Dragon's Kiss (22 page)
“You can leave now,” she told the soon to be
former
servant. Before the door was closed, Kei had removed her robe and knelt before her, nuzzling her wet opening.
“Mine,” he whispered against her skin. His tongue slipped between her folds, teasing her clit. “Mine.”
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“Yes,” she sighed. He lifted her leg and draped it over his shoulder opening her to the deep penetration of his tongue. She gasped, the light touches against her inner walls made her pussy flow with liquid. He continued to lick and drink, filling himself with her taste. It took mere seconds for her to forget the other woman. Nekane and Kei obviously didn’t remember. They wanted
her
.
Lorran held onto the bedpost behind her, leaned back and settled in for a long, sweet tongue fuck.
* * * * *
“I want her gone.”
Kei’s eyes drifted open. Lorran was leery of interrupting his contented doze but she wanted her position known. Kei/Nekane had fucked her for hours—alternately licking her and fucking her until she couldn’t remember her own name.
“Hmm?”
“I want her gone,” Lorran repeated.
“Who?” Kei raised his head from her stomach and looked into her eyes.
“Mara? The woman who knelt naked before you ready to service you? Remember her?”
“Vaguely.” He kissed her stomach just above her belly button.
“You weren’t interested in her at all?” Lorran inwardly cringed as soon as the question left her mouth.
Kei lifted his head and it cocked to the side. She could tell, he was hearing from Nekane. Finally, he shook his head. “She didn’t smell right.” He smiled up at her. “She didn’t smell like you.” He drew in a deep breath and sighed. Kei stilled and then took another deep breath.
“What is it?” Lorran pushed herself onto her elbows and stared down at him.
“You’re pregnant.”
“What? That’s impossible.” Her heart thumped in her chest. Kei pulled back and stared out the open window. “Kei?” She’d never seen him like this. He blinked and then shook his head.
Finally, he turned to her.
“I think he’s laughing.”
“Nekane?”
“Yes. A dragon. Laughing.” Kei looked up and after a moment nodded. “Something about having superior seed.”
Lorran touched her stomach. A baby? She was going to have a baby? She looked at her husband. She would be able to give him an heir.
“Wait. Is it going to be half-dragon?!” she cried.
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Twenty-two years later
Lorran stepped into the hall, her arms loaded down with packages and parcels. With this final trip, all was set for Kayla’s eighteenth birthday celebration. Lorran handed her stack to Marso and sighed. They’d made it through another year without…
Screams scattered the thought even as it formed.
Another year without a crisis, she sighed, knowing that was now gone. Two young maids raced by her. Running footsteps rang across the marble floor. Several sets ran by her. One finally stopped.
“Your Majesty, you are needed.”
“Yes, I’d guessed that.”
Nekane’s roar guided her down the hall. It had been years since he’d scared the servants. She hurried to the door of the Great Room and found her sons waiting inside, watching her husband-turned-dragon stalk a young man dressed in warrior’s clothes. Kayla stomped her foot and demanded her father stop. The dragon ignored the order and took another step toward the cringing warrior.
“What happened?” Lorran asked her oldest son, Bren.
He folded his arms across his chest and leaned against the wall. “Nekane decided to visit.”
“I figured that out when I heard the screams. Now what caused it?” As she had predicted, Nekane and Kei had learned to live together. As the dragon had gotten older, his understanding grew and he no longer feared letting Lorran out of his sight. She still stayed close—for safety’s sake and because the bond was as tight for her as it was for Nekane and Kei.
She turned to Rainek, her younger son. “Well?”
He shrugged. “Dad came in and found Kayla and Miek kissing. He went a little nuts.”
“I knew this was going to happen,” she said almost to herself as she stormed across the room.
“But, Daddy, we’re in love!” Kayla tugged on Nekane’s forearm. The dragon swung his massive head around. Almost-human disbelief marked his face. He glanced at the young woman and then turned back to the man pressed up against the wall.
“Well, sir,” the warrior protested. “It’s not really love. More like, like. Actually, we don’t really know each other that well.”
Lorran reached them as Kayla slammed her hands onto her hips.
“What? You said you loved me.”
“Well, sure but—“ He looked up at the dragon and swallowed. “But I meant it as I do my sister. I love her like I love my sister.”
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“You don’t have a sister,” Kayla sneered.
Nekane’s deep throated chuckled echoed through the room. Miek slid further down the wall with each sound.
“Nekane, stop it.” Lorran stepped up. She walked in front of the warrior and glared into the dragon’s eyes. “And Kei, I know you’re listening. Pull him back.” Kei had also learned to stay present when Nekane was in physical form. It made for a very dangerous adversary—a dragon’s body, a human’s mind.
“Let him go. I think he’s learned his lesson about coming near our young daughter.” She turned around. “Haven’t you?” Her smile was soft, but her tone was not. The young man nodded. “I think you’d better leave.” Again he nodded. “And it might be best if you sought employment elsewhere.” She didn’t have time to watch Nekane and Kei every minute. As soon as her back was turned, they’d find Miek and begin threatening him again. It was difficult to tell what they might do, but she didn’t want to find out. Though they’d been able to repeal most of the laws banishing dragons, the prejudice against dragons still existed. They didn’t need to feed the fire. There was still so much work to be done.
Using her as a shield, the warrior slunk along the wall until he was near the door. He flinched when he saw Kayla’s brothers waiting by the door, arms folded. And then he was gone.
Lorran turned to her daughter. “You and I are going to have a little talk about this, young lady.”
Kayla blushed but she nodded.
“Now go, all of you. And lock the door behind you.”
Nekane’s threats might have been fake but his anger wasn’t. He prowled around the room, made tiny by his huge form.
Their three children had an equal amount of human and dragon blood. Nekane took as much pride and frustration in raising them as Kei did. It was like having three parents—and one of them could breathe fire.
When the door clicked shut, Lorran walked into Nekane’s view.
“I warned you this day was coming.”
Too young. She’s too young,
Nekane’s voice slipped into her thoughts.
We’ll send her to a convent,
Kei mentally added, joining the conversation.
“You’ll let her grow up and be a normal young woman.”
Or at least as normal as a
half-dragon/half-human woman could be.
Lorran kept that comment to herself. “I’ll talk to her. She’s just spreading her wings.”
That better be all she’s spreading.
“Kei…”
What did you want us to do? Let him have her?
Nekane sat on his haunches. The stubborn line of the dragon’s chin told her he and Kei were in accord. She wouldn’t get either on her side.
“No, but—“
Then we did right. We’re done. Let’s love.
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One thing about Nekane, he hadn’t changed his way of ending an argument. Sex still seemed to be the driving force in his life.
“I don’t think—“
No. Argument done. Door closed. Let’s love.
“Kei, I—“
Nekane turned his head to her and licked his tongue inside the collar of her bodice. Her body, trained from twenty-two years of his touch, melted. That nimble tongue slid inside her top and rubbed across the top of her breasts, peaking her nipples.
“We’re not done with this discussion,” she warned.
We are for now.
Kei’s seductive chuckle entered her head along with Nekane’s aroused rumble. The boys were working together. She was in for a long night. All thoughts of protest fell away. She quickly unbuttoned her gown and stood before her love, naked and open to them. Lorran sank to the floor. Nekane pushed his broad nose against her dampening flesh. His throaty growl rumbled through his body and vibrated her pussy. Lorran gasped at the quick jolt of pleasure. His tongue licked up her legs and plunged into her sex, thick and full, almost like a cock.
Good, eh? You like my tongue in your pussy, don’t you my love? My mate?
“Yes.” She couldn’t stop the groan from escaping. She was open to them. The light flickered in the dragon’s eyes. Kei and Nekane loving her. It had been twenty-two years but the touch of his tongue, the feel of Kei’s cock never failed to excite her. She let her head fall back against the tile and let Kei/Nekane taste her. She knew from experience, she had hours before her.
My love.
Kei’s whispered words floated through her mind.
Mine.
The word filtered through Nekane’s pleased growls.
“Yes.”
* * * * *
“It’s not fair.” Kayla plopped down on the stone steps between her brothers. “Every man I’m even slightly interested in runs away as soon as they meet Dad and if he doesn’t scare them off, Nekane does.” She sighed heavily and with dramatic emphasis.
“I’m going to die a virgin.”
Bren dropped his chin onto one hand and nodded. “I know the feeling.”
Rainek followed the movement on the other side. “Me, too,” he agreed.
“You?!” Kayla looked between her brothers. “You can’t even begin to understand. You’re
men
. I’ve got to wait until I’m married. Unfortunately, I’ll never find anyone to marry me because of Dad. Who’s going to be willing to fight a dragon for me? Because of society’s restrictions
and
being the daughter of a dragon, I’ll
never
have sex.”
“Uh, Kayla, we’re in the same boat you are.”
“Only worse,” groused Bren.
“How could it be worse?”
“We’ve got dragon blood in us,” Rainek explained. “Just like you do. We’re looking for our mates.”
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“So?” Kayla shook her head. “You can carouse to your heart’s content until you’ve found your mates. I’m alone until I find a warrior willing to fight a dragon.”
Bren sighed. “Kayla, what Rainek is trying to tell you, but making a hash of it, is—
because the dragon is with us from birth, its already begun the search for our mates. We can’t have sex until we find the one woman the dragon wants.” Kayla shook her head, not understanding or not quite believing what she’d just heard. “We
physically
can’t have sex until we find our mates,” Bren clarified.
“You mean you can’t…?” Bren shook his head. She looked at Rainek. “You either?”
He shook his head. “Nothing happens. It’s like Dad with any woman besides Mom. No physical response.”
Kayla smiled and couldn’t stop the laughter that started in the back of her throat.
“Somehow I feel better knowing this.”
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