The Demon Lord's Bride (BL)
Chapter 277: Moments Where Time Stops (M)

Chapter 277: Moments Where Time Stops (M)

"Ra Natha, would you be my eternal?"

How could a single line sound so beautiful?

There were times in his life, when Natha felt like time had stopped;

The first time he embraced Valen.

The first time he realized it was Valen.

The first time he kissed Valen.

The first time he made love to Valen.

The time he saw Valen running in the field of snow.

And the time Valen asked for his life and his time, bathed in the glow of sunset.

Time had stopped; stopped so he could see everything in clarity, sense everything in minute details. The bright, captivating green eyes that hide nothing; the lovely lips delivering beautiful words; the warm glow of the twilight, and the fragrant scent of never-ending spring.

At that time, as everything felt beautiful and perfect, Natha came to understand his teacher’s decision to preserve a part of this world.

He wanted to preserve this moment.

"Yes,"

Natha said the word dazedly, breathlessly the first time. Of course, it would always be a yes. His life, which felt like it had ended, was lit up by the fire of that beautiful soul. So it was natural that his life, his time after that belonged to that beautiful soul.

"Yes."

He stood up, repeating it firmly, taking the smaller hand and grabbing it tight. Valen smiled shyly, a radiant glow, flush blooming across his cheek. It was beautiful. Valen had always been beautiful. Natha didn’t think he could take it if Valen became even more beautiful than he already was.

As the world felt like it flew slowly around him, he grasped the fair, blushing cheek with every tenderness he had on his being. "Yes," and the last one, he said in a whisper, a soft breeze that caressed the smiling, red lips. "I will be your eternal."

The kiss was soft, sweet, slow; they savored each other like they savored the unrepeating moment, careful and thorough. But as the light of the day slowly disappeared, so was their inhibitions.

As their touching lips became sweeter, their mingling breath grew hotter. Natha grabbed the small waist that seemed so fragile, and Valen let the demon lift him without ever parting their connected lips, holding on to the wide back and shoulder as they moved inside.

The journey to the bed felt both long and short, fast and slow. They wanted every moment to be as long as possible, but they also wanted to arrive at the next moment as soon as possible. The contradiction made their head spinning, delirious. They shed each other’s clothes as if the fabric made them itch; in a frenzy, in a hurry.

"Your hands, sweetheart," Natha breathed hard, cool breeze against Valen’s lips, who whined for the disrupted kiss. Adorably, Valen let go of Natha so the demon could slip the shirt off his neck and access the expanse of bare skin beneath.

But Valen didn’t like the loss of Natha’s lips on his own, so he yanked the demon up and claimed the cold lips again, warming them up with his own heat. Natha smiled through the kiss; ah, it was always adorable, the way Valen became assertive in bed, when he had always been shy otherwise.

"Clothes...you too..." the kiss paused just long enough for Valen to demand his demon to undress, before it resumed with more vigor.

Again, Natha chuckled, shedding the remainder of his clothes and freeing Valen from his pants. But he had to disappoint his beau this time, because the kiss ended there.

Valen whined, squirming slightly when the cold lips were touching his neck instead of his lips. It was nice, it felt ticklish, and it made him shudder in a good way. But he preferred that licking tongue to be in his mouth instead, so he felt rather dissatisfied.

That was, until he felt the cold lips on his hip. Looking down, Valen felt shivers run through his spine as he looked at the demon between his legs. Slinging Valen’s legs on his shoulder, Natha planted a kiss on the fair thigh, lightly biting on it.

Velen swallowed, watching those lips travel through his thigh, getting closer and closer to his twitching genitals. Oh--did Natha want to do that? It had been a while since he was sucked, and Valen felt his heart beating fast from anticipation.

The anticipation that was never fulfilled.

The lips roamed around his pelvic bone, sucking and biting on his waist, and yet, it never grazed his erection. Valen bit his lips as the lips hovered closer, but never touched where he wanted them to be.

"Nat..." he whined, twisting his hips under the demon’s hold, but Natha simply ignored his plea. Valen threw his head back in frustration, wondering if Natha was playing tricks on hi--

"Ngh!" Valen gasped, feeling his hips lifted slightly, and, at the same time, coldness assaulted his rims. "What--"

He looked down in shock, and saw the silver eyes gazing at him. Cold hands holding his thigh, and then, a lick. Valen clasped his hand over his mouth to stifle the shriek coming out of his throat. Did...did Natha just...

Another lick, and Valen jolted; back arched and legs tensing. "Na...Nat--ngh!"

Biting his lips hard, Valen grasped the dark hair between the horns grazing his thigh. What...what?! Another loud gasp came out of his mouth when a cold tongue slipped inside his...inside his...

Valen looked at the ceiling with eyes blown wide and lips parted, letting out airy gasp as he felt the tongue move and the lips sucking the soft flesh around his rim.

What is this...

What is this?!

That--they could do that? They could feel good while doing that?!

Inside the wide green eyes were the sparkle of countless fireworks, exploding inside his mushy brain. Valen thought he had tasted everything that could be tasted from sex, but as usual, he was naive. He knew it felt good when Natha rubbed him there, he knew it was good when Natha grazed him around the entrance. But having the demon’s face on the cleft of his lower cheeks, cold lips and cold tongue all moving to pleasure him in a way he never felt before, it was...

It was a new world. He was drowned in glorious bliss.

Heaven! Mother! Why did he only know about this now? Why did Natha only do this now?!

"Nat...Nat! I’m going to--"

Valen grasped the dark lock tightly, squirming and tensing, and Natha pulled away. For a split second, Veln felt disappointed, only until the cold lips wrapped around his twitching, slightly leaking head, and suck.

"Ngh!!" back arched, Valen felt his whole body trembling, shuddering as he released inside Natha’s mouth.

"...oh, Gods..." Valen said dazedly, because only calling out for Mother didn’t seem like it was enough.

Natha swallowed the sweet fluid, and raised his upper body while licking his lips. Not just for the delicious appetizer he just had, but also for the decadent-looking main course looking at him with bated breath. The main course that suddenly grabbed him and yanked him down for a hard, passionate kiss.

"You should have...you should have done that sooner," Valen whispered breathlessly.

"So you like that," Natha chuckled as he caressed the slightly sweaty hair, that he was sure would drench soon. "Should we just skip dinner?"

The green eyes gleamed, and now, Natha felt like he was the main course instead.

* * *

They did skip dinner, and the fact that there was no disruption in the middle of their activity meant they were either too passionate to notice anything, or D’Ara was keeping Jade with her so the little bird wouldn’t seek its occupied master.

The master was now contentedly giggling and snacking on biscuits to fill his empty stomach, looking fresh and radiant despite the heavy exercise they had just done.

Natha was slightly exhausted, but he liked seeing his sweetheart looking satisfied. The pink glow in those cheeks looked like spring blossoms, and the never-ending smile was like an energizing spell.

Talking about energizing spells...

Valen could rejuvenate other people now, meaning the half-druid could rejuvenate him. Meaning they could go on as much as Valen wanted--and while Valen didn’t have much appetite for food, he had an abundance of it in the bed.

It was fine, because Valen would always end up hungry after, and Natha enjoyed seeing Valen eating a lot. For now, though, they snack on biscuits first while they wait for the golems to prepare their midnight dinner.

"Sweetheart,"

"Mm?"

Natha looked at a pair of green eyes who looked at him with innocent clarity, as if they weren’t gazing at him lewdly not long ago. Caressing the strewn, ebony hair, Natha asked softly.

"You talked about wedding earlier,"

The green eyes blinked slowly, and the flush on those cheeks deepened considerably. Natha smiled and rubbed the blush, asking more. "Have you made a decision?"

Valen averted his gaze and started fiddling with the biscuit tins, something Valen always did when he was flustered. Natha thought it was adorable, so he didn’t mind waiting patiently for an answer.

A worthy patience, because he got to have Valen shifted closer to him, and whispered shyly. "Yeah," the green eyes looked at him, with a flushed face and a bashful smile. "Let’s do it in the spring."

Spring. Spring was just a few months away.

Natha felt his heart start to beat faster as Valen continued. "I don’t know if we will have an answer for Shwa immediately, but if we do, I want to have the procedure as soon as possible. And..." Valen paused, now fiddling with the green pendant on Natha’s chest. "I want to have the wedding first before then."

Ah. Ah...was there no end to how lovely his sweetheart could be?

Natha stroked the reddened cheek and kissed his sweetheart deeply, lovingly. "Gods, sweetheart..." he gazed at his lovely lover, and kissed every surface of that lovely face, as much as he could, until Valen squirmed and laughed inside his embrace.

Smiling, smiling from the bottom of his heart, from the depths of his soul, he gave one last sweet kiss on Valen’s lips. "I love you," he whispered, and he could hear the slight tremble inside his voice.

"Yeah, I love you too," Valen stroked his cold cheek, and softly kissed his cold lips.

But it was warm. His heart, his soul, his future; everything was warm.