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So it wasn’t just me. The guys felt it too? I glanced back at him again, with a fluttering in my chest. I’d waited for them without knowing what I was doing. And he’d waited for metoo.
“There really isn’t any rush to make that commitment,” he said, gazing back at me with those clear blue eyes. “We’ve only just found you. We can give you whatever time youneed.”
Not everyone felt that way. My thoughts darted to West’s words earlier this morning. It must be the same for all of the kin-groups, including Aaron’s. The longer I held out, leaving him without a mate, the longer the rest of his kin had to gobarren.
“Are you sure?” I asked before I knew I was going to. “I mean, that waiting for me is the right decision? Whatif...”
My voice faltered. My doubts jumbled awkwardly insideme.
Aaron leaned forward and wrapped his arms around me, tipping his face next to mine. “I’ve never been more sure of anything, Serenity. You’re everything I could have wanted in amate.”
My back tensed against his chest. He drew back a few inches. “You don’t like people using your full name, doyou?”
I grimaced. “It’s not so much that as—I just got so used to pretending it wasn’t my name. To feeling like saying it would be a dangerousthing.”
“Just one more thing you need to reclaim,” he murmured. “You are Serenity Drake. You are the last in the dragon shifter line. That heritage belongs to you and no one else. No one can take it fromyou.”
He pressed a kiss to the sensitive spot just behind my ear. A bolt of desire shot through me, right to my sex. I pushed myself toward him, and he eased me onto his lap. When I raised my head, his lips were right there to meetmine.
We kissed until I started to lose my breath. Aaron edged his thumb under the hem of my tee. I mumbled encouragingly, and he slid his hand right up under, over my bare skin. He teased his knuckles over my breast, making my nipple pebble. I moaned, kissing him harder. A tight ball of need formed between mylegs.
Carefully, he eased the strap of my bra over my shoulder to loosen it. Then he dipped his fingers inside the cup to fondle me skin to skin. I gasped as he rolled my nipple under his thumb, drawing it to an even sharper peak. He bent his head and nibbled his way down myneck.
Every nerve in my body hummed at his touch. I was getting carried away again, but it didn’t feel quite so scary. I could do this. I could take this pleasure. And if I wanted to stop, I knew all I had to do was sayso.
I shoved my hands up under Aaron’s shirt, needing to feel the hot, firm planes of his chest. All that coiled strength. I traced the lines of those muscles all the way down to the waist of his pants. Aaron groaned, squeezing my breast. His erection pressed against my thigh. So big and sohard, all forme.
The thought sent a flare of hunger through me, but it came with an icy splinter ofpanic.
I could have him. Tie him to me so he was mine for the rest of my life. If I said I was ready now, that I wanted all of him, he wouldn’t hesitate. He’d give himself over just like that, for all time. To a shifter who couldn’t even shift, a dragon who couldn’t sprout her ownwings.
I pulled back, my head dropping. Aaron’s hand stilled. “Farenough?”
I dragged in a breath to steady myself. The hunger still gnawed at me. My lips ached to feel his againstthem.
“Far enough,” I agreed. “But... we can stay here for awhile.”
He grinned and brought his mouth back tomine.
Chapter 16
Ren
“Wow,”Kylie said, hugging my arm. “Shifters know how to eat, don’tthey?”
We were standing at one end of the huge table that had been set up in the village common. It stretched across the entire space, and even then it wasn’t enough for all the villagers to sit down. Many were filling their plates from the bowls and platters set all down the middle and ambling off to find a spot on the ground or the extra chairs scattered around thecommon.
Delicious smells assaulted my nose: roasted meat and stewed veggies and fresh bread. I wasn’t drooling, but it was a near thing. Between working out and making out, I’d developed a healthy appetite for dinner. I grabbed one of theplates.
“I don’t think they do this all the time,” Isaid.
“Obviously.” Kylie rolled her eyes. “It’s all for you. You’re acelebrity!”
She said it teasingly, but the fact was it was kind of true. Every shifter we passed gave me a longer look than they aimed at anyone else. Several of the cooks dashed over to encourage me to try this casserole or those ribs. When we made for a couple of chairs off to the side, a middle-aged man stopped us and motioned us back to thetable.
“No, no, you have a spot here, of course,” he said, dipping his head. “There’s always room for you at ourtable.”
I looked for my alphas, hoping one of them might step in and tell everyone to stop fussing, I wasn’t that big a deal. But then, they kind of thought I was a big deal too, didn’t they? West was busy stalking through the crowd, offering a greeting here and a friendly slap to the shoulder there. Marco was chatting with a few rather roguish-looking guys. Nate and Aaron had paused to talk down by the other end of the table. No help from any ofthem.
