For the Love of Elves (World Walker Book 1)

by Shawn Keys

For now.

  He took one last look at the huge distance yet to cover. Their food and water were holding for now, meant for a much larger crew. But there were limits, and they dared not get becalmed or lose their way on the endless sea. That sounded like a bad way to die.

  Leaving such dark thoughts behind, he left the large space and took the few steps to his own cramped cabin. The others had been kind, giving him the second largest space, though it was still barely large enough to contain him.

  He opened the latch and the door creaked wide.

  The cabin was anything but empty.

  His pillow was propped against the far wall. It was tucked behind Jyliansa, supporting her slight weight as she leaned against it. In the fading sunlight coming in through the porthole, her eyes shimmered with anticipation. Her teeth nibbled at her lower lip, clearly nervous about what his reaction was going to be. Her legs were spread invitingly. They eased open a little wider at the sight of him, and Jyliansa’s nervous smile grew a little more eager.

  If he saw nothing else, Ajax would have considered himself a fortunate man.

  But there was so much more.

  Jyliansa wasn’t alone.

  Laying on their sides, Krizzilani and Helleanna framed her, right and left respectively. Their legs were tangled in and around Jyliansa’s, as if holding them apart in the event the sea elf lost her nerve. They were leaning in, placing sweet kisses along her bare shoulders. All three were still wearing their work dresses, but many of the laces and bindings were undone. It was clear they had not been truly waiting on him. All three were panting softly, their hands caressing over each other’s bodies to stir their passions before their wonderful little trap was sprung.

  All three were peering up at him now expectantly. Both Helleanna and Krizzilani wore mischievous smiles. They knew what Jyliansa was in for, and were very much enjoying the idea of offering her up to Ajax’s lust. Their hands crept down the sea elf’s thighs and took delicate hold of the lower hem of Jyliansa’s dress. Deliberately slow, they pulled upward, revealing more and more and more of Jyliansa’s sensitive flesh until at last they uncovered her center.

  She was wearing nothing. Her skin was smooth, a natural evolution for sea elves. It made the green-tinged puff of her labia stand out against her tanned skin. A sheen of her excitement seeped from her netherlips and made the tender skin glisten in the meagre light of the cabin.

  Krizzilani spoke first, “She’s the only one who hasn’t had you yet.”

  Helleanna grinned, “And if she’s going to be part of the team and cross to the edge of creation with you, you need to show her what heaven looks like.”

  Jyliansa exhaled a breathy giggle at their antics, then gave him a little nod to confirm they were speaking for her since she couldn’t find the right words.

  Ajax wanted nothing to burst the bubble that was this dream. He took a slow step into the chamber, worried that moving too quickly might chase these visions of beauty away. He placed a heavy knee on the edge of the bed. It groaned a little, and the three elfish women laughed at what that implied. He loomed over them, weighing close to all three combined. Even outnumbered, he gave the impression he was about to overwhelm them all.

  His meaty hands reached out, but didn’t connect with Jyliansa immediately. Instead, his grip fell on the upturned thighs of the other two. Creeping his knee forward to support himself, Ajax pushed their own dresses higher, revealing Krizzilani’s night-black skin and Helleanna’s pale-white-blue skin in contrast. He shuffled their dresses up over the curve of their behinds, then dipped his hand to stroke against their wet cores from behind. He gave them a heated look backed by a primal growl, “I’ll deal with you two later.”

  Their responding moans said everything. They rubbed their thighs together, grinding against his hands working delicious patterns against their slits. Inspired by his touch, their hands drifted up from the raised hem of Jyliansa’s dress and cupped around the swell of the sea elf’s breasts. Tugging at the cords holding her dress closed, they loosened the fabric and slipped their hands in to fondle her flesh to flesh.

  Resting between the sea elf’s legs, Ajax pulled his hands free and began to strip off his own clothes that were very much in the way. Tossing away his leather overcoat and then the shirt beneath, he bared his broad, muscled chest. He nudged his boots off, letting them clatter to the floor. Only his trousers remained, and he pried loose the clasp holding them closed.

  The sensual vision of the three elves cuddled onto his bed had his cock begging for more room. As he released the tension, his thick flesh surged into view. It hung in the open air, throbbing with need, and looking far, far too much for Jyliansa to take.

  The sea elf whimpered in a blend of need and nerves.

  Krizzilani squeezed her breast softly, then nuzzled up to her ear. “Trust us. Once inside, you’ll never want him anywhere else.” She formed her lips into a kiss, then licked up the sensitive edge of the sea elf’s lower ear.

  Shivering, Jyliansa nodded again, then stretched her legs even further open, tucking them under the arms of the other women and opening Ajax’s path.

  Ajax continued to move slowly, enjoying the way the leisurely pace built the tension between them. His hand closed over his own shaft, pumping it a couple times and bringing it to full stature. It seemed to fill the whole space between them. He met Jyliansa’s eyes. “Touch it. Feel how much it wants you.”

  Practically hyper-ventilating, Jyliansa uncoiled her arms from around the shoulders of the other elves. Her webbed fingers slid in and around his phallus that was practically boiling from the hot blood pumping through it. Ajax lifted his hand away, giving her freedom to roam over him. Her lean, dexterous fingers were relatively long for her size, but still could barely manage to close around the girth of him. She grew bolder, gliding both hands up and down his shaft. At first, merely grazing him. Then, her grip tightened, and she pumped his flesh up and down along the hard core within.

  It was Ajax’s turn to groan with pleasure at the way her double grasp coaxed him. He leaned in, enjoying the shiver she gave as he crowded out the light, becoming everything she could see. So huge. In every way, so huge, eclipsing the rest of her world. His gaze traced over her trembling lips, then lowered far enough to capture them in a gentle kiss. He tasted the salt of the sea on her, and let her taste the desire he was only barely holding at bay.

  It was her that reached up, arching her back so that her mouth could press more firmly against his. Her tongue lashed out and along his lips on a quest to find his own.

  As their kiss heated, his right knee slid forward and out, digging under her legs and lifting her thighs further open. He could feel Krizzilani’s smooth skin curling around his leg and Jyliansa’s together. The dark elf’s hand stroked compelling patterns over both of them, urging them together.

  His other knee flowed out to the left. Helleanna embraced him as well, mirroring Krizzilani. Their shared touches washed over Ajax’s back and legs and backside, cupping and squeezing his hard flesh now that he was blocking their way to Jyliansa’s breasts.

  As Ajax possessed the space between her legs, the sea elf’s two hands led him in. He felt his thick tip split the folds of her wet labia. Parting from their kiss, he rumbled, “Stroke me through you. Use me like you would your fingers when playing alone.”

  Shivering again under his erotic direction, Jyliansa grinded the tip of his cock up to her clit, stirring around it hard enough to make her moan. Then, she guided him down until Ajax could feel the steam of her entrance. Up to her clit, and then down again to her wet entry. Her breathing grew more and more ragged as she primed her own body. She murmured, “So… hot… oh, sweet ocean… so… it’s so much…”

  She reached her entrance again. Rather than let her reverse her motion, Ajax rolled his hips forward, sinking his plum-shaped glans into her heat. Her eyes went wide and let out a powerful gasp.

  Ajax growled in return, a sound that vibrated into her whole being. “Open for me,
Jyliansa. Take me in.”

  She clenched her jaw and nodded furiously, ready and yet not, all at once.

  Ajax plunged in another two inches, feeling her tightness struggling to absorb him. Her whimpers became a long, keening moan. He delved in another few inches, and her moans became a full-blown cry of lust. Pushing her to the edge, he fucked her open until her whole core was filled with his iron-hard spear.

  Krizzilani gave a hiss of remembered pleasure. “Oh, I remember that feeling.”

  Helleanna slipped her hand between them, questing downward until she found Jyliansa’s clitoris. Her clever fingers dove in rapid little swirls. “Maybe this will help.”

  The touch was electric, sending Jyliansa into quivering convulsions. Her hands whipped out and grasped hold of the wooden frame of the bed. “Elements above and below!” she cursed.

  Krizzilani flashed a grin, then peered up at Ajax, “Fuck her while we watch, knight.”

  He let out an erotic snarl, bringing a powerful hand to grasp her mess of stark-white hair. “As long as you know you’re next.”

  Helleanna lounged decadently alongside Jyliansa, emphasizing her breasts for him to see. She mewled plaintively, “Then me?”

  Ajax answered with a hand closing over her right breast, cupping it warmly into his palm and squeezing until he felt the nipple harden into his flesh. “Twice.”

  As she laughed, Ajax focused again on the beautiful sea elf struggling to adapt to the cock piercing her like nothing had before. She hadn’t stopped shaking, like she was hovering right on the edge of a stormy climax. Helleanna’s touch was only driving her faster toward that peak.

  Not waiting for her to ready herself, Ajax rolled his hips again, withdrawing a couple inches only to slam them back into her inner heat. Instantly, her keening wails of pleasure ratcheted higher. When the next thrust came and he used more than half of his full length, she lost what little control she had.

  Ajax’s hands left his other lovers, clamping down on Jyliansa’s legs and side. The other two elves held her by the shoulders and arms. Together, they kept her locked in place while Ajax began to fuck her senseless. Her dripping inner walls clenched around him again and again as she rode through one orgasm after another.

  He had no idea how long he kept her screaming. He lusted to see more, loving the way she thrashed and clung to him. Every twist of her body made her writhe around his cock until he could stand no more. With a furious series of thrusts, he soared over the cliff of his own orgasm. A torrential river of cum stormed into her womb, reaching every part of her that his phallus couldn’t reach, completing the sensation of molten heat filling her.

  Sexual tension held them joined. At last, their shared orgasm receded enough that their muscles could relax. Jyliansa collapsed to the bed, while Ajax huddled above her, just barely keeping his weight propped on his knees and elbows so that he didn’t crush her. She made no effort to move, her legs just wrapped instinctively around him. Her head lolled, the haze of post-orgasmic bliss robbing her of any need beyond hugging him close, inside and out, and simply exist.

  Krizzilani shuddered in empathetic lust, then lurched from the bed. “That’s it. I can’t take this anymore.” She darted around behind Ajax, then quite literally pounced on top of Helleanna. Wrestling her to her back, Krizzilani pinned her shoulders using her knees, her thighs nuzzled on either side of the moon elf’s cheeks. Tugging the last lacing of her dress open, the dark elf stripped off the outfit in one smooth motion, casting it away into the corner of the room. Her night-black skin caught the shaft of sunlight from the porthole with an iridescent shimmer of lustrous blue and black tones blended together.

  Helleanna gave a little cry of surprise with an undercurrent of sensual delight. They all knew the dark elf liked to play rough, and the maid seemed willing to be her next victim.

  Krizzilani sank lower, pressing her netherlips down onto the moon elf’s face. “Let’s see if that tongue is as clever as I think it is.” Her golden eyes fixed on Ajax. “I hope so. Because I need to get ready for him.”

  Helleanna gave a mumbled reply, totally lost in the folds of the dark elf’s sex.

  Krizzilani began to purr.

  Ajax reached out and caressed the dark elf’s back. “That’s where you’re wrong.”

  Her eyes, which had closed to slits, opened again. “What?”

  Ajax fired her a wicked smile. “No matter what she does to you, you are never going to be ready for what I’m going to do to you.”

  ***

  A few hours later, Ajax was standing in the doorway of his cabin again. Light from the corridor lanterns shone down on the bed. The three elfish women were sleeping curled against each other. Not a stitch of clothing got in the way of appreciating their natural beauty. Moon elf pale flesh snuggled against the green-tinted, sun-kissed tan of sea elf which was then cuddled against the black-opal smoothness of their dark elf lover. Dreamy smiles hovered on all their lips.

  Ajax could hardly believe he was feeling so awake. But their spirit and lust had been infectious. He felt energized, not tired. He had laid in the bed as long as he could, buried in their limbs and listening to their heart beats drift further into sleep.

  But eventually, he could take it no longer. He had to move.

  A last fond smile passed over his lips, and he closed the door to give them peace. He had no doubt they would sleep till morning.

  Which meant he would have to take their watches. A fair sacrifice for the gift they had given him. He knew beyond a doubt they would stay with him, now. None of them had spoken the words specifically, but this had been their way of bonding to him completely. He felt that in his bones.

  He chuckled to himself as he climbed toward the wheel-deck. His legs were actually a little sore. His insatiable lovers were fae at heart, wild and demanding. Meeting the lust of all three had been harder than many pitched battles he had been caught in.

  He gained the upper deck, and caught sight of the blonde ghost that was Callistia lingering near the rail, staring up at the moon. The wheel was tied off, the wind steady with no chance of spilling unexpectedly from the sails. Ajax paced over to stand at her side, peering out at the water. He made sure his footsteps fell heavily enough to be heard, not wanting to startle her.

  Callistia didn’t say anything for a long time, lost in thought. She glanced at him a couple times, as if about to say something, then stopped.

  Ajax wasn’t used to seeing her like this. The princess was nothing if not confident.

  At last, Callistia asked, “Did you have fun?” The question was a touch prickly. Not spiteful, but sharpened on her tongue for some unknown reason.

  Ajax wasn’t about to lie, and didn’t feel even a trace of shame for loving his elves. “I’ve never felt so complete.” He paused. “But I know it could be even better. If you heard us, maybe it didn’t sound like anything was missing. But I could sense it. We would have welcomed you with us. Your maid especially. She loves you. I know she wouldn’t have given herself so completely without your leave. Thanks for that.”

  Callistia fought against any happy sentiment, chasing away her fondness for Helleanna. It was like she was fighting to stay annoyed. “Already given so many beautiful elves. You’d want one more?”

  “With all my heart. I’m not about to feel guilty about that. You’re all lovely. Brave. Sharp. Everything I admire in women.” Warmth filled his heart. “Yet also so different. Unique. There’s room in my heart for each of you.” He turned to stare at her. “Including you.”

  Her eyes closed, conflict raging inside of her. “I can’t. I knew what those three were planning tonight. I spoke with Helleanna and she asked me to be with you all. But I couldn’t. I will follow you to the door of creation itself to help that spirit. Because you asked. A part of me cares for you deeply. And I owe you so, so much.”

  He sighed. “But you can’t be with us. Because of what your people expect of you?” He didn’t snap at her, or mock her. Sympathy filled his voice.r />
  She hissed, smacking her palm on the railing. “I am so sick of this weight on my shoulders. But it’s there. Do you understand? I can’t dismiss centuries of learning.” Vulnerability filled her eyes. “Do you know why I can’t go in there with all of you. Because if I did, I’d be swept away. I would give you all… everything of me.”

  “Would that be so bad?”

  Callistia almost said ‘no’. At war with herself still, she pleaded for him to understand, “I left home because it mattered. My brother was going to squander what I find precious. All I have left, the only way I can ever rejoin my people, is finding love with one of my own kind. A strong elf of good character and noble blood. That can offset everything. I could stand at his side and defy my brother with my head held high. That elf… I have so little to give him. I want to give him the honor of being the first. I’m… not ready to let that go.”

  Ajax risked extended an arm across the space between them. He rested a kind hand between her shoulders. “I understand. All of us will. And none of us will love you any less.”

  Her eyes closed again. She said nothing. She knew.

  He rubbed her along her spine, letting the physical connection speak for him.

  “I’m not… frozen, you know.”

  “Hmm?” Ajax hadn’t followed.

  “I need to set… boundaries. But that doesn’t make me cold. Or unavailable.” She swallowed. “I could hear you all down there. By the sun, I wanted to be in there with you.” She shuddered, and not from the chill in the air.

  Ajax realized he could scent her desire on the air. With the wind, it was harder to pick out, but the sweet-citrus scent of her natural perfume was noticeable. Her undergarments must be drenched. He tried to bury the surge of desire that aroused in him. Instead, he merely tried to be supportive. “You have the right to feel whatever you want. I’m not here to judge.”

  She wasn’t finished. “What if…” A calming breath. “… I wanted what you did before. To me.”

  Ajax nearly choked. Struggling against his shock and sudden explosion of raw lust, Ajax did his best to sound unphased. “Princesses aren’t supposed to want that. We did it to evade the worst intentions of your misguided family. That was it. Wasn’t it?”