Royal Dragon (The Bride Hunt Book 1) (15 page)

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He pushed back in and slipped a little further inside. She bit down on her lip. It hurt but it also felt good. Really good.

“Are you okay?” his brow was sweaty. His eyes bright. His skin taut. He was frowning so hard that it was almost comical. His finger kept working her.

Julie couldn’t speak right now. She nodded her head once.

“I’ll stop if it’s too much. Just say the word and I’ll stop.” His hips moved in tiny thrusting circles. Not pushing for more but doing what he could with what he had, which wasn’t enough.

More.

More.

He nodded and she realized that she had spoken out loud. He thrust a little further into her and pain flared. She cried out and he stopped moving. All except that finger which kept up it’s assault on her clit. Slow and easy.

“We can stop,” he growled. “I don’t want to hurt you.” His chest heaved.

The familiar tightening was back. She was going to come and they weren’t even fucking yet. They’d barely done anything. He wasn’t even fully seated inside of her.

Her hips jerked. They jerked again. She moaned as he slipped in a little deeper. She began rocking against him. Riding his cock from below. Coal kept his body completely still. Letting her take what she wanted. That finger kept going. Slip, slide, slip, slide.

“I’m going to come,” she moaned softly.

He growled.

“Oh god,” she moaned. “More!” she cried. “Yes!” she cried again. Both her hands were on his ass. She pumped onto him from below. She was so damned close, but not quite there.

On a deafening snarl, he pushed into her some more. Julie shrieked in both pain and pleasure. She was riding him shamelessly, so close to orgasm that she could hardly breathe. Coal was shaking. His whole body vibrated. His eyes were squeezed shut, his jaw clenched.

She looked down between them, shocked to see how far he still had to go. Coal was only about halfway in. She rode him anyway. He released her clit and she cried out in frustration. He licked his hand and moved between them, pulling out of her. He surrounded his girth with his hand rubbing up and down. He put his fingers inside her and pumped, sure to press down where she ached. Julie cried out. Then his hand was gone and then back again and then gone. She heard a wet sound. He was rubbing her juices up and down his cock. This time when he pushed into her, he kept going.

The sharp pain caused her to cry out. She worked hard at keeping her muscles relaxed. He pulled back and then pushed in again, grunting as he did.

She cried out again and bit down on her lip, tasting blood. She could feel Coal breathing heavily against her. Could hear the ragged pants. She felt like a virgin all over again.

“We’re nearly there,” he whispered. “I can stop. We don’t have to…”

Although it hurt, it also felt really good. She’d never felt this full before. Never. He pulled her legs up higher on her body and kissed her.

More.

She bit at his lip.

“Female,” he growled. “I need to take it slow. I need… to stay focused.”

“Take me. Just do it. Fuck me.” She was vibrating with need. So was he, even more so than her, which was saying something. She reached for his mouth and nipped at that full lower lip.

On a low, dangerous sounding growl, he finally did what she had asked and pushed the rest of the way in. Surprisingly, there was no pain this time. He angled his thrust and hit… the spot. The zone. Oh god, he hit there. Party land. The place where it all happened. Everything in her instantly tightened.

Julie cried out. Her head fell back. He craned his neck down and sucked on her breasts as he continued to fuck her using hard, even strokes. It didn’t hurt anymore. Not even a little bit. That was it. Game over. Julie cried out as waves of ecstasy overtook her. Her legs tightened around him. Her nails dug into his ass. Her mouth fell open. Her pussy spasmed so hard that she was sure she was going to snap his dick in half.

Coal roared and jerked and roared some more. He fucked her even harder for a few seconds before slowing down. His movements became more controlled, his breathing began to even out, even though it was coming in pants. She sucked in a lungful of air. Then another. Gulping them down. She had held her breath for most of the orgasm. He put his forehead against hers. “I was worried there for a moment,” he said between pants. She could hear that he was smiling. “I hope I didn’t hurt you.”

Her body was still vibrating. Her girl parts were still spasming, just a little. The rest of her felt heavy. His shaft still throbbed inside her. It was still mostly hard. What?

“No. I’m good. I might be tender in the morning.” Might. Huh! She would be. “Did you… you know?”

He chuckled. “I’ve never come that hard in my life.” He brushed a kiss against her lips. It was sweet and tender. It didn’t mean anything.

“You’re still hard.” She moved against him and his cock twitched inside her.

“I’m not human, Julie. I could rut you all night long.”

“Really?” By now she was getting used to that rush of need at the crude things he said.

“Yes, really.” He rocked against her. “Do you want more?”

Her belly tightened. There was no pain. His cock slid out slowly before pushing back in, brushing against that magic spot. He had fingered her to find it and now he was being sure to hit it. Between her juices and his come, she was so slick. The movements made a sloshing noise. It was gross and a major turn on. What was happening to her?

No. Surely not. She couldn’t come again, could she? She couldn’t still want more, could she?

Coal kept his weight on his elbows, his eyes stayed on hers. His hips rolled and she moaned.

Yes.
Yes to still being horny and an ever bigger yes to wanting more.
Just, yes
.

She locked her ankles around his back and moved to meet him. Coal growled. “You drive me crazy. A tiny human.” He sounded shocked.

Tiny. He thought that she was tiny. That turned her on as well. Julie moaned.

Then he pinned her down, took her so hard that the bed shook with every stroke. She screamed when she came. All out. Hard core screamed. Coal roared. He didn’t hold back. This time he pulled out almost immediately after they were finished. “You need a break.” His voice was thick. The air rushed in and out of his lungs. “I’ll be back.” He kissed her forehead.

Oh good! He was leaving, he must have been paying attention when she told him how things worked with her. Sex, yes. Cuddling, no.

Julie fell back in a boneless sated heap. The room was warm. She didn’t care that he was gone. Not one bit.

That was the wildest, most amazing sex she had ever had. Who knew that missionary position could be so fun? Who? Who knew that dragon shifters could be so fun in bed or that monster cocks were god’s gift to women? Who knew that she could come so darned easily and without clitoral stimulation? She had a g-spot. She, Julie, had one.

To make things even better, for the first time, he had actually done what she had asked him. He had left. She was happy. She really was.

Coal was reeling. His mind raced about a million miles a minute. He hadn’t lied when he’d said that it was the hardest he’d ever come. He’d had to fight to even get inside her. It had hurt him initially. Maybe even as much as it had hurt her. She was so damned tight. So snug. So amazing. So soft and warm.

He had to suppress a groan as he returned to the room. She was sprawled on his bed. Julie looked shocked to see him, her eyes flared. Then she lay back down in a contented heap. All those lush curves, laid out before him. Her breasts were rounded. He wanted to lick their undersides. He wanted to cup them and squeeze them. He wanted to suck on her nipples some more. Plump and so damned ripe.

He wanted to bury his face between her lush thighs and never come up for air. Except maybe to rut her. To hear her cries of excitement and her moans of pleasure. To feel her tight channel squeeze the hell out of him. To feel it clamp down as she orgasmed. There was no way in hell he could stop himself from following. No way he could keep himself from roaring as his seed erupted from him with a force that scared him. His teeth had sharpened with the need to mark her. To make her his. It was the first time it had ever happened. The need to mate and to mark.

When he’d embarked on this quest, it had seemed impossible. Hunt, capture and mate a human female. He hadn’t wanted one. Didn’t know what he was missing. Things had changed. They had changed more quickly than he knew possible. He ached to be inside her again. He also longed to know more about her.

She smiled when he approached the bed. Her greedy eyes zoning in on his cock. Still hard enough to drill through lava rock. It couldn’t be helped. His need to have her again would ride him until she covered up. The way he was feeling right now, that might not even help.

She licked her lips and squirmed a little. She probably didn’t know she was doing it. She was more receptive than any female he had been with. She wanted him again. He wanted her just as much but it would have to wait.

Coal handed her the warm towel.

“Thank you.” She spread her thighs.

Lord help him. Her pussy glistened. He could see his seed in her, on her, dripping down her thighs. It made his cock twitch.

She looked at him from under her lashes as she wiped herself. Someone had once said that human females were timid and easily frightened. Not this one. Not his female. He planned on making her his.

Coal slid in next to her and pulled her against him. He felt her tense. “I don’t cuddle and I still would prefer it if you slept on the floor.”

What?

It was like he had made no progress. Sex was okay but anything else remotely intimate was off the cards. He tightened his arm around her, loving the feel of her against him. He palmed one of her breasts. “We will be rutting again soon.” He pushed his cock up against her. It throbbed between them.

Coal felt her relax.

“Rest a bit. We can eat something and then I’m going to have you again.”

She didn’t say anything but she thrust out her ass and her nipples tightened. So receptive. Maybe he would rut her all night.

“Okay,” she sighed. “But we’re not in a relationship. This does not mean that we are going to hold hands or that I want you to mate me. I definitely don’t want kids so I’m not good mother material.” Her eyes widened for a moment like she shouldn’t have said that. He had noticed her do the same earlier. Coal was glad that she had confided in him.

At the same time, it cut him to hear her say such things. She had said that she wouldn’t make a good mother. It was utter rubbish. A female like Julie would be a good mother.

“Why don’t you want kids?”

She tensed. He waited for a while but she didn’t say anything.

“Tell me, please. I think you would make an excellent mother.”

She choked out a laugh. “You’ve known me all of five minutes.”

“It doesn’t matter. You are passionate and determined. You would protect them like a mother lion would her cubs. You would stand up for them. You are fierce, Julie. Even I am a little afraid of you sometimes.” He smiled. It was true. She could never better him physically but in all other aspects it was game on.

She turned to face him. “You think I’m fierce and passionate?” She smiled. “Sheesh, you really want to get back into my pants.”

“You’re not wearing any. So no, that’s not my motive. We
are
going to rut again.” He grinned at her, knowing it would look feral. He was that aroused by this female. She didn’t flinch. He pulled her more firmly against his dick. “We will rut and we will do so often. I’m going to have you in every position imaginable and some that you’ve never tried. I hope that you will choose to stay here with me but know that if you go…” he paused. “I will make sure that you are ruined for all other males. You will only crave me.”

“Wow.” She swallowed thickly. “Arrogant much?” She probably didn’t know that she did it, but she glanced at his cock before looking back at him.

He nodded. “Yes, I am. There is no shame in it. A fact is a fact. No one has ever felt as good and I know that it was the same for you.”

She rolled her eyes. “You’ve only been with two women so it’s not that hard.”

“That’s not true.”

She frowned. “What? I thought Ash and Ruby were the only women in this place.”

“They are the only unmated females in the fire kingdom. I have been with most of the unmated females across the four kingdoms as well as a couple of the older females that lost their mates.”

“So in other words you’re a male slut.” Her hands had curled into fists and he could scent anger. She was jealous.

He held back a grin. “I am a male… yes. It was important that I become experienced in the art of lovemaking so that I could give my female pleasure one day… so that I could give
you
pleasure.” His voice turned husky. It was not to be helped. The thought of her nails digging into him.

“I’m not yours.”

“You are.”

“No.” She shook her head. Her cheeks were still flushed. Her eyes still a tad glassy. “I don’t need anyone.” He sensed a deep-seated pain. Her eyes clouded.

“Yes, you do.” He touched a few strands of her hair but she moved away.

“No. I don’t.” It was half-hearted. She chewed on her lower lip. “How do you know that humans will even get pregnant? We’re very different.”

He felt everything in him tighten as he remembered being inside of her. Deep inside. “No, we’re not.” His voice was a deep vibration. “We’re highly compatible.”

Julie licked her lips. “Okay, so maybe the sex is good but it doesn’t mean that our two species can reproduce. You are technically part reptile.”

“I am part dragon. Reptiles are cold blooded.” He was thrilled at her comment about the sex being good. Even if good wasn’t a good enough description.

She nodded and rubbed a hand down his arm. “You are warm.”

He nodded. “Two dragons from another kingdom took human females and both have reproduced successfully and numerous times. Human females become stronger once they are mated to a dragon.”

“Oh… so it really is possible.” She frowned, her eyes lifted in thought.

“Yes.” He nodded. Maybe she was thinking about the possibilities, about them being together.

“Don’t look at me like that and don’t get any ideas.” She shook her head. “Don’t fall for me.”

“Fall?” Why would he fall. He was lying down. Coal frowned.

Julie giggled. “Fall, as in, fall in love. Don’t fall in love with me.”

Coal laughed. “Oh… love. I’ve never felt love before. I am not sure I am capable. Dragons do not mate for love. We look for someone we get along well with. Someone who interests us. Someone who is fertile.”

She shook her head like he was nuts. “If you say so. I might not even be fertile. I’ve also been told I’m a bitch so there’s not much to like.”

“A bitch is a female dog.”

“A bitch is someone who…” She looked like she was in thought “Stands up for herself, is honest, is outspoken. Someone who generally says it like it is even though feelings might get hurt. I’m not a pushover. Some people don’t like that quality in a person.”

“I like you and you interest me. If you are a bitch, then I like bitches.”

Julie laughed. “You like bitches?” She was so beautiful
.
From her radiant smile to those full cherry lips. Her dark hair was spilled across his pillow. The smell of sex was heavy in the air.

Coal grinned broadly. “I like you, Julie.”

She licked her lips. “Back to the fertility part. I might not be… fertile that is.”

“You are.”

“How could you possibly know that?”

“You were carefully selected. We looked for females that needed help but they also had to meet our criteria. A certain age, unmated, no children of their own and… fertile.”

She rolled her eyes. “And you what? Experimented on me while I was sleeping? How would you know that?”

“Whoever was watching you will have scented it.”

“That’s crazy and just a bit creepy.” She pulled a face. “I was followed?”

“Yes, but it was only to be sure. We needed the arrangement to be mutually beneficial.”

****

Julie pulled a blanket over herself. Coal gave her some room. He sprawled himself out on the bed. His cock was still as hard as it had been before they’d had sex. The guy wasn’t lying about going at it all night.

Thank god he spoke as if this was a business arrangement. It suited her just fine. She’d chill here for a few weeks as promised and then it was back to her old life. This was a retreat. Coal was seriously hot and great in bed. He might want her for a mate and to have his babies but he wouldn’t fall in love with her. That meant that he would let her go. He would move on. There were plenty of human women that would give their left arm at a chance at a guy like him.

She felt a pang at the thought. The sex. She would miss the off the charts sex. That was why she felt this way.

You will only crave me
.

His words rolled around her head as she watched him from under her lashes. Washboard abs, broad shoulders and lips made for kissing. His cock was made for other things entirely. His mouth lifted in a lazy, half smile. She feared he was right. She would be ruined. Those pasty white, nerdy types that tried really hard would never do it for her again. Coal didn’t have to try. Not even a little bit. He was naturally good. No, he was great.

“Stop looking at my cock or I will be forced to rut you again.”

“I’m not complaining.” She had to smile.

Coal grinned right back at her. He was quite spectacular when he smiled. The gold flecks in his eyes became more pronounced. “I must feed you first.”

Now that she thought about it, she was really hungry.

Coal got up off the bed and headed for the kitchen area. Oh, that ass. And oh, those thighs. He grabbed a skillet and some meat out of the fridge. “How do you like your steaks done?”

Her mouth watered. She wasn’t sure whether it was him or the thought of food that caused it.

“You’re going to cook for me?” She rolled onto her stomach.

There was a clicking noise as he lit the stove, placing the skillet on the flames. Coal nodded, he turned and leaned back against the counter, folding his arms across his chest. So freaking hot.

Coal nodded. “I most definitely am.” He raised his brows.

Wow! Just wow. She looked down at his hard cock. “Naked?” She raised her own brows as she locked eyes with him.

Coal nodded, he turned and slapped the steaks onto the hot skillet.

It was weird, yesterday she’d felt like the unluckiest person on the planet. Today she felt like the tables might be turning.

“Are you going to actually feed me my food as well?” She could hear the suppressed laugh in her voice.

Coal glanced back over his shoulder, he was smiling. One of those naughty grins. “No.” He paused. “You feed yourself while I eat you. I think that’s a much better plan.” He licked his lips. Licked. His. Lips.

Heat infused her cheeks. What was she getting herself into? This felt dangerous.