Chapter Seventy-Nine: *Can You Feel Me Now?
We'd barely made it through the door when Alistair kicked it shut behind us. He set me carefully on the bed, then took the platter of food from my hands and put it on a table. Climbing up bedside me, he curled himself around me and pulled me into his embrace. I relaxed, enjoying the comfort and closeness, enjoying the warmth of his body pressed against mine. Even after the bath, I didn't really feel warm. It felt like the cold in the dungeon had settled in to my bones, and I was having a hard time getting warm again.
When he felt me shiver, Alistair rolled us to lay me across his chest and pull up the blankets on the bed. It felt a bit ridiculous being clothed in bed, but it was warmer, so I wasn't about to object. His heartbeat thumped slowly in my ear, and I closed my eyes to listen to the soothing sound. His hands came up to stroke my back, and I practically purred.
"So what was it this time?" he asked, dragging me from my reverie.
"Hmm? What was what?" I lifted my head so I could look him in the eye.
"What drove you back to Earth?" he clarified.
I blushed, and he gave me an intrigued look. "Nothing. It just occurred to me that it had been a while since I'd gone back, and I was worried it would happen while we were in the Deep Roads."
He sighed, and I echoed him. When nothing more seemed forthcoming, I laid my head back down on his chest. We cuddled together like that for a few minutes, and I felt my eyes starting to drift closed. Suddenly they flew wide open as he reversed our positions, rolling me over and landing on top of me. He grabbed my wrists, gently pinning them above my head. I squeaked in surprise, and he silenced me with a sudden, passionate kiss. I relaxed into it as he swept his tongue through my mouth to engage with mine.
He pulled away, panting, his eyes almost black with desire. I wiggled my hips, rubbing myself against the bulge I could feel through his trousers, and he hissed.
"So...Avernus says that your leaving is voluntary, right? That you only go when you want to?"
I nodded, confused by the subject matter. "Yes, bu-"
He cut me off with a finger to my lips. "We are going to test that theory."
"Wha-?" I mumbled around his finger.
"Here's what's going to happen. I'm going to give you the motivation to stay. So from now on, if you go back, if you disappear, you will be...punished."
"Punished?" I might have been creeped out, if the mischievous glint in his eyes hadn't made it obvious that this was a game. At least, sort of a game.
I hope.
He nodded, and I felt one of his hands slide down my side, brushing against my breast before continuing down my hip to my thigh. I gasped as he gathered the material of my dress and slid his hand underneath, all without letting go of my wrists.
"Punished how?"
"I think it will be more fun to show you, actually."
"I haven't agreed to this, you know."
"Doesn't matter. It's a promise I'm making to you, right here and now. Leave me again, and you will be punished." He leaned in and whispered huskily in my ear. "Don't worry. All you have to do is hold still. You can do that, can't you?"
I groaned as he parroted back my own words from Denerim, but couldn't deny that a thrill of arousal travelled down my spine in response. My hips twitched, underneath him, and he grinned.
His hand crept up my thigh, stroking my bare hip softly. "Do you know what you did to me, sitting in my lap all through dinner with no smalls? Are you trying to kill me?"
I smirked and wriggled against him again, and he stilled my hips with his as he pulled my dress up slowly. He briefly let go of my wrists to pull the dress over my head and toss it carelessly to the floor, then kissed me as he captured my wrists again.
"Stay," he whispered, and let go again to push himself up, kneeling between my thighs. I watched avidly as he pulled off his tunic, my eyes roaming over his impressive chest; I moaned out loud when he unlaced his trousers and his erection popped out, enormous and straining and beautiful. I spread my legs a little bit and wriggled, anticipating him taking me hard and fast and desperate.
Instead, he settled back down, his belly in the V of my thighs, and used his hands to tilt my head before slowly buzzing kisses along my jaw, stopping to lick my ear before continuing down my neck. He nuzzled my collarbone, then continued further south to find my pebbled nipple with his lips, while one hand teased the other. I almost came when he gently closed his teeth around the little bud, and I writhed beneath him.
He backed off and began planting little kisses all over my breasts, alternating sides, nibbling lightly on the sensitive skin, and then sucking until I knew he'd left marks.
I'm going to be covered in bruises tomorrow...
I moaned in disappointment when he stopped, but gasped as I felt his tongue tease at my little belly button. He then kissed his way down over my hairless mound, settling in between my thighs.
I was already soaked, I knew, and I quivered in anticipation of his touch, but it didn't come. I lifted my head to look down, seeing him staring intently at me, his cheeks flushed, and his breath ghosting over my lips. When I almost couldn't take it anymore, he finally, slowly approached and I moaned as the tip of his tongue tickled down along my slit. I bucked, needing more, but he reached around under my thighs to pin my hips with his big hands.
He tsk'ed at me. "Moving already? For shame."
I blushed and flopped my head back onto the pillow. I felt his tongue again, but this time he licked firmly from my opening, all the way up over my sensitive pearl, and I cried out. He returned to tease against my opening, waiting until I whispered his name, begging, before he pressed the thick muscle inside me. I continued chanting his name, encouraging him on, as he began an in-and-out action that was driving me wild. I wanted to writhe, the pleasure of something filling me too much, but his hands holding my hips did not let go, and instead I just fluttered uselessly against the restraint.
