Page 21 of Sass Me

She examined his face, trying to see through his façade. “I do. I’ve been waiting my whole life to see you, to know you, to be with you. But, you’re not you.”

“You’re only seeing what you think you’re supposed to. Look closer, not just at me, but at yourself.”

She frowned and glanced down at her chest and arms. Except her skin wasn’t its usual tanned bronze and it wasn’t her skin. She was white and was covered in scales.

Plus, her arms weren’t even arms. Well, they were, but different, she had claws, or talons like a bird of prey, where her fingers should be.

Behind her, not only had her butt expanded, she had a fucking tail. And wings. She had giant white wings.

Her jaw dropped so far open, not only were the flies going to get in, so were the hummingbirds, Andean condors, pterodactyls, and jet airplanes.

Jesus, Mary, Zeus, and Hera. She was a dragon.

She glanced up, and a familiar green dragon, whose eyes matched his face now, stood before her, wrapping her in his wings.

He nuzzled her chin with his own, pushing her jaw back up and closed.

Suddenly, she was ultra-aware of everywhere his body touched hers. From his jaw, to his wings keeping her warm and safe, to the gentle, but exciting caress of his tail along hers.

“But, I’m not a dragon. Am I?”

“I think this is just part of the dream. A vision from the White Witch.”

As soon as he said that, a shimmer rippled across her skin and the scales faded into her own darker skin. Her hands and arms reappeared and so did her legs and butt.

What didn’t reappear were her ugly pajamas.

She was still wrapped in Steele’s dark wings, but now she was human and a stark naked one at that.

Steele’s dragon tongue licked along his teeth like he was going to eat her up.

“What are you going to do to me?” She had a mouth again and the words hung between them in the air.

The same shimmer rippled across Steele’s scales and he shifted back into his human form. But his scales gathered and formed the tattoo on his shoulder and arm.

“I’m going to love you.”

Just like that, her heart melted and the reticence she had for being with Steele burned away in the heat of his words.

She didn’t know yet if she loved him, but she wanted to.

He laid her down onto a soft pile of leaves and grass, kissing and licking at her throat. “This is where I will mark you so the world can see you are mine.”

She wanted him to bite her now, but somehow knew it wouldn’t be the same here as it would in the real world.

He kissed his way down her body. “I doubt this will be the only time I’ll dream about how magnificent your tits are.”

His tongue circled one nipple, and his fingers played pinch-and-tease with the other. Each lick and nibble sent little bits of ecstasy coursing through her and pooling between her legs.

His mouth stayed glued to her chest, but his hand wandered down, making lazy circles over her stomach, tickling across her belly button and then skating between her legs.

When his fingers met the wetness there, his head popped up and he grinned at her.

“You’ve been wet for me all night, haven’t you?”

Not the whole night. There was the hour before he arrived at the party, and the three minutes he’d been dead.

She shook her head.

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