I could see her pupils dilate at my words as her tongue darted out to wet her lips. The air between us was heavy with anticipation as my throbbing cock pressed against her covered heat, begging for entrance. It was a pivotal moment—would we let Kaida's interruption push us back into our old patterns, or would this be the time when everything changed?
As if reading each other's minds, our hands reached for one another, refusing to go back to how things were before. And I knew deep in my core that I couldn't ever go back, not after experiencing the way her lips felt on mine. How her moans echoed in my ears. The way she writhed under my touch, desperate for more.
She was mine, body and soul, and I would make damn sure she admitted it before the night was over.
As our lips clashed in a flurry of pent-up need, I palmed her ass and lifted her from the wall. I knew the path to the springs like the back of my hand, not needing to see to get there. We were quickly plunged into darkness as I walked us toward the spot where I wanted to get on my knees and repent.
I opened my mental connection to any dragons within our vicinity, allowing them a quick warning as I came in contact with a few.“If you value keeping your vision, you will leave the springs within the next two minutes.”
Apparently, even my voice belied my lust, for not one dragon grumbled in resentment of my demands. Thoughts of understanding flowed back before I closed them off. I was thankful no one fought back, because at this rate, I would have made good on my threat to remove their eyes if they lingered and saw what I was about to do to their queen.
No man, woman, or beast would ever lay eyes on what was mine.
Her lips moved to my ear as we descended into the heat of the springs, her breath hitching as she murmured, “Are you sure you can handle being in here with me, dragon boy?”
My cock strained in my trousers at her question. I wanted to shove it into her mouth every time she gave me an ounce of that sass, but it was also one of her qualities that I deeply admired. She’d never once backed down from me, despite her open hatred and fear of me when we first met.
Somehow, she had the most courage and stubbornness out of anyone I’d ever met, man and beast alike. She’d make a fine queen, of all of Andrathya. I’d worship at her feet in public, but in private, I would say my prayers between her legs.
“Close your mouth before I give in to my desires to fill it,” I answered, loving the way she pulled back, showing a beautiful flush to her cheeks.
Maybe my little wench wanted to serve her king after all. We’d get there in time—this moment was about her and correcting my behavior from the last time we’d been here together.
Her legs loosened from around my hips until her feet gently touched the ground. She wasted no time in reaching for thestrings of my trousers, undoing them and delving her hand down to palm my erection. I strained in her hand, marveling at how differently it felt to be touched by another, instead of myself.
“Fuck, Siyana,” I groaned at as my toes curled and my eyes fluttered.
“Don’t call me that,” she snapped, tightening her grip on the base of my cock before beginning to stroke me. “Sia will do, if you don’t wish to refer to me as wench or queen. Both are titles that I gladly claim.”
She might have been joking, but she had no idea just how in line with my thoughts her words were. My eyes opened as I grabbed her wrist and lifted her hand out of my trousers, barely holding on to my thoughts of ensuring the entirety of this moment focused on her when her bottom lip stuck out in a pout.
“Do you not want me to touch you?” she asked, dropping her hands to her side. “If I’m not?—”
I quickly cut her off as I bent down to undo her trousers, ensnaring her lips in the process. “So you want me to call you my queen?” I mumbled against her mouth as the clothing fell to the ground, pooling around her boots.
Her lips parted as I lowered myself to my knees and took her boots in my hands, pulling them from her feet. From this height, I could scent her arousal as I turned my eyes to look up at her, finding my lips even with her lower abdomen. She stepped out of her trousers as I pressed my mouth to her skin, licking and nipping a path down to her thighs. My hands roamed from her ass to her hips, the tips of my fingers digging in possessively.
Glancing up at her, I whispered, “Let me show you just how willing I am to serve my queen.”
She nodded as my fingers found the sides of her underwear, the silent question clear. I dragged the material down her legs, inch by inch until they hit the floor. The scent of her left my dragon desperate to taste her arousal, to sample the proof of justhow much she wanted us, no matter what her mouth might say at times.
To my surprise, her brassiere was tossed down to the side, distracting me briefly from the mound in front of my face that I was barely holding back from burying my mouth in. She lowered herself to the ground, leaning back until she was resting on her elbows and smirking at me.
She was temptation on a silver platter. Her body was somehow even more tantalizing than I’d pictured in my dreams. I wanted to spend days here, running my mouth and hands over every inch of her curves. It was interesting how I’d changed her out of her cold, wet clothing upon her first night in my castle, in an effort to keep her alive, but I’d never given myself the chance to truly glance at her. If I were ever in that position again with her, there was nothing that would keep me from ravishing her.
Her legs spread, revealing that pretty pussy I’d watched her dip her fingers into, pleasing herself all those weeks ago. Our eyes locked and my jaw clenched as I forced my words out.
“This is your last chance to walk away. I’m not saying it would be successful and that I wouldn’t chase you,” her eyes widened at that, and the animal within me wondered if she wanted to be hunted like prey. That could be arranged. My heart rate spiked and I barely stifled a groan at the image in my mind. “But I know that once my mouth touches your pussy, you will be trapped until I deem we are done. I won’t be able to stop. So tell me, is this what you want?”
I expected a moment of hesitation and fear to rise up within her as it had the last time we were here, but she simply shook her head at me and stated in a confident, even tone, “I’m not walking away this time, no matter what happens.”
It was all I needed to hear before I got on my hands and knees before lifting her legs and settling them over my shoulders as I lowered myself to the ground completely. This was the altarin which I’d sacrifice myself, though not for one of the elemental gods as was the ancient way of dragons.
The elementals had done nothing to deserve my faith, but Sia? She’d done everything.
My nose nestled into the sparse hair of her mound as my tongue flicked out to run along her for the first time. Her hips bucked as I did it again several times, noting that she seemed the most sensitive at the top. I may not have been with a woman before, but I was a predator built to sense every movement of my prey, and I’d use it to unlock exactly what made her come undone.
Already, I’d memorized the speed and location her fingers had displayed, but I wanted to discover this first—on my own. To know I didn’t need assistance.
