A court of night blooming flowers
AZRIEL
Gods, he couldn't get the tone of Rhys's voice out of his mind. Scolded like a petulant child.
AZRIEL
His name rang through his mind in Rhys's voice again. What a mess, what a Gods damned mess this all was. Rhys has overstepped his place. He is the High Lord, yes, but since when has he been all for the mating bond supremacy? Truth was, Az knew. He knew it wouldn't have mattered to Rhys if Lucian hadn't been just one flight of stairs away from catching them; it was impulsive and it could have ended horribly. But Az can't and won't stay away from Elaine. Rhysand has no right to order him away from her indefinitely. That was a line crossed, his choices, Elaine's choices are theirs and theirs alone to make. How is that even going to be possible? They both live in the River house, this is the court's headquarters. Both of the sisters are mates to his brothers; staying away is impossible.
AZRIEL
Rhys's gods damn voice in his head again. Fuck.
"Azriel?"
Elain. "I thought I sensed you down here."
Azriel stopped pacing, he stopped worrying, he stopped thinking.
His entire being now focused on the beautiful delicate creature on the stairs.
"I am sorry I've woken you." He said, his throat tightening and mouth suddenly going dry. He was torn, should he leave? Rhys's orders were going through his mind but that would be rude and she didn't deserve that, no, and frankly, neither did he.
God's but she was a vision in a blue dressing gown with her golden hair hanging loose and surrounding her radiant face in loose waves. Az wanted her, gods only knew how very much he wanted her. In his arms and in his bed. He wanted this female as his own. His cock began to harden at the thought of slipping into her tight little slit and watching all that prim and proper innocence melt away in rapture.
"You didn't wake me, I just couldn't sleep. Nightmares, well, you know." Yes, Az knew. Those first weeks she spent at the house of wind were horrific; his shadows stirred at the memories of the sleepless and healing. She would wake up in the middle of the night after thrashing and clawing at the sheets then just sit and stare into the dark where his shadows would silently watch over her to make sure she wouldn't hurt herself. Then one night as if drawn to him, she came into the drawing room and just sat with him in silence and stared out the window, that was the start of their friendship. Silence,
"Are they still that bad?" He asked her.
"Not as bad. I think it helps that I keep busy, that I have other things to focus on. That I feel useful, needed, wanted." She had been walking down the stairs while she spoke. She paused at that last word making sure she was right in front of him when she delivered it. Wanted. 'Yes Elaine, you are definitely wanted, ' he thought. His cock was rock hard, hoping it wasn't obvious he continued. Did she understand the shift in his scent around her?
"I'm glad you are recovering. Your sisters are worried about you…"
"My sisters," Elain interrupted, "are too busy riding their mates at every opportunity to spare me a thought. And yes, I know about Nesta and Cassian, I'm not a fool." Azriel stood there a little dumbfounded. She was right, of course she was right.
"That's been my life you know, I've never really mattered enough to warrant any type of real respect from them. I was always my mother's bargaining chip, Nesta's little pet, my father's princess and then Feyre's burden. I was never treated as an adult or an equal. Then all of this happened and now I'm just in the way. Useless"
"You're not in the way, Elain, and you are definitely not useless. You are a valued member of the family."
"Am I? Do you think I didn't sense Rhysand lurking in the staircase that night? That he spoke with you mentally? If I'm so valued, then why is it that everyone else in this family is allowed to make a choice about who they associate with and who they do and do not take to bed, but I can't? Feyre told me to stay away from you and I know Rhysand told you the same about me. I have been relegated to being the poor broken thing that belongs to Lucian and I hate it, I hate being treated as if I am weak and I hate being treated like a child"
And here it was, that anger he's been watching build over these months.
"I just want to be a person, a real gods damned person! I want to be allowed to show my emotions and express my anger, my frustration, my joy, my pride and my desire without feeling like I'm being judged or disappointing someone. I want to laugh and drink and fuck like everyone else in this damn house!" Impossibly Azriel's throat got tighter. He wanted that for her too. Because he knew she was right. "I lost everything, I was kidnapped not once but twice! I was taken from my bed, and manhandled before being drowned in the cauldron. A fucking cauldron that thought I was beautiful as it took me apart, stripped me down to my very soul as it reached into as if it owned me and stole my humanity before it spit me out. And for some reason, some gods damned reason, my sisters feel they are the ones entitled to be outraged for me. To be the ones that are allowed to drink themselves into an oblivion, fuck every male they come across, paint out their feelings and rule over my life as if I'm not entitled to the same. It happened to me, gods be damned; it happened to me! And I am angry, no, I am enraged, I am hurt, and I am tired of holding it all down" Standing there in her indignant anger she looked like a goddess of wrath come to life. Az felt helpless and compassionate. Afterall, he knew better than anyone the pain of being overlooked and taken for granted.
Azriel placed a finger under her chin and guided her tear streaked face to his. It tore him apart to see like this, it angered him that she was right about everything and all he could do was stand by and be her sounding board, her friend, and only her friend damn it.
"What do you want, Elain?"
"You"
Staring into her eyes he lost his resolve. Neither of them knew who closed the distance in that split second. Neither of them cared because in that split second when their lips met the world shattered.
She opened her mouth to allow his tongue entry and her legs almost buckled as shadows engulfed her. Time itself became a peripheral kaleidoscope of star kissed shadows and night blooming flowers. Elain felt her anger evaporate. Her heart squeezed in exquisite agony as a burning began in her chest and she felt her blood become acid in her veins. Passion. Gods be damned this, this felt amazing. She felt, she could feel. Something other than rejection, loneliness and emptiness. She felt desire and a dark need to be touched and filled. Possessed. As if he somehow knew Azriel deepened the kiss, his tongue claiming hers. His wings flared, and his arms tightened around her; he lifted her and carried her up the stairs to his rooms. Once the door was closed he set her down and began walking her backwards until her legs met a bed.
Azriel couldn't get close enough to Elaine. He wanted skin, he wanted her completely bare and spread out before him like a holy feast. But Rhysand's words haunted him. Stay away from Elaine. This was a mistake. A huge mistake. Somehow,Azreil reined himself in and found the will to separate from her but Elain wouldn't have it.
"More" She said breathlessly as she untied her dressing gown and slipped it off to reveal a white night dress that was so light and fine her hard nipples were perfectly imprinted on the fabric. His cock grew impossibly harder aching to be released from his pants, to relieve the pressure of confinement and find oblivion inside her. Elain's hand pulled his attention away from the two enticing peaks as it moved. She met his gaze. One hand went up and slipped a thin strap off a shoulder then the other. Azriel's breath left him as the night dress fell away and revealed a form so beautiful and so perfect that Azriel at once felt guilty for even thinking of placing his scarred dirty hands on her.
He fell to his knees before her, "You are breathtakingly beautiful." he spoke almost soundlessly. The scent of her arousal overpowering as his wings flared out while arching down in supplication to this radiant woman that somehow became his reason to breathe. He was unworthy, utterly unworthy of her.
Elaine looked at Azriel on his knees in a pose that could only worship and relished in the power.
In a breathy, passion soaked voice she said "Touch me, please touch me, Azriel. I need you. I want you. I choose you, please, please touch me." Before he could even think, his hands were on her thighs sliding up to her perfectly formed hips and guided her down to sit on the bed.
He slid his hands back to her thighs and gently parted them to reveal the most beautiful and decadent wet pussy he's ever laid eyes on. The smell of her aroused flesh had him dizzy with desire. All he could do at this point was stare and salivate. She laid back, fluidly placing one bent leg on the bed then the other spread and vulnerable; his to gaze upon. It wasn't until she reached down and slid two fingers down her slit that the spell was broken. Working her wetness around the flesh then using those two to spread her pretty pink labia open to show him her swelling little clit and that slick entrance that became his sole focus. He was a man possessed. All thoughts of Rhysand and his warnings were gone. Azriel leaned forward and breathed in her exquisite female scent before his mouth went to work. In one long and firm sweep he licked her from asshole to clit he circled, flicked and sucked. Rolling her clit and playing with the little pebble of flesh in ways to hear her little moans and feel her writhing with pleasure. "More, please I need more of you Azriel."
He slid a finger in and then another groaning at tight resistance he met while coaxing her wet pussy to the brink of orgazam but pulling back just before she could go over the edge. He needed to slow down and get himself under control.
"We can't go further Elain, I don't know how to be a gentle lover, I don't know how to treat you like you deserve to be treated." He said desperately trying to talk himself down.
"I want you Azriel, all of you, just as you are. You don't have to hold back with me, I won't break. I am not made of glass, please, please Azriel, fuck me." She lifted her hips in supplication to punctuate her need.
Hearing those filthy words come out of that proper little mouth was such a turn on, Azriel knew there was no way he could deny her.
"This is a point of no return. You need to understand, I don't just want to fuck you Elaine, I want to possess you. I want to drive my cock into every hole, mark your pretty skin and hear you scream in passion. I want to take you to the edge and hold you before sending you over. I want to own you Elaine."
"Yes, gods, yes. All of it, yes. I want you to own me."
This had to a fucking dream. Those words, that tone, her scent, her submission all drove him on. "All of it?"
"Yes, all of it, don't you dare hold back on me."
"I want you to have a safe word, just in case I get too rough or do anything that you don't like or just want to end this, all you have to do is say it and I'll stop immediately no judgement and questions asked. Do you understand?"
"Yes."
"Pick a word. One you can easily remember but won't say while your, um, euphoric."
Elain's lips tipped up in a smile as she rose to her elbows her small perky tits swaying with the motions ``You mean while I'm coming?" Fuck, this woman was going to end him.
"Pick your word Elain."
"Thorns"
"Good choice"
Az leaned forward and gave her a very dirty and possessive open mouthed kiss while he guided her back down. "You're wearing too much clothing, shadow singer." She said breathlessly. He was wrong before, this was the point of no return. Once he stripped all bets were off, he would damn the world before he could stop. He wanted her too badly to care if the god themselves came down from the heavens to end his very existence. "If I take off my clothes Elain, I will fuck you. It will be hard, it will be dirty and it won't end until we are both exhausted and spent or you use your safe word."
Elain moved her finger to cover his lips "So much talking Shadowsinger" then ran it down his chin and neck before splaying her hand over his chest and down his stomach. She reached the hem of his shirt and pulled it up over his head exposing his stomach, chest, arms and his scars; the badges of dishonor he received for being a weak bastard in his youth. She ran her hands across his chest and stomach again.
Could that be out he needs? Could his scars break the spell and cause her to reject him? Because Gods only knew, he wasn't strong enough to stop. Her breath stopped and he braced himself.
"You are magnificent." She was now the one in awe, breathless and unworthy. His chest was a living work of art. Hard sculpted muscles flexed as her hand slid down feeling every ridge on the way down to his pants. She pulled each lace apart before tugging down. "Oh mother help me." she said as his long thick sumptuous cock was exposed. It was gloriously long, thick and densely veined. She clenched reflexively. She now understood why he froze when she spread for him, there is no way he could fit in her body without some serious work. She reached out and fisted him. Well she tried to fist him. Her hand was too small to completely wrap around him. Her thumb and middle finger were almost but not quite touching while she began to slide her enclosed hand up and down his shaft. He spasmed. Lowering her head she licked his tip and was rewarded with a deep groan of pleasure. Inspired she continued her ministrations and began working more and more of his beautiful cock into her mouth, and stroking the shaft with both hands until his voice broke the spell "If you keep going my beauty, you'll end this before it's begun and that is not acceptable." She stopped and laid back slightly breathless from her novel attempts at foreplay. In a flash Azriel was over her, mouth crashing down on hers in a filthy kiss was all tongue and clashing teeth his hands came up and squeezed her tits so the soft flesh slid down his fingers until it was only her nipples caught in the trap between his forefinger and thumb. Elain moaned, the pinch was a perfect blend of pleasure just shy of pain. His mouth replaced his fingers and she found her nipple being sucked and bitten while she began to shamelessly gyrate her hips against him. She felt his cock rubbing against her thighs precum leaking out of his tip and leaving a rapidly cooling trail of sticky wetness on her hot skin. "Now Azriel, I need you now, fuck me." He repositioned himself on top of her and fisted himself. "Remember your safeword?" She nodded "Say it"
"Thorns"
"Good, lets get a few things out of the way. I take a contraceptive tonic, and you are not allowed to come until I allow it"
Elaine didn't have time to process his words. He wasn't gentle. In one hard primal thrust he was in her, stretching and filling her so completely she lost control of herself and screamed while writhing as her body stretched to accommodate him. An orgazam ripped through her body as the pressure of his girth pressed into her.
"Already breaking the rules little Nymph? That requires a punishment but that will come later. Now, take my cock like a good girl, take it all" He said as he pounded into her his breathing hard and as dewy sweat began to glisten on his body. "I can feel you squeezing my cock, your tight little pussy is drenching me." Elain moaned as she felt the head of cock bottoming her out the stretch both painful and incredible. He lifted up to a higher position on his knees while holding her hips, causing her body to elongate her back arch and head thrown back from the new friction of the position. Her tits bounced shamelessly and immodestly seeking his attention, to which he all too willingly compiled short strokes and hard pinches. Her whole world narrowed down to his rugged breathing and dirty words all she could focus on was the wet squelching noises their joining made and the sounds of his balls slapping against her ass. She was spiraling out of control. She dug her heels into his ass cheeks and encouraged him to go harder, to go deeper she couldn't get him close enough. "Please, Az I need to come."
He held her back "I know you do beauty, now tell me, do you like getting fucked Elain? Do you like my cock pounding you like a Nymph in heat?"
"YES!"
He slowed his pace "Az.." He kissed her silent, giving her slow deep thrusts that had her pussy quivering from the sudden shift in tempo.
He stopped and ground into her feeling the very top of her. He pulled back to the very tip and slammed back into her. "Come for me Elaine." Her head dug back into the mattress and cried out as he picked up the pace slamming into her, pressing her into the mattress and dominating the very air she was breathing with his breath. Azriel felt savage, Elain's reactions to him had him at the edge of loosing control. "Who would have thought that innocent little Elain likes to be fucked by a monster."
Elain opened her eyes. Her passion evaporated the second she processed his words.
"Thorns"
Az froze and pulled out of her immediately he backed away until no part of him or his wings were touching her. His cock engorged and slick with her wetness angrily standing straight up while he panted trying to get himself under control.
"I can't handle this, you are out of line" She said in a voice thick with emotion.
Az's face dropped shadows beginning to deepen and conceal him from her. Withdrawing him from the situation.
"You are not a monster Azriel, do you hear me?" He looked up at her in shock.
"You are not a monster and I will not allow you to call yourself a monster in my presence, especially while you are inside me is that understood?" Az stayed silent as he knelt on his bed. His shadows weren't as dark but they were still surrounding him but began to lighten as the despair he began to feel shifted into something lighter, something wilder and unknown to him.
"The only thing remotely monstrous about you my Azriel is your massive cock" she pushed him down on the mattress and mounted him. He grabbed her waist and guided her down. My Azriel? She called him My Azriel! She rode him clumsily at first, but hard and passionately until he swore the earth shook from his roar as he came hard. She felt his release, each pulsing squirt of cum mingling with her own quavering release. He pulled her down and held her close as their breathing calmed and their hearts slowed. "We're not done, do you still want it all?" Elain nodded. "Yes."
He flipped back over her with wings spread wide and triumphant look on his he commanded "spread those pretty thighs wider" she obeyed without hesitation. She flinched in surprise when she felt the cool wispy touch of shadows wrapping on her skin and solidifying. They spread her wider and held her up and presented her to him holding her completely open so he could see their combined come glisten and freely spill out of her, he took a deep breath to smell the divine aroma of their combined passion.
"I still owe you a punishment" He said as reached out and slipped his thumb into that puddle of slippery moisture and then glided down to her rear entrance. "Since you insist on coming without permission then I will punish you with multiple back to back orgasams until you ask for mercy." She gasped, tightening up and puckering her rear entrance as he circled around the opening pressing and coaxing her open. "Relax my sweet girl" He whispered as he kept up his ministrations. When she finally relaxed enough he confidently slipped his index finger into the tight little asshole he's been dreaming about fucking for months. The little circle of muscle clenching around him all over again once he breached the entrance. He groaned as he kept stretching her. Using his free hand and mouth to continue playing with her clit, her pussy and her nipples. His shadows positioned her exactly where he needed her then darkened before filling her wet pussy. She gasped. He knew she didn't expect it. "You said you wanted it all my beautiful Elaine, now relax and trust me. I won't hurt you."
She finally gave in to the pleasure of the penetration and relaxed into his shadow's hold while her body bowed and shook with release. "Good girl" he complimented while he sat up straighter and took his cock into his hand. He rolled the head into the entrance of her pussy making sure to coat his cock in all that glorious slippery wetness and keeping her stimulated so she was still still craving him while he dragged the fat head of his cock further down to her asshole.
He started with small rolling pumps while he leaned forward and slid his hand under her cradling her in his arms and shadow bonds while firmly grabbing a hold of her hair at the base. "Relax Elain, relax, this will be nothing but pleasurable for you once I'm in. Breath" Elain whimpered. Slowly relaxing and giving in to him clenching back up and then relaxing with every centimeter he gained.
The burning sensation of her virgin skin parting had her clenching back up but Az kissed her and stroked her slowly through it. They both hissed out when the broad head of his cock slipped completely in and Elain had never in her limited experience felt so full, so wonderfully vulnerable and possessed. Slowly pulling back and firmly pressing back in, he gently but firmly worked his way deeper into her using their come and his spit to lubricate his shaft as he worked in; murmuring dirty and encouraging words to her while her body reacted to the stange intrusion with small rippling orgazams rocking through her.
To her surprise she felt his hips flush against the cradle of legs, she was completely impaled by him, the root of his cock stretching her asshole to its limits. She panted, confused, she wanted more and she also wanted him out of her. The strange intrusion repelled and stimulated her in new and indecent ways. A strong orgasam overtook her. "Oh gods, Azriel." It was all she could say. "Azriel, yes, Azriel '' he was just pressing into her, he didn't pump but she knew he wanted to but he was holding still to allow her time to adjust to his massive size and except his ownership of her ass.
Then he began to move.
He pulled out and pushed in with controlled thrusts. Gradually going deeper and harder until she completely submitted and relaxed all the muscles that resisted him before. He faucked her deep and pounded her so hard she felt completely wonton and not caring about how taboo and filthy this act was because at that moment she was his submissive little slut and she loved it. "Gods yes, you look so beautiful like this my little Nymph. Your skin flushed with pleasure, your breathing ragged and your pretty little pussy spread for me so I can see our come can leak out while my cock is in your ass." He said as he spread the opening of her pussy wide so he could see the impression of his cock moving in and out of her tight hole. She was depraved and desperate for more. "Please…" she begged. She didn't know what she was begging for because she lost all focus as another orgasam rocked through her.
Gods she was mindlessly panting as wave after wave of dirty pleasure rolled through every part of her body.
"What's that you little nymph? You need to come harder?"
"Yes!"
Azriel slid his thumb up to her clit and began tracing circles. In a fraction of a second Elaine was utterly undone. Her vision blacked out and she began to feel like she only existed in a world of pleasure and starbursts of light. Her body shattered, and she went limp, her ears rang in sync with the waves of receding pleasure seeping through her. She felt Azriel's cock get impossibly harder and longer at the same moment and he too shattered and collapsed on top of her; his wings sloping in a wreckless heap around them, his breathing hard and labored and his body slick with sweat. She lay there spent, her limbs heavy and body sated fighting to keep her eyes open. The only move he made for several minutes was to pull out of her and she immediately missed the fullness.
She never knew sex could be like that. She never knew that she could be like that. Who was she? Az shifted them into a more comfortable position. He leaned forward and gave her a chase kiss on the forehead.
"Are you ok?" Elain nodded.
"I didn't plan on taking things that far. Especially for the first time. I'm sorry, I'm usually more in control of myself"
"I asked for everything Az, I wanted it all and you gave it to me."
Az smiled, "That wasn't all my little nymph, that was just the tip of the iceberg."
Elains eyes widened at the revelation as Azriel got up and headed to the bathing chamber where she heard him turn the water on to fill the big stone tub.
She couldn't talk yet her body still wasn't responding to her, her throat felt hoarse from yelling. She started to feel cold.
"Elain?" She looked up at him, her eyes wide as she began to shake uncontrollably all over. She felt his shadows sweep over and pick her up once more to deposit her in his arms where he cradled her as if she weighed nothing at all. He carried her to the tub and stepped into a deliciously hot bath that immediately soothed the shaking.
"It's ok beauty, this is normal. It will pass in a few minutes." Azriel's arms felt stong, warm and amazing around her. She'd never felt so cherished in her entire life. Her body at last relaxed but she couldn't bring herself to let him go. She hooked her arms around his neck and straddled him, pressing her body flush against his. Better. She felt his wings cut through the water and wrap around her as his arms tightened their hold. Heaven. They sat there for what seemed a perfect and timeless eternity. Before he lifted his head and ended the spell "It's morning, I have to check in with Rhys and you should try to get some sleep." Az began as he lifted a bar of soap and began to wash her while she still clung to him.
"I don't want to let you go."
"I don't either."
He continued to lather her body, relishing the slickness of the soap between his hands and her skin.
"Please don't tell him about us"
"I have too, Beauty"
"Why?"
"He's my high lord and you are the high lady's sister. I violated a direct order to stay away from you. I have to tell him if only so he's not blindsided later"
"Do you have to tell him now? Can it wait?"
"You don't have to worry, Elain, I'll be the one he takes his anger out on, not you. I'll make sure of it."
"That's just it, Azriel; why should he be angry? I chose you and you chose me. This is none of his business. I want the same freedom everyone else is given, I choose who touches and enters my body and I choose you. Simple"
His face softened "Thank you, Elain, I am unworthy …" she put a finger over his lips
"You are a male of worth. You make me feel free and wanted. You sat with me in the dark and in the silence, you saw the real me when no one else even tried. Since the day you recovered from Hyberns bolt you have been my silent champion and protector guiding me through the darkness. You have never judged me or set me aside. You've always treated me as your equal. I, a silly girl before I met you, feel unworthy of your attention. I am honored to call you a friend and now, my lover." His heart squeezed. Azriel was speechless. This beautiful creature stole his heart. "I …. I…"
"Shhh"
She sat up straighter and swung her leg off his lap. She spoke as she rinsed herself by submerging neck deep in the water.
"Please just delay telling anyone about us. I want this to be just mine, to be just ours for as long as possible."
"We'll have to glamor our scents, it won't fool anyone specifically looking for it but it should buy us some time. You won't be able to open your mental shield for even a second around Rhys or Feyre. Can you do that?"
"Yes. But you don't have to worry about me, I am just simple little Elain, no one pays attention to me. They think my thoughts are only filled with dirt and flowers."
"That's not true."
"Only for you. I am the poor broken thing to be pitied, the simple minded seer that is brushed aside until needed. And that's ok, for now it serves my purpose." Elain pulled back and rose. The water cascading down her body in a sensual manner that had him hardening all over again. Elaine lifted a brow and started moving towards him. "No beauty, not right now. I have a high lord waiting for me and you need your rest, you'll be very sore in a few hours." He smiled. He rose as well, and grabbed a towel off the ledge to wrap her and carried her out of the tub and back to the bedroom. She found her night clothes and put them on while Az slipped into his pants. She stepped into his embrace as shadows coiled around them. She kissed him on his perfect lips as he walked her across the house while cloaked in shadows to shield them from prying eyes. Too soon she found herself back in her bedroom. "Try to get some sleep. I will be leaving for the continent in a few hours, I'll see you in a few days."
"I'll miss you"
"I'll miss you more"
He kissed her again, sweetly, chasely, lovingly before he stepped back into his shadows. And she was alone.
Az walked in the shadows back to his room that smelled of sex and Elain he relished in it. For the first time in his adult life Az didn't feel alone. He had a lover, not just a bed mate. One that chose him against the call of a mating bond. He felt wanted and powerful. He took one last deep breath after he furnished dressing and glamored the scent away, and set off for his meeting with Rhys about his mission. He couldn't wait to return from and do more dirty things to Elain's body.