“Well, that’s good—” She leaned away, and her back bumped the edge of his desk as she stared at him.
Aodh’s gaze, with a low cerulean flame, met hers.
Something odd just happened.“Why’d you call it insanity?”
Her parents had been close and in love and often could finish each other’s sentences or were aware of how the other was feeling just by a glance, but she’d only known Aodh briefly.Her feelings for him were deep but complicated given the natural order as she’d always known it was not out of whack.But to have him saying or confirming things she’d only thought didn’t make sense.
He took hold of her hips and dragged her up his thighs until his hard length pressed against her sex.“It makes perfect sense.You are not just my mate, but my claimed mate with my young growing even now in your womb.Even though we do not have the years and love of your parents or mine, we have something special, mate.”
Kai gasped.His words were no coincidence.It felt eerie, so she grabbed his shoulders and started to rise.
His hands tightened on her hips and kept her in place.
“Aodh...how?...How?”She licked her lips and swallowed, trying to get her words together.“How did you know I compared us to my parents?My lust...all of it.Are Drahks mind readers?”
Have they all been able to read my mind this whole time?
“Yes and no, Kai.”He chuckled.“In dragon form, all Drahk communicate through the mind but are shielded from reading one another’s thoughts.So, if I wanted my brother to know something, I had to mentally speak it to him directly.However, it is not discerning; other dragons can hear it if they are nearby.”
“But I’m not a dragon.You aren’t in your Mckenna form.So, how is this happening?”
“You carry my offspring.”
Her face tightened.She was confused.
Aodh must have noticed her expression.“The link between claimed mates during pregnancy is strong.It doesn’t matter what form both or either is in.Then, we can communicate through that unity bond.”
“But, I’m not Drahk,” she declared.None of this should apply to me.
“You’re right.It shouldn’t apply to you.But it is happening.”
Kai folded her arms and gave Aodh a stern look.“Why didn’t you tell me about the unity bond.”
“Forgive me, mate.”Aodh lifted a hand and cupped her cheek as he held her gaze.“You’re the first human female claimed who conceived.I honestly didn’t think it would happen with you.Even for me, this is unchartered territory.”
She leaned into the heat of his hand.She could not fault Aodh for lacking information about the shared thoughts.Since the Great Catastrophe, nothing in the world was as it had been in history books and videos.
“Yes, the catastrophe has changed a lot.Somethings for better.”
“Other things not.”Kai wasn’t sure what would happen in the future.Just a month ago, if someone had told her she would be living with a dragon-shifter and having his baby, she would have freaked out and called them a liar.
“Are you disappointed you find yourself mated to me, little flame?”
His markings were void of color, and his gaze was clear.However, she could feel the tension in his body.Her answer mattered to this fierce, mammoth of a man.She touched his face and ran a finger over his chin.“No, Aodh.I am still adjusting to my life here in many ways, but I am happy to be with you.”
He placed a hand on her back and drew her forward.Aodh kissed her deeply.He slid his tongue into her mouth and flirted with hers, tempting her to join him in play.
She moaned and pressed into him while she circled his tongue and flicked the underside with the tip of hers.
Aodh growled and buried a hand into her hair.He fisted the thick, curly strands and held her in place as he took possession of the kiss.One moment, he suckled her tongue, then drove his into her throat, and then he pulled out only to nip her bottom lip and then do it all again.
The man is a beast.
And don’t you forget it, little flame.
His mental words cranked up her desire for him to a new level.She arched her back and pressed her hips forward and down onto the hard bulge in his pants.Her body ached with need, and she wanted the satisfaction only Aodh could bring her.
Aodh moved his lips from her mouth as he tightened his grip on her curls to tilt her head to the side.Once he had her neck availed to him, he placed hot, sucking kisses at the curve, the place that caused her toes to curl and her thighs to ache.
