Chapter Sixteen

Flora

I’VE CHOSEN MY mate and so has my eagle. I can no longer fight that he’s the one. Seeing Ashrac with the kids melted my heart and changed something deep inside me. Ashrac caring about the humans and trying to make their lives better blew my world apart.

He’s about to do it again.

His body against mine is firm, powerful, and incredibly sexy. His muscles ripple beneath my touch. I’m barely able to think and what I’m thinking is that I should tell him I’ve never done this before. Then, he releases my mouth and his lips travel down my body, kissing every inch of flesh along the way. I stop thinking at all and just feel. His tongue circles my bellybutton before dipping inside. I actually giggle over the sensation. My fingers go to his glorious hair and I pull slightly to make him stop. His head comes up and he’s grinning. There are also flames dancing in his eyes and all I can think of is sensual fire.

He lowers his mouth back to my flesh and continues on his merry way. Flames lick at my skin where he kisses. He moves lower and widens my legs for access. My nerve endings sizzle in expectation of the first touch. There. Oh Goddess, his tongue swirls across me. I’m so sensitive I cry out. Shivers run over my skin at the low laugh that rumbles up his chest. I pull my hands from his hair and dig them into my own. I don’t care if I tear out every last strand.

His tongue twirls around and around before finding my clit and throwing me into a tailspin. I whimper as he sucks that exact spot between his lips. My hips pump against what he’s doing and I can’t stop. One of his thick fingers pushes inside me. It actually feels good. No, “good” is not the word. There isn’t one.

“Goddess, Flora, you’re so damn tight. Please tell me you’ve done this before,” he growls.

I would if I could, but I can’t think. A cyclone has built between my legs and deep inside me something else is happening. I know what an orgasm feels like because though I’m a virgin, it doesn’t mean I haven’t masturbated until I reached that peak. This is different. It’s so much more.

The pressure builds and I realize I desperately need Ashrac inside of me. “Please, please, take me, Ashrac,” I beg.

He slowly moves up my body and his hands cover my breasts. They’re small and it suddenly worries me. “So perfect,” he moans above me while looking down with his fiery eyes.

I am perfect. Perfect for my mate. He leans into my breast and takes my right nipple between his lips. My hips buck at the sensation. I’m about to beg again when the tip of him nudges my center. There’s so much going on inside me. I burn with Ashrac’s heat.

The nudge becomes a gentle push and I wrap my legs around his waist and pull him to me with all my strength. His husky laugh at my insistence warms me further and then the heat that is Ashrac passes the final barrier and we’re one. It hurts and my eyes squeeze closed. Ashrac freezes above me. I open my eyes to see him looking down at me in wonder.

His lower body doesn’t move and my body slowly adjusts to his size, which is much bigger than any vibrator I’ve ever used. He lowers his head and kisses me again. It’s a kiss of possession and that’s exactly what he’s doing. I’m possessed body and soul by this incredible dragon.

He lifts his head. “Are you ready?” he whispers in a husky voice while peering down at me through half-lidded eyes.

“Yes,” I manage to breathe out the one word. I’m far past the ability to speak coherently for more than that.

He slowly withdraws and the pain fades, but I’m empty and I want him back. I show him with the force of my leg muscles. His control breaks and time stops again. His hands and lips are everywhere—my breasts, my throat, the sensitive skin behind my ear. I’m burning from within and it centers on where our bodies join. It’s too much and not enough. Ashrac is everything.

The orgasm tears through us. I yell and his shouts combine to fill the room with sounds of ecstasy. I slowly open my eyes because an intense light breaks through. It’s an amazing thing and surrounds us completely. My dragon is full of surprises. He rolls and his weight is no longer inhibiting my breathing. I tuck myself against him and his hand lazily skims my arm.

I have no idea how long we lay together, when Ashrac’s voice breaks the silence. “Fly with me.”

I am exhausted but at his words, exhilaration travels through me. Then it instantly dies. I haven’t told him the truth. “Do you have the strength to fetch your saddle?” I ask. My voice is shaky as I wonder when I should spring my eagleness on him. We’re sated and I don’t want to ruin what we just experienced. Later. I’ll tell him later.

“I have a better idea,” he says quietly into my ear. He rises and lifts me from the bed. He carries me to the window and walks through to the outer ledge. I expect him to launch and cradle me in his talons. That’s not what happens. One minute I’m in his arms and the next I’m airborne. “Fly, my beautiful eagle,” he yells.

Damn. I’m a fool. Dragonbreath knew all along. I scream the power words so I shift as I plummet. My eagle takes over and I swoop up and fly back toward the balcony where Ashrac stands watching. He dives from the tower, his green body a flash in the night before his dragon bursts free. He’s amazing.

“And I’m still green. Do you think you could change that?” he says into my mind.

Oops, he caught that. I swoop around him and the green fades and his mighty red body reveals itself. Ashrac breathes fire in a mighty roar and I smile internally. Maybe I understand the allure of red now or maybe I’m so in love, red is all I want.

I cast my thoughts back to him. “How long have you known?”

“Long enough,” he rumbles. He’s testy.

That gives me another internal smile. “You deserved green.”

“Maybe, but I don’t think I deserve the turds dropped on me.”

I laugh into his mind. “An eagle must do what an eagle must do.” Ashrac turns and I fly around until I can stay next to him in front of his right wing.

“Does this mean I can expect turds landing on me every so often when I do or say something stupid?”

I laugh again. “Oh, dragonbreath, you’ll do or say something stupid every day. Between being green and turds landing on you, I’ve got you covered.”

Now it’s Ashrac’s laugh filling my head.