TWENTY-ONE
Back at the cabin after an amazing dinner, Ker squatted in front of the fireplace poking at the kindling and paper as it caught light, its weak flame spreading with a gentle glow.
“You could’ve just lit it with your own fire, silly. I mean, you are a dragon.” Tiana gave him a teasing grin as she plopped four pillows onto the soft rug in front of the hearth.
He glanced at her across his shoulder a smirk on his lips. “You’re right, I could, but then again I could also have scorched the fireplace to the point the bricks collapsed. Not the romantic scenario I’m hoping for tonight.”
Ker fed the fire, stacking on a few extra logs before sitting back against one of the pillows and the couch. His eyes took in Tiana’s face in the firelight. The way her dark skin gleamed. Luminous was the only word that worked. The flickering light cast reddish highlights in her long, dark hair and when she met his eyes and smiled, his gut clenched.
She was utterly beautiful, inside and out, and his dragon roared with the need to take her, claim her, make her his forever, but there were rules about that. Ever since they met, he knew she wanted him as well, but her scent was always ribboned with indecision. Her virginity made it impossible for him to just take what he wanted, regardless of how badly he wanted.
Inhaling, the scent of smoke and embers filled his nose and his dragon sighed inside, but there was something different about Tiana tonight. She was still as tender and soft, a strong woman wrapped in a fragile wall she built to protect herself from the pain of her past—but tonight she seemed, content. Maybe content was too hopeful a word. Comfortable. He nodded to himself. Yes, even her scent held an ease he hadn’t sensed before.
“You were amazing with those kids the other day at the school, Ker. I’m bowled over. You have no idea,” Tiana said, taking the glass of wine he held out to her.
He exhaled a sigh. “I do what I can. I only wish I could do more.”
She shook her head. “What you do for them…you can’t know what it means to a kid who has nothing. Has no one. It’s not the things you buy or the little extras you provide. It’s just knowing someone gives a damn enough to want to help. That someone cares.” She dropped her gaze to her hands.
Ker reached out and took the wine glass from her fingers. “I do care, Tiana. More than you know. More than I ever expected.”
She looked up and met his eyes. “Are we still talking about the kids?”
His lips slipped into a half smile. “No, I guess not.” Reaching out, he wrapped his hand around her waist and pulled her toward his chest. His fingers glided up her back, over the silk of her dress to the nape of her neck as his mouth slanted over hers.
Breath mingled, his mouth took hers, hungry. His dragon hissed inside and the sound in his head was a yessssss, urging him deeper, to take more.
Squashing the urge, he broke their kiss and tried to pull back, but Tiana stopped him, holding his arm before he could scoot back against the pillows.
“Tiana—” he shook his head.
“I want this, Ker. To be honest I’ve wanted it since the moment I first saw you. It was my own fear that stopped me.”
“Fear?” he questioned. “Of me?”
She shook her head again. “No, of myself. My own insecurities. I know that sounds stupid coming from me. I’m very good at hiding myself, and nothing and no one gets to me.” A tired chuckle shook her shoulders. “More like self-preservation.”
“It doesn’t sound stupid. It sounds like something you had to learn to protect yourself, but you’ve got to know I would never force you to do something you weren’t ready for. I won’t hurt you, Tiana.”
There it was in a nutshell. The reason this man invaded her thoughts every other second. He was everything she ever dreamed she wanted, and the fact he was a hotter than hell shifter was the cherry on top. So what was she waiting for? If he was the cherry on top of her dreams, then let the man pop her cherry once and for all.
She smirked at her own pun and Ker raised an eyebrow. “What?” she asked.
“That look. It’s almost devious.”
Tiana’s smirk spread into a small smile and she leaned into to kiss him, but he held her off.
“Tiana, my dragon won’t take much more, and this make out session is heading into hot and heavy—”
She put a finger over his lips. “Hot and heavy is exactly what I want. You’re a dragon, so hot is your thing. I want you to show me exactly how hot things can get.”
With a low growl, he crushed his mouth to hers, this time taking everything. His tongue plundered the wet cavern, demanding, as his hands moved to her shoulders.
“I want to see you, Tiana. All of you,” he murmured above her lips. His fingers untied her dress from behind her neck and pushed the slippery fabric over her arms. The material puddled to her stomach, leaving her breasts bare.
Gliding his hands over her waist, he pulled her to her knees so she faced him. He cupped the full mounds, his mouth taking hers again as his thumbs circled each nipple.
Her flesh hardened beneath his rough pads, and she groaned against his lips as he teased the stiff peaks with his hands.
“I’ve dreamed about the way you would taste, Tiana. Your scent told me your juice was sweet, but now I want to know.”
His tongue trailed over her neck to her collarbone and down to her breasts. He sucked one hard bud between his lips as he pushed her dress past her hips and down her thighs to the floor.
“You asked how hot this can be. Then lay back and I’ll show you.” Ker helped her ease onto the pillows, sliding her dress the rest of the way off her feet.
“You still have too many clothes on.” he smirked, taking hold of her panties and rolling them down over her ankles.
He tossed them along with her dress onto the couch. “Your juice is glistening on your thighs, Tiana. Slick and waiting.”
Ker unbuttoned his shirt and peeled it from his broad shoulders before moving to climb between her knees, but Tiana lifted one leg, pushing her foot into his hard chest. He stopped, confused for a moment.
“Now, it’s you who still has too many clothes on,” she said with a smirk.
He met her grin with one of his own and knelt up, his eyes dark as they held her gaze. Slowly his unbuttoned the top of his pants, slowly unzipping the zipper. He pushed his pants over his hips letting his long, thick member jut out as it loosed from behind the confining fabric.
Tiana’s eyes widened and she licked her lips. “Holy shit! That is so much bigger than I imagined! Are you sure you’re going to fit?”
Ker laughed, pushing his pants the rest of the way off. “If I get you hot and wet enough,” he murmured as he tossed his pants aside and then moved between her knees. “Wanna see how?”
He pushed her legs wide and dipped his head to her pussy, licking her seamed lips, spreading them with his tongue. He delved inside her cleft, curling the tip before dragging upward over her folds to her clit.
“So wet—” he murmured the sound a cross between a rumble and a purr. “And you’re as sweet as your scent promised.”
Ker slid his fingers into her slit, one at a time, careful to let Tiana adjust to the alien feel. Her barrier was there, tempting him, setting his dragon to thrash deep with the need to thrust through and take her as his own.
He tamped down on the urge, taking it slow. One finger, then the next, his mouth working her clit until she moaned and raised her hips to meet the soft thrust of his fingers.
Back arched, she bucked against his hand and her walls spasmed against his fingers, her body clenching tightly. When she relaxed, he lifted his face and her eyes met his, almost shocked. She opened her mouth to say something, but he got to his knees and leaned down, kissing her silent.
“I’m not done with you yet,” he murmured, pressing the tip of his cock against her slippery entrance. “By the time I’m finished, you won’t be able to walk.”
Pulling his hips back, he pushed his swollen head through her slick folds, but Tiana gasped as his thick member reached her inner barrier.
He stopped, holding still as his eyes held hers. Arousal made their blue depths dark, but a flicker of uncertainty pushed its way through her need.
Ker pulled out from her and Tiana moved to protest, but he laid a finger over her lips. “Patience.”
He grabbed the fullest pillow from the floor beside them and lifted her hips, shoving the cushion under her ass. Licking his hand, he spread her juice, slipping his fingers through again.
“Relax, Tiana. I promise, you’ll see stars and not in a bad way.” Sliding his hand from her pussy, he licked the slick wetness from each finger, letting her watch the ultra-sexy move.
Instinctively, she sucked in a breath, letting her knees fall open. With his gaze still on her, he moved between her thighs and pressed his cock to her cleft again.
Inch by inch, he moved, taking her deeper and deeper. His thumb circled her clit, working her in time with each, slow torturous move, and when she gasped, raising her hips for more, he thrust.
Her barrier gave way and he held her hips, letting her body adjust. She sucked in a single breath through her teeth, but then groaned, her eyes on him.
“Is that all of you?” she asked, her breath hitching as she held still.
He shook his head. “Not even close.”
Tiana licked her lips. “I want all of you. Every bit. I want to feel you inside, full and deep. Fill me, Ker. I want to be yours!”
With a growl, he drove his cock as far as he could, and stretching her wide and full. Tiana cried out, her body tight as she came again. Drenched, her pussy took his hard length even deeper.
He rode her hard, and her body met his thrust for thrust until his head swelled deep inside ready to burst.
Ker tensed holding still, his fingers gripping the sides of her thighs. Her eyes met his, and his lips parted. “Tiana, what you said…”
“How I want to be yours?” she replied.
He nodded, his teeth clenched as he held back. “Do you know that that means? To be mine?”
Her gaze never wavered and she nodded as well. “I do. Claim me, Ker. Do it. Don’t wait. I want you. Show me you want me.”
With a snarl he pulled back, driving his cock as far as her body would take. Hot spurts jetted from his member, filling her, as heat skittered across his body.
Another climax took her, both of them shaking as Ker’s seed bonded them body and soul.