Chapter 4

She guides me across the dance floor like she was born to hold me, like I was born to be held by her. She possesses every inch of me, everyone is afraid to even look at me I have been so thoroughly claimed by her ice blue eyes. Yet . . . there is a fire there, beneath the ice. A fire of burning embers just waiting set my heart aflame. Her hands are everywhere, arousing me so much my head is spinning, my heart is pounding, my breath ragged. She boldly brings her lips to my neck and sinks her teeth into the sensitive skin there, making my whole body shudder. Then she leans me back in the most sensual dip of my life, holding me as though I weigh little more than a feather, and our lips brush. Goddess . . . those lips . . . They are fire and ice, they are firm, commanding my undivided attention, but also soft and smooth. Like everything else, they claim me, possess me. Goddess, how do I get this woman alone? All I want is for her to tear off my dress, to cover every inch of my skin with those lips, to take me, to claim me, to leave me burning with desire for more . . .

Tevos was dragged out of her wonderfully erotic dream when she realized those very lips were sealed around her azure, pulling her closer and closer to what she feared was an orgasm that would make her pass out again.

"Aria!" she screamed as the fingers embedded within her curled and raked over the most sensitive spot inside her again and again.

She chanced a glance down to see fiery blue eyes gazing up at her with a ravenous hunger and lost it. Her entire body convulsed and she arched off the bed with another scream of pure ecstasy as she released her arousal into Aria's mouth. She writhed beneath Aria's relentless, merciless tongue, clinging to the sheets as she bucked into her mouth. Aria somehow managed to match her movements, adding a third finger and making Tevos convulse into powerful aftershocks.

Every muscle in Tevos's body gave out when it was over, and she lay spread eagle, staring up at the ceiling with glazed-over eyes. She couldn't have moved even if she tried, other than her rapidly rising and falling chest as she tried to get oxygen back to her brain. Aria climbed up her body, straddled her on all fours, then gave her a very self-satisfied smirk.

"You're so fucking hot after I make you come," Aria said in a deliciously sensual voice, leaning down to plant possessive kisses and nips on the councilor's neck. "I never get tired of making you come, of fucking you so hard you can't even move. Such a pretty sight. The all-powerful Asari Councilor, fucked senseless by the Queen of Omega. Look what I made your body do, taste the power I have over your body."

Aria leaned down and claimed Tevos's lips, immediately plunging her tongue inside so Tevos could taste herself in her lover's mouth. She groaned into the kiss, though she still lacked the strength to move. It just wasn't fair how good Aria made her feel. From the beginning of their relationship her body just seemed to be Aria's playground, and she never wanted Aria to stop playing. Aria slithered her hand down Tevos's body to cup her centre possessively, purring when she felt how wet she still was.

"That must have been quite the dream you were having," she murmured, leaning down to run her tongue over the tip of Tevos's breast. "Tell me."

Tevos's breath hitched as Aria's tongue began swirling around her nipple, exciting it even more than it already was. "I . . . I was -uhn!- dreaming a-about the first t-time . . . oh goddess Aria!" Tevos arched into Aria's talented tongue, her body suddenly finding the motivation to move again.

Aria kissed her way to the other breast, lavishing it with equal attention. "You were saying?" she purred, gently suckling on the hardened tip.

"Th-the first time we danced . . . the first time we . . . oh fuck . . .!" Tevos groaned when Aria began toying with the moisture continuing to pool between her legs. She opened her eyes to gaze at Aria and noticed a foreign blue object hanging between her legs for the first time. Her eyes darted back up to look at her lover and Tevos's lips curled into an amused grin.

"Have plans, did we?"

"Many," Aria replied, pushing the councilor's legs further apart so she could settle between them. After covering them with blankets, she grasped the shaft, using the tip to massage Tevos's swollen arousal. "You've been too stressed out lately and it's starting to piss me off. So I guess that leaves me with just one option: to fuck the stress right out of you."

Tevos shuddered. Aria T'Loak did not make empty promises. Ever. "Anything specific you had in m-mind?" Tevos asked, biting her lower lip when Aria to guided the head through her glistening folds.

Aria removed her hand from around the shaft to grasp the back of Tevos's thigh, lifting it off the mattress and wrapping it around her waist, then did the same with Tevos's other leg. "I had a few ideas," Aria replied in a deep, seductive voice. She pushed herself agonizingly slowly into the councilor until their pelvises met. Tevos's hands snaked along Aria's back, her fingertips digging into pure muscle as she groaned in pleasure from being filled. Aria settled her arms around Tevos and made the councilor hold her gaze as she began slowly driving her hips into her. Tevos moaned softly with every thrust, already burning for more.

Aria leaned down teased Tevos's lips with a kiss, but pulled back when the councilor tried to kiss her back. Tevos let out a quiet, frustrated groan.

"What's the matter, Love?" Aria crooned, stopping all movement of her hips when their pelvises were pressed together again.

Tevos managed to collect her thoughts when Aria's hips stopped moving, though the lack of friction made her ache with longing. "I thought you were going to fuck me senseless, not drive me crazy," she murmured, though her tone gave away her enjoyment. Both of them knew what they were currently doing wasn't fucking, but Tevos was grateful to start out their session this way. Sometimes drowning in Aria's intense tenderness was just as distracting and wonderful as dominant Aria.

"Patience, Love," Aria purred. "I want this one all to myself. I want you to look at me when I make you come. I want you to see me when I come inside you, when I claim you, when I give you pleasure. Because you're all mine."

By the end of Aria's words, Tevos felt the sting of emotion in the back of her throat. She'd never been truly possessed by previous lovers. It was something she had always desperately craved; to be possessed, claimed, owned, protected. From the moment she met Aria, she felt strangely safe in her arms, even during their first time together. And now it was overpowering, how very protected and safe she felt. Aria's protectiveness of her was visceral, tangible, sometimes she felt as though she could reach out and touch it, especially when they were fully melded.

Aria started up a faster, driving rhythm, continuing to hold Tevos's gaze as she rocked over her. Sometimes Tevos felt like making love with Aria was even more intense than their deepest scenes. There was a strange, comfortable distance between them when she was simply Aria's 'sex slave.' But when Aria was demanding her complete love and attention like this . . . it was indescribably beautiful. Overwhelming.

Aria began thrusting faster and Tevos heard her lover's breath begin to hitch. Goddess they were both so close already . . .

"Say my name," Aria whispered the command, though her voice didn't exude her usual dominance. It almost sounded like a plea, and that alone almost sent Tevos spiraling over the edge.

"Aria . . ." she breathed, digging her fingernails into her lover's back. She felt Aria shudder above her as she raked her fingernails into her lover's bare skin hard enough to leave bright marks.

"Say it, Thea," Aria commanded again, but Tevos knew it was a different command.

The first time Aria had commanded her like this was the night they Sealed their Bond. She'd made Tevos say the words again and again without ever looking away, and they had both cried by the end of it. Certainly not anything hysterical or dramatic. It was subtle and soft; much like the way Aria demonstrated her love. And the Queen of Omega never cried. It was one part of Aria that Tevos kept close to her heart that she shared with no one.

"Aria . . ." Tevos faltered, but only for a moment before she surrendered herself to her bondmate. "I love you, Aria."

She felt the shaft pulse inside her and saw Aria fighting with herself, wanting to extend the moment before she made them come.

"Again," Aria said more breathlessly this time as she continued her quick, deliberate thrusts.

"Oh Aria . . . I love you. I love you . . ." Tevos breathed, her eyes blackening with need.

She saw Aria's eyes blacken as well and instantly cried out from the sight. There was nothing more beautiful in the galaxy to her than the sight above her. Aria, eyes blackened with desire, looking at her with a love so powerful, so frighteningly intense it sometimes made Tevos tremble down to her core.

"Say it," Aria hissed again, increasing the speed and force of her thrusts. Every time she pushed in, she rolled her hips forward, making the shaft drag along Tevos's clitoris and driving her closer to orgasm with every passing moment.

"Aria . . . oh Aria please . . ." Tevos gasped out, finding words increasingly difficult. "I love you . . ."

Aria's mind spilled into hers, immediately overpowering all of Tevos's thoughts, emotions, everything. Tevos had to remind herself to breathe, she felt so helpless. Her mind was more controlled than Aria's thanks to centuries of training and grooming to be a Councilor, but Aria's mind had a raw power, a will behind it that was frightening to most, and terrifying to her enemies. But not Tevos. She loved Aria's mind. She loved basking in it in moments like these when she could just forget herself and allow Aria to take her mind in a mental cocoon, and to protect her from the problems of the galaxy.

All of Tevos's loving thoughts spilled into Aria's mind and it proved too much for their bodies to bear. Aria held her pained gaze as their bodies froze, extending the agonizingly pleasurable moment just before orgasm, then both of them shattered into each other. Aria's hips jerked as her arousal jetted from the the head of the toy and into Tevos's body, and the councilor couldn't stop herself from screaming Aria's name as she felt her lover's orgasm pulse inside her body.

"Fuck I love you," Aria whispered, leaning down to place a possessive bite on Tevos's neck.

Tevos writhed all the more beneath her bondmate from hearing the words, tightening her legs around Aria's waist as another orgasm cascaded through them both. She felt her own fluid join Aria's, spilling down onto the sheets beneath them.

"Say it," Aria commanded once again, though her voice was strained from the orgasm still pulsing through them.

"Goddess, I love you . . . I love you," Tevos somehow managed to groan out the words in her pleasured haze. They had a profound effect on Aria; it caused several more powerful jets of her arousal to spill into Tevos and Aria's head fell forward, pressing their cheeks together. Tevos shuddered upon hearing Aria's ragged breath in her ear.

"Fuck," Aria gasped out, her body quivering above Tevos. "I love you."

Tevos's body continued to quake as aftershocks rippled through them and she clung to Aria all the while. When her mind could form coherent thought again, she began to wonder what in name of the goddess put Aria in such a mood. It wasn't often they made love like this, but when they did, it generally meant Aria was concerned and wanted to reassure Tevos.

A small smile tugged the corners of the councilor's lips. Sometimes it was hard to believe the biggest criminal in the Terminus System could be so very tender and loving. No one would ever believe her if she told them Aria T'Loak had just made love to her in such an incredibly tender way, and for such a sweet reason. Hell, they'd probably laugh in her face. She adored being able to keep this secret about the Queen of Omega, knowing that she was the only one who saw this side of the powerful asari above her.

'I'm okay, you know,' Tevos said through the Meld, running her hands reassuringly along Aria's smooth back.

'No you're not. This bullshit with Shepard is eating you alive,' Aria sent back. Tevos knew Aria was right, of course, but she didn't want to admit it to herself. Aria gently withdrew from the meld, though she remained physically imbedded within the councilor, and lifted her head to look at Tevos. "You don't have to make deals with me, you know," she said aloud. "I have other contacts, people I trust. I don't want you to think I'm your only resource in the black market, since I know you're going to keep helping that damn human. For the record, I still think it's a terrible idea."

"That 'damn human' saved my life," Tevos said, though she knew the reminder was unnecessary. Aria had on more than one occasion expressed echoes of gratitude toward Shepard in their melds. The quiet sentiment deeply touched Tevos, knowing how grateful Aria was that she was still alive. "What else would you have me do? Turn my back on her like the rest of the council, only to have the Reapers invade when the entire galaxy is unprepared? I have to do this, Aria. I have to help her, I can't just sit by and do nothing!"

Aria placed her forefinger to Tevos's lips to silence her, then removed it to place a soft kiss there. "I know. I'm just . . . I'm worried about you, okay?"

Tevos melted into Aria's arms. She couldn't seem to help it when her bondmate said things like that. "Well I know a pretty reliable way for you to ease both of our worries away," Tevos said with a suggestive, playful glint in her eye.

Aria didn't need any more of a hint than that. She flipped Tevos onto her stomach, lifted her hips off the bed, then started pumping into her with a driving rhythm once again. Tevos smiled and buried her face into the mess of pillows beneath her. She really did enjoy their way of coping with stress. They had one answer to their problems: fucking was always the answer.