His words feel like a slap with icy water, I go cold instantly. What does he mean not from this realm? What realm? Banishment? He is banished? Is he a criminal where he's from? Is he dangerous? What have I done?

"Aria?" he is careful with his movements, like he doesn't want to scare me. But I have known this orc for many weeks and nothing with who I know him to be is adding up to that sentence.

"Igor, you better just talk because I'm panicking right now."

"Okay, dove. I am not a criminal and I wasn't banished for anything bad... well, not that bad."

I furrow my brows.

"I was set to take over from my father who died but my people didn't think I was worthy. Together my mother, uncle and the woman I thought I would make my queen banished me to this realm to 'mature' until I was worthy. I was sent here for a hundred years. This is my last year. In a few moons, the rune will have run its course and I am supposed to return to my land."

None of it makes sense. I stay silent for a while, trying to figure out if I'm understanding anything.

"You've been here for a hundred years? You are...a prince? King?" I pause. "And you have a wife!?" I can't stop the reaction to that one.

"No no no no. We weren't one yet. She betrayed me and it is over. I am only yours."

My mouth falls open. I still don't understand. He is leaving? "You are leaving me?" I can't keep the accusation and hurt from my voice, and I see his heart break.

"Aria..." he doesn't continue.

Tears burn the back of my eyes. The gods really do despise me. Just when I finally met the one I thought was mine he must go too. And I will be left alone.

"Aria, please don't think that."

"Think what, Igor? That you are leaving me? You are leaving." I try to jump over him because I am too emotional and I don't know if I want to be here with him right now, but he holds me just as I am on top of him.

"Let me go, orc."

He doesn't and I try to pry his hands from me.

"You are not going anywhere, and neither am I." he says calmly.

"You just said you are leaving, orc. Do I look like a fool?"

A small smile graces his lips. "I said I'm supposed to go, I didn't say I was." He lets the words sink in and my brows furrow again. "I am not leaving you, Aria. I am staying here, with you."

"So, you won't leave me?"

"I won't leave you."

"But...what about your realm?" I am skeptical. If he has a chance to go home, why would he stay.

"I belong here with you, dove. I'm not going anywhere you can't go."

"Can't we go together?" I ask.

"Humans and other creatures can't cross over to our realm through the barrier. There is a protection spell that prevents it. Only orcs can cross."

"Oh..." and that is all I can say. My face hasn't relaxed. My mind is trying to wrap around everything he's said.

"Aria?" he says after a few moments of me not saying anything.

"Um, so you are a ruler where you come from?"

"Supposed to be."

"Who is king right now?"

"Possibly my uncle."

"Um..."

"You okay?"

"This is a lot of new information." I say honestly.

"You can ask me anything."

My mind goes blank on the question, but I remember something that is almost perfect for this moment. Since everything is coming out.

"My former husband is King Shepherd of the Gango kingdom."

The air gets zapped from the room and his mouth parts. He opens it and then closes it.

"You are the queen of this land?" it sounds like an accusation.

"I am the former disgraced queen of this land, Igor. That is no longer who I am."

"Aria, you are the queen. Why didn't you tell me before?"

"Because it doesn't matter. It changes nothing. Shepherd still hates me; he wanted me dead, and he sent people to make sure it happens, and he never loved me. He would probably spit in my face if he saw my face again and undoubtfully, he would have me executed on the spot." Igor needs to understand there is nothing for me on the outside.

"But you are still his..."

"No, I'm not! I'm not! I was never his!"

He looks taken aback by my outburst.

"Igor, I never belonged. I was alone. I was nothing. Until you."

He pulls me to his chest. "I'm sorry, dove. You didn't deserve that. He is a fool. Don't be upset, okay?"

"Wait, did you call me 'dove'?"

He chuckles lightly. "Do you have a problem with that, dove?"

I smile from his chest. I draw a breath. "That was a traumatic experience for me, Igor." I swallow. "I was alone. I was queen only by name, but I didn't have anything, I couldn't do anything, and I was expected to sit and keep quiet while everyone decided my life; what I was going to do and what I was going to be happy with. I would rather die than be back there."

"Don't you have anyone you would go back for? Was no one kind to you?"

"My brother and his wife were never cruel to me, but they also stood by while everything happened; while I was humiliated."

I sit up and I tell Igor all the humiliation and everything I went through. He was trembling from rage by the time I finished. I calmed him down.

"Aria, I am so sorry for everything."

"It isn't your fault."

"I wish I had known, and I would have rescued you."

I smile. "You would have stormed Shepherd's castle for me?"

"For you? I would burn it to the ground. Aria, I would crush anyone who touched you."

I see nothing but sincerity in his eyes.

"Let's hope that never happens. I never want to see that world again."

"So, you will stay here with me forever?" he squeezes my derrière and my core clenches. I see hot hunger in his gaze flash, and I am transported too.

"How could I leave after what you do to me, orc?"

"Is that the only reason you are staying?"

"No, but it's a delicious nail in this coffin." I start grinding myself on him. Its nighttime so I am already in my short night dress and no under garments.

"You are insatiable, little human."

"Are you complaining, orc?"

"No, you are perfect for me."

"I know. I see it in your eyes."

"Is it? What do you see in my eyes, dove?" his finger finds my cunt and he slides it in. I suck a quick breath through my teeth and then I lick my lips as I salivate.

I get lost in the sensations. "Tell me what you see in my eyes, little dove."

"But you are...oh." I whimper in pleasure.

He stops abruptly and I make a protesting sound. "Igor."

"Tell me or I won't give you what you need."

I lick my lips. "What did you ask again?"

He smirks. "You were going to tell me why you know you are perfect for me."

"Oh. That's easy. It is written in your eyes." he starts again and lifts me. "How you are attentive to me... How you see me. How you always want me. Your desire for me is written in your eyes, and I don't doubt what you feel for me because you keep nothing from me." he pumps into me with a relentless stroke.

"That's right, I burn for you, Aria." He pulls me to him, and he grazes the base of my neck with his tusks and teeth, his low growl animalistic and feral. "Only you. And I am never going to let you feel any less. Now give me what I need, satisfy my soul, dove."

I moan loudly as I clench hard around his finger. I am trembling on him and grinding on his finger when I feel a second finger. It's still snug but this time I want it. I push myself on him to show him how much I want it.

"Give it to me, Igor."

"Okay, relax, okay." He pushes in slowly and my cunt stretches to accommodate twice what I had before. My mouth forms into an 'o'. I pant slowly and he moves slowly, in and out.

"Good girl, take it just like that."

Those words send delicious tingles all over my body and my toes curl. I breath out as I try to get used to the stretch and he keeps the slow steady rhythm. "I'm so full."

"You are so tight. You will feel like paradise when I finally take you."

"I can't wait for you to take me and make me yours." I look down at him, he is so present and I see nothing but his desire for me.

"Yeah?" he deepens his voice. "Tell me how much you want my cock, Aria."

"So much. I...think about it all day." I don't care about confessing my inner most wanton thoughts with this orc. I want to tell him exactly what he does to me. "When you rip me apart with it, I bet it will feel like heaven. I...I, oh Igor, I'm... so... It's so good. Please, never stop."

"I love listening to you beg for me, little human. Tell me more. What dirty things do you wish me to do to you?"

"In the kitchen I want you to take me on the table. I want you to take me in the springs. I want you to take me on the floor, everywhere and I want to scream your name so loud so the whole world knows I belong to you."

"Yes." he growls and increases his pace, and it propels my body to a higher plane of pleasure. "You are perfect for me. Your little body, those perfect lips. I think about you taking me in your mouth. I want every part of your being to be mine. I want your body to answer only to my command. And when I finally take you, I want you on your knees begging for my cock. I want you wanton for me, only for me, dove."

"Yes. Yes, to everything." I nod quickly as I grind on his fingers as he strokes me.

"Now I want you to touch yourself for me, dove. Can you do that?"

I furrow my brows a little. "Use your fingers and touch your pleasure nub for me."

I follow his instructions.

"Use your forefingers and circle it for me, don't stop."

I start doing it and my lips part as electricity grips me. It amplifies what he is doing with his fingers. I continue and my toes curl at the intense pleasure from his fingers and now this.

"That's a good girl. I can feel you are close. Now look at me. Gaze at me as you come apart for me."

How he looks at me is everything. My whole body goes still, and I close my eyes. "Oh." I groan as I tip over and I gaze back at him. He holds me steady as I writhe, and he expertly carries me through my high.

"Oh, Igor. Never ever let me go. Never stop. Please." I babble as I lean down to kiss his face and lick his tusks. I lick him like an insane woman. I lick everywhere I can find.

I don't know what I'm doing but I lick him. My way of claiming him to myself too and marking myself on him. He vibrates in a purr and then a deep growl as I do.

"You will be my end, little human." He sighs.

"Then let it be so, orc."

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