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Whips, chains, butt plugs? What. The. Heck.
Ethan tried to catch her eye. If this woman called Min’s bluff they’d be done for. Though the idea of setting up a sex dungeon with Min did hold a certain appeal.
The woman didn’t look up from her paperwork. “We don’t need every detail.”
“Could have fooled us,” Ethan grumbled.
“I’m just doing my job.”
“Surely you could find a better one,” Min said. “One that doesn’t humiliate monsters.” The woman thinned her lips and kept ticking boxes. “You’re not from Tween, either of you, are you?”
Ethan glanced at Min’s face. Where was she going with this?
“Nah, Twill,” the woman said.
“What have they promised you? A nice new condo in Tween? Folks will always know you’re from Twill by your accent, you’ll never be fully accepted.”
The woman scowled at Min, who was now standing with her hands on her hips, staring the woman down.
What had got into her? Was it the little silk negligée that was breaking down her inhibitions? Did she turn feisty from lack of sleep? With her copper hair blazing around her shoulders as she glared over the top of her glasses, she looked like every boy’s schoolteacher fantasy. But hot and adorable as she was, it was time to shut her up. The last thing they needed was a bad report from this pucker-mouthed human who’d probably never had a skerrick of sex in her life.
Ethan flung back the covers and strode over, not caring about his fluffed-up dicks. He bent Min over his arm and kissed her full on the lips.
For a moment she was rigid with surprise, but as his tongue tangled and coaxed hers, she went limp against him with a tiny moan.
With difficulty, he pulled away, keeping his arm around her. She looked up at him, her eyes full of awe, and then gently pulled his head down and kissed his scales, just below his left horn. The gesture was so sweet and loving, his big dragon body almost melted into a puddle of goo.
He snaked his tail around her, and she leaned into him.
The two officials had the grace to look away. “Hmm, well, it all seems to meet the criteria for intimacy.”
“Really, are you sure?” Min said archly. Ethan gave her a little slap on the butt with the end of his tail. This farce did not need to be prolonged.
The bearded man said, “The Council of Towns have to protect humans from shonky land deals, they make no apology about that.”
The woman added, “Despite your back-chatting, you’re in luck—I’ll be reporting that this all looks genuine. We do expect, however, that an engagement will be announced within the next few weeks.”
“Right, of course,” Ethan said, his tail tightening around Min.
Of course.
CHAPTER 21
After they’d left, Min guessed she should disentangle herself from Ethan’s embrace.
Trouble was, she had no desire to do so.
And it seemed like he had no inclination to move away from her either.
She loved the feel of that strong tail looped around her hipbone, the wing that was still draped around her shoulders, and her body hummed with adrenalin from the last few minutes. She’d never stood up to another human before, let alone while dressed in a tiny scrap of silk. Plus, she’d felt Ethan staring at her, and had been sure her nipples had hardened beneath his gaze.
Gosh, it should have been a humiliation, but instead it had empowered her. And it made Min realize she was prepared to take this further between them, whatever the consequences. She was going to make a move.
For a moment they both stood staring at the door.
“Well, I think we convinced them,” Ethan said, removing his wing from her shoulder.
“Yes, I think so.” When she felt his tail loosening, she curled her hand around it, and with feather light fingers stroked up and down its length.
