Deliverance (Knights of Black Swan Book 12)
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“Do you mean you’ve never done this before?” She nodded. “And you want to give this to me?” He looked and sounded awestruck. She nodded again. “It doesn’t make sense. Why have you never…?”
“You,” she whispered.
He frowned. “What do you mean?”
“That night. I saw your face, your smile. I felt your breath in my ear.” She took a deep breath and looked like she was remembering. “After that, how could I want anybody else?”
Deliverance realized that he hadn’t been interested in sex with anyone other than Sixt since the day she lifted the curse. Could it be?
“I haven’t been with anybody since you unhexed me.”
“Why?”
He grinned in the way that made his eyes flash. “Why do you think?”
“Do you believe in fate?”
He nodded. “No question.” He looked away for a scant second. “Are you saying that we’re fated mates? Demons and witches don’t have fated mates. That I know of.” He added a waiver to his statement because Deliverance was very aware that there were few absolutes in the universe.
As if she’d heard his last thought, she said, “Maybe we’re the exception.”
He looked into Sixt’s liquid blue eyes reflecting the firelight in a way that made him think he’d never really appreciated fire before . Taking a strand of her hair between his fingers he said, “I know I don’t want anything, but to be right here, right now. With you.”
“So I guess we’ll see,” she said.
“I guess we’ll see,” he repeated. “Have you ever touched a male?” She shook her head. He rolled over onto his back. “Touch me.”
“I don’t know what…”
“Do whatever you want. You won’t hurt me. Explore.”
They couldn’t possibly have been more different. The demon who’d probably set a record for sexual encounters was aroused beyond reason by a virgin who was a blank slate. No experience. No preferences. No idea what lovemaking felt like. And there was a side of him that he hadn’t known existed that was delighted by her inexperience and the fact that he was the first male she’d ever touched.
Sixt rolled over on her side. After a brief hesitation she placed the flat of her palm over his heart, then petted his hair-free chest, running her thumb over his puckered nipple as he’d done with her. His chest rose and fell in a steady rhythm as he labored to control his breathing.
His cock lifted up from his belly, straining toward her hand as if it had a mind of its own and was hoping to draw her attention. She noticed the movement, glanced at his face, and licked her lips as she surveyed his length, girth, and color. Even though she didn’t have any experience with penises on a close personal basis, she was certain that Deliverance had to be perfectly formed.
When she finally encircled him with her hand, the demon sucked in a breath so suddenly that she jerked back. He laughed. “Don’t stop. I just did that because it felt good.”
“Really?”
“So. Good,” he assured her.
She experimented with gripping and pumping, paying attention to the demon’s reactions. The bigger the reaction, the more powerful she felt and her confidence was growing by the second. She turned her attention to his balls, cupping and moving them about gently as he moaned and moved his pelvis up and back.
“Enough!” he said. “My turn.”
Putting Sixt on her back, he loomed over her once again. He slid down her body, kissing, nuzzling, nibbling, licking until she thought she would go insane, but she had no idea what sexual insanity was until he blew across her pubic hair, as promised. Then parting the lips of her labia, he smiled in a way that said he liked what he saw.
One practiced lick up her channel had Sixt trying to shoot off the bed with a mighty arch of her back. Deliverance held her legs in place while he administered a sweet torture that she’d never forget as long as she lived.
“I… I…”
He smiled to himself, knowing that she didn’t know what to ask for. It was kind of mean, but it was also titillating, knowing that he was master of her frustration, her pleasure, and her release.
He tongued her clit with ecstatic abandon until she repeatedly yelled out the names of every god that came to mind, while pulling his hair with one hand and digging fingernails into his shoulder with the other.
When she reached the point where she was begging him to stop, he knew it was time to set her orgasm and her virginity free. He maintained contact with her most sensitive little organ while he positioned himself between her legs, aching for release himself. He slid inside so that, at the very moment she ascended into a state of rapture paralysis, he pushed through the barrier all the way to the hilt.
Using some of his own sexual magic, he made certain there were no painful aftereffects. He wanted her memories of the two of them together to hold nothing but pleasure.
Deliverance didn’t remember much about the females he’d been with over the millennia of his long life, but he was certain sex had never felt like a transcendent experience, as it did with Sixt. As he slid in and out slowly, he raised up so that he could see her face as she floated back to post-orgasm focus and felt something akin to reverence.
She smiled lazily. “Hi,” she drawled.
He smiled. “Hi.”
“Gods. That feels good. What you’re doing. Don’t stop.”
He took that as a cue to move faster. The demon had never felt an urgency to climax like the one in progress. Fortunately for him, he was able to coax another orgasm from Sixt by blowing in her ear as hips pounded the body that felt like it had been custom designed for his enjoyment. When she came again, he let go.
She felt the heat of his sperm filling her and reveled in it until sanity returned long enough for her to wonder about birth control.
“Demon.”
“Uh-huh,” he said, moving.
“You came inside me.”
She felt him smile against her neck. “I know.”
“So there’s no possibility of, um, pregnancy?”
He rolled off her, looked at the ceiling, and scrubbed a hand over his face. “I, ah, don’t know?”
She raised up on one elbow. “Seriously? You’re planning on populating the world with witch-demons?”
“Well…”
“That is not an acceptable answer.”
“But I wouldn’t mind having more…”
“Not. An acceptable answer.”
“Okay. Settle down a minute.”
He put his ear to her abdomen like he was listening for something and, while he was doing that, her imagination entertained the idea of raising a witch-demon. Someday. As images of that came to mind, she began stroking his hair.
He raised his head and looked at her. “You are not pregnant.”
Oddly enough, she felt a tiny and completely unexpected pang of sadness to hear that news. In the space of a minute she’d gone from being certain she never wanted a family to thinking it didn’t sound all bad.
“I’m not going to ask how you know. I’m just going to take your word for it. But if we’re going to do this again…”
“And we are,” he interjected.
“We need to be more careful.”
“I agree. But I really wouldn’t mind having…”
“That’s not a discussion we’re having without commitment.”
He nodded. “Where do I sign up?”
“For what?”
“For commitment.”
She laughed. “You’re committing to me.”
“I am.”
“What does that mean to you?”
“I’m not clueless.”
“I didn’t say you were. But commitment would be really different for you.”
He pushed her hair behind her ear more as a gesture of affection than because it needed doing. “It means it’s you for me and me for you. It means I’ll listen to you when you want to talk, even if you’re mad at me. I’ll come when you call. I’ll find a new home for th
at bird.”
“Wait a minute.” She was liking what was up till then.
He went on as if she hadn’t objected to the bird thing. “I’ll be friends with your friends and pretend to like your brother.”
“I call bullshit on that. You like my brother. And you wouldn’t have to pretend.”
“Okay. I give you that. He’s harmless.”
“No. No, he’s not. Unless you were trying for some word humor.”
He gave her one of the smiles that would have her doing anything he wanted without question and continued his list.
“You’ll never have to pick up after me or run my errands or make food for me. You’ll watch TV with me. Learn to ride dragons. And love me.”
She readjusted her position on the pillow so that she could face him fully. “Love you?”
“Yeah. Can you do that?”
Sixt smiled. “I think I can.”
And that is the story of how the demon, Deliverance, was freed from his curse and found love at the same time.
Sixt amused her new witch friends, when they were gathered at her penthouse for a special brew party, by relating the story. She said it was a lot like Beauty and the Beast. She took credit for the original story and who was there to dispute it? Except that Beauty and the witch who spun the curse were one and the same. Oh, and the beast was the furthest thing from hideous.
Author’s Notes:
I sincerely hope you enjoyed reading Deliverance.
I had said, quite a few times, that I would never write a book about this character, proving once again that one should ‘never say never’. Early in the writing of Finngarick, I realized that Deliverance did have a story worth telling.
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