by Erin R Flynn
“You didn’t,” he promised. “Tamsin, you didn’t. He was much more of an asshole then he showed you. Yes, he was unhinged, but he was also a jerk. He didn’t hang out as much with Lucca last year. I think… I think he just wanted you and wore a mask to have a chance. A different mask than we all saw that hid his mental issues. I hated the guy and I didn’t hide I wanted him away from you.”
I nodded. “I was spending less time with him and I didn’t really spend much time with him.” Except for our jogs. That was really our only time together.
“It wasn’t you. Neither was what happened with me. It just happens and we’ll get through both.”
“Promise?” I rasped, voicing my fear this would break me. “I’ve been through so much, but this much so fast and I feel…”
“I promise. I won’t leave you and I know you’re strong enough to get through this.” He pulled me to sit against him, his arm around my shoulders as he kissed my hair. “And we’re good. I’m not upset about Hudson. I just didn’t want to act like I was flippant with you. Maybe you need comfort and help more than you’re ready for with me.”
The slice of pizza I was eating froze on the way to my mouth. I slowly glanced up at Darby, who was giving me a soft smile. “So you know?”
He nodded. “I’m not an idiot. He watches you like a man who knows how to make you scream his name and has.”
“I wasn’t cheating and—”
“I know, you were honest about that. I agreed to—”
“I’m not just adding people,” I cut back in to make something clear. “Hudson was first. Even before, um, you know.”
“Oh,” he muttered, his eyes flashing shock. “Huh. Really?”
I nodded. “Since the welcome ball. Our magic or my magic was acting weird with the pills and it was—yeah, that night. I’ve never just hooked up like that, but it’s been since then. Casual.” I shook my head when he gave me a challenging glance. “We’ve talked about it. Casual can have respect and being friends.”
“Yeah, it can and anything else with him would be complicated.”
“Exactly, and he can’t give me normal.” I cleared my throat and looked at him from under my lashes. “You’re really okay with it?”
“As long as he’s good to you.” It was his turn to clear his throat. “And I prefer not be kept in the dark anymore on anyone else. Not if we’re officially together.”
“No one else,” I promised. “And you can watch with Craftsman next time he fucks me in that lecture hall.”
“Oh, agra, that would be my absolute pleasure,” he groaned, leaning in and kissing my hair. I caught his lips when he pulled away. It was quick, sweet, and that was all we’d been having since our own issues.
I think we both wanted more but now with what happened I needed something easy and stable. Fuck did I ever.
And maybe Darby was right that I needed to visit my dragon.
Later that night Izzy went to hang with Natalie and the others since they were going to work on some of the havens after studying… And I got ready for a visit to a dragon’s lair. Or his room, whatever. It was funny in my mind.
He was waiting for me, the window opening the second I reached the dragon dorm and started climbing the holds. He leaned out and pulled me in, slamming the window closed behind me. Hudson looked on edge and almost dangerous standing there, looming over me to his full seven-foot height in nothing but his boxer briefs.
“Show me your nape,” he bit out. Oh, he was really on edge and didn’t like getting punched for touching his princess.
I moved away from him and toed off the boots I’d worn over as I pushed back the hood of my long, fitted, black wool coat. I undid the fasteners with one hand and took out the clip in my hair with the other. Shaking my long, curly, bright red hair out to cover my nape even more, I let the coat slide off my body and reveal what I’d worn for him.
His eyes filled with heat and even more naughty menace as he ate up every inch of my body in the vibrant blue lingerie set that matched his eyes. He actually licked his lips as he got to the black garters and the stockings they were holding up. “Fuck, you look like a dream.”
“That was the goal,” I purred, running my hands over my body. “Now get over here and show your princess you deserve her, this outfit, and her pussy you’re going to eat until she can’t take any more.”
“Oh yeah I will,” he chuffed, storming over to me.
I had just enough time to put up the sound bubble and lock his door before he was on me. He cupped my face with one hand and the other went in my hair, getting tangled in it as his mouth crashed down to mine. He devoured me like a man dying and I felt the same. It had been so long for us with all the problems I kept having and I missed him.
Apparently, he felt the same.
I moaned as his hand squeezed my breast and then he lifted me up, carrying me to his bed. He said something but I was so lost in a lusty haze that I didn’t catch on until he started ripping the lingerie off of me.
He’d replace it. That was what he said. Yeah, cool, fine by me, whatever, as long as he kept doing what he was doing.
Thank fuck he did. He kissed down my body and attacked my pussy.
“This is mine too,” he snarled before giving me a long lick. “You crave me as much as I crave you. No one is taking you from me. It took all I had not to fucking kill him.”
I flinched, but was glad I caught up enough to realize he was talking about Mason, not Darby and the punch from earlier. Gods, right, we hadn’t even had any alone time like this where I wasn’t a sobbing mess since the thing with Mason.
We really needed this and so did my body with how fast I orgasmed, a shocked and thrilled cry falling from my lips.
He flipped me over and growled. “Show me your nape.”
“No, not until I ache you fucked me so good and showed me you won’t ever let me go,” I demanded, wondering where that had come from. But it also made sense. I felt… Vulnerable. And I had people to turn to besides Mel for once. I wanted that.
“Spread those legs and sit on my face then,” he demanded, chuffing again and sounding like a dragon. He moved under me before I could reply, pulling me on his face.
Fuck that was good. I chanted his name as he took good, good care of me, smirking when he moaned as I climaxed all over his face. He loved my juices, dragons—and maybe supes in general—very into scents, tastes, and that sort of thing. Fine with me because I thought it was hawt.
He flipped me again after several orgasms, smirking when I yelped, and moved over me. “We’re good, right?”
I nodded, knowing he meant birth control since he didn’t know I was a fairy and not old enough to get pregnant yet. “I’m ready. I need my dragon.”
His nostrils flared and he spread me wide before plunging in me. We both groaned and my back arched it was so good, so long since I’d felt his massive cock stretch me so wide, go so deep. He lifted me up and I hung onto him, knowing what he wanted.
“You are my princess,” he declared before abso-fucking-lutely drilling me while standing.
And all I did was beg for more. He licked his lips as he kept going and going, smirking each time I came with a cry of his name. Finally, he finished deep in me, grunting as he did and sounding more dragon than man as he made sure all of his climax was in my body.
He nuzzled my neck as we both gasped for air, his hands moving all over my body in a possessive manner that had me angling into them. That seemed to make him happy as he nipped at my skin. “Did I give my princess what she needed?”
I pressed my lips against his ear and then traced the shell with my tongue. “Mmm, only if you ride me hard while I show you my nape. Does my dragon want that?”
“Fuck, Tamsin,” he groaned, his cock twitching inside of me. “You know I do.” He gently pulled out of me and laid me on the bed. I was still recovering but I made sure to reach up and push my hair over my shoulder so he saw my nape. He growled in approval. “Unlock the door. Someone’s
waiting.”
“Who?” I asked, not really giving a fuck.
“You’ll want me to invite him in,” he chuckled.
Craftsman. There was only one person who fit that description. I reached out and pulled the magic off my lock right before he reached the door. Sure enough Craftsman ducked in a moment later and I relocked it.
“Sorry to—I was worried,” Craftsman admitted.
“It’s fine,” Hudson accepted. “Undress and join us.” He chuckled when I shivered. “Do you want that, Princess? Tell us what else you need.”
I glanced over my shoulder and saw him frown at Hudson but then give me a worried look. I turned on my back and let him see how good and sexed up I was, smirking when he swallowed loudly. “Get naked, Julian, and fuck me.”
“Wait, I needed to check and see how you were after today,” he muttered as he came closer. “You were lost in class, you hid during lunch, and I needed to see you, my sweet duckie.”
I reached out and pulled on the tie he was still wearing until our lips were a breath apart. “Then help me feel better, Julian. I need a time-out and feel the good crazy.”
He licked his lips but kept my gaze instead of looking at my lips or body. “I get that, but I’m worried with—”
“Doc, he just drilled me. and I want him to do it again while riding me,” I purred, brushing my lips over his. “Want to help and fuck me so hard we have to use a healing rune? Twice? Fuck me while he teases me and then just hold me. That’s what I want tonight. That’s what I need tonight.”
“She wants our healthy obsession, not the spiraled out she’s gotten lately,” Hudson muttered under his breath.
Yeah, I did. I hadn’t even understood that was what I needed but he was right. And apparently Craftsman agreed because he gave me a soft kiss.
“Fine, but I want a taste of my sweet duckie before we fuck her all night so I’m going to need to borrow a wet rag to clean her from you, mate.”
“Fine, as long as you suggest she sleep here more often with both of us,” Hudson agreed. “I miss having her in my bed now that she’s been here.”
“I know the feeling after waking with her in my arms every morning over break,” Craftsman admitted.
“Rub it in, fucker,” Hudson grumbled as he went to the bathroom to get the washcloth.
Okay then.
He came back and cleaned me up as Craftsman undressed. He got on the bed and moved to pull my upper body on my lap… Holding my wrists down.
Immediately I yelped and struggled, shocking the shit out of Hudson.
“Don’t restrain her, mate,” Craftsman murmured, scooping me up and holding me against him.
“I’m sorry,” Hudson rasped.
“You didn’t know,” Craftsman explained. “When Darby lost his head with her blood he was pinning her wrists and now with how she was—”
“Stop, don’t tell me,” I choked out. “I was too out of it to know I was wearing a wedding dress and now that haunts me. My body was too messed up to move so I don’t need to hear the details. I figured they did something—they were planning to hold me down but yeah, Darby did too. Sorry.”
“Don’t ever be sorry if we trigger you,” Hudson murmured as he kissed my shoulder as they hugged me together. “We all have our stuff and you would understand for us as well.”
“Besides, I love it when she grabs handfuls of my hair while I taste her sweet pussy,” Craftsman murmured.
Hudson chuckled as he kept hugging me while he sat back on his feet. He had a front row seat for Craftsman taking good care of me and how much I liked it. He ramped up the fun by kissing and teasing my body, but I wanted so much more.
“Fuck me, Julian. Fuck me raw and show me I’m yours,” I demanded.
“Gladly,” he growled, yanking my ankle to pull me down the bed as he plunged into my body. He might not be as big as Hudson, but he was no less a lover. Craftsman had sex like he did everything he cared about… Completely involved and focused on it.
He played my body like an instrument and I had not a doubt he knew exactly when he hit my G-spot and timed it with when he dug his fingers in my ass. Or spread me wider when I got closer and rubbed his chest against my sensitive nipples as he whispered exactly what I needed to hear to give me the absolute best experience. He was the complete package and all-consuming sexual experience.
And I loved it.
I dug my nails in his back and begged for more, knowing how much he liked that. I wanted to always give as much as he did, squeezing my body around him and sucking on his earlobe as I told him how good he made me feel. Then I decided to do more than tell him.
I showed him. I turned on my telepathy and gave him images in his mind about what he did to me, how much I needed him right then. I could feel how much he liked it and I got the added bonus of him doubling his efforts to please me.
“No woman is like you, love,” he promised me, grunting as he thrust harder. “No woman could make me feel this. Only you. Only us together. I won’t ever leave you.”
I hadn’t realized I was still showing him what I was feeling and wanting but I had broadcast my insecurities and how scared I was. Needy even, which wasn’t like me. I shut it down and he nipped my skin in silent chastising for hiding my feelings from him.
“You are ours, Tamsin. You are the balm on our souls just as we are the love that helps your injured soul too,” he told me in between thrusts. “No one will take you from me.”
“No one ever,” Hudson agreed as he took my hand in his, not holding me down but being there with us. “We’ve got you.”
“Damn bloody right we do,” Craftsman agreed. “Come for us, love.” It took a bit more coaxing given I’d gotten lost back in my head, but we finished together and it was everything.
Dayumn I was a spoiled woman. For all the bad and crap I had, I really did have a lot of good. Now if I could just figure out how to hold onto that when the bad overwhelmed me, that would be how I managed to get through this.
12
I was still gasping for air when I realized there was something around my wrist. Hudson knew I caught it too and kissed my hand before bringing it into my view. I gasped as I saw the gorgeous charm bracelet… And flinched when I saw the double infinity sign.
“It’s a magical bracelet,” Craftsman explained as he gently pulled out of me. “It means it cannot be broken. It cannot be taken off.”
“By anyone besides you,” Hudson quickly added as he helped me sit up. “I bought it but it’s yours and knows you now. No one else can take it off.” He waited until I nodded to show me the amazing dragon charm that was wound around a gem. “This was the only charm I got you originally. When I’m thinking of you, the gem will light up. That way you’ll see how often you’re on my mind.”
“The dirty stuff?”
“No, not just that, Princess,” he whispered, tucking my hair behind my ear before giving me a soft kiss. “I wanted you to see you’re more to me than that. I want you to see how important you are to me even if this is casual and it’s safer for you to keep it quiet. I’m not ashamed of you, nor embarrassed, nor are you someone to hide. You’re real.”
I nodded, noting the gem was glowing softly, not in a distracting way but comforting almost. It would be something I could note but not annoy me. I opened my mouth to thank him when I saw the other charm. “What’s this one?”
“The one he just purchased, and I thank him for it,” Craftsman muttered as he reached over and fingered what looked like a first aid kit. “It’s an emergency charm. Parents can get it for their children or in this case, if you’re in need again, a huge fucking dragon will come and eat any who want to hurt you. He’ll also alert us as well.”
“That’s really sweet,” I muttered, swallowing loudly and trying not to feel like it was a leash and another bar in the cage I kept being put in. “I left a note for Izzy and—”
“I know, love. You’re still too new and our world is too corrupt and dangerous. Let us keep you
safe. It’s not a tracker or leash. It’s an emergency ‘fuck the shit’s hit the fan’ last resort.”
“I have one,” Hudson told me. “It’s on my keys. I tend to wear it around my neck with a few other charms if I’m on a diplomatic anything or away from normal security. Craftsman said parents buy it for kids, but only the rich ones as it’s not cheap. It’s for those of us with targets on us, and you’ve got many, Princess.”
“I was trying to downplay how much you spent as that would make her uncomfortable,” Craftsman admitted. “I mean, those diamonds in the bracelet alone are way more than most…” He shrugged. “I couldn’t afford it.”
“Well, I don’t need two of them and I adore your full English breakfast with magical roses,” I admitted, glad the room was dark, so he didn’t see me blush. I turned to Hudson and nodded when I saw the question in his eyes if I would accept it. “I love it. Thank you.”
“You’re welcome.” He brushed his lips over mine. “I know you got me a Christmas gift and I wanted to give you one too since I know you were excited for the holiday. I’m sorry it’s late. It took a bit to get and a bit for me to decide as I’ve never bought a woman a gift besides my family or family friends. You’re the first I bought jewelry for besides a necklace for Mother from all her children.”
It was cute to see him ramble to let me know it was important and important to him.
“I’ve never gotten jewelry from a man,” I admitted, touching my essence charm. “Katrina Calloway gave me this and charged my credit card, so I bought it for myself.” I looked at the charm bracelet again. “Is this the standard design like—”
“No, there are an array of options,” he murmured as he ran his fingers over it. “I thought this one was the most you.”
“I love it,” I said again. I leaned in and gave him a heated kiss. “Show me what you’re thinking about me, my dragon. You promised to ride me and make me ache while I showed my nape to you.”
“Fuck, Tamsin,” he snarled, and I was up in his arms before I blinked. Apparently, he even had a fantasy waiting for me to fulfill because he had me bent over his dresser seconds later. He slammed into me so hard that if the dresser wasn’t huge and made of heavy oak it would have thudded with us.