“I do feel connected to you, and I wasn’t sure what that was. Maybe an infatuation, but everything in my being is telling me it’s love which is kinda bonkers. And yet it isn’t.”
I couldn’t do this with me avoiding staring at his huge cock. “Wait.” I pulled off the blanket, and he wrapped it around his hips.
“I’ve been fighting the idea that eight years ago the universe said you were my mate.” I inspected a torn fingernail. “But I’d been lost for so long, and coming to town wasn’t just making this place my home.” I patted his bare chest. “It was coming home to you.”
He gripped the blanket with one hand while the other cupped my chin.
“Seeing your dragon up close and touching him cemented what I already suspected. I love you.” Now that I’d said it and the words hung in the space between us, I needed him to snatch them and hold them tight.
There were tears in his eyes as he said, “I love you too, and if it’s okay, I’d like to kiss you.”
I yanked him close, and his lips pressed against mine. I savored his taste and breath and how his hands gripped me. He moaned, and I shivered as the vibrations rippled through me. But I couldn’t get enough of him. I wanted his tongue in me, his fingers and his cock.
“Stay with me tonight,” I whispered against his lips.
“Are you sure?”
I kissed him again. “Oh yeah.”
He grinned against my mouth. “I should probably put pants on first.”
I laughed, and the sound echoed across the garden. “Yeah.”
But neither of us moved.
ELEVEN
PAX
I dragged Dray toward the house, but he was faster and stronger, and he picked me up. The blanket fell to the ground and he was naked again. His arm cradling my ass must have been smothered in slick soaking through my pants because the scent washed over me, signaling how much I wanted him to fuck me. I struggled to get air in my lungs as desire streamed into my veins and my cock swelled.
Dray smirked because he had an excellent view of my crotch and the arousal that was straining the cotton fabric of my pants. He climbed the stairs two at a time, and his length smacked his thigh with each step. The titillating slaps had goosebumps prancing over my skin as I anticipated the night ahead.
My hands were draped around his neck or I might have reached over and grabbed his dick. I longed to weigh it on my palm and to lick the tip before swallowing him, and afterward to have him ram his cock into my hole. Oh gods, just thinking about him holding me as his dick slid in and out had more slick surging from me. And was that sweat slipping between my shoulder blades and trickling down my spine?
He paused at the entrance to my room. It was no longer where I’d slept during my childhood but the master bedroom. I’d finally accepted my place as owner of the house.
My pulse quickened, and I put a hand to my chest, willing my heart to cool it. I was nervous and excited and my poor heart wasn’t coping with the conflicting emotions. But Dray rescued me as he had countless times since we met. The heat from his bare skin seeped into mine and slowed my galloping heart and shooed away the goosebumps. His scent was heightened but perhaps that was because my nose was resting on the crook of his neck.Inhaling his intoxicating scent also soothed my nerves.
He glanced down at me, and I stared into his green eyes and brought his mouth to meet mine. Gods, savoring this man’s scent, touch, and his breath had my head spinning and was making me giddy.
“Are you sure, Pax?”He pressed his lips to mine.
Ahhh, I should have added his voice to that list as it vibrated against my skin. I nodded, and he moved into the room and sat me gently on the bed. The room smelled of lilac from a candle I’d burned earlier, and its reassuring aroma was similar to a hand on my elbow and calmed any remaining jitteriness.
But it was overlaid with my scent, and the two mingled with Dray’s, reminding me of a tender melody.
He didn’t remove his hand or step away from the bed, and for a second, I wondered if I’d missed a signal and I was supposed to do something.
“Don’t move. I’m memorizing every part of you.”
“Are you planning on not doing this again?”
He grinned, a smile so wicked a pink flush crept over my skin, before he lowered his lips to my ear. Waves of heat crashed over me, and I longed to be rid of my clothes.
Dray kneeled beside the bed, but his hand on my hip remained as if he needed to stay connected. Now we were at eye level, and he trailed a finger over my jaw and around my mouth. I shivered and parted my lips. He slipped the tip of his finger into my mouth, and I bit down hard.
He winced, but his chest heaved with long slow breaths, and his eyes darkened.
