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He reached the waist of my pants, his mouth moving across the delicate skin between my hip and groin. I was painfully hard, trapped by the tight material of my pants and undergarments. I could feel the trails of wet precome soaking my undergarments and made a sound so desperate I was sure the Dogs would break open the door to find out what had harmed me.

Tallu pulled down my pants, helping me take off my boots and stripping me down until I was naked beneath him. He moved his mouth to my hard cock, swallowing it whole and suckling on it as though he needed this just as badly as I did. His mouth stretched, the tip of my cock reaching the back of his throat in one hot swallow.

He didn’t choke, moaning around my flesh, and I found myself clawing at his shoulders, wanting to come and not at the same time.

“Tallu,” I said. Because he was the only real thing. With the mythology of who I was, the impossible truth of it, he was the only real thing I knew.

“More,” I begged.

Tallu drew back, his head bobbing on my cock as though he could continue to do so forever, as though he would never grow tired of it, never want anything else. As though my pleasure was just as important as saving the world from the Imperium.

I laced my fingers through his silky hair, wrapping them in his dark curls. He made a sound around my cock and I tightened my grip, knowing it was likely painful, but he swallowed me down further, his nose resting against my groin. I could feel myself leaking in his mouth, everything getting wet between his spit and my precome.

Desperate, I pushed him off me, grabbing hold of his shoulders and levering him onto the bed next to me. Then I was on top of him, kissing his mouth and tasting myself on his lips, tasting his desperation too. His hands were everywhere, and I wanted them, wanted more, but knew if he touched me again I would come. I grabbed hold of his hands, lacing our fingers together and pinning them above his head. He arched his back, and I kept my legs clamped around his hips, riding through his wild bucking.

“I love you,” I said.

Underneath me, Tallu stilled and gazed up at me. His russet eyes were exactly what I needed, and I knew he was looking into me as he always had, seeing so much more than I wanted him to. He was the only one who could do that, could see the truth of who I was.

“I will never deserve you,” Tallu said. “And I love you all the same.”

“Stop saying that,” I murmured, pressing his hands harder into the soft mattress. He tried bucking again, but I pushed him down, forcing him to look at me with those impossibly perceptive eyes. “We deserve each other. It is only because of who we are that we are going to save you and the world. It is only because of who you are that I awakened the powers that have been locked away for generations. I love you.”

Tallu groaned, letting his head sag onto the bed.

“I love you,” he responded. “I love you.”

I released him, wrapping one of my hands around his cock, dragging my dry palm against his sensitive skin. I reached the tip, wetting my thumb with his precome, and dragged my hand down again. He jerked but didn’t ask me to stop.

He was so hard in my hand, thick and long, and I wanted it inside me. I wanted him inside me.

I wanted proof that we were together in this, proof that he was mine as much as I was his. I reached for the bedside table, finding a familiar tin that one of Tallu’s servants had helpfully left out for us. I swirled my fingers in the oil, getting just enough, then I reached between my legs and pressed my fingertips in, spreading myself, stretching my body to ready myself for him. Tallu watched me with hungry eyes, his mouth falling open as I worked myself.

He groaned with me when I found the right spot, throwing my head back. But my fingers were not enough. My fingers were not what I wanted.

I reached for the tin again, grabbing more than I needed and wrapping my hand around his cock. I slid up and down, until I needed more. When I moved to position myself above him, he put a hand on my neck, another on my shoulder and rolled us until my back hit the mattress.

Then he was above me, my legs spread for him and he grabbed hold of one of my ankles, kissing it before positioning himself at my slick entrance and pushing inside. I knew as soon as he bottomed out that I was not going to last. With my leg stretched nearly against my shoulder, the other wrapped around his waist, I was displayed, waiting for him, ready for him.

He grinned down at me, his eyes crinkling.

“I love you,” he repeated.

“Tallu—” I had no words, his name strangled in the back of my throat. It was too much, too much pleasure, too much of everything. He pushed in even further, and I hadn’t thought that possible. He hit something inside of me so deep that I made a keening sound.

Then he pulled back, sliding in again, beginning a punishing pace of thrusts that left me moaning and sobbing from pleasure. I came as soon as he wrapped a hand around my cock, spilling over his fingers in hot, desperate streams of come.

He grinned down at me, then raised his hand to his lips, licking the taste of me from his fingers. I opened my mouth, unsure what to say, but then he pulled back, thrusting in once, twice.

I could see he was losing control, so I rolled my hips up, meeting his next thrust, and his eyes flew open to catch on mine. He came, shuddering above me, his shoulders arching forward. I reached up, wrapping my arms around him and drew him down on top of me.

This was what I had wanted. This was what I had needed.

Between our cooling bodies was proof that no matter what else I was, no matter what powers I gained or what the world needed me to be, I would always be Airón to at least one man. I would always be myself to Tallu.

Eventually, before sleep could claim us and leave us to wake sticky and filthy, Tallu pulled out, rolling next to me and reaching up to cup my face in his hand. He kissed my forehead, my cheek, my mouth.

“I am yours, my empire is yours, my heart is yours,” Tallu said. “What do you need to do now that you have claimed the title of One Dragon?”