Page 98 of Smoke and Lure

When her arms started to wobble, he pulled his mate's body down to his.He helped her stretch out alongside him, cradling her head against his chest, soothing himself with the feel of her heart beating in time with his.He ignored his raging cock, his beast had been satisfied with giving her pleasure.

“What about you, husband-mate?”she sighed, her fingers stroking with intent down his chest and headed straight for his stiff shaft.

Aodh took hold of her hand, pressing it to his abs.“I’m fine, little flame.Giving you satisfaction is my pleasure sometimes.”

Not that he didn’t want to roll her beneath him and slide his cock in to the point the folds of her entrance would kiss his base, but his pregnant wife had enough for now.

He’d lost count of the number of times they’d had sex last night and that morning.They were in his hoard room because after their bath that morning, his dragon desired time with their mate.Aodh had carried an exhausted Kai into the hoard room and shifted to appease his dragon.The beast held Kai in his foreclaws while she slept, his massive form curled toward her and their child.

When she’d awakened, stiff and favoring her back, Aodh had shifted back to his male form, and what had started as an innocent massage, the erotic moans Kai made as he rubbed her lower back had him kissing her.The taste of her sweet kisses had incited foreplay, which led to him lifting her above him and seeing how many times he could get her off with his tongue.The answer was three.

“Hmm.”Sated, she slid her top thigh over his.“Can we stay in the hoard room for the rest of the day?Hide away from the world a little longer?”

He thought Liekki, who hated doing Mckenna paperwork and handling the minor issues of the Thunder that arose daily, would lose his mind.Usually after long stretches in the Mckenna office, his brother would disappear for a day or two, volunteering to cover back-to-back flight patrols.

“Whatever you desire, little flame.”

They lay there for a moment, silent while he caressed her swollen stomach.

“Do you hear the babe?”Kai covered his hand.

“Yes, my love.”The small chortles and chirps the little one made inside her were faint, and he knew he could not hear them as clearly as his dragon and Kai, but still his acute hearing picked up on enough to assure him that his youngling was growing well.What he enjoyed was feeling the movements the child made under his hands.

“You and Tana, perhaps even my mother will help you prepare for our child.”

“There is time.”

He lifted his hand and brushed her wild, thick mane from her face.“The time will come sooner than you think.”

She frowned at him.

“Speak with Tana,” he declared before his curious mate could ply him with questions.There was a lot Kai needed to know and it was best explained to her by the women in his Thunder.“If you are up to leaving the hoard room, I have a surprise for you.”

“A surprise?”Kai sat up, leaned over his chest and gazed down at him.“Why are you just now telling me?”

He chuckled as she moved with dragon-like agility and rose to her feet.He lay there for a moment and admired the vision she made standing naked in the hills of his hearth-stone, her full curves and large, scale-marked, belly captivating him and stealing the fire from his breath.

“Come on, lazy Mckenna, we have a surprise to see—”

She squealed as he vaulted up and scooped her into his arms.

“Lazy?I think not.”He planted a loud smack on her already kiss-swollen lips, then carried her out of his dragon’s private space.

Aodh continued holding her through the closet, the door shutting behind him, until he got to their room.He set her down on the end of the bed.

The scent of food wafted into their room from the dining table and he knew Tana had come at some point while they were in the hoard room.

“Wait here.”He moved to his side of the bed, furthest from the fire, then stooped to the floor to reach under the bed.

“What are you up to, Aodh?”Kai watched him and attempted to peer over the bed and see what he was getting.

When he rose with a long, slender box in his hand, she looked from the package to the side of the bed.“Has that been there all this time?”

“I will not reveal my secrets,” he teased as he walked back toward her.Sitting down beside her, he held the box on his lap.“This is for you.”

“Aodh, you have already given me so much with the ring, wedding, my sister being there with me...and this.”She patted her stomach.

Her full, ripe breasts were too much of a temptation, so he reached out his hand to caress them.“I’d easily give you the world, little flame.Now open the box.”

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