Page 48 of Brutal Alpha Dragon

I didn’t want to admit it, but she’s proven me wrong. Instead of being opposed to being my mate, she’s willingly given herself to me today.

With slow, unhurried thrusts, I feel her climax build again. Her walls clenching around the length of my cock indicate that she’s going to reach another peak.

It’s also in the way her nails bite crescent moons into the flesh of my shoulders. And the way she moans into our passionate kisses, feeding me the breath of her essence. I, like a starved man, drink her moans like it is my sustenance.

Breaking the kiss, it’s her face I wish to see as she comes undone beneath me. Gripping the backs of her thighs, my thrusts are deep and purposeful. She stares into my eyes with wanton need glossed over her own eyes. But her gaze is fixed on me as if she sees right through me, beckoning my soul toward releasing inside her.

“I can’t hold on any longer… I’m gonna come…” I husk against her lips.

She whimpers, her walls constricting around my cock as if to milk me. “Come for me, Draco…” she nudges, voice laced with seduction. “Come for me.”

Her wish is my command as my scrotum tightens and forces me to slam into her. Into the far depths of her core, where hot ropes of cum spill out while her walls create a vacuum. I’m staring intensely at her face this time as every last drop is poured out.

And then I collapse my weight onto her as the weight of what happened looms over my head. The sudden desire to protect Lily Turner forces me to wrap her in my arms and shift until she’s cuddled into me.

Her soft, lilting sigh alerts me that she’s fallen asleep. I frowned hard as guilt finally washed over me. I can’t let her risk her life like this.

“Lily?” I call out gently.

There’s no reply, and Lily is sound asleep. Slowly removing my arm from under her, I’m careful not to wake her as I climb off the bed.

Padding toward the balcony, I gather our strewn clothes and dress into my sweats. The cool night air is mildly refreshing as I lean on the balcony rails and stare at the bottom of the island.

This place was never meant for a human. Not with dragons residing on the island. Lily shouldn’t be here.

I should have never agreed to the human mate process. Even if the Cube of Knowledge found my fated mate for me. The fact that she’s human still poses the greatest threat.

To her.

If her body doesn’t accept the gift of immortality, she’ll die. Instead of living forever, Lily could die if she attempted to have my child.

I can’t risk her life; I’m the one who’s supposed to protect her. Prevent her from facing any danger. As her fated mate, I’m supposed to do everything possible to ensure her life is safe.

Glancing behind me at her sleeping form in the bedroom, I know I’ve made a grave mistake. Allowing my heart to win the war against my logical mind, I’ve placed her in danger.

Perhaps I can still save her.

Gulping hard as I enter the bedroom again, I pull open a drawer on the dresser in search of a page. I find a book, tear a page from the middle, and take a seat on the vanity.

Then, I began writing a letter to Lily. Pouring my heart out for the mistake I’ve made in bringing her here in the first place.

I’m sorry. There’s no easy way to say this. Something has changed inside me, and I need to protect you at all costs. I know you can sense it, too; the shift in me. And I didn’t wish to give you any kind of false hope. But I know that you need to accept the truth about who I am. I am a monster, and if you carry a dragonspirit child, there’s a chance that you won’t survive. I won’t risk that. I won’t risk your life for the sake of repopulating the clan.

Forgive me for showing you a side of me that I didn’t even know existed. And that’s the side of me that can never accept doing this harm to you…

Draco.

My sigh is staggered as I put down the pen and fold the piece of paper. I turn on the vanity, leaning forward and staring at Lily as she sleeps.

Time becomes a meaningless construct that I don’t bother to count. Only when the crows outside begin their midnight voyage do I decide to stop watching her like a creep.

That’s what I am, essentially. A monster. A fraud. A dragon who hadn’t considered that she had a life before all of this. A life she was living happily—even as meek as that life may have seemed from the outside. It’s all about perception, and now that I’ve come to my senses, I’ve realized that she’s not cut out for my world.

Not because she’s a weak and fragile human, as I despised her for. But instead, because she’s the opposite. If I’ve learned anything tonight, it’s that Lily is brave.

After all, she bravely surrendered to me. Submitted to my will, unafraid of my true identity and the implications of being with someone like me.

She doesn’t deserve the repercussions of a trial-based experiment that even the Council cannot guarantee.

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