The Dark World

Chapter 29: Resurrection

Marisoll

I felt like my heart had ripped in two watching Cairn die before my eyes, he died saving me, protecting me.

With the dark lord defeated the darkness had lifted, though not all of it I noticed as I had seen the creatures and beasts born from the darkness or infected by it.

I howled in despair and mystic Zerena knelt by my side holding my shoulder gently, “we know not what this means yet, he may have died a true death, or he may still yet return, the darkness has changed, but it is still here, the curse may still be active.”

For the first time since the darkness I prayed it stayed, if only for a little longer giving Cairn the chance to come back, I clung to that hope, would not even look up at the sun, every time I did dread filled me, how much of the darkness and its curse was gone?

I lay next to Cairn holding him, I could not bear to leave him, I tried not to think about the fact his body was growing colder as the hours passed by.

Ezekiel looked sad and worried too, he tried to get me to eat something, but I did not want to, at some point I must have passed out from exhaustion because I did not wake until I felt something hot, it was making me sweat, and I panicked thinking I had moved to close to the fire, I tried to move away, but I felt arms going around me, holding me close.

“Ezekiel?” I murmured.

“F.uck no.”

My eyes flew open to see Cairn looking back at me, his usual smirk on his face.

“Cairn!” I hugged him tight, and he choked and laughed, “I missed you too, but I will probably die again if you do not quit choking me.”

I quickly released him, and then I started hitting him. He raised his arms, blocking me and yelped, “what the f.uck did I do!”

“Don’t ever die on me like that again!”

“Alright princess, sheesh.”

I pushed him for that, and he pushed me back hard enough I tripped and fell.

My anger flared and jumping up I punched him in the arm, he punched me in the stomach, and before I knew it we were fighting for real, I split his lip and he split mine right back with a left hook to my jaw that made my teeth rattle.

Cairn got me into a headlock and I elbowed him when Ezekiel came over and sighed, “did you two even miss one another or just the fighting?”

Cairn pushed me away from him and grinned at Ezekiel, blood running down his face from a gash above his eyebrow, a split lip and another gash to his cheek. “Nothing beats good makeup s.ex after a fight.”

“What!” I snapped, “I am not having s.ex with you!”

“Sure you are darling,” he winked and came over and picked me up, throwing me over his shoulder like I weighed nothing.

I kicked and fought but that only made him laugh.

Did he romantically lay me down on the floor? No, he dropped me, hard, and so I punched him in the leg.

“F.uck!” He growled and kicked me in the stomach, his own flare of anger rising.

All we seemed to be doing was riling one another up more, the more I hit him the more he hit me and vice versa, we were both bloody by this point.

I tried to get up, but he threw himself on top of me, pinning my arms above my head. “This does not really make me feel like you have missed me at all,” he murmured against my neck and lightly kissed it.

I headbutted him and he growled inhumanly.

“I thought I had, then I remembered how annoying you are,” I smiled sweetly which only p.issed him off more.

He stopped trying to talk and crushed his lips against mine violently, painfully, biting my bottom lip and making it bleed. I bit him back, and when his tongue danced over mine, I could taste the metallic sweetness of our blood mingled.

I do not remember how we removed our clothes, I just remember being naked and then Cairn slamming himself violently inside of me, hard and desperate. It hurt a lot, more than it was pleasurable, but during these violent outbursts between us the pain always felt good, I welcomed it and met him thrust for thrust, knowing I would probably regret it later when I was sore.

He bit my neck where he had marked me, he didn’t release his hold, he bit down and thrust into me hard until we both climaxed, I felt him release his seed inside of me and I wanted more, I was not ready to stop.

He released my neck, and I wondered if that was a wolf thing, holding down your mate by biting her neck and keeping her there until you were done with her.

“I need more,” I panted, he laughed laying on his back and breathlessly said, “give me some time to recover.”

“I can’t,” I got up, and he lifted his head to look at me, “where are you going?”

“To find Ezekiel.”

He growled in annoyance at that but lay back down and closed his eyes as he caught his breath.

I found Ezekiel gathering more wood for a fire, and I grabbed him by his shirt. He rose his eyebrows at me, but he did not stop me from dragging him to a more private place. I pushed him to the floor and straddled him, removing his clothes and admiring his muscular chest, it was covered in scars, but I liked them, I leaned down and traced my tongue over each one drawing a soft moan from him.

I do not know where the confidence came from, but it certainly helped to hear his reactions to me, and feeling them, I felt him grow hard underneath me and I did not waste time with foreplay, I slid down onto him and enjoyed hearing him groan in pleasure.

His hands fell to my hips and I whispered almost pleadingly, “please do not be gentle today.”

He leaned up and slipped a n.ipple into his mouth and sucked, then he bit it lightly, making my body jerk and he whispered, “ok, Marisoll.”

He flipped me onto my back and thrust into me as hard and as fast as Cairn had, and it felt so, so good. He pulled me to my feet and pushed me up against the tree, the bark cut into my flesh, but I liked it, I liked experiencing this side of Ezekiel.

He bit my neck, hard, he bit his way down to my b.reasts and my back arched when he bit hard enough to leave a bruise, I cried out in surprise and pleasure when he s.lapped my a.ss hard. “You like that my lady?” He murmured.

I nodded, panting, and he s.lapped my a.ss again and again, each time harder than the last. “You like being a bad girl for me?” He whispered.

“Yes,” I moaned, and he shoved himself violently back inside of me, f.ucking me against the tree and pulling my hair so hard my head was yanked back, neck straining, and then I was spilling over into ecstasy, coming hard and then harder when he growled, “that’s it Marisoll, come for me, good girl, that’s it come for me.”

He gave one last hard thrust and I felt his body shudder as he came.

I thought he would move away, but he was not done, he spun me around and pushed me up against the tree, my cheek pressed against it, I felt him push against my a.ss and I grew nervous, as much as I was enjoying the pain, I did not know if I would enjoy it there.

“Ezekiel?” I whispered.

He pinned my wrists above my head with one hand, and with the other, he slowly pushed himself inside my a.ss.

It hurt, and I tried to move, but Ezekiel pinned me harder against the tree and growled, “keep still.” He thrust into me more roughly, and I was surprised by how hot and turned on I felt by his words and actions, I liked this more unruly and bad side to Ezekiel, it was not really his nature and for some reason that turned me on even more.

I felt him finish inside of me and then he pulled out and helped me redress. He held me against him after and said, “next time I would like to make love to you.”

“I would like that,” I smiled against his chest and he kissed the top of my head, he was much more loving and affectionate than Cairn was, having them both was perfect, they balanced one another out, if I could not get the affection I craved and needed from Cairn then I could get it from Ezekiel, and if I needed more aggressive s.ex I could go to Cairn, although apparently Ezekiel was more than capable too.

I was still wrapped in Ezekiel’s embrace when Cairn came towards us and said, “great, you’ve f.ucked, can we go back to Esther now, I’d like to make sure she is ok.”

I rolled my eyes but reluctantly pulled away from Ezekiel, he was right, we should go and make sure Esther and her mother were still safe.

Cairn held his arms out to me grinning, I narrowed my eyes at him but smiling I went over and hugged him.

He kissed my cheek, and then he pulled away, “let’s go.”

I think everyone was just happy and relieved that Cairn was back, alive, and healthy, not even mystic Zerena argued as he took the lead and bossed us about.

It took days to get back, Cairn wanted to know why I could not just shape change into a griffin again and fly us there, it would be much faster, the truth was I just was not very reliable when it came to changing shape, my best animal form and the easiest was the wolf because I was closer in size and had grown used to always favouring that form, the griffin was much bigger and harder for me, there was the risk I might lose focus and change back to human mid-flight, the only reason I had risked flying us out the caverns was because Cairn would not have made it out alive in the time it would take to carry him, I would have rather risked all our lives than risk him dying and coming back some twisted monstrous thing that the darkness had created.

We had been at the very heart of the darkness and I did not know what that would mean for Cairn upon death, maybe that made me selfish that I was willing to risk all our lives, stupid too, but I had not been thinking rationally, my only goal had been to get Cairn out of there as fast as possible.

Watching him now, I smiled inwardly as he teased Ezekiel, winding him up to the point Ezekiel had his hand on his blade ready to fight, I saw the mischief and boyishness in Cairn’s eyes at the effect he was having on Ezekiel and I laughed under my breath, I did not regret a damn thing.