Chapter 16

Orsu

It had been a long hot day of hunting and I was ready to come home. I was ready to see my mate. With each step I took, the ache in my chest diminished, letting me know that I was getting closer to home.

I had successfully slain two ramirei elk and carried one on each shoulder. I set them down as I pushed the boulder to the entrance of the mountain out of the way and then carried the limp beasts to the prep room where we cleaned our kills.

Finally, I was able to make my way to the main cavern where I found my mate laughing with the others and sipping tea around the fire.

"Orsu!" She let out a happy squeal the moment she saw me and ran in my direction. I threw my arms around her and she buried her face in my chest.

This felt right. The warmth of her smaller body pressed against mine was what I had been longing for from the moment I left the mountain. I wanted nothing more than to stay by Julie's side, but I knew I had another long day of hunting ahead of me tomorrow. I pushed that thought aside though. I would not let tomorrow's problems dampen what little free time I had with my mate today.

Julie and I joined the others around the fire where she had kept my evening meal warm for me. I happily ate the food she provided, savoring each bite. It was difficult for me to keep track of the conversations happening around me with my mate on my lap. I longed to be alone with Julie again.

Once I was finished with my meal, I tugged my mate onto her feet and whispered in her ear,

"I need to bathe, but I do not want to part from you. Will you join me in the bathing chamber?"

She nodded with a smile and led the way to the chamber. It was not long before we were both naked in the water, me sitting on the ledge in the water and Julie on my lap. I rubbed Julie's shoulders and let the warm water relax my muscles.

"You were the one out hunting all afternoon. Why are you rubbing my shoulders?" Julie protested.

"Because I can. Because I spent many days wishing to do so, but I couldn't." I kissed her cheek then pulled her closer to my chest.

"I missed you today. Is that silly?" Julie asked. "We were only apart for half a day and yet it felt a lot longer."

"It is not silly. I felt that way too." I was hesitant to say the next part out loud, but it was what I knew in my heart to be true.

"I think it is a sign we might luminesce."

"You really think so?" Julie turned to face me with a look of surprised delight on her face.

"I do." I nodded.

"The next full moon isn't that far off. Maybe we'll get our confirmation then." Julie looked hopeful and it warmed my heart that she desired to glow for me as much as I desired to glow for her.

"I am blessed by the goddess to have found you, my Julie."

Her expression grew soft at my confession. "You are blessed to have kidnapped me," she teased, causing me to blush this time.

"I should not have done that, but I am glad you have forgiven me."

"A thousand times over, I've forgiven you." Julie whispered in my ear as she slid her folds over my cock.

I inhaled sharply at the warm sensation of her flesh on mine. We were facing each other now and there was nothing but the water between us.

"How tired are you from the hunt?" she asked with heavy-lidded eyes.

After having spent so many seasons believing I'd never feel the warmth of a female, I'd find all the energy I needed to mate with Julie any hour of the day, no matter how long of a hunt I'd just returned from.

I encircled my mate's waist with my hands and lifted her so my cock was notched at her entrance.

"Shall I show you how much energy I have for my mate?"

"Yes," she breathed and I slowly lowered her onto my shaft. She gasped and I let out a moan of pleasure.

I'd never get used to the tight squeeze her cunt had on my shaft. It was ecstasy, pure bliss.

I lifted her up and down again letting out a low moan.

"Orsu," Julie choked out my name. "Your…your ridges on your abdomen. They feel so good on my clit."

I hadn't thought about that before, how perfectly our bodies lined up to give each other pleasure.

I lifted Julie up and down twice in quick succession and reveled in the feeling of her cunt fluttering around me as she gasped for air.

I wanted more of that, of her gasps and moans. This would not be a slow mating. I needed my mate too much to hold back this time.

I held my mate in place this time as I bucked my hips up and down at a rapid pace. Julie gripped my shoulders so tight I was positive I'd find her little nail marks on my skin in the morning. I hoped so. I would like to have a reminder of this mating.

She was breathing rapidly now and every flutter of her cunt on my shaft drew me even closer to my own release.

I pistoned into her and gritted my teeth, desperately trying to hold back my own orgasm. She felt so good. The ridges above my cock weren't super sensitive but the feel of her skin pressing against them sent small ripples of pleasure throughout my body everytime I thrust into her.

Water sloshed over the sides of the bathing pool as our mating picked up in speed and it wasn't long before I felt Julie's cunt squeeze around me. I could hold back no longer. I cried out as my release soared through me and as she milked every last drop of seed from my body. It felt as if I had been ripped free from this plane of existence and had been pulled into the afterlife. I saw stars and ancestors and what looked like the goddess herself. She looked just like Julie, glowing for me as a bright light in the darkness.

I came back to myself when I felt my mate collapse against me, completely spent. I ran my hands up and down her arms and kissed her forehead.

"I had no idea sex could be this good," she confessed.

"I did." My statement caught Julie by surprise.

"Even when I had no hope of ever touching a female, I knew if I ever found my mate, our union would be perfect, and it has been. Every moment with you is perfect."

Julie laid back down against my chest with a sigh and a smile. "You're perfect. I'm full of worries."

"You should not say that as if it were a bad thing. I like you just the way you are." I held her close to my chest. "You do not need to worry about the winter though. I will make sure you are provided for. I can give you my word on that."

Julie looked at me with tenderness in her eyes. "I am worried about a lot of things, but not about running out of food or our future. We've faced ungars, jagwas, and traveling along the treetops, and we survived."

Julie grasped my hand and intertwined her fingers in mine. "You have given me the confidence to know that we will be okay as long as we're together."

Her statement filled my heart with a joy so overwhelming tears trailed down my cheeks. My mate carried many burdens on her shoulders and to know that our future wasn't one of them because of her trust in me, was more than I could bear. My heart felt like it was bursting. Not even luminescence could feel this good.

Julie gently wiped away my tears. "You're perfect Orsu, my big teddy bear, my mate."

We finished our bath and laid down in the furs where I held my mate all night long feeling like the luckiest male alive.