Page 7 of Surge of Storms

I hide my face behind my hands. “Can we please not talk about it? I’m sorry, okay? I know girls like experienced guys who know what they’re doing, and I’m… not that. If you regret it, I get it. I–”

“Granger, no,” she says, pulling my hands away from my face. Our gazes lock. “I don’t regret it. Not one bit. And I kind of love that I’m the only one you’ve been with. It’s a major turn on.” As if to emphasize that, she rolls her hips on top of me with my dick still firmly inside of her, and I swear I feel myself hardening once more.

She leans forward and bites my lower lip. “You have no idea how turned on I am.”

“By me?” It’s hard not to sound skeptical.

“By you,” she tells me confidently, rolling her hips again and leaving me breathless.

“I just can’t believe you’re the storm dragon. After Zane’s description, I never even imagined… I mean, none of us did. Aydan thought he was going to be–”

Aydan!“Fuck!” I start to pull her off of me in a panic.

She grabs my shoulders, staying on top of me, and says, “What? What’s wrong?”

My eyes meet her breathtakingly beautiful green ones. “Aydan. He’s going to kill me.”

She shakes her head. “No, he won’t. Granger, listen to me–”

“He’s been in love with you our whole lives. I always knew nothing could happen between us. I was okay with that. I accepted it. I knew that I could never hurt my best friend like that. But one minute as a dragon, and I’ve destroyed our friendship. I’ve destroyed everything.” I sound hysterical, even to my own ears.

“Granger.” She touches my face, stroking it until I look at her. “You’re the last dragon in my harem. You and I have been together every single lifetime, and Aydan has always accepted that. He’ll accept it this lifetime too.” When I don’t respond, she cups my chin. “I mean, if he can accept Evander and Zane, don’t you think he can accept you?”

Her words are calming, but I don’t know what I think. “You don’t get it, Sam. The way I feel about you, the way I’ve always felt about you, it’s wrong. It’s wrong when Aydan is in love with you.”

We stare at each other for a long moment before she says, “Are you in love with me?”

I feel sick. “Don’t make me say it.”

“There’s nothing wrong with being in love with me.”

I laugh, feeling heartbroken. “What’s happening between us is because of dragon pheromones. You don’t feel this way about me. You don’t find me attractive. When things calm down, you’re going to regret this, and Aydan’s going to hate me.”

She looks at me in complete shock. “Granger, all this dragon stuff does is intensify what we already feel. It doesn’t make us have feelings we’ve never had.”

It’s like I’m dying inside. “You’ve never seen me as anything except a brother.”

Her breath is hot in my ear as she leans closer. “I’ve had a lot of thoughts about you that weren’t brotherly.”

I swallow. Hard. “Really?”

She leans back and nods. “I couldn’t stop thinking about us kissing in the snow.”

I couldn’t either.“You always acted like… almost like I was a girl.”

There’s something sad in her eyes. “I needed a safe place to land, and you were always that. I didn’t want to lose that. Besides, there was never a scenario where I saw myself ending up with multiple men. If there had been, I would’ve been masturbating to some very different things over the last few years.”

My hands tighten on her hips. “Really?”

She shifts off of me and lays down, tugging me on top of her. I don’t know what to say or do, but I obey her, covering her much smaller body with my own. “You know, dragons show they belong to each other in a lot of different ways.”

“Oh?” I ask, my heartbeat speeding up.

“Yes.” She leans up and nips my throat, then bites her way down it. “One way is like this.”

“Sam,” I groan.

“Everything is okay. I promise you. Aydan will understand. And me? I couldn’t be happier that you’re my big, strong, sexy alpha dragon.”

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