She glanced down at the blanket, watching as her hands glided over it, making invisible designs, unable to look at him.”Why me?Why not...”she licked her lips, stopping herself from speaking Ninki’s name, “someone else?”
Aodh didn’t speak until she finally glanced up at him.“Because I have chosen you as mate.I have never picked another.”
The gasped tumbled from her lips.She wasn’t sure what she had expected Aodh to say, but that wasn’t it.Shocked, she sat there, feeling everything building between them that hung in the air around them.Even knowing that Aodh held something back from her still did not stop the frisson of heat curling down her spine and igniting the firestorm in her core.All those odd feelings in her body from earlier were still there but tenfold now.She didn’t understand it, but somehow, she knew Aodh was the answer.
Her sex throbbed as wetness from her sex spread along the inside of her thighs.
Aodh inhaled, then growled as a sapphire flame leaped in his eyes.“Come here, little flame.”
Chapter Eight
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Aodh watched Kai asshe sat in the center of the bed, her gaze meeting his, holding.He could see the rapid beating of her heart on the side of her neck and hear the fast flow of each breath she took.From the distance that separated them, he didn’t have to shift his gaze to see the hard tips of her nipples as they pressed against the material of the robe covering her.
From her sleep, the lapels of the robe had parted wide, leaving the cleft between her breasts visible with just a hint of the inside swells.She had been buried deep in the blanket as Aodh watched her.He was unable to tell what she had slept in.He’d hoped to discover that under the layers of covering, she slept like his people slept, nude.
It didn’t shock him to find out that she was wearing something.Kai was human, and long ago, he stopped being stunned by their actions.
She sat there, staring at him, pretending she didn’t hear his command and wasn’t warring with herself about whether or not to follow his orders.However, the twisting of her hands in the blankets bunched in her lap revealed her mental struggles.
Kai may fool herself into believing a battle was within her, but he knew how deeply her desire ran.More evident than the signs of heartbeats, taut nipples, or panting breaths was the pure, delectable, slightly sweet muskiness of her lust that honeyed the air—it called to him.Some of her needs came from her body’s response to the powder, but most of it was her.Even if Tana had not told him about the situation with the bath, Kai’s scent greeted him the moment he opened the door.The powder’s effects would only make it unbearable for her body, but Kai incited it.
He inhaled deeply, taking in more of her scent.If It were possible for his cock to become stiffer, it did at the thought of Kai’s slick sex.Aodh would bet one of his dragon’s scales that her pussy was soaked, too.
His beast shifted inside of him; he was not a fan of having his scales bartered.Especially for a human he hadn’t approved of yet.However, his dragon was a lusty beast, and Aodh knew he was looking forward to the evening ahead with Kai, even from the sidelines.
“As Mckenna to my people, I am not accustomed to anyone ignoring my requests.”
“Oh, was it a request?”She smirked.“It sounded like a command.”
“It was.I was trying to be kind.I won’t repeat it.”He leaned forward, pressing his elbows against his knees, and dropped his voice.“If I have to come and get you, I’ll fuck you first and eat your pussy later.”
There was a catch in her throat, but Kai tossed off the blanket a blink later and slid from the bed.
The flash of deep, medium-brown, long legs and thick thighs as the ends of the robe parted when she got up from the bed caused his heartbeat to drop into his groin and pulse heavy and strong up his stiff shaft.The robe billowed around her body as she stood and pooled at her feet on the floor.He knew it was his, one he rarely used.
