Chapter 199: [Chapter - 199]
He gently untied the ribbons of her thin cotton nightgown. He slipped the fabric off her shoulders, pulling it down her limp arms and over her hips until she lay completely naked beneath him.
She was breathtakingly beautiful, even in the shadow of death.
He lay down beside her, pressing his burning, feverish body against her freezing side. He wrapped his arms around her, pulling her cold body against his chest.
Seraphine let out a faint, shivering sigh at the sudden influx of heat. Her head rolled limply against his shoulder.
Her eyelids fluttered, but she lacked the strength to open them.
Leo leaned down and captured her lips. It was the softest, most tender kiss he had ever given her.
Today, he didn't demand her. He parted her lips gently with his own, breathing his hot breath directly into her lungs.
He swept his tongue inside her mouth, tasting the faint, metallic tang of her failing magic, chasing the cold away with his overwhelming heat.
He kissed her deeply, slowly, passionately. He poured all of his desperation, his possessiveness, and his genuine affection for her into that single physical connection.
"Breathe for me," he murmured against her mouth. He kissed the corner of her lips, her jawline, and the cold skin of her cheek.
His hands began to feel her body, he needed to wake her nervous system up.
He needed her body to accept the monster core mana.
He caressed her breasts softly, his thumbs brushing firmly over her pale nipples. He massaged the chilled skin of her ribcage, his broad palms smoothing over her flat stomach, pressing comforting, intense heat into her freezing flesh.
Under his touch, and under the sheer, radiating warmth of his body, Seraphine began to respond.
Slowly a faint, rosy flush bloomed on her chest, chasing away the paleness of her skin. Her nipples tightened into hard peaks beneath his palms. A soft, breathy moan escaped her lips.
Leo moved lower as his lips pressed against the valley between her breasts, leaving a trail of scorching heat down her stomach, as he settled himself between her thighs, gently nudging her legs apart.
Leo thought Seraphine might be dry down there, but as he pulled her legs apart, and his fingers brushed against her pussy, he was surprised to find her already slick and wet, waiting for him.
Seeing that, Leo leaned down, stuck his tongue out and licked her slowly, deliberately tracing her delicate folds, tasting her sweet juice.
He tasted her, focusing entirely on preparing her body to receive him without tearing her delicate tissues.
Seraphine's hips gave a weak, involuntary twitch, pushing her pussy towards his face.
Her fingers curled into the silk sheets.
She was finally soft and slick with his saliva, Leo pulled back. He positioned himself at her entrance. He was throbbing hard, the concentrated, purified mana from the first three dire-wolf cores aching to be released, glowing fiercely beneath his skin.
He leaned forward, bracing his weight on his forearms, looking down at her peaceful, sleeping face.
Slowly, very slowly, not wanting to hurt Seraphine, he pushed himself inside her.
"Ah..." Seraphine gasped, her eyes flying open. Her pupils were dilated, her amber irises clouded and confused.
The contrast was staggering. The scorching, impossible heat of his arousal met the freezing, empty void of her core. As he buried himself to the hilt, an audible hum vibrated in the room.
A pulse of brilliant blue light travelled down the glowing veins of Leo's abdomen, surging into his cock, and bursting directly into her womb.
"You are a naughty one Leo," Seraphine arched her back off the mattress. Her mouth opened in a silent scream, "Uhmm! You refused my advances and now look at you, sneaking up on me."
"Uhmmm!" Seraphine moaned, her weak voice escaping through her lips not because of the pain.
It was because of the overwhelming, torrential shock of pure, unadulterated mana force flooding her body.
Leo stayed perfectly still, buried deep inside her, letting her body acclimate to the connection. He stroked her hair, kissing the tears that suddenly leaked from the corners of her eyes.
"I know," Leo whispered, his voice full of aching tenderness, "I know it's a lot. But you have to take it. Take all of it."
Slowly he began to move.
He wasn't rough with her. He did not pound her. Instead of going for the pleasure, he made love to her.
He withdrew slowly, almost completely, before sinking back down into her depths with a smooth, deliberate rhythm.
With every single thrust, another pulse of glowing blue mana transferred from his body into hers. The friction acted exactly as Aiva had predicted, serving as a conduit that bridged his refined Draconic core directly to her empty sacral chakra.
Within a minute, the blue glow fading from Leo's skin signalled the first batch was gone.
[System Alert: Initial batch depleted. Target's core void filled to 7%.]
Leo didn't stop moving. He kept his hips locked against hers, keeping himself buried deep inside.
With just a thought in his head, another four monster cores appeared in his fists. They felt hard, cold, and pulsed with raw beast mana.
"You have to hold on, Sera," Leo grunted.
Instead of crushing them, he squeezed the mana cores tightly in his bare fist. The raw, violent energy instantly breached his skin, rushing directly into his palm and shooting up his arm.
The agony returned, as a fresh wave of Mana rushed through his veins.
Leo threw his head back, his jaw clenching so hard his teeth groaned. Her veins bulged beneath her skin and flared thicker and brighter than before.
His Draconic bloodline roared, violently subjugating the violent mana of the high-level beast cores simultaneously.
The purified life force rushed straight to his groin. His cock swelled even thicker and harder inside her wet cunt, the heat radiating from his shaft spiking dangerously high.
"Fuck, Leo... it's so hot," Seraphine let out a sharp moan as the scorching thickness stretched her internal walls. She gasped, as her hips bucked up to take him deeper.
Leo resumed thrusting. Despite the massive energy burning in his groin, he tried to keep his pace steady and gentle, afraid of breaking her recovering body. But Seraphine didn't want gentle.
Beneath him, she lost all restraint. She reached up and aggressively grabbed her own heavy breasts, squeezing the soft flesh and pinching her hard nipples. Her pale mounds jiggled with every stroke of his hips. She bucked up hard against him, forcing his thick cock deeper inside her wet cunt.
Taking the hint, Leo stopped holding back. He grabbed her hips, his large hands sinking into her soft flesh to pin her flat to the mattress.
He started driving into her hard and fast, ruthlessly pumping the second batch of life force deep into her womb.
The room echoed with the loud, wet smack of flesh hitting flesh. Her breasts bounced wildly up and down with every violent, balls-deep thrust.
"Yes! Fuck me harder!" she begged, her voice a breathless, vulgar whine. "Faster, Leo! Don't stop, stretch me out!"
He grunted, giving her exactly what she wanted. He slammed his heavy pelvis against hers, filling her completely with every brutal stroke.
He leaned down, capturing her mouth in a fierce, wet kiss. His teeth bit down hard on her lower lip, making her whimper into his mouth, before he trailed his lips along her jaw. He took her earlobe between his teeth, nibbling and biting the sensitive flesh as he pounded her relentlessly.
Seraphine arched off the bed, crying out in raw ecstasy. Her inner walls spasmed wildly, clamping down on his thick shaft in a crushing grip. The intense friction shattered his control.
With a guttural roar, Leo drove his hips forward one final, balls-deep time. He pinned her to the mattress and released, pumping thick, heavy spurts of his seed deep inside her.
[System Alert: Second batch depleted. Target core void filled to 18%.]