The Sorcerer's Gate

twenty-two

Quickly, Aster gathered herself together in her room. She looked back at the sheets that she had once shared with Jaxtyn. She found herself getting angry. Reeling herself back from the thoughts of Jaxtyn, she made her way into the join bathroom. In the bathroom mirror, she combed back her long hair into a high ponytail. She turned on the sink, letting the cold water pool into her palms and splashed it onto her face. Looking into the mirror, she found herself blushing, thinking back to what had just happened with Alyx. She shook it out of her head as she turned the light off and entered the bedroom.

Slipping into her sneakers, she had already put on tight jeans with protective armor on the shins. Her workout-like tunic was stretchy and tight-fitting to her figure. She gawked at herself in the mirror when she saw her reflection. She felt like parts of her were glowing. Aster felt confident enough in her appearance as she imagined the look on Alyx's face when he'd see her.

Aster walked into the Kitchen as Jean was jostling the pan on the stove, holding it above the flame and flipping four eggs onto their backs. "Morning!" Jean greeted Aster. She jumped when she heard the pop of two separate toasters as the crisp toast sprung upwards from the machine.

With one hand shaking the pan recklessly, Jean used his other hand to open the stove underneath him and grab out a tray full of bacon and sausages. Aster could feel herself salivating at the smell of everything within the Kitchen. At the nearby table, Elouise greeted Aster by standing and kissing her on the cheek. Then, she sat back down and returned to cutting up a bunch of strawberries assumingely from the garden into a bowl.

"Can I help?" Aster asked.

"Sure, grab a knife over there," Elouise said pointing towards the drawer nearest to Jean.

When she joined Elouise across from the table, the heir to The High Priestess shot her an all-knowing look.

"What?" Aster said, genuinely amazed and confused as to how Elouise could know something was up. Perhaps, her glow was obvious.

"Oh, nothing..." Elouise hummed away, smirking at the strawberry in her hand as she sliced it up.

When Alyx entered the Kitchen, Jean greeted him loudly and full of glee. Alyx rolled his eyes and turned his attention towards Aster. One his eyes reached her outfit, he had trouble keeping his mouth still as he clenched his jaw. He found extreme difficulty in maintaining his composure. Not while Aster was teasing him as she flicked her eyelashes up at him quite innocently like she wasn't aware that her body was on full display in this tight outfit. She smiled down at the knife in her hands as she worked like she had no idea her breasts looked amazing in her top.

"Okay, everything's ready. Love, can you help me with this," Jean motioned to Elouise, maintaining his usual, clumsy composure carrying everything towards the Dining room. Elouise followed after him but she exchanged a suggestive expression with Aster behind Alyx's back.

Aster quickly had an idea. She focused her energy as he watched her carefully slip the strawberry into her mouth and lick at her fingers one by one. He was practically drooling as he watched her. He leaned his hands down onto the table and inched closer and over to her. She had him distracted. She casted out, stilling his body and used Telekinesis to move him towards her. Aster slammed him backwards into the seat directly in front of her. She removed her shoe as his eyes widened in shock and something else entirely.

"Take a seat, why don't you?" Aster said smoothly, as she focused her attention on cutting up the strawberries, delaying eye contact. However, her foot had other plans. She placed her leg onto him, slowly guiding it around his shins. Then, she watched as he adjusted in his seat when she moved it farther up. Once her leg was outstretched and she reached his knee, he leaned out and forcefully grabbed onto her ankle in his grip. She gasped and dropped the knife into the bowl with the rest of the strawberries. "Let go, you can't have all the fun," Aster teased as she reached the knife upwards and pretended to threaten to slice his arm. "You owe me, remember?"

He let go of her ankle and she moved her leg, laying it across him. Slowly, she inched it towards his groin and out of the corner of her eye, she saw his eyes bore darkly through her. "I'm warning you," Alyx spoke low and firm. She began caressing his groin with her foot.

"You've got a lot of loose threats. Tell me, what will you do with me?" She inched her eyes up at him and the look he gave her had her anticipating his next move. Returning to slicing up the strawberries, she continued to stroke him with her foot. He palmed himself for a second, trying to adjust his position. Clearly, she could see and feel him already straining within his tight jeans. He let out loose breaths. Once he was bucking his hips forward a bit, she removed her leg and got up from her seat attempting to walk away and into the Dining Room. She never made it that far.

Alyx reached for her across the tiny space and slammed her down into his lap. Her ass sat directly on his groin and she gasped heavily as he forced her ass to grind around in his lap. He held onto the side of her hips so tightly, his knuckles were turning white. He kept maneuvering her around him and pushing her harder onto his length trapped within the confines of his tight pants.

"Poor choice of pants, huh?" Aster teased leaning her head back to speak to him. "If you didn't wear jeans, you'd feel me leaking into your lap by now." She lightly tapped her hand two times, slapping his cheek and he growled low under his breath, grabbing her arms and restraining them behind her back.

He restrained her hands with one hand and kept his other firmly upon her waist nearly making indentations as he groaned under his breath. "One more word and I'll fly you away from here and keep you locked up for a month," he spat into her ear as he bucked his hips up onto her.

She could feel herself feeding into the Firebird. She was quickly discovering that's who she was toying with. She leaned back into him letting her head fall as she sighed aloud. They heard Elouise and Jean making their way towards the Kitchen. As Aster tried to stand up, off of his lap. Alyx, no, The Firebird's rage pulled her back onto him with a warning growl. Before Aster could throttle him as Elouise and Jean entered back into the Kitchen, beholding the sight of them shamelessly dry humping one another, Alyx teleported them into the Study. He slammed her against the wall, breathing heavily over her.

She pushed him off of her and before he could storm towards her and throw himself against her, she teleported to the other side of the Study. He turned around facing Aster to find her waving her fingers at him from across the room with a wicked smile. His eyes went from dark black to fully enflamed. A part of her chest stilled and she felt her stomach drop for a second, but the feeling between her thighs continued its thrumming heartbeat.

In a second, he teleported directly in front of her. "Scared now?" He knocked her with him to the ground. He shielded her head from hitting the floor with his palm and she shut her eyes tightly, gasping. "You should be," he roughly whispered into her ear, leaning forward. He ground himself onto her shamelessly. She whimpered at the feeling of his jeans on hers and found herself growing impatient at the nonexistence lack of friction it gave. She needed to be closer to him. He hovered above her for a moment and she was convinced he was going to fuck her right then and there. Until, his entire face shifted. Until, he climbed off of her and shuffled away from her on the floor in silence like he had been burnt.

"What's wrong?" Aster asked. He refused to look into her eyes, but she could see the flames had disappeared, only dark black orbs were searching frantically around the floor.

"We can't- We can't do this," Alyx said, getting up from the floor and walking away from her. "I can't do this. I don't have any control with you."

"It's okay. I trust you. You wouldn't hurt me," Aster said, trying to comfort him. She stood up from the floor.

"You don't even know me. It's not fair," Alyx said clearly.

Aster's heart stilled. She didn't know why his words had jabbed so deeply into her, but they did.

"We can't do this," Alyx said. He looked away from her and seemed upset about something. "I can't touch you again. I won't," he announced as he left the room.

Aster was so confused and genuinely hurt. She had finally felt so wanted and so connected to someone only to feel rejected immediately. Had she done something wrong? Had she pushed him too far? She sat in the Study for the rest of the morning, thinking over everything, trying to calm herself down. Was she the issue? She stayed in the Study for so long feeling absolutely guilty and ashamed of herself that she missed Jean's breakfast.