Unable to keep his hands off her, he stroked the soft underside of one of her breasts.Kai shivered at his touch, and his cock began to harden in response.For the moment, he ignored his thickening shaft as he enjoyed just being with her.
“Aodh?”
“Yes, little flame.”
“What was your brother talking about?”
“Liekki talks too much.”It was true.His brother was an instigator, constantly pushing where he should leave things the hell alone.
Kai fell silent for a few moments.Finally, she turned her head until she was gazing at him.“What aren’t you telling me?”
He glanced away from her, taking in her full breasts and taut nipples.He could answer her question so many ways, but he decided to stick with the most important thing she had to understand.He met her gaze again.“Kai, I have told you that you are my mine.My mate.”
“Yes.”She licked her lips.
He tracked the movement and resisted the urge to kiss her pouty lips.His rough kisses from before made her lips swollen, and he loved seeing the evidence of any of his touches on her.
“What does it mean?Why are you so adamant that I must stay?”
Aodh decided to share a little of his people’s history with her.“Before the last generation, Drahk males had several mates.”
She lowered her gaze to his chest, shielding her eyes from him.“You’re a Drahk.Do you have a lot of love—” Her voice broke away.
Curling a finger under her chin, he returned her eyes to his.“I have had many lovers in my past, but now that I have a mate...you will be the only one.”
A small gasp slipped from her parted lips.She nodded.
“For many generations from the beginning of my kind, it was an honor for the dragon-king to service and impregnate many Drahkelles.It kept our numbers high.Made us invincible.”
“Currently, we have the same rule within the wall.Pregnancy for profit.”
He frowned at the bit of information.Aodh would catalog that for examination at a letter date.“Well, that is no longer.My father was the last dragon-king.He fell in love with my mother and refused to mate with another.”
“It sounds like a beautiful story.”There was a wistful shining to her lovely eyes.
“Perhaps in some ways.”He exhaled.
“In what ways was it not good?”Her delicate fingers idly traced the markings over his shoulder.
He bit down on his tongue to keep from groaning or rolling her to her back and retaking her.“Because all Drahks are connected.Linked through the dragon-king, no one can grow their family if he doesn’t breed.”
Kai frowned.He could see her mind working behind her eyes before she said, “Are you saying that if you don’t have children—”
“Offspring.”
“Then no one in your thunder can conceive?”
“Yes.”
“That can’t be possible.”She pushed up and faced him.“Aodh...are you sure?”
He sat up to rest against the headboard.“My sister and other young adult drakhs her age were the last generation born since the humans destroyed the planet.”
Kai’s eyes widened.“If you know this, why haven’t you mated?”
Chuckling, he wrapped his arms around her.“Little flame, it doesn’t work that way.I can’t just go out and make anyone my mate.”
“Why not?”She leaned back and stared at his face.“I’m sure Ninki would have agreed to carry your offspring.”
