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“You are a Dragon Warrior,” he said, wonder in his voice. “And you are mine.”

“As you are mine, mate,” she confirmed.

She watched his dark eyes flare with satisfaction at her claim, and the worry she’d been feeling instantly disappeared. When she clenched around him, his hips gave an involuntary jerk, and he shoved his cock deeper. Even with their passion spent, his cock still felt hard inside of her, but he didn’t seem ready to act on it.

He started to shift his weight off of her, but she wrapped her arms around him, holding him in place. She liked the feeling of their bodies twined together and wasn’t willing to give that up just yet.

“Stay with me.”

“I don’t want to crush you,” he whispered lazily, nuzzling his nose against her neck.

“You are fine,” she assured him, stroking her hands along his strong back to ease the tension from his large frame. “I like feeling you on me. Just relax and rest. You will need it once the conversion begins.”

Before he could ask what she meant, he was already drifting to sleep. She gave a little push with her magic to make sure he slid under peacefully, then she let out a contented sigh. Her body was deliciously sore in all the right places, and she felt happy and whole in a way she had never felt before.

Her memory had returned along with her magic, and she knew exactly what needed to be done now. But first came her mate’s conversion. They were a unit now. A true bonded pair, and nothing and no one would ever come between them. Being mated was a new beginning for both of them, and she looked forward to a bright future with him by her side.

Chapter Seven

Zack was dreaming.

He became aware of that as soon as he opened his eyes and glanced around. Awareness, even in his unconscious state, wasn’t something he’d ever experienced in a dream state before. At least, not to this level.

But he knew what he was looking at didn’t really exist.

He was standing on a beach he’d never seen before on an island that hovered in the sky. The light from the big red sun was muted, creating a pink haze over the land. Pale pink sand felt sugary soft beneath his bare feet, and the dark red water lapped at the shoreline in gentle waves and cascaded down into a flowing waterfall that seemed to fall off the edge of the world.

The beach was surrounded by a grove of strange trees with silver bark and vividly glowing blue flowers growing on its branches. Some of those flowers had blossomed into blue fruit that hung from some of the branches in long bunches. They looked like grapes, but the bunches of fruit were glowing as if they had been injected with some sort of radioactive material.

Overhead, a mixture of pink, purple, and orange gas clouds spanned across the dark sky. Beyond the clouds, an array of shimmering stars could be seen far closer than should have been possible. It was as if the planet and space collided with no atmosphere in between. The view was so amazing that it couldn’t be real.

“It is real,” Jecca countered as she walked up to join him. “Just not here and now.”

She was wearing a flowing black gown that sparkled in the dim light. It made her look like a goddess, but that wasn’t surprising. She would look beautiful in anything she wore. He realized he was wearing a matching tunic shirt and flowing pants. While the outfit looked more casual on him, the material felt luxurious against his skin. He wasn’t sure how he could feel clothing in a dream.

Then again, nothing was making much sense at the moment, so he didn’t waste time trying to figure that out.

“This is a planet I like to visit that is close to my home world,” she explained. “It is a good place to retreat to for a little solitude. I know there are many things we have to take care of back in the real world, but that can wait until we are ready to leave here.”

He wondered if he could control the strange dreamworld, and wished for somewhere they could sit and relax together. Suddenly, a giant bed appeared on the beach decorated with black satin sheets and a gossamer silver canopy. He gawked at the creation, a little stunned that it had actually worked.

“Did I do that?”

“Aye, you did.” She chuckled as she took his hand in hers and led him over to the bed. “Come, let us rest together.”

He waited until they were snuggled together on the bed before he said, “So, how exactly am I dreaming of this planet when I’ve never been there?”

“I am able to show it to you through our connection. Since we are fully bonded now, I have complete access to your mind, as you do mine. It is the way of Dragon Warrior mates.”

That gave him a jolt. He’d known she was special, but he hadn’t realized she was a Dragon Warrior until they had bonded. It was odd to have someone occupying his mind, but it didn’t feel intrusive to have Jecca there with him.

Actually, it felt like she belonged there.

She was his mate, after all.

Jecca had been right about them figuring out what was going on after they’d had sex. He wasn’t exactly sure why it worked, but he was grateful it had. Now, he remembered everything. While they had been stuck in the fantasy world created by the damaged power cell, he’d truly believed that they had been superheroes living on Earth.

That type of integration into an illusion was dangerous, and he hadn’t been able to tell what was real or fake until she had shown up. Since he hadn’t had a chance to select a superpower before shit had gone sideways, he guessed he hadn’t gotten that perk when the power cell blew. But now he was mated to a powerful Dragon Warrior, he had no need for superpowers.

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