Page 215 of The Forbidden Dragon King
For Aurelius, these are his best friends.
His found family.
My heart aches.
Then another wave of heat hits me, and I groan, falling back into Daire’s arms.
Daire’s expression is unreadable. “I lost everything and everyone too. You’ll survive. Leave tomorrow for tomorrow. Right now, we have an Omega in heat who needs us. Hadrian got us out of that bloody shitshow because he cared about saving your mates. He wanted you to have this.”
“I’m not Hadrian,” Aurelius grits outs.
“Aren’t you?” Daire reaches up and cups Aurelius’ cheek. “He’s notyou.Isn’t that how resurrection works? But still, you have his power inside you. How about youstop leashing yourself and see what you’re truly capable of, aye?”
“I just need,” Aurelius’ voice is thick with tears that he won’t allow to fall, “to lose myself in this rut. Help me forget for the next twenty-four hours. I wish…” His voice wavers. “I wish that I would never wake up from the rut.”
Daire’s expression hardens. “In this cave, there’s only us. Forget everything else.”
“Just us and the moon,” I whisper.
Daire draws his thumb down Aurelius’ cheekbone, before twisting to me and capturing my lips again.
My skin tingles, when I feel Aurelius’ shadows exploring over my skin.
Aurelius kneels up, but his shadows are winding over me.
Daire quirks his eyebrow at Aurelius. “Get her ready for us.”
Aurelius’ frosty gaze meets mine. “Do you want my knot?”
My pussy clenches in anticipation.
I’m so empty that I ache, desperate to be filled.
I nod, eagerly.
“Words.”
“Yes, Alpha.”
“What will you do to earn it?”
Daire snorts in amusement, but I ignore him. I know what Alphas like to hear.
“Anything.”
Lie.
Aurelius’ lips thin; he knows that I’mplaying the game.
I want to make him forget by wrecking him as much as I am. I unleash my pheromones, filling the cave with my heat scent.
Aurelius’ pupils dilate. He falls forward, caging me.
He’s both touch starved and has never spent his rut with an Omega. If he thinks that he’s holding onto the control here, he can think again.
“I want you,” he sounds as desperate as I am. “I want both of you. I lo?—”
He catches himself.
