Page 16 of The Dragon's Stone Hearted Mate
“Uh… You know that I didn’t choose him, right? I think we’re sort of friends or might be in the future. We only met today on the way here.”
“You made an interesting choice in companions,” I told him.
“Why do you say that?” he asked.
“Merely because of who he is. Never mind. It’s not important. I’m sure he will be a good friend to you,” I assured him, smoothing out his hair. “He will not be like your brother. He will be more annoying than him, like Teal.”
“You saw that, huh?” he asked, running his hands up and down my arms.
“I saw your whole life but that only left me with more questions.”
“We have forever,” he said. “Well, we have until my door shows up at least.”
“That is forever,” I whispered and kissed him again. Sometimes the only way I could shut up his brain was to kiss him. I slid my hands under his head as we kissed. Sooner or later, he needed to return my claiming bite, but I wasn’t in a rush. I’d waited all this time after all and beneath me his cells vibrated with sorrow from his musings. “We are forever.” Iwhispered between kisses. “That is if you still want forever with me?”
He shifted positions under me to cup my face in his hands. His gaze met mine as he searched my eyes for some clue to our past. To me, we’d always be us, no matter how much time had passed or how much the form that carried him around changed. I hoped that was what my mate saw when he stared into my eyes.
“It takes you this long to find an answer?” I asked him, trying not to smirk. I already knew the answer was yes. He’d never have let me sip from his well of memories if the answer was anything else.
“I am looking into forever,” he said. “My dragon knows you. He---”
“He what?” I asked, leaning into the warmth of his big, strong hands.
“He wanted to--- Er--- He wanted to see your butt earlier. The first time you fell over.”
“Are you blushing?” I asked as my dragon’s cheeks turned a lovely, barely-there shade of pink.
“I am not,” he said, his voice dropping deeper to compensate for the fact he was one hundred percent indeed blushing.
“Blushing about my butt. That sounds like you,” I nodded. “Tell him that he will see that and everything else too, eventually.”
He kissed me again and I leaned in against his warm body, cursing the lineage of whoever invented the idea of wearing so many clothes. He even had a bag on his back like the lion always seemed to. Was he turning into the paranoid sort that the lion was? For the sake of my sanity, I hoped he wasn’t.
“Morvan?”
“Yes?” he asked between kisses.
“That is your name? I heard it correctly?” I double-checked.
“Yeah, I’m Morvan,” he said and slid his tongue back inside my mouth.
It was nice to know he enjoyed kissing as much as I remembered. For a long time, I gave into his warm, hungry mouth. Reaching for his hands, I moved them to my ass. He’d been a gentleman the first time we met too but his thoughts were warm to the touch and hungry. If he needed a little encouragement to follow them, I was happy to provide it. For the first time since I returned to my primordial element I was hard in only one place and very slick in another.
“Wait? You remember before?” he asked, leaning back as far as the grass allowed so that he could meet my gaze.
“It was a very long time ago, but I remember some of it, yes,” I nodded, raising back up to straddle him again.
He moaned under me, and it took every ounce of self-control I had not to wiggle all over his hard, throbbing dick. Still, if he wanted to discuss the past, it was better than him musing on some haunted future, wasn’t it? Maybe. The past could be just as haunting as the unknown tides of the future.
“Did we have kids?”
“We do,” I nodded. “I assume they are somewhere out there. Probably guarding their own little domains. I mean, as far as I know, there are not many dragons like them. Dragon like you and rock like me. They were happy last I knew. I think I’d know if they were in trouble. That might’ve ‘woken’ me up too.”
Morvan blinked and sank back inside his head. He thought in circles about what all of it meant until I interrupted to remind him that our children were now ancient and it was very unlikely that they would need him to fulfill a fatherly role. Maybe a super-great grandfather if they came looking for us but that was unlikely too. They were all scattered across different planets as far as I remembered.
“Do you want to forget the past?” he asked me.
“No, but I don’t think it should cause you concern either. If it moves into the present we will greet it then,” I smiled at him. “Seriously, relax if you can. Or should I kiss lower? Will that make you stop thinking so much? Or do you want to bite me? Or perhaps go into the cabin and moan at the lion’s ghostly enemies?”
