“Adrissu, I...” he started, then pulled Adrissu’s head closer, so his forehead was pressed between his eyes, as if he could not bear to look at him as he spoke. “I’ve loved you for so long, and none of this has changed that. I must be insane to feel so, but I still—I still want you, even like this. I thought maybe seeing you this way again would be enough to push me away, but it’s stillyou.”
Adrissu breathed in deeply, nostrils flaring with the human’s scent: copper and musk and something like woodsmoke. He could smell him so much more deeply like this, could smell the lingering tang of fear and the heady beginnings of arousal. But his focus was entirely on what Ruan had said to him—I’ve loved you for so long.
“First, Ruan, I must also apologize to you,” he rumbled. “Regardless of why, I did lie to you. I deceived you for years. But I hope you can believe me when I say I didn’t deceive anyone out of malicious intent.”
Slowly Ruan nodded, his shoulders sagging slightly as tension drained from his muscles. “I know,” he said.
“And I must also tell you this,” Adrissu continued. He closed his eyes, hesitating; but Ruan still held his face in his hands, waiting silently.
“I loved you from the first time I saw you,” Adrissu murmured, his voice a deep growl. “I saw you in the courtyard, and I knew I was yours.”
Ruan pressed his face harder into Adrissu’s.
“I know,” he panted, and Adrissu realized that he was holding back tears. “Gods,why?Why am I still so drawn to you?”
Finally Adrissu pulled away, looking down at the human. Ruan’s eyes were swimming with unshed tears, but still he firmly met the dragon’s gaze. He thought, distantly, that Ruan was as accomplished a warrior as he was because he didn’t look away when he was afraid.
“You can accept this, then?” Adrissu asked. “That this is who I am, truly? You would still trust me?”
“Yes,” Ruan said, nodding.
“You’re certain?”
“Yes.”
“Then take your clothes off.”
Ruan blinked, the surprise obvious on his face, but the air flooded with the scent of his desire. He hesitated for only a moment, then moved to start unbuttoning his shirt. Adrissu circled him eagerly, watching until the human was naked before him, and his clothes were in a messy pile on the ground. Even in the dim light, Adrissu could see that he had a new scar on his right side just under his ribs: the mark shiny and pinkish the way human skin healed. He would be careful of the fresh wound, he thought, but Ruan was nothing if not hearty and strong.
“You trust me?” he rumbled, and though his expression had become decidedly more nervous, Ruan still nodded. His cock, half-hard already, betrayed his interest.
In one quick movement, Adrissu lifted and pushed Ruan up against the wall so his body was level with the dragon’s head, then began licking him all over. Ruan gasped, his body quivering under Adrissu’s grasp, the rough glide of his tongue. He started closer to Ruan’s face, dragging his tongue from his chest up the side of his neck, and tousling the hair on his head. Ruan groaned as he licked over each of his nipples, and stifled a laugh as he slid his tongue in the junction under his arm, where the tuft of hair there tasted most strongly of him.
“Adrissu,” Ruan panted, hands grabbing uselessly at the wall. “You act like you’re going to eat me.”
A grin spread across his features, all his razor sharp teeth showing a pearly white in contrast to the midnight black of his scales. It might have looked wicked, even cruel; but Ruan looked at him with such a blissed-out expression that if he had doubted Ruan’s trust in him before, he had no doubt of it now. Whatever misgivings he might still have,this,at least, Ruan wanted very badly.
Before the human could protest, his claws had tightened their grip around him, and he lifted the human again, this time bringing his entire lower half into his mouth. Ruan yelped, muscles tensing as Adrissu’s jaws closed around him, but he held him gingerly in place—and once he had settled against his teeth, Adrissu rubbed his tongue where he could feel Ruan’s cock pressing against the roof of his mouth.
“Oh,gods,” Ruan gasped. His hands tightened around Adrissu’s front teeth, holding himself up, but not struggling to escape. Adrissu growled deep and low in his chest, and another moan burst from Ruan’s mouth. His hips bucked against Adrissu: he could feel his fangs piercing flesh, the first hint of blood on his tongue. If Ruan felt it, he gave no indication of being in any pain.
With the human in his mouth, he could taste the fear emanating off of him, fear that became adrenaline that became overwhelming lust. He pressed his tongue harder against Ruan, dragging it along the surface of his skin agonizingly slow to keep him moaning and thrusting against him.
“Adrissu,” he whimpered. Adrissu could not get a good look at his face, but his head was thrown back in wanton pleasure. “Adrissu—Adrissu!”
The last utterance of his name was punctuated with a wordless cry, and his body tensed hard against Adrissu’s mouth. He could feel his teeth pressing harder into the flesh of Ruan’s back as it arched. His release was a burst of salt on his tongue that he drank down and licked clean. Ruan gasped, his voice strangled, and a few smaller spurts of come spilled into Adrissu’s mouth.
When he was sure Ruan was utterly spent, his once-tense muscles relaxing limply against his jaw, Adrissu lowered his neck and deposited the human on the ground. He was panting and laid there naked, half-covered in saliva and come and small rivulets of blood, eyes rolling in his head with pleasure.
Adrissu rarely had need of his cock when in dragon form, so it was a strangely unfamiliar sensation to realize that it had emerged from its sheath and dripped with anticipation. It was easily the length and girth of Ruan’s thigh, thus it would be entirely impossible to fuck Ruan in this form; but the sound and taste of his orgasm had thrown him into a frenzy. His own precome leaked steadily from the slit hidden amongst soft, pliant scales near the tip; the scales there were black as the rest of his body, but the softer, fleshier part of his member that typically remained deeper within his body was more red in tone and had no scales.
“Gods, Adrissu,” Ruan muttered, his eyes locking onto it, and for the first time his voice trembled slightly in fear. “That absolutely willnotfit.”
“It won’t,” Adrissu agreed, his voice deeper now with need, so that it rumbled through the stone of the chamber like a distant quake. “But this is enough.” He lowered his hips slightly so his cock pressed against Ruan’s body and slowly rocked against him, testing the pressure. Ruan grunted, but didn’t pull away, even as his softening cock dragged against the length of Adrissu’s hard member.
“This will work,” Ruan agreed with a slight murmur. He encircled Adrissu’s cock with his hands: he could grip around the head with both, but the thickness of the rest of his length pulled his hands apart. Adrissu breathed a sigh half of pleasure and half of relief; his mate felt so good against him, even like this, that he did not think he would have been able to stop himself if Ruan had changed his mind.
He rutted against the human, his own slickness and the saliva coating the lower half of the human’s body giving the perfect balance of glide and friction on the underside of his cock—Ruan’s hands applying pressure to the rest. Ruan remained perfectly still at first, but after a moment he became more exploratory with his hands. As Adrissu pulled back, Ruan felt along the soft scales that were near the tip, trying to part them as Adrissu thrust against him to finger along the hidden opening that was steadily leaking precome. His hands drifted lower as Adrissu pushed forward, gliding along the soft and unprotected parts of his cock—the sensitive flesh that so rarely left the safety of his body—then his fingers found the slit where his member emerged, dipping just inside, and Adrissu bit back a cry.
