Page 42 of Smoke and Flame

Aodh’s dragon’s screech rumbled along his skin, but Aodh kept silent.Not that his brother was seeking a response to his taunts.Even if he did, Aodh’s mind was unavailable because it had returned to memories of the last few days with Kai.How many times and ways he’d fucked her.He craved her taste even now as he recalled how swollen and wet her pussy became as his tongue speared her center or he sucked on the tight bud of her clit.She came so quickly against his mouth.

But as much as he hungered for the honey of her pussy, it didn’t beat the feel of driving inside the tight fist of her sex.Whether he was instructing her how to ride his cock by arching her back and rolling her hips each time he brought her down on his hardness, or Kai with her knees spread wide and her plump, round ass high in the air as he drove into her over and over again causing her pussy to quiver and clench twice in her release before he came.

What had his cock twitching now was recalling the vision she made laid bare on the dining table as he fed her and ate food off every inch of her body before he had her ankles locked behind his neck as he slammed into her tight, slick pussy.He’d ridden her hard and long, keeping her sweet sex stretched around his thickness, but she’d pleaded for more and begged him not to stop.Her cries of pleasure had seared his soul’s spine and kept the fires of desire blazing inside of him.His little flame was as addicted to his cock as he was to her pussy.

It had been hard to tear himself away from her and not give in to the need he saw reflecting in her gaze as she sat in the tub.But Aodh knew if he continued to deny his dragon freedom because of her, it would be harder to convince the beast to see her as a mate and claim her.

The massive, flying eclipse of the sun was a jealous fucker.

Hearing his private thoughts, his beast rumbled an agreement in response.

His dragon tipped his massive head down as he glided over the land.Aodh’s chest filled with pride as he saw the lush hills and the vast expansion of trees standing high and tall.Glancing left and right, he took in the dotting of buildings and homes nestled in clearings.His people cared for the territory they had claimed over twenty years ago.Back then, most of the area was still engulfed in radioactive flames or thick dust.Most of the attacks by North America’s enemies had been aimed at the central part of the country instead of the major cities along the coastlines, as suspected.Those enemies abroad had sought to divide the country by land.

No matter the thoughts of any of the world leaders, all of them had been driven underground by their destructive acts, individually and collectively—all their power stripped.

It would stay that way if it were up to Aodh and all preternatural council members.

Come, Aodh.Let us not sailplane like old wyrm.Let’s fly.Liekki’s dragon arched his long neck toward the clouds.Me first.

Aodh told himself that he did not take to the air to play games but to think and convince his dragon to accept Kai.But he watched the force of his brother’s wings as he went higher and higher until he disappeared into the cloud, only tracked by his loud screeching, provoking Aodh to join him.

Unable to resist the chase, Aodh’s dragon shot off after the red-horned creature.Using his keen sight and steering with his tail, Aodh tracked the fast shadow in the clouds.He and his siblings often played this game when they were dragonets and juveniles—when they had freedom.Once they entered adulthood, there were numerous responsibilities before them that kept them from wild abandon.

Dense, white, smoke-like clouds swirled around them, hiding and revealing their beasts.They zipped through the clouds, going higher and higher as they tracked, pursued, and eluded each other.The air was crisp up here, flowing over leathery skin, a balm to Aodh’s dragon’s heated flesh.His dragon inhaled deeply and filled his lungs with icy coolness as he stretched his wings wider, to the point of pain, as he spun three times.He half-played and half-searched when he caught a glimpse right below him of a quicksilver shadow zipping upward fast for an attack.

Aodh’s dragon banked left a moment before Liekki’s beast rammed him along the underbelly.Only to come back around and end up behind his brother.He closed in on the red-tipped dragon and sank his teeth in his tail above the broad speared tip.

“Rrrrrr...”his brother’s dragon’s roar split the sky.

Damn it, Aodh.Let me go.

Submit.

Liekki’s growl erupted in Aodh’s head.He knew his brother hated to concede.Because of that fight, if Aodh were in a battle, the only person he’d want at his side would be Liekki in any form.

Fuck!The caught beast turned his head and snapped once, twice in Aodh’s direction.

I’ll take that as surrender.Aodh chuckled as his dragon unlocked his jaw and released his brother.

They dropped below the clouds and continued flying around the perimeter.When Aodh saw the clearing at the edge of the northern border, his dragon waggled his large head, signaling his brother to set it down.

The two dragons arched their wings high, allowing the air to catch and slow them down as their hindlegs stretched with claws out toward the ground.

Their landing and shifting happened simultaneously.

“Shit, Aodh.Having your teeth mark in my dragon’s ass was not the start to the day I was looking for,” Liekki groused.

“You’ll survive.It’ll be healed before you shift to head home.”Aodh swiped his pack from the ground and started toward a fallen tree.He’d send the building team out to claim it.They didn’t cut down trees anymore but still utilized what Nature brought down.“As a consolation prize, I’ll share my meal with you.”

Liekki arched a brow and pretended to consider the large satchel Aodh hauled.He grinned.“I’d never pass on food Tana prepared.I swear it’s not fair you got the position and Tana.”

The chuckle rumbled up from Aodh’s chest.He knew his brother was not jealous of him leading their thunder, but Tana was another matter.“Well, you should have spoken up.I’d have considered letting her work for you.”

“Bull shit.”Liekki shook his head.“Even when we were hatchlings and youths, you treated her as yours.Making me and our sister request permission from you to ask Tana to do something as simple as fix us a snack.Hell, she was our lessons instructor.”

Aodh chuckled.His attendant’s dragon had barely been at the young adult phase when she started working at the territory school when their sect was in Europe before the Great Catastrophe.She’d been newly mated, pregnant with her first hatchling.For that reason alone, Aodh had felt the need to protect her.

Her mate, a doctor who treated humans, had been struck by a missile while shielding a nursery full of babies.The infants had survived, but he did not.It was why his mother had assigned Tana to him, to help her through her grief.

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