Kian made his way to his and Everly’s bedroom and found her waiting for him in the big four-poster bed. Candles were lit all around the room and soft music played through the sound system. She was tucked under the blanket reading a book, the mounds of her breasts hidden under the fluffy comforter. He approached, smelling the air, thick with her perfume.

"What are you reading?" he asked, sitting down next to her. She put down the book and looked up at him and smiled. “It's a romance about a girl who was rescued by a handsome prince.”

"What she doesn't know is that she rescued him right back," he said.

A soft smile curved on her lips, and she reached out to him, cupping his face. Her delicate hand on his cheek made his inner dragon rumble to life. He leaned over and kissed her. Home. Smelling the scent of her skin, feeling her soft palm against his lips. He grasped her hand and kissed the pulse point on her wrist, pulling her closer.

He kissed down her arm and she gasped when he reached her neck. He licked up the sensitive skin behind her ear. The covers fell away, revealing her body. She’d dressed in a thin white camisole that hinted at her pert breasts underneath. He ran his hand over the fabric, feeling her nipples grow erect under his touch. He kissed her neck and cupped her face in his hands, looking deep into her eyes.

"You are the most gorgeous woman,” he said.

She gasped again, falling into his embrace. He held her close and claimed her mouth. The taste of her made his dragon roar. He pulled her against his body, feeling the soft curve of her flesh under his hands as he kissed her more deeply. Their tongues danced sensuously and slowly. She groaned under his kiss, the scent of her body filled the air. He ran his hands over her breasts and down her hip, sliding his fingers under the silky camisole. She wasn't wearing any panties! He slid his finger between her legs and pressed her clit with the pad of his thumb. She groaned as he twisted his thumb around on her erect pleasure button.

"Are you going to come for me, little mate?" he growled.

Pulling her up onto his lap, he held the back of her neck, kissed her hard and vibrated his thumb on her pleasure button. She groaned, her breasts heaving, her legs wide. She grew wetter with each stroke of his thumb. He wanted to feel her orgasm clench on his fingers. She erupted with pleasure, her body going rigid as she groaned in his mouth.

She clasped her arms around his neck, and her core throbbed on his hand. He ran his fingers up and down her slit as she quivered under him. He laid her across the bed as he sank between her legs. He pulled her camisole down, revealing her breasts. He lazed them with his tongue as she lay groaning underneath him. She ran her fingers through his hair as he sucked her nipples, nibbling on the taut flesh.

"Oh yes," she groaned. "You are my king."

"And you are my queen."

This was a fairytale that they would live together. Now that they were mated, they were the King and Queen of the House of Flames. He sank between her legs, lapping up the juices that flowed from his touch. He loved to taste her, ripe and wet from her release. He licked her slowly and hungrily, lapping up every last drop.

"Oh, Kian,” she groaned. “You give me so much pleasure."

He growled and looked up at her.

"It is my deepest desire to give you pleasure every day of your life.”

She moaned, arching her back as she stared up at the ceiling. He gripped her hips and began to lick her pussy again. He loved the feel of her soft flesh under his tongue. Loved the flavor and the scent of her. He took a long draw of her perfume as he licked up her slit and down it again. He thrust his tongue into her channel as he twirled his finger on her clit. She gasped sharply and looked up at him, letting out an exclamation of surprise.

"Oh my God. My king," she moaned.

He replaced his tongue with his fingers inside her channel. He tapped her pleasure button, running his sopping wet fingers in and out of her. He hooked them upward, finding the spongy spot inside her that she seemed to love him to stroke. With his tongue on her clit and his fingers inside her, her entire body went vibrated as she groaned and screamed with release. He loved to watch her come. It gave him more pleasure than his own orgasm. He held her still as he worked her body. Feeling her pussy pulse on his fingers, he couldn't take it anymore. He needed to be inside her. As she came down from her orgasm, he ripped his clothes off and sank between her wet thighs. She wrapped her arms around his neck and kissed him hungrily.

"I love you, Kian. I love you so much.”

“I love you more than words could ever express.” He caressed her cheek with the backs of his knuckles.

He slid his hard shaft over her wet slit, getting her ready to take him. She quivered under him, making a shattering cry as he caressed her pussy in long, languid strokes.

He angled the head of his cock against her opening, inching inside her just slightly. She moaned and threw her arms around his shoulders, digging her nails into his back. He nuzzled her neck, licking and nibbling at her ear.

“It feels so good to be inside you," he groaned. "It's like you were made for me.”

"Oh, yes,” she groaned.

He slid deeper, stretching her velvety channel around his shaft. With each centimeter he slid deeper inside her, he felt more himself, more at home, more like he had found his place of belonging in the universe. It was the most beautiful thing he'd ever experienced. And he would die a thousand deaths just to feel it again.

He sank deeper as she reached up and claimed his mouth, thrusting her tongue between his lips. He held her face with his hands, caressing her cheeks with the pads of his fingers. He slid to the base of his cock, resting there as she her pussy throbbed around him, clenching and milking his dick. He growled into her neck, running his hands down her hips and grasping her thighs. Her body clenched him, sending him close to the edge of his own climax.

"You feel so good inside me,” she said, almost hysterically.

He rested there as the last vestiges of her orgasm throbbed around him, gathering his strength to give her more pleasure. He pulled back and slid inside her again. Her body had grown accustomed to him and now it was like a silky warm sheath for his shaft. He thrust inside again and again, pumping his love and desire into her. Thrusting deeper each time. The sound of his hips smacking against her flesh filled his ears as he drove into her with pure abandon.

She held loosely to his shoulders as her eyes rolled back in her head. Her pussy clenched in time with his thrusts. He knew she was coming over and over again, and he kept her in that suspended state of pleasure, that perfect place, where they were one. Her pleasure throbbed all around them like a heartbeat of connection. Perfect and ripe with possibility. Now that she had his dragonkin growing inside her, their life would be complete. They would be a family.

He cupped her face in one hand and held her hips with the other, angling her little curvy body to thrust deeper and deeper as she throbbed around him, clenching so pleasurably on his cock. He couldn't hold back any longer. He felt the deep rush of his pleasure at the base of his spine as his dick hardened, coming closer and closer to release.

He groaned into the crook of her neck, running his sharp teeth over her flesh. He swore as he came in a deep, guttural voice. The words that didn't translate into any human tongue. He shot his seed deep inside her. Sparks of desire burned bright all around them. He felt her pussy clasp on him as he erupted in her womb. His semen pumped with his heartbeat. It was magnificent and stunning. She held him close as he breathed into her neck. His desire and love for her so profound, he could barely contain it.

“Oh, my love," she whispered in his ear. “Your love is so beautiful."

He was speechless. Drunk on her love and so grateful that he had found her. Beyond space and time, beyond all of his imagination. A million years he had waited for this, and it was more than worth the wait.

After they separated, he held her close under the blankets, against his chest, as he stroked her hair. He never wanted to leave this perfect place, but he knew that he had to protect her from the dangers of the world. The vampires were an ever-present threat. He would not rest until they were neutralized.

The baby monitor came to life with Ember’s cry. He smiled and kissed the top of Everly's head as she looked up.

"I'll go get her."

She threw on her robe and he pulled on his pajama bottoms as she disappeared into the new nursery off his bedroom. She returned a few moments later with their daughter. She brought Ember into the bed with them, and they snuggled together with Ember between them. They looked into each other's eyes and looked down at their sweet child.

"I don't know how you feel about this. But I can't help but feel like Ember is mine. Like I'm her mother."

"I wouldn't have it any other way," Kian said, stroking Everly's cheek with the back of his knuckles. “You are the only mother she's ever truly known.”

"But what about the Dragoness Prime?”

"It is an honor to her memory for you to care for her child like a mother would. She sacrificed herself for the preservation of our species. And I know that her soul is happy now that we have all found each other and that we are a family.”

"I'm so glad, Kian. I didn't know how to say it. I thought maybe it was disrespectful to her.”

"It's anything but disrespectful. It is the deepest respect you could give to her sacrifice.”

She reached out and stroked his face. He grasped her hand and kissed her palm. Ember giggles between them, wiggling and slapping the mattress with her palms.

"Such a sweet baby," Everly said, kissing the infant's hand. "Soon you will have a little brother or sister to play with.”

Kian looked into Everly's eyes as she said this, feeling so grateful that they were together. His heart was near bursting. Now that he had found his dear sweet queen, his life made sense. His mission on this planet was being fulfilled.

He had a woman to inspire him to become the Guardian this planet deserved. To become the man he was meant to be. From this day forward, every dragon who awoke would take his place at Kian’s side, protecting the people of Earth, creating a better tomorrow, for love and for family.