Page 91 of Captured By the Dragon Warlord
Driok inclines his head, looking over my form with an interested eye before he turns like Dalox and launches himself into the air. Whatever we were, whatever we became just now, that time is over, and he isn’t going to work with us again.
I need to get Scarlett to the clinic, to put her in a pod, to bring her back from the brink after whatever the shadow did to her, but I’m not sure there is time. I search for any way there might be to bite her, to give her my venom, but it isn’t possible in this form.
By shifting, I was supposed to save her, yet Scarlett is not saved. I pull her against my neck, needing her warmth, her skin against mine.
I need her. I need Scarlett. I cannot be without her.
“Dexx?” Her soft voice whispers in my ear, and a hand is on my cheek.
I’m not sure I dare look at her because I don’t think I can save her.
“Dexx.” My name on her lips is like nectar, the sweetest of sweets. It shouldn’t feel this good when I can’t even save my mate who makes me feel like the only creature in the entire universe.
“Dexx, look at me,” Scarlett demands.
I look.
I am no longer shifted.
She is in my arms, her face pale, stark against the tumbling waves of her pretty hair. Her eyes are filled with pain.
“I need to claim you, little ember,” I murmur, marveling at how tiny she still is in my grasp, but not so small I can’t give her what she needs. “It is the only way.”
“Then claim me,” she says. “I want to be yours.”
I can feel the venom gathering in my glands, my fangs extending, the dip in my stomach as my cock hardens.
“You are already mine.” I lap over the skin on her neck, desire spiking through me. “You will always be mine, as long as the stars burn and the universe is endless. You belong to me and only me.”
SCARLETT
Ithought there would be pain, more pain than I feel already with my great Sarkarnii warlord cradling me in his arms as he bites down on my neck.
But there is nothing, not even a pinch. Instead there is a warmth which blooms slowly through my body, chasing the aches in my joints, easing the cramps in my muscles, and smoothing over the burning on my skin. I don’t quite know why Dexx was so concerned about my envenomating him, given his venom makes me feel incredible.
Like I could take on the worlds.
Like I am a Sarkarnii. A huge brute of a creature who can change form at will. Is this what it is to be powerful? To be a warlord?
“Scarlett.” Dexx groans my name against my skin. Something hard is pressed against my abdomen, and I don’t need any exploration to know what it is. “My sweet, filled mate.”
Desire spikes within me. Dexx inhales deeply before he releases me from his jaws, his forked tongue flickering over my skin before he inspects me with an element of pride. My abdomen swirls with need.
“Do you require my cock?” he states.
“If we’re being blunt, yes.” I stare back up at him as mirth twinkles in his good eye. “Although you’ve just brought me back from the brink and filled me with venom.”
“Does it feel good, little mate?”
I contemplate my answer. “Yes.”
“Do you want me to make you feel better with my cock?”
Less contemplation, even if it will make for a very smug Dexx. “Yes.”
“Then I will make you feel better.”
When he moves, Dexx really moves, and in no time at all, we’re back in his sector, and he’s pounding the passage to his quarters.
