"I was enjoying your warmth," he said before I could finish. "I had time to think."

I nuzzled my face into his body like he was my pillow. "Hopefully, it was all good thoughts."

"Oh, they were the best thoughts. I thought about all the time we get to spend together," he said. "Forever."

"You need to propose before you can say stuff like that."

He pulled my hand from over his body. "I will, when the time is right," he said. "And I will give you the best wedding you've ever seen."

"You're in luck, I haven't been to a wedding before," I said. "So, of course it'll be the best."

I went back to nuzzling him just as a loud ringing chirped from outside the room.

"Ahh, that will be the phone," he said. "It's all still landlines here."

"Do you need to get it?"

He raised his brows and chuckled. "No. Someone else will. I'm here with you. So, where were we?"

"You were telling me about this wedding."

"Mhm, yes. We'd have it here, at the house, in the back. Hopefully it wouldn't disturb your garden."

"It's a lot of land out there, I'm sure we'll fit all five guest seats," I said with a little snort of laughter. "Or maybe my sister and brother will come, I can't ever be sure if my parents will be happy about it. Fingers crossed. One day."

He sat upright, pulling my body slightly with him. "If you want them there, we'll make it happen," he said. "I hope we can break or change this stupid prophecy, and then we're free. I hate the idea of not having free will."

"Of course, we have it," I said.

"Not if you're involved in a prophecy you don't," he said.

A knock came at the bedroom door. "Sir. Hellenia is on the phone. She says it's urgent."

"Hellenia?" I asked.

"An old friend. She wouldn't call unless—"

I grabbed his chest hair again, but all it did was thrill him. "What?"

"Unless she's got news. And I'm hoping it's the good variety."

"Go get the phone then," I said, rolling off the side of him. "And put a robe on. I don't want anyone seeing you like that. It's for my eyes only."

Ara climbed off the bed and shook his hips, almost creating a windmill with his cock. "Your eyes only." He went into the bathroom for a bathrobe as I pressed my head in his spot on the bed, inhaling the scent impression he'd left.

If I hadn't been mate bonded to him, I feared I still would've fallen head over heels in love with him.