Iolas swept his new bride off her feet and began to carry her into their chamber. The intensity of his eyes as they held hers ignited a familiar fire deep within her. Her mind flitted back to that night below the ship. How she had found absolute ecstacy in the midst  of an absolute nightmare.
She suddenly ached for the taste of his mouth

He set her at the center of the room, a few feet away from the large canopied bed draped in red and gold coverings.
The room was dazzling as the lights from the scented candles glittered and bathed the large space; the floor was littered with red and white roses. The maids had truly outdone themselves.

"This can't be real. I passed out while rowing back from that slave ship and I'm currently freezing to death out on the ocean."
The disbelief in his voice revealed the truth in his statement.

"Its real. Come and claim your prize, Dragon." 
She teased, running her fingers up and down his arm. The need in her voice was fresh to both of their ears.
New and exciting. 

"You are mine Adelaide, and their will never be a night between us that I shall let you forget it."
The softness in his previous tone was gone, and instead it was replaced by one that could make a nun shiver.
His vest and jacket was already partially unbuttoned, done so excitedly while tailing after her in the palace hallways and the light touch of red hair on his chest called out to her. She couldn't help but wrap her arms around his neck kiss him.  

The taste of the islander prince was only made better with the hint of sweet ale still on his breath.
She could feel the warmth of desire spreading from her lips, down her spine, settling in her lower belly and  stirring her center as he began to kiss her roughly back. She let out a gasp as her lower lip was captured between his perfect white teeth. 

He wanted to tell her he'd be gentle, make it memorable for her, to take his time, and drown her in her own passion, unlike their first time in that pungent cell, which while somehow still ended up being absolutely incredible, had been done dutifully, and almost medically; but before the right words could come to him, she pulled away from him to remove her crown, while simultaneously reaching up to take his. The gesture felt almost symbolic. The solid gold of her queenly crown clanked heavier than his smaller, princely one. She set them gently the dressing table and turned back to face him. Her fingers were nervous and fidgety as she tried to unbutton her dress. 

Iolas grabbed her hand and brought it to his lips, placing a small kiss on her fingertips before placing it on his chest.
"Here, undo mine, I'll undo yours."
She smiled at his gesture.

They both worked to undo the buttons slowly at first, his fingers brushing gingerly against her pale as snow skin, and hers against his, but as their ardor gained, so did their haste. Adelaide hissed a sharp breath as she fiddled quickly with the buttons on his vest, and his lips skimmed down her neck. He bit down smiling against her skin as she moaned and arched her back. He hoped for a bruise in that spot so that he could look at in the morning and remember that perfect sound.

Her body felt aflame as she dragged in shallow breaths, all her fatigue from the party had burned away like dry brush in a summer fire. Kiss by kiss and piece by piece, clothing was pulled roughly off  until they stood naked in front of each other, both breathing heavily with need, lips swollen with hot, hard kisses.

Iolas drank her in, gaze carving a path across her femine form, taking in all her beauty. From the older scars that covered her knees and elbows from childhood mishaps, and from the newer ones, angrier and redder, obtained from a year of war and running from the enemy, to the way her hair hung in a mess, the fancy updo she had worn all day in disarray from her long run to the dock, and then a night of dancing.
After drinking in every other part of her, he allowed his eyes to lock on her swollen breasts, a single bead of sweat rolled between their valley, despite the winter chill in the castle that even the many large fireplaces could never seem to stave entirely away.
He reached out for her, taking each of them in his hands and raining hot kisses down onto her neck and chest.
Next one hand glided down her inner thigh, and he released a long, groan as his fingers brushed near the heat that greeted him.

Adelaide shut her eyes tightly, body trembling in anticipation.
He ran his thumb across her. Reveling in the full body shiver he invoked. His eyes shone with affection.
"You are the most beautiful like this." He breathed as he slowly began to touch her. Her head lulled to his shoulder, as uncontrolled whimpers poured out of her as he pleasured her. Warm wetness dripped down her thighs and his wrist as he glided his fingers in and out.

"I promise to make this memorable for you. To make love to you gently, as if it were our first time, as if that night in that cold, pungent cell never happened... I shall be your perfect prince." He promised.

Adelaide had thought a release would come from his gentle touches, to ease the ache that seemed to consume her body, but instead, the slowness only seemed to fill her with frustration.
She wanted more.
"If I wanted gentle, I would have married Simon."
Her sarcastic words came out almost passive aggressively.
"Excuse me?"
Iolas paused, ceasing his movement and retracting his hand, flabbergasted by her statement. He looked down at her but her head remained pressed to his chest.
"You heard me." She replied. "I don't want gentle. I want you Iolas, as you are."
Their was a dark power in her voice, one that set his every nerve alight.

"Very well."
He kissed her mouth roughly before spinning her around. His arms wrapped around her stomach and breasts and he methodically trailed hot kisses up her back as he slowly pushed her towards the bed. He made no move to lift her onto it, but instead brought his mouth to her ear.
"Lean forward my love, hold onto to bed."

She did, hands pressing into the soft furs of her bedspread. His sweaty body towered above hers from behind as he lined himself up and pushed into her. They groaned in mutual ecstasy as her walls greeted his shaft like an old friend. Whimpers and cries of pleasure escaped them both as he began pumping in and out of her.
Her fingers wound into the bedspread, eyes locked shut and her body was rocked with a building euphoria.

"Again you are heaven, absolute heaven."
He gasped, gripping her hips tightly as he went, faster and harder at her behest, and the slight pain of it only served to elevate what she felt.
She moaned in delight at his words.
Iolas wished he could see her face awash with the pleasure they shared, undoubtedly it had to be breathtaking.
He reassured himself that she was now his, and that this was likely only the first of many times they would do this tonight, and that the next time he would take her it would be face to face, loving and slow.
But right now this was primal, this was years of hatred that had burned into a fiery love. This was the last few inklings of their rivalry, mixed in with passive aggression, strings of cleverly worded insults, spite, and snide comments.
This was their love in its original form.
Pure fire. Hot, hard, and all consuming.

He slipped a hand between her legs, stroking her bud to help hurry along to the climax he could hear building in her voice.  Adelaide felt her entire body beginning to pull into itself, as if every muscle in her body, every drop of blood in her veins was being dragged to her core.
"Oh God, its going to happen again..."
She sounded almost afraid.
With several more, powerful thrusts, the world came crashing down around her as her body began to contract with intense waves of euphoria.
She fell face first into the bed, crippled with the intensity of her ongoing orgasm
So powerful, as it happened she felt as though she were not a passenger in her own body, as if she were a spectator to her own pleasure.

Her contractions were too much for him, unable to hold back for even another second, Iolas followed closely behind her, spilling his seed within her before slumping over her back, momentarily spent.
As the last few waves of her bliss flowed through her, she panted heavily into the furs, adoring every single second and trying so hard to burn this moment into her memory forever.

It took her a moment to find the strength to put weight back onto her legs. They were shaky as she slid from under him and climbed onto the bed, once on her back, she reached over and pulled him to lay next to her.
Groggilly, he lay his head on her chest, letting out a long sigh of relief that was for so much more than just the sex they had just shared. Adelaide ran her fingers through his crimson hair several times before kissing him gently on the head.
And for the first time since the day before he had sailed into her life the first time, her heart was truly at peace.

The End.

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A/N:

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