Dani. It’s okay. It’s normal.
But I bit you.
Yes. You did a fine job of it too. Much better than me gnawing on your wrist. And a helluva lot more fun.
She shook her head.Dragons are just as weird as Dires.
Please. We are much weirder.
Still locked together as the waves subsided, Tyrez carried them both to the shore. He rose from the water with her wrapped around him and laid her down on the soft moss lining the stones. His strong fingers traced first the intertwined Dragons on her belly, and then rose across her breasts, to the new one on her shoulder.
She designed it to cover the terrible marks of Remy’s teeth in her flesh—an image of a phoenix rising from the ashes.
It’s beautiful. Sparkle would be honored,he rumbled in her mind.
I had to correct the guy on a few crucial details. He had the head all wrong.
Tyrez huffed a laugh as he lowered his hips between her legs. He braced with one powerful arm as his lips, teeth, and tongue nibbled and licked along her throat. She thought she was replete, spent, but when his strong fingers dropped to her breasts, she moaned and arched against him.
Her movement brought her up against his hips. Much to her surprise, his body was every bit as eager as hers.
The big shifter huffed a laugh.Dragons recover fast. And I have waited a very long time for this.He grew short talons from his fingertips, and applied them to his efforts, trailing them with infinite gentleness over her body.
Dani gasped.Two can play at that game, flyboy.She used her own talons, and reached to flick his nipple ring.
I am not a fly.But his entire body quivered.
She laughed.Maybe I need one of these.
Metal is sexy,he purred into her mind.But you are already a hot commodity.He lowered his lips to her breasts, and she began to writhe beneath him. When he slid down her body, she shivered. And when his hot tongue found the juncture of her thighs, she opened for him, without a moment’s thought.
Never would she have thought herself capable of this. But Tyrez played her body like a fine instrument, and with every stroke, every lick, he kept the telepathic link between them wide open. Flooding and reassuring her with a desire so powerful that it threatened to overwhelm, but wrapping it in an emotion so poignant it brought tears to her eyes.
But apparently the slow burn thing just wasn’t her style. She wanted him, again.Now.She fisted a hand in his hair, and pulled him up. Then she wrapped her fingers around his pulsing length, and stroked.
She heard all the breath leave his body, and the link fizzed with white static. Dani wrapped her legs around his waist.Think that sword needs a sheath.
He groaned and took her in one smooth, fluid motion. Dani gasped as she stretched to take every inch of him.
Fully seated, he shuddered.So perfect—you were made for me.
Yes.
Then he started to move, and she lost all coherence. Her shortened talons clung to the powerful muscles of his back as her body tightened to the point of pain, before he thrust once more, and took them both effortlessly over the edge.
She lay, pulsing around him, her gaze drinking in the planes of cheek and jaw, the beautiful metallic sparkle of his eyes. How could something she’d thought so wrong, be so right? The fingers that stroked along her cheek and jaw trembled, and the link pulsed with the depths of his love. It folded around her, caressed her. Despite the strength of it, it was supporting, not controlling.
He was everything she’d dreamed he could be, and her heart wanted to trust him, to fully open up, and let him in. But something held her back. Did he sense it?
His arms tightened.It’s okay, Dani.
No. No, it wasn’t. But she didn’t know how to fix it.I’m so sorry, Tyrez. I’m damaged goods.
When you’re ready, it will happen.His eyes gleamed at her.
She smiled tremulously up at him.Well, now I know the truth.
One brow arched.And that is?
