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“Mine,” she said again.

She bent forward and sucked as much of his length inside as she could take, holding him deep before drawing back and flicking her tongue along the underside of the head.

Kei groaned. He’d been hard all night and now her teasing mouth was more than he could stand. The wet lick of her tongue, the steady suck of her mouth drained the blood from his head. It wasn’t talent that tempted him—it was pure desire. She loved what she was doing and the power she had over him. It should have startled him, even frightened him, but he knew he was safe. In her control, he was safe. He braced his legs and watched her pink mouth slide the length of his shaft. The dragon’s voice resonated in his head as she tasted him, as she stared up and the smile of pleasure glowed in her eyes. This was the image that had allowed him to come at the waterfall that first night—the reality was way beyond the fantasy. Her fingers gripped his thighs, tiny pinpricks of sensation as she increased the stroke of her lips, moving him deeper into her mouth.

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She pulled back for a moment. He opened his mouth to growl a protest but stopped at her words. “You taste so good.” Lorran licked her lips. “I love the feel of you on my tongue.”

He punched his hips upward, desperate to return to the moist heat of her mouth. He couldn’t seem to control his hips.

He groaned as her lips once again closed around him, sucking him deep. The sounds of her mouth pulling on his cock only made the deep aching need worse and better. And her groans. She moaned like a woman caught in her own pleasure. The rise of his orgasm was sharp. He was coming. He thought to warn her, give her time to pull back, but the words were tangled in his mind, wrapped around the need to come in her mouth and have her take him. Moving without thought, he buried his fingers in her hair and held her. He convulsed as the climax burst on him and he released his seed into her welcoming mouth. His head fell back against the pillows. She kept sucking, draining him. A light brush of her tongue tickled the end of his cock.

Long moments passed before his eyes uncrossed. As his breathing returned to normal, he pushed himself up on his elbows. Lorran sat between his thighs, the material from her nightgown flowing over his legs.

She smiled as she traced random patterns across his thighs. As if she sensed his observation, she looked up. And licked her lips.

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Chapter 7

Kei watched Lorran as she prepared dinner. He loved watching her. It was in these quiet moments, after the lust had been satisfied, that he was able to consider the future. And was strangely content. He would die. That was the one inevitable part of his future. It gave him a certain freedom. He’d worked on his final papers, instructions to his brothers and advisors, including a nice stipend to Lorran. She didn’t know about that but she deserved compensation for everything she’d done. She’d reject the money. He knew her well enough to know that but he also knew what Riker needed to say to get Lorran to accept it. He’d written explicit instructions to his brother to promise Lorran the Kingdom’s support in her dragon studies if she’d accept the stipend. She would take it.

He no longer considered finding her a husband or lover to take his place. The dragon in his head refused to allow Kei to even think on it. The screams inside his mind and the gut wrenching pain the dragon created became so torturous, Kei dropped the idea. Though he felt the dragon gloating, Kei admitted in the silence of his mind that he hated the idea of another loving Lorran as he had done.

He was amazed at how well he had come to know her. He’d known her for less than two weeks and he could predict her reactions. Though there were still times when she surprised him. He knew her intimately. Not just sexually. He knew her mind. They’d talked, in the quiet, when even the dragon’s urges couldn’t make his body respond. He’d told her of his own startling rise to royalty, how he’d been trained as a warrior—never expecting to inherit the Kingship. His older brother should have succeeded their father, but he’d chosen Kei instead. He’d told her about Riker and his hopes for him as a King.

She’d talked about her childhood, her marriage and the time she’d spent with dragons. She told him about her research and that of others across the land. And he could see the pity and sympathy she had for the creatures. And for their victims. She truly wanted to find a way to stop the transition.

He’d finally asked her why she’d stayed with Brennek after the change. She’d shrugged.

“It was my fault.”

“What?”

“He felt like he needed to prove himself to the world. So when a dragon moved into the cliffs near our land, he decided to get rid of it himself.”

“That just proves he was stupid and I don’t know how his stupidity could be your fault.” She’d smiled sadly and nodded. Whatever it was that had driven Brennek to fight dragons—Lorran still blamed herself.

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Their own studies continued but they were no closer to slowing the dragon’s appearance. After Nekane had named himself, Kei had told Lorran all the changes he’d noticed in his body and mind. She’d studiously marked them down on parchment. Whether that information would help anyone in the future, he didn’t know. But if ever there was a person determined to find a way to help both the dragons and the human victims, it was Lorran. He didn’t doubt that she’d do it eventually. She was a strong woman.

Lorran rolled her shoulders back as if trying to ease some tension that had settled there. He’d offered to help with dinner but she’d smiled tiredly and told him to sit. She was exhausted. The four days of near abstinence during her woman’s time had driven him to distraction. And a desperate need to make up for the loss. For two days now, he’d done little but fuck her cunt. He didn’t understand it. It wasn’t like he’d gone without during those days. She’d brought him to climax with her hands. And she’d sucked him off so many times, her jaw had to ache still. His cock rose. Hells, he thought, everything about Lorran made his cock rise these days. He was no longer appalled by the idea—more amused. The dragon was growing stronger and more vocal but its focus remained the same—fucking Lorran. As the urges became more distinct, Kei at least knew how to deal with them. It was odd. He’d expected to be struggling frequently against the dragon, fighting the dragon’s appearance on a regular basis. From what Lorran told him and what he’d read in her notes, he should be battling for control daily. But for some reason, except for occasional outbursts, the beast seemed content.

Maybe it’s the sex. He considered the idea. Maybe the constant fucking was satisfying the dragon so he felt no need to rush. The only time he’d had to consciously crush the dragon was when he’d been denied access to Lorran’s pussy. He’d have to suggest the idea to Lorran. Maybe they
had
found a way to stop the transition—constant fucking.

He dismissed the idea almost instantly. Lorran had said Brennek had spent his last days fucking the village women but he’d still made the change. Kei smiled. Maybe it only worked with Lorran. He thought about a life with Lorran. They’d laugh, fight and fuck. He’d be dead from exhaustion. And Lorran would be forever pregnant. The thought stopped him. With her woman’s time just passed, she wasn’t pregnant but there was still a chance.

He felt the immediate urge to put his cock into her and fill her with his seed. He would have to make a provision in his final papers for any child that might issue from their time together.

“Why didn’t you and Brennek have a dozen kids?” Kei asked, his voice breaking the calm silence. He thought about the way she loved to fuck and couldn’t understand it. What man wouldn’t be addicted to her loving?

Her back straightened and she raised her eyes, staring out the open window above the sink. The air around them vibrated with anxiety. Kei leaned forward, conscious that he’d somehow opened an old wound.

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“I’m barren,” she finally answered without turning around, her voice emotionless.

“Brennek and I tried for children for the first five years of our marriage but nothing came of it.”

“Maybe it was his problem.”

She shook her head, her hair brushing across her shoulder blades. “No. His mistress bore him a child. But as his wife, I was unable to do so.” Her words were soft but there was an underlying ache to them.

Pain opened up his chest. Before he had a chance to analyze the strange emotion, the beast inside him screamed. The hollow wail rejected the thought of Lorran without a child—without
his
child filling her belly. Kei’s pain blended with the dragon’s. He wanted to see her grow large with his seed and know that she loved the child growing inside her.

The dragon’s emotions overwhelmed him, demanding a mate and offspring, to populate the world.

Kei stood. The need to move sent him to pacing the room. Fury raged inside him—Nekane’s fury—a creature who lived by instinct and didn’t understand control.

“I’m going outside.”

He had to get away from her. He had to put some distance between her and the dragon before the creature pounced on her again. He would walk, run, anything to burn off the energy that drove him to be inside her. To fill her. Kei focused on walking to the door and the world beyond. Each step required all his strength. The dragon fought for control of his body. He almost sighed with relief when he reached the door.

“I understand,” she whispered as the door closed behind him.

* * * * *

She stared at the closed door, amazed at how the sight caused her pain. It
was
easy to understand. She wrapped her arms around her waist, tears welling in her eyes. She’d failed another man.

All Brennek had asked from her was a child and she’d been unable to give it to him. He’d had no legitimate heir and that had driven him to prove to the world he was master of his domain. He’d ended up dying in a cave.

Now Kei, doomed to the same fate, had obviously hoped for an heir. She took a deep breath and brushed away the tears even as they crept down her cheeks. She wouldn’t cry. She’d cried too many times over her inability to conceive. She would never do so again.

At least she had the memories of Kei’s loving to comfort her. She’d always remember the feel of Kei moving in her body, the lovely glide of his shaft between her legs and the heat of his mouth on her skin, on her sex. Her body began to ache at the thought.

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knew when Kei would return? She left a plate warming in the oven and finally went to bed.

She curled onto her side and stared at the dying fire. She’d grown used to Kei’s body next to hers. She’d have to re-learn to sleep without his weight in her bed. And without his loving each night to exhaust her.

She used the memories to relax her body. She wanted him. Again. Always. She slid her hand under the blankets and began to lightly touch herself, imagining it was Kei’s hand. The soft caresses allowed her to drift into a light doze. Heat and fire waited for her in sleep.

He pulled back the blankets and spread her legs.

“Let me inside you, let me fill you,” he whispered.

“Yes, come to me.”

He climbed on the bed and shoved his cock inside her with no prelude. She was wet and open
for him.

He groaned as he drove deep. “You feel so good,” he whispered. “Your cunt clings to me, like
you never want to let me go.”

I don’t. She kept the words silent as she always did.

“Mine.”

“Yes.”

Kei watched her twist under the blankets. He’d walked to the waterfall, trying to work through the anger. At his own loss and at Lorran’s. It was insane of course. He’d never expected to get a child on Lorran. The idea hadn’t come to him until that night but once the thought was there, it had been impossible to shake. Eventually, he’d climbed the mountain to Effron’s lair. Effron had ignored him on this visit.

Kei was again stunned by the steady waves of loneliness and despair that emanated from the dragon. It was easy to see how those emotions quickly turned to rage—rage against a world that didn’t understand.

Nekane had screamed for Lorran and had dragged Kei away, as if seeing the other dragon’s empty life was too much for the beast. The awareness that Lorran would be able to fill the hollow space in his chest seeped into his thoughts. Where before, he’d turned from her, desperate to prove to himself and the dragon that he would stand alone—this time he accepted his need for her.

He’d returned to the cabin. And found her like this. She was dreaming. Her body warm with musk. She was lusting.

His cock leapt at the sweet smell of her wet cunt. She was waiting to be filled. He ripped off the blankets. Her beautiful breasts were cupped in her own hands, her nipples tight between her fingers. She rocked her hips upward as if fucking some imaginary lover. He moved quickly. He had to fulfill the crying need of her body. She woke up as his hands touched the insides of her thighs. He stared at her wet sex, spread wide before him.

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“Mine,” he whispered, mirroring the voice in his head. He bent down and kissed the very tip of her pretty little cunt. Then, slowly licked downward, needing a hint of her taste to linger on his tongue.

“But, Kei, I thought—“

He didn’t know what she was going to say but her words transformed into a gasp and then a moan as he sucked slowly on her clit. She was so wet. He slurped up all her pussy juice and licked her until more flowed from her. Her cries turned to pleas. He feasted long on her sex, sating himself and binding her to him with pleasure. He didn’t rush. Instead, he spent time loving her, arousing her, giving back to her all the pleasure she gave to him. The dragon rumbled contentedly inside his head. Then, the images that had haunted him—her ripe with his child—burst into his head. He pulled back. He needed to give her his seed and wanted to feel her accept it. The urge drove him upward. He moved up her body and slid his cock into her sex in one fluid glide.