I already knew what she was going to ask but I nodded and waited for her to voice her question.
“Would youwantto fuck another queen?”
My knee-jerk reaction was to blurt,“No, of course not.”But she wanted the truth. Honesty that laid my heart bare. Which was always what I offered her anyway, but this was too important to her to brush aside her question casually. “Want? No. Not of my own choosing. But if you found pleasure in it, I would too. I will eagerly do anything you desire. As Lew said, you could tell all your Blood to fuck me while you watched, and I’d enjoy the hell out of it. But it wouldn’t be something I secretly desired myself.”
“I know we talked about this before, and it’s not been that long.” She laughed, shaking her head. “What, a few months? But our lives have changed countless times. I’m not the scared, on the run twenty-two-year-old virgin any longer.”
My lips quirked. “You’ve seen and done some serious shit and lived to tell about it.”
“Exactly. My eyes are opened to a whole new world. I didn’t foresee a future where I’d have female Blood with us, let alone other queens who might want to be intimate as well. Things change every damned time I open my eyes. I had no idea some queens shared their Blood. That I’d be fucking a Blood mymother once loved too. If your feelings—or any of the Blood’s feelings—have changed since we first set the expectation thatmyBlood…”
Her words fell off into silence. Her eyes flashing with emotion I could read without listening to her bond. Even the extra emphasis she put onmyBlood told me exactly what she wanted.
I let my voice rumble deep and low. “Are you still a jealous queen, Shara?”
She didn’t answer immediately, giving me the same serious consideration. Her jaw worked, the muscle ticking in her cheek. Power thickened in the room, making it difficult to breathe, even for me. My ears ached with pressure. Her hair slipped free of the bun, rippling like a black silk cape around her shoulders. Flaring like a massive fan above and around her.
“Yes. I am. I don’t want anyone touching or looking at what’s mine.”
“That’s a fucking relief,” Mehen said as he strode past us toward the bathroom, bare-ass naked. “I’d sooner rip another queen limb from limb just forthinkingabout laying a finger on one fucking scale.”
As he intended, her eyes locked on him. Her hair tumbled to the floor. Her hunger stirred. Even the cobra queen perked, lifting her head.
She dragged her gaze back to mine. Her gleaming eyes dark. Her lips parted. Her brutal, glorious fangs starting to drop. I bowed at the waist but kept my gaze locked to hers.
“No one in their right fucking mind would ever want anyone else when they could have you, Shara, my queen.”
18
MEHEN
Ifelt the heat of my queen’s gaze like a smoldering iron pressed to my ass. Naturally, I sauntered and swayed as much as possible. Making my dick swing. My ass cheeks flexing. I didn’t have to pause for dramatic effect or send a taunting, flirtatious wink over my shoulder.
Shara fucking Isador owned every fucking scale making up this dragon’s hide, and she fucking knew it.
The purr machine sat on the edge of the tub, though he was still dressed. I didn’t spare him a second glance as I climbed into the water. The giant tub was almost big enough to dive into, but I didn’t want to risk sloshing water over the edge. Rik would chew my ass if she slipped on the tiles, and if anyone was going to eat my ass?—
He thumped me in the bond.:She’s listening, motherfucker.:
I watched through slitted eyes as she entered the bathroom.:Good.:
Maybe it was the bite she’d allowed me to take in Galveston. Or just having an openly flesh-eating Blood among us. But I wouldn’t mind if she took a bite of me. Not at all. I owed her, for one thing. Remembering the taste of her skin on my tongue,sliding down my gullet, made my eyes roll back in my head. Almost enough to make me waste a fucking load before she even got her fangs in me.
Though I felt like shit every time the tender scar pulled in the crook of her arm. I didn’t want to cause her lingering pain. My only other regret was the sad reality that I couldn’t hold that bite of her inside of me forever. Not like Vore. That was some seriously cool shit.
She pulled the dirty sweatshirt over her head, and Rik steadied her while she stepped out of her jeans. “We should just burn these clothes. I don’t think the stench of the mud is ever going to come out.”
“We’ll see to it, my queen.”
The fucking bear rushed through the door like a bumbling grizzly crashing through trees and underbrush. “Sorry,” he panted. “I was checking something.”
Rik narrowed a hard look on him. “What?”
“I dunno exactly. I smelled humans.”
I damn near strangled myself fighting to keep a straight face with my mouth firmly locked shut, while watching Rik’s face darken with fury. For once, the alpha wasn’t pissed at me.
“And you didn’t think to report it?”
