Page 3 of Stripped to the Scales

Axlin rested his palms against the door with his back to me. The muscles in his fingers strained as if he fought against something. The muscles in his back drew taut and then relaxedbefore he turned around to face me again. Those shiny blue eyes caught my gaze, and he flashed me a grin that wasn’t for the stage. That one was only meant for me. He crossed the room in long strides and stood with his legs on either side of mine. He ran his fingers through my hair, sending a chill down my back. Then he kissed me again, long and slow. His tongue danced inside my mouth until I kissed him back, sucking at the tip of his tongue. I could’ve kissed him forever, but that made no sense. I didn’t even have being drunk as an excuse for the fact that if he tried to rip my clothes off, I wouldn’t stop him.

“I’ll be right back,” he said, stepping away.

I opened my mouth to speak, but he’d already disappeared into the room adjacent to his dressing room. I almost poked my crew, but water ran in the next room, and I let out a sigh. I couldn’t reach my phone in my pocket all tied up like this, but maybe I didn’t need it. My heart pounded in my chest. My dragon sat upright on his haunches inside his inner sanctum.

“Hopefully he’s not the sort who takes an hour in the shower. Your fingers will probably go numb by then,”my dragon observed.

Taking my inner beast’s words as a warning, I curled and uncurled my fingers a few times. The rope bit into my arms, but didn’t cut off the circulation, thankfully. I was still hard and slick and by the time the bathroom door opened I wished I brought extra clothes. Mine already smelled like sex despite having never been taken off.

Steam billowed out of the bathroom casting a hazy glow over all the discarded clothes in Axlin’s dressing room. He stepped out of the bathroom naked and hard. A few beads of water rolled down his bare skin, having been missed by his towel.

“I’ll lick him dry,”my dragon whispered into my thoughts.

The steam carried his scent now. The water must’ve washed away whatever the Starscale version of pheromone blocker spraywas. He was mine. MINE! My heart thumped against my ribcage hard and fast. He had smelled me before I smelled him. He had smelled me when I sauntered into Sprinkles with Melon on my arm.

“Did they all know?” I asked, feeling like an idiot as soon as the words left my mouth.

“You’ve got to learn how to workout the signals of our flight link, mate,” he grinned, leaning against the bathroom doorjamb on one arm. “I thought you knew. Thought that was why you played along.”

I opened my mouth to talk about all the discussion around culture back on Earthside before I flew off into outer space on the Medwin 2. Only that might’ve been boring and boring Axlin was the last thing I wanted to do. Instead, I blinked up at him. I knew this would happen somewhere on the Starscale worlds. The black star on my chest said as much, but for a moment I couldn’t wrap my head around it. Axlin grinned at me as he watched the thoughts roll across my eyes.

“You must like being tied up,” Axlin chuckled.

“You left me like this,” I laughed, my fingers trembling now that I knew who he was and who he’d be in my life. I traveled across the galaxy to meet him and now my brain was refusing to function and making an ass out of me.

“They’re not strong ropes. Couldn’t hold a horse,” Axlin laughed. “Maybe you just like waiting on me.”

He crossed the room and squatted down behind my chair to free me. A scuffle sounded in the hallway, and he stood up, both our heads turning toward the door.

“Fucking Moonys,” someone shouted outside and I sprang to my feet. I had pinged the guys to pay attention after all. Then I went silent on them. Shit! Shit! Shit!

Axlin beat me to the door and didn’t seem bothered by wrenching it open naked and half-hard.

“Castor?!” It was Sunny’s voice that reached my ears first.

“He’s not that tied up right now,” Axlin chuckled, and I ducked under his arm as Sunny drew back his fist.

“Oh! Shit! Were you trying to tell us you met him? It felt like a distress signal,” Sunny said as Teddy caught up with him.

“It’s cool, Max,” Axlin waved away a dragon in a security uniform. “Family squabble, apparently.”

Teddy turned his back to the door flushing at Axlin’s naked body and his cock still half hard. For a second I wondered if he forgot the black cod scale no longer adored his crotch, but this was the purple district and nudity was the norm.

“Can we have a minute?” I looked from Axlin to the security guard still waiting in the hall.

“He yours?” Max asked Axlin over my head.

“All mine it seems,” Axlin smirked. “Let them know for the calendar.”

“If I hear one angry shout, they’re both out of here, Ax,” Max said before walking away.

“If you yell at him I’m okay with it,” Axlin said to me. “If he yells at you, well, let’s not see that happen.”

“Do NOT threatenmydragons,” I turned to Axlin. “I am the captain of the Medwin 2 and what happens between me, and my dragons is none of your business.”

Axlin held up both hands as he stepped back into his dressing room.

“He’s inside now, Teddy,” I sighed.

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