Page 25 of Bite Me

“Leon, help me. I’ll do anything.” What that really meant was I’ll come back to the coven and never leave again.

“Your word is your bond, daughter.” Leon assessed the situation in an instant and faced the great dragon.

The Black Dragon might be the King of Hell, but his realm did not rule an incubus as old and powerful as Leonard, a king in his own right.

He pointed a long finger at the dragon. “What business have you with my daughter, Kur-Jara. Go back to your corner of Hell. This is mine.”

The Black Dragon laughed in the super creepy way serial killers did. “She is yours no more, incubus. She belongs to my world now. You feel it too. Her soul has awakened. I tire of your attempts to keep her from me.”

He spread his great wings, blocking the remaining light from the waning sun. From the shadow a whole new army of demon dragons appeared. They sprang up like scarabs looking for their next meal. Minions with razor sharp teeth to eat their flesh.

There wasn’t enough rhubarb goo in the world to defend themselves.

Leon turned his allure on, radiating power, not attracting, but repelling the beasts. They screeched and shrank back from the force of his will. “I won’t relinquish her. Her soul is unclaimed, not yours. You’ll never have it. Ever.”

The pit of her stomach hollowed, being eaten from the inside out. Leon and the Black Dragon were talking about her and her soul. She wasn’t even sure she had one. Leon had been keeping a lot of shit from her. That would have to wait.

Right now, she needed to put this plan to keep Ky safe into action. She’d let the big boys argue over who owned what part of her all they liked, as long as it kept them distracted.

“Ky, can you move? I need you to shift. I can’t move your big ole dragon butt.”

He didn’t reply. If his chest weren’t moving, she’d think he was dead. “Ky, please. Say something.”

“Mine.”

“Your what?”

A blue shimmer rippled across his scales and he shifted back into his human form. He was covered in blood, and maybe a little jam. If they survived the rest of this day, she’d do everything she could to make up for almost getting him killed. Even if she had to do it from inside Leon’s coven.

“You.” Ky bowed his head, set one hand on the ground and pushed himself up.

Jada scrambled to support him, putting his arm over her shoulder to keep him upright. “We’ve gotta go.”

“Not yet.”

“Yes, yet. You’re about a centimeter from dying.”

Ky touched her face and smiled, blue eyes dancing like he was having the time of his life. He took a deep breath and shouted, “Incubus, rogue dragon. I claim this woman. I claim her soul. She is mine.”

Well, great. Just what she needed. Damned alpha males. As soon as she got him to safety, assuming he didn’t fuck it up, she’d be telling him off for thinking he could—

Ky tipped her head to the side and bit down on the exposed part of her shoulder. He broke the skin and a rush like no drug on the planet could provide struck her entire body.

Her mind went haywire and her body went oh-hell-yeah. An energy coursed between the two of them, spinning and swirling from his system to hers and back. Their two became one, linked, together, complete.

Something shimmered across her skin, filing her with light and love and lust.

He released her, licked over the wound and blew an icy cool over it, soothing the skin. The bite had taken less than a second.

She reached up and touched the flesh where he’d bitten her. It was tender, sore, and her fingers grazed across new raised skin.

What the hell had he done to her? She glanced up at him and the lust in his dark blue eyes hit her like the iceberg that hit the Titanic, skidding across her psyche, sinking her. The wounds on his body had healed, the color returned to his skin, and a new power surged around him.

“And I am yours,aroha,” he whispered.

Fear and worry and despair, and a big burst of how-dare-you churned up from the dark hidden places inside where she kept them. She’d belonged to Leon, the Black Dragon wanted her, and now Ky had taken it upon himself to make her belong to him.

Jada reached out and slapped Ky across the face.

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