Titan frowned. “Are you sure? You used a lot of healing magic on my arm.”
“I’m done healing your arm. Besides, the magical healing cock doesn’t take as much magic.”
“Maybe another day. I still can’t believe it worked.” Titan sighed. “But I’m glad it’s our little secret.”
Mathlin scoffed. “Hamilton blabbed to Zenith about it so Zenith would put it in his book.”
Zenith was one of the alpha dragon brothers. He was an author, working on a top-secret book that he wouldn’t tell anyone about. Titan and Mathlin had agreed that it was probably a romance novel because alphas didn’t usually write those. Except it was something Crush knew about, going by the cryptic things he said to Zenith sometimes.
Actually, the book was probably about people they knew.
Mathlin gasped. “Do you think his book is about Uriel?”
They stared at each other.
“Uriel and that alpha he’s always bickering with?” Titan said, his eyebrows rising. “And maybe Crush commissioned it because he has a fuck-ton of money?”
“They’re not supposed to do that or they’ll be disqualified from the betting pool,” Mathlin whispered. “Did you place a bet on when Uriel and Bruiser will get together?”
Titan shook his head. “I didn’t have the cash to spare. So I have no stake in it, really.”
“Does that mean you can beg chapters off Zenith?” Mathlin squealed. “Maybe we can bake him and Crush brownies, and they wouldn’t mind?”
Titan snorted, shaking his head fondly. “Math, you’re just as bad as Everdin. They might not want to share. No one wants to forfeit their entry intothatbetting pool. And I’m pretty sure Crush and Zenith placed bets.”
“But we can try,” Mathlin said, giving Titan puppy eyes.
“Fine,” Titan said with a grin. “But first. Are you going to sit properly on my lap, or are you going to keep wriggling?”
“If I wriggle enough, I might trip and fall onto your cock.”
Titan snorted. He pressed Mathlin into their nest and thrust lightly, the hot, thick length of his cock sliding between Mathlin’s cheeks. Mathlin squirmed; Titan kissed down Mathlin’s throat and sucked on his nipples. His mouth was hot and wet, and it made Mathlin grow weteverywhere.
“Titan,” Mathlin moaned.
“You’re perfect,” Titan growled, petting Mathlin’s sides. With his strong hands, he flipped Mathlin over onto all fours and fittedhimself snug against Mathlin’s back, dropping hot, sucking kisses across Mathlin’s shoulders. Then he kissed up Mathlin’s neck, his breath hot on Mathlin’s skin. “Sweetheart, may I—” He trailed his sharp teeth against the crook of Mathlin’s neck. “May I mark you?”
Mathlin’s heart pounded. “A mating bite?”
“Yes.”
“I haven’t even told you that I love you.” Mathlin stiffened and groaned. “I meant to tell you in a really romantic way, like with flowers flying everywhere, but my mouth just has to ruin it all.”
“Not ruining it,” Titan growled, wrapping his arm around Mathlin’s belly. “You’re presenting for me, giving me yourself. Letting me have you at your most vulnerable.”
Mathlin’s breath hitched. “I’ve been yours for a long time.”
Titan’s arm tightened around him. “Oh,” he murmured. He nuzzled Mathlin’s hair and dropped kisses all over his nape. Then he turned Mathlin back around, looking into his eyes. “Say it again.”
“I love you, Ti,” Mathlin said quietly.
Titan shuddered, his pupils dilating. He pressed their mouths together in a sweet, chaste kiss—chaste for how undressed they were—and he tasted like affection. “Mine. I love you too, in case you didn’t already know.”
Mathlin laughed softly, his heart swelling. “No one looks at me the way you do. Like... Like I’m precious. Like I could say the most embarrassing things in the world, and you would love me anyway.”
“You’reveryprecious.” Titan kissed him again and again, before trailing kisses down Mathlin’s throat and collarbones. He sucked on Mathlin’s nipples and kissed his belly, then he kissed Mathlin’s cock and took it into his hot, wet mouth. Mathlin moaned, sliding his fingers into Titan’s hair. “So beautiful,” Titan murmured around his cock. He sucked on Mathlin for a while, then pulled away and spread Mathlin’s thighs. He kissed and sucked Mathlin’s sensitive inner thighs, then kissed his sac and nosed his way behind it, slipping his tongue between Mathlin’s cheeks to lick his hole. “So tasty. So perfect for me.”
“So ready for you to breed me,” Mathlin whined.
