“Kirion. I do. But I want you to be ready. I’m still dealing with you having limited choices.”
“Not with you. You’ve given me so many choices. More than I ever had even at home. You’ve made very sure I’m not being coerced. And I’m not. I love it here. I want to be here. It’s still new, everything is, but I want it. I want you. I—I—”Love you.I couldn’t finish my sentence. Not yet. It was too frightening just in case he might change his mind again.
I searched my own mind. I knew what he was talking about. That little flame of warmth. A golden spark. I closed my eyes and set all my heart energy toward it. To my surprise, it flared up.
“I sense it. I feel it. I think I can even see it,” I said softly.
“I felt that. Whatever you did,” Tane replied, stroking the back of my head.
“I want to be bonded. I know it with every cell of my being. I want and need to be with you.”
“All right, then.”
Try again, I commanded myself. “I—I love you.” I spoke directly to the center of his chest. Could he hear me? Could his body listen and respond?
The answer came in the form of a statement.
“I love you, Kirion. I have for weeks now.”
I took a shaky breath and realized this was our moment. Like a vow. Like an exchange of rings. Only deeper. Not a show, but reality. We didn’t have roles anymore. We had each other. Who we were behind closed doors was not mentioned in paperwork that labeled me a slave with no rights and Tane my owner. And it didn’t have to. All that mattered was our truth. Who we were for each other together. As bonded mates.
Right after ourbonding talk where we both agreed to the commitment, we got to work making our life together. I moved into Tane’s huge bedroom. I got my own bank account which he filled to the brim. He did everything to make sure I was secure. And safe. Both physically and in my heart.
When December arrived with snow and sleighbells, I went into heat.
We had discussed things thoroughly by then. We talked endlessly almost as much as we made love. We couldn’t get enough of each other on all levels.
I had been taking my birth control daily. As my heat date approached, I reached for a pill on the counter next to a glass of water. Tane’s hand closed gently over my wrist.
“Are you sure? Maybe we could try.”
At first I was a little slow to understand. Then it dawned on me. “You would have another child?”
“With you. If you wish. You’re the one who will carry the egg. Or maybe even give a live birth. With cross matings it could be either.”
I thought of Malin and Tane’s heartbreak. “But do you even want another kid? I’m okay if you say no.”
“If you say yes, I do. I want it. But if you aren’t ready—or ever ready—I’m also fine with that because I want you to be happy.”
“I want the same for you. But I thought you might not want more kids.”
Tane gulped. “Malin is gone. I can’t do anything about that. But this is a new life. For both of us.”
He hadn’t heard from Malin after he stormed out. Not once. I felt sorry for him about that but this was about us now, not him, not anyone else.
“I want to try. I want us to try,” I said cautiously.
He swung me up into his arms. The pill was ignored as he took me, in the budding flush of my pre-heat, back to bed.
A few days later, my heat burned like a giant fire. I was insatiable. All I wanted were knots.
I was shameless. “Breed me, Tane. Breed me.” I stuck my ass in the air holding my cheeks open for him as he pounded into my slick open hole.
For two days we ate, slept and drank breeding. My hole was full more than I was empty.
Tane fucked me senseless, then sucked me dry hour after hour. I lay in bed in a constant state of ecstatic rapture.
His cock never softened. He plunged it into me and when my hole needed a rest he plunged it into my mouth because he said for dragons that drinking semen was showing respect to the fertility gods. It was believed the chemicals in a dragon shifter’s ropes of cum opened the doorways inside an omega to have the breeding quicken and take and grow a healthy egg.
