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“Not if I don’t have to.”

He chuckles. “I just found you and already another man has stolen your attention,” he jokes, and I can’t help but laugh.

“Someone is coming to fix a nursery for him. I was planning on having it done, just not quite yet,” he explains. “I do want us out of the apartment until they are done. And we need to work on getting your dragon fully shifted. You need to build your bond so you can summon her at will. If you ever end up in a situation where I’m not there to protect you, I need to know you can. We can go to the lake house for a couple of days.”

I know what he is saying is true, but I also know I don’t want to do this. Having a dragon is dangerous. As Liam explained, others will want me. If I can keep her hidden, then we will all be safe.

“Of course you have a lake house,” I say rolling my eyes and trying to change the subject.

“You can’t hide her forever,” Liam says softly, pulling the thoughts from my mind and keeping us on the task at hand. He gently cups my face in his palms until we gaze into each other’s eyes. “We need to prepare for the inevitable.”

Nodding, I place Ares in the bassinet beside the couch before making my way to our room. I can’t very well shift into my dragon in a sundress. I will need to change into something moreappropriate. Angela smiles softly as I pass her, and I know if the situation were different we would be friends. I wonder if there is something we can do for her, help her find her way to a better life. It’s something I can discuss with Liam later.

Grabbing a set of cutoff jeans and a t-shirt, I quickly change before packing a bag with the essentials, just in case. We will be leaving the Capital today and it may be a few days before we return. I know nothing of the place we are going to except that it is near a lake and I don’t know what I will need so I toss in random items.

I hear him approach before his hands grasp my hips.

“Are you sure this is what you want? Do you really want to raise another woman’s child?”

“I’m not sure of much right now,” I reply, leaning back against his chest. “But I do know, without a doubt, that Ares is your son and we are in a position to give him a better life.”

His lips skim along the column of my neck, raising goose bumps in their wake. His touch sets me aflame and already I want to beg him to fuck me. His erection grinds against my ass and I push back. His hands lift my t-shirt over my head before dropping it to the floor, leaving me in my cutoff jeans and bra.

“Liam,” I whisper. “There are people in the house.”

“Do you think you can be quiet?”

I shake my head from side to side. I may not have much sexual experience, but I know the sounds I make when we are together are out of my control.

“Try, little mate,” he rasps, undoing my shorts and sliding them down my legs. “I need to feel your pussy clamp down on my cock.”

The sound of his zipper and belt is loud in the enclosed space of the closet. I know I should stop him, that we need to get out of the house and the Capital, but the words never leave my lips.

His cock spears into me from behind, my body falling forward into the clothes hanging from the rail. For a moment I feel like I am going to lose my balance before my hands grip the pole above my head. There is nothing sweet about this. Liam is using my body to slake his lust—and mine if I’m being honest. He drives his cock deep into me before withdrawing and doing it again and again, each plunge lifting me higher off the ground until I am standing on the tips of my toes. I fight to keep my moans locked inside, not wanting to be heard, but some inevitably escape.

“Quiet now, Mate,” he commands before landing a blow on my left ass cheek. “Your moans are mine and mine alone.”

My body convulses around his length, the bite of pain and his possessive words pushing me over the edge, milking him as I bite down on my arm to keep my pleasure hidden.

“Fuck, yes,” he mutters, his own orgasm rolling through him as his knot inflates and locks us together before his teeth sink into my shoulder once more.

A second orgasm rips through me, the pain and pleasure melding together and becoming something more. His knot holds me in place as I buck violently against his hold, taking every drop of pleasure he offers before my muscles finally relax.

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Liam

It’s been three hours since we all loaded into the car and drove away from my apartment. I am taking us into the countryside where we have a family cabin beside the lake. Since my father passed away three years ago, I haven’t been out there so I don’t know what state it is in, but I do know it is far away from everyone and it will be a safe space for Seline to let her dragon out.

She stares out the window as we drive, a small smile gracing her features while Angela and Ares sleep in the back seat.

I have a son.

Holy fuck. How did everything become so complicated so quickly? Last week I was one of the most eligible and powerful bachelors in the Capital, and now, well, now I have a fated mate and she is the first female dragon in a thousand years. And the woman in the back seat is someone I never thought I would lay eyes on again but now have a son with.

The only saving grace to this whole situation is the fact that my dragon is calm and accepting of all these changes. He rarely likes or welcomes change but he is being very receptive. I have not been this grateful for something so simple in a very long time.

Turning off the main road, I take the uneven dirt track that leads between the pine trees to where I know the cabin is located.

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