Page 34 of Axios

As his soft lips enveloped me, his hand brushed across my entrance.

I jolted at the unexpected contact, but soon relaxed back on the hay. Looking down at him, I watched as he gripped my length with one hand and popped the tip from his mouth. I shivered as a slight chill touched the slickness that coated my member, and I yearned to push back inside his warmth.

His green eyes focused on me as he wet his fingers with his tongue and lowered his hand once more to my backside. I did not jump that time as he swirled his spit at my opening, moving his thumb in slow circles.

“Where is it you learned this?” I asked in a heavy, breathy tone.

“The older men.” Eryx smirked as his fingers continued their tender movements. “I inquired about how boys pleased one another.”

It occurred to me how the men might have taught him, and the suspicions that entered my mind replaced all pleasure with a deep rage.

He took in my emotions with a narrowed brow and stopped. “Axios… it is not what you believe. I have not been touched by any other than you. I am yours… and you are mine.”

The anger that had been prickling along my skin subsided and I nodded. Disliking the sudden shift in the air, I smiled down at him. “What more did they tell you?”

He returned my grin. “It is better if I showed you.”

Keeping eye contact with me, he lowered his head and took me into his mouth again.

I released a drawn out moan and leaned back in the hay, burying my hands in his soft hair. The light stroke of his fingers at my opening continued, but he soon pressed the tip of one inside.

That, combined with the heat of his mouth, almost undid me right there, but I didn’t succumb to the pleasure. Not yet.

Eryx was patient—treated me with care and used his hands and tongue to prepare me for what was about to happen. But even then, the degree of ache was high as he started joining our bodies.

I’d learned to withstand pain, but that discomfort was one I had not ever experienced before. One that tore me on the inside.

I gritted my teeth to keep from crying out.

“They spoke of how it would sting,” he said with great sympathy in his raspy tone. “You must relax.”

He hovered over me now, pressing his lips to mine as he slowly moved inside me. My body fought against him in the beginning. As he pushed forward, he was met with resistance, and I feared he would rip me apart.

This is not what I fantasized it to be.

In my most private of musings, the moment with Eryx was not one of pain but of intense desire. Two souls becoming one and dancing in the sweetest of ways—reaching the peak of Elysium together and soaring toward the sky.

In reality, I fought the urge to shove him off.

Sweat trickled down my temple, and my heart raced like wildfire.

He kissed my forehead and whispered, “Relax. I’m almost—”

We both gasped as he finally breached past the flesh resisting him. The pain was but a dull ache now, and I released a sigh of relief. When he moved again, I finally felt the trickling of pleasure masking the sting from before.

Eryx noticed my change and smiled through his own groans. Bracing one hand on the bed of hay and using the other to hold my thigh, he quickened his pace—going deeper and hitting places I never knew existed.

As his hard body slid atop mine, I felt every ridge of his abdomen and each breath he took. The noises passing my lips were foreign, but uncontainable. I’d never felt more alive, more aware of my own body.

With another whimper, I threw my head back and closed my eyes.

“Ax, look upon me,” he uttered on a moan.

I did as he’d asked, meeting his half-lidded stare.

He cupped my cheek and his thumb brushed across my bottom lip. I took it into my mouth, sucking on it as he’d done to me earlier. His eyes widened just before he smirked, moving faster. Harder. The speed of his thrusts became sporadic as the tension built between us.

A tingling started in my spine and traveled down into my groin. I was lost to abandoned desire, and there was no turning back from the precipice I found myself swaying atop of. When he touched a particular spot within me, I lost all control and let go, letting the fire coursing through my veins burn and ascend like a phoenix reborn.