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He chuckled. This time out loud. “Because I wish it to be so.”

“And do you always get what you want?” she challenged him, wondering if she could be quick enough to get to one of her ice axes.

“Always, and the answer to your question is no.”

“Can you read my mind?”

“Not really, but I can feel the anger bubbling up in you. You are a warrior, as am I. If our positions were reversed, that would be my first thought as the haze from our mating began to subside.”

He made it sound so easy. Not wanting to examine her feelings or question what they meant, she pushed at him, barely able to dislodge him from her body.

“This is not what I came for,” she said as she rolled from beneath him.

“And yet it is what you needed and received, mate. You should have shown more care with what you sought.”

Caye couldn't deny the truth in his words. The connection between them was unlike anything she had ever experienced. It was as if their souls had recognized each other, drawn together by an invisible force, and now he had seen them bound to one another.

CHAPTER 4

ANDREAS

He had no idea how long he’d been trapped within the ice block. Andreas wondered if she knew that only his fated mate would have been capable of freeing him. He’d felt her presence from the time she’d started up the mountain. There was no doubt that when she had time to think about it, she was going to be pissed. At this point she was a bit dazed and confused; Andreas intended for that to work for him. He probably shouldn’t have claimed her with the claiming bite of his kind, but it was a far gentler way to ensure other dragons knew she was taken and to imbue her with the power of being a drakaina.

“I mean it,” she said, tromping back from the front of the cavern with her backpack and fishing out clothing and her spare boots. “You try to encase me in one of those…”

“I told you,” he said starting towards her. He meant to comfort her, but as she was still naked, his cock began to rise. “That was not the way of my kind. Lesser dragons did that in order to make the transition easier…”

“Shit,” she snarled. “Now I’m stuck up here with you, or I risk going out on the side of this god forsaken glacier and having some kind of transition hit me.” She walked up and punched him in the nose.

Andreas backed off. “I suppose in your mind, I deserved that.”

“Ya think? Did your kind forget about all the laws regarding consent?”

He grinned at her. “Don’t tell me you actually believed that? Males of all species have been turning females, including humans, with little to no consent for as long as time has existed. It is the way of most males and all fated mates.”

“I’m not your…” she paused. “Okay, maybe I am, but I don’t want to be, and that should have been enough to make you stop.”

He came to her, catching her fist as she started to throw another punch and using the inertia to spin her around so that her lovely, lush buttocks now nestled his ever-hardening cock. “You are far too smart to believe that. You are angry because either you never thought it would happen to you, and given that you are part hellhound…”

“I am all hellhound.”

Andreas shook his head and rubbed it against her, enjoying how he could already detect his scent mingled with hers. “Part hellhound and part dragon. As I said, given that you are part hellhound, you had an expectation that you couldn’t be forced…”

“So you admit you forced me.”

“Not necessarily, which brings me to my second point. I didn’t ask for your consent, and what I believe is bothering you is that you were raised to believe only another hellhound could do that. But what has you so angry is that you enjoyed it far too much for your liking.”

His mate brought her elbow back sharply into his breastbone and when he loosened his grip and bowed forward, she brought her head back into his nose, this time breaking it. He reached up to straighten his nose and stop the bleeding. It would heal in good time.

“You do know dragons like a little fire in their mates, right? We shall do fine, you and I.”

“We are going to do nothing. I freed you…”

“Something only my fated mate could do. Part of why I was banished and cursed to this icy grave was because I didn’t always treat females with the respect they were due.”

She looked at him incredulously. “Is that supposed to make me feel better? Did you turn someone else against her will? And by the way, was there a reason you fucked me without even knowing my name? Do you know it now?”

“No, but I suspect you’ll tell me, and no, I’ve never turned anyone else. You should know being encased in the ice was only part of the curse. The other part was that I was in a kind of twilight sleep, which gave me plenty of time to reflect on my life. You will find the dragon that stands before you is far more noble and honorable than he was before.”

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