∼ Day 145 ∼

"You know, I would've dressed nicer if I knew you would've gone to such lengths," Lily teased as she stepped into the large canopy along the coast of the lake.

It was far enough from the settlement that we wouldn't be disturbed by anyone with only the necessary staff to help prepare this evening.

"I mean, while I do like the whole shirtless thing that you had going on, but that shirt is really doing wonders," She said as she eyed me up and down.

"Mia picked it out for me, seems she's gained a knack for such things," I chuckled, looking down at the loose white and buttoned shirt adorning my upper body. "You already look quite stunning yourself."

Lily was wearing embroidered and tight-fitting thin leggings with a baggy long-sleeved shirt tugged into her pants that while seemed casual, managed to accentuate her lithe figure and graceful features.

"Still, something like a dress would've done me nicely here,"

She paused.

"After all, a woman's beauty is a limited thing, and one should capitalize on it while one can."

"I don't doubt for a second that you wouldn't look ravishing in a dress and I would love to see you in one, but this is more than doing it for me," I smiled, genuinely meaning what I said.

"A real silk tongue you've got there," She smirked.

"Hardly," I chuckled, walking over and pulling out a chair.

Pushing it in as she sat down, I made my way over to the other side and sat myself down.

With a little bit of idle chatter, the food being served by some of the new cooks I've brought home, they were sent away for me and Lily to enjoy the rest of the evening.

"This wine is fantastic, this from Ebongrave?" She asked, swirling the glass with a light red liquid in it. "It's like nothing I've ever tasted, I doubt even the royal stores have anything this good."

"Yes, a personal gift from Lord Nosferas," I said, sipping the glass.

A blissful and half-disbelieving expression briefly touched her face.

"Not in a millennium, would I have guessed myself to be sitting over and eating dinner with a monster that I've essentially sworn my life to, who is now even courting me," She sighed with a light snort.

"Do you regret it?" I asked, eyeing her over my glass.

"Not in the slightest," She smiled back. "It was honestly quite frightening at first,"

She paused. "But now...?"

She looked me deep in my eyes with those azure blue ones of hers.

"I've never felt freer; the world at my fingertips," She accentuated her words by trilling her fingertips against the glass.

"Huh," She chuckled after a short silence.

"What is it?" I asked with a slight smirk at her bewildered face.

"All of this," She gestured to the table, finished plates, and the canopy around us. "If I hadn't known better, I would've thought you human in disguise. To think a monster took me out to be courted with dinner and pleasant company."

I didn't respond.

I wanted to, to simply laugh it off with her, but somehow couldn't get myself to.

Realizing that I had fallen silent, Lily looked back at me. But as I didn't meet her eyes, the tension in the air only grew tighter.

"Xavier...?" She hesitated, the cogs in her head whirring.

Only sparing her a glance from the corner of my eye, her eyes widened.

"Saints above..." She muttered in disbelief. "H-how's that possible? But you're not even an enlightened..?"

Now it was my turn to be confused.

"What do you mean by that?" I asked, realizing that Lily was all too quick to accept the fact that I had once been human; that it was even feasible in the first place.

"I've... heard about those blessed and reincarnated from lands afar, b-but..." She trailed off.

"But never have I heard about any return as monsters," She finished.

Now it was my turn to fall back into my seat.

I... wasn't the only one...

There were others.

Of course, I had considered the possibility. Hell, I had even expected it. But having my suspicions finally being affirmed was something different entirely.

"We're you originally of this world or another?" Lily suddenly asked, now much more composed than just previous.

Her words brought me out of my wandering thoughts.

"They can also come from this world itself?" I asked, surprised.

"Yes," She answered. "Although I do not know much about the blessed other than passing tales and rumors from other countries and lands, so much I do at least."

"Be it elves reborn as dwarves, or simply humans being reborn as humans once again, there is usually always one common denominator between all those who are brought back or transferred by those being above. And that is that there always enlightened, never monster." She explained.

"At least, never that I've ever heard off," She added. "The blessed are individuals that all enlightened in fact pride themselves in as its seen that it's as a sign that the beings above favor the enlightened by giving them powerful tools and warriors to quell the hordes of beasts and monsters."

"I see," I muttered, rubbing my face exhaustingly.

"Does Mia know?" She asked. "Does anyone else know?"

"Just Mia, but, you know her," I chuckled. "She lives in the present, and when I told her about me her she didn't even bat an eye. Such things don't matter to her. I am, and always will be Xavier to her. What I was in the past matters not, only what I am now."

"As for Bob. Hell I can tell him anything, and he'd believe me - he would probably just be content because he was included as opposed to whatever I actually say." I chuckled.

Lily couldn't help but let out a chuckle herself, a bit of the tension in her shoulders dissipating with it.

"That sure does sound like Mia and Bob alright," She said.

Silence fell on the night as the sounds of critters from the jungle nearby chirped and chittered.

"So... another world huh?" Lily broke the silence first.

"Yup..." I answered simply.

"I knew it was odd with how human you acted all this time as if you were not a wild monster just a couple of months ago," She said with a smile, poking my leg playfully under the table.

"Yeah," I chuckled, taking a swig of the wine that had briefly been forgotten.

"Why would you reveal such a big secret to me?" She asked after a brief pause. "You realize, the consequences of this if word got out could be catastrophic. And even if you didn't know all of the things I have just said, you could at least guess the outfall of such a thing if it were to be found out by those much stronger than us."

"I trust you," I answered surprisingly quickly, not really realizing before now how much I actually meant that.

She just stared at me, scrutinizing my face for any dishonesty.

"Lily, there's something I've been needing to talk with you about," I said suddenly before she could speak.

"Ever since you abandoned your old life and joined my motley band of monsters, we've been playing each other's games, and I've really enjoyed it," I paused. "But now, I won't skirt around the thing on both our minds."

She didn't say anything, just looking at me with bated breath.

"I intend to pursue you. I want you to be mine," I said without a shred of hesitation. "But, if you were to truly to be mine, that would mean sharing me with another woman and possibly more."

"I know - I know. You have no idea how insistent Mia has been on having me join you as your woman," She chuckled mirthfully. "And I must say, some of her... promises and tellings have been quite compelling."

I was about to say something else, but the slender foot that suddenly caressed my inner thigh from under the table had the area spark with electricity.

Raising an intrigued brow, I gave her a devilish smile.

"Well, if you want to play it that way, then..." I trailed off, ever so slightly calling upon the blood within Lily.

Suddenly, Lily's face flushed, her hands clenched around the counter of the table. It was obvious that she was holding back a moan.

"I little trick I've picked up with the help of Mia," I said, failing miserably to stop the smirk that crawled onto my mouth.

"Not, fair..." She got out.

"Want me to stop?" I asked with a hint of teasing in my voice. "I can-"

I was abruptly cut off by Lily reaching over the table, clutching the hem of my shirt and dragging me over to land her soft lips on mine. Although sudden, I didn't need any more prompting to hungrily re-join her passion as the tableware was knocked over the carelessness of our heated moment.

Breaking our kiss, she looked deep into my eyes.

"Don't you dare, I've been waiting for way too long for this," She panted breathily.

Kissing as we stepped around the table, I held her close in my embrace. But as our kiss grew more and more passionate whilst our hands explored each other's bodies, Lily undid the belt around my waist in one fluid motion.

Before I knew it, she was grinding her back against me, teasing the painfully hard member of my crotch with her soft but firm behind all the while. Rising to her challenge, I pushed her over the table, trailing my lips down her neck and ever so gently letting my fangs graze her skin.

She shuddered under my touch, but as I was about to turn her around to get foreplay going, her hand grasped my wrist.

"N-no, I can't wait any longer, I need you now."

My pants were down in record time.

As I pulled her leggings and undergarments down, her upper body roughly pressed over the table, I laid my eyes on the fit and perfectly round ass that had for so long captivated my eyes as Lily would tease me with her games. But just down past down her modestly-sized but perfectly shapen ass was the wet and slicken entrance of her womanhood.

She hadn't been lying that she couldn't wait any longer...

"Please... Xavier," She whispered breathily, the glint in her eye as she glanced over the shoulder filled with lust.

I needed no more prompting as I took my already rock-hard dick in my hand and pushed it against her pussy.

Lily briefly gasped as I pushed myself into her, her hands once again clutching the edges of the table tight whilst her body tensed. But as I saw the straining expression on Lily's face, I quickly stopped myself from going further in.

"You okay?" I asked worriedly.

"Y-yeah," She let out a strained puff. "B-but damn! How don't you literally break little Mia with that."

Her accusatory words were dripping with mocking as she tried to readjust her rear.

"Oh, you shouldn't worry about her. If anything, at the time you should be worried about her breaking me," I paused after a brief chuckle. "Do you... want me to...? Go down a size if it would help?"

Although it was rather uncomfortable to use my Blood Born ability to change my body beyond my natural appearance and size, it was entirely possible.

Her hand around my wrist suddenly clenched.

"Do you dare," She said hotly. "J-just, take it slow."

Doing as the lady said, I took it gently at first.

But as I went slowly deeper and deeper, my jaw practically fell open as I literally felt her inside change ever so slightly. Stretching and re-fitting, her already tight entrance became both more welcoming to my length and more stimulating.

"Is that...?" I asked incredulously.

"Y-yeah, it seems that Sanguine Acrobatic is getting better and better for reasons I hadn't expected," She smirked.

Drowning myself in the sensations of my entire length going deeper and deeper with each stroke, I quickly found myself pounding my hips against Lily as she let out her moans of up-until-now sexual frustration.

But all concerns of what was and what was to be completely disappeared as both me and her were entranced in this single moment of pure ecstasy. Her insides kept twisting and turning, changing and accommodating for both our pleasures.

"H-harder!" She moaned loudly.

Taking her up on that, I changed positions, taking advantage of that flexibility of hers. By turning her to the side, her leg was thrown up into the air to do a standing split as I pounded her pussy, her gasp of exhilaration and surprise only egging me on.

Locking in with her lips in a kiss of passion, I cleared the table of anything that might still have been on it. I swept Lily off her feet and laid her splayed out on the table, her azure eyes of lust staring up at me as her pussy was wide on display for me to see.

I didn't waste a second, as I re-entered her, eliciting a gasp as I did. With long steady pumps, I picked up my pace once again, her moans and the clap of my flesh against her music to my ears.

But breaking through the haze of pleasure, were her words.

"M-more - harder!" She said once again.

I almost stopped there, briefly thinking that I might break her if I went any harder. But then again, I remembered that neither myself nor she was any frail individual and it took a look more than just this to hurt one another. So, I redoubled my efforts, pushing Lily's body to the limit.

I was practically hammering with abandon by now, utterly lost in my carnal desire.

Although Mia liked the occasional rough session every now and then, it was never this rough.

Approaching my climax as the wooden table creaked and cracked slightly, I leaned down over Lily, my fingers on the nape of her neck slipping in the back of her hair. And almost instinctually as I presented it to her, Lily bit into my neck, drawing blood.

As she drank my blood, I felt her entire body quiver with her own orgasm, calling forth mine as I kept pumping into her already soaking wet entrance.

There was almost no place for any logical thought as I emptied myself inside her, coating her insides as I both her and I was lost in pleasure.

Panting heavily, as I came down from the high of our orgasms, a message flashed across my mind.

∼ Sanguine Lord's decree ∼

[The second wife of the lord of blood has been inaugurated]

[All hail, Lily, the Song of Storm and Ichor!]