Tempted by Celestial Bodies

Chapter 5

chapter five

anya

Leo wraps me in his limbs and presses his face to the crook of my neck, as if I’m going to float away on the tide. I chuckle a bit, then remember he’s never cuddled a human before, and a wave of tenderness overtakes me.

“Thank you,” I say, trying to power through my awkwardness. “It’s been a long time since anyone’s done… that …for me and I wasn’t kidding when I said you were the best I’ve ever had.”

Leo grins and cracks one bright eye open at me.

I am glad you enjoyed it. Though I can’t say I am pleased hearing about others who have failed to serve your pleasure.

“Don’t tell me you’re jealous,” I laugh.

Not jealous. Just disappointed in the skill of your previous partners. An unsatisfied goddess is dangerous and irresponsible. Who knows what horrors she would unleash?

He runs a feather-light touch over my abdomen, and I chuckle when I realize he’s teasing me. His hard cock presses against my hip and I reach down to wrap my fingers around it. Immediately, he tenses.

“What about you, Leo? What pleasure do you get from your ritual?” I ask. I stroke my hand up and down his hot length and every muscle in his body goes taut like a stretched rubber band.

My pleasure comes from yours, My Goddess. I do not need release.

“What if your goddess wants you to have one, anyway?” I press, swinging my leg over his and straddling his hips in one smooth movement.

I squeeze the base of his cock gently and his eyes widen in surprise.

I would never deny My Goddess anything.

“Good,” I murmur as I bend down to run my tongue over the glowing precum beading at the tip.

Leo’s hands fist in the sheets at his sides, then unclench and reach for my hair.

I…I have not known pleasure like this, Anya. I don’t…I don’t know what…

I slide my lips around him and take him fully in my mouth. When I swirl my tongue around his pleasantly salty skin, there’s a faint ripping sound, and I open my eyes to see the sheets shredded beneath dagger-like claws that have erupted from his fingers.

It’s too good. I don’t…I can’t…

Suddenly, he sits up and pulls me off him, and he slides out of my mouth with a wet pop. His movements are rough but restrained, and I can tell he’s barely able to maintain control. It’s a lit match on the tinderbox of my lust, and my rapidly kindling need is about to become an inferno.

“Can I show you what comes next?” I ask. “Do you want to keep going?”

His thoughts come through in fragments now, unlike the clear conversations we’ve had thus far. He’s a dark well of voracious need—this is truly the priest of a goddess of sex and death. The glowing blue green of his eyes darkens to an electric violet, and he finally nods at me.

Gripping his cock again, I position him at my entrance, taking a moment to slide the tip through my slick folds. His hands claw at my hips—fingers digging into the soft flesh of my sides in a not-unpleasant way. Slowly, I sink down onto him until he’s sheathed to the hilt. I’m stretched with the fullness of him, but it’s good—so good I don’t think I’ve ever felt like this before.

His gaze is riveted on the place where our bodies join, and when I start moving, rising above him and rhythmically lowering myself back onto his hard length, his eyes drift close in instinctive bliss.

My Anya. My Goddess. Yes, Goddess—you feel so incredible. My body hasn’t known pleasure like this. My soul hasn’t known joy like this. It feels like coming home. I am forever yours, My Anya.

His words send a thrill through me, as if my loneliness has found its answering call. My whole life I thought I longed for the stars, but maybe my need was for more than that. Maybe it was a sense of home, of belonging, of adventure, of joy—all things I’m feeling with Leo. Emotion forms a tight ball in my throat as I pick up speed, and Leo’s desperate panting is coming in sharp gasps.

As if he’s reading my mind—hell, maybe he is—he suddenly hooks one leg around mine and flips me beneath him. He lifts one of my thighs up to adjust his angle of penetration, and then he’s pistoning into me with the exact amount of force I need to sight an oncoming orgasm on my horizon.

Do you wish for more, My Goddess?

His hand snakes low and one clever thumb begins to circle my clit.

“Yes,” I rasp. “More, Leo—give me more.”

Everything. I would give you my life force itself. But for now—I will give you what your perfect human body needs.

His pace slows ever-so-slightly and blue-violet eyes flicker momentarily, and suddenly there’s a slight pressure around the tight pucker of my ass.

“Holy shit,” I say, the sound breathless and shrill. “What is that?”

Leo leans down to scrape his sharp teeth down my neck and the building heat in my body threatens to burn us both to ashes.

A tentacle. I altered my shape slightly—I sense there are more pleasure receptors in this part of your body.

The mystery tentacle slips inside me from behind while Leo continues to thrust, and the dual appendages working me over have electrified every nerve until I’m practically coming out of my skin.

It’s too much—it’s not enough. It’s too many layers of pleasure stacking on top of each other in a tower of sin that reaches the heavens.

Anya, you feel so good, I can’t hold it back…

“Don’t hold back!” I scream, just as I feel the most intense orgasm of my life start to break.

Come for me, My Goddess. Come with me.

With that blinding demand, my body shudders with my violent release and the stars outside my window blur in front of my eyes. Wave after wave of pleasure drags me down until I’m convinced I’ve devolved into a boneless, one-celled organism.

I feel Leo shudder and grunt—the only sound I’ve ever heard him make—and I feel his hot release inside of me.

On one final, languid thrust, Leo nearly collapses on top of me, but rolls over and drags me into his side. Before either of us can say anything, he wraps his limbs around me again, as if he’s too afraid to let me go.

I have never experienced pleasure like that. I am convinced you are a gift from Glorious Sindaria—even if you are not her in physical form.

A thread of unease winds through me.

“You’re not angry? Or disappointed?” I ask.

He lifts his head to look at me with the most gut-wrenching, heart-stopping expression of pure adoration, it nearly steals my breath.

My seed leaks from your divine cunt even now, My Goddess. Anger and disappointment are not even in the same universe as we are.

I breathe a sigh of relief.

“Well, now that you know I’m not Sindaria, what will you do? Will you go back to Oseuth? Will you…” I pause, suddenly overcome by dread and sadness so poignant, it aches. “Will you keep searching the universe for your goddess?”

I have searched many universes, Anya. And I have found My Goddess. I think, perhaps, Sindaria brought us together for some unknowable reason. If you will have me, I will stay with you. We can live in your metal cocoon, if you wish. Or we can take our chances and explore the galaxy. There are those who could help us with a ship, and many worlds you may wish to see.

The emotions clogging my throat finally overwhelm me and tears spring to my eyes. The chance to explore the stars, and to share it with someone, is within my grasp. Literally.

“You would do that? You would give it all up after one night with some random human?” I ask.

Leo tucks a strand of hair behind my ear and smiles.

If you’re asking if I’d forfeit a lonely quest to find love and acceptance from one goddess when I have love and acceptance in my arms from another goddess, the question seems absurd. I would stay with you, My Anya. My devotion is a fearsome thing. Is that what you want?

Given everything that’s happened over the last day, my answer is as natural as it is alien.

“Yes,” I say. “I want you to stay. I want to explore the universe with you.”

His smile is terrifying and breathtaking as he holds me close, trailing light touches down my arms. I sigh with contentment and press a few buttons on my bio-cuff. Music filters into the room as we watch the sun rise on the lunar surface. Billie’s melodious voice gives sound to my thoughts in a too-perfect verse.

Blue moon

Now I'm no longer alone

Without a dream in my heart

Without a love of my own.