Page 83 of So I Dared a Dragon

He’d settled behind me, and his strong hands massaged the tired muscles in my shoulders, the pad of his thumbs working up my neck to my head. Gently, he moved my head to one side and then the other. The movements were slow and firm, hypnotic. Between my dragon and the steam, I’d melt faster than the bath bomb.

He slid his hands down my chest, and I let my head fall back. Our lips caught in a messy kiss as he circled my nipples. They pebbled on contact. I moaned into his mouth when he pinched one of them.

“Do you like that?” he asked as he did it to the other one.

“So much more sensitive.”

“I liked it too. Because your breath sped up and your words are labored.” He gave me another quick kiss. “So beautiful. But I think it’s time to see what else is more sensitive now too.”

Gently he moved me forward and slid into the water, sending water cascading over the side of the tub. My body had turned to putty and it took everything I had to turn and rise on my knees.

I took his shaft into my hand. Even his scales felt more sensitive against my skin.

“You want my cock already?” He quirked a brow.

“I never don’t want it.” My muscles throbbed with need.

“Good. I was gonna try to drag this out, but I’ll let you in on a little secret. I can’t. Ever since you shifted, it’s taken every ounce of self-control I have to keep myself from having you. I thought I’d never get you alone.”

“Now you can have me any way you want me.”

His big hands palmed my ass, talons threatening to break the skin. He lifted me easily, positioning me to slide down on his cock.

Flames exploded in my vision and I was so thankful that we were in water. The inferno that burned inside me threatened to explode.

He picked me up, sliding me up and down his shaft, hard and fast. I grasped his horns, steadying myself, and the hotel room, the Vegas strip, faded away. We were in a place I’d never been before, but it was so familiar. With the Red Rocks of the mountains rising around us, I would bet every dollar on the blackjack tables we were in Sunset Springs. Or the place that would become the town I would call home. I was wearing that little white dress, sitting with my sisters—one of them might have been Darcy, but I could’ve been hallucinating, high on my dragon—when I saw him. A dragon I’d never seen before.

It was his coloring that had stood out to me then, just like it had now. I’d never seen an oil slick before, but the way the purples and greens melted into each other was exquisite. Or gazes caught, and he was whisked away from me.

I’d vowed I’d find him, even when I was told he was from a faraway thunder.

“Aarix,” I cried out as his thrusts brought me over the edge. “I remember that day too.”

“You do?” He grunted, and his balls swelled against me. I cried out.

He lifted me off him and my hand trembled as I brought him to his climax. We were both breathless, boneless, but somehow, he managed to lift me from the tub, swaddle me in a fluffy towel, and bring me to the bed.

“And I remember being taken away from my thunder.” I rested my head against his chest. His heart beat just as wildly as mine. “There are dragons I love trapped in that mountain.”

“I know, sunshine.” He kissed right between my horns. “And we’re going to make sure they’re free.”

thirty

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Calista

“I want to say this feels like old times, but that means something completely different to you now,” Bibi said as one of the makeup artists worked on her brows.

The entire Mating Game crew had come to Vegas to support Bibi while she recovered from her injuries from our desert showdown with the Montana pack. Not that she actually rested while she healed. This was Bibi we were talking about. She held production meetings from the bed in her penthouse suite and spent much of her free rehabilitation time in the hotel spa.

Which was where we got ready for our triple date. Bibi and Hugo would be joining us tonight, along with Luca and Darcy, who were becoming smitten with each other.

“I agree. It feels like it used to when we’d get ready to go out for the night.” I practically purred as the hairstylist ran her fingers through my hair carefully to avoid my horns and break up my curls. My body was still so sensitive after my shift, which Aarix took full advantage of. “Which I missed so much. I’m still wrapping my head around the rest of it.”

“Can you tell the viewers what changed for you since you became a dragon?” Marissa asked.

“Let me try to put it into words.” I closed my eyes, letting the commotion around me fall away. “I have a lot more scales now. When they first appeared, they felt like something that was on my body, but now they feel like a part of it. And horns.”

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