stimulate my sensitive tissues,
make them swell and tingle.
One thick finger entered my bottom. I groaned with pleasure
as his slippery digit pumped me slowly. Rall spanked me again, not hard—enough
to surprise me, heighten my awareness. I felt his chest rub against the nipples
he’d so thoroughly loved. The hard nubs slid along his skin, well-lubricated by
our combined sex-sweat.
Another slap on my rear before Rall palmed the halves
farther apart. Another finger joined the first, and I trembled, anticipating
Parron’s invasion. Rall’s cock pressed against the leather holding the taqqa
rod in place. Ecstasy seized me and I screamed and writhed.
Parron withdrew his hand and I whimpered. Rall spanked me.
“Did you say something, Your Majesty?” His voice was low, sweetened with the
hint of a tease.
I found myself giggling. “N-no.”
“I thought I heard you…beg.”
I gasped. “Never.”
“Or perhaps…you said, yes, do that again.”
“If I did not say it I meant to.”
“With pleasure.” He spanked my bottom again, and when he
gripped my buttocks, he opened me and Parron pressed his cock inside.
Though he’d taken me there before, still he stretched the
ring of flesh guarding my most private portal, and his tool felt like a lance
spearing through me. Fiery rapture engulfed my body, radiating in flaming waves
from his cock up my arse to the rod in my quim, to my clit, tortured unbearably
by the leather strap. I shouted with joy, arched and bowed, pressing my nipples
against Rall’s chest. He grabbed my head, pulled me down and kissed me deeply
as Parron fucked my bottom. I squirmed, reared and bucked, but Parron controlled
me, gripping my hips and spanking my buttocks while Rall wrapped one arm around
my waist to hold me firmly. I clung to his shoulders in a frenzied agony of
pleasure and pain as I cried out my release. Hot seed filled my rear and
spurted over my belly as my lovers joined me.
Aftershocks rippled through my body as Rall took my face
between his hands. “I love you, Audryn,” he whispered.
Tears spilled down my cheeks. Though I was the Queen of
Shadow, that night my body belonged to them, and they knew exactly what to do
with me.
* * * * *
Later, alone in my bedchamber, sleep eluded me.
I love you, Audryn.
This was the first time I understood that Rall’s feelings
exceeded the fealty he owed his queen.
Regret stabbed. I had not meant for Rall to fall in love
with me. Whatever I did, whomever I chose, I would hurt a good man, one who had
done nothing to deserve the pain I would surely deal.
Chapter Four
Though my sexual urges had been sated for a little while,
the next days presented another frustration. Try as I might, I could not get
Kaldir alone. I needed to tryst with the man, for I had taken Caducia’s advice
to heart. The people’s happiness is dependent upon the queen’s joy, for in
the Shadowlands, the people and their monarchs are one.
But wherever he went, he was attended by his retinue and
guards, some of whom were quite fierce. Though they had been persuaded to give
up their viciously curved, serrated scimitars, I suspected that the
scientifically advanced DesertDwellers hid smaller weapons beneath their
concealing robes. Myths had come down to us from the Progenitors, telling us
that our forebears had carried tiny machines that could reduce an opponent to
cinders with nothing but a flash of light. We had persistent though vague
reports that the DesertDwellers had reclaimed much of the Progenitors’
technology. Why not their weapons?
Aside from the annoyance Kaldir’s delegation presented,
wherever I went, guards and courtiers, ladies-in-waiting and the Ten Ministers
often followed. Even in quieter moments, my faithful Maia was near. Rall and
Parron also hovered protectively, and a bit jealously, I thought.
I needed to at least kiss my swain. Time was shortening, for
we had received a message that Darkness’ candidate was drawing nigh. Only he