“It occurs to me that since he’s been studying my greatness, he might have knowledge of my kind that could prove interesting. However, unlike you, I doubt this Malone will be as accommodating, so we’ll want to place him somewhere secure.”
I leaned my head against Maddox’s chest as Leo replied, “Since we knew of the dragon propensity for collecting people as servants, we incorporated a few chambers for them to live in here with you. Only one is currently finished, though, as in working bathroom, bed, and stuff.”
“He doesn’t deserve that luxury. You shall have the completed room. He shall get one of the others, which is more than he deserves. Bring him, quickly now before my servants begin flinging off their clothes,” Abaddon ordered and my boss obeyed.
“Does he really think we’re going to fuck right here, right now?” Maddox murmured.
“Well, you know he’s got a good sense of smell.” And I’d never been hornier. Apparently, surviving whatever the fuck this day could be called had me wanting to reaffirm the fact I was alive. “I know it’s not the right time or place or?—”
“Shut up,” Maddox growled before scooping me up and carrying me into the computer room. He closed the door but left the shield open on the window.
It seemed rather exposed to me, but my lover wasn’t done. He dragged me into the elevator and pressed me against the wall.
“Ooh, now this is a first for me,” I murmured as I tangled my fingers in his hair to drag him close for a kiss.
“I plan for us to have many of those,” he replied as he took my mouth and breath away.
We didn’t waste time. My pants went down, and Maddox unbuttoned his. His strong hands held me aloft as he pinned me on his dick.
That lovely thick cock of his. There’d been a few moments over the past hour where I feared I’d never touch my lover again. For all we knew, thiswouldbe the last time. After all, there were a lot of bodies that would have to be handled and explained.
But I refused to think of that right now. I abandoned myself to the excitement and thrill that Maddox’s touch always brought. The intense pleasure he knew how to bring. The way we fit so well together, rocking and grinding and kissing and… coming.
The earth moved when I orgasmed. Technically the elevator did as we accidentally bumped the up button. Either way, I climaxed hard and the words I’d never before uttered burst out of me. “I love you.”
“Not as much as I love you, babe.”
I loved him even more when he volunteered to handle the charred bodies scattered outside—with a green-faced Leo helping.
Despite the storm having died down, I remained inside the ranch house where it was warm and watched the boys work. Abaddon perched on my shoulder, not something he’d be able to do for much longer given his growth.
As I watched Leo heaving as he went to drag a corpse only to have the crispy arm break off, I murmured, “What happened to keeping Leo prisoner?”
“Oh, he’s going back down to the habitat when he’s done. His punishment has only begun. However, he does seem sincere in his desire to please me. Doing this is part of him proving his loyalty.”
As Maddox trudged by, dragging a garbage bag, my lips pinched. “You killed a lot of folks today. We could have a problem if anyone comes looking for them.”
“Leo assures me these aren’t the kind of people that will be noticed missing. They were chosen for being discreet and undocumented. He also claimed that the mineshaft they are using to dispose of the remains is deep enough no one will ever find them.” A better plan, as it turned out, than us sticking the bodies in the burning barn which would have led to cops asking too many questions.
I gnawed my thumb.
“You’re worried,” my dragon commented.
“Yeah, because I know a few got away.” According to Abaddon, three had fled in a vehicle.
“Actually, they didn’t. On my aerial reconnaissance to check out this mine and clear the opening of snow, I came across them in a ditch just past the driveway.”
I almost dreaded asking. “And?”
“They won’t be a problem.”
“Abaddon, don’t tell me you torched them!”
“I would have, only the storm took care of them for me. The fools kept their engine running despite the snow piling up around their exhaust pipe. They died of carbon monoxide.”
My mouth rounded. “Well, shit.” While their deaths would most likely result in a knock on the ranch door by the cops, if we played our cards right and insisted we knew nothing, it would most likely be chalked up as a mishap. It happened more often than it should.
“I think this property will suit me well as a starting point for the beginning of my dominion,” Abaddon declared.