Page 13 of Iced Heat

“I wouldn’t think about her while I was sucking your dick.”

“I don’t believe you,” I shook my head. “I remember last night.”

“So you’re going to make me deal with her alone?” his voice pitched high, almost a whine, but not quite.

“I’ll stay here if you want me to. I don’t think I’ll be much help. You’re fighting over abstract things and while I do think there is a solution, I don’t think it’s me or Rosemary.”

“Ugh! Her name!” he whined.

“Are you going into heat, mate?” I said, scooting to the end of the bed and motioning him over to me.

“I swear to Juda and all the minor flight gods that if you grab my balls to figure it out, I’m going to take a chunk out of you!” He growled but came to me despite his reservations.

“Uh… First of all, your sister is almost here. So, I have zero plans of grabbing your balls when we can’t follow up and I don’t know who’s honking your balls, but they’re not meant to be grabbed like that.”

“What are you going to do?”

“Trust me?” I asked him, waving him a little closer.

“Yes, but….” His words trailed off as I leaned in and sniffed his stomach just below his navel. My mouth dropped open, and an icy fire spread through my veins. My already hard dick, stood up a little more, then a lot more. I swallowed a groan.

“Do you want to tell her to fuck right off now?” Sequin laughed.

“A little bit but I have more self-control than that.”

“Is it just me doing that to you or am I going into heat?” he asked, running his fingers through my hair and pressing my face into his stomach.

“Both. There is no just when it comes to you. Is it too soon to say that?”

“We’ve known each other before. I don’t know how much Teddy has told you about our mum and Nelum but I know the lore is true. I’ve had more proof than any dragon ever needed to know that.”

“I believe it,” I nodded. “I was there when Nelum came through. Teddy tossed his supper back through the door.”

I nuzzled lower, inching toward his dick. I would’ve kept going if Daliah’s voice didn’t cut through the room like a rusty knife through smooth butter.

“Good morning!” she called out. “You didn’t answer your phone, but I have it on good account that you had a head’s up I was coming over. I’d like to try this again, Sequin. Rosemary would like…”

“Hey!” I called back. For a second, I considered actually telling her to fuck off. Sequin thought he’d like for me to do that, but he would’ve never forgiven me. “I know you love the girl and all. I get it. I’d skin everyone on the planet alive to make your brother happy. I’d turn the whole globe into a big ice cube for him to skate on if he asked me to. But for a minute think about what the fuck you want and I’m gonna quit shouting and we’ll answer thedoor because I’m about to blab someone’s personal business all over the damn hotel.”

“SHUT UP!” Someone growled from next door.

“YOU SHUT UP, YOU---” Daliah started but stopped.

Yeah, we were definitely the problem.

“DON’T MIND THEM!” Sequin bellowed back. “IT’S MY SISTER AND MY TRUE-MATE! I ONLY MET HIM LAST NIGHT AND THESE TWO ARE DRIVING ME CRAZY! I’D PREFER HIS METHODS OF DRIVING ME CRAZY BUT THEY DIDN’T TAKE A FROST-DAMNED VOTE ON IT!”

A chorus of congratulations rang out through the hotel cooling down some of the tension that had built up. I might be an alien on Earthside but the concept of cutting newly met true-mates some slack on social norms wasn’t, fortunately, for us.

I chuckled despite myself not wanting the others to overhear. The chaos was catching. I’d argue and shout for him if that’s what it took to make Sequin feel sane. The ice inside me growled threatening to become solid and the fire in my hair sizzled out. I rolled my shoulders and swung my feet off the bed.

“Good morning to you too,” Sequin rolled his eyes as he opened the door, stepped aside, and made a grand gesture of sweeping arms to motion his sister into the room. Daliah rolled her eyes right back at him.

“Jackass,” she mouthed at me as if we had some secret past that I didn’t know about.

“Right back at you, sister dearest.”

“What?” Sequin glanced back and forth between us confused.

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