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  His mind was doing a juggling act, trying to stay away from any negative emotions, tracking their space apart, and actually following their conversation. Despite all this, he found himself enjoying her company and before he knew it, she had drawn from him the basics of his life story up till now.

  After they stopped for lunch, he walked with Nicci while Sara seemed to retreat from him and started talking with Kat. He found himself holding Nicci’s hand shortly after she told him about her confrontation with her father the morning they left the castle. He could tell she had let it fester too long, but outside of holding her hand and listening, there wasn’t any way he could help.

  As the afternoon passed, the soldiers started to thin out, he thought they were probably still moving north, trying to catch Sara, which could only be a good thing for them.

  When they stopped for the night and started setting up camp, he watched curiously as the ladies took out the tarp and started setting up a crude tent with it. It didn’t look very sturdy, but he couldn’t help the intense reaction of his manhood as Nicci came toward him, a hungry look on her face.

  It had been a few days, they hadn’t had privacy and outside of Kat’s morning blowjob he hadn’t had any of his intended mates. Apparently he thought, they decided to find a way to fix it. He allowed himself to be led into the tent, and smiled as all outside sounds were silenced.

  He started to strip when Nicci did. The fuck me look on her innocent face drove him to shed his clothes even faster than usual. He pulled her nubile young body against his, the suppleness of her flesh against his caused his manhood to jump and harden painfully as he kissed her delicious lips. He tried to lower her down, but she twisted and dropped to her hands and knees.

  The hunger in her eyes was a sharp contrast to her innocent face as she craned her neck around and looked up at him while her back arched and she waved her core at him in invitation. Her labia were already puffy and moist, glistening in the low light. He dropped to his hands and knees and pushed his face between her legs and licked as deeply as he could.

  He moaned at her taste and devoured her. Every squeak, whimper and tremor he drew from her made him increase his efforts as he brought her to bliss.

  “Oh goddess Justin, I’m…”

  He moaned in approval as her voice cut off, the lips of her heat trembling against his tongue as she screamed in ecstasy. He growled in pleasure as she flooded his tongue and face with her rapturous honey. He licked her from clit to anus, then playfully bit her ass before he got up on his knees, grabbed her sexy hips, and thrust himself deeply into her hot, wet, and tight welcoming tunnel.

  “Take me hard Justin, split me,” she said breathlessly.

  He started to saw in and out of her clutching center, she was still so tight, but more welcoming as he felt her body devour his manhood for every stroke in, her tight undulating walls milking him as he pulled back, as if her body was reluctant to release its invader.

  He released the tight hold on his talent that he had kept up, not wanting to expose who he was the last few days. White fire exploded around him and the already silky hot wet pleasure of being deep inside Nicci doubled in a blink. He heard her gasp as he sped up more, really slamming into her. He felt her pleasure tighten around his, and the cries of her ecstasy pushed him over the edge.

  He buried himself deep within her silken depths and felt his manhood expand followed by the release of his baby batter into her womb. When he could move again, they collapsed next to each other and kissed. He simply enjoyed the feel of her body against his, caressing her hair and back, stealing kisses at random moments, Nicci was a joy to him.

  He started to kiss her harder, his intent changing as his manhood stirred back to life. He pushed her gently on to her back then kissed down to her generous double D breasts. He took a nipple into his mouth and sucked hard while gently pinching the other, remembering how sensitive she was. After a few minutes of this, her breathing was hard and she was gasping with delight.

  He sucked a little bit harder and added a slight twist when pinching the other and she rolled into an orgasm, her body trembling. It wasn’t a large one, but he was amazed she had one at all. He loved how her breasts felt in his hands, and in his mouth. He had a sudden urge to slide his cock between them.

  When he asked she looked intrigued by the idea and nodded. He reached down between her legs and gathered her honey, slathering it between her perfect mounds of flesh and mounted her stomach.

  He watched as she started playing with her tits, then she pushed them together lightly, tweaking her own nipples.

  She said in a soft teasing voice, “You want to fuck these sweet innocent tits?”

  He didn’t wait for a second invitation, sliding his manhood between the warm soft and silky smooth flesh of her breasts. When he heard the moan of pleasure from her lips, he sped up. He had wanted to do this for a while, and the fact it turned her on too just made it that much better.

  He gasped and looked down when he felt her warm tongue lick his tip. She started teasing him with her lips and tongue when his tip shot out of her cleavage with each stroke. He was breathing hard, her flesh bringing him to his peak. He heard her whimper softly as another orgasm took her.

  Nicci said sultrily, “Justin, I want your cum all over my tits and my pretty face. Please Justin…”

  He gasped and felt his legs lock, his body thrusting forward automatically, his seed launching from his pole and landing on the sweet flesh of her neck and face. He felt her take his tip in her mouth after the first two spurts and suck hard with her full lips as she drained the rest of his offering.

  He couldn’t take his eyes off her as she started to wipe her supple flesh with her fingertips, gathering his seed mixed with her own slathered juices, then sucking and licking her fingers clean in her mouth.

  She giggled, “We’ll have to do that again sometime, it wasn’t as pleasurable as, you know, but I loved it.”

  After kissing a little, they moved to get dressed, but she stopped him by grabbing his hand.

  She said with a smile, “Don’t bother, all of us were wanting you after almost three days of nothing, might as well save the effort, I’ll send in the next one.”

  She winked mischievously after getting dressed, kissed him deeply and whispered, “I love you Justin.”

  Before he could reply she left the tent… He used his magic to restore his body, wondering who was next…

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  Justin felt someone shaking his shoulder, when his eyes opened it was Sara, looking down on him with widened eyes.

  He sat up and looked around, then looked at Sara.

  She whispered, “There are soldiers all around us, searching along the road and even back in the woods.”

  He shook them all awake, and told Sally.

  Sally said, “I don’t feel them, but Sara’s range is much larger than any talent I have ever met. All I can say is they haven’t tripped my wards yet.”

  Sara said cautiously, “I think they might not just be looking for me.”

  Nora asked, “Why?”

  Sara shook her head, “A bunch of them are scared, like they are afraid of what they hunt. I don’t think they would be afraid of me.”

  He snorted, “They would be if they were smart.”

  Sara blushed and averted her gaze.

  Nicci asked, “Can you guide us out of here safely?”

  Sara shrugged, “Maybe, there are eight groups of six, but there could be more I can’t feel yet.”

  Nora sighed, “If they really do know about us, should we try to slip away? This just got much harder; leaving enemies behind to follow would be a mistake if they search for us.”

  He didn’t like the idea, but Nora was right, if the stealth mission was dead they would have to change what they were doing.

  He said, “Alright, whoever has armor, put it on, the time to be subtle is past.”

  How the hell do you invade a castle with five… Six people?

  Nora
had Sara lead them to a good ambush spot. The first three groups went down without a sound, but then on the fourth group, one of them let out a huge scream and all hell broke loose as the soldiers converged on that sound.

  He burst into white fire, protecting the ladies from other talents. That weighed the battle heavily on their side despite their lower numbers. He stood in the center as the women surrounded him, even Sara helped taking down a number of them with her talent.

  Kat was transformed and monitoring everything, killing anyone that got too close to them, while Nora, Nicci, Sally and Sara got most of them from a distance. Without magic the enemy had no choice but to close in with weapons, but there was a killing field in all four directions.

  There were a few tense moments when more troops were drawn by the cries, but in all only twenty four more joined the original forty eight. They were lucky. If there had been enough troops to overwhelm their magic… Or even if they had thought to all rush at once it might have been different.

  He said, “We need to move fast now, we can’t take the chance of facing hundreds like that.”

  Nora nodded.

  He turned to Sara, “Thanks for the warning, you’re welcome to stay if you wish, but it’s probably safe to say the soldiers aren’t looking for you anymore, it should be safe to go north now…”

  She shook her head, her voice light and strong, “No, I’ll stay,” she lightly blushed and turned her head.

  They packed up camp and started south. It was a little slower with him and Sara being pushed, but Kat stayed in her Tiger form and ran alongside and they were moving pretty fast. Both Sally and Nicci were flying, Nicci was so high up he could barely make out a tiny red spot in the sky. He thought if they didn’t run into any more problems, they should be there by tomorrow…

  Chapter 21

  They weren’t sure by how far, but they knew they outdistanced any pursuit by a wide margin as they raced for the capitol. He just wasn’t sure what they would do when they got there. If the enemy looked to be at high alert, maybe they could try entering in some kind of disguise? Still, the enemy would be foolish not to check any one man traveling with many women. It wasn’t unheard of, but it wasn’t all that common either.

  He gave up thinking about it; they’d just have to see what happened. It was a crappy plan, but they were going into the unknown. They talked about it during lunch a bit.

  Sally said, “Why don’t we have Sara stop us when were a couple of miles out, then I can take a look, see if they are at high alert or not. We can make plans then.”

  Nora replied, “That sounds workable, but you’ll need to be very careful, stay out of range.”

  Sally agreed.

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  Sara wondered if she’d lost her mind. She had just met these people and she was going back to the one place she feared above all, just to stay in their company. Over the last couple of days they had all made an effort to get to know her, and as for Justin, well he fascinated her.

  The fact he was surrounded by four beautiful strong women, and never once treated them as anything but precious intrigued her. She was also taken aback when all four women had almost been desperate to take him last night, she had turned off her magic blushing furiously after him and Nicci had disappeared into the tent.

  They all treated her so well, and she wondered… She knew she was being ridiculous though, why would he want her at all, when he already had all of them. Plus… she was broken. She doubted she could even tolerate his touch.

  She knew he was a good man who wouldn’t hurt her, yet it had taken all she had and the fear of the soldiers to brace herself enough to touch him and wake him up this morning. Still, she must have had hope. Why else would she be going with them?

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  Kat felt good. Despite the reason for it, it felt good to her as she ran in tiger form, the road flying by under her powerful paws. She was a little scared about tomorrow, but mostly just determined to keep Justin and the others safe. They would face it together, win, and live the rest of their lives together.

  They had to…

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  Nora snorted. She was in Egeria, she finally had the opportunity to kill a very large amount of the fuckers.

  Kick them in the teeth, help Justin show a god to the door, and go home.

  But that wasn’t what she was thinking about. She was thinking about the future, about when this crazy ride was over and they could live their life together.

  And to her shock, she found herself wanting kids. She loved her new family, and she wanted it to grow. If anyone had mentioned the possibility of what she wanted now three weeks ago, she’d have laughed in their face…

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  Although all they could see was a red spot in the sky, Nicci could see them all in perfect clarity. She was feeling better about things with time. She was where she belonged, and she knew her father would come to his senses, even if it took a few years and a grandchild to do it, it would happen eventually.

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  Sally came down to land as they set up camp, she didn’t see any soldiers at all close by as she circled down from the sky. They ate a quick dinner and all went to bed early, trying to get a good rest for the morning. She knew she would have to pay attention tomorrow, she had a feeling she wouldn’t be the only mage there.

  She took some time to pray to the goddess, she wanted a long life with this amazing family she was a part of, and she wanted each and every one of them alive at the end of the day tomorrow. She also gave thanks to the goddess for everything that she had…

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  Cytherea wished she could grant that, but tomorrow was in their hands, she could not interfere. She had already given them the strength, power and ability to see it through, now it was up to them.

  “Daughter, I see he’s picked up another stray.”

  Her lips twitched in amusement, “Well, I can’t see everything like you can father.”

  He nodded, “That is what faith and hope are for… and love.”

  She grinned, “I’ve got those three, but I’ve also got worry… They have come a long way the last few weeks.”

  “That they have daughter. That they have.”

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  They were well hidden a couple of miles from the capitol of Egeria. Sally had scouted, and the walls were manned with at least a hundred archers, he didn’t think it looked good for either sneaking in or subterfuge. Main assault was… crazy.

  Justin wasn’t sure there were any other options though.

  Half joking he said, “So, how do we siege a city with six people?”

  Nora snorted, “Very carefully love, very carefully. Sally, can you do tunnels?”

  Sally said, “Sure, but they will have earth talents and possibly even mages monitoring under the walls, I’m sure they would block me once we got close.”

  Nora asked, “Would they even feel it if Justin covered with his magic?”

  Sally considered that for a second, “Not mine, but if they are actively checking they will notice an area that doesn’t feel right, that their magic can’t enter.”

  They all thought about it and he said, “So, forget going small, I’ll cover a huge area while you dig us in. A two hundred yard circle would make it hard for them to guess where we were coming up.”

  Sally said dubiously, “But they’ll know we are here.”

  He shrugged, “They already do, know were coming at least. Unless someone can think of a way to sneak past… At least in the city we can limit how many soldiers come at us at once. Wait for nightfall?”

  No one was crazy about the plan, but they made lunch and prepared as they waited for the sun to go down. The closer they could get to the wall before digging the better, he wasn’t quite sure using his power on full for so long right before needing it the most was such a great idea, but they didn’t seem to have an alternative.

  Then he heard Nora mutter, “Chamber pots.”

  He looked at
her questioningly.

  Nora cleared up her obtuse comment when she asked, “Sara, you said when you emptied the chamber pots it led directly through an aqueduct to the river. Do you know if that’s guarded?”

  Sara shrugged. “I don’t know. Even if it is though, it leads directly to the castle.”

  Sally volunteered, “Let me check it out, I’ll be careful.”

  He kissed her and said with concern, “Hurry back.”

  It seemed like forever, but was probably only twenty minutes when she returned.

  “There are steel bars, and they aren’t easy to get to, about forty feet from the ground. They are also warded, so someone in the castle will know when we enter. I also felt what could have been traps, but Justin can disarm them easily with a burst. I couldn’t feel any talents or people by it though.”

  He sighed, “It sounds better than the tunneling plan, but we need to be careful.”

  It took them an hour to work their way around the city to the river side. They did run into one patrol along the river, but as soon as he saw them, he watched them topple over and guessed Sara took care of it.

  He watched as Nora using her air talent took two people up at a time, a flying jump forty feet up to the ledge of the aqueduct. He used his magic of change and one of the thick bars turned to rust and collapsed into dust. As he stepped into the aqueduct he flashed his power once on high to cancel out any spelled traps. They followed it for a while, every hundred yards he flashed his power again, until they saw an access door.

  It was locked, but that was child’s play for Sally, he watched as she stared at the lock and it clicked open after a second or two. Once they were in the castle Sara led them. They came across a number of soldiers but only two at a time, he was impressed that the soldiers were knocked out before they even came into view.

  Sara turned and whispered, “Through here is the royal halls, there are too many for me to knock out at once.”