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She’d know even greater pleasure in the moments to come. He straddled her, cock thick and hard against his belly, its true size and appearance revealed.
Leaning down, he captured an areola, drawing it deep into his mouth. Sucking, rousing her fully from sleep.
“You’re insatiable,” she said, as yet unaware of her surroundings.
“Complaints already?”
She laughed, hands tangling in his hair. “Your ego will explode if I answer that question.”
“Possibly. You have a powerful effect on me.”
She tugged on his hair, and he answered her, lying on her though keeping her thighs closed with his, so he wouldn’t immediately slide inside her. His mouth covered hers in sensuous welcome to his lair, pleasure magnified, doubling back on itself because of the bond.
I warned you that dragons played for keeps, he said, speaking into her mind before he lost complete control of the situation and answered the call of her body.
She stilled beneath him, signaling she’d heard him even if she thought herself imagining his voice.
He lifted his mouth from hers, rolled onto an elbow so it was impossible for her not to finally note her surroundings.
Lyra hid a smile, deciding she’d make him work at getting her to acknowledge she’d passed out at orgasm and stayed passed out as a result of amazing sex. “Let me guess. This is home, and perfectly in keeping with the dragon role-playing.”
He snorted, flame leaving his nostrils.
She yipped in surprise, not at the trick, but at feeling the fiery caress on her bare skin.
He followed that trick by opening his mouth and sending a blast of fire in a concentrated focus on her nipple.
She saw the dragon circling her nipple and sat abruptly. Not yet panicked, but…
He pulled her onto his lap. “Not role-playing, Lyra. Reality. If it eases you, you’re not the only human to learn of our world. Pierce is indeed fey, as is his cousin Tristan, and Storm knows what the men who share her as wife are. Aislinn is half-elf. Magic does indeed exist, just as dragons do, though our covenants forbid it from becoming common knowledge. Only mates are allowed to learn supernatural beings aren’t merely things of fantasy or myth.”
“Or nightmare.”
His heart took a dive and Lyra felt it as though her own hurt, ached, was being seized by fear.
Is that how you now see me? he asked, the pain beneath the question cutting through the suspicion and fear she’d been grappling with as she wrestled to get her head around what couldn’t really be true, and yet…
It must be, because otherwise she’d lost her sanity at Drake’s Lair as well as her heart.
She hadn’t imagined being drawn to the mirror upon entering Inner Magick, or the way the stones set in the frame had warmed just before its shiny surface had become summer storm clouds thinning for an instant to reveal a silver-and-gold dragon.
The matchmaking deck had certainly been real, as had the card squirting out with Tielo’s picture on it.
She heard his shout of laughter in her mind as well as with her ears.
“Tricky, but in this case I’ll forgive Pierce his manipulation.”
“I take it these are real too,” she said, scooping up a handful of diamonds then letting them fall through her fingers.
“Yes, my mate, they are real.” But I’ll ask you not to reduce the comfort of our bed by selling them off to pay for school field trips or other causes. Adequate funds will be made available for you when we return to the human world.
His words melted her heart, leaving no room to fear either the future or the present. “Let me see you.”
He set her away from him to stand, legs apart, arms across his chest though her gaze never lifted above his cock. “I wasn’t imagining things.” The lick of her lips caused his cock to pull away from his abdomen and the tip to grow wetter.
Dragon males have been mounting their human mates for centuries, Lyra. If I show you my first form, my true form, I’m not sure I’ll have the will to change back into this magical construct until after you’ve allowed me to cover you.
“Let me see you.”
You’ve been warned.
In a shimmer of gold and silver very much like the haze she’d thought she imagined before, he became what the tattoo around his barbell-pierced nipple depicted.
Her breath caught in her throat.
He was magnificent. Mesmerizing. Raw and primordial. Her heart rushed, not the rabbit-race of a prey animal but with the exhilaration of a female who’d snared the interest of the strongest, most powerful male to serve as mate and father of her children.
Natural instinct or dark carnal fantasy, she went to her knees and elbows, her thighs open, the insides glistening with arousal, her vulva swollen and already parted. She wanted him inside her. Needed it, as if only by covering and filling her with his cock would she know this, and what they had, was real.
Never doubt it, he said, his scales hot and wickedly erotic against her back. His cock filling her, stuffing her, making her writhe and cry out and finally come as hot jets of semen flooded her.
Perfect, Tielo said, the ecstasy of orgasm fading enough so he could manage a word as he curled around his mate, content to cuddle with his cock inside her.
Pleased with yourself? she teased.
Very.
Where are we? And he heard echoes of his mention of returning to the human world.
In the dragon realm. He showed her images of the portal and their arrival, his chest puffing a bit at reliving the dive from the platform and his display of superior strength and ability.
She snorted, dragon-like, increasing the wealth of pride he felt even as an image formed of a small creature running on a wheel, its cheek pouches stuffed with food.
It took him a moment to identify it by name. Hamster. An aperitif?
Very funny. Her concern for the small creature, apparently in her apartment and belonging to the Ochoa children, became his.
I will get word to Pierce. His gaze went to a collection of magical artifacts, in the process striking a treasure chest half buried under centuries-old coins.
His heart plummeted. Regardless of his avowal not to shackle himself to a female, dragon instinct had prevailed. Over the years he’d gathered some fine things, but nothing close to what another male, his cousin Severn or friend Xanthus, had probably offered their human mates after bonding with them.
Reluctantly he pulled from Lyra’s sheath and went to the chest, digging it out with a casual disregard for the old Spanish coins. Insecurity crept in at presenting it to her, making him loath to open it and reveal the contents.
It’s tradition. A rumbled growl to mask what he felt, though the connection formed by magic allowed no escape or hiding it.
Tears came to Lyra’s eyes. Foolish man. How could you know what to collect? You hadn’t met me yet. And besides, I could have everything in this cave in a night of playing poker.
He laughed, adoring her, already in the first troughs of love. What makes you so sure of your victory?
I won you, didn’t I?
I’m afraid not. I’m the victor. Dragon games are not so simple, nor are they for the faint of heart. And at Drake’s Lair, the odds always favor the house. I am the house, along with Pierce.
That was your office we were in? Your bed?
Yes.
Your home?
No longer. It would hardly be appropriate for my mate, the third-grade teacher. Though in truth, the prospect of her constantly in the presence of other male dragons made him gnash his teeth and growl.
Giving up his first form in favor of a human one, he opened the chest, casually spilling its contents as he looked for and found what he wanted near the bottom of it. He pulled out a stunning necklace of diamonds and put it on her, then kissed downward, to the dragon circling her nipple.
I’ll buy another residence, one more suitable, provided, of course, you remain naked when you’re there.
Compl
etely naked? Not even high heels?
Desire scorched through him, the scent of her arousal drawing his mouth and tongue to her smooth, beautiful pussy. She splayed her thighs and he draped her legs over his shoulders, imagining her in shoes that glittered to match the jewels around her neck.
Perhaps I’ll allow them. But nothing more.
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