A Mist of Frozen Ashes

Chapter 19

The water was cold, but the heat still flowing through my body made up for it. There was a buzz under my skin. My entire body felt charged and I had the man who was currently watching me take a bath to thank. I should feel peeved or embarrassed by someone watching me wash my ass but hey, if that's what gets him off then so be it.

I don't even think I could feel that way around Onyx. I've never met anyone who truly understood who I was past surface-level interactions, someone who viewed me without judgment, someone who understood that just because I'm an assassin doesn't mean I like killing people, someone who understood that taking another person's life sometimes took apart of your own as well, even if that person was evil. Most people don't want to acknowledge the concept that without people like me to eliminate the monsters, they would be helpless. People hide behind their false morals and made-up religions in an attempt to disguise the fact that we're all monsters in some way, shape, or form. Onyx didn't know everything about me or I him, but that didn't matter. Our monsters acknowledged each other.

"If you're just going to stand there, you might as well make yourself useful." I held up the bar of soap and turned my back to him.

The water sloshed with his approach before the bar disappeared from my hand. The added heat from his body was good enough that I just wanted to curl into it. Onyx moved his hands in slow circles along my back, massaging the tension from tight muscles as he went. After all of the suds are rinsed off, he presses into my body so that his chest is flush with my back. Dexterous hands slid over my shoulders and down my arms before gliding along the abs of my stomach to cup the swell of my breasts. My nipples were already hardened from the chill but with a small brush of his thumbs, they tightened almost painfully.

"You are easily the most beautiful woman I've ever seen," he whispers, kissing the shell of my ear. I could feel the swell of his cock pressing against my bare ass and I couldn't help but to press my hips back into it. The sound of his inhale brings a smile to my lips.

"Sweet words and good dick won't get me to come back with you." I knew they weren't just words though. I could hear the truth of it in his voice. He really believed that and it made my heart do little cartwheels inside my chest.

He hums, peppering kisses and nips along my neck while his hands continue to squeeze my breasts. "Good dick, huh? You think so?"

Onyx punctuates his words with a roll of his hips. I don't bother hiding my moans nor do I stop his hand from traveling down my body. His middle finger slips between my folds and he hums in approval.

"You're always so wet for me. Your body knows me, Reverie. She knew me even before I claimed her. You can run to the other side of the earth and I'll always follow you. There's nothing you can do to get rid of me now."

I don't get a chance to respond before he's pumping his finger in and out of me while pinching and twisting my nipple. I'm gasping for breath as he adds another, quickly bringing me to a climax.

I sag back into his chest as I catch my breath. "Fuck." Onyx chuckles, lifting me out of the water and walking us back to the bank where our clothes are. When he sets me on my feet, I turn to look at him. He looks happy. I mean not just the 'I just bought a new gun' happy but contented happiness that I've only seen on the faces of old couples sitting in the park while they watch their grandkids play with the dog.

He smoothes the space between my eyebrows. "Why are you frowning?"

"Why are you happy?" I counter and his brows furrow before he bursts out laughing.

"What kind of question is that Rev?" Onyx glides his fingers down my arms before twining his fingers with mine, bringing us closer together. "I'm happy because I'm with you."