Page 38 of Love Bites Extra Hard

Ohh.

Yes, please.

“I’ll need a swimsuit, unless your unreasonable possessiveness is going to allow me to swim in the nude,” I warned.

He pulled a bundle of fabric from his pocket and lifted it up, dangling the skimpiest bikini I’d brought off his fingertips. “I stopped in your room on my way down.”

“That is a very dangerous swimsuit, Tal.” I snagged the dark red fabric away from him and tucked it in the pocket of my borrowed hoodie.

“Dangerous how?”

“Clementine calls it my Vamp Killer swimsuit. When I wear it, the male vampires can’t look away. One of them almost drowned once, a few months back.”

Talon’s chest rumbled. “Fortunately for them, they aren’t here.”

“It might kill dragons, too.”

“Then it’s a good thing I’ve already warned them all to vacate the area.”

“I thought you weren’t the king.”

We stepped around a corner, and he chuckled. “You don’t have to be a king to have sway with the dragons. They know we have a siren here, and they know who your sisters are. They’re not going to push you.”

“You and Stella are doing that enough for all of them. I’ve never used my magic this much in my life.”

“Yet your eyes are brighter now than they were when I met you on that roof.”

“When we met, I thought you were just taking me to force me to mate with you,” I reminded him.

“There’s still time for that.”

I snorted, and he flashed me a grin.

We turned another corner, and my eyes widened when we stepped into a warm, humid room. There was a large, oval pool nearby. Off to the side of it, there was a small, round one the size of a normal hot tub.

More of them spread through the room around it. Some were much bigger than the oval, and some were smaller than the round one. A few even looked big enough for a dragon. The massive room was more than large enough to hold a few of them.

I kneeled beside the oval and dipped my fingers in the water. My eyes closed as the hot water rolled against my skin. “Are these hot springs?”

“Yes. The water comes right from the mountain. Our dragons widened some of the pools a long time ago, but they exist naturally.”

“When my magic mingles with this water, no one’s going to want to leave it.” I pulled his hoodie over my head.

“I’ll still kick them out for you.”

“Keep talking like that, and I might think you’re after my heart.” I gestured with my finger for him to turn around.

He reluctantly did so, giving me his back.

I changed into my bikini quickly, and peered over the edge of the oval pool.

It looked surprisingly deep.

I wasn’t sure if it connected to the rest of the pools—but I was about to find out.

While his back was still to me, I dove in, taking a deep breath of water. It didn’t make sense for our lungs to breathe it the way they did air, but that was siren magic for you.

Nothing was scientifically sound, but it worked. And that was what really mattered.

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