I try to widen my legs even farther, and Zan helps, using his hands to open me even more for him.
I sob at the feeling of it, him, the immensity.
Nothing in my entire life has ever felt this good.
And he wanted to know if I wasready?
I wouldn’t have been, without him.
But now—
Now, I clench my inner muscles around him as he thrusts, clinging to him as hard as he is entering me.
Zan swears, his pace stuttering, and then hesurgesinto me.
This orgasm is both slow and fast, like it’s been building between us forever and that nothing has ever been like this in the universe until this moment.
“I love you, Yora,” Zan whispers behind me. “I love you more than anything, more than the world, I love you I love you I love you—”
“I love you, and you’remine,” I snarl back, and this timeZanyells as he slams into me with all his dragon strength, loosed at last.
And with mine, I meet him.
Zan gives me all of him, and I take it, just like he takes all of me, a loop that closes between the two of us until we are caught up in it—
And that’s when I feel it snap into place.
The mate bond.
I could feel the effects of it before—how I always knew him before anyone else, the rush of power moving between us—but not the bond itself.
But now, it’s like there was a cord between us that has been anchored deep in my soul; in my magic, in mywrath.
And we’re so close that it feels almost like a loop, overlapping and interposing ourselves inside each other.
In that instant, I feel Zan even deeper, because I feel him in my head, too. Feel what he’s feeling, the fierceness of his love forme, and I know he feels everything I feel for him and his wonder at it whichfinallythankfuck—
And then we’re both coming, and it feels like it will never stop, like we are going to be this deep in each other forever and Iloveit, I’m obsessed with it, with him, and he’s obsessed with my obsession,andme, and—
Zan grabs me around the middle with one arm and tilts us back, me above and him beneath, and we fall back into the water.
Our faces are still in the air, and as deep in each other as we are I realize Zan is supporting us.
And I remember: It’s my job to steer us.
There’s nothing we’re going to run into, not in a cozy bathtub—perhaps less cozy with the sheer heat we’re generating.
But we still move. We stillneedto move.
And as we move, my power grows, and with the bond so does his, and this, I realize, is my part in the dragon mating flight.
The magic spills out of us both, the pool evaporating with the sheer heat and I feel it like I once worked to feel the volcano beneath us.
But now, in this instant, the volcano responds to me like it was just waiting for me.
Waiting for me to have the fire.
But I don’t want us toactuallymelt together in a fiery miasma.
