“She’s not weak, she just isn’t awake yet.”
I don’t know what that means, but Leaf drags me back into the lounge and pushes me down. I lay down on the couch, and the stupid dragon curls up behind me, spooning me. I shouldn’t be so comfortable, but this enemy is one I know well. Someone Ihave spent more decades than I can count learning. He isn’t as monstrous as he pretends.
I like him. I love him.
Sleep is elusive and comes in fits and starts. In my dreams, Mei is hanging from the tree, begging for help, but when I get to her, her skin slides off her, and she is dead, and it’s too late.
I hear her calling for me, and I search for her everywhere, but I’m too far away, and then I’m falling into the Black Death Oceans, and she’s stuck on the other side.
I wake up with a start, panting. It’s still dark, but Mei is sitting up, about to walk away. She cocks her head to the side but doesn’t call me out. She just gets up and walks out, knowing that I’m on her heels.
Everything in me is telling me this is a bad idea, but I have no ability to stop myself. My defenses are down, and I am weak. I am raw.
I want her.
She walks into the room with the pool. I don’t know why Diablos keeps getting houses with pools for us, but right now, I make a mental note to thank him.
Mei strips off her clothes and edges towards the water. I tear mine off and slip silently in. When she falls in, I catch her, dragging her up against my chest while she sweeps her hair back from her face.
“Ronit?” she whispers.
“What are you doing in here?” I say against her lips. “Don’t you know this is where the monster’s hide?” I nip at her chin and jaw. She tilts her head, giving me more access.
“I don’t know, I just feel dirty. I felt like I needed to be clean, but…”
I change shape, and the hot heat of her is pressed against my scales as she wraps her legs around my hips.
I reach up with webbed and clawed fingers and trail my nails lightly over her face and down her throat to her chest. Her nipples have tightened on her small breasts, and they press into my chest.
She moans and squirms against me. I recline onto my back, lazily flicking my tail so we move around the pool in a leisurely circle.
“Now, you’re not dirty. Do you want to get out, Mei? Do you want to stop?”
She hisses. “No.”
“Thank the gods for that,” I say and lean up, licking the graceful and thin column of her neck.
She wraps an arm around my neck, grabbing a fistful of hair and holding on. No, pulling me towards her. I find the spot where her scent is most concentrated, and I suck hard, knowing I’m leaving a mark.
She squirms and drags her hips over my scales.
I can feel her slick, I can taste it in the air.
“You were never meant to be mine, but just for tonight,” I whisper.
“Yes,” she hisses, mindless.
I arch my back, and my cock grows against her. I drag her up so her pussy covers it, then I focus on worshiping this incredibly hot Strega.
She moans as I duck my head and take her nipple in my mouth, except when I suck hard, her mouth opens wide, and she pants, shaking. Her fingernails turn to talons and scrape against my scalp.
“Oh, wow!”
“Feel good? You feel so good to me, Strega.”
“Yes, oh, uh. Please, Ronit,” she pants.
I love that she’s barely about to form a single word. I grab her hips and drag her up and down my shaft, getting us wet in the slick she is producing.
