“Keep your hands up where I can see them,” I said in my stern voice. “Don’t move or I’ll let the dragon bite you in half.”
The vamp whimpered again, and I figured he was going to listen. If not, well, I wouldn’t stop Oakley from eating the guy.
“Ready, babe,” I said, not fully registering my words.
Oakley blinked at me for a long moment before they finally pulled their mouth off the vampire. I stepped in, grabbed the guy’s arms, pulled them behind his back, and secured him.
Out of the corner of my eye, I saw Oakley opening and closing their mouth, sticking their tongue in and out in an obviousget this fucking taste out of my mouthkind of way.
I wanted to laugh at them, but I didn’t want to embarrass them or anything.
Grabbing the vamp’s arm, I pulled him closer to my dragon so I could give Oak a couple of pats. “Good work, Oak,” I whispered for only their ears.
Their mouth twitched up into a dragony smile—making the vamp whimper again.
The three of us marched back over to the crowd, and I handed the vampire off to another king’s guard to load him into our van. We were going to move our prisoners back to Sedoba tonight, and from the looks of it, we were going to need several more vans.
We walked closer to the main crowd, and Oakley scanned the area, seeing no one else who needed to be tackled into submission. Their giant head leaned down and nuzzled gently against my chest, making me laugh and pet the golden scales on their snout.
Everyone else had it well in hand, so I focused on my viramore for a few minutes, giving them lots of pets and a few kisses on the snout. The rumbling that came out of their chest sounded like a purr, and it made my own dragon rumble in response. I couldn’t have stopped it if I tried. The purr came out, and as soon as Oak heard it, they nuzzled me again.
I laughed and kept up the pets, but I was the team lead on this mission, so I couldn’t stay this way forever. After a few more seconds, I said, “You should shift back. We need to help the victims in the barn.”
They huffed in annoyance and surprised me by sticking their tongue out and swiping it over the entire length of my body, seeming not to care about licking my clothes. Their tongue ran up my face, and I wrinkled my nose at the slobber.
Their piercing would’ve looked ridiculous on anyone else, but I liked it, even in dragon form. Luckily, Tan had helped Oak come up with a magical stud that grew and shrank with them when they shifted, so they kept the piercing in both forms.
This wasn’t exactly what I’d had in mind when I pictured Oakley licking me.
They let out a little chuffing noise that I knew meant they were laughing at me, and I chuckled as I used my sleeve to wipe my face.
“Gross.”
They stuck their tongue out at me.
A brat, even as a dragon.
I felt a shift in the air and wasn’t surprised to find Oakley shifted back to their human form. But my eyes widened when I got a look at them.
Because they were naked.
Like completely, one hundred percent naked.
They had their hands in front of their crotch, looking at me with a sheepish expression. “Um… I ripped my clothes up when I shifted.”
Right. Of course they had. I knew that. But… holy crap on a cracker, look at them. “Uh…” I… skin. So much skin. So much beautiful, gorgeous, soft-looking skin that I wanted to get my hands and tongue on. Oh Mother of Scales, I wanted to get my tongue all over that—
“Here, Oak,” Tan said, walking over to us. “I made Jed run back to the car for extra clothes. Figured you’d need them. These should fit you okay.”
Oakley took the clothes. “Thanks, Tan.”
Tan grinned and walked away, and all I could do was continue to stare.
Oakley caught me. Of course they did. I wasn’t exactly hiding anything considering I was just… standing there, staring. With my mouth open.
But all they did was smile a little, then they turned around so I was forced to look at their ass.
Ohhhhh fuck. Oh fuck, oh fuck, oh fuck.
