Alexa's Dragon (Dragon mates Book 1) (17 page)

The water rose to a dangerous level as he sat in the tub.

“I think we’ll have a mess to clean up later.”

He grinned. “There will definitely be a mess to clean up later.”

He pulled her gently to him until she was sitting in his lap her knees on either side of him, facing him.

“Hi, Alexa,” he murmured against her lips, his hand gently playing with her hair. “I love how you look sitting in my lap. So open and ready for anything I want to do to you. So hungry.”

“Do you want to do dirty things to me?”

“In time, Baby. Now I just want to get balls deep in you.”

“All words and no action.” She placed teasing kisses against his jaw line tempting him to take her. Her tongue came out to place small licks against his throat. He vibrated under her.

He reached down tilting her face upward until he could kiss her. His lips took a deep taste of her, his essence on her tongue invading him.

“I can taste myself on you mixed with your own unique flavor.”

She gave a deep groan and deepened the kiss keeping him close. His hand trailed over her throat playing with it until he finally dropped his hands to her breast. He cupped one rolling it in the large palm of his hand.

She sucked in her breath between her teeth when his thumb and finger found her nipple, pinching it. A sound of need left her mouth and he did it again before taking the other nipple in his mouth and pulling on it.

Her pussy zinged and she rubbed herself against him like a cat in heat.

“Please,” she whimpered against him, so ready to feel him deep within her.

“Please what? Please it’s too much? Please stop? Please I’m ready to sleep now? I don’t know what you’re asking.”

She brought a palm up and hit him in his chest. He caught it and brought it up to his lips placing a kiss in the center of it before placing a finger then two in his mouth and sucking on them.

“Please, I need more. I need to feel you deep inside penetrating me.”

“I love it when you talk like this to me, Alexa. You can always tell me what you need.”

He slid he fingers down her body slowly, taking the time to pinch her nipples and again caress her breasts before moving further down. Fire traveled in the wake of his fingers making her gasp as she squirmed on his lap trying to get his cock closer to the entrance of her.

“How wet are you, Alexa? Is it all from the water, or are you wet deep inside waiting for me to discover it?”

Sliding his hand between them he inserted two fingers in her pussy stroking her deeply.

A moan left her lips.

“I need more!

“Shh,” he calmed her even as she twitched wildly on his fingers. Her body arched like a bow and arrow waiting for the archer to let her fly to freedom.

Taking his thumb, he placed it over her clit rubbing it softly before he rubbed it harder. She gasped begging for release. He curled his fingers inside of her touching the spot she barely knew existed.

Her back arched, her body went taut, and she flew apart in his arms.

Flying. She was flying on the fingers of her dragon this time. The earth looked so far away as she was caught in a dizzying free for all. He would catch her she was sure about that. Land rushed up to greet her as pleasure continued to zing through her body. With a lazy smile, she closed her eyes and drifted into peacefulness.

Syn lay on the bed stroking Alexa who was lying on her side pressed close to him still winging her way through the skies somewhere while he stared at a massive hard on. He wanted to curse himself as stupid but he wouldn’t do it any other way if he could go back.

Damn, sometimes even with a mate you needed to do things the old-fashioned way. He grabbed a towel to keep closed and then placed his hand on the base of his cock. A hiss left his mouth as he squeezed it.

His eyes drifted close and he thought of Alexa’s mouth on him, hot and warm as he slid his hand upward. The muscles in his arm jumped and tightened. It felt incredible when she tried to take all of him. Her mouth was so inexperienced but willing. He surged down and up again as his hips punched into the air.

A low hiss left his mouth at the thought of his cock touching the back of her throat. Him plunging deep into her mouth. His hand tightened more and he worked up and down on his cock. Heat pounded in him as a thought of being balls deep in her went through him, her pussy squeezing around his cock, milking him.

He gave a husky cry reaching for the towel hoping to spill when soft hands replaced his and the hotness of her mouth covered him making him cry out even louder. Unable to hold back, he spilled into her mouth. Each jerk of his hips giving her a new explosion to swallow.

With a loud cry of intense pleasure, his hips surged forth one more time before he finally relaxed against the bed. She was still loving him, licking at his slowly deflating cock. Her eyes looked up and what he saw in them almost stopped his heart. There was such love in them followed by wonder. He was the luckiest dragon on the face of the earth and he knew it.

*~*~*~*

She traced his chest with her fingers lying in his arms just feeling the languor of her body. He held her as she changed positions to get closer to him. There was nothing she wanted more than this time to last forever. Maybe time could stop, and it would just be him and her like his.

Alexa huffed out a laugh. Time didn’t stop for anyone and if they were going to win this fight they needed honesty first.

“We need to talk.” She pushed herself up on the bed leaning against the massive headboard. She pulled the cover up because talking while nude could be difficult.

“I had a feeling you were going to say that. There was entirely too much sighing going on, and not the sexy kind either.”

He used an arm to push himself up against the headboard opting not to cover his muscular chest. How was she supposed to think looking at such a beautiful canvas that was asking her to touch it?

“No fair. At least I covered up.”

“I need every advantage I can get.” He gave her a lazy grin and waited for her to speak.

“The witch you complained about came back again.”

He grimaced. “She won’t go away no matter what I do. Is she bothering you now?”

“Not exactly. She claims to be my mother.”

His eyes narrowed and still she could see the way they slit. The dragon was watching her now.

“Your mother?”

“That’s what she claims but I don’t believe her. What are the chances of my mother being the witch that is haunting you? Besides my mom is no witch.”

“I don’t know whether to be in surprised shock or to think this thing through. What if she is your mother?”

She laughed and shook her head. “You can’t be serious.”

“Let’s look at the facts. She urged me over and over to find you. She saved your life by getting you out of the room you were in when you first arrived. As far as I can figure she’s a pain in the rear, but she has never done or tried anything that would hurt either of us. That fits my definition of mother-in-law.”

“Funny.”

“It may be funny but it’s truthful. I’m not saying she’s your mother but I am saying we have to at least consider it. Treat her nice the next time she pops in and maybe we can get some useful information.”

She nodded. What if she really were her mother. That would mean she was being held by Mutufa but was still finding a way to help them. It would also mean she was willing to forfeit her life to keep her daughter and the world safe.

“Well if she is my mom she knows we had sex.”

“There’s sex and then there’s making love. Maybe we went about it in a slightly unconventional way, but that was definitely making love.”

“Maybe you can show me the conventional way later.”

“Maybe or maybe we’ll get around to convention in a couple of hundred years.”

“So where do we go from here?” He looked at her holding his breath.

“I want to become mate bonded with you. Not at this very moment but when the time is right I want that. Not because some weird gene I carry in my body says you’re the one. No, this is more about how I’m starting to feel about you. I have this longing in me to hold onto you and never let you go.”

“I feel it too. The need to be one with you.”

She slid down and snuggled against his leg waiting for him to slide down also.

“So we get some sleep because who knows what’s going to happen tomorrow and we take it one day at a time.”

“I always knew my mate would be smart.” He folded her in his arms and shut his eyes wishing selfishly for one night of peace.

*~*~*~*

The ringing of the doorbell brought his sleep-fuzzed brain back online. He sat up and looked down at Alexa. She had the cover pulled up over her head while she murmured go away in her sleep. The second ring had him out of bed and pulling on a pair of jogging pants. Forgoing a shirt, he went to his camera to see who was standing at his door. It was one of the Oracles. He wanted to curse but bit his tongue.

Pushing the intercom button.” I’ll be down in a minute.” There was a nod and the Oracle backed up waiting for him.

“Who is it?” her sleepy voice asked him.

“It’s an Oracle.”

“Which one?”

“Do you really think I can tell them apart?”

She sighed and threw off the cover revealing her beautiful skin highlighted by the morning sun coming into the room.

“If you don’t put something on she’ll be standing there for much longer than a minute.”

She gave a husky laugh. “Put your sword away. We have business to conduct.”

He grunted and watched as she stood and stretched.

“Take her to the kitchen. I’ll be there shortly.” He nodded and slipped into the elevator.

She took a quick shower telling herself if she needed to fight Mutufa she needed to be clean. In reality, the smell of Syn on her skin made her crave him like a drug with each passing minute.

She dressed quickly in a pair of leggings and a long shirt and made her way down to the kitchen. Syn and Samantha were staring at each other politely waiting for her to come. The tension in the room melted when she walked in.

“Samantha, nice to see you again.”

“Thanks. Jillian wanted to come but I told her it was my turn. Do you know you are one of the very few people who can tell us a part?”

“I didn’t know and I’m not sure how I do it. I simply know.”

“You’re a dragon’s mate and a powerful one. Every true dragon’s mate will be able to see the individual oracle for who she is which is one of the reasons Oracles tend to be friends with dragon mates. We’ve waited a long time for you to arrive and my sisters and I are beside ourselves with happiness.”

“It took me a few minutes to be able to tell you all apart.”

Samantha waved that comment away with a flick of her wrist. “All that matters is that you can now. You have proven who you are by that one little feat.”

“Thanks, I think. I am looking forward to becoming friends, but I don’t think that’s why you came here today.”

“No. You’ve discovered the Selins involvement with Mutufa but already you realize they are not the mastermind behind the plot to free Mutufa,” Samantha said.

She raised a hand to stop Syn before any words could tumble out of his mouth.

“You know I can’t name the mastermind. If I did I would have to require a payment you can’t afford,” Samantha answered Syn’s unspoken question. “Your job is to figure out what’s happening and save your people. That’s why the dragons rule. That’s why you rule!” Her eyes turned white as she looked at him before a swirl of red curled through them.

He was caught up in them unable to breathe, unable to move. As the white of his eyes expanded taking all the color away, Alexa jumped up to go to him but the hand Samantha raised in her direction held her in place like she was cemented to the floor.

“Syn, you fight and hurt no one except yourself. You say you accept your mate but she is still not your true mate. You want to protect your people but you are willing to die instead of live. Until you take care of what lies within you, what lies without will always be out of your reach.”

Samantha dropped her hands. Syn and Alexa fell to the ground limp. His legs shook when he finally pulled himself up and moved slowly to help Alexa.

“Well that was fun,” Samantha said, jumping up out of her chair. “I’m hungry. Do either of you want something to eat?” She padded over to fridge opening it up to peruse its contents.

With a quirk of her lips, she took out breakfast food and started preparing it.

Syn helped Alexa into a chair before dropping into the one next to her.

“So do you do that to all your friends? I bet you’re a hit at parties,” Alexa said, swimming in the silence.

“It’s kind of hard to make friends when they know you can stop them with a flick of your wrist or worse yet kill them by closing your hand. Which is why it’s so great you’re the dragon’s mate. Once you become his true mate, I won’t be able to kill you accidently. We’ll be great friends, you just watch and see.”

“Well, not getting killed accidently by an Oracle is a ringing endorsement for mating Syn. At least you give me something to think about.”

“Well, think about this also. When the end comes, red will be your choice of color.”

Red would be her choice of color. That was the same thing Jillian said to her. What was it about red that was so important they felt the need to repeat it?

She didn’t own a lot of red. Her home had no red walls or even curtains. Had she even brought anything red with her? Maybe a bra. What the hell did red mean?

A week passed without anything else happening. A blissful week of getting to know each other, stolen kisses behind their friends’ backs. Being irritated repeatedly by the triplets. The more they came around the more she liked them. Heck, she even liked Mark, Jillian’s husband.

George and Tamia hung around a lot and Mace and Zeno were there always coming just in time for a meal. Zeno was Syn’s youngest brother. Her life was better than she imagined it would be.