Chapter 8.6

But they couldn’t be satisfied with just that. Adrian, driven by the instinct to claim the deepest part of her and leave proof that she was his woman, tried to push further, but it wasn’t easy.

“Ah, it hurts, Ian. Go a little slower…”

With her arms around his neck and face buried in his shoulder, Theodora half-sobbed from the burning pain below. The copious fl*id she had released acted as a lubricant, but it seemed insufficient for his size.

She barely managed to take in the swollen head, but the pillar-like shaft remained. The process of slowly stretching her narrow walls to accommodate him gave Adrian heavenly pleasure and Theodora a dull discomfort.

“I’m sorry, Theo. I’m really sorry.”

At each difficult advance, Adrian apologized repeatedly, leaving kisses on her hair, face, and neck. Strangely, each touch seemed to ease the pain.

Slowly, encouraged by Adrian, she relaxed her body. Yet, there seemed to be more to take in, and he didn’t stop advancing.

“Ian, ah, is it not over yet?”

“Almost… it’s almost done. I’m sorry, Theo.”

Reassured by his words, she unconsciously released the remaining tension, and at that moment, he pushed in halfway more, making her tense again.

“Ah, Theo, relax…”

A groan followed immediately.

“Does it hurt?”

Startled, she asked worriedly, and Adrian gave a wry smile.

“No.”

He answered, kissing her temple. His voice was rough, as if scratched.

“It feels so good I could die. You’re killing me.”

And finally, he occupied the deepest part of her. The insides, stretched and pressed, seemed to scream, but the sense of unity from becoming one numbed her mind. Moreover, once she adjusted to his size, the pain slowly transformed into a subtle pleasure.

“Ah, ugh.”

Noticing the change, Adrian began to move slowly, and the dull sensation sharpened. The feeling of the firm shaft rubbing against her tender walls, the swollen tip pushing in and touching sensitive spots, all felt strange and new.

“Ah, Ian, it’s strange. Ah, too strange, ah…”

Confused by the mix of pleasure and unfamiliarity, Theodora could only sob.

“Theo, I’m sorry. It’s just so good… that we’re together like this…”

Adrian kept apologizing, but he didn’t stop thrusting. His eyes were oddly red as if he would die without moving his hips.

“On the other hand, it feels like committing a sin, and I’m afraid… But now I can’t let you go.”

His confession, wet with emotion, soon turned into full-blown tears. Though his body was engulfed in hellish pleasure, something in his thoughts brought tears streaming down his reddened eyes.

“I’m a fool. I thought I could let you go somewhere else… I wanted to shoot any man who caught your eye. If you had really gotten married, I might have… I’m sorry for realizing too late. For your feelings and mine…”

She didn’t know how not to embrace a friend sobbing so sorrowfully into her arms. As she held his head and gently stroked it, his sobs grew stronger. The earnest confession and repentance brought tears to Theodora’s eyes for a moment, but soon she wanted to cry for another reason. Despite his sobbing, Adrian’s relentless movements made her feel like she might just die.

“Ah, Ian, I understand your feelings, ah, so calm down a little… ah…!”

Though they held each other dearly, a completely different world unfolded below their waists. Amidst a rain of kisses that left her dazed, the slick column, wet with various fl*ids, withdrew several times only to plunge back into Theodora. The squelching sound of fl*ids filled her ears.

“Ah… ah, Ian…!”

Her deepest sensitivity, which she hadn’t known existed, swelled dangerously due to the merciless intruder pounding at it. With deep, fast, and persistent thr*sts that struck the spot that made her scream with just a touch, Theodora could only tremble like a fish caught on a spear.

“You were always my precious, ah, the only tree in my world. My only shelter and shade. And yet I…”

With his confession, her insides, stretched to their limits and pressed into the shape of his member, began to convulse ominously. The pleasure that started from deep inside her body climbed her spine and shot straight to her head.

Adrian, still shedding thick tears, seemed to have no rationality left to moderate his strength. Even as the muscles of her walls, pushed to their limit by constant stimulation, irregularly contracted and released in preparation for cl*max, he thr*st his member in like a stake.

The violent pleasure caused her inexperienced body to tremble convulsively. As Theodora’s inner walls contracted sharply, Adrian also gritted his teeth and surrendered to the sudden urge to release.

Every muscle in his body swelled as if ready for battle. As he buried himself like a beast and bit into Theodora’s neck, an indescribable satisfaction washed over him.

“Ah…!”

With her back arched, her final m*an burst forth, and then his vision turned white as the world shattered around him. Pouring out all the desires he had suppressed and endured for years inside his friend, Adrian completely collapsed. Underneath his crouched body, having buried himself deeply enough for their groins to meet, Theodora was equally overwhelmed.

Having tasted ecstasy so intense she could barely breathe, she still trembled from the aftershocks of her cl*max. Her feet, curled without her knowing, were now tightly wrapped around Adrian’s solid waist.

This was a world she had never known. The stimulation was so intense she genuinely worried her mind might be breaking. It was strangely surreal that the world had been shaken and shattered so, yet the room was sinking into the peculiar silence that follows lovemaking.

Normal breathing and thinking only became possible after they lay entwined for a long time. Her skewed vision, which seemed never to return, finally came back.

Like someone who had been drowning, Theodora, still clinging to Adrian, slowly raised her hand to stroke his hair. It felt like something she should do, and she wanted to do it.

Feeling her touch, he visibly tensed, then suddenly, as if shedding all his burdens, he burst into tears like a child. She realized, having never seen him so emotionally broken even as a child, that Adrian, too, had been enduring as much as she had all this time.

“I’m sorry, Theo. Really… Would it be okay for someone as worthless as me to stay by your side? Could I dare remain with you… I like you so much, Theo. Even at this moment, I like you so much that I keep crying.”

With tears soaking her shoulder, Theodora could only hold him close, like the tree he had compared her to, waiting for him for so long.

“Ian.”

Her calm voice, now returned to reason, and her soothing touch gradually quieted Adrian’s sobs. She hoped her sincerity would reach him, helping to heal his deep-rooted wounds even a little.

“From when we first met, and even now.”

He was tense, wondering what she would say, but perhaps instinctively, he had already sensed her feelings and began to relax.

“If you’re okay with it, I’ve always wanted to stay by your side. Because… as I said before, I love you. Then and now, with the same heart.”

As he slightly lifted his upper body to look down at her face, his eyes began to fill with tears again, making Theodora a bit troubled. She worried he might lose consciousness or collapse from exhaustion if he cried like before. Just as that concern crossed her mind, Adrian, with his eyes swollen, barely held back his tears and found her lips.

“I don’t know what I look like now… but you haven’t changed your mind seeing me like this, have you?”

As the salty rather than sweet kiss paused for a moment, he asked with a slightly anxious expression. Theodora smiled softly and shook her head.

“No matter what you do, my feelings won’t change, so I hope you won’t worry about that in the future.”

Her answer effectively calmed Adrian’s heart, but unfortunately, it seemed to have triggered another reaction. 

“Theo…”

Even after climaxing, the member, still heavy and filling her, swelled even more, which she felt vividly through her sensitive flesh. As he thr*st shallowly into her embrace, the mixed fl*ids created an indescribably lewd noise below.

“Ah, Ian, just a moment…”

As she groaned, overwhelmed by the sudden change, Adrian watched her closely, not stopping his gentle movements.

“If you don’t like it, I’ll stop anytime.”

She thought he was cunning for looking so pathetic, yet, inconveniently, her body, heated by his warmth, began to ignite. A mind excited by heat tends to make wrong judgments.

‘Well, if it gets too hard, I can just say stop.’

For now, she also wanted to comfort Adrian, and she wanted him too.

“Well, if it’s just a little… it seems okay.”

Of course, she realized it was a careless thought long after. The long, long first night for the two ended when Theodora began to regret that answer bitterly.

The sun had risen high, making it a stretch to call it night, but it didn’t matter to the two who had fallen asleep exhausted. The two childhood friends, clumsy in every way, were still friends and lovers, holding each other tightly as they drifted into deep sleep.