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I grimaced at the screen and walked into the ensuite bathroom. Tiny aches still nibbled at my muscles here and there if I moved at any speed. I could pretend to be totally recovered, but inside the holes the bullets had dug weren’t quite finishedhealing.
My body had better hurry up and stitch itself whole. There was too much fighting still ahead ofus.
The brief walk didn’t leave me any more ready to sleep. My head was muggy, but the rest of me was on high alert. Any moment, that call announcing disaster might come. Any moment, Ren might needme.
I tossed myself back into bed anyway, burrowing my face in the pillow. I’d be a lot more useful to all of them if I wasn’t a zombie fromexhaustion.
The blanket cocooned me in warmth. Crickets chirped beyond the window. The aches faded from my muscles. But I still couldn’t quite driftoff.
The door to my rooms eased open, a faint click and a whisper of air. Quiet footsteps padded across the floor. I caught my mate’s familiar scent before she’d made it halfway across the bedroom. My eyes opened, and she shot me a soft smile. I pushed myself over on the bed to make more room forher.
She clambered right up and slid under the covers, wrapping her arm around me. I slept in nothing but boxers. The feel of her bare skin against mine set my nerves on alert in a much more gratifyingway.
“Finished your researching?” Iasked.
“For now, anyway.” Ren nestled her head under my chin and pressed a kiss to my shoulder. “Everyone else is already asleep. I wanted someone to cuddle up with. And I thought you might be feeling a littleneglected.”
I snorted. “I’m sure you were giving me plenty of attention while I was out of commission. It’s not your fault I wasn’t conscious enough to enjoyit.”
She made a humming sound and squirmed even closer. I definitely wasn’t going to complain about the attentionnow.
“How are you feeling now?” she asked. “Stillsore?”
I didn’t want her fretting about me, but I wasn’t going to lie to her. “A little. When you’re injured that badly, it takes a while for everything to sort itself out. But I’m almost there.” I ran my hand over her hair. “You must still be feeling that attack lastnight.”
She shrugged. “It’s not so bad. I’ve spent most of the day sitting in one chair or another. Plenty of rest.” She tipped her head back to look me in the eyes. “I’m sure you needyourrest. You came out of that coma less than a day ago. I hope I didn’t wake youup.”
“No, I’ve been doing a good job of keeping myself awake all by myself,” I said with a half-smile.
Her brow knit. “Worrying about yourkin?”
“Mostly. It’s hard not to. But I think I’ll have an easier time letting go of those thoughts with youhere.”
“Hmm.” She teased her hand up my neck and urged my head down. I met her lips with a long, gentle kiss. My body reacted instantly, heat washing through me, my cock thickening. By the time our mouths slipped apart, I was painfully hard and not minding it atall.
“You know,” Ren said, a mischievous note coming into her voice, “I remember a time not all that long ago when I was all tensed up with worries, and you found the perfect way to relaxme.”
An eager quiver ran through me. “I’m all forthat.”
I moved to cover her body with mine, but she held me back with a light press of her hand. “No,” she murmured, letting her fingers slip down my chest and abdomen to the waist of my boxers. “I was thinking of that first time, in the van… I don’t want you straining anything that’s not quite healed. You just relax and let me take care ofyou.”
Dear God, when she said it like that, looking at me through her eyelashes so coyly, I just about came apart from thatalone.
Ren pulled me into another kiss, this one more intense, while her hand ventured under my boxers. I groaned as her fingers closed around my erection. She stroked me loosely at first, and then with firming grip, her thumb flicking over the head of my cock. Pleasure shot through myveins.
I kissed her harder, but that wasn’t enough. Even if she wouldn’t let me respond with all the passion I wanted to give her, I could still share this bliss. As I rocked into her grasp, I reached up under her dress and tucked my hand between herlegs.
Ren whimpered. Our kisses turned sloppier as we both began to pant. I rubbed the heel of my hand against her clit, my fingers testing and then dipping inside her opening. She slicked precum down my length and pumped mefaster.
I was soaring on pleasure now. Was this how it felt when she shifted into that magnificent dragon form and sailed up into thesky?
The pressure building in my balls was the most amazing torture, but I wanted to see her through first. I hooked my fingers higher into the tight, hot center of her. She gasped. My thumb pressed down on her nub, and her sex clenched around me. She shuddered with a broken sound of ecstasy, but her hold on me didn’t falter. Two more steady strokes, and I was spilling over withher.
We sagged deeper into the mattress, our breaths falling back into an easier rhythm together. Ren kissed me one more time, so perfectly sweet. And perfectly right. As she snuggled against me again, my body finally let go of the last of its tensions, and I drifted intosleep.
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