Vesta's Virgin

by Suzanne Ravelle

  Mere seconds passed.

  And then, his hands were on her. Achillea froze. Doubt pierced through her like a pitch fork to the gut. The teachings of the priesthood screamed in her mind. Was she about to commit the gravest of errors? She made as if to step away but her husband’s hands tightened on her waist.

  She gave a startled cry as she felt the outline of his massive arousal pressing against the curve of her back.

  ‘Shhh Bella,’ said Helios as he turned her face towards his. ‘I will never hurt you.’

  She saw only love and barely restrained passion in his eyes. She relaxed, only to tense again as his hand brushed against her breast. ‘Please don’t fight me anymore,’ he murmured in her ear. Again, her breast, he lightly caressed.

  This time she felt a flame of desire lick her heated skin where moments before, his fingers had been. ‘Give yourself to me Bella,’ His voice sounded rough.

  Her heart softened at the sound. Even now, as her husband, he was holding back. She let out a carnal groan of submission. She wanted him, all of him.

  If it meant Vesta would come and annihilate her blackened soul as in her vision, so be it.

  She stretched her arms upwards to wrap them around the back of his neck, her fingers tangled in his hair. She arched her back and unconditionally offered him her breasts. ‘Touch me Helios. Please, take me. All of me,’ she pleaded.

  Achillea gasped as he swept his hands across her ribs and cupped, then fondled and massaged her breasts. His touch was gentle at first but became rougher and rougher with his rising passion. She felt his erection, wet and slick now, grinding against her buttocks. He swallowed her cry with his mouth as his fingers circled, pulled and teased at her nipples. Waves of desire coursed through her body. She felt, she must indeed, be burning in the eternal fire.

  But the pain was exquisite.

  His tongue plundered her mouth as his hand swept down her body to the triangle of hair between her legs. Her hands gripped his thighs as he slipped one finger up and down the length of her wetness. She moaned in bliss and opened her legs more so that he could truly possess her. She gave a strangled cry against his hot slanting mouth as his fingers entered her slickness.

  She was truly undone. Her fortress had finally been breached.

  And she wanted more!

  Achillea tore her mouth away from his lips. ‘Take me now Helios, now,’ she panted.

  Helios paused in his administrations.

  ‘Fill me up,’ she pleaded, her nails cutting into his legs. ‘I need to feel you inside me, please,’ she begged.

  ‘It will hurt Bella, but only for a moment,’ he ground out between ragged breaths. Achillea could feel every muscle in his body was clenched and strained to breaking. ‘I can wait.’

  Her heart fluttered. There he was doing it again. He always put her first. ‘No. Now! I want you now.’

  The throbbing ache between her legs needed to be fed. It was an excruciatingly exquisite, unrelenting, pulsating agony. She instinctively knew, only with Helios’s length sheathed deep inside her, would she somehow find release.

  Still he made no move.

  ‘I risk burning in Vesta’s wrath for you. Surely you’d think I can deal with a moment of a pain!’ she snapped, her patience wearing thin.

  Helios bit playfully into the back of her neck, his shoulders shaking with mirth. Bella, you definitely weren’t cut out to be a virgin were you!’

  ‘No!’ The realisation came as a genuine surprise. ‘Now finish your job and rescue me!’ she added, joining him in gales of laughter.

  CHAPTER XI

  Helios reclined on the furs strewn on the ground while Achillea fed him another berry. ‘Ouch,’ she laughed, as he playfully tried to nip her finger. She threw one at his head which he skilfully caught in his mouth. His familiar mocking smile was back, she noted, as she let out a giggle.

  They had been rendered debilitated by their laughter and so had turned their attentions to the feast. Although totally different, she found it equally as thrilling being this close and relaxed with him.

  They’d been talking and laughing for hours.

  The moon was high in the sky and the only sounds were the lullaby of the waves and the popping and cracking fire.

  Achillea reached for a slice of mango to wipe the smirk off his face. Helios anticipated her plan, throwing his light covering off he lunged for her and with a light pull yanked her down beside him.

  Squealing in delight but refusing to be thwarted, she squashed the fruit between her fingers and tried to smear him with it. Helios batted her hands away, straddled her and pinned her to the ground.

  ‘My, what a big strong husband I have,’ she laughed, as she eyed his engorged erection only inches from her head.

  ‘Oh you like that do you?’

  Achillea couldn’t believe it as she watched Helios, boldly and unashamedly, slowly stroke up and down his length. His dark smouldering gaze intently watched her face.

  ‘Yes,’ she breathed looking back and forth at him and his magnificent arousal. Both made her feel equally mesmerised.

  Her body shuddered with an unbidden lash of desire.

  She gave a purr of pleasure as Helios bent over and nuzzled her neck. ‘Well you’re going to like it even more later.’ He looked down at her again with a wicked teasing smile. ‘But first you must be punished.’

  ‘Punished?’ Her body jerked as she tried to sit up. But Helios’s grip was too tight. She gave a little cry of alarm as he whipped the covering off her, exposing her nakedness to his devouring eyes. ‘Helios, no - ’ Her protest was cut short by the hand he placed briefly over her mouth.

  ‘Shhh Bella, I’m sure you’re going to like it,’ he coaxed as he picked up a ripe green coconut.

  Achillea gasped in surprise and increased her struggles as she helplessly watched Helios pour the sticky clear milk over her breasts and tummy. She started to protest, ‘By the gods, what are you do -’ but was rendered speechless when he flicked her belly button with his tongue.

  ‘Oh,’ she said, with a nervous laugh.

  Helios briefly lifted his head. ‘I’m going to eat you all up,’ he growled.

  Achillea’s heart missed a beat as he inserted his tongue again and swirled and sucked the juices. His hands slipped down her arms as his tongue travelled up her stomach.

  She gasped and writhed in ecstasy as his hands glided over her wet, sticky breasts. The licks and kisses, under and over her bosom, as his thumbs grazed her nipples and his fingers massaged the soft flesh, were almost too much to bear.

  Her nails dug into his back and raked his shoulders. Lightning bolts of sizzling heat shot to her very centre as he clasped first one then the other nipple in his teeth, grinding them, just on the threshold of pleasure. His tongue and lips joined in the torture, flicking, licking and sucking without mercy.

  It was too much to endure. ‘Please Helios, please!’

  ‘I haven’t even started yet,’ he laughed, as he sucked the whole of her nipple and half of her breast into his hot, insatiable mouth.

  Achillea groaned in abandon at the cruel torturous pleasure. With a howl, she buried her hands in his hair and pulled him harder to her chest.

  She truly wanted to be devoured!

  Helios was unrelenting. His hand slid over her ribs and belly, while his mouth never left her breast. They both groaned in unison as his fingers delved into her throbbing wetness. Achillea unashamedly opened her legs wide to grant him better access.

  She wanted more, more, more. She couldn’t get enough!

  Helios finally lifted his mouth to trail kisses down her stomach and across her hips. One hand continued kneading and massaging her breasts and punishing her nipples while the other started probing and exploring, deep inside her most secret centre.

  Achillea groaned again, partly in alarm and partly in rapturous torture as Helios slipped his tongue along her hot, wet, swollen flesh, lapping at her moisture.

  She was panting now. Her body and
mind at fever pitch. Like an unrepentant harlot she gripped his head buried between her legs and rocked against his face, intensifying her unfettered desire.

  If this was punishment she feverishly hoped he’d dole it out daily! His tongue continued to hungrily lick and flick tirelessly up and down her labia. His lips ruthlessly kissed and sucked and nibbled, while his fingers continued to plunder her depths.

  Finally she reached breaking point. She screamed in ecstasy as a torrent of pulsating pleasure wracked her body. Helios doubled his efforts as wave after wave of intensely deep contractions washed over her.

  ‘Now Bella,’ groaned Helios as he positioned himself above her, ‘now while you’re ready!’

  Achillea’s very soul was on fire! Never had she imagined that one could experience such intense, unadulterated, divine sensations. Every nerve was scorched. Her entire body felt like it had been struck with lightning and was still sizzling and smouldering from the aftermath.

  She marvelled at her transformation. I’ve gone from prissy virgin to hedonistic… Her mind dared not finish the sentence. With an almost irreverent chuckle, she torched the thought before it could take a hold. But there was no denying that she definitely wanted more. She hungered for Helios. She simply couldn’t get enough.

  She was indeed reborn.

  Achillea frantically parted her legs even wider to let him in. She gasped in surprise and desire as she felt his bulbous tip press within and slide past her entrance. He was completely filling her up! Pure spasms of delight lanced her body as her channel stretched to accommodate his girth. But she could see in the tautness of his face and his straining muscles he was still holding back.

  She wanted it all.

  She wrapped her arms around his neck, nibbled and sucked at his ears and sprinkled kisses over his face and lips, urging him to press on.

  Helios gave a strained laugh. ‘It’s…going to… hurt, Bella,’

  ‘But only for a momen-’ the words were torn from her throat as his hips gave one powerful thrust, filling her with a searing burning pain. She stifled a cry against his chest. Tears sprung to her eyes. Her nails dug into his back and her whole body clamped around his rigid shaft.

  That hadn’t been what she’d been expecting!

  Still sheathed, Helios pulled her up onto his lap. ‘Shhh, Bella. It’s just the once. They’ll be no more pain,’ he promised gently, as he stroked up and down her back.

  Achillea started to relax. The sharp stabbing pain soon became a dull, dissipating ache as her body started to respond to his soothing caress.

  She became more and more aware of his erotically encased arousal buried deep within her core. She wanted to somehow get even closer.

  Her hips started gently circling of their own accord. She could feel her internal muscles massaging and exquisitely squeezing his throbbing member. The sensation was overwhelmingly…delicious. She just had to get more!

  ‘Easy Bella,’ groaned Helios, half laughing. ‘It’ll be over before we’ve started if you carry on like this!’

  ‘Really? You like it?’ she purred, secretly reveling in the fact she was exciting him. Helios merely gritted his teeth and nodded as she continued her experiment. Her body trembled with anticipation at just how much she might be able to affect him.

  ‘Oh.’ She said innocently as she adjusted the position of her legs, straddling his thighs. ‘How about this then?’

  Helios sucked the air through his teeth as she lifted herself almost clear and then slowly sheathed him again as she sat back down, straddling his hips.

  ‘I warned you.’ With a snarl of primal lust he savagely crushed her to his chest. ‘There’s no stopping me now!’ he growled.

  Achillea squealed in excitement and playfully tried to jump off his lap but his hands roughly grabbed her buttocks holding her to the spot.

  He started skillfully massaging and kneading the flesh.

  She was literally - dripping with desire. She didn’t want him to stop. ‘Is that it?’ she teased. ‘And to think I thought you were so big and strong!’

  ‘That’s it!’ he barked, as he grabbed her by the hair and covered her mouth in a deep, erotic, probing kiss. She melted into his embrace, her hips started rocking and grinding again, urging him to pick up the pace.

  Helios obliged. He grasped her plump behind and started lifting and lowering her up and down his shaft.

  She groaned ecstatically. Indescribable shockwaves of unleashed desire rippled through her body as Helios relentlessly increased and increased the tempo while he simultaneously started ravaging her breasts with his mouth, teeth, lips and tongue.

  It was more than she could bear.

  ‘Please Helios, now please!’ she panted, pleading for release.

  He groaned his agreement. Wrapping his arm around her waist he knelt forward until he was on top of her on the ground. Achillea gasped in ravenous delight as his mouth claimed hers in a bruising kiss. And then, he was thrusting again into her all enveloping heat.

  This time his strokes were deep, hard, and as fast as he could go.

  Her body ignited.

  She was entirely one throbbing erogenous mass. She could feel his orgasm claim him at the same time as she was claimed by her own. Her muscles gripped and rippled over his shuddering, undulating cock, milking every last drop of his seed.

  In unison they cried out each other’s names, before collapsing spent, satiated and entwined, in each other’s arms.

  CHAPTER XII

  They stood on the sands, watching the ebb and flow of the waves pulling over the stones. ‘There it is again!’ cried Achillea, pointing to a glint on the sea bed as the surface was briefly exposed to the sunlight.

  Helios waded into the waves, following the direction of her arm, his eyes searching the blanket of water as it swirled from his ankles up to his shins.

  ‘Over that way a bit more!’ she called from the shore.

  Helios stubbed his toe!

  The sea pulled back exposing a thin golden slab. He reached down and hefted it up and held the prize aloft. Achillea ran forward to join him, her hand to her chest. ‘It’s the lid from Vesta’s box!’

  She couldn’t believe her eyes.

  With a pang of guilt, she realised she hadn’t paid homage to the goddess for months. ‘What can this mean?’ Her voice was little more than a fearful whisper. But Helios heard her.

  He laughed. ‘Don’t worry Bella, it’s a blessing not an omen of disaster!’

  ‘Really?’ She warily watched him loading it onto their small, fashioned craft.

  Helios reached out and held her tight against his side. ‘Yes my love,’ he said gently, smiling down at her. ‘Don’t you see? We have been favoured and looked after ever since we got here. Everything we could possibly need has been provided.’

  Achillea knew what he said was most surely true. A sense of relief washed through her. Perhaps this was the goddess’ way of finally saying goodbye.

  ‘This is our last gift,’ he said, as he kissed the top of her head and squeezed her tight. ‘Vesta is giving you her blessing. It’s your dowry Bella.’

  ‘Thank you Vesta,’ she whispered as she stroked her swollen stomach. She finally felt released.

  At last she was truly free.

  ‘I love you,’ she said, as she turned into her husband’s strong, warm arms. She heard his heart leap in his chest as his hold tightened around her. It was the first time she’d ever told him.

  Her soul was finally at peace.

  She had everything she could possibly wish for now and everything the three of them would ever need. They would soon set sail for their new life.

  Her happiness was complete.

  AFTERWORD

  This is entirely a work of fiction. Please don’t rely on it for any historical accuracy of facts.

  Having said this, Vestal Virgins did in fact exist. They were chosen based on their exceptional beauty and bodily perfection from amongst the nobility originally (later from freeborn families
also) where both parents were still living.

  They were taken by the Pontifex Maximus from their homes between the ages of 6 and 10 to serve Vesta and preserve the sacred flame for a period of 30 years. During this period they had to remain virgins. But whether they, their clothing or person, were completely untouchable by anyone male - I don’t know. Probably not – it would have made life ridiculously difficult!

  I genuinely hope you’ve enjoyed my second novella, Vesta’s Virgin. If you did, please be kind enough to leave a review to help others find and enjoy it too. And of course, the facebook like is a help also.