noun ~ an idea or plan put forward for consideration

NOVA

Sexual Content

"I miss you, Polly." I murmured through the phone.

My brother sighed, pushing his damp hair behind his ear. "I know."

"That's where you say that you miss me, too."

My twin rolled his eyes through the phone. "I miss you too."

"Good." I huffed. "You going to sleep?"

"Yeah." He mumbled, lazily blinking. "Sleep is different when you're in the woods."

"I can imagine." I agreed. "How you don't get paranoid someone is going to kill you. I will never know."

He laughed softly. "You got to find the perfect place."

"Where are you going next?" I wondered. "Going to see if Harriet is working?"

He glared at me through the screen. "Hilarious."

"The girls love a bit of Pollux." I teased.

"I am leaving the city. It is not the place for me."

"Oh? You certain?"

"It's too crowded, too... robotic." He muttered. "I need nature."

"Where are you going to go then?" Phoenix butted in.

I frowned at him, obnoxiously eating a Cornetto now. "He hasn't decided."

"I'm just going to follow the paths." Pollux shrugged.

"Are you sure you don't want to go anywhere... village-y?" I probed.

"I see the game you are playing, Nova, and because I am feeling vulnerable, I will tell you maybe."

"Maybe?" I grinned.

"Maybe." He shrugged. "Maybe I will just have a glance."

"What made you change your mind? I thought you were going to keep going south? Won't you be back tracking?"

He shrugged. "Arleybay was east, so I'll just go east from here."

"You really want to go back?"

"I just want to see." He shrugged. "I just want to know if Clover is still there."

My heart sank from my brother. "I understand."

"How are things with the border teases?" He asked, changing the topic.

Sly move, Polly.

Three weeks ago, Phoenix and Charlie sat me down at lunch and told me they had a problem. They were acting like school children before finally giving in and telling me what was wrong. Apparently, someone had hid their scent as they came toward the border, only to reveal themselves inches from its edge. We did not know why or how they accomplished it.

They enchanted our border to stop intruders, a protection order. Our patrols were regular, doubled since the threats placed upon our newborn children. Children who were now eleven weeks old and thriving. They were babbling and smiling and grabbing things with their hands. Every day I fell more and more in love with them and every day I knew I would die protecting them.

Any threat to my pack was a threat to my entire family, and I took Phoenix's concerns literally.

My gift, however, was still MIA.

Yep, it had gone into hibernation. No matter how hard I tried, it wouldn't come to me. It was like a blockade or a brick wall surrounded it and wouldn't let me through. Last I spoke with Theia, she told me I was repressing myself. I wished I had asked more, because now I would like nothing more than to get the fuck over it.

"We've had two more." Phoenix mumbled.

"In a fortnight?" Pollux wondered; eyes wide.

"They're not regular, but yeah, one a week." Phoenix nodded. "Same scent too. Never a new one."

"Can you not pinpoint? Track it?"

"Neither I nor Charlie know the scent and it vanishes before we can smell it." He murmured.

My twin's eyebrows furrowed. "What about Nova?"

"What about me?" I wondered.

"Have you smelt it?"

"No, it's over the border." I shook my head.

"So? I'm over the border right now."

I blinked, staring back at him with furrowed eyebrows. "You think I should smell it?"

"Well, why not? If Phoenix nor Charlie know the smell, maybe you could give it a go." He shrugged. "You know our family more, and who knows, it could trigger a memory."

"You want to experiment with me?" I scowled.

Pollux chuckled. "I would make it something more elaborate than stepping over an invisible line in the dirt."

Phoenix was silent, and I turned to look at him. He was staring at the side of my face, and upon our eye contact, forced a smile.

"You can't be agreeing with me?" Pollux asked, bemused. "Finally!"

"You have met more people than I." Phoenix agreed. "But I don't know about your safety."

"All she has to do is step over, sniff and step back. If you are within arm's reach, you can yank her back by the hair." Pollux explained.

I scowled at him, but he just laughed.

"What? You have plenty of hair you don't use." He pointed out. "It's always tied back."

"That's because Freddy yanks it out of my head."

"See, Wolf agrees with my plan already."

Rolling my eyes, I focused back on Phoenix. "You think it's a good idea?"

"As risky as it could be, Pollux has a point. It'll be a matter of feet, and I will scout the area first."

"Okay then." I mumbled an agreement. "But don't complain when it comes to a dead end."

"I have a feeling." Pollux spoke. "I don't know why."

"Have you stolen my gift?" I teased.

"Intuition and future-seeing are different things."

"I dunno. Mine come hand-in-hand." I smirked.

He chuckled. "You say that, but those frolicking hand-in-hand children have run away and left you behind."

"Goodnight Polly!" I chirped.

His laughter deepened. "Goodnight Nova."

Phoenix echoed his goodnights, and Pollux replied before ending the call. Dropping Phoenix's phone back onto his chest, I sagged into the sofa. My head ran with thoughts, playing out what I would do repeatedly. Deeming it perfectly completed and safe, I rose from the sofa.

"So, we do it tomorrow?"

"Do it?" Phoenix wondered.

"Throw me overboard." I stated, moving into the kitchen. "See what I can smell."

"Why tomorrow? We don't know when the border breeches are. They're random." Phoenix frowned.

Gulping down a glass of water, I placed it back down on the counter. "Intuition."

Phoenix rose an eyebrow. "You said your gift is gone. Are you sure you are not just eager?"

"I don't know." I shrugged. "Pollux just made me think, and maybe it is just the kick up the ass I need."

"We can just call Aldren..."

"No, no. I want to do this myself. Just myself." I shook my head. "I know my gift and I know my mind."

"Are you sure?" Phoenix frowned, coming to stand behind me.

"Yeah. As sure as the sun rises."

His lips fell into my neck, kissing lightly at the skin. Goosebumps pebbled across my throat, travelling down my neck and arms. Phoenix's arms slithered underneath the pyjama top I wore, stroking along the slowly hardening planes of my stomach. I have upped my training with Sean, and was finally seeing results. My body was coming back in leaps and bounds, and despite Phoenix's acceptance of me being squashy and cuddly, I was doing this for myself.

These near-breaches only made me strive for more. I was now the same fitness as I was before I had the twins, but I was striving for more. I needed to fight, needed to be strong. If someone fell, I needed to pick them up. If someone had me pinned like many times before, I needed to be able to push them away.

Sean understood. Despite not using my reasons, he knew I wanted to keep going. So every few days we changed up, then every week we upped it all. Even Phoenix was not aware of the goals I was reaching, and it did not bother me in the slightest that he wasn't aware. It was just exercise, and he was more than happy to be a dad whilst I ran off training with Sean for a few hours. What he thought was a hike was always so much more.

I was proud of myself. This so-called mother instinct within me was benefiting me.

Turning in my mate's grip, his hands grabbed my hips and lifted me onto the countertop. I wrapped my arms around his neck, pulling his face to mine. Our mouths collided, lips caressing and capturing every tasty moment between the two of us. We have been so caught up in work lately; we didn't even go out on our weekly Friday date. The twins slept three hours now, and if my calculations were right, we had an hour left.

I felt deprived of my mate, and with an eagerness, I pulled him until he was flush against me. My thighs parted, straining to accommodate his width whilst still sat on the kitchen counter. I strained for breath, shifting my face away from his. Phoenix grumbled, moving his kisses to my jaw and throat. My fingers dug into his shoulders, trying to lock my ankles around his waist.

My body burned, yearning for the lack of touch from my mate. I felt the dampness between my thighs already, felt the eager fire in my core that begged to be saturated.

"Bedroom?" I breathed.

Phoenix grumbled an agreement, wrapping an arm beneath my ass as he lifted me from the counter. Now secure in his grip, I latched my ankles behind his back, rubbing my groin against the hardness of his stomach.

Moaning softly as he jogged down the stairs, Phoenix never strayed from kissing me in any way he could. A door shuffled across the floor and within seconds, my back was hitting the soft plushness of our bed.

Phoenix wasted no time in discarding both of us from clothes, and within a single breath, his mouth was upon my naked core. I groaned, a hand falling into his hair as he devoured me. My thighs latched around his neck as his tongue delved into my core. Moaning his name, I ground into him, eager to feel the saturation of the burn between my thighs.

Through the crushing of my thighs, Phoenix curved his hand around and as his tongue thrusted in my shallows, his thumb rubbed against my clit. Grunting, it didn't take long before I was climaxing. My thighs tensed, shaking as I came over his tongue. Phoenix hummed, the vibrating aftershocks jolting me before he sank his teeth into my thigh. I hissed, but he appeased it by smoothing his tongue over the cuts.

Coming up for air, he crawled over me. His hand caressed my face with a soft smile, only to chuckle when I parted my mouth. Hooking his thumb into my cheek, I sucked it with a sly smirk. He smirked, removing his thumb before sliding his hands down my body.

"Not today."

I whined with resentment, but it soon subsided when he grabbed me by the knees and hooked my legs around his waist. Standing on his knees, Phoenix ran his hands down the length of my body. His eyes were hard, taking in my marks and curves the same moment his hands did. He hummed softly, before taking one hand and slipping it between my thighs.

I jolted as he touched my already swollen clit, whimpering his name. He grinned, shifting his hand to grab my ass. Pulling me away slightly, his cock sprung free from the confines of my groin. I moaned as it brushed my entrance, goosebumps rising on my skin in anticipation.

"Phoenix, please." I begged.

My mate nodded, caressing my thigh with one hand as a silent gesture of comfort. The other hand remained firmly planted on my rear, and with one fluid thrust, Phoenix settled most of himself inside of me. I groaned, my head falling back into the duvet as his girth filled me.

My body shuddered, gripping onto him as he pulled out slowly. Rocking into me with a gentle rhythm, I felt my body burn for more. I knew my limit, and knew an inch of Phoenix never fit inside of me, and when his tip brushed that sensitive spot inside of me, I wriggled against him.

"More, please." I whispered.

"I will, but you have to be quiet." He warned.

Something about the hard amber of his eyes had me biting my lip and nodding my head. He murmured with appraisal before increasing his pace. I chewed hard on my lips, eyes slamming closed as he jack-hammered into me. My ass slapped against his thighs, the soft grunts from his lips echoing in the silence.

Within seconds, I was spasming around him with another orgasm, but he didn't stop. Without even a moment to breathe, Phoenix continued his torment. As his length slipped inside me at a frantic, hard pace, the hand on my thigh moved to my clit and rubbed it.

"I want you to cum again." He murmured. "Cum again, Nova."

"Phoenix..." I whimpered, clenching around him.

He groaned, faltering in his pace. "Please baby, cum with me."

I whined, grabbing at the duvet surrounding me. He fucked me wildly, dangerously, and deliciously until I was a whimpering mess on the bed. Phoenix drove me to pleasure once more, and just as I clamped around him, he stuttered and slowed his pace. His shoulders slumped as he panted heavily, but he didn't stop the torment on my clit. Spilling inside of me, he slowed to a stop the same moment I did. But then he kept on going.

"One more time. Give me one more." He murmured.

"Phoenix..." I breathed, whining.

"Fuck, yes." He grunted. "Cum around my cock, Nova."

I cursed, eyes squeezing shut as I unsuccessfully tried to keep quiet. I was already burning, already high from my orgasm, that the next one was coming on quickly. The hand on my ass moved, clamping over my mouth as his finger played me like his favourite instrument. My hips shook against him, my teeth clamping onto his palm hard enough to draw blood.

"Yes..." Phoenix hissed.

His head fell back as I convulsed against him, and when his thumb finally stopped, my back sagged into the bed. Breathing heavily, both of us fell against the bed. I groaned, rolling on my side to face him.

"You okay?" He wondered, wiping my hair from my face.

"If this is heaven, then it was better than I thought." I mused.

"Let's get cleaned up." He murmured, kissing me softly.

He smiled, kissing me again before scooping me into his arms and taking me into the en-suite. I always loved Phoenix when he was in this mood, his kind and caring attention always making my heart flutter. I was full of love and eager to share it. I kissed his palm better as he washed me, but was happy that the mark of my teeth on his skin had vanished.

Phoenix ran the same palm over my cheek, staring down into my eyes. "I love you."

"I love you too." I grinned cheekily.

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