Seratis Daughter of the Sun

by N J Adel

  “I must say this warm moment won’t stop me from insisting Seratis cannot be trusted,” he said.

  I held my breath, the muscles around heart squeezing. “What are you saying, Guard Redamun?”

  He held my free hand and pressed it gently. “I’m sorry. I have to stand by my words.”

  The wild energy screamed inside me. “Are you saying what I think you’re saying?” My voice and chin trembled.

  “I’m saying that knowing Meha and Seratis are one, I trust the Queen’s wisdom and integrity to command the Goddess and her inevitable whims, not the other way around.” His knee found the mosaicked floor, and a grin stretched on his face. “As for me, I do not have a choice whether to devote myself to my Queen. Even if Your Majesty decides to let me go, I cannot leave. I won’t know what to do with myself. I’m yours, Majesty. Together and forever.”

  Allowing myself to breathe again, I met his sparkling hazel eyes. “Always and forever.”

  “Now if you’ll excuse me, I’ll go fix that bath now.”

  “I’ll help,” Tia offered.

  “Me too,” Nur said.

  CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE

  As water streamed, filling the bath to its half, I told the boys to strip.

  They stood in all their perfection, one next to the other, bulging with muscles, exuding sex. Their shafts, even in their flatness, promised any girl a dazing pleasure.

  As much as I’d love having these delicious masculine treats again, I was dying for a more feminine time. A territory I’d never thought to explore yet had dominated my imagination since Awakening Day.

  With the last drop of water filling the bath, my heart thudded, our breaths loud in the bathroom.

  Tia walked slowly from the bath toward me, wringing her hands. I could feel her nervousness from across the chamber. And that of the boys, too.

  I was no exemption. I had butterflies fluttering in my stomach. Thank the Gods none of my companions could sense me. How nervous I was. How…shy and clueless.

  Yes, I got those feeling, too. Yet I could never show them. My image as a mighty Queen would have shaken in their eyes, and I’d have died out of embarrassment.

  Rule number one of being a Queen: pretend you were made of stone.

  The world may tumble around you, but you had to be as grounded as a thousand-year-old tree. No crying. No laughing. No fear. No love. No heat. Nothing could show.

  Unless to serve a purpose, of course.

  With kings, it was much simpler. But for women, there were rules upon rules upon rules. Never ending. Prohibiting the enjoyment of every single pleasure with suffocating pretentiousness and calculation.

  Which made me grateful for today. For the adventure that allowed me to have this moment. About to have the greatest sex of my life.

  I took Tia’s trembling hand in mine and glanced at the men. “Have either of you done this before?”

  Redamun’s lips twisted with a smile. “Done what exactly?”

  Nur rolled his eyes. “I have never been with two women at the same time, and definitely haven’t been with any with another man in the room.”

  “Never?” my guard exclaimed.

  “In case you haven’t noticed, I was a student, at the Temple. Sexual ventures weren’t exactly popular there. Even a peck on the cheek was something to brag about. And just so you know, I was one of the very few who lost their virginity back then.” Nur shook his head. “To a woman, at least,” he added. “What? Have you shared girls with your brothers in arms?”

  Redamun narrowed his eyes at him. “Not to sound like the sleaze you want Majesty to think I am, but yes. I have. Had you been a soldier, you would have understood. It’s different in the army. Sharing is a principal, privacy isn’t of any value, and girls go wild when they see the armor.” He turned to me. “And since we’re being honest, Majesty must know I’ve had an encounter with a brother once, too.”

  I raised my brows in wonder. “Guard Redamun, you’re full of surprises. Did you like that encounter in particular?”

  “I can’t say that I did, my Queen. It was rather painful and regrettable.”

  “Perhaps you were with the wrong person. If you try again with someone else you might find different results,” Nur said.

  Redamun narrowed his eyes at him again. “I’d rather be with my Queen, thank you very much.”

  “I’m only saying results can’t be conclusive with one experiment. I wasn’t offering anything. I have no intentions to be with anyone but our Queen.”

  I left the boys to their rivalry and concentrated on my handmaid. Watching Tia and I explore with intimacy would surely silence them.

  Lifting her hand to my lips, I peered at her. My lips shook as I pressed them to the center of her palm. She, too, trembled, as I kissed each of her fingertips, each knuckle.

  Now that I had tasted the skin of her hand, I could not stop. I hooked an arm around her waist and drew her to me. Then I pressed my mouth over hers.

  Heat rolled over my skin like warm water, dulling and heightening my senses at the same time. I cried out softly against her mouth, closing my eyes and losing myself in the smoothness of her lips.

  When I drew back, she swiped her tongue across her lips, her eyelids hooded as she savored my taste. I caressed her little chin and lifted it to see her eyes. “Was I all you were thinking about earlier in your chamber?”

  Shyness flushed her face. “Yes, my Queen.”

  “Show me.”

  Panting, she leaned in and kissed me again. Her tongue teased my lips apart, the unhurried firmness of her request sending a shiver through my body. She took the time to explore the inside of my mouth, cupping one hand at the small of my back and pulling me tight against her warm, lean body.

  Our tongues danced, intertwined. This soft, teasing acceptance seemed to drive her wild with desire. The sounds of flames filled the air, and I was too unfocused to notice where it was coming from.

  Breaking our kiss but not our embrace, I looked around to see that even though the men had eyes as big as the moon and hard rods sticking out from their groins, the fire was coming from the neck of the girl in my arms.

  “I can control your energy if you’d like me to,” I offered.

  She closed her eyes for a few moments, and the flames twirling to her short hair dimmed. “I’d like to try my best first,” she whispered, her gaze fastened on my breasts. “May I undress you, Majesty?”

  My fingers fumbled over the drapes of her dress, feeling her covered body first, the swell of her breasts, the curve of her waist, her belly, the bulge of her buttocks. I wanted to learn her body in every way possible, not only naked. And she pressed my hands at every stop.

  The heat in her dark eyes pulsed through me, and my heart drummed at the brushing of our bodies as I studied her figure. I guided her hands and let her feel me up as well, hoping to return some of the feelings she was giving me.

  Her chest swelled with air, and she took one of my thumbs in her mouth as her hands circled my flesh.

  She sucked on my thumb, her lips gliding up and down, sending hot wetness down my core.

  Nur gulped, and Redamun groaned. Their flames might not be visible yet, but I could feel them hissing internally.

  That along with Tia’s touch tripled my own fire and left it on the brink of explosion. “Yes, Tia. You may undress me now.”

  She found the knot of the sheet tied on the side under my armpit and with one swift move removed it off of me.

  I stood completely naked before her—before them—self-conscious for the first time in my life. I might have never been shy around each of them individually, and they had all seen me naked before, but never like this.

  “Oh, my Queen,” Redamun murmured. “The sight of your curves will never fail to take my breath away.”

  “Please. You’ve just been sweating all over those curves,” Nur said, leering at me, stroking himself. “You couldn’t possibly—”

  “Yes, I could. I’ve just been with Majesty,
and yet seeing her beautiful bare body again in such short interval knocks the air out of my chest. This is how much I love her.” Redamun dragged his eyes off me and to Nur. “How much power she has on me.” Then he slapped Nur’s hand that was on his hardness. “Have some respect, will ya?”

  The men continued their fight, but it fell deaf on my ears. At this instant, I was more interested in Tia’s expression and emotions.

  Her teeth speared her lip as she dropped the sheet on the marble tiles, her gaze devouring me.

  I, too, desired to see her.

  Gripping the hem of her dress with shaking hands, I pulled it up and over her head, letting it fall to the floor beside me.

  Words were slayed. Breaths were held. I stood before her while we both watched, trembling.

  For different reasons.

  Embarrassment coursed through her soul and found its way on her face, while my wild energy went crazy with all the arousal her nudity set in me.

  “Please, Majesty, you start. You touch me as I can’t bring myself to come near you like that. I don’t know how to…cross the lines with my own Queen.” Her gaze fell to her sandals.

  Part of me realized that making love to Tia would always have this element of power. She was a handmaid. I wasn’t only her ruler, her owner, too.

  And it burned her with desire as much as it did me.

  It was as though I was only attracted to prohibited affairs. My guard, my student and my handmaid. Each was a scandal on its own. What were the odds of me having each of such taboo excursions, let alone a gathering of all of them together?

  One huge forbidden expedition, and I loved every instant of it.

  The last of the doubts weighing on conscience fell away. I did not care how shameless my behavior or hers appeared. I pulled her and caught her mouth in a bruising kiss. Our bodies touched fully, skin to skin, woman bits to woman bits, for the first time.

  My chest ached with sweetness as she panted against my neck. I cupped her bottom and walked to the bath. Then we fell into the water with a heavy splash.

  I kissed her under water and above, unable to keep my hands to myself. My palm crept up her stomach, gently encircling her breast. She gasped, quivering, pushing herself into my grip.

  My fingers tangled into her black hair as I kissed down her neck, tasting her shoulder. From the corner of my eye, I saw the men approaching. They sat on the edge of the bath, their legs dangled in the water, their feet fully immersed.

  The clear liquid glistening from the men’s erections, and the water droplets trickling on Tia’s brown nipples drove my attention to the gushes of desire between my warm thighs.

  Gently, I pushed her head down to my chest, prompting her to suckle on me. My eyes closed as she took the rigid peak of my breast into her hot mouth, both of us sighing as one with pleasure.

  To make her feel this with me, I reached a hand between our bodies, feeling the smoothness of her hip, the point of her hipbone. My fingers wandered around her waist, moving lower and squeezing the swell of her backside with both hands.

  She moaned around my nipple and released her lips with a pop.

  “Am I going too fast for you?” I asked, hoping the answer was no.

  Shaking her head, she stroked my cheek with her fingers, pressing the tips to my mouth.

  I bit at them gently. “Good.”

  I wished to go even faster, but that look in her eyes, that smoldering innocence, tempted me to do the exact opposite.

  To have that look for as long as I could, with my hand between her legs, I caressed her inner thigh, not moving upwards even when I sensed her pleading need. She took my other breast into her mouth, sparks shooting in my belly, while my hands charted her legs and hips yet refused to explore more.

  For now.

  “Please, Majesty. I’m dying for your touch,” she begged between suckles, almost in tears.

  “Yes, please. I’m dying here, too,” Redamun said, his voice low and breathy.

  Finally, I moved my hand up, cupping and squeezing. A flood of scalding hot wetness greeted my touch.

  She made this sound in the back of her throat that had me moaning. I pressed between her folds, and her lips parted with a gasp.

  Her palm slid down my slick back, rubbing soothing circles over my hot skin. “I vow Your Majesty will be the only one to touch me.”

  My thumb grazed over her protruded spot, and her hips jerked upwards. “Oh,” she moaned, her body too hot now.

  I stilled. “Do you want me to stop?”

  She dared touch my buttocks with a shaking squeeze. “No.”

  “No!” Redamun said with the same urgency.

  Giving my guard a mocking glare, I slipped a second finger into place and pushed forward, filling her with a slow, burning stretch. Her body offered no resistance as I moved inside of her, curling my fingers. “Oh, Tia, you’re so soft and warm. Feeling you is driving me mad.”

  After a few testing strokes, I found a place against her front wall that seemed to trigger her most arousing sounds. I hooked my fingers against it, dragging a sharp cry from her throat. The pad of my thumb continued circling just above.

  She reached down and redirected me to her swelling nub. “Please, it’s too intense to bear. Finish me before I burst.”

  “Holy Gods.” Redamun’s hands fisted and unclenched several times. Then he punched Nur’s arm.

  Nur’s head whipped toward him. “What?”

  “Tanaha. How could you be that cold with all this happening right in front of you, Master…cucumber?”

  “I’m not! I’m only showing the respect you demanded. I don’t want to get into another fight with you.”

  “Well…thank you.” Redamun shifted his gaze toward me. “May I get in? My fire is about to burst. Majesty only compelled it to remain inside when I’m touching her.”

  I moaned. “All right. But you can’t touch me yet.”

  Frustration darkened his soul. “What about the fire?”

  “The water will help,” I said briefly, Tia having my full attention.

  “How?”

  I quickened the pace inside Tia as I glanced at Nur. He was as calm and patient as ever on the outside, twisted with need on the inside. “Do you know the answer to that one?” I asked him, too busy and engrossed in the moment to talk anymore.

  Tia rocked against my hand, trying to take me deeper. Her inner muscles clasped greedily around my fingers, pulling tightly around them as she screamed with pleasure.

  “If you know the answer, you might as well say it now,” Redamun yelled.

  “Oh my. Yes…the answer.” Nur wiped a hand over his forehead. “Energy can be transferred. Instead of blazing, channel all your wild energy and direct to the water. It’s the best medium to subdue fire,” he said, not taking his gaze off of me or what I was doing to my handmaid.

  “And how do you suggest I do that?” Redamun slipped into the bath.

  “Either you let the water energy in and let it wash away the fire, or will your fire out before you blaze, and the water will take it for you. It’s all a matter of concentration and timing.”

  “That easy, huh?” Redamun taunted.

  “Just stick it to the water, Redamun.”

  “You’re a pompous ass, you know that?”

  Nur hopped in and splashed his way to Redamun. “Here,” he spread his arms, “hold on to me. I’ll take it from you.”

  Redamun’s brows hooked, and his nose scrunched as if he smelled something bad. “Not a chance.”

  Tia’s moans echoed against the walls. “Majesty! I don’t think I can hold the flames any longer. I feel as though I’m swelling out of my own skin.”

  “It’s all right. Don’t hold back. I can stand your fire, and I’d love to make you come,” I encouraged her.

  “Master Nur, can you take it from me? Please?” she moaned as her pink folds raveled around my fingers.

  “Will you let me touch you?” he asked.

  “Yes. Yes!”

 
; He held her shoulders and wet his lips. “All right.” He inhaled and exhaled. “I…I feel it. Oh…it’s too damn hot.”

  “I can’t…” Panting, she shuddered. Her eyes locked with mine as her screams filled the room and released all of herself to my fingers.

  Nur lifted his palms off of her and dove under the water. Then I held her in my arms, planting kisses to every part of skin I could reach.

  She buried her face in my shoulder. “I had never known that anything could feel this blissful, Majesty.”

  My lips found her palm, and then I placed it on my cheek, hoping it would convey the words I couldn’t utter. With the amount of energy rippling around me, the need she evoked in me, and my own fire I was attempting to control, I had no power for anything else.

  Nur’s head rose above the surface. He blew out a long breath as he looked at the both us. “That was a lot to take…and probably the most sensual thing I’ve ever seen.”

  Redamun cleared his throat. “Not to ruin the moment, but you might want to get out of the bath. I don’t know how much longer I can hold on to these.”

  I was so lost with Tia’s climax around my fingers that I failed to notice the fireballs in his hands.

  “You should have let me take that for you. Who’s the pompous ass now?” Nur hopped gracefully out of the water and helped Tia out. She was really spent.

  I cleared the bath for Redamun to kill his fireballs. Water pooled from my hair around my feet, and heated fluids did between my legs.

  Nestling between my handmaid and my student, I let them both fold their arms around me in a tight embrace. Now that I had experienced what a man and a woman could do to my body, I yearned to feel their effect on me simultaneously.

  I gave Tia another kiss before I turned to Nur. Facing him, Tia holding me from behind, I bent his head to me and took his lips between mine.

  “You’re burning, Majesty,” he said against my lips. “Open up to me. Let me take some of that energy so Majesty can enjoy herself longer.”

  To do that, I would have to break my wall, and all my emotions along with my fears would be on display. I wasn’t that selfish to burden any of them in that way. “I’ll be fine. You don’t have to worry about me. I can channel it on my own. And once I contain it and summon it on demand like you do, I’ll be able to take it from the rest as well.” My tongue moved across his upper lip then the lower, tasting them in the slowest way possible.