A part of her thought---hoped---that was it, that Elias had done what he'd wanted to do and now they could get on with what would probably be an incredibly painful ordeal for her. But, she was wrong. Elias wasn't through and to prove that, he began doing to her center what he'd done to her breasts, drawing her into his mouth and laving her with his tongue, rolling it over the little bud there and causing Rainee's muscles to completely seize and her breath to halt. And he didn't stop. He began to lash that sensitive bead just as fast as he could flicker his tongue across it and after a few seconds, Rainee felt her body beginning to shed the numbness and react to what was being done to it. The pleasure those fast, flickering strokes was bringing her was beautiful and the faster Elias worked, the more the pleasure began to build in her belly and there swiftly came a point when her numbness and worry over decency fell away.

She had taken care of her own needs before, so she was no stranger to the pleasure that a person could feel, but this...this was beyond anything she had ever done for herself. This...this was so sharp and so intense, and the fact that it was out of her control, that she had to rely on someone else to bring her release, was almost more intoxicating than the pleasure itself.

Elias was lashing and laving her and the little bud he was working was beginning to throb painfully, growing tighter and tighter and Rainee could only lay there, her hands fisted into the sheets and her awareness swiftly fading into a single pinpoint of light. She couldn't think of anything else, couldn't pull a single thought out of her mind. There was only Elias laboring that mound of flesh as swiftly as he could, sending higher and higher, filling her belly with so much pressure that it became painful.

She felt the heat sweeping upwards from her toes before she felt what was happening in her center, and as that heat reached the very point where Elias' tongue was striking her, the tension coiling deep in her belly suddenly...released, and she shattered. A wave of liquid bliss raced outward from between her legs, hitting her bloodstream and rushing through her entire body within a split second. A low moan that she couldn't control slid out of her throat as all her muscles went loose and the world around her was blotted out by a blanket of soft shadows.

But, Elias kept going, taking his ministrations to a level that would have staggered her if she'd been functioning, but since she wasn't, when he lowered his mouth and slid his tongue into the place that was seeping moisture, into the very center of her, she could only gasp and relent to what was being done to her. And what was being done was...beautiful.

She had never been entered before and the sensation of Elias slipping his tongue into her body was something she couldn't even describe. And when he pulled out of her and then slowly slipped back in, a little bit deeper this time, she felt her core convulse with enough force to send a tremor quaking through her, forcing a sound out of her that brought the heat of embarrassment into her cheeks, but she couldn't do more than acknowledge it and move on. The sound she made brought a corresponding sound out of Elias and he moved back up to working the little bud that was still throbbing away like a heartbeat, beginning to lash at it with more force than he had before, putting enough pressure behind his strokes to cause Rainee's muscles to tense up and her breath to quicken.

Each of those strokes felt a little better than the last and within only a few moments, she found herself poised on the edge of a precipice, prepared and waiting to tumble over and lose herself in the oblivion that awaited her there. But, before she could fall off that cliff, Elias completely threw her by slipping a finger inside her and beginning to quickly slide it in and out, his pace matching the rhythm of his tongue, still flickering over her with all the speed of a hummingbird's wing.

For a moment, Elias' invasion of her stunned her into numbness, but that numbness lasted only a brief second before the pleasure buffeting her returned with a vengeance, taking her breath and whisking her away toward the heavens. The feeling of something inside her, moving in and out so rapidly, was so astounding that she was carried off into a place of nothingness, a void where nothing existed but the wonderful things Elias was doing to her.

It seemed to take no time at all to bring her back to the edge of the cliff she'd been perched on. Her body was thrumming with expectation, her heart was pounding in her ears, every nerve ending in her body was tight and waiting for that one stroke that would bring them beautiful relief. Elias suddenly curled his finger inside her, caressing the untouched flesh there and the relief she was waiting for slammed into her like a fist. Her orgasm exploded inside her, filling her with a white hot bliss that shook her body and melted her bones and drove a hedonistic moan out of her that she should have been thoroughly ashamed of, only she wasn't.

Elias echoed the noise, his deep voice filling Rainee's ears and sending gooseflesh skittering over her. He almost sounded like he'd had the orgasm instead of her.

As her body convulsed and spasmed, Elias disappeared from her and that sudden loss brought a sharp gasp out of her. Slightly confused and more than slightly disappointed that Elias had stopped, Rainee lifted herself up onto her elbows, a part of her prepared to completely humiliate herself by asking him to keep going...but, those words stuck in her throat, choking her. Elias was standing nearby, coming out of his clothes, and the sight of him undressing, the understanding that she was going to see him...all of him...sent a thrill of panic through her.

Elias shed his shirt and tossed it aside and that was nothing shocking. She'd already seen him stripped down to his boxer shorts and he was still as stunning as she remembered, all lean and sinewy and finely sculpted, but it was when he came out of his jeans and tossed them aside that she felt a shockwave spiral through her. Standing in nothing but his boxer shorts, she saw just how aroused Elias Stone's body was and even before he pulled them down over his hips, she felt her panic ballooning into terror.

She had never seen...that part...of a man before. And honestly, she hadn't spent much time dwelling on things like that. So, when Elias tossed the bit of fabric aside and stood before her naked to the skin, she found herself both mesmerized and utterly appalled at the same time. She had no idea just what she thought a naked man would look like, but she doubted she ever would have conjured up something like the man standing there before her.

Half of her thought what she was seeing was...beautiful. Elias Stone's body was perfect and his manhood, which was shaded by a thicket of sandy curls, was a sight to behold. He was so big...he really was the size of her forearm...and long and shapely and she could see the veins running down the length of him, throbbing just beneath the skin that looked as smooth as silk.

But, the other half of her thought she had never seen anything so...horrifying. Elias' arousal was...enormous! He was beautiful, he was shapely and she just knew that if she had the nerve to reach out and touch him, he would feel as firm as stone. But, she simply could not get past the fact that he was...enormous! Looking at him, her panic stricken mind simply could not work out how something that large could possibly fit where it was supposed to fit. She appreciated what Elias had done in an effort to help things relax, but she now knew there was absolutely nothing he could do to make this easier for her.

All the wonderful things she'd been feeling only moments before swiftly dissipated and she felt everything inside her tensing up, readying her body to either endure the pain she was about to experience or readying her to leap off the bed and tear out of the room.

However, she didn't have time to make a run for it because Elias was already back with her, scooping her up into his arms and shifting her around on the bed so that her head was lying on the pillows and then he stretched out on top of her, his weight pressing her into the mattress. He used his knee to gently nudge her legs apart and then he settled himself between them so that his body was pressed against hers in a way that pushed a sharp breath past her lips and made her limbs go stiff.

"It's okay, Rainee. It'll be okay. Just try to relax," Elias whispered to her, his voice thick and breathless.

He tangled his hands into her hair and began peppering her face with soft, butterfly kisses and she knew he was trying to calm and soothe her, but that wasn't going to happen, especially not with her being able to feel his arousal touching her. That sensation was a mixture of thrilling and petrifying, and not surprisingly, petrifying was winning out. He was resting right up against her entrance and she was so hyper-aware of that part of herself that she could feel how smooth his tip was, it felt as slick as silk and as hot as the flame of a candle. She could feel the way he was throbbing, so hard and fast that she worried it must be hurting him.

"It's okay. I promise," Elias vowed, pressing kisses onto her mouth, his unclear gaze locked with hers. "I'll do everything. Just lie still and I'll make sure we both get what we need."

She simply could not give him a response. She had no breath in her lungs and even if she had, her throat was so constricted with fear that she couldn't possibly force words past it. The only thing she could think about was the throbbing, hot as flame piece of him that suddenly felt as big as fist.

"Try to relax, Rainee," Elias was still whispering to her, his tone soft and comforting, his lips plying her with tender kisses...and his arousal continued to throb away between her legs. "Try to think of how it'll feel when I'm inside you. Think of how you'll feel when I get you off."

His words sent a sharp shard of...anticipation...shooting through her and had an unexpected surge of moisture coalescing in her center, despite the dread swirling around inside her.

"It'll be okay, Rainee," Elias murmured, kissing his way across her cheek and over to her ear. "I'll make it okay for you. I'll make sure you get off so hard that nothing else matters."

The way he was breathing those sensual words into her ear brought gooseflesh rising up all over her body and had her own breath beginning to come a little bit faster. What he was promising her sounded beautiful. What he was promising her was what she found herself wanting.

"Trust me, Rainee," he continued, his warm exhalations making her shiver from head to toe. "I can make you feel good. Once I'm inside you, you'll forget about everything else."

She wanted that. She wanted him to help her forget about everything else.

"My god, Rainee, you don't know how much I want to be inside you," he intoned, pausing to dip the tip of his tongue into her ear, which caught her breath in her throat and caused her belly to go tight. "I'm dying to feel how wet you are, to feel how tight you'll be around me. I'm dying to know how it feels to slide in and out of you."

She wanted to feel him sliding in and out of her. She wanted to feel the way she'd been feeling a few minutes before. Her center was started to pulsate with that want.

"I want to hear what you sound like when you really get off," he said, again dipping his tongue into her ear. "I want to feel how wet and slick you are after you cum. The wetter you are, the easier it'll be for me to get off. And you don't know how bad I want to get off, Rainee."

She didn't know exactly for certain, but she could guess how badly he wanted it. And she was catching up to him. There wasn't an inch of her body that didn't feel as if it had been lighted on fire. She was pulsating from the inside out, her very skin was beginning to throb with need. She wanted what he was offering her. And she wanted him to have it, too. She had never witnessed another person finding their pleasure and she wanted to see it, to hear it. She wanted to see and hear Elias Stone lose himself inside her.

"Let me get inside you now, Rainee," Elias pled softly, his voice becoming edged with tension. "Please. Let me show you how good I can make you feel."

Rainee suddenly wasn't so very worried about the size of the appendage pressing against her center. She was more concerned that if Elias didn't do something to lessen the need that was pounding low in her belly, she just might be forced to die a slow and tortured death. And then it dawned on her that was what Elias wanted, what he meant his sensual whisperings to accomplish. He was helping her get ready for him.

"Please, Rainee," he beseeched, moving back to press a few gentle kisses onto her mouth. "Tell me I can be inside you now."

His dark eyes were alive and swirling with need and his rugged features were drawn as tight as a bow string, so tight she really thought he must be hurting, so tight they were making the marking on his forehead lift and dance. And she didn't want him to hurt. Not after the way he'd made her feel. So, she nodded her consent.

"Tell me, Rainee," he urged, his breath coming faster now. She could feel his entire body tensing up in readiness. "Tell me I can be inside you. Tell me you want it."

Rainee felt heat slam into her cheeks and she felt herself starting to balk again, but she fought it aside. She couldn't draw back now. Not now. This was why she'd been brought here.

Elias kissed her again, only some of the tenderness was gone. "Don't be ashamed, Rainee. I'm your mate now. You never have to be ashamed with me. Just tell me what you need and I'll do it for you, without question."

She believed him. She believed that if she asked him to do something she needed done, he would oblige her. So, she needed to do him that same favor. They were going to be together for a long time to come, so their union might as well be as pleasant as possible.

It took a moment of struggle, but she managed to find her voice and despite the embarrassment washing over her, she pushed the words out of her mouth. "I want you to be inside me," she murmured, trying not to look away from him, which felt like the hardest thing she'd ever done.

Something she couldn't quite define rolled over his handsome face and then he just...pushed himself into her. Rainee felt, and somehow heard, her girlhood giving way and the breaching of that barrier was the most painful thing she'd ever experienced. That intense, tearing, fiery pain forced her to cry out and then her hands were against Elias' chest, trying to push him off of her, but he refused to budge. Instead, he pushed farther into her, as far as he could possibly go, and then stiffened his body, locking every muscle in place so that fighting against him was like fighting against a brick wall.

"I'm sorry. I'm so sorry, Rainee," he consoled, tightening his hands in her hair and letting his eyes drift closed for a bare second. "I know it hurts, but you have to be still. Please. Just...be still. I...I need you to...lie still."

That stark desperation in his voice ceased Rainee's resistance and she focused on Elias' face. Even through the haze of agony surrounding her she could tell that he was struggling not give in and find his release. He was so close to it, he was hovering right on the edge, and she knew that any movement from her would be enough to do him in, so she went still.

"It's okay. It'll get better. I promise," he whispered past his clenched teeth and even though she didn't believe him, she nodded her agreement.

How could this get better? There was no possible hope that it could get better! She was in agony! Her insides were on fire and throbbing not only from her girlhood being forcibly torn away, but from that part of her being stretched to its very limit.

"Shhh. It's okay," Elias assured her, pulling in long and slow breaths. "It'll get better. I'll make it better for you. I promise."

Again, she nodded her agreement even though she knew now that he was lying. She was being as still as possible and he was, too. He wasn't even moving a muscle, yet the agony raging through her body seemed to be intensifying by the second. It felt as if she'd been impaled by a tree limb, she could feel him filling up her insides so fully that she feared he might actually pierce some vital organ. It was horrific and she was swiftly finding it nearly impossible to even draw in a full breath. All she could do was lie there, her entire body trembling and tears spilling down her cheeks, praying to some God that didn't even exist that the torture be ended.

"Shhh, Rainee. Shhh. It'll be okay. Just try to relax," Elias murmured, carefully lowering his head and beginning to kiss her tear dampened cheeks. "I'll make sure you get what you need. But, you need to let yourself relax. You're so tight...I don't think I can move without it being over."

Oh god, that's what she wanted! For it to be over! For her body to have some relief from the harsh, painful pressure filling her to near bursting! "Please, go a-ahead," she breathed, suddenly aware that her teeth were clicking together and that her hands had found their way up to his shoulders, where her nails were digging into his flesh. "Go ahead and finish. I-I don't need to keep g-going."

She needed him out of her! This was even worse than she'd thought it would be! This was horrendous and it was not getting any better! In fact, she thought it might be getting worse!

"I want you to keep going," he told her, his voice husky and loose. "I don't want you to be afraid to have me inside you."

Oh, but she was going to be afraid. In fact, once they had carried out their duty and a child was conceived, she might never again allow him to do this to her. At least, until they needed to conceive the next child. But, that was a once a year obligation. She was going to have to live through childbirth once a year, so she might be able to endure this assault on the same schedule.

"Please, I-I want you to finish. Please," she beseeched past her clicking teeth, knowing that if she moved a little, it would be over for him, but the burning agony kept her lying stock still.

Elias lifted a brow at her, making his mark shift slightly, and an expression that caught her breath rolled over his tense features. "Say it again," he urged, his eyes darkening and his jaw stiffening. "Say please again, Rainee."

She'd say anything he wanted her to say if only he would get out of her. "Please. Please," she said, her words sounding choked and watery.

Elias, however, did not remove himself from her. Instead, he pulled back a fraction and then thrust himself into her, causing pain to tear through her at several points and bringing a sob up from her throat. She felt herself pushing against his shoulders, trying to get him away from her, but it was a useless endeavor. She couldn't budge him.

Ignoring her, he pulled himself back again and once again thrust into her, just hard enough to make her feel as if he'd pierced through her insides. A sob burst out of her as the pain exploded through her and she tried to shove him off her, but he didn't even seem to notice.

"Say it again," he repeated roughly, pulling back slightly and then shoving into her.

"Please!" she sobbed as the searing agony spidered through her, blurring her vision with another wave of tears. "Please, stop!"

Fear rose up inside her, icy and smothering, as she began to realize that maybe Elias Stone wasn't as nice as he wanted her to believe. He was asking her to beg him to stop, and even though she was doing what he wanted, he was still hurting her! What sort of misogynistic animal had she been paired up with!

Elias paid no attention to the fact that she was struggling to get away from him. His clouded eyes were locked on her, his features were set, and he was beginning to move against her, pulling his arousal nearly all the way out of her and then thrusting it back in with just enough force to jar her and cause a fresh wave of pain to sweep through her. And this time there was no pause to bring her relief. He kept moving, kept pulling back and thrusting in and with each movement, she could feel something inside her expanding and tearing until she thought for certain her body was being split open.

For a few seconds, he was moving slowly, tentatively, but only for a few seconds. After that, she saw him mentally give in, she saw the surrender overtake him, and then he was picking up his pace, sliding in and out of her in long, sure, quick strokes that had agony gripping her hard...but, there was suddenly something else there, too. Something that wasn't quite so miserable.

She felt it faintly at first, just a vague awareness in the background, she could hardly feel it past the pain Elias was causing her. But, with each stroke of his arousal, that vague feeling, which seemed to be positioned somewhere deep in her belly, swiftly began pushing its way into the foreground and in what felt like the span of a mere heartbeat, the pain became something in the background...and then her breath was being taken away.

"It's okay now, Rainee," Elias whispered, somehow sensing what was happening to her. "It'll be okay. Just relax and let it happen."

She actually had no choice but to let it happen. And it was happening so fast that it was slightly frightening. Elias was moving at a steady pace, in and out, back and forth, and with the haze of agony rapidly disappearing, she could suddenly feel him inside her in a way that was mind numbing, feel the size and the hardness and the strength of him, feel the way he was so big he was caressing every inch of her insides all at once, caressing the sensitive flesh that was abruptly growing tighter and tighter, like someone pulling a rubber band until it was ready to snap.

"Let it happen, Rainee," Elias urged past his tight jaw, his movements hastening, picking up as a little wave of something that felt like mutual desperation seem to pass between them.

That wave brushed over Rainee's flesh, raising her temperature and loosening her cramped muscles and before she knew it, her arms were around Elias' neck and her knees were bent, opening her body up to him...and then she was soaring towards the clouds.

Never, never, had she experienced anything so exquisite, so all-consuming and overwhelming. Elias was filling her up, there was no space left inside her, and with each stroke he was lifting her higher and higher into the heavens. It was bliss, the way it felt as he slid nearly out of her and then plunged back in. It was bliss, the way it felt to have something so big and so firm ramming into her body, sweeping her with a pleasure that was white hot in its intensity. It was bliss, the way it felt to have someone touching a place deep inside her that she hadn't even known was there, a place that she never could have found on her own. And each time the swollen tip of Elias' arousal brushed against that place, that barrier inside her that was holding behind it all the sensual promises she'd ever dreamed about, she knew that was the place that was going to give her the release that she could never have given herself.

She was suddenly focused solely on that spot deep inside her belly, focused on the pleasure that bordered on pain, focused on allowing Elias to get as close to that spot as he possibly could. She spread her legs wide for him and arched her hips against him and the next second he moaned deep in his throat and then...he came unhinged.

He was no longer moving carefully and steadily. His hands were tight in her hair and he was jackhammering into her, slamming his hard as steel length into her with all the force and speed he could muster and now that she was open to him, his tip was not only brushing against that secret place inside her, but was pounding against it, battering it mercilessly and even without reaching her release, she felt...satisfied. As if she'd finally been given something she had been sorely missing for her entire life.

Elias' body was colliding with her, his erection rubbing against her until she felt herself drawing up inside. She was there. She was right there, right on the razors edge. She felt herself going numb with anticipation, felt her entire being clenching into a ball of throbbing, urgent need. She was panting and mumbling to Elias, words she couldn't catch even though she was the one uttering them. She was bathed in dampness, her breath no longer coming at all. And Elias was doing what he could to help her, to give her that push that would send her plummeting into oblivion. He was slamming his tip into that place, he was undulating his hips, stroking that place, rubbing it up and down, causing that place to grow tighter and tighter, causing her to frantically cry out to him because she wasn't getting what she so desperately needed.

"Come on, Rainee. Come on! Let go for me!" Elias was urging her, his voice ragged and breathless. "Come on. Let go!"

She wanted to let go! She was trying to let go! She knew she would die if she couldn't let go and reach the end her mind and body were both screaming out for!

"Let it happen, Rainee. Please! Just let it happen," he pled with her, rolling his hips in a circle so that his tip swirled over that place inside her and though she felt her muscles convulse, she did not crest, which brought a despairing sob bubbling up from her throat.

Oh god. She was going to die. This was how she was going to die.

One of Elias' hands suddenly disentangled from her hair and slid down between them, his fingers finding the bud at the very center of her. Even as he continued to shove himself into her, he began working that little mound, rolling it beneath his fingers hard and fast and that brought her a different kind of pleasure, an external pleasure that, after a few second, seemed to unite and entwine with the internal pleasure throbbing away deep in her belly and when the two sensations merged...a damn inside her burst.

A flood of pure, unadulterated ecstasy rolled outward from that newly discovered place, overtaking her in seconds flat, melting her bones and blurring her vision and bringing a long, slow, decadent moan pouring out of her. There was no longer blood flowing through her veins because every ounce of it had surged up into her cheeks, but that was okay because her veins were now filled with a heated, silken liquid that raced through her like quicksilver and once it had spread from the tips of her toes to the tips of her fingers and every place in between, she went completely limp, feeling as if everything beneath her skin, from her bones right down to her very soul, had been burned away, leaving behind nothing but an empty shell that was suddenly so light she wondered that she wasn't floating away.

However, she hadn't floated away. She was still lying beneath Elias and he was still moving inside her, stroking in and out of her, his breathing labored now, his eyes nearly black with need. He was grinding against her, rolling into her, moving harder and harder, faster and faster, using her body in the way it was meant to be used, using it to rub against his length, to glove that muscle as her fingers might, using her to stroke him and caress him, to make him so tight and so hard that even she could feel his agony, his aching need to have his torture ended.

And then he came. She saw the ecstasy roll over his face and dimming his vision even before the deep, desperate growl of completion burst out of him. That groan made her think that something was tearing itself loose somewhere down in his soul and as he groaned, he continued to roll his hips into hers, trying to milk every single second of bliss out of his release until at last, trembling and breathless, he crumpled, collapsing on top of her.

Rainee lay beneath that pleasant weight, glad he was there to keep her from drifting away into the sky. Feeling firmly anchored to the bed, she closed her eyes and let herself get swallowed up in the soft shadows that were beginning to push in around her...