Harnessing on her own inner beast, Aria pulled away from him. For a moment, his hand held her in place, and she trailed her tongue along her lips. He watched as though mesmerized, his hand loosening its hold.
As she traveled down his body with teeth and tongue, she wove her mental self ever deeper into his. Unable to hold himself still, Nikolai twisted and turned, teeth gritting as he groaned low in his throat. His psyche was raw and open, vulnerable to her advance. She envisioned her mental self winding around him, even as his body lifted off the ground, desperate for her touch.
What scorched through their link ignited the fire deep in her heart, and she quivered, her Dragon hammering at her to finish it. But Aria lifted her hips clear as she moved lower, the skin of his belly shuddering beneath her lips. Then her hand cupped the weight of him, and his body arched upward.
“Aria!”
Her lips came down on him, and he shuddered again, both hands fisting in her hair, his breath coming in harsh gasps.
Then he fastened fingers under her jaw and pulled her free. The heat pulsing off them had vaporized the puddles to steam. She gazed into eyes that were almost solid silver and glazed with need. The rage, overcome by lust, was now harnessed to her soul.
She breathed it all in—the warmth and intensity of him, focused on one single, burning desire. She moved over him, once more straddling his hips, and pushed back against him, and then away. His hands moved to grip her thighs.
“Tricky Dragon,” he hissed through gritted teeth.
“You are mine,” she growled.
His eyes widened as she finally poised above him, teasing him with her heat. And then she pushed herself down onto him.
A groan tore free; his hands spasming, the tips digging into her thighs.Effing hell, Aria—
Sensation blasted through her. His rigid length filling her, one slow inch at a time, igniting nerve endings she didn’t know she had. And the hot, tight, liquid core of her, accepting him home.
She leaned forward, her tongue tracing the sharp edge of his jaw as she rose and lowered herself along his length. Her body stiffened, and he jerked and gasped in response, his mind pulsing with white static tinged with awe as he climbed higher. And higher.
Beneath her spread fingers, his heart raced. Her Dragon rumbled through her mind, pushing Aria to nibble her way to his throat, to where it joined his shoulder. As she pushed down on him, and he arched his hips up to meet her, she bit down.
He hadn’t been expecting it. She sensed his shock, and how his breath caught, before the bonding swept them past the pain. He cried out as the waves crashed over and through them, his body leaping and shuddering beneath hers with the force of it. As his static exploded through her, she threw her head back and roared as only a Dragon could.
Aria had never felt so alive. Before she could lick the wound to stop the bleeding, it healed, the holes sealing over.
Guess it’s a fringe benefit of being a Liberi,Nikolai commented. His mindvoice still sounded breathless.
A tinkling sound slowly pressed in on her awareness. She glanced up to the small waterfalls that traveled over the boulders to cascade around them. The snow had vanished for a hundred feet in each direction.
The click of hooves against stone—Nikolai looked past her, and a muscle jumped in his jaw. He gently set Aria to one side and stood.
She rose too, her scales chasing along her skin.
Cara stood on the boulders, her white hair whipping around her. With her stood not just two Unicorns, but ten. And Dragons hovered against the snow-driven sky.
“If you two are finished bonding,” Cara stated, “We have a Bellati to stop.”
And a morph to save.Nikolai’s mindvoice dripped with recrimination.
We needed to find balance to do that,Aria stated.
A new voice broke in.Yes, now that you’ve made my day in more ways than one, I would appreciate a rescue.
Lucas!
Yep. That’s me. Currently looking very studly in black. Hair is a bit trickier than scales, I must say. I am normally more spiky than fuzzy.
We’re coming for you,Nikolai promised,just hang in there, buddy.
His fingers traced the new scars on his shoulder.I might have been a virgin, but I haven’t ever heard of sex being used to tame a Unicorn,he stated with a hint of humor.And you bit me!
Aria planted her hands on her hips.You haven’t hung out among shifters much, have you?
