Page 59 of Magic and Mayhem

I couldn’t help wiggling as I thought about another spanking.

Daddy barked out a laugh and smacked my ass. “No spankings until I get more information.”

Ugh.

“I don’t know why…I forget…but before we came here, my kind of dragon lived in the forests, so we had two forms, a big one and a small one for going between the trees.” Big all the time would’ve made us stuck.

“Did you have human-looking forms too or were you just dragons there?” Daddy didn’t sound nervous, just curious, so I knew Boyd had been worried for no reason. “I wasn’t sure how everyone looked so human.”

“We looked almost human, I guess.” That was hard to explain. “I saw old pictures of my great-great-grandfather one time and he looked more not-human than me now, but it wasn’t much. Ears and stuff, maybe. My science teacher in school said the mages made us look more human when we first got stuck here and human genetics changed things too when we married them and had babies with them.”

I’d paid more attention in school than I’d realized.

What else would Daddy want to know?

“I don’t think anyone ever said why we had forms that looked almost human but magic is weird.” That was what adults had said a lot when I was growing up, so I didn’t feel bad saying it to Daddy.

He chuckled. “So it’s not just genetic differences? There’s actual magic?”

“Yes.” Going back to kissing his neck since that was more fun than trying to remember high school science, I loved every happy sound I got from Daddy. “I think my teacher said we all started out as mages and then at some point in evolution we split off and used our magic to shift. Something like that. It’s why most of our magic is shifting and not the flashy kind of magic the mages do.”

“Like the grumpy guy with the garden who you were going to talk to about the paint.” Daddy was nodding to himself before I could even tell him how smart he was. “I knew there were two different kinds of aliens.”

That made me giggle.

“I don’t think most of my people see themselves as aliens.” He wasn’t wrong but aliens were little green men, not dragons and mages. “If you want to make someone crazy, you could call them an alien.”

It’d be fun to watch.

His chest jerked but he didn’t laugh out loud that time. “Got it. Not terribly polite but it might be interesting if I wanted to make someone insane.”

My nod made him think again. “Oh, but it wouldn’t be offensive?”

“No, Daddy.” Not that I’d ever heard. “I just don’t think anyone sees us that way.”

“Good.” Hugging me tight, he kissed me again. “I don’t want to end up offending someone inadvertently. If I’m going to piss people off, I want it to be deliberate.”

He was so cute.

“I’m going to have a lot more questions for you, but right now, I just want to make sure there isn’t anything I really need to know. Something about us bonding or something biological I need to know before we get any more intimate?”

When I shrugged and went back to kissing Daddy’s ear, he growled like a big strong dragon and spanked my bottom. “Don’t distract me.”

Bossy Daddy.

But it’d gotten me another spanking, so I wasn’t going to complain.

“I don’t know.” I pouted when he made me sit up, but I knew better than to do it for too long when he looked all stern and serious. “Um, what did you ask?”

He almost laughed, but he was very set on keeping his stern frown. “Is there anything I need to know but haven’t asked. I don’t want there to be any surprises after I make love to you for the first time, or I don’t want us to end up married and me not know how it happened.”

Oh, like Lorne’s books.

“Well, let me think.” Books weren’t real life but I’d never explained the difference between dragons and full humans before, so I wasn’t sure what would be important. “I don’t remember anyone ever saying how we used to get married, but now we just do it the human way from wherever we’re living at the time.”

What else?

“My grandmother used to tell stories of things like fated mates, but even she admitted that she didn’t know if it was real or not, so that might just be an old wives’ tale.” I scrunched up my face when Daddy’s eyes got wide.

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