Page 55 of Don't Fae With Dragons

“Oh, don’t be grumpy,” Mili groans. “It’s too early.”

I guffaw and retort, “I would’ve thought you’d enjoy being up early, little faery.”

She laughs her bright, tinkling laugh, and I bite back a smile. As she starts down the hall, she calls back to me, “I just said that to make you feel better. You look terribly exhausted.”

“You sure know how to flatter a guy,” I grumble. I walk in long strides to keep up with her as she hurries down the hall,shaking my head at her breakneck pace. “Easy, tiger. No rush, is there?”

At my comment Mili shoots back a vicious glare at me, then turns and walks even faster.I bark out a disbelieving laugh and pick up my pace, easily passing her. She scowls at me, and I wink back.

“Not my fault you’re so short,” I grin, walking backwards as I step in front of her.

This time, it’s Mili who rolls her eyes. “You’re just obscenely tall,” she replies, chin in the air. She sidesteps to move around me, but I slide in front of her again. “Oh, will you quit?” she asks, genuinely exasperated.

“Hmm, I don’t think I will.”

She growls and starts walking faster, still trying to get around me. I’m too tempted not to tease her a little bit, so I stop directly in front of her. She crashes into me, and I grin down at her.

“You wanna play nice now?” I whisper to her, voice low.

Her face is flushed with irritation, but I can hear her heart pounding from our sudden closeness. She scowls at me and crosses her arms, slowly shaking her head. I cock my head to the side, ignoring the sight of her breasts pressed together. Apparently, this foils her plan, and she growls again and tries to bolt around me.

I catch her easily, laughing as I wrap my hands around her waist. I expect a bit of playful resistance, so my heart leaps into my throat when she practically turns to quicksand in my hands.

She whirls around to face me, her livid expression at complete odds with her reaching hands. We stand there asecond, Mili’s heart pounding in time with mine, my smirk causing her scowl to grow even wider.

“Sorry, baby,” I murmur. “You’re just too fun to tease.”

“Well stop teasing!” she cries out.

Without another thought, I crash my lips into hers before I can overthink and stop myself. She immediately groans and pulls me in tighter to her, and I let one of my hands fall to her ass and squeeze,hard. She cries out, a hungry, guttural sound, and I swallow the sound by covering her mouth with mine.

She pushes her tongue into my mouth before I have the chance to, kissing me like a woman starved, and the urgency of her motion fans the flame in my lower abdomen into a raging wildfire.

I growl into her, stepping forward until she’s pressed into the wall. She hitches a leg over my hip, and I press my hardness into her until she gasps from the pressure.

“You see what you do to me?” I hiss.

She whispers back in a mixture of fury and passion, “WhatIdo?Youdrive me crazy!”

“Well, the feeling’s mutual,” I growl, giving in further to my carnal lust as I feast on her lips again.

She moans loudly into my mouth and scratches her nails down my back. I shiver and hold back a groan, feeling my arousal spread from my core through my arms and legs. She tightens her leg around me and my groin presses further into the apex between her legs.

The friction causes her to whimper, and I start to grind slowly onto her, quickly feeling myself building up to what will be a messy, poorly-timed orgasm. She sucks on my bottom lipand it’s almost enough to send me over the edge, right then and there.

I pull back from her, panting heavily, eyes wild. She looks suddenly concerned, and drops her leg quickly. She places her hands on my cheeks as I try –and fail –to catch my breath.

I realize I might be having a panic attack.

“Max, Max,” she whispers, leaning in close to me. She touches her hand to my chest and presses mine to hers, forcing me to feel her breathing. “Shh, it’s okay. Feel my breathing. Focus on it. Good. Now, focus on yours, okay? In and out, nice and easy. Good. Good.”

How in the Realm she accomplished that, I don’t know, but I manage to find my breath again. I don’t remember getting into this position, but I’ve ended up slumped on the floor, my back to the wall and legs pulled into my chest. Mili’s hand is still over my heart.

“I didn’t mean for that to happen,” I whisper, still a little breathless.

Mili, gods bless her, actually laughs a little. “Oh, Realm’s Mother,” she says. “That was a memorable way to end our first kiss.”

Her words catch me so off guard that I laugh too, and peer up to see her grinning at me. “I’m sorry if I scared you,” I exhale, grin fading.

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