Page 107 of A Kingdom of Monsters

“Why?”

“You have three mates, love.”

She didn't seem to know what to say to that, so I took pity on her. Gripping her hips, I pulled her back towards my face, devouring her until her legs were trembling and she was moaning my name over and over again like a chant.

Finally, I could feel the fluttering of her muscles and hear the change in her voice. I pushed her leg out to the side so I could sink my teeth into her inner thigh.

She screamed from the combined force of her orgasm and the pain of the bite. Her scream was so loud that I was sure they could hear her all the way back at the castle, but I couldn't care less. All I could think about was her blood pouring over my tongue and the permanent mark on her thigh that proved she was mine.

Lonnie collapsed forward onto the ground, panting. I waited a full ten seconds before drawing her back to me and gently turning her to lie on her back.

She blinked up at me, dazed.

“You don't think we're done, do you love?”

She laughed softly. “I need to catch my breath.”

I grinned, satisfied by how wrung out she looked. “Fine, I'll start slow.”

She had whimpered as I grabbed her knees and dragged her towards me, lifting her hips to line them up with my own.

In one long stroke I slid into her, then paused, closing my eyes. She had been so fucking wet and still trembling from her orgasm, it had been like torture to have to go slow.

But I had promised her I would.

I slid back out and in again, moving so slowly that I was certain that after a moment she would be begging me to go faster. To fuck her hard and real, in the way that claimed her just as much as that bite ever could.

Sure enough, after a minute, Lonnie sat up and scrambled back into my lap, straddling me as before. She didn’t ask before she seated herself on my cock, and gripped my hair drawing my face back up to hers for another kiss.

I let her take control then, riding me, rubbing herself and drawing a second shuddering orgasm from her lips.

She moved faster and faster, riding out her pleasure, and finally I gripped her hair and shoved her head down against my throat.

I didn’t need to tell her what I wanted, or when. She already understood. It was instinctive.

So as my stomach muscles finally contracted, and I let out a shout, spilling inside her, she sunk her teeth into my throat.

The effect was immediate.

I had heard it wasn’t always like that, but perhaps since I had known she was my mate for so long, been watching her, waiting for her for so many years the bond instantly snapped into place.

I sucked in a breath and closed my eyes, wondering for half a second if this was the moment it all ended. The moment we found out I was wrong about the bonding in the most brutal possible way, and I simply dropped dead on the spot, still buried inside her.

But it wasn’t. I took another breath and everything was fine—better than fine. For once, everything was good.

I thought that might have been the happiest I had been in a long time. Possibly ever.

Which begged the question, what was still missing?

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BAEL

UNDERNEATH

Adragon. A fuckingdragon.

I’d never seen one before, and I practically vibrated with excitement as I shadow walked up to the mountains. Adragon.

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