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Chapter Fifteen

Axum

Rainn’s thick hair tickles my nose as I wake up, his warm body flush with mine. His plump ass presses against my erection, the heat from him making my dick throb. His soft snores let me know he is still asleep, though he rubs his ass on my shaft over and over.

My fingers trail down to his hole, still fucked-out and wet from the pleasure oil and how many times he took my dick yesterday. But, fuck, I cannot resist being inside him once more.

Angling my cock to his hole, I slide into his waiting entrance, moaning when I am fully inside his slick warmth. I hold Rainn’s hip lightly and thrust into him, rolling my pelvis to brush against that special spot inside him.

He moans, coming awake slowly as I fuck into him. Rainn’s breath hitches as I angle my hips and peg his prostate dead on. “Axum,” he moans in a sleepy voice. “Harder.”

I turn his head to the side so I can slot our mouths together as I pick up the pace, pistoning into him with abandon. Rainn moans into my mouth, the sound getting higher and louder the closer he gets to release.

“I’m gonna come,” he gasps, pushing back to meet my thrusts. “Fuck, baby.” Seconds later, he spurts his seed over the bedding, mewling as he orgasms.

As my knot grows, I lick along his claiming bite, tasting his skin. With a roar, I push into him as far as I can go and come hard. Rainn’s ass is full of my cum, and he told me how much he loves it.

I hold Rainn close, kissing his neck while my knot remains inflated. I would fuck him with it, but I think his hole has had enough over the past twelve hours.

Planting one more kiss on his claiming bite, I ask, “How did you sleep?”

I can hear the smile in his voice when he says, “Really good. Woke up even better.” Then he rolls his hips, gasping when my knot presses against his sensitive walls. A grunt of pleasure leaves my throat as he fucks himself on my knot.

“You are insatiable,” I murmur, burying my nose in his hair and breathing in deeply. “Are you sore?”

He nods. “A little, but it’s nothing a soak in the bathing pool won’t fix.”

A few minutes later, my knot deflates and I pull out of Rainn. I push a finger into him, fucking my cum back inside. He moans, wrapping an arm around my neck and bringing me down for a deep kiss. I continue to finger Rainn until he has another orgasm.

Sleepily, Rainn says, “If I’m to do anything today besides lie in bed, we have to stop.”

I hop off the bed, then scoop Rainn into my arms, taking him to the bathing pool. After I heat the water with a quick spell, I lower us into its depths. Grabbing a new cloth, I wash Rainn gently, making sure he is clean everywhere. Then I help him wash his hair, smiling as he uses the concoction I had made just for him. Rainn has told me it smells like something called main-go in his world. I have never heard of such a thing, but he seems to love the smell.

Once we are clean, we dress and head to Larek’s home, surrounded by guards that are none too pleased with me for leaving them yesterday. It was well worth it, as I was able to claim my mate without an audience.

When we arrive at Larek’s home, we find him and Snakha in good spirits. His wound is almost completely healed and the healers informed him that he could return to work in a few days time.

We visit with them for a while, enjoying an early lunch and good conversation.

When Rainn and Snakha retreat to the kitchen to clean the dishes, Larek gives me an appeasing look, his eyes bouncing between my eyes and my claiming bite. “It appears that your brother was correct in his belief in fated mates, was he not?”

My cheeks heat, but I do not lower my gaze from Larek’s. “That he was. Rainn is the center of my universe. I can no longer see my life without him.”

Larek nods. “That is good. He is a great human. In the short time he has been in Daz Vrorkrad, he has endeared himself to many of your subjects here. You have chosen well, Your Grace.”

“No,” I say, looking through the door of the kitchen, watching how Rainn talks and laughs effortlessly with Snakha, “I do believe Rainn chose me. I am lucky he did.”

When they return from the kitchen, we take our leave, Rainn suggesting that the two of them come to the palace for dinner soon, as we would enjoy their company.

“Would you like to return to the palace now?” I ask Rainn as we walk slowly down the road from Larek’s abode.

“No. It’s really pretty outside today. Can we walk a bit more?”

I nod. “We can. Would you like to visit the portal again? Since you are claimed, you are free to leave.”

My heart clenches thinking about Rainn leaving. He said he did not want to leave after I claimed him, but being so close to the portal, he may miss his best friend and want to go through and never come back.

“I can see it now?” he asks, lifting a brow.

“Yes. It should be visible to you now.”

“Then yes, let’s go to the portal. It would be nice to see it and not run headlong into nothingness.”

I hide a laugh as I remember our first meeting—Rainn trying to escape and running into a solid portal. I did not like that he was hurt, but it was humorous to see him try to escape.

Hand in hand, we walk down the lane. We stop a few times when we happen upon orcs that greet us, Rainn chatting with them as if they are old friends. I stand back, watching how everyone seems to glow when talking to my mate. There is something so pure about him, so genuine that others cannot help but see.

The closer we get to the portal, the more my heart races. When Rainn was last here, he could not see it, so I am sure he had no hope of crossing through. But now, he can find it effortlessly and go home. He could leave me. He says he wants to stay, but will that always be the case? Or will I wake up in the night to find my mate gone?

We crest the hill and I hear Rainn gasp as the portal comes into view. “It’s so weird that I can see it now,” he says, as the vortex before us waxes and wanes. “Does it always look like that?”

“Yes.” I know my tone is clipped, but I do not want to lose my mate. It would have been wrong not to show him the portal, but I wish I did not have to.

Rainn laughs and pulls me forward. “This place is literally the best.” We stand before the portal and Rainn pushes his hand through, watching it disappear through the swirling vortex. “This is so strange, but so fucking cool,” he says with another laugh.

“Will you leave now?” I ask, voicing my fears. I hate how pleading I sound, but it cannot be helped. I would not survive Rainn leaving me. I would rather cut out my own heart now than be without him.

Rainn looks up at me curiously. “No. Why would you think that?”

“Well, you have expressed you missed your best friend, so I assumed you?—”

He wraps his arms around me, squeezing me as tightly as his smaller arms will allow. “I do miss Kai. I miss him a lot. But I don’t want to leave yet. Maybe in a few months or something I’ll go back and tell him I’m okay, but that’s something you and I can talk about. Right now, I don’t want to leave.” He pulls back and meets my eyes, uncertainty shining back at me. “Do you…do you want me to leave?”

“No!” I shout, making Rainn flinch from the volume. I take a deep breath to calm myself, framing his face. “No, sweet Rainn. I do not ever want you to leave. I want you to be happy, so if you want to go, I would not stop you. But be advised, I would not like it and would follow you.” I pause, looking up at the sky in thought. “Mostly because I am curious to see your monster sex toy collection.”

Rainn barks a laugh. “Well, I’m ruined for anything other than the real thing now.” He chuckles a little more, but sobers quickly. “I wouldn’t want to go without you. Don’t worry, baby. You’re stuck with me.”

“There is no place I would rather be,” I tell him honestly, hugging him tightly as I bend to place a kiss on his lips.