Page 7 of Tease Me

“What’s wrong, babe?” He tilted his head to the side and rubbed her back. “Did I do something you don’t like? I’ll learn your body and what you need as fast as I can. I promise.”

His eyes twinkled with need and even in the heat of their make-out passion he was being sweet and sensitive to her needs. Fleur almost gave in. No one’s eyes had ever glowed for her, not like this.

Sigh. “We can’t do this.”

He nuzzled her neck and whispered into her ear. “Do what? Have sex on the countertop? I’ll carry you to your bed.”

Yeah, right.

“Don’t be ridiculous, you can’t carry me. And no, I mean this.” She waved her hand between the two of them.

He lifted her into his arms and took several steps across the room. “I can carry you, and I will. Where is your bedroom, my sweet?”

Fleur’s fear of breaking him and her ass when he dropped her spiked like a flowering cactus, poking her from the inside out.

“Holy basil. Put me down before you drop me.” She flailed until he set her feet back on the floor.

“I liked having you in my arms, but if you don’t, I’ll get over it, as long I can have you in my arms like this.” He pulled her to him and gently kissed her.

He’d gone from raging need to sweet and gentle in the blink of an eye, and she wanted him even more for that. Just one more kiss and then she’d be satisfied.

“Whoa, sorry. Covering my eyes. Sorry.” Zara’s voice broke through the thick need in Fleur’s brain. “But I’m not sure you should be macking on this guy. The two of them aren’t even strippers.”

Double sigh. “I know. They’re dragons, or at least this one is.”

Fleur stepped out of Steele’s arms and straightened her top. He moved beside her, and put a hand on her lower back, all possessive-like.

That felt entirely too good.

Zara threw her hands up in the air. “What? We all thought they were just strippers. Why didn’t you tell us? Did my mate put you up to this.”

She jerked her thumb in her dragon’s direction. Uh, no, she shook her head. The dragon, a dragon, not her dragon. “No, of course not. I just found out a minute ago Steele here was a dragon shifter.”

Heli popped into the kitchen giving Steele the stink-eye. “My stupid over protective man-child, oh, I mean mate, sent them. I’m sure he thought they’d be safer than strangers or something dumb like that.”

Galyna joined them and she did not look happy either. Although, when Selena came in she looked more humored than mad.

“Kosta put you up to this?” Galyna asked, glaring at Steele and folding her arms across her chest, tapping her foot. She tapped it any harder and there would be a hole in the linoleum floor before long.

“Uh, yeah.” Steele lifted an arm and rubbed behind his neck.

“You’re not strippers?” Galyna, who was the least violent of the bunch had daggers coming out of her eyes.

He addressed Fleur with the save-me-from-your-angry-friends look on his face. “Iama dragon, and I did tell you I was not a stripper.”

“Strippers or not, you two can get the hell out of our party,” Zara said.

Galyna poked Steele in the chest. “And tell Kosta he will have to find another way to rain on our parade.”

“Yeah.” A resounding chorus came from the rest of the ladies.

Fleur bit the inside of her lip to keep from laughing. Her friends were so damn serious, but she thought it was cute and hilarious that the men had tried to keep their women in check by sending these unsuspecting dragons to the pre-mating party. She wasn’t disappointed in the least at the choice Kosta had made.

“Those fools never liked the idea of this party in the first place. So, I say we make it a tradition,” Zara said.

Jules came into the kitchen leading Daxton by his ear. The dragon actually looked like he was having fun. “Hey, ladies. I swear, Kosta said this was a party with a bunch of horny women. That was it. Except the part where he said not to touch any of you five, and asked me to report back to him what went on here and to make sure the you didn’t get into any trouble.”

Heli rubbed her hands together. “Oh, he is getting his ass kicked when I get home. He is not allowed to spoil our fun.”

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