His eyes feasted as he entered the bedroom.

  Aria was lying seductively on the bed in nothing but white lingerie panties and a sheer white negligee that was so transparent it did nothing to hide her proud and supple C cups. She had a slightly nervous if extremely seductive smile on her face, and it was beyond obvious she’d missed him and was heartily glad he was in her bedroom once more.

  “You’re beautiful, Aria,” he said, even as his cock hardened and he stripped out of his clothes, all while their eyes were locked intensely on the others. There was so much sexual tension in the room his cock was a steel rod when he’d fully divested his clothing and moved toward the bed. A hard cock that Aria couldn’t take her eyes off of, since it was revealed.

  She said softly, “You’re not so bad yourself, Dacen.”

  He crawled onto the bed, grabbed her legs, and she let out a little gasp as he swung her body around, spread her legs, and dove in headfirst. He moaned softly as he tasted the little wet spot on her panties, and teasingly kissed her pussy through the thin silk material as he caressed her legs and finally tightly squeezed her amazingly supple and tight ass.

  Her fingers entwined with his hair, as she ground up against his face and spread her legs further for him. Almost doing a split to give him access as she looked down into his eyes.

  He was almost out of his mind with lust, at the needy and joyful look in her eyes at having him again, and at the way she’d arranged herself for him. The panties tore away with a fast and hard jerk, and she let out a cry as his tongue gently and teasingly licked her. A very different sensation from the roughness of a moment before.

  But that was about as much patience as he had, as he took in her aroused scent and sexy paradise. He moaned deeply as he went to work on her with feverish intensity. Not too roughly or hard at first with his tongue, lips, and suction, but she was already worked up enough that he could skip the first half of the slow buildup. He suspected she’d been stroking herself slowly while waiting for him, otherwise she wouldn’t have been so hot, wet, and ready for him to feast.

  She let out the sexiest pant and gripped his hair tightly, as he inhaled her clit and batted it lightly with his tongue, then moved back down to lick along her silken labia. She was getting breathy and her body started to squirm, but he’d been ready for that given their past experience, and immediately put his arms around her thighs and gripped her ass tightly to keep her still.

  One of his middle fingers teased and rimmed her asshole without penetration, and he was in heaven feasting on Aria. Fuck, he’d missed her more than he thought, and not the sex. Though, that too. Her natural bedroom voice sweetly panting his name, and her wildly quivering squirms, were driving him crazy.

  When he had her right on the edge, that’s when he slammed that finger into her ass, at the exact same time he sucked on her clit and swirled it with his tongue.

  “Goddess! Dacen!” she screamed out her ecstasy and flooded his face, even as he worked his middle finger in and out and licked deeply into her paradise.

  It was only as she started to come down that he lunged up her body, claimed her lips with his, and then impaled her forcibly with his cock. Her sex was pure heavenly bliss around his sensitive length, as her soft feminine flesh took him inside. Her sweet cry into his mouth had him drilling deep and fast into her, almost desperate to bury it in the myriad pleasures of her secret silken depths.

  She was hardly idle, impaling herself up on him and meeting his every thrust, the sweet pain and lush pleasure on her face as he forced her to accommodate his fat girth and length had an edge of desperation that was a mirror to his own. Despite the lube of her recent ecstasy it took some work to fill her completely.

  Then they were one.

  She sighed softly in pleasure and relief, “You’re bigger than I remembered.”

  He chuckled, “And you’re deliciously snugger.”

  She giggled, “I wasn’t expecting that.”

  He grinned, “You did promise me breakfast.”

  She snorted a laugh, which made her sex quiver around his wildly, squeezing hard.

  “It’s good to see you, although I’d have wished for different circumstances. You’re also different, in a good way. I noticed last night, but it’s much clearer right now.”

  He nodded, “Thanks to you,” and added a little grind for emphasis, which drew an unconscious gasp from her sweet lips.

  She squeezed him hard and ground up against him, telling him she was ready, and their conversation paused as he started to drill into her.

  He didn’t go all out, not at first, just a relentless and inexorable pace as he stroked his cock into her with his full length, but he slowly built it up. He bowed his head and sucked in one of those nipples, and bit hard as he ground her clit and slid harder against her G-spot, and she started to tremble.

  “Don’t stop!”

  Like he’d ever stop, he sped up instead, working her at a heart pounding pace to enhance her pleasure and lengthen the orgasm. She was grinding him as well, though a little sloppily it was still blowing his mind with pleasure as her wildly constricting sex milked him hard.

  He grunted, “Too good, Aria.”

  Her eyes widened, and she looked transported as he looked deep into her eyes. So intimate, while he emptied himself into her, and the blissful ecstasy howled through his mind and inundated his body. She returned the favor, continuing to rock her body beneath his, milking him hard for his cum to enhance and extend his pleasure.

  They were both breathing hard, and covered with sweat, as their hearts pounded as one. He hadn’t forgotten what an incredibly fuck she was, she was never idle, but experiencing it again told him his memories were flawed. She was far more beautiful, sexy, and seductive than he remembered.

  Or maybe he was just a different man now.

  She smiled, “So, how is everything?”

  He chuckled, “Good, great even, save the war of course. You?”

  She laughed, “At the moment, amazing. I’m happy for you, and for Leanne.”

  It felt a little strange even considering talking about another woman, while he’d just filled and was still buried in another.

  “Thanks. I wish you could find someone too. You deserve it, and any man would be blessed…” she cut him off with a deep kiss.

  Then she shook her head, “It’s the price of power. Daniella is a very lucky woman not to have to pay it, which is rare in leaders of interstellar governments. Most marriages at that level are political. What you share with her and me in this moment is not typical, and it all comes down to you and your absolute loyalty, lack of ambition, and being her best friend and never asking for anything in return. Of course she fell in love with you, long ago. So, don’t feel sorry for me, I knew what I was giving up a long time ago, and I don’t regret my decision.

  “My memories of you will keep me warm.”

  She squeezed her legs around him from below, and she rolled them so that she was on top, which he didn’t fight in the least. Then she started to ride him like a sensual goddess, gyrating her body, hips, pelvis, and back in a sinuous motion that was pure sexual gratification and a hell of a view.

  He just needed to use a tiny bit of magic to get over that sensitivity after orgasm, her body, presence, and sensuality had already kept him plenty hard. He started to work her from below at the same rhythm to enhance both their pleasure, while reaching up to tease and please her breasts, just like she liked it.

  “That feels so good, Dacen. I love your hands on me, while you fill me so completely.”

  She bit her lip, arched her back, and clawed her fingers on his chest as her body quivered and she let out a sensual gasp as a gentle release took her.

  He moved his hands to her hips to hold her steady, while he continued to grind up into her at the same gentle pace to enhance her pleasure. It wasn’t a huge orgasm, but it was also just a shadow for the storm of pleasure to come.

  “I love holding you and watching you cum on me.”

  She giggled, which made her convulse around him, as she came down and renewed her sensual movements.

  “Dacen,” she said softly, as she started to work him a little harder and faster. Her sinuous movements were breathtakingly beguiling and beyond sexy, and the pleasure of her tight sex squeezing him firmly as she ground, rose, and fell on him beyond description.

  Her eyes were shockingly intimate, filled with vulnerability and joyful bliss, even as she leaned down further and then started to ride him hard. Twerking her hips, and keeping her upper body relatively still, as if she’d been born to it. There was also a potent desire in them, for something.

  She leaned down further, rode him a little slower as she kissed him with sweet passion, then off his lips and onto his neck, her breasts crushed against his chest as she worked his cock hard.

  She whispered, “Leave me with more than a memory, Dacen. Please, fill me again.”

  His mind blanked for a moment as he realized what she was asking him for, as her magic was making changes to her body to ensure fertility in that moment.

  The shock lasted a second or two, then the wave of lust overwhelmed him, as his cock twitched hard deep within her.

  He grunted, and he went from in control to cumming uncontrollably inside her in a split second. The pleasure overtaking him as he pushed up hard into her soft and welcoming body. The surge of lust and emotion were shocking as he rode that cresting wave.

  Then she cried out right in his ear, and her sex convulsed wildly, milking him as she came just as hard for him.

  She sniffed and kissed his neck softly and lingeringly, as they came down.

  He cradled her body in his arms, and teased her back with his fingertips. He was a little confused, but his body sure as hell wanted to leave her with more than a memory, if his instinctual response was any judge.

  She kissed him again, then smiled and bit her lip, “That was a hell of a yes, Dacen. I love my son, couldn’t be prouder of Benjamin and the man he’s become if I tried. I certainly never regretted having him as a son, but I’m hoping and praying for a blessed, which has a good chance of coming true given we’re both blessed.”

  He nodded, “I think I understand. Still trying to wrap my head around it.”

  She smirked, “It’ll also give you an excuse to visit on occasion.”

  He shook his head, “Wicked woman.”

  She laughed, “A little bit, I feel really naughty right now. I’d planned to ask you about it before we got to the fun part. But the look of hunger and desire in your eyes, and the way you ate me out so hungrily and forcefully completely derailed that plan. I was helpless to resist.”

  He shook his head, “I don’t regret it, and I don’t think I will. But it will be complicated.”

  She nodded, “These things usually are. You also don’t have to come. The last thing I want is for you to come out of a sense of responsibility, I want you to want to see us. I want you to be involved, at least once a year if you can, but that’s rather selfish. It’s half about you wrecking my frustration as well.”

  He snorted, “That’s the easy and fun part. You are… a hell of a woman, Aria.”

  She smiled, “One more time before I send you back to your other lovers. And no magic to recharge, I really want to do this the hard way,” she said breathily, then started to kiss her way eagerly and teasingly down his body.

  His eyes widened a moment later as he let out a grunt of shocked pleasure. He’d forgotten how good she was at that, as her warm wet mouth started to pleasure him with an intense eagerness that rivaled even Leanne’s.

  The prelate was an amazing cocksucker.

  “Maybe twice more,” he suggested.

  She moaned in approval at the idea of tasting his pleasure as he filled her mouth, almost like she wanted it as badly as he did, which honestly didn’t seem possible in that moment.

  It was a hell of a morning. After filling her mouth, he took her hard and fast from behind, while pulling her hair and spanking her ass, while she bucked back into him with cries of pleasure.

  The rest of the day wasn’t nearly so remarkable, as his queen, Allison, and Gia enjoyed the tour Leanne gave, but for him it was a bit boring, as he’d seen it all already. Which was probably a good thing, nothing distracted him from his purpose and duty as he watched over all his ladies.

  Chapter Seven

  The next morning the negotiations started in earnest. They were all present, as were several advisors on Aria’s side of the table. Twelve in total, the two leaders and five others for each side.

  He half listened during the morning, as it was mostly a regurgitation of the arguments they’d planned to use, that has already been covered in these pages. Arguments that stressed her government and people were in just as much danger, if not as imminently as the Kingdom’s. That Aria’s program of missionary work was in danger of failing as well.

  The fact Aria wasn’t pleased with the confederacy locking her out or attempting assassinations in her own temple ensured she was at least receptive to thinking about each and every point. It was an open dialogue, and she had an open mind.

  It also scored Aria some political points on her home ground, as her greatest opposition came to realize an expansion of the church’s influence by force would’ve been playing right into the confederacy’s plans of invasion and annexation, and it would’ve doomed both the kingdom and the communion at the same time. Not that they’d admit it straight out, but it also more solidly put the moderates on her side.

  It wasn’t until after the lunch break that the discussions broke new ground.

  Aria said, “I agree with all you’ve said in theory. It is in both of our best interests to see the confederacy’s attempt at annexing the kingdom worlds fail, that isn’t in question. Yet, I can’t commit my forces and the lives of my people against a possible threat in the future we can’t be sure will materialize. Dacen used a similar argument on me, this needs to be an even exchange of efforts, not just one of ideals.

  “I may be willing to send fleets to two of their worlds that have the largest military build infrastructure in space. They can remove the fleets and other military infrastructure. Remove their ability to build new or repair old ships, at which point they’ll have to pull back their reserves in fear we’ll do something else. They also won’t be able to risk a war of attrition at that point either. But I’ll need an equally large commitment from you to do so. What is it the kingdom offers for the Grand Communion’s aid in this matter?”

  Daniella countered, “I can agree to that in principle. I wouldn’t ask you to aid us for nothing, even if it is in your best long-term interest to do so. Short-term as well, given the missionary program you so value, but it isn’t your responsibility to make my planets safe for your people. What is it that you want for that support?”

  He was getting the idea Aria didn’t know what to ask for, and they sure as hell didn’t know what to offer or what the communion needed most. It also wasn’t his responsibility, and he wasn’t about to stick his nose in. Though he had nothing to offer either that way.

  Aria said, “Let’s discuss it with our advisors. I have a few ideas, but they aren’t developed enough.”

  Translation, she’d been expecting the queen to make an offer, not leave it up to her to outline the stakes of the negotiations. Just as obviously, Daniella had been counting on Aria making a request and arguing the prelate down a bit to a compromise. Of course, no one was going to admit that out loud.

  Daniella nodded slowly, “I’ll also consider what we have to offer that may be a fair exchanged.”

  Aria said, “Excellent. You are all invited to share dinner with me tonight. A cozy meal for twenty.”

  Daniella smiled, “That sounds lovely, prelate.”

  The meeting broke up then, and they returned to their assigned suite to brainstorm until dinner.

  They were in the living room and Riesa was curled up on his lap with his arms around her, with Leanne and Gia to his either side. Allison and Daniella were cuddled up on the other couch, just caddy corner to theirs. He was really enjoying Riesa’s shameless purring as he stroked her back underneath her shirt.

  Daniella said, “I’m fairly sure it was just a negotiating tactic to make us sweat it until tomorrow, and that Aria knows exactly what she wants, but just in case I’m wrong let’s discuss a few ideas.”

  That idea hadn’t even occurred to him, and it should’ve. He just couldn’t see Aria as any less than how she treated him personally, but he had to admit she hadn’t gotten as far as she had without being sneaky, politically smart, and most likely extremely cunning and sneaky.

  A part of that was he also depended on his magic to see to the truth of things, but even that passive magic was something he’d never dream of using on the prelate, it’d cause an incident.

  He was somewhat amused to note he had no trouble seeing those traits in his queen, despite the fact he loved Daniella far more. Of course, he’d known Daniella since she was trying to steal sweets from the kitchen, so that could have something to do with it. His queen could be as ruthless as she was sweet, sexy, and beyond beautiful. Her incomparable exotically seductive beauty didn’t blind him to the truth, and she was a very complicated woman. That said, he had no worries she would turn that cunning on him, she never had to, he was her loyal servant and would do anything she asked without it.

  And from what he could tell, she was as smitten as he was.

  Riesa stole a quick kiss, and he rubbed her back a little harder in small circles, and he no doubt felt as spoiled as she did having her on his lap. His body couldn’t help but react, but sex had no place in that moment, it was intimacy of another kind he was drowning in.