The Hawk Lord by Amy Sumida
Chapter Twenty-Four
I was silent when we entered the Hawk Lord's tent. My eyes landed on a pile of my things near the entrance flap and my jaw clenched. Was this because I wouldn't have my own space anymore or was it because of our trip? I was too chickenshit to ask, especially when I met Dal's gaze and watched the inner green overtake the amethyst.
Dalsharan was panting, his jaw clenched, and the skin around his eyes twitching. He cast the whip aside and backhanded me. I stumbled back with the blow and part of me snapped. I swung without thinking, catching him in the jaw. Dal recoiled and gaped at me.
“You swore not to hurt me again!” I pointed in his face. “I let it go last night, but not today. If you're going to cut me off from my friends like that, then you had better treat me right, motherfucker!”
“Treat you right?” he snarled. “You just defied me in front of the entire army! Did you expect me to bring you back here and make love to you? You deserved that blow. You deserve even more than that, but I was reining myself in. Being my consort earned you some mercy, but it doesn't make you exempt from punishment.”
“Oh, I get that. Believe me, I do,” I growled. “You've made it painfully clear that I'm your slave in bed and your soldier outside of it.”
Dalsharan took a deep breath and let it out slowly. “I did warn you.”
I made a bleak sound and turned away from him, running my hands over my face. I wanted to scream, and walk out, and kiss him. I wanted to punch him again and then ride him rough. I wanted him.
“No one's ever fought for me like that,” I whispered.
“What?” Dalsharan's tone softened.
“I'm really fucking pissed that you did that to Alsand,” I spun around to snap at him. “Now no one will be themselves around me. You've taken away my family. The only family who accepted me. All I have is you now. But fuck, Dal, what you did was also brutally beautiful. It made me feel...”
“Yes?” He took a step forward.
“Important. To you.”
The Hawk Lord lifted his hand and set it gently on my cheek. The sting of his slap was already gone, now there was only warmth. His eyes were back to their normal color and he stared at me tenderly. “You are important to me. You've become important to me very quickly, and I think the pace of our relationship has confused us both. So, let me make myself clear. When I say that you are mine, I'm saying that I will fight for you. That I will look after your body and your heart. That you're safe with me. I'm saying that I love you, Ravyn.”
The breath left me in a rush, and I launched myself at him. Dal caught me and met my lips halfway. His mouth was demanding, his tongue lashing mine, while his arms held me with the strength of steel. Like a cage and a shield. Chains and the key to open them. I became his in that moment, completely his, and I suddenly didn't give a fuck about losing friends. Fuck 'em, I had the Hawk Lord.
We pulled off each other's clothes and fell to the floor to roll across the carpet. He was growling and pawing at me, his rough hands sliding over every inch of me possessively, and I couldn't get enough. But I wanted to be in control for once. Take something for myself. I pushed him back and straddled him, bending down to bite my way along his strong jaw and then kiss the column of his throat.
Dalsharan made a rumble of pleasure, his hand going to the back of my head. I found my way to one pert nipple, flushed rose against the gold of his skin. A moan left me as I sucked at it, the little bud like a childhood sweet to roll across my tongue. I bit and lathed it as I pinched the other.
“Ravyn,” his voice was low and so fucking sexy.
I smiled as I moved down, over the hard planes of his belly to where his beautiful cock strained for me. I bypassed it, moving down his thigh instead, luxuriating in the feel of the crisp golden hair curling there. I bit his knee, then pushed it out to the side, making room for me to slide between his legs. Dal growled and spread his legs wider for me.
I looked up and sighed. The hawk Lord had exposed himself to me at last—opened the gates to paradise. There, beneath the perfect column of his cock, cradled in a nest of pure white curls, were his glorious stones in their velvet case, blushing pale pink. And beyond them, between the spread globes of his ass, was a puckered hole painted dusky rose. I groaned and dove for it.
The Hawk Lord gasped as I kissed the sensitive skin beneath his sacs. His legs bent and opened further out to the sides, urging me onward. A hot breath on his hole had him shivering, and I took great delight in slowly pressing my face against him, the heat of his thighs enveloping me while his scent filled my nose. And then, when neither of us could stand the agony of anticipation any longer, I flicked my tongue over him.
“Ravyn!” he cried out.
I shoved my tongue into his ass.
“Oh, fuck,” he groaned. “Deeper.”
I pushed my tongue in deeper as I took his shaft in hand and started stroking it. Dal's hand clenched over the back off my head and pushed me down as if he could force me deeper inside him. I laved that clenching hole, my cock starting to pulse with need, and then licked my way up to his balls. After sucking them into my mouth and playing with them a while, I drew my tongue up the underside of his cock and laved the tip.
“That's it, suck me,” Dalsharan growled. “Suck my cock, Consort.”
I groaned and shoved it into my mouth, taking his dick as deep as I could, loosening my throat for him. A sigh that sounded half aroused and half relieved slid past Dal's lips as he stroked my hair back gently. I slid my stare up his muscular body and met his hot gaze. Now it was entirely amethyst. The Hawk Lord's lips parted and his tongue slid over them. I moaned and drew him out of my mouth so I could lick his impressive length.
“Can I ride you, my lord?” I purred.
“Do it,” he groaned. “Ride my cock, Ravyn.”
I crawled up his body and straddled his hips, positioning him at my entrance. Dal made a rumbling groan as the head of his cock breached me. My hips started to undulate, working him in. With a wicked grin, he reached between us and stroked himself, summoning that glorious lubricant. As soon as he withdrew his hand, I slammed down his greased length, and we both cried out.
I started a lazy pumping, rising and falling on his rock-hard rod. His curls tickled my ass and clung to my bare, oiled skin. I pressed my palms to his chest and rode him faster. Licking his lips again, Dalsharan grabbed my cock and worked his oil into it, making it glisten. His fist pumped me in time with my movements. We fucked faster and faster, our grunts of pleasure filling the tent. The sound of people walking by filtered in and heightened my arousal. So close. All of them so close while I fucked their warlord. Could the guards stationed outside hear us? Was it making them hard?
I moaned louder.
“That's it, my naughty bird, take my cock deep. Hold me inside you.”
“Come in me,” I begged. “I want you to fill my ass with your cum.”
“No,” he said in a strict tone. “I will tell you when I'm close and then you will take me in your mouth and swallow every drop.”
“Oh, I like that even better,” I growled and bent down to kiss him.
Dal drew his hand away from my cock and grabbed my ass instead. He spread it and used his grip to pull me down on him. I eased back from our kiss and smiled at him. It was nice to see him beneath me for once.
“You will do so the rest of the afternoon,” Dalsharan declared. “I want your belly full of my seed when we leave for Varalorre.”
“We're leaving today?” I paused.
Dal used my distraction to roll us. He lifted my legs onto his shoulders and started a wild thrusting. “Yes,” he panted. “Tonight, we will sleep in Varalorre. We will fuck in Varalorre.”
“Oh, say it again,” I begged.
He leaned down, opening me wider, and growled, “I'm going to fuck you all night in a bed with a view of the stars. You will scream my name to the Hawk Kingdom and all will know that I possess you.”
“Oh, fuck,” I moaned. “Yes, you do. You own me. And I love you, Dal.”
Dalsharan roared triumphantly and forgot all about pulling out. He came hot, and wet, and thick in my ass.
