His confidence in me remained awe-inspiring, even if it was to wring more orgasms out of me.
I rolled off his lap, just to get some sensation back into my legs. Ward played with my hair until he arranged it across the cushions to his liking and slid his slick dick between my breasts. The fire of the bond told me this was a great idea. I panted over something I had never once in my life thought I would try.
I cupped my breasts to cover his cock completely. I didn’t think him pumping up to touch my mouth would be sexy, but my body was soon on molten again. Ward’s questing fingers didn’t hurt. We brought each other to the brink again, and I lunged forward to eat up all of his delicious honeyed seed before he twisted his wrist into another back-arching orgy of sensation.
“I surrender!” I yelled as I flopped down, a heaving heap.
Ward smirked, getting up to throw another log on the fire before coming to crash next to me. The magic in his hands slowly wiped off our sticky mess.
“This was definitely better than the wedding those harpies had planned,” he said sleepily.
I shot bolt upright. “Wedding?!”
He nodded. “Yep. If I couldn’t finish the mate bond, I was going to try a human ceremony, but it got away from me a bit once your sister and friends found out.”
No wonder they had been up my ass for weeks.
“Now I don’t have to bring you back to the keep to get ready.” He wiped his hands of the magic, sitting up to grab some more food.
I turned to him, copying the look I saw in my friend’s eyes this whole month. “I have a much better idea. Let’s go flying.”
* * *
Reach forward slightlyand beat your wings down. Again.
Thankfully, Ward spoke in my mind, because the rushing air made it impossible to talk.
I thought you said you didn’t know any dragon stuff?I prompted.
Ward gripped my spikes tighter. I wasn’t sure if I should tell him that felt fantastic in an inappropriate way.I don’t, but I am good at finding ancient manuals. Including those about hatching and hatchlings.
He did that for me? I should have taken that as a given, but it still touched me. I fumbled in the sky as I lost my concentration.
Ward held on with a death grip.Focus, Evie. Unless you want your grand entrance to be landing on your face, he warned.
I did not. My dragon rider and I would teach my girl crew a lesson about meddling in our personal life. Never mind that Ward asked them to. Maggie and Fallon knew me well enough that they should have put a stop to that nonsense immediately.
I can see the clearing. Charge up,Ward commanded.
I pulled at my magic and illuminated myself and the surrounding clouds, only faltering slightly in the wind. I had to get better at flying eventually, right?
Promise me,I started.If I lose you?—
I will float harmlessly to the ground. Yes. Yes. I have the structure of the spell ready. Let’s go fuck up a wedding!
I beat my wings upward and then screamed into a dive as Ward shrieked a war cry that sent tingles up my spine. I weaved side to side and hoped that it looked like I was trying a daring maneuver rather than the out-of-control fall it actually was.
The clearing filled with fancily dressed guests who promptly started screaming when they spotted us. They looked amusing at this height.
Like snacks,my dragon supplied. I didn’t want to examine that too closely or encourage her.
A flower-strewn aisle marked the path to a large, elaborate pavilion. I used it as my guide to stream a righteous beam of light along the way, up to the empty pavilion, burning every flower to a cinder and bursting the structure into white flames.
I spotted Maggie yelling at me from behind Noth, her face scrunched up like a lemon. Fallon calmly stepped back from the burning structure. I plopped in a sprawl of limbs on top of the wreckage, tossing a beam of light into the sky with a roar.
Ward stood on my back, his hair ruffling in the wind. “My mate and I have married. You may all go home now.”
Noth laughed, and Declan clapped from the sidelines. In fact, all of our adopted brood hooted and hollered from the fringes of the group. Only Maggie, Ruby, and Emrys truly appeared put out. But we had a lifetime to make it up to them. Maybe I would try marrying off Maggie next and see how she liked it.
