Lian touched his neck where it throbbed like a pulse. "Why did you bite me? I thought your kind only bit your mates?"
Nevair flushed. "Sorry. I couldn't stop myself."
"Huh," Lian didn't know if he should be concerned Nevair's dragon considered him mate material or pleased.
"I've never bit anyone before," Nevair confessed
"It's all right." Lian brushed off Nevair's apology. "Heat of the moment and all that."
Lian opened his pack and pulled out a T-shirt to wipe off the fluid dripping out of his ass before redressing. He shoved the used T-shirt back into his bag and closed it up, hoping he didn't smell too bad. Meeting the person who would be his host for the next few weeks smelling like a whore wouldn't make the best impression.
Catching Nevair's vulnerable look, Lian bit back a groan.
"You were real good, baby." He helped Nevair redress then climbed onto his lap until they were facing each other again. Lian refused to leave a man worried about his first time topping. He interspersed praises with light kisses across Nevair's face.
"You were amazing too." Nevair's green eyes had a possessive light as he slid his fingers across Lian from his hair to his ass and back again.
Nevair pulled Lian close and kissed him. For a man who confessed to never having a lover before, he kissed expertly. Normally Lian would feel like an idiot sitting on a lover's lap, with Nevair he felt cherished.
Kissing turned to heavy petting and just as Lian's cock started to rise again, the vehicle pulled to a halt. Reluctantly, Lian slid away from Nevair so they were sitting respectably apart when Shean opened the door. The twist of the driver's lips told Lian they didn't look as innocent as he would've liked. Of course, the smell in the car probably gave them away.
Nevair pressed a card into Lian's hands. "Call me. Don't make me come find you."
The determined expression in Nevair's eyes gripped Lian's heart. Lian nodded, but didn't offer any words. How could he turn down a man who looked at him as if the world only rotated because Lian breathed? With a kiss on Lian's cheek, Nevair left the vehicle. Lian bit back the urge to call out to Nevair, to beg him not to go. Lian had never been the one left behind before; he had to admit he didn't like the feeling.
"I'm going to escort his holiness inside then I'll take you to the medic hall," Shean said before shutting the door.
So much for his plan to see more of Dragait before starting work. Of course, what he did get to see so far surpassed any tourist sites or local watering holes. Nevair was a work of art all by himself.
It took all of three seconds before he became bored. Tapping at his communicator Lian zeroed into the emergency station. Every planet had a medic announcement line where they transmitted information for medics to be aware of. It only took Lian a few seconds to discover a problem already.
Chapter Two
"Emergency at the dragon grounds, trainer down. Healers respond to emergency at the dragon grounds."The dispatcher's voice sounded panicked as he repeated the call over and over.
Damn. Not even planetside an hour and already there was an emergency. Lian held back the urge to help.
No.
There were other healers, he didn't need to assist. Butting in his first day on the planet wouldn't win him any friendship points with the other medics. After all they did fine without him for years. No reason to think he needed to rush in now.
Except no one replied. Not one medic responded to the call. Lian waited for a comment, a return response but nothing. As he stared at his communicator the emergency call sounded again.
Crap!
He heard Shean enter the driver's side door. Lian knocked on the divider.
Shean lowered the screen. "To the medic center, sir?"
"I need to get to the dragon grounds. They said a trainer is down but no one's responding."
Shean cursed. "The dragon grounds are in a different kingdom than the medics so the head healer, Mevan Bourne, always claims they can't help out even though there's a treaty between them. A medic was killed there last year and he uses that as an excuse not to send any help.
"Damn politics." More than one planet let its people suffer while their rulers bickered. "Can you get me there?"
His throat went dry at the thought of some poor kid torn apart by a dragon and the healers sitting back and doing nothing.
What kind of idiot came to work on a dragon planet if he didn't like dragons? "Take me to the dragon fields."
