Page 31 of The Dragon King

“So you did it to protect him.”

“I did it for a lot of reasons.”

I waited for him to tell me what those reasons were, but he never did. I didn’t press him for more because his mood had suddenly turned solemn.

There was a knock on the door.

Talon left my side and pulled on his boxers before he stepped into the hallway.

“You’re going to answer the door like that?”

His footsteps receded as he headed to the front door.

I hoped it wasn’t my uncle.

The door opened, and then there was silence.

I continued to strain my ears as I waited for something.

“Her Majesty requests your presence.” It was Commander Luxe.

Talon held his silence.

I could picture that pissed-off look on his face. Could visualize the vein popping in his forehead and the promise of death in his dark eyes. I was instantly mortified.

Talon shut the door in his face then came back to the bedroom. His expression was exactly what I pictured, tinted red in anger.

“Nothing happened,” I said. “You’re acting like a lunatic.”

He ignored me and retrieved his uniform from where it lay on the ground.

“Talon, this needs to stop.”

He turned back to me. “You’d be a bigger lunatic if some woman were trying to fuck me.”

“I’ve seen your concubines fight for your attention?—”

“Our relationship is different now, and you know it,” he snapped. “If a woman tried to take a piece of me, you’d lose it—and I’d want you to. Because you’re fucking mine, and I’m fucking yours.” He gave me a violent stare like he dared me to refute his words, and when I didn’t, he turned back to his clothes and continued to get dressed.

I didn’t pursue the argument, stopped in my tracks because, despite his anger, he’d said the most romantic thing I’d ever heard. Now, I didn’t care if he couldn’t contain his hatred of Commander Luxe. “Come here.”

He turned back to me, eyes still angry, standing in just his pants.

“I said, come here.” I pushed off the sheets so he could see my naked body. He’d already had me so many times over the last few days, but I knew he’d want me again if I wanted him.

He stared at me for a few seconds before he dropped his pants and boxers in one go, his dick hard as I’d expected it to be. His knees hit the bed, and he was on top of me, moving between my soft thighs to give me his big dick again. “You’re mine. Say it.”

I grabbed his ass and tugged him hard inside me. I gasped because it hurt, but it hurt so good. “I’m yours.”

Instead of wearing my armor and sword, I wore one of the dresses they’d given me, sage green, with a pair of sandals.

Talon only had his uniform and armor, so he left the tree house with me, looking like he was about to step into battle again. He even had his sword across his back, and when I asked him to leave it, he refused.

After he’d proven his loyalty to Riviana Star, I let him do whatever he wanted.

We walked down the path together and listened to the birds sing their song. There was a foot’s gap between us, so to any onlooker, we looked like allies and nothing more, not evenfriends. There was no indication of the inferno of passion we’d shared the last two days.

As we approached the royal palace, I noticed how much had changed in the forest. I saw fire damage in many places, and the reduction in the population was painfully felt. Far fewer elves were out and about than there had been before. Despite the birds chirping in the sunshine, the music from the Great Tree was full of melancholy.

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