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Even with her shaking legs, Tav managed to turn and face him fully, on her knees between his thighs so she could kiss him without straining her neck .
She dragged her hands down to the hem of his shirt, purposefully brushing the evidence of his desire straining against his trousers. The hitch in his breathing at her gentle touch brought a grin to her lips as her fingers drifted up through the hair of his stomach and chest, lifting his shirt. She paused for just a moment to savor their kiss before parting to toss the offending clothing aside, hers following close behind, leaving her in nothing but her small clothes.
Tav sat back on her haunches, admiring the man in front of her. Gale tried reaching for her, but she stopped him with a hand on his broad chest, drinking in the sight of him, the feel of him beneath her hands, the beating of his heart under her fingers.
It always thrilled her. These moments when she remembered just how large he was. It was easy to forget, given his robes, his profession, and even his demeanor. But he was broad and tall and handsome. He was kind and brilliant and funny and it broke her heart to know that he sometimes struggled to think he was worth anything at all beyond what he could do for others.
“Is everything okay?” He asked quietly, covering her hand with his.
“It's perfect. I was just wondering what I did to deserve you,” she said reverently, lacing her fingers with his. He took their joined hands and moved them to his cheek, nuzzling into her palm and placing a kiss there. “I do believe that's my line, oh savior of Baldur's Gate,” he teased, tugging her against his chest, his smiling lips just a hair's breadth away from hers.
A challenge, to see who would fall into the kiss first. A loss she took with pride, capturing his lips greedily, reveling in the familiar feel of his skin against hers.
He deepened their kiss, a delightful teasing of his tongue against hers, stroking in a way she knew meant to remind her of how the appendage felt between her thighs.
She had once teased him that he was out of practice when it came to kissing. That was no longer the case. She let him dominate their kiss as she ran her fingers down his torso, scratching gently with her nails and enjoying the way his breath hitched, nearly spilling into a moan. Once her questing hand reached the fabric of his trousers, she palmed his length, feeling his cock twitch as he bucked into her touch, begging for firmer pressure.
He broke their kiss with a shaky exhale and Tav took the opportunity to mouth at his neck, grazing his pulse with her teeth lightly as she drug her lips down his body, kissing and licking down his chest, pausing only to press a reverent kiss right above his navel before she looked up at him for consent.
There was uncertainty in those brown irises she loved so fiercely. “I want to,” she assured him, “but you can always say no.” He hesitated for a moment before nodding, and she tried to temper her excitement and untie the laces of his trousers instead of giving in to the desire to tear the cloth from his body.
“One condition,” he said, causing her to pause as he trailed his fingers down her sides, hooking his thumbs into the waistband of Tav’s underwear. “These come off.”
She grinned, tugging the last of his laces free before she stood. “I’ll show you mine if you show me yours,” she challenged, shimmying out of the last of her clothing and watching eagerly as Gale did the same, both of them bare at last.
They took a single moment to appreciate each other before he moved into a sitting position and she dropped to her knees on the wooden floor before him, urging his thighs further apart to better accommodate her.
Taking the hard length of him in hand she savored the silken skin beneath her fingers, appreciative of the weight of him as she stroked him gently, swiping a broad stroke of her tongue over the tip of his cock.
The sharp intake of breath through teeth caused her to look up at him, locking eyes as she licked him again, kissing the tip before taking him into her mouth, working him slowly at first. Teasing with swirls of her tongue while her hand stroked the length of him.
Groaning he reclined, resting his arms along the back of the settee, knuckles white as he gripped the fabric. He kept his eyes on her as she worked him, slowly taking more of his length, and letting him relax into the sensations.
She pulled back just before he hit her throat, using her hand to stroke his slicked cock while she pushed the hair from her face. Long fingers gathered her hair and held it back gently.
She grinned up at him, “Thank you, darling.”
“I live to please. Besides, it’s nice having something to do with my ha- ahh,” his reply cut short by a strangled moan as Tav took him fully into her mouth. The tightening of his hand in her hair tugged at her scalp and she hummed at the sensation, earning another cry of pleasure from him.
As she relaxed her throat and took him deeper, she understood why he enjoyed pleasuring her. Why he enjoyed taking his time wringing every drop of ecstasy from her. It was heady, knowing you were the only thing on your lovers mind. Knowing that you were the sole reason for their sounds of desire.
She moaned around him, taking him fully, causing him to hiss as he tugged at her hair with a breathless plea of, “Wait!” Taking her mouth off of him she looked up at him, “Everything okay?” Gale was near panting as he nodded, “Quite. More than, in fact. I’d hate for this to end prematurely.”
Tav pouted the slightest bit, looking up at him from her position between his thighs, “Are you sure? I was looking forward to having you finish in my mouth.”
He groaned and hauled her into his lap, pulling her into a heated kiss as she angled her hips to grind against his hardness. She was wet enough that he slid through her folds easily and he dropped his forehead to her shoulder, moaning and gripping her hips, pushing her back enough that she would be unable to maneuver him inside of her. She whined at the loss of friction as he brought his lips to her ear, tugging at the lobe with his teeth.
“Patience, my beautiful temptress,” he purred, licking the pounding pulse at her throat and scraping his teeth there. “I would love to grant you your deepest desires. To be one with you. To bury myself inside of you and fuck you until ecstasy is your only thought. Until I am all you can think about.”
She moaned and tried to grind against him but his grip held firm and he tsked, biting at her neck. “But you are going to have to be patient, because I am nowhere near finished with you,” he promised, his hand coming up around her back as he began murmuring into her neck.
Tav wasn’t sure if her brain was just addled with desire or if Gale was no longer speaking common, but she had lost comprehension of the words being spoken, lost in the feeling of his lips on her neck and the fingers he dragged from her hip to tease between her thighs.
She barely registered that she was tipping back, back, back until she had to wrap her arms around his shoulders to anchor herself. Even with his hand at her back holding her close, he kept leaning them backwards until she thought they would fall.
She squeezed her eyes shut, bracing to hit the floor as they tipped past the point of no return, but instead of wooden floors, her back met with soft fabric. She cracked her eyes open, meeting the gaze of her husband, who looked quite pleased with himself. Brown irises blown wide by black pupils but lit with a spark of mischief.
Glancing around for her bearings, she realized they were in their bed. He gave her a scant few moments to orient herself before kissing her, slowly at first but quickly building in intensity.
“I don’t want to sound ungrateful,” she whispered, suddenly conscious of the quiet without the crackling fire in the background, “But a little bit of warning would be nice. For next time.”
He chuckled, kissing her brow, “You know me. I strive to impress. But! I will make a mental note to give suitable warning. For next time.”
He kissed a line from her shoulder down her collar bone, pausing at the hollow of her throat. “Though I do apologize,” he added, trailing kisses down her sternum, “if I caused you any distress.”
Tav moaned as his mouth moved to her breast, licking and sucking at her nipple. “If you would allow me,” he moved to her other breast, using his clever fingers to continue teasing the first, “I would prove to you exactly,” he rolled a nipple between his thumb and forefinger, earning a whine as he trailed kisses down her stomach, “How remorseful I truly am.”
Sounding entirely unrepentant, he kissed one hip, then the other, Tav’s legs beginning to tremble as he rose onto his knees, dragging his short nails gently down her thighs to grab her calves and lift them to settle against his shoulders. Pressing a kiss to her ankle, he began mouthing a line down the inside of her thigh, sucking at the delicate skin there.
“I would kneel before you,” he continued, kissing closer to where she was so very wet and aching, “Prostrate myself and beg,” he settled between her thighs, her legs draped over his shoulders, “for your forgiveness,” he whispered, dragging his tongue through her folds, and groaning at the taste of her.
Tav’s head slammed back against the pillows, her hand pressed to her mouth to muffle a near scream of pleasure. Gale worked her with broad strokes of his tongue as she arched her hips, chasing firmer pressure. He obliged her by circling her clit with the tip of his tongue, suckling at the sensitive bundle of nerves and pinning her hips to the mattress with his forearm.
She bit down on the flesh of her palm, her other hand gripping the pillows behind her head like a lifeline.
With a free hand, Gale twisted his fingers with a flash of purple before pressing the palm of the same hand to the inside of her thigh and spreading her wider for him, allowing him to dip his tongue into her core.
Tav’s cry of pleasure turned to a gasp as her hand was pulled from her mouth, immaterial fingers grasping her wrist and moving it to join her hands together above her head, pinning them both firmly to the bed.
The next targeted swipe of his tongue over her clit filled the room with her cries. He hummed in satisfaction, reveling in the sounds she made for him. Wanting to hear more of them, he slid two fingers inside of her, causing her legs to tighten around him, but he didn’t pause in his ministrations, only continued to plunge his practiced fingers in and out of her.
Her moans grew louder and he moved the hand pinning her hips to the outside of her thigh, allowing her to grind against his mouth with abandon and use him as she wished, guiding him where she needed.
He crooked his digits as she grew closer, rubbing her just so and she found her release, keening her pleasure along with his name as he stroked her through the aftershocks.
Gale didn’t stop his attentions, even after her moans turned to whimpers. Only gentled his licks, fingers gliding in and out of her slowly, pushing her past overstimulation and towards another peak.
Tav writhed as he worked her with precision until she was panting, another orgasm building.
“Wait,” she gasped. He lifted his head and immediately dismissed the spectral hand restraining her. “I don’t want to finish again. Not without you,” she pleaded.
He smirked, running a hand over his mouth to wipe her wetness from his face before disentangling himself from her legs and pulling her into a searing kiss, covering her body with his own. She groaned as she tasted herself on his tongue, his beard still damp with her.
“Do you mean to insinuate that I have left you unfufilled, my darling wife?” He asked, rolling his hips against hers.
She moaned and arched into him. “I didn’t mean to insinuate anything, my dearest husband. I meant to say it much more directly,” she purred.
He chuckled quietly before lining himself up to her entrance, capturing her lips as he pushed inside of her.
She buried her fingers in his hair, focused solely on the sensation of him filling her inch by glorious inch. The stretch of him and the fullness as he finally hilted himself was almost too much.
He paused, pressing his forehead to hers, biting down on his back teeth to give her a moment to adjust, to remember how to breathe and how to think around the feel of him.
“I love you,” he whispered reverently. “And I love you. More than you could ever know,” she replied, cupping his cheek and bringing their lips together, basking in their connection, body and soul for a few moments before she shifted her hips in a silent request.
Gale pulled nearly all the way out before rocking back into her earning a moan from them both. He set a moderate pace and she met each of his thrusts with a roll of her hips.
Wanting to tease, she clenched around him experimentally and he sucked in a breath through his teeth, snapping his hips forward roughly, causing her to whimper. Gale moved his mouth to her ear. “Careful,” he warned, “I would delight in drawing out your pleasure, loving you gently and thoroughly, but should you continue to tease…” he punctuated the threat with a hard thrust, biting at her ear lobe.
Tav gripped his shoulders, digging her nails in lightly. “Do you promise?” Her eyes pleaded up at him, the very picture of innocence.
He chuckled out a low, “Temptress,” before he sat back on his haunches and lifted her calves to his shoulders, driving into her at a harder pace.
She braced her forearms against the headboard to withstand the force of his thrusts, moaning loudly at the new angle.
He kept his eyes locked on where they were joined and groaned, “This is my favorite view in every realm.”
“Even better than the view from the balcony?” she asked with a cheeky smile.
“Yes, but I’ve never had the pleasure of seeing you bent over our balcony. An oversight I would be eager to rectify,” he said, reaching between them to tease.
She bit down on her lip, failing to stifle a moan, and pulled one of her captured legs from his grip, nudging his ribs with her shin. A quiet request born of a selfish desire to get her hands on him.
Gale smirked, withdrawing from her and laying flat on his back, his hands going to her hips as she moved to sit astride him.
Tav ran her hands through the hair of his chest as she sank back down on his length, gasping at the deepened connection, grinding her hips against him, lost in her own pleasure. The hands at her hips encouraged her to take what she needed from him.
She leaned down to kiss him deeply as she began to truly move on him, raising up and sinking back down slowly, both of them breathing heavily.
With her hands on his chest, she rode him, pulling gasps and moans from both of them in equal measure as she increased her pace.
He moved a hand to tease at her clit, causing her to cry out and he looked into her eyes. “I’d like to retract my previous statement. This is my new favorite view,” he panted, gritting his teeth against the sensations that threatened to overwhelm him as he began thrusting up into her, determined to have her finish one last time before he allowed himself to find his own pleasure.
Tav’s hips began losing their rhythm as she approached her peak. He focused his efforts on her most sensitive spot and groaned as she finally reached her release, clenching around him with a choked cry as she came, her nails digging into his chest.
The sensation drove him to his own end, fingers gripping her hips as he drove into her as deeply as he could and spilled himself inside of her.
They stayed connected as she collapsed against his chest, boneless and spent. Gale wrapped an arm around her, rubbing lazy circles into her back, content to have her rest on him for as long as she needed.
Slowly, they both came down from their respective highs and she moved to lay next to him.
He was quick to wrap an arm around her and press his forehead to hers, giving the tip of her nose a light peck.
She returned the gesture and laughed quietly, “I’m going to have to narrate all of my dirty books to you now.”
“I admit, it gives an entirely new meaning to ‘reading for pleasure’,” he chuckled.
She nuzzled into his chest and closed her eyes as he stroked her hair.
“I love you,” she said drowsily.
“And I love you too,” he replied, kissing the top of her head as they both drifted to sleep, “More than you could ever know.”