I also felt the need to compliment her, which was the only one I gave into. She may have needed a hug and platonic affection as well as intimate affection, but we weren’t there yet.

  “You look stunning, Kat.”

  She winked, “Thanks, you two look great too, finish your workout?”

  I nodded, “Also got hired, I’ll be taking over some of Janice’s classes.”

  Hali grinned, “Hi, Katerina, and you’re welcome.”

  Katerina laughed and winked at Hali, and I remembered she’d asked me to pass on her thanks to my mate as she’d taken me into her body.

  I pulled out my cell phone and handed it to her, and I acted like it was a foregone conclusion she’d give me her number. Just because she was magnificently confident and high maintenance didn’t mean she wouldn’t appreciate confidence in a man. Sure, she liked to feel in charge, but that also didn’t mean she didn’t want a man that was possessive and cherishing. She just needed a man that didn’t mistake controlling for that, and that didn’t mind when a woman rocked his world. Which I didn’t, she was mesmerizing.

  Her scent was lovely, it was clear whatever activities she’d gotten up to at city hall, she’d thoroughly cleaned up. She looked perfect. I shoved that thought out of my head, before I could get jealous. Damn, but she was a lot of work, and it’d be totally worth it and was kind of fun too.

  She just gave me a smile, and then programmed in her number. Well, I hoped it was her number, I’d find out later. Or now, since she’d just sent herself a text to get mine.

  “I suppose that means you’ll be bugging me all day long then,” she affected faux distaste, as if I was putting her out.

  I grinned, and said playfully so it wouldn’t come across arrogantly, “Only if you’re lucky.”

  She laughed, “I’m feeling very lucky then,” as she handed me back my phone, then sighed as she frowned.

  Hali said, “He’s also Hestia’s champion now.”

  Her smile came back, “Good to know, and I’m happy for you.”

  I asked, “What was the frown about?”

  She shook her head, “I make it a policy not to give… full-service massages to coworkers. Things like that tend to blow up. But seeing as we’ve already been there, I suppose I’ll have to make an exception in your case.”

  Hali teased, “Can’t give up that fat nine-inch cock?”

  I kind of expected that tease to go down like a lead balloon, but Katerina didn’t even bat an eye, and she seemed to even warm up at that statement.

  She chuckled sultrily. Her voice was naturally sultry and seductive, but that laugh had something extra in it, and it stirred my blood.

  “Something like that,” she giggled, “Okay, definitely that too, but more it wouldn’t make much of a difference at this point. The line’s already been crossed, so I’ll see you on Monday. You’re already scheduled for the hour between early and late morning classes, so we’re good there.”

  That made sense, my first and second workouts had been during Janice’s class. It’d only be Monday when I’d have to shift everything back an hour.

  I waved my phone, “Chat with you before then, if you don’t mind.”

  She smiled, “I’ll enjoy that, just don’t be upset if I don’t return a text right away. I have an active lifestyle.”

  Well damn, now every time she took a while to get back to me, I’d be imagining her fucking someone. Still worth it, and I firmly reminded myself she wasn’t mine yet.

  That also really drove home Allison’s subtle point earlier in saying, just ask Katerina. She was clearly conflicted about it, but she couldn’t help herself. She wanted my friendship, but she also wanted my cock, while she at the same time knew that mix would likely cause shit to blow up at some point and end both things. She was probably right too, if the relationship didn’t advance that is, which didn’t seem to be on her radar right now, outside of subconsciously perhaps. So, I was the only one to hold a reason of hope that the predicted blowup would never happen.

  I was betting she didn’t really have any steady fucks outside of other sons and daughters of pleasure, just steady clients that she gave hand job happy ending to. I was pretty sure I was the only one she was fucking, at least for the happy endings in her job here, because of my huge cock. Of course, that didn’t mean she wasn’t getting random hookups at night either, I’d be surprised if she wasn’t. Similar to how the blonde sexpot inside was having string free sex once with clients, so Allison didn’t have to deal with blowouts or clingy and possessive assholes.

  I pushed it out of my head. My overthinking everything was starting to annoy me, and it was my brain. I blamed the blessing, I almost had to at that point.

  “Of course I won’t, I’m not that demanding of my mate, much less a friend. I’m glad I ran into you.”

  She said, “You too, I’m also sorry I left so abruptly yesterday.”

  “My fault, I clearly put you on the spot, taking too many steps at once after the false intimacy. I was raised and socialized by monsters for the last five years, so try not to hold that and other oddness against me.”

  Hali laughed and whapped my arm, which made Katerina chuckle again, and that second time my cock stirred. Her sultry chuckles were deadly. I wanted her badly in that moment, but me fucking her up against my car in broad daylight wasn’t going to happen. Well, it totally could happen. I could use a ward so the humans wouldn’t notice, but nor had she offered. I got the idea she wanted a man that’d take charge in the friendship and ultimately in a relationship if she took that step, to cherish her. But when it came to sex she was in charge, at least most of the time. It was kind of hot to me, actually.

  She smiled, “Forgiven, but it wasn’t that big a deal, clearly I could’ve handled it better.”

  “In that case, forgiven, but I didn’t take offense so it’s an easy thing to offer.”

  She grinned, “You weren’t mad?”

  “Nope, I find your stubbornness and confidence magnificent, remember?”

  Flirting and talking with Katerina felt like walking through a minefield, but in a real way I’d never felt more alive than when my women were challenging me. My heart was beating steadily and just a bit quicker in the moment, and I knew in that moment that I’d be taking out the insane sexual tension between Katerina and I on Hali as soon as we got home. Which would save me a lot of frustration during the slow measures of my long-term seduction of this… angelic and enthralling seductress.

  Of course, that was all my natural libido. At the same time and separately the desire to hold her close in a platonic way, and to caress her back and tell her she was cared for was almost overwhelming because of the blessing. Just the small nascent affection I felt naturally for her, and my awe at her magnificent presence, grace, and sensual appeal was magnifying that need. Much in the way that Allison had intimated friendship made it harder for her not to share pleasure with that person, amplified that need. I’d harped on this more than enough, but I can’t express just how powerful a hold the blessing had on me in that regard. It felt like I’d die if I didn’t take her in my arms. If I’d been a lesser man, I’d have went for it, and probably gotten slapped for my trouble.

  I didn’t judge her for it. I imagined Janice may have even felt a similar impulse in regard to me. I had after all been starved of affection myself, for most of my life. It was something I could relate to, but not something I liked to dwell on either.

  She blushed, “I do now.”

  Clearly, by her tone of voice she wasn’t sure if she could trust that, and she probably wondered if I was just giving her a line to suck her in so she’d go out to dinner with us and end up in bed with us, which she also clearly wanted. It was just… obvious, and I didn’t take offense. I imagined men said all sorts of bullshit to her in the hopes of getting her in bed and keeping her there. Time and friendship would take care of that, as she learned I didn’t play those games. I might withhold the truth, but I was if anything bluntly honest in my seductions, which is partially to blame in being socialized as an adult by monsters. Hot, bimbo, sex-starved monsters. Save my Hali, who wasn’t that second in the least.

  In short, she was just protecting her heart from hard lessons learned in the past, even if she couldn’t help herself with me in the moment.

  Hali must’ve sensed it too, because she came to my defense, “Not that I noticed either. He was pretty blissed out and had nothing but good things to say when he came out.”

  Katerina grinned, “I see. Well, I should get going, I’ll chat with you soon.”

  I replied in farewell, “Talk to you soon.”

  She headed in, and I smiled at her when she turned her head as she went in the door, both betraying her interest in me and busting me staring at her tight heart shaped ass and mouthwatering legs below the hem of her dress. As far as I could tell, she seemed to really enjoy both busting me and being busted, and she gave me a warm playfully inviting smile before disappearing inside the building.

  Chapter Ten

  The bed was warm, and it wasn’t much later that same morning as I slid into the warm moist paradise of my Hali. Her sex was pure euphoric pleasure, and the soft nubile hot flesh hugging my cock sent waves of delightful bliss through my body as I stared into her eyes. She was pinned beneath me, her feet up by her ears, raising her ass slightly off the bed. Her bountiful breasts shook and swayed enticingly with every shallow burying thrust into her heat, but it was the loving look of surrender and devotion laced heavily with the pleasures my cock was giving her as I stretched her out tautly that held me spellbound.

  “You have such beautiful green eyes, baby.”

  I’d thought I’d be taking out my lustful desire for Katerina on my loving Hali, and in a way I supposed she was quenching my raised libido from the dark brunette’s beauty and grace, confidence and strength, but in that moment my heart, mind, and lust belonged to Hali, in totality. I was with my mate mentally, emotionally, and she had my full attention and love.

  No matter the source of some of those wound-up emotions, they were all focused on my sweet vixen in that moment.

  Hali let out a sigh of deep pleasure, and rocked her hips the best she could, which was more than good enough. Her subtle movements and tight squeezes as she took me in an inch at a time blew my mind.

  “Master,” she said softly, “This is where I belong. Under you, being plundered by your fat cock, while you look at me like I’m precious. Fuck… so much better than I ever dreamed.”

  I smiled, “You are precious, love,” and I let out a moan of my own as I fully buried myself and our bodies became flush. I was incredibly deep, with her bent in half there was nothing in the way and my balls rested against the bottom of her mesmerizingly bubbled ass cheeks.

  She bit her lip sexily, “So are you, my mate. Beyond reason, and my body belongs to you. Was I not naughty enough to earn a spanking today?”

  I chuckled, and I twitched hard inside of her sheathing flesh which fit me like a firm glove.

  “You want one, love? Want me to punish you, and put you in your place?”

  She moaned softly as she ground against me, her body begging me to take her, telling me it was ready. She let out a gasp, as I didn’t make her wait, and started to work my cock in and out of her paradise. We weren’t making love exactly, but nor were we fucking. I was pounding her pretty good after a short buildup, ravishing her with the full length of my cock.

  But only down below, hard and firm, in an inexorable and relentless pace that I could maintain for a long time, enjoying the intense milking friction and sparks of pleasure sliding in and out of her silken passage. But up top our eyes were loving, devoted, and lost in each other’s, a very sharp contrast to what was happening below as I ravished my Hali.

  Gods, her dark reddish-brown hair and green eyes were so sexy, and her stunning classical beauty still blew me away, every time. Especially when it was full of pleasure, with her visage a study in bliss, as I worked her hard and she looked up at me with surrendering loving devotion and a sharp need.

  She said, “Maybe later? Right now I’m enjoying this, being loved and pampered while you take me.”

  I grinned, then gasped when she ground me subtly.

  “I want to see you cum for me, you’re so beautiful, baby. But never more so than when you’re cumming apart all around me.”

  It was intensely passionate. An ardent fervency we shared in our love. It seemed like the higher we got toward our heights the deeper the emotions, love, and bright affection grew in our shared gaze. She truly was stunning, and every bit as magnificent to me as Katerina was, if in entirely different ways. Her submission and surrender was absolute.

  She bit her lip, and let out a sweet gasp, “I’m sorry I ever doubted you, and tried to hide the need and attraction I felt for you. Goddess, I wasted so much time that you could’ve been fucking me, loving me, claiming me. Master, master… oh god, master… I’m going to cum for you, always for you, cumming on that fat cock that owns me, oh master!”

  She came undone wantonly around my cock, and she milked me wildly as I pounded into her curvaceously lush and inviting body to extend and intensify her bliss. Her tight sex was pure heaven writhing around my cock, and my own ecstasy hit me unawares.

  Her eyes were wide and lost in the bliss, but the connection we shared in that gaze was as strong as ever, as she lost herself in me as well.

  “Fuck, baby,” I said in exhortation and apology, as my legs grew numb and my balls tingled and tightened, “Too fucking good, my Hali,” and I grunted deeply as the first surge of pleasure hit me like a tsunami, and my mind spun and splintered as I was overwhelmed by the pleasures of her body and her loving and lost gaze. The wave of ecstasy also rocked through my body, and potent blissful shocks wracked my body in heavenly rapture.

  She whimpered and keened in pleasure, as I started to pump my seed deep within her body.

  I spread her legs and let her lower them as we came down, but I stayed as buried as I could get as I claimed her lips in a loving kiss. Her sweet lips were soft and so loving, as her body continued to tremble and twitch in pleasure, and her sex quivered around mine.

  She obviously didn’t want me to leave her body either, as her legs wrapped tightly around my middle and squeezed me firmly against her.

  I asked, “What made you say that?”

  She blushed, “Your love, master. It’s like a dream. I thought… I thought you’d take me home and pound me, thinking of Katerina. The lust I scented on you during your conversation made me think that, it was really intense. I wouldn’t have minded. I even think it’s hot, and I’d planned to whisper naughty things to you. Tease you about how hot she was for you too. Naughtily tell you that she was so wet with arousal master, I could smell it. She wants you desperately, even as she fights it and thinks it will never work. In short, I was going to tease you about it, to make you pound me even harder while thinking of her.”

  “That’s… hot.”

  She nodded, “It is. But then when we got home you lost yourself in me, your scent was so loving and focused on me. It shouldn’t have taken me by surprise, but it did. You make me feel so beautiful, and loved, master.”

  I kissed her softly, “You are beautiful and loved, my sweet and naughty vixen. You overwhelm me.”

  She giggled, “Good thing my body belongs to you then, for your pleasure and enjoyment, master. My love is yours as well.”

  “I love you too, and my cock really loves your body.”

  She beamed.

  I changed the subject, “How do you feel about helping me with the classes, or would you rather just watch my back and the class? We didn’t really get a chance to talk about it first.”

  She said, “I’ll watch, and maybe point things out if I think you’re missing something, but I don’t think I’m suited to train humans.”

  I nodded, “Fair enough,” I started to harden and stretch her back out, and said firmly, “I’m going to fuck you now.”

  She shivered, in a good way, and tightened around me and used her legs as leverage to pull herself up and grind herself against me powerfully. It drew a deep moan from my mouth.

  As with the love earlier, the wicked lust and desire was all about my Hali, as I pounded her with everything I had, powers of strength and speed included which made the blissful sensations of fucking my beautiful mermaid overwhelming. It was intense, crazy, and she loved every second of it. It was also the second round, and I’d just blown inside of her which meant I had plenty of stamina to make up for cumming after just one of her orgasms the first round. I powered her through several, and each time her face twisted with pleasure it sent a thrill through me, before I once again exploded inside her tight silken paradise, and I filled her womb for a second time.

  Her eyes were wide with awe as she looked up into mine, her body quaking below me in an overload of pleasure as I’d taken her to the very edge of over-stimulation. She let out a sharp cry of loss as I pulled out of her, and then sighed in contentment as I pulled her against my side firmly. Her back was so soft and supple, as I teased it and her soft silken hair with my fingertips.

  Her own hand teased my chest and traced my muscles lazily.

  I ordered, “You need to make a hearty lunch, I’m going to need the stamina later.”

  She giggled, and said breathily “Yes, master. That was… amazing.”

  I smiled, “I wish I could scent you the way you scent me, I imagine it was. You drive me crazy, love. But I can see it in your eyes, and on your face.”

  I swatted her ass, “Clean us up, then get going. I’m hungry.”

  She bit her lip and used her magic to clean us up, but when she went to leave to start lunch, I pulled her back for quite a thorough and loving kiss that had her panting for me again. She gave me a dirty wistful look and a soft sigh of pleasure at another swat to her ass before heading down.

  As for me, I got some clothes on and followed my lovely and nude mate to the kitchen...