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I wanted to respect his space, but this was too much. I curled into him, taking in his scent. It was earthy, warm, soothing. I sighed, finally relaxing completely since this whole trip started.

Then, I was finally able to fall asleep.

Chapter Eleven

I snuggled against the hardness at my back. It was hot and oddly comfortable. When I shifted a different kind of hardness rubbed against my lower back, line and thick in a rope of iron.

Oh…

My brain jumped into a panic as I shifted my hips. Not away from it like I should have, but into it. His cock twitched.

Yes, I was clearly losing it. I was playing with fire, or I would be if dragons’ had fire.

“I’m so sorry, Rayna,” Zilon whispered in my ear as he twisted his hips away from me, even as his hands fanned over my belly protectively.

“It’s fine,” I squeaked, desperately trying to keep myself quiet. “It’s just not what I had expected waking up to.”

Not expected, but clearly wanted. My cheeks turned red with embarrassment, and I couldn’t stop looking. I wanted to see, to get a better sense of him.

“I didn’t expect to react this way–” Zilon almost sounded hurt, although his hand didn’t move from my stomach. If anything he pulled me closer.

“I don’t mind it.” I whispered, trying to fight the swing of my hips. They wanted to move into him, and I couldn’t stop them.

“Rayna,” Zilon moaned in my ear, his hand growing warm as he pressed into me, and the thick rod of him burrowed in the crack of my ass.

“Oh, what’s this? Zilon’s little man got hard? Couldn’t handle yourself against a little girl like her?” Landers laughed from somewhere over us as he Zilon’s wing pulled back, revealing us to the faint dawn. Landers was laughing until he saw us there, saw Zilon’s hand around me, saw my hand on my thigh, Zilon’s tail wrapped around my legs as he pulled me closer.

One second he was smiling, the next he was turning as red as his scales.

“What the fuck are you doing?” He sounded disgusted.

“Shut up, Landers. Don’t pretend the pull isn’t there and wouldn’t have affected you the same way.” Zilon was scuttling away so fast you would think I was about to burn him. Maybe I was.

Why did everything feel so hot?

“The pull is powerful,” Philit said softly, staring at me.

I blinked, not sure what to do with his attention, especially since it was running through me like a shock of cold to my system. They all were. All their eyes. I needed to go over to him, to touch him, touch them all. Taste them. Lick them.

“Wait. So you are saying you all feel a pull to me?” I shouldn’t be so surprised seeing as I felt the same way.

I blinked. He blinked. My heart stirred and my stomach twisted. Thankfully, he looked away from me, the spell between us shattering.

“A dragon and rider connection is strong. The pull will be there between all unmated dragons and riders, I imagine. Which is why we need to ignore it and get her to the academy, keep her safe, but we must not give into our instincts.” Philit’s look was hard as he glanced at both Landers and Zilon.

“Pull?” Landers scoffed, glaring at me before he turned back to Philit. “Both of you are weak if you are going to succumb to… that.”

“That?” I snapped, fairly certain the one word had sliced me through. “That!”

I was yelling, but Lander’s didn’t even turn to me. Where the hell did that come from? Yesterday he was begging me to ride his cock.

“Yes. That.” It looked like the word hurt him as much as it did me, but he rampaged on. “Letting a little girl like her affect you like that just shows how weak you are. Philit, your wing is almost healed. We should just leave her here. This is her journey, not ours.”

“What happened to wanting to explode in my pussy?”

“You went off and slept with someone else.”

I stepped back. Damn. I hadn’t expected that.

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