He dips between my folds, playing up and down the slick valley but not pushing past the entrance and into me. He stirs me, my eyes rolling to his perfect rhythm.
"The thought of you has been distracting me all night. You have power over me."
More moans roll along my tongue. My hips circle with his skilled fingers, chasing the edging pleasure. "I need to take back some power, little creature," he utters darkly.
With that, he rolls me onto my side and covers my back and legs entirely with his large form.
Between my thighs, two fingers return to their motion, to their mixing of pleasure, to their stoking of need.
His other hand positions his cock. He doesn't wait, rousing me with his warm touch while he takes his power back and pushes through me.
My eyes fly open, and my steady, soft moans spiral into uncertain whimpers and mewls.
I dig my nails into his sheets.
He hooks my leg backward over his and pumps into me. "Fuck, yes. You’re so wet."
“My king.” My voice trembles.
“I am here. You’re safe” He reaches for my hand, brings it back, and sets my fingers on his thick, veined forearm. “Remember your claws, little creature.”
The stretch is…
Oh, the stretch.
Warmth.
Tension.
Pressure.
But then… I cannot quell the thought of him with a Xin De girl. Sinking all the way in. I push my backside into him, and immediately, his crown bashes something inside me—the end of me. I cry out, both frustrated and in pain.
“Stop that!” He grunts. “You have a lot of nerves on your cervix, and you’re pregnant. If you do that again, I will pull out and fuck your other hole as punishment.”
Fuck my?
I blink.
He cannot mean…
My confusion churns to pleasure when his fingers slide down and play with my clit, strumming the bead. My mouth opens, and I whimper my thoughts. "I saw you.”
“Saw me what?”
“With the House Girls.” The words fall out before I have time to swallow them. Can’t swallow. Can barely feel anything as he brings my pleasure up, up, from my toes. Down. Down from my hot ears. Across, across from thighs. Landing a ball of pleasure at the tips of his fingers that leaves me writhing and taking fast thrusts from behind.
His fingers leave me.
“Did you?” A firm hand slides up, roaming along my trembling belly, between my ribs, to my throat, where he grabs the column, possessiveness rearing up.
Groaning, he holds me still to take his thrusts from behind, beating upward into me but still cloaking my spine in his hot body.
I shake when he does.
I swelter when he burns.
"What are you implying," he hisses between heavy pants that match his inward drives. "That I want someone else? That I’ll take them over you?”
I answer through choppy whimpers. "It is none of my business who you..." I hesitate, but say it anyway, "fuck."
"That word is beneath you, sweet creature. I fuck you,” he says as he does. “I fuck, you do not. You adore, pleasure, love. Don't use words that are beneath you."
He groans, the pumping of his hips gets faster, and I close my eyes, taking the need, feeling his desperation to come in the precision, in the focus of every inward drive.
My pussy ripples and flutters around him, opening only when he pushes in and closing as he pulls out.
I’m mindless with him. “Oh, my king."
"Don't disrespect this, little creature. Don't underestimate my obsession for you!" His fingers tighten around my throat. "I am consumed. I cannot go a night without this. I cannot concentrate."
Thrust.
"The thought—"
Thrust.
"Of touching—"
Thrust.
"Another and then using the same hands to touch you—" His muscles tighten. He lifts my thigh higher, angling me, holding me like a doll for his hard final thrust.
"Fills me with rage.” He comes inside me with a throaty growl that projects through the room, warning every inch of space, every fibre, that he claims me. As he spurts inside me, rumbles of his pleasure vibrate against my spine and blanket me in pride. I can bring this man, this beast, pleasure with my body. I suppose that is powerful… But one should not think such things. Not about a king.
His long exhale beats down on me as he relaxes, lowering my thigh to meet the other, but he does not drop the muscle. Instead, kneads the tension.
“That’s my good girl.”
I press my head back into his heaving chest, feeling him. Feeling his heart thumping like a well-worked machine. His length still slowly pulsing.
“I mean no disrespect, my king.” I breathe. “But monogamy is self-serving. I do not own you, and it would be—”
“You own me.”
My breath lodges beneath his palm. “Pardon?”
“I am the king of The Cradle.” He relaxes his grip around my throat, resting but not releasing. “I was built to protect and serve the land, but I swear to you that no part of it is more important than the piece beneath your feet.”
“My king,” I sob, happy.
I love you. I love you.
My heart feels like it may burst through my chest. I want to cry, because this is terrifying. Want to shake the moment, pinch it, because it isn’t real. Can’t be.
“Say it.”
I blink. “Say what?”
“What you are thinking. I demand it.”
I snuggle backward into him, and he doesn’t tense. He relaxes. His heavy bicep surrenders to his fatigue, becoming a heavy band that pins me down. His palm continues to cradle the pulse in my neck.
The pulse that he owns.
That speeds for him.
Slows for him, flutters.
Beats for him, hard.
“I love you, my king.”
The beast inside purrs under the affect of my words, and I feel something shift. Something deep inside him that was black and hard. I feel it soften.
Then he says, “Rome.”
My eyes fill with tears, but I don’t know why. I am a silly, little girl. It’s only… I have never said his name. I have heard it, thought it, but never, wouldn’t dare, say it.
The word comes from a smile. “Rome.”
“Say it all again.”
“I love you, Rome.”
A Silk Girl’s
Second Trimester
Aster
of the Aquilla Silk Aviary
Chapter Six
Rome
Breathing heavily, I stride into the courtyard, desperate to see her—just for a moment. Blood paints my leather vest, the crimson guts of cats drying under the crown-light.
Usually, my time in the forest flies by, but these days, away from her, they crawl on all-fours.
It’s been long enough. She has had time with her Collective, as requested.