A/N: Isn't it about time for another lemon after all this cuteness? X3 So yeah. Um . . . y'all better keep flossing because the sweetness just ain't stoppin'.

Chapter 40

Shepard and Liara stumbled into their bedroom around a heated kiss as their clothes fell to the floor around them. After politely asking Falere to babysit their napping twins for the afternoon, Liara had grabbed Shepard's hand and dragged her up to their bedroom. Before Shepard allowed herself to get carried away too quickly, she pushed Liara on the bed and gazed down at her bondmate with a seductive grin. Liara looked expectantly up at her and Shepard shivered when eyes dark with arousal met hers.

"I'd like to try something new," Shepard purred, leaning down to place an erotic kiss on Liara's lips. "Something I've been wanting to do to you for quite sometime. Will you let me?"

Liara shivered when Shepard's thumb teased one of her nipples. "W-what did you h-have in mind?" she asked breathlessly.

"Trust me, my love. Let me take you there," Shepard whispered around their kiss. "If you want me to stop, just use your word, okay?"

"Yes . . ." was the only response Liara offered. The human smiled around the kiss. Apparently, Liara really liked the idea of Shepard experimenting on her.

"Scoot up the bed, Love," Shepard requested, and Liara quickly complied.

Shepard moved to the dresser and rummaged around for a couple of things before returning to her wife. She attached two silk restraints to the posts on the headboard, then tied them to Liara's wrists so her wife was laying spread eagle on the bed. Liara flexed her arms a little, testing her mobility. After a few moments she seemed satisfied by the level of comfort. Shepard climbed up the bed and straddled her, bringing their lips together in another searing kiss. She pulled back after a few minutes to reveal another item she'd grabbed - a silk blindfold.

Liara glanced at it and her eyes widened. It was something Shepard had been saving for just such an occasion, and she prayed Liara was open to the idea. Her heart melted when she saw complete trust shine through those beautiful cerulean eyes. She couldn't resist placing another series of soft kisses on her wife's lips before tying the blindfold comfortably over the asari's eyes.

Shepard leaned back to relish in the sight before her, to take it in. It had been far too long since they'd been able to take their time making love and she was going to enjoy every moment.

"Oh Liara . . ." she breathed, covering her wife's breasts with her scarred hands. "You are exquisite. Every part of you. Goddess . . . you're the mother of my children, my wife, my love, my everything."

She leaned down and spread kisses along Liara's neck and chest while her hands began kneading and massaging Liara's soft breasts. She shuddered in delight every time Liara rewarded her with a soft gasp or a light groan. When she circled her thumbs over the asari's taut nipples, Liara arched off the bed with a cry of pleasured agony.

"Shepard . . .!" she gasped, and Shepard shivered when she saw an aroused flush creep into her wife's face.

She sealed their lips again in an open-mouthed kiss while her hands continued their teasing exploration. When Shepard had reduced Liara to a whimpering, writhing mess, she at last began her descent down her wife's body. She left a string of kisses along her neck, breasts, stomach and hips before finally settling between Liara's legs. Caressing the inside of her wife's thighs, she gently pushed them open, making Liara's centre blossom open and place it on prominent display. A soft groan escaped Shepard's lips.

"Goddess you are so beautiful," she whispered, unable to resist the impulse to reach out and test Liara's wetness with her fingertips. The asari's entire body convulsed from the caress.

"Please, Shepard . . ." Liara whispered, tugging against her restraints and spreading her legs even further apart.

Shepard settled comfortably on the bed and eased Liara's legs over her shoulders. She slowly laved her tongue from the base of her wife's opening all the way to the tip of her azure, and the simple action caused Liara to cry out and convulse again. Shepard purred and teasingly blew over her wife's wet centre, making Liara mewl helplessly.

"You taste so good," Shepard crooned, dipping her head again to capture more. She groaned against her wife's opening when she felt a pulse of arousal coat her chin. "I love how you feel," she murmured and reached a hand up to carefully peel back the hood protecting the sensitive bundle beneath, then flicked it with her tongue. Liara arched off the bed with another cry of pleasure, making Shepard tremble with desire. "And I especially love it when you do that."

"Please, Nicole, I . . . please," Liara said, surrendering herself completely to her bondmate.

Shepard couldn't have denied Liara, even if the whole galaxy needed saving in that moment. She sealed her lips around Liara's burning azure and suckled gently while slipping a teasing finger in her opening. Liara's entire body tensed and she cried out again, tugging at the restraints in vain. Shepard pinned Liara's writhing hips to the bed with her arm, then replaced the finger teasing at penetration with her tongue. She swirled it around her lover's opening, coating her tongue in the addicting taste before finally thrusting in and giving her wife the stimulation she knew she desperately required. She did this until her jaw screamed at her to stop, but she ignored it. All she wanted in that moment was to pleasure the beautiful goddess above her, to make her scream, to bring her to the brink of shattering, then rebuild her in her arms. She curled her tongue, seeking that wonderful spot within Liara. When she found it, she groaned against her wife's opening as Liara came undone.

Liara screamed Shepard's name as she came, her arousal flooding forth and into Shepard's eager mouth. The human caught all she could and swallowed greedily as her tongue continued coaxing every last drop from her wife. This went on for some time before Liara finally went limp, and Shepard drank in the sight of Liara's breasts rising and falling as she gasped for air. The human reluctantly pulled away and rose to her knees, but paused to revel in the sight below her. She raked her fingertips over Liara's stomach, offering comfort and reassurance as her bondmate came down from her high. But Shepard was far from finished. She had Liara all to herself and she wasn't going to waste the opportunity.

She leaned down and grabbed the final item she'd left on the bed for later - their favorite sensation-transmitting dildo. She shifted a little before quietly easing the toy inside her body so as not to give away her little surprise to Liara. When it was in place and the transmitter was active, she had to bit her lip to stop a groan. She was already so aroused from what she'd just done to Liara, that the toy immediately hardened in her hand.

When Liara began wriggling anxiously against her restraints, Shepard quickly leaned down and offered a reassuring kiss. She settled over Liara, then grasped the shaft in her hand and teased Liara's entrance, coating it with wetness. Liara gasped when she realized what Shepard was doing, then groaned the first inch of the toy slid inside her.

"Goddess . . ."

"Liara . . . oh god, Liara . . ."

No matter how many times they made love like this, it never seemed to stop being overwhelming, entering those silky wet walls. Everything about the experience was always complete bliss; the fluttering contractions that pulled her ever deeper, the soft groans pouring from Liara's lips, the tight, clinging heat, and Shepard's favorite part - when their hips met. And when their hips did meet, both of them arched into each other with a soft cry of ecstasy. While Liara's body adjusted to the stretch, Shepard removed the restraints and blindfold. She suddenly felt as though she would die if she couldn't look into those cerulean depths in that moment. Both of them sighed as the asari's hands snaked up her back, then their eyes met.

Shepard could find no words in that moment. The constant warmth, kindness, and love she always found in those blue eyes never ceased to steal her breath away. Every time she thought she'd given all of herself, all of her heart to Liara, her wife seemed to find one more piece to steal. And yet somehow Shepard couldn't find it in herself to care, she couldn't find it in herself to be afraid of how completely helpless she felt in Liara's endlessly loving embrace.

At some point Shepard realized her hips had started slowly moving, but the pleasure filling her body wasn't what had her so captivated. Liara T'Soni was beneath her, accepting all of her, loving her unconditionally. Her heart felt more in that moment than anything her body could possibly ever hope to feel.

Shepard continued rocking over Liara for what felt like a blissful eternity, only breaking eye contact occasionally to claim Liara's lips in slow, erotic kisses. Eventually their bodies began screaming at them for release, their muscles pulled so tight they feared they would snap. Liara's legs tightened around Shepard's waist and their movement became more frantic. With every downward thrust, Liara's eyes grew darker while her body grew lighter with biotic wisps.

Moments later Liara was cascading into her, filling her, cocooning her, loving her. Their thoughts, emotions, and bodies intertwined so tightly they felt as though they could never be separated again. And in that moment, they prayed they never would.

Their slick, hot bodies writhed and convulsed uncontrollably as they climbed ever closer toward inevitability. Both of them were lost, hopelessly lost in the other. Then three powerful words reverberated in their minds, echoing endlessly around them until all other thought was pushed away.

'I love you.'

They froze, staring into each other's eyes for several exquisite heartbeats, then the world around them shattered in wave after wave of pleasure. Somehow they held their gaze through every pulse, every shudder, every rippling spasm of muscles. Shepard remained buried to the hilt in Liara as they came, releasing all of her love and desire deep within her wife's silky walls. Every fluttering contraction drew out spurt after spurt of heat as Shepard emptied herself until she had nothing left to give. She at last collapsed forward into Liara's awaiting arms, unable to move and gasping for air.

Their minds remained entangled as their bodies came down, eventually melting into the mattress on every exhale. They parted only for a moment when Shepard pulled the toy from them, then they wrapped themselves in each other's arms once again. Thoughts drifted between them, memories of the trials they had faced to get to this point. Gratitude blossomed between them as they remembered the long, hard road to get here. All the trials they faced, the suffering, the loss, somehow, in each other's arms, was bearable. And in a way, they found a deeper happiness, a gratitude and appreciation of what they had. Life, in all its magnificent and terrifying glory, had not torn them apart, but brought them closer together. Against all odds, like the improbable colliding of two infinitesimal particles of light, they had found one another.

"I love you Liara T'Soni. So much," Shepard whispered.

"Oh my Commander," Liara breathed, pressing her lips to Shepard's heart. "My sweet, beautiful Commander. I love you, too."