Neither were willing to be very patient about getting to the ‘after’ part. They washed each other quickly, although Boyd did make sure to lather Raev’s tails in a damage-preventing conditioner she had brought with her. Once they’d rinsed the product out of her fluffy tails, the little bit of patience she’d had was exhausted.

  Boyd left the water running but moved them out of the stream before lifting Raev up by the hips. His understanding was that normally people wanted to like shower sex—it was a common fantasy—but had all sorts of difficulties with the reality. Boyd had no such issues.

  He used a trick he had thought up a while ago but had never had cause to use with Silvie because of her Power. His tail was long, just shy of seven feet, very flexible, and as strong as he was. Boyd wrapped it around in front of him and formed a U-shaped bend in it. With it so formed, he now had a makeshift platform to lay Raev back onto.

  “Oh, this has possibilities,” she cooed at him.

  He adjusted his tail slightly, setting the bend so that it supported her neck and shoulders. His goal was to let her hang her head back if she wished to. At the same time, though, he hoped to support her head if she wanted to look at him. The tip of his tail curled down her side and then up around the outside of her hip. It provided a little stability, but he mostly did it because he thought Raev would like it.

  She wrapped her legs loosely around his waist, held too far back to grip him with her thighs—for now. Her flame red hair looked crimson as it dangled behind her. Her emerald eyes glistened with anticipation and need burned down the Bond to Boyd. Raev’s lips curled in an expectant smile, and she parted them just a little as her pink tongue teasingly traced her upper lip before she took her lower lip between her teeth.

  Boyd lined himself up and pressed the tip of his manhood into her just a little.

  “Mmm,” Raev purred, “that’s right, Big Guy, fill me up.”

  So, he did. His cock disappeared between her wet and ready netherlips. Not too slowly though, Boyd went just slow enough to enjoy the way she trembled as each inch disappeared inside her.

  “Uughh,” Raev let out a pleasure filled groan when he bottomed out. “So good!”

  He had sized himself down a little for her, which she did not seem to notice. He wasn’t about to mention it. He didn’t want to let her pride make the experience even a little less enjoyable for her, and it made no difference to the sensations he felt.

  Boyd started rocking into her slowly to warm her up, but that wasn’t what either of them were looking for. He quickly built the pace until he was pistoning into his love.

  “Oh, yes!” she cried out as her hands began to roam her own body.

  One hand found its way to her perky breasts, massaging them and tweaking her own nipples. The other moved to her lower abdomen and pressed down. Boyd sensed what she was looking for. She was enthralled by the ability to feel him inside her from the outside.

  He lifted her hips a bit more, while using his tail to drop her shoulders, seeking the perfect angle. The new angle allowed her to feel him as her toned abs bulged slightly every time he bottomed out. He thrust into her like that for a few moments.

  “Yes, Big Guy, harder! More!” she cried.

  Boyd complied, going just a little harder. Now that she’d been Enhanced, her resistances were likely higher than before, and he might be able to be rougher. But her new durability hadn’t been tested, and he was unwilling to risk it.

  Raev’s emerald eyes locked onto his for a moment before sliding out of focus. She let her head drop back, exposing her long and slender throat, as she screamed her pleasure. The way the pose made her perky chest stick up and angled her sex around him was maddening. Every sleek muscle of her abdomen flexed, and her thighs gripped his hips as her long legs wrapped around his waist. She pulled him to herself with each thrust.

  “Umnn… cum in me,” she panted. “Fill me up. Put a kit in me. Knock me up. Oh, please!”

  She lifted her head to find his eyes. The need in her burning emerald orbs sent him over the edge, though he hadn’t thought he was terribly close to orgasming. He also wasn’t responding to her desire for him to climax inside her; it was the sheer animal intensity of her gaze that had him suddenly at the height of pleasure.

  Boyd let out a rumbling groan as he buried himself as deep as he could inside his lover. She trembled around him, muscles flexing and relaxing in waves that intensified his own pleasure. Raev let out a low moan of her own, smooth and incredibly sexy.

  As they came down from their orgasmic highs, Boyd used his tail to lift his lover to him. Her arms wrapped around his neck and her breasts pressed into his upper chest. Their lips met and they tried to devour each other. Neither was quick to separate from the other. In fact, Raev decided to take advantage of one of Boyd’s quirks.

  Unlike most men, he lacked a refractory period, meaning he didn’t need any time between rounds. He was ready to go again immediately after his release. She began to use her arms to lift and let herself fall on him, rolling her hips to drag her clit against his length on the upstroke and then ensure he hit the best angle on the downstroke.

  Boyd felt when something shifted in their Bond. His prior encounters with her had been hot and heavy, which he knew to be her preference. She wanted… no, she needed another round, but wanted it slower and more passionate this time.

  Raev loved to fuck, but now she needed him to make love to her.

  Boyd groaned into their kiss, loving the idea. He wrapped his wings up around her, leaving her head clear but covering her from the shoulder down. Even her currently soaked tails were enclosed. His Tail came up to coil under her butt, giving her a platform to support her weight and freeing his hands.

  Those, he let wander her splendid body as he began slowly rocking up into her. Standing in a shower was not the ideal place to make love, but Boyd would make do. Their kiss only broke for them to take a gasping breath and let out pleased sighs. This round lasted much longer than the first, and he could feel his lover reveling in the sensuality of it.

  She loved the way his wings felt around her. The velvet interior caressed her back like the most luxurious blanket, yet they made her feel safe at the same time. The slower movement wasn’t as intense as she normally preferred, but it felt wonderfully soothing and built her up in a way she hadn’t experienced before. Boyd loved it because it allowed him to experience his lover's sex in greater detail. He felt each fold and every clenching muscle.

  Raev broke their kiss to pant, “I love you so much.”

  “I love you too,” Boyd rumbled back.

  Then their lips sealed together once more, and their tongues writhed around one another. This extended session lasted a long while as steam from the shower billowed around them. Raev had several smaller orgasms along the way, but they only ratcheted things up another notch instead of providing a release. Boyd felt a big one building inside her. He got just a little rougher in the final moments, thrusting a little more firmly into her.

  Raev let out sexy little cries into the kiss with each thrust, driving him to deliver the next. They climaxed together, hard, shuddering in one another’s arms. Boyd was flooded with so much pleasure that his vision went white for a moment. Raev came apart around and against him, the fox ears atop her head seizing at odd angles as her tails stiffened and batted against his wings.

  “Oh, wow!” Raev panted a moment after finally catching her breath. “Okay, the whole thing with me getting a steady dose of your love is dangerous during sex.”

  “Oh?” Boyd asked. “Should I remove it for sex?”

  He didn’t really want to. That was why he’d set it up before they had sex in the first place. He would still stop it, though, if it made her too uncomfortable.

  “Absolutely not!” Raev shook her head violently, still in his arms with him still inside her. “I just think it might get addictive, is all. That second round was… wow. What was that?”

  “What do you mean?” Boyd asked as he studied her beautiful green eyes once more. He loved the natural black rim around them, eyeliner no shower could ever wash away.

  “It got really intense. It felt… different.” Raev let out a velvet chuckle. “If I knew how to describe it, I wouldn’t have to ask.”

  Boyd searched their Bond to figure out what it was that she didn’t understand. It didn’t help much, but he was able to figure it out anyway. “Have you never made love before?”

  “Of course I have,” Raev scoffed. “I was told it wouldn’t be good to go into my sexual history with you, but I have one.”

  Boyd chuckled. “First, while I admit I have issues with jealousy and little will to do anything about it, I knew you had a sexual history. A girl doesn’t get skills like yours without one. While I wouldn’t appreciate hearing any details, if there is anything you need to talk to me about in that history, you can. Okay?”

  “Okay.” Raev nodded with a smile. “There’s nothing harrowing I could drag up… I would have more funny stories to share than anything.”

  “That’s good to know.”

  Of course, Boyd knew someone had to have hurt her at some point in the past. Her issues with rejection had to have come from somewhere. It likely wasn’t connected directly to sex and could even stem from her family. She still had contact with her family, though, so that didn’t quite fit. He shook the thought away after a moment.

  “Second,” he continued, “having a sexual history doesn’t mean you’ve ever made love. Was it always like the other times? Energetic, rough, with lots of position changing and so on?”

  Raev pondered his words for a moment before nodding, “Yeah, pretty much.”

  “Yeah, that’s just sex… fucking.” Boyd chuckled good naturedly.

  He wasn’t mocking his lover but did find it a little amusing. He then adopted a more serious expression, meeting her eyes before he continued. “Besides, you said you’ve never been in love. You can’t make love if you aren’t in love. Making love is different from sex—both are great, but in very different ways.”

  “That’s so corny.” Raev sighed, slumping against him as she tried to look aloof. The wide grin she couldn’t seem to keep from her lips spoiled the effect.

  “Ugghh!” she groaned after failing to contain her smile. “What are you doing to me?”

  Boyd shrugged. “You were warned you would fall in love. It’s too late to go back now.” Fortunately, he could feel that she wasn’t upset by this development in the least. “That’s the thing about falling in love. No matter how lame or corny you think people who are in love are before you experience it yourself, those corny things become wondrous.”

  “I don’t ever want to go back,” Raev responded before pulling herself up for another kiss, this one long and slow. When their lips broke apart, she said, “Okay, Big Guy, put me down. Let’s wash up and get back to the others.”

  Chapter 45

  Raev and Boyd made their way back to the Great Room after finding more comfortable clothes. Raev grabbed a pair of yoga pants and a green tank top, while Boyd went with his standard athletic shorts. He carefully stored the pieces of his suit on a rack for it in his office, which was on the way back out to the Great Room. It was a good central location if he needed to get to it quickly.

  Raev draped her suit over the rack. She had multiple copies of her original unarmored, mostly red suit strategically placed around the base. As soon as Tinker finalized the design for Boyd’s suit, he would have copies made and strategically placed around the base, as well.

  They found Laura, Silvie, and Mindy sitting together on the middle level of the Great Room. Silvie was facing away from them as they approached but turned to give them a beaming smile. “Are you two feeling better?”

  “Much.” Raev grinned.

  “Yes,” Boyd smiled. “Any updates?”

  “Tinker already has drones deploying, so our sensor net is growing,” Silvie answered him. “No signs of the Last Dragon, though. Daisy is repacking the stuff she unpacked just to be safe. Laura is also ready to evacuate, as you can see.”

  “Good.” Boyd sat down next to Silvie and pulled her into his side before asking, “Are you feeling better?”

  “Mindy said she’s done what she can, and the rest I’ll have to resolve the old-fashioned way,” Silvie replied as she nestled into his side. “It’s just a little guilt. Mindy promised that realizing I was manipulating you all this time didn’t even phase you, which helps.”

  Boyd shrugged. “It really didn’t. I’m not sure if that’s because a part of me knew it was happening, or just a result of my Power telling me that what you did, you did out of love. Either way, it doesn’t matter. I do prefer being on the same page with you, of course.”

  Boyd considered his next words for a moment before saying them. He wasn’t sure they were necessary, as Mindy would already know, but he had learned that sometimes saying something out loud just made things easier. “I am aware there is more that I haven’t been told… but that there are reasons for that. I’m continuing to choose to trust you.”

  For one thing, there were those other faces in the videos of the four deceased members of the Bionics’ parties—faces that wouldn’t be there if the problem wasn’t bigger than implied. It wasn’t only entertainment for a sick and twisted few. That had been a sizable group with representation from multiple cities, Heroes and others that took joy in torturing and murdering people because they were in the unfortunate minority of Powereds who became Changed.

  Oddly, despite such dark thoughts, Boyd found that his anger did not rise. A sense of calm had been draped over him that seemed to smother his anger. Boyd eyed Mindy but it didn’t feel like an expression of her Power. Boyd chalked it up to a combination of the recent love making and having bigger problems with the Last Dragon active in the world.

  Raev sat down on his other side and leaned into him. Boyd wrapped his arms around both women who’d snuggled into him and pulled them closer. Mindy and Laura sat across from them, both with knowing smiles on their faces.

  He judged Laura to be unconcerned by such a display of affection. To be fair, she’d already seen Raev and him in bed together. And she knew about his Power. It had even seemed like she might be interested in him, herself.

  “Thank you for understanding,” Mindy replied to his statement. “Although the only other information we are hiding from you is what we know of the third organization—which isn’t much, and we are withholding for your own protection. Tinker has access to more information than either Silvie or me on the topic you were thinking about.”

  “I’ll have to ask her for what she has,” Boyd replied, a bit of a growl entering his voice.

  If his new mission was to change The Authority from within, removing the worst of the apple’s seemed a good place to start. He would have to see what information was available before he could judge what was actionable. He couldn’t just go around murdering Heroes because he knew they were evil. They lived in a society of law and order, after all.

  “I worry that you will find those laws are not in our favor,” Mindy sighed. “Which is why our mission is to set you up as an example of what Changed really are. If a hero who looks and should act like a demon, according to common biases, can lead a team of Heroes who all love and are loved by him, it might help change that common bias. If you can change common biases, we can change the laws.”

  Boyd nodded his agreement. “I understand the laws and our goal, but that doesn’t mean I’ll abandon trying to ensure those who deserve justice receive it along the way. I also understand that this is a war of public opinion, and that I will have to pursue such justice carefully.”

  “Good.” Mindy nodded, arching her sculpted brows at him and effectively shutting down any further discussion on that topic.

  But corrupt heroes and the biased laws of The Authority weren’t the only threats they were facing. Boyd wondered if anyone else had considered the possibility that the encounter earlier had opened. If he were to be honest, he had not brought it up because what it would entail scared him. It scared him the appropriate amount that such things should—meaning it terrified him.

  Mindy’s eyes widened as she listened to his thoughts on this new topic. “Absolutely not. It is far too dangerous, and we have no guarantees.”

  “It would accomplish the mission,” Boyd rumbled back.

  He didn’t even particularly like the idea but being told no like that made him want to defend it. It was just something about Mindy; Boyd couldn’t help it. He blamed it on the fact that she often shot down ideas that he hadn’t even voiced yet.

  “No, it would get you killed. Which would be a mission failure,” Mindy stated and crossed her arms under her chest. Even in the billowy kaftan the gesture of firm denial drew Boyd’s attention to her prodigious chest. Boyd didn’t let it distract him.

  “Or it could save a city and end a threat humanity would worry about as long as we want to stay on this planet,” he growled back.

  “Okay, fill the rest of us in,” Raev said from beside him. “What are you talking about?”

  “He thinks because he hurt the baby dragon, he might be able to kill the Last Dragon,” Mindy responded.

  “The earliest contact with the Last Dragon was during the Dragon War seven hundred years ago, and it was a third the size it was today,” Boyd explained his reasoning. “Nothing we had hurt it back then. Assuming that the baby has the same Power, its age shouldn’t matter. It certainly had the same breath weapon.”

  “You’re making a lot of assumptions and the cost of being wrong is being disintegrated, crushed into paste, or eaten,” Mindy responded with a scowl on her dramatically painted face.

  “Darling, that crossed the line between bravery and stupidity in the wrong direction.” Silvie sighed, burying her face in the side of his chest.

  “You are really bad at the whole ‘being careful’ thing, aren’t you?” Laura added her two cents.

  Boyd grumbled a wordless complaint before he responded. “I didn’t even voice the thought, I just wondered if anyone else realized it might be possible.”

 

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