Mara Side Story: The War Council’s Price
Mara didn't waste a second.
Callis was practically vibrating on the wooden stool, his broad shoulders slumped, his knees spread wide in an agonizing, desperate display of submission. The rough wool of his trousers stretched taut over a rigid, throbbing bulge that demanded immediate attention.
Mara stepped right between his muscular thighs. The residual slickness drying on her inner legs brushed against his coarse trousers, a stark physical reminder of exactly what he had just missed out on.
She dropped to her knees on the floorboards.
From across the kitchen, Cassia took a slow, highly entertained bite of her glazed sourdough. The spymaster’s line of sight was perfectly blocked by the thick oak of the butcher block, shielding her from the reality of her brother’s anatomy, but she had a front-row seat to Mara’s face.
Mara reached for the laces of Callis’s trousers and gave them a sharp, definitive tug.
The fabric parted. Callis let out a ragged, hissing breath as his thick, vein-corded cock sprang free, slapping hotly against Mara’s cheek. He was flushed a dark, angry red, weeping clear pre-come from the sheer, pent-up frustration of watching his sister eat his wife's juices.
Mara didn't tease him. He had suffered enough.
Instead of spitting on her hand, Mara reached down and dragged two fingers through the cooling, syrupy slickness still smeared across her own bare thighs. She brought her fingers up and deliberately painted the weeping slit of his cock with her own arousal, slicking the rigid head with the exact flavor Cassia was currently chewing on.
Callis whimpered, his hips jerking off the stool.
Mara gripped the base of his shaft, tilted her head, and took him deep into her mouth in a single, suffocating plunge.
"Fuck!" Callis choked out, his fingers instantly tangling into Mara's dark hair.
Mara locked her jaw and went to work. She was merciless. She didn't offer the slow, worshipful rhythm of a timid lover; she gave him the sloppy, aggressive, bone-deep suction of a frontier matriarch who knew exactly how to drain a man dry. Her lips sealed tight around his thick girth, her tongue swirling wildly around the sensitive ridge before she dragged her mouth up, letting the head pop against her lips, and plunged back down to the root.
Slurp. Squelch. Pop.
The sounds in the kitchen were obscene. The wet, rhythmic smack of Mara’s hand pumping his base, paired with the deep, greedy suction of her throat, echoed off the hanging cast-iron pans, mingling directly with the sound of Cassia chewing her bread.
"Exquisite technique," Cassia noted mildly from the table. The spymaster rested her chin on her hand, watching the tavern owner’s head bob furiously. She licked a stray drop of Mara's slickness from her bottom lip. "You are going to rip his soul straight out through his navel."
Callis couldn't even formulate an insult. He was drowning.
Mara loved the taste of him. She loved the salty, musky tang of his skin, and she loved the raw, feral power he surrendered the moment her mouth closed around him. She pumped her hand in tandem with her throat, using the slickness to grease his shaft, milking him with a blistering, wet friction. She intentionally took him deep enough to trigger her gag reflex, letting her throat squeeze convulsively around his sensitive tip.
"Mara," Callis sobbed, his voice cracking into a high, broken whine. The young fighter’s head fell back, his neck cords straining as he stared blindly at the ceiling rafters. His massive thighs clamped inward, trying to crush her ears, but Mara just widened her stance, pinning his legs open, and swallowed him deeper. She pushed her nose firmly into his musky nest of hair, breathing him in.
She felt the distinct, frantic fluttering of his pulse beneath her hand. His hips began to stutter, snapping forward in short, uncontrollable jerks. He was right on the edge, his stamina depleted by the merchant’s wife, the hickory spoon, and the psychological torment of the last ten minutes.
Mara tightened her lips, creating a punishing vacuum, and gave one final, brutal drag.
"I'm—Mommy, I'm spilling!" Callis roared, his entire muscular frame going rigid.
He didn't hold back a drop. Callis drove his hips forward, burying himself as deep down Mara's throat as physics allowed, and erupted.
Mara took it all. Thick, scalding ropes of his seed pumped directly onto her tongue and the back of her throat. She swallowed rhythmically, her hand milking the base to ensure she wrung every last bit of tension out of his balls. He twitched and groaned, pumping load after load into her mouth. His fingers went limp in her hair, his chest heaving as he crashed back down to reality.
Mara held him in her mouth for a few seconds longer, soothing the hypersensitive flesh with a soft swirl of her tongue, before finally popping off with a loud, definitive smack.
She wiped a thick bead of white cream from her chin with her thumb, licking it clean as she stood up.
Callis looked wrecked. He sat slumped on the stool, his trousers pooled around his knees, his face flushed and covered in a sheen of sweat. He looked at Mara with the glazed, devoted eyes of a fanatic.
"Better?" Mara asked, her voice dropping back into its warm, authoritative rumble.
Callis managed a weak nod, his chest still heaving.
"Good." Mara walked around to the side of the stool. She raised her bare hand and delivered a soft, affectionate spank directly to the center of his sore, red ass cheek.
Callis flinched slightly, the sting of the hickory spoon still fresh, but he leaned into the touch, letting out a pathetic little sigh.
"Tuck yourself away, Lord Vale," Mara instructed, her tone brokering zero arguments. "It is past midnight, and it is bedtime. You have a massive day tomorrow."
Callis clumsily pulled his trousers up, his hands shaking as he tied the laces. "Chopping more wood?"
"Drafting war plans," Cassia corrected from the table, brushing a few crumbs off her stained silk bodice. "Mother is going to realize I am missing soon. We need to solidify our political narrative before her assassins start arriving at the territory borders. I need you sharp tomorrow, brother."
Mara nodded in agreement, crossing her arms over her bare chest as she looked down at her exhausted husband.
"You heard the Spymaster," Mara stated firmly. "Tomorrow, you sit down with your sister and you figure out how to keep this territory safe from your mother’s wrath. And until those plans are finalized and enacted, you are officially cut off."
Callis froze, one hand still lingering on his laces. He looked up, a spike of genuine panic breaking through his post-orgasmic haze. "Cut off?"
"Cut off," Mara smiled, though her dark eyes were dead serious. "No cheating housewife holes. No slipping upstairs to stretch Maeve out. No afternoon sessions breaking the baker's bed. And no visits to my room. You keep your cock in your trousers and your mind on the maps until your sister says the strategy is secure."
Callis stared at her, his jaw dropping in pure horror. The young fighter had grown accustomed to a daily diet of limitless, overflowing frontier pussy. The idea of sudden celibacy was a tactical nightmare.
He looked over at Cassia for mercy.
The spymaster just offered him a slow, wicked smile, raising her teacup in a silent toast. "Motivation is a powerful tool, little brother. I suggest you wake up early."
Callis groaned, dropping his face into his hands.
"Yes, Mara," he mumbled, his fate sealed.
