The Crown's Entrapment

Chapter 298 Ritual of Marking (2)

Xenia felt like she was swimming in a sea of pleasure and warmth. She didn’t know where she was exactly, but her body felt like it was on fire even as she floated through the murky haze of love and emotion. These foreign feelings… ones of love and devotion… They felt so foreign, and yet so familiar as she felt herself being lifted up by the arms of her beloved.

[My love…]

Somehow, his words sounded more complete, as if his very thoughts were resonating with hers as felt her entire body ringing with a sounding endorsement of arousal and love. She didn’t know what had happened. Even her memories were looking to be muddled through all of this… feeling…

“Xen…”

Slowly, she opened her eyes, her thoughts still struggling to arrange itself after what had happened. “Darius?”

“You’re finally awake,” he smiled at him, his relief palpable as he pushed aside her wedding veil. “You passed out on me earlier during the Ritual. Are you fine?”

Xenia blinked, doing her best to feel herself over before shaking her head. “I feel fine, I guess? What happened?”

“As I said, you lost consciousness during the Ritual of Marking,” Darius explained. “I was able to complete the Mate Bond, but I suppose that your body wasn’t able to withstand the sudden surge of foreign energy rushing through it. Either that or you reacted unfavorably to it, what with your special blood still being a factor in all of this.”

The newly-wedded wife could only nod as she looked around, only now noticing that they were back in Darius’s bedchamber. She was still wearing her wedding dress, but Darius had already managed to strip himself of some of the more cumbersome aspects of his regalia. Already, her eyes were lingering solely on his muscles as they bulged against what few confines they were in, his physique almost awakening a primal feeling inside of her the longer she stared.

“Xen?”

“O-Oh, yes?” she stammered out. “Sorry. I was just… caught off-guard being back in our chamber is all.”

Xenia thought that she had gotten away with her explanation. To her horror, however, Darius smirked as she crossed his arms, a knowing look crossing his face even as he stood silent.

“W-What?” she couldn’t help but ask.

[With the Bond now complete, we can now feel each other’s thoughts and feelings, my love.]

Her eyes widened, surprise coloring her face as she stared at Darius in disbelief. She knew that the Bond would do all sorts of wonderful stuff for them, but she still couldn’t believe being able to hear his voice inside her head.

[Indeed, my love,] Darius mentally chuckled at her. [This is one of the few things the Mate Bond is used for. We’re now connected both in mind and soul, our feelings for one another no longer being limited by our mere words and actions alone.]

“This is… wow…” she wondered aloud. “So, err… Oh my!”

All of a sudden, a deluge of arousal flooded her system. In an instant, she felt her slit opening up in want as her thighs slickened with the fluids of her eager flower. Images of herself being in various states of undress made itself known to her, his thoughts invading her own even as her own arousal began to build once more.

[There’s no escaping this, Xen,] Darius smiled. [I know what you were looking at earlier, and I can’t say that I don’t approve.]

Xenia licked her lips, her wonder at her new Bond being quickly supplanted by the potential uses she was starting to imagine in her head. Already, she could see this spicing up their love life, their emotions bare for one another just as much as their bodies would be.

[Correct again, my love,] he chuckled.

“That’s not fair!” she whined aloud, her own arousal almost making her want to tear the wedding dress off of her that instant. “Why can’t I read your thoughts?”

“That’s something I can teach you in time, my love,” Darius knowingly smirked. “But for now, we both know what comes next.”

“I couldn’t agree more…”

Breathlessly, Xenia stood up from bed, matching Darius’s gaze as she finally let the elegant dress fall off her shoulders. While she would’ve wanted to throw it away for added effect, the dress was far too beautiful for her to simply let it go to waste. Instead, the image of her naked self folding and stowing the wedding gown away for future use was broadcasted into her mind alongside Darius’s amused chuckles.

“Stop that. I’m being mindful here,” she pouted.

“The image of it is just amusing to watch, my love,” Darius shrugged in faux resignation. “What can I say other than I appreciate the view?”

“Oh? Then why don’t I show you even more things to be appreciative about?” Xenia scoffed, her mind already moving as she queued up her next lines of dialogue in her head. “I’ve picked up a few more tricks while waiting for the ceremony to happen.”

Taking the initiative, Xenia pulled Darius by the hand, her mate thankfully taking the initiative of taking off his slacks as she laid her hands on his briefs.

“What’re you planning, my love?” Darius eagerly asked.

“Shouldn’t you know that already?” she teased back, her head already lowering down to meet his eager shaft still trapped behind its confines. “For now, let me just remove this pesky thing~”

In a move that shocked even herself, Xenia used her teeth to grab hold of his briefs, dragging her head down his thighs to free his glorious cock for her to gawk and worship. Already, its raging tip was smothered in pre-cum, its constant throbbing telling her that was primed and ready to explode for her pleasure.

“You’re awfully confident tonight,” Darius smirked.

“I’m just getting started~”

Taking another steadying breath, Xenia positioned her lips over her glistening prize, her heart hammering in her chest as she prepared herself to apply what she had read from her ever-lecherous friend’s books. While the thought of doing some of the things she had read had made her gag while imagining herself doing it, she had just gotten married, and she was far from ready to back down from a challenge.

Besides, it was going to be a good experience either way. That, and she had already gotten a taste of his seed anyway.

“I’m going to enjoy this~” she cooed aloud.