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The scent of linseed oil and acrylic paint clung to the warm air. Rafayel’s studio was a haven of creative chaos—brushes in jars, canvases leaning like dominoes against the walls, and the gleaming sea waves dancing with the wind outside the studio were playing in the background as white noise.
You sat in the center of it all, posed on a worn velvet chaise, a thin robe draped over your shoulders. The robe had slipped open, framing the swell of your belly, glowing with the soft blush of candlelight and the waning gold of the sun slanting through the tall windows.
Rafayel stood a few feet away, brush in one hand, palette in the other, white shirt paint-stained and sleeves rolled up to his elbows. He tilted his head dramatically, squinting at you through one eye.
“Okay, but be honest, are you trying to seduce me or are you just naturally this breathtaking?”
You smirked. “This was your idea, remember?”
He clicked his tongue. “Yes, but you are the one sitting there glowing like a fertility goddess who just stepped out of a Renaissance fever dream. You’re ruining my concentration, cutie.”
You rolled your eyes affectionately. “You’ve already been staring for over an hour.”
“That’s because I’m in agony,” he said, placing a hand to his chest in mock despair. “Do you have any idea what it's like trying to paint you while you’re literally the most beautiful thing that’s ever existed?”
“Flattery won’t make me sit still longer.”
He grinned—mischievous, roguish—and walked over to you, the tiled floor warmed under his slow, theatrical steps. “No? Not even if I tell you I’m immortalizing you? Preserving this perfect moment of motherhood, beauty, and ‘glowy hormonal goddess energy’ for future generations?”
You raised a brow. “Future generations?”
“Well,” he said, kneeling between your knees with that familiar smirk, “at least for our kid. So they’ll know how extra their parents were.”
You laughed, but it caught in your throat when he leaned forward and pressed a kiss to the crest of your belly. His lips were soft, reverent. The humor faded from his face, replaced by something quiet, intimate.
“I mean it,” he murmured, voice barely above a whisper. “You’re… everything. Every shade I’ve ever mixed. Every curve I’ve ever chased with a pencil.”
Your fingers sank into his curls. “Raf, you’re getting sentimental.”
“Don’t make fun of me. I’m vulnerable right now.” He kissed your belly again. “I’m painting my muse while she grows a whole human. I think that earns me a free pass to wax poetic.”
You leaned down to kiss him—slow and deep, tasting the intimacy that had always lingered between you. When you pulled back, he exhaled against your mouth.
“You’re warm,” he murmured. “And you smell like paint and peaches. It’s driving me crazy.”
“You’re the one who said this was going to be a ‘wholesome art session.’”
“Cutie,” he said, grinning, “I’m an artist. I lie for a living.”
You laughed again, tugging him up by the collar of his shirt until he was hovering above you. His hands found your thighs, parting them with practiced ease, his eyes flicking between your mouth and your belly like he couldn’t decide which miracle to worship first.
“You’ve been sitting there for almost an hour. Can we unwind a bit?” he spoke gently, while his hands filled with paint that had already dried played with the hems of your robe.
“Absolutely.”
The robe slid further open, revealing the fullness of your breasts, the curve of your hip. Rafayel drew in a breath like he was seeing you for the first time all over again.
“You’re more than a muse,” he said. “You’re a masterpiece that keeps changing. Evolving. It’s not even fair.”
You let out a breathless chuckle, “You’re very dramatic today.”
“It’s the lighting,” he whispered, brushing his nose along your neck. “And the hormones. Yours and mine.”
You reached between you, fingers toying with the hem of his shirt. “Then take this off and stop talking so much.”
“Oh now you want me to shut up?” he teased, tugging the shirt over his head and letting it fall to the floor. “You didn’t seem to mind when I was reciting sonnets to your belly a minute ago.”
You pulled him closer. “I love your mouth most when it’s not speaking.”
His laugh rumbled against your skin, low and sweet. “I do love when you get bossy.”
Then, he pulled back slightly—just enough to kneel before you once more, eyes locked on where your thighs parted.
“I have to see you,” he said, breath husky, reverent. “I need to see what I’ve made mine.”
You laid back slightly, propping yourself on your elbows, robe fully open now. Rafayel dipped between your legs like a man approaching the altar of a cathedral, his hands coaxing your thighs wider, mouth already parting with anticipation.
And when he looked at you—slick, swollen, divine—it was as if he were looking at brushstrokes in motion.
“God…” he exhaled, brushing a thumb so gently over your folds you shivered. “Cutie, you’re... you’re glowing down here too. This...” he spread you open more, watching your slick catch the flickering candlelight, "...this is the center of the universe right now. Do you have any idea what it does to me to see you like this?”
He leaned in, tongue pressing flat and slow, tasting you like a sommelier savoring wine, moaning low in his throat. His lips moved over your core as if kissing a page of scripture. Every motion was languid, reverent, worshipful.
“You’re sweeter than I remembered,” he murmured between licks, voice rasping like charcoal over silk. “And I remember everything, cutie. The first time I saw you, you were standing by that gallery window, wearing that ridiculous linen jumpsuit you hated.”
He kissed just above your clit, making you tremble.
“I looked at you and thought—that’s it. That’s the line I’ve been trying to draw my whole life.”
You moaned softly, hips arching into his mouth as he flattened his tongue against you again, dragging it up slowly, deliberately.
“Every painting before you was a draft. A study. And then you walked in like light through stained glass and ruined me.”
Your breath stuttered. “Raf—”
“You’re art,” he whispered, now licking you in firmer strokes, his voice cracking under his own arousal. “But this? This is my favorite part. The wettest, softest proof that you’re real. That you want me.”
You cried out softly as he sucked your clit into his mouth, groaning like a man starved. He didn't rush—he savored. Between every flick of his tongue he murmured praises, confessions, tiny worships.
“You taste like something I’d die to paint, but never share.”
Your legs began to tremble, hands clenching the velvet beneath you. He looked up, lips glistening, chin slick with your arousal, and smiled against your heat.
“You want me now?” he murmured.
You nodded, breathless. “Need you inside...”
And then he rose, pressing his body against yours once more. His hands cradled your hips, your belly, freeing his cock from the restraints of his trousers, hard and heavy between you.
He guided himself to your entrance, sliding in with one long, slow push. You both gasped at the depth, the fullness. One of his hands never left your womb.
“Let me leave one more memento before I finish the piece,” he said again—but this time his voice was trembling with raw, unfiltered adoration.
When he moved inside you, it was a rhythm of worship. Slow, unhurried. Like strokes of oil on a canvas he never wanted to dry. His mouth brushed against yours in quiet pulses, his murmurs soft as paint on linen.
“You’re a living sculpture. I still can’t believe I get to keep you…”
As much as you want to tell how much he means to you, words are stuck in your throat. The long drag of his cock around you, your tightness memorizing each thrust makes you feel dizzy, feel needed.
“This body, this soul—this is the best work I’ve ever helped create.”
You wrapped your arms around his neck, pulling him closer until your foreheads pressed together. His thrusts grew deeper, still gentle but filled with a hunger that reached past flesh and bone.
“Raf… ‘m cumming…hah…”
“M-me too, princess. Paint your cum around me…”
And one finally thrust got Rafayel shaking on top of you. When you both finally came undone—shuddering, clinging, whispering each other’s names—it felt less like an ending and more like the finishing stroke on a masterwork.
Minutes passed in warm silence. Rafayel pulled the robe back over your shoulders, wrapping his arms around you as you curled into him, the baby nestled safely between you.
“I’m keeping this canvas forever,” he murmured, brushing your hair back. “But even it won’t do you justice.”
You smiled, tired and full. “Guess you’ll just have to keep painting me.”
He smirked. “Deal. But next time, I get to pose. Nude. With a flower crown.”
You groaned. “God help me.”
“Cutie,” he said, kissing your temple. “You married a menace. No take-backs.”
And with that, you fell asleep in the arms of your artist—his paint-streaked fingers still wrapped around your hand, your body resting in the quiet, sacred glow of love and new life.