Page 81 of Bite Me

The rogue rolled his eyes. “Getting yourself killed will not help her. I’m not sure anything can.”

“I have to try.” Azynsa had such a look of determination on her face, they all knew they weren't leaving until they helped her rescue the Black Dragon's daughter.

The sooner they did that, the sooner Ky could get Jada back in his arms, back in his bed, back on his cock. Then he’d work on getting her back in his heart. “Then, let's find Match because he's on the hunt for her too.”

Mermaids and Other Mates

Jada had been overwhelmed with emotion when she first spotted Ky in the cavern. When he had opened himself up again and his life force rejoined hers she wanted very little more than to strip him naked and get it on with him right there on the floor of hell. But she'd held back because he had.

She understood he had almost died. That much she knew was true. But it didn't explain why he was acting distant now. There was something bigger wrong.

Was he mad that she had put herself in danger to come find him? How could she not?

Even now as they tromped through the flaming hot tunnels of this volcano he didn't look at her the way he used to. There was something he was holding back from her. A piece of himself.

Their relationship was pretty new, and she had spent most of it mistrusting him, but she would show him now that that was over.

She was his, fully. She wanted nothing more than for him to belong to her in the same way.

It was only fair of him to be wary. After all, it had been because of her failed attempt to use her allure that had gotten him captured.

She hoped she wouldn't have to use it again.

Their little rescue party searched more tunnels than Jada knew existed in the world, with Ky using his tracking senses to lead them. Now was not the time for her to have any sort of conversation with him. But if it looked like things were going bad again, she wouldn't wait to make sure that he understood she was fully in. Not just in for the relationship, but in love.

She had told him the last time they were together, but it was in the throes of passion. People said a lot of things during sex. She'd heard it all. Lots and lots of declarations of love. She'd never returned a single one, until him. And it wasn't just because he gave her great orgasms.

She didn't want him to think that his skilled use of his fingers, tongue, and other sexy parts of him were the reason she had said those three little words.

Portia walked alongside of Jada, her head hanging low. This was one hell of a bed she'd made for herself. “Jada, do you think there's any chance that Jett and I will have what you and Ky do?”

Jada hadn't seen Jett and Portia interact all that much, but he did seem to be continually pushing her away. In all of the other mated couples, including herself, the soul shards had been an integral part of the relationship. The one that Portia wore did not glow.

She had stolen it for Jett. But Jada didn't understand how that could work.

The soul shards contained a piece of each Dragon's soul. Jett didn't have a soul shard. Did that mean he didn't have a soul? Was that what being a black dragon meant?

Maybe that was why both Jett and Kur-Jara were trying to take other dragons’ soul shards. Perhaps, the Black Witch, Ereshkigal had a spell that would… what? Take these slivers of souls and transfer them to someone else?

The thought gave Jada a chill.

“I don't know, Portia. I only partially understand this dragon mating business, myself.”

“Do you think that the mating is all that brought you and Ky together?”

Was it? Not a chance. The White Witch had intervened, but somehow Jada knew that she and Ky would have found their way to each other anyway. She didn't believe that love could be born from pure coercion, and that is what fate seemed like her. It may have thrown them together, but it was Jada's choice to love Ky. She hoped it was his as well.

“No. But it helped, as did the White Witch. Did she visit you too, is that how you knew Jett was your mate?” She didn't add the despite not having a soul shard and the fact that Jett didn’t seem to actually like Portia all that much part.

“I'm pretty sure I would have had a cow if I had met the White Witch. Are you saying you did?”

“Yes, although only briefly. Ciara and Fleur both did as well. She helped both of them find new power within themselves.” Jada found herself a little jealous of that. But she was grateful that Ninsy had helped her.

“Geshtianna is the one who introduced me to Jett. She said she could tell that I was a dragon's mate. Jett is a dragon. Plus the sex was phenomenal. Did you know that you can get a whole new level of energy from an orgasm? I wasn't even hungry for a week afterwards.”

See, this was the girl talk Jada had wished she could have had with Portia before she discovered the betrayal. “Yeah, I had that experience too.”

Portia looked between Jada's face and Ky's back. “I bet you did.”

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