Elide rode proudly next to Lorcan. They were on their way to Perranth, maybe a few hours away and all she could think of was her home. She had grown up there and, eventhough her memories were darkened by the presence of her uncle, she was dying to show it all to Lorcan.
They kept a steady rhythm, and at mid-day they had ridden almost to the walls. Lorcan had stopped to let his steed drink and so Elide had taken the chance to climb off, see to her needs and get some much needed rest from the saddle.
When she came back, Lorcan was waiting for her with the reins of the horses in his hands.
- You are shining, Elide.
- I am almost home. - she smiled back. - And with you.
Lorcan grinned back and bent down to kiss her. Elide gladly accepted the graze of lips and the wave of heat that his body caused in her.
- I cannot wait, Lady of Perranth, to get you in bed tonight and make you scream my name finally.
Elide was taken back and furiously blushed. Lorcan hollered and winked at her as she climbed back onto her horse and kicked it into a trot to get away from Lorcan. She also had been looking forward to that moment. They had decided to wait until they could have privacy and an environment in which Elide would feel comfortable. She had been longing for his touch and she finally would get a taste of what over 500 years of fae power had taught him.
Elide and Lorcan were received at the door with trumpets, flowers and music. Elide had cried of happiness when she had first seen the walls and she had kept shedding tears until the lords of the city had come to receive them. Lorcan had kept a bit of a distance but Elide had insisted that he stayed as close as possible to her.
- You are soon to be Lord Lorcan Lochan - she had reminded him, earning her a chuckle and a kiss on the cheek.
They had been escorted to the castle and into the dining hall, where they ate as if they hadn't tasted food for the last year. Nobody could have judged them.
Elide had spoken to all the lords and they had agreed that her naming day would be in a week. In the meantime she could get reacquainted with the castle and town.
They were finally left alone at dusk.
Elide kept drumming her fingers against the table, which Lorcan found quite amusing. He could smell her excitement and he was getting impatient himself. He stood up and offered her his hand.
- Would you like to show me around the castle?
Elide smiled up at him and grabbed his palm. She still had to wrap her mind around the fact that this fae male had chosen to stay with her. She was crippled and human and a sudden wave of sadness crossed her heart as she imagined herself passing and him crying her absence. Lorcan picked it up immediately.
- What is it Elide? - she did not look up at him and so he picked her chin and made her eyes lock in his.
- I am still astonished that you would choose to be with me. I... I was thinking about what will happen when... when I...
- What?
- I am not immortal, Lorcan. - he saw fear in her eyes. - I am wondering if you wouldn't be happier with a fae female.
- Listen to me, Elide. - They had stopped in the middle of the hallway, he did not care who could hear them, yet he pulled them into the closest room he could find for privacy. - There is nothing in this world that I want more than being with you. - the words were clogging in his throat - I have... I have suspected it for quite some time but... I think... - he could have gone back to fighting Hibern yet he could not find the courage to tell her. - I think we could be mates. - He grabbed her by the face and looked deep into her brown orbs. - Yet even if we weren't, Elide. I love you. And I would rather spend 50 years with you than another 500 years of warfare and lovers.
- I love you too, Lorcan. - she smiled.
- I am going to promise you something, Elide. - he grabbed his knife and put it to his palm. - I, Lorcan Salvaterre, hereby swear to you, Elide Lochan Lady of Perranth that, wherever we might go when death takes us we will go together. I will not be separated from you. Not today. Not never. - and he severed his palm. At that same instant a new bond stilled between them.
- Lorchan! You shouldn't have done that! I did not mean to take you away your immortality!
- What you don't understand Elide is this - he bent down and gazed deep into her eyes, waiting to kiss her -: there is no life for me without you.
Lorcan dove for her and Elide let him. They kissed and touched everything that their clothes allowed. Elide played with his hair and Lorcan grabbed her by the waist. They began walking backwards until Lorcan's knees hit the bed and he sat, Elide eye-height.
She gently laughed while pecking his forehead, his cheekbones, his nose...
- What is it?
- This is a guest's room. - she laughed. - What will the lords think?
- Well - he stood up and threw her over his shoulder, gaining a delighted shriek - guide me to our chambers before I make love to you in the hallway.
Elide laughed all the way to their room. Their room. It sounded surreal.
Lorcan kicked the door closed and used his foot to kick it locked. He pushed his boots out of his feet and dove for the bed.
He let Elide on her feet and knelt down in front of her. Taking her legs into his hands he massaged her ankles and took away her wrappings.
- Lorcan. - Elide whispered.
- I know. Patience is key. - he grinned to himself. She would have payed millions to know what crossed his mind. - I am gonna make you cry my name so much all Perranth is going to know who their new lord is.
A soft moan escaped Elide's mouth and Lorcan's eyes snapped to her. He fisted her skirt into his hands and started pulling upwards. He was being incredibly gentle for Elide's sake, he would take his time devouring her and, if that was all he got to do for now he would clap himself in the back. He would not rush her. Never. He got to the point her her skirts tied at her back and he expertly undid the laces, letting the garment fall down. Under it she wasn't wearing the pants he had seen her wear all those weeks before.
- When did you have time to take them off? - we asked while nuzzling her stomach.
- I took my chance the moment you were ushered off the room for my decency - she said rolling her eyes. - I thought you might like the surprise.
- Indeed, I do. - she was still wearing linen undergarments, but he could have breathed too hard and they would have come undone. There was no hiding from his senses now. He could smell excitement and also a tang of fear. - You know you can stop me anytime, right Elide?
- I am just nervous, Lorcan. I think it is expected the first time.
- Just remember that if it is too much for you, you can always stop me, okay? - she smiled tenderly at him and leaned down.
- Stop talking and start kissing.
- Yes, my lady. - she laughed softly at him and let him pick her up, wrapping her legs around his hips. Lorcan knelt down again gently with Elide sitting on the mattress. He began sliding his lips across her throat, going down to the base and nipping her collar bones. Elide had began writhing and she was clasping the mattress. - Can I take this off? - he asked while pulling at her shirt.
- Mhmm - she lowly moaned.
Lorcan opened her shirt and revealed to himself her pink flesh and cream nipples. He had to remind himself that it was her first time not to take her right there and then. He leaned forward and began touching them with his hands, licking and biting. Elide was coming undone, she picked a handful of his hair and pushed his face towards her chest demanding for more. Lorcan happily picked up speed and became more ravenous, sucking and blowing air into her skin.
- Lorcan!
He could smell her and it was driving him crazy. He gently pushed her down into the mattress and pried her legs open, pulling her last undergarments off her legs.
- Are you sure, Elide?
- Lorcan, if you stop right now I am going to get Aelin to broil your ass! - he laughed and bent down. Her smell was intoxicating, his pants were feeling too tight, but he would wait. He kissed the inner side of her thighs and run his nose up and down the skin, he nipped at her hip bones and put his open palm in her opening. Elide immediately tensed but he nuzzled her stomach kissing and gently biting at her skin. He slid his hand up and down, rubbing against her clitoris, she relaxed as the waves of pleasure began. His palm was getting wetter and slicker with her juices, he put his head down and kissed, licked and nipped at her clitoris. Elide was now openly moaning and whining, driving him crazy.
Lorcan slowly slid in a finger, rubbing in cricles and arching it insed of her, trying to find her spot. Elide was too gone, she was lost to his mouth. He added a second finger when he did not feel any resistance. She whined a bit, yet he was not sure if of pain or pleasure. He pressed up and down and on his way out he rubbed a little nub in the inside. Elide arched her back and screamed.
- Finally. - he hummed to himself. He resumed to licking and rubbing that spot.
- L.. Lorcan! - she was writhing. Elide did know what was going to happen, but she was too nervous to let go.
- Give it to me, Elide. - Lorcan pried her by blowing cold air to her clit while pressing on her nub. Elide screamed and fell back on the bed. Lorcan was panting, he put his head on her hip trying to gain some restraint on himself, otherwise he would ram into her, but that was for another time.
Lorcan waited until Elide had calmed down, but when he looked up her eyes were shut and her breathing had become even. Lorcan wanted to laugh, but he knew the emotional rollercoaster that the day had been for Elide. He picked her up, tucked her into the bed and kissed her forehead. He washed himself, shed his traveling clothes and got into bed, curling Elide to his side as she prefered to sleep, tucked under his arm with her head on his shoulder. He let her warm breath on his skin lull him to bed, and like that they fell asleep for the very first time in their home.
- - - -
Elide was incredibly embarrased. She had fallen asleep on Lorcan. He had given her the most powerful orgasm she had ever experienced even by herself. She had woken up that morning curled up to his side like they had been sleeping on the road all those previous months, he was still fast asleep and she would not have woken him up for all the money of the world. She took the time to observe him: his black hair had been brushed back and it was the sexiest mess Elide had ever seen, all spread out under him framing his darker skin. Some stubble had began to grow, giving him a careless air that had Elide pressing her legs together. His throat was out for her to admire, and so his chest. The covers had cought on his sleeping pants and they stopped right over his hips. Suddenlyan idea came to mind. She climbed on top of him and bent down, kissind his neck and nipping at the skin. Elide felt him begin to stir, he must have been very tired, but she knew he would not complain. She was still naked, he would be more than happy.
Lorcan woke up to a light weight on top of him that he understood to be Elide even in the mist of his dreams. It had been a very long time since he had slept in a warm bed with nobody trying to chase him to death and with a warm body cuddling him. He was being brought back to conscience by kisses and nips to his skin, and a warm pressure on top of his hips. He chuckled and rose his hands to her Elide's bottom was.
- This is the best wake-up call I've had in centuries. - Elide laughed softly and rose to kiss his mouth.
- I had to pay you back. - She was holding herself up with her hands on either side of his face, her breasts falling in front of him very tentavely.
- This is a very tempting sight, indeed. - He said while holding her down and grinding up, Elide moaned. - You don't owe me, Elide. It is a very good compliment to have you fall asleep by an orgasm. - She rolled her eyes at him and made to dismount him.
- I'll have someone get me dressed then if you don't want me. - Lorcan growled and claimed her mouth strongly, weaving his hand through her hair and the other one holding her ass down against his growing erection.
- I'm dying to be inside of you, Elide.
- Then what are you waiting for, Lorcan?
Lorcan sat up against the head board and kissed her so passionatedly Elide thought she could faint. He massaged her chest and sucked on her nipples while gently rocking his hips. He could feel her wetness from the inside of his sleeping pants, but he put one of his hands down to massage her clitoris, he did not want to hurt her. Lorcan wanted to roll her under him, but she stood her ground, holding him down with his hips, so he remained sat with Elide on top of him.
- You are gorgeous, Elide.
- And you are the godsdamn sexiest man alive. - she said before going back to eating his mouth. She had become an incredibly skilled kisser, and Lorcan didn't realize she had slid down his legs and undone his pants, letting his erection spring free. He felt her tentatively wrap her hands around him. - Show me, Lorcan.
He grabbed her hand and began pumping up and down, gently showing her how he liked it. She picked it up and began adding her own ideas, pressing on her way down and releasing him on her way up. She was officially driving him crazy, he enjoyed the feeling of her hand while watching her bite her lips in concentration. Her hair had fallen to the side and he felt a new urge at the base of his stomach at seeing her skin exposed to him. His most primal urges asked him to claim her, but he would put them aside and wait until she was ready. He moaned low in his throat, and she looked up at him with her inquisitive naive eyes, that almost undid him. She bent forward and began nipping at his neck's skin.
- Elide! - he could feel his stomach clenching, but he would not cum unless she said she was not ready to make love fully yet. - Elide, if you keep that up this is going to end very soon. - she looked up at him and nodded her head. She climbed back up his legs and positioned herself with his length, rubbing up and down, grinding them together. Lorcan wanted to howl, to ram inside of her and mark her. He felt the mating bond down inside of him, waking up, but he pushed it aside for now, he would not force it. - Do you wanna be on top? - he asked and she shrugged her shoulders. - Let me help you, but remember that you can stop anytime.
- Shut up and make me yours, Lorcan. Just... be gentle - Elide blushed. He leaned towards her and kissed her neck, then her lips. He grabbed her hips and lifter her up from his lap only to have his member lined up with her.
- We are going to do this slowly, Elide. If it hurts too much we stop. - Elide nodded and began descending, her head shot back in a moan that would have Lorcan undone had it not been that he was holding all his willpower not to just take her. She was incredibly warm, slick and tight. Her hormones were spurring him, she smelt incredibly apetizing to him. He felt her still for a second and then keep going in, sheazing him until she got unconfortable. He felt it and saw her lips twitch. He picked her chin and made her look at him, she looked sure, yet shy. He kissed her lips with all the love he could muster and played with her nipples, making her more and more excited, the mosture would help. He could feel her vagina clench around him, good.
- Lorcan...
- It's fine, Elide. When you're ready. - he kept kissing her and massaging her breasts, pinching at the peaks. Elide put her hands in his face and said:
- I never thought I could love as much as I love you, Lorcan. - she had cought him off guard, and she kissed him. Their tongues danced together, teeth clashing and moans intermingled. It was so passionate that Lorcan barely felt her slide down completely, sheathing him in. He felt like he was burning. Elide whined for a second, abruptly stopping him, but she tenderly smiled at him and asked. - Please, tell me what to do now... I don't know yet.
Lorcan felt his heart swell and he picked her hips and taught her how to roll them as if she was riding a horse. He didn't mind helping her, he loved seeing her come undone, and the feeling of her walls wrapped around him was intoxicating him. She put her hand over his heart and the other around his neck, at the base of his hair, bringing his mouth to hers. Openly moaning against his lips. Had he been a few years younger that would have made him cum, but he held his ground and let her look for the spots that made her clench. Her legs were pressing against each side of his hips, her mouth kissing and biting him without accord. It was the sexiest view he had ever come accross.
- Lorcan... I think I'm going to...
- Cum for me, Elide.
- You too, Lorcan.
Her hips began weaving faster, fully riding him on her own. Lorcan let the waves of pleasure hit him faster and faster, relishing on the feel of her warmth, her weight on top of him, her intoxicating smell. She moaned to the air on top of him, showing him her throat, his body aching to dig his teeth into her for the bond to settle down between them. She looked at him from her passion dazed eyes and pulled his mouth towards her skin.
- Elide... I don't want to force you.
- I also want the world to know you're mine, Lorcan. Mine and only mine.
- Elide, you could get pregnant.
- We are home, Lorcan, nobody wants to kill us. - she caressed his face and looked at him with the most loving stare he had ever seen on anyone towards him. - Would you deny your mate a baby?
He couldn't hold himself any longer. He bared his teeth and began pumping into Elide. She resumed her moaning, giving him access again to her skin. He let the bond's magic weave around them, clasping and securing, he felt her in a more intimate way, heard her heartbeat and her breath as if his own, he smelled her arousal and he came, bringing Elide down with him the cliff of their orgasm. They felt the bond tie as they fell together in bed. They were home.
- - - - - - - -
Two years later Elide had been visiting Rowan and Aelin in Terrasen when the King had pointed out that she smelled differently, Aelin that night had asked about her monthly cycles and Elide felt like running all the way to Perranth. She had left that same night furiously riding her horse to the doors of their house, where Lorcan waited for her with a panicked face.
- Are you okay? - he asked the moment she threw herself at him, crying and laughing at the same time. He examined her and he saw no blood, her limping was as it had been for years. She smiled and kept crying while holding him to her. - Elide, what is it? - when suddenly the air changed directions and it hit him. She smelled different, simply changed. Suddenly the bond struck him as if a whip. He looked down at her and saw how she had put his hand to her stomach, love shining from her eyes. - Are you...?
- We are going to have a baby, Lorcan.
- - - -
Lorcan did not know how he would become such a protective bastard, but Aelin happily reminded anytime she and Elide made to leave his and Rowan's eyesight. They had arrived a few weeks ago with Manon and Dorian, Chaol and Yrene and Aedion and Lysandra. They were all enjoying a few late summer days before the arrival of the autumn, when their child was bound to be born. Aelin and Manon had picked up a fight whether it was going to be a boy or a girl, but neither Elide nor Lorcan cared much. Yrene had calmly examined the child and had abstained from telling anybody. The night that she arrived she had also taken a look at Elide's foot. She had put a face that had Lorcan worried sick.
- The baby is very heavy. Her bones are being crashed. - Lorcan looked over his shoulder at Elide, she had been limping more than normal, but she had not said that her feet hurt differently. He had been brazing it with his magic, so maybe she hadn't been feeling more pain.
- Have you talked to her about this?
- I think I should talk to you and see if you had any ideas of how to approach it. - Lorcan thought about it.
- You are going to be here for the delivery. But I don't know how we could convince her to be in bed for more than one night. - Yrene laughed. - Will you please talk to her?
- Of course.
The following day while Manon and Aelin shot daggers at eachother, Yrene took Elide's hand and took her for a small walk.
- Elide, we need to talk. - the new mother stopped dead on her tracks.
- Is my baby okay?
- Strong as its father, don't worry. - Elide breathed out and looked at her, asking what it was. - I think now would be the best moment to fix your foot. After childbirth you're going to have to remain in bed for a few weeks, and I will be here all the time with you. - Yrene saw her reflect.
- After the child is born. I don't want your magic focusing on me if you need it to save her. - Yrene arched a brow.
- A girl? - Elide smiled to herself and shrugged her shoulders.
- Wouldn't it be fun to see Lorcan dealing with himself in female? - both women laughed.
- I am still waiting for Chaol and I to have a girl and see him try and manage.
- You know I am always up for a challenge, my love. - both women shrieked when Chaol appeared from behind a bush smiling at his wife. Elide took her chance and slipped away from the loving couple only to find herslef lovingly wrapped by Lorcan's arms, cuddling next to the fountain in the castle's gardens.
- Has Yrene talked to you? - Elide nodded. - And?
- I have agreed to have her fix my foot after the baby is born. - Lorcan seemed to physically relax. - Why didn't you tell me you were worried?
- You have enough by being so heavily pregnant. You could go into labor any minute. - He cupped her face and bent down to kiss her nose. - I would never be able to impose anything to you.
- Gods help you if you tried. - Manon and Aelin said, having suddenly appeared.
- Fuck off, you fire breeathing bitch.
- Lorcan! - but Aelin was laughing, Rowan shaking his head.
- It is at least a better name than Lord Lorcan Lochan. - she laughed to herself, and Lorcan growled at her.
When they were all together it did feel like home, soon to be one more.
- - -
Elide had gone into labor early during the first weeks of Autumn. Lorcan was there during the whole process, ready to welcome their child into the world while supporting Elide through the pain. Yrene was also there, cleaning and reassuring her. The labor had been hard but, according to Yrene, as normal as could be expected for the first time mother. The baby had been delivered soundly with a powerful whail of anger at being taken from the warmth of its mother. Elide and Lorcan had both cried while Yrene wrapped it up in blankets and made sure nothing was wrong.
- Would the parents like to know what this little angel is? - she said while giving it to Lorcan, who craddled the baby close to his chest as if it could break.
- Lorcan? - Elide called to her husband. He made his way to her and sat next to her, letting her rest while she could. The baby had fallen asleep next to its father's heart. Yrene slowly made her way out, leaving them to their newborn daughter.
- - -
Few battles can be counted from the time that King Dorian and Queen Aelin were crowned, however some did happen and Lorcan was called. He would have happily died to make sure that his family was safe in Perranth, yet death did not claim him. He had ridden off a few weeks ago leaving a heavily pregnant Elide behind with their two year old baby. It had broken his heart see her behind, but now he was approaching the walls and he could smell the three of them. He rushed inside and heard the most uplifting sound of all, her daughter calling to him.
- Dada! - he knelt down as she wobbled in her fat toddler legs towards him. She had gotten much better in the weeks he had been gone, and he threw her up in the air only to catch her and kiss her fat baby cheeks. She looked exactly like her mother, but he could see himself in her, particularly when she had a tantrum.
- Where is momma? - he asked and she signed to the garden, there he found Elide nursing a bundle covered only by a cotton cloth, it was spring and all the flowers had bloomed. She looked like a goddess, particularly with the black haired child nursing on its mother's breast. Yrene appeared and took his daughter from him, smiling and congratulating him on his son.
Lorcan felt like the world had vanished and he strode to Elide, who made to stand up, but he dropped to his knees in front of her. The baby kept nursing but the bit of him that he could see was exactly himself except for the lighter tone of skin that he had inherited from his mother.
- I am so sorry, Elide. - he whispered, feeling his eyes fill with tears. - I am sorry that I wasn't here.
- Shhh.. Lorcan. - she smiled and made to cuddle next to him. He wrapped his arms around the two of them and saw as his son delached from his mother's breasts and yawned not before focusing on him. - This is your father, my sun. - she called him. The baby seemed to recognize him but as young as he was he fell asleep against his mother's heartbeat.
Lorcan made a vow again that night to himself as his another three hearbeats soundly slept. He would never not be there for them. No matter what, he would protect them and love them even if that was the last thing he did.
- - - -
Elide and Lorcan of Perranth died at the age of 85 and who knew how long. They lived and loved eachother so strongly their kids had found them kissing and what not during all their life. Perranth mourned them, Aelin, Rowan and the rest came to say their goodbyes, but they knew that wherever their souls went when they died, they were eternally together, watching on their sons and daughters and loving eachother for ever more, because not only did they find eachother when the odds were against them but they loved so strongly death could not have separated them.