Caz pulled back, his hands on my shoulders so he could look me in the eyes. “Because I’ve never been with one.”
“No girlfriends?”
“Anyone,” he grunted and looked away.
But not before I caught the way his eyes tightened ever so perceptibly. But not with anger, like I might have expected at suggesting he’d had previous romances. Discomfort.Embarrassment? Why would he be embarrassed about … Oh.Oh.
“Yes. I’ve never been with a woman. Ever.”
The ice tyrant, most powerful dragon in the Ice Kingdom, surrounded by a bevy of single, eligible female dragon elites who would throw themselves at his feet for a chance to fuck him …was a virgin?
“You can laugh now,” he growled, trying topull away.
“No, wait,” I said, snatching his hands and holding them tightly. “I’m not laughing. Shocked, yes. Even trapped in your private wing, I’ve seen some truly stunning women through the windows.”
His eyelids lowered.
I shook my head. “Nuh-uh. Don’t think I haven’t noticed that despite the size of your private wing, I haven’t actually been allowed out. Don’t deny it. We’ll get to that topic. But we’re on you for the moment. And your … how, Caz? Just how? Even I think some of them are too stunning not to hop in the bed with.”
Frost curled from my dragon’s nose at the idea of Caz evennoticingother women in the citadel. We didn’t like the idea. Didn’t want it. We might be refusing him, but apparently he wasn’t allowed to refuse us. Confusing didn’t even begin to cover my emotions in the moment.
“It’s not that. I’m not blind, but I never wanted to.”
“Every man wants to, Caz. I’ve seen the way you look at me.”
He hulked up, standing straight up, his eyes ablaze with green and silver fire. “You arenotlike them.”
The sheer fury and animalistic possession in his voice had me wanting to climb him and hold on like a damn spider monkey and showhim how much I liked the way he wanted me. Warmth curled its hot fingers between my legs, my center begging to be touched, to be stroked by one of his big, masculine hands.
“Because I’m a—”
His snarl shook the room violently. “Donotsay it. I don’t care if it’s what others call you, but you will not use that word in my presence about yourself. I won’t stand for it. You are so much better than you think you are, Anna. And I mean to make you see that, one way or another.”
I licked my lips, unsure what to do. Half of me wanted to fall to my knees and take out the hard cock I could see straining against his pants and run my tongue all along it, tasting him for the first time. The other half wanted to get angry for being talked to so firmly.
“You’re different,” he said in a calmer, gentler tone, the glow of his eyes fading as he reined his dragon back in. “In all the best ways. Better.”
“What do you mean, better? How? They’re all elites. Their power surpasses mine. You could have any of them.”
“I don’twantany of them!” he shouted, frustration boiling over. “Why can’t you see that? I want you.”
The desire, the bone-deepneedin his voice smacked me hard, seizing my chest and holding it hostage until it almost robbed me of breath.
“Why?” I squeaked out with what little air Ihad left. “Why me?”
“Besides my insane, almost magnetic pull to be around you or the wants of my dragon?” he asked, looking down at his raging boner.
“Besides both of those,” I said dryly. Actually dry. Because all the wetness was between my legs, sending my pussy into overdrive at the need to be taken by him, by that cock until I screamed for him to fill me, to give me his seed and—
Whoa. Easy, girl. We are not doing that. We’ve just barely begun to get to know him.
The response from my dragon wasn’t worth translating. Safe to say, she disagreed with me. Vehemently.
“Because you want me for me. That’s why.”
“Huh? I never said I wanted you.”
“I can smell your arousal as easily as you can see my dick outline,” he said, inhaling deeply to make his point. One of his lips ticked upward at the same time his eyebrows lowered, giving him a glazed look, like an addict.
