He was becoming quite attached to her. Considering she was a demoness from the lower planes that was a little alarming, except his Shar would always be there for the rest of his life. He wouldn’t have to give her up, because she’d never give up her meal ticket to greater power without needing to hunt thousands of victims, and in a much shorter amount of time even if it would take millennia.
Sometimes he thought she was falling for him too, but the succubus was so artfully coy and affectionate sometimes, and at others she was crude and confrontational, or merely teasing. It was impossible for him to discern what was truth, and what was merely artful flirting and seduction to blend in and attract her prey.
He also worried it was just wishful thinking on his part, Shar truly was precious to him in ways he couldn’t quantify.
The second thing his main focus was on was nature magic. He was a long way still from being able to use it in battle, and much farther still from being able to do that and enhance his body with it or travel through the trees of the forest at the same time. It was a difficult magic to learn, and even harder to master, fortunately he had two very good teachers.
Tansya and Willow were his tree nymphs, sometimes called dryads, though they appeared to be elven nature sorceresses to those around them, and only one came out at a time. Both of them answered to Willow when they did so, and the other stayed in their tree in his dimensional hoard. Elves didn’t have twins, after all, and since they were not only perfect twins, but they could also hear, see, feel and sense everything the other did, they didn’t mind. The one hiding would have all the same experiences as the one out, so they didn’t even have to worry about keeping their stories straight on what had happened when they switched out.
What one knew, felt, and believed, so did the other.
They had chestnut hair, a medium reddish brown that was fine and perfectly straight, with warm light brown eyes. Their faces were pixyish cute and mischievously beautiful. The long eyelashes, elven upswept ears, and thin faces added an exotic flavor to their beauty as well. They were both petite at five feet even, with sexy, tight, and lithe bodies. Their breasts were average for human women, but at the same time the couple of handfuls looked more than large enough for their slight frames. They were perfectly round but slightly elongated, with large and very sensitive nipples. Their curves were gentle, and their asses were tight and supple. Their bodies were extremely limber and bendable, and they were always up for sex.
All his bonded save April who was forbidden to him, were nymphomaniacs. The two dryads were nymphs in all senses of the word, and after they’d had sex for the first time, they were insatiable and sweet flirts, and completely wild in bed. They also preferred to be with him at the same time. They were also all faithful, including Shar and Nysa, to him and his other bonded.
Nysa was his water nymph, and his first bonded after April who’d he’d bonded right after birth. Nysa had long lustrous straight midnight liquid hair. It looked like a waterfall of midnight as it framed her beautiful face and flowed down her torso. She had expressive ocean blue eyes, full lips, and an ethereally beautiful face with high but soft cheekbones.
She was also just as practiced in shy innocent seduction as his succubus, but far more honest in nature. She was in every way his, and she saw him as her master.
Nysa’s body was the most sumptuous of his women, with bountiful rounded breasts he could get lost in, a waspishly thin waist, and a lovely rounded ass and hips that made her more waspish than hourglass. Her legs were thin and toned, and she was just five foot three. She was a sex goddess, and lovingly devoted to him, but she was also extremely intelligent and managed businesses and investments for him.
His treasury was becoming respectable, he’d earned several thousand gold so far in monster bounties and his stipend alone, though that contract would end in two days. To his delight, Nysa had also earned almost half as much again in her investments and various business enterprises.
April of course, was his oldest bonded and beloved companion. A fairy that stood six inches tall, with a mischievously beautiful face, white gossamer wings, and a killer body by proportion. She had long white blonde silken hair and dark blue eyes. Her body was lithe and tight like the twins for the most part, except for her breasts which were very generous in size and looked huge proportionally to the rest of her body. He loved her, but they were forbidden to become lovers. Their future mates when they went back home, and their future children was the focus there to avoid temptation. Both their societies had laws against it, and neither of them wanted to be banished.
Still, for her sake, he shared all his other bonded lovers with her at night, when she’d use her life magic and grow her body to human size. The first night they did that he’d been more tempted than he’d liked at her sweet sounds of pleasure, and her nubile body being pleasured by his other lovers just inches away. So, since that night he’d had Shar put up a privacy screen of illusion magic. She still tempted him, but out of sight was out of mind, and it was much easier to deal with. It also allowed him to put his total focus on the bonded he was with in the moment, and not be drawn or distracted to the show taking place right next to him.
He wasn’t sure what was next, except he’d be spending a lot of time in the capital, since his marriage to the princess was also in two days. At some point he suspected he’d have Shar portal them to Arrowreach near the east coast, so they could continue their circuit for cleaning out monsters that threatened Uradia’s villages. He wasn’t in a big hurry though, even his treasure instincts were pretty well sated at the moment. He even had a respectably large pile of gold and an even larger one of silver.
He still had almost two hundred years to fill the rest of it, and he knew he’d want to spend time with his human wife before running off. Once he’d been to all the villages by horse, they could do day trips to hunt down monsters in a circuit, or to listen for rumors of bandits between villages. But until then he’d have to travel two or three days between the last ten villages and the large port city, before returning to the castle and his human mate.
It still took him by surprise that Stephanie had accepted them all, and what they truly were. Sure, their ambitions fit perfectly together because they didn’t clash, and their chemical attraction was off the chart, but he didn’t imagine it would be easy for a human princess to accept a demoness as one of his bonded. Or as Stephanie put it, his concubines.
His Stephanie was just nineteen, with lovely extremely fine and light brown hair and warmly intelligent hazel eyes. Her face had an elegant innocent beauty to it, and smooth silky skin that he was looking forward to seeing over the rest of her body. The future queen of Uradia was still a virgin after all, and their first time would be after the wedding. Her body was curvaceously athletic, with generous breasts. Her clothes hid most of her curves, usually covering her from neck to ankle, but given her toned and in shape body and abilities with a rapier, he couldn’t wait to see the rest of the rest of the tight curvy body he suspected lay beneath.
The mine took almost the rest of the night to clean out and secure, and by the time they returned to Baybrook false dawn was peeking over the eastern horizon as they sought their beds. Sleep, would come even later…
Chapter Two - Interlude