by Becca Van
“My dragon is so close to the surface and I don’t want to hurt you.”
“Will you come in here with me? Please?”
Russ wanted her so badly he couldn’t deny her nor himself, he just hoped that he could keep his beast back so he didn’t end up hurting her. He needed her so much he was literally shaking with desire and that had never happened to him before.
He took a deep breath, held it for a few seconds and released it slowly, and then he opened the door and stepped in.
She immediately moved closer to him and he groaned when her upper torso brushed against his throbbing erection, and although he wanted to wrap his arms around her and pull her tighter against him, he kept his arms down by his sides.
He looked down as she looked up and the wealth of trust and desire in her gaze had him lifting his arms, but when he realized what he was doing he forced them back down and ground his teeth. He tipped his head back and let the water cascade over his head and face and prayed for the strength to stay in control.
“I know you would never hurt me, Russ. I trust you. I want you.” His cock jerked and pre-cum leaked from the tip. “Please will you make love to me? Will you claim me?”
Her small slender arms wrapped around his waist and she rested her cheek on his body. His knuckles cracked and began to ache as he clenched his fists so hard he wondered if he would break bones. When she removed her arms from around him and stepped back, he lost it.
Russ gripped her hips, lifted her until she was on eye level with him, and as he lowered his mouth to hers, he moaned with resignation. Not that he wanted to stop himself from touching her or claiming her but he was still worried he would hurt her. However, he was going to have to trust that she would let him know if he did such a thing, because there was no way in hell he could resist her.
As her lips met his, she whimpered and wrapped her arms around his neck and legs around his waist. He slanted his mouth over hers and delved into her moistness, tasting her and breathing her in.
His tongue glided along and twirled around hers and even though they were connected it was nowhere near enough. He needed to be buried deep inside of her, stroking her hot wet cunt with his hard aching dick and his teeth in the flesh of her shoulder, but he reined in his hunger because her needs came first.
When she broke the kiss and tilted her head back as she gasped for air, he nibbled along her neck and then nipped her earlobe. She moaned and that sound went straight to his heart and his cock, but before he took her he needed to make sure she was comfortable. So again he lowered her to her feet and when she met his eyes, he let her see how much he wanted her. She gasped and she began to quiver, and the scent of her arousal became stronger.
Without breaking their visual connection, he reached for the shampoo, moved around behind her, and began to lather her hair. He rinsed the suds from her tresses and then took the shower gel in hand and poured some into his palm. He rubbed his hands together and began to wash her body, starting on her shoulders and back first, because he knew if he touched her front there would be no stopping him from taking her. When he was done he guided her around and as the soap washed from her back he got more gel and began to wash her front. He started at her feet and worked his way up, getting close to her pussy but then he shifted his hands to her hips and washed her torso to just beneath her breasts.
“Russ, please?”
“In a minute, darlin’, just let me wash you and make sure you feel good.”
“You’ll make me feel good if you make love to me.”
“I need to take my time, Niki. My dragon’s so close. By doing this I get to explore all these sexy curves, because once I’m inside you I am going to take you hard and fast.”
“I want that, too,” she moaned and shoved her breasts out as he soaped up the sides of her soft feminine globes, but he avoided touching anymore of them. He moved up to her shoulders and neck before moving back down and started to wash her breasts. He was the one moaning when her nipples hardened even more and stabbed into his hands, but he kneaded and molded her globes until she was mewling. When she started rocking her hips, he took her nipples between his fingers and thumbs, pinching and plucking them until she was sobbing in pleasure with each exhalation.
He loved seeing her cheeks flushed and her eyelids heavy with passion but when his cock began to bob up and down with each beat of his heart and his dragon began clawing at his guts he knew he wouldn’t be able to hold off much longer.
Russ moved a hand down to her folds and washed her quickly and efficiently. If he hadn’t been so hungry for her he would have spent a lot longer exploring her cunt, but the yearning was too intense to ignore. He removed his hand and she groaned with frustration as he snagged the handheld showerhead and quickly rinsed her off. As he put it back up in the bracket he gasped and moaned when her small hand wrapped around his cock and began to stroke him. He clenched his teeth, grasped her wrist, and pulled her hand away.
“Russ—ˮ
He didn’t let her finish whatever she was going to say. Instead he picked her back up, spun around until her back was pressed against the tile wall, and slammed his mouth over hers. There was a loud roaring in his ears but he didn’t care. All that mattered was that he get inside her and make her his.
When her legs hooked around his hips and her arms clung to his neck, he shifted on his feet and as soon as his cock was aligned to her cunt he shoved inside and didn’t stop until he was balls-deep. He froze, worried he’d hurt her when she cried out, but when she wiggled trying to get him to move he knew he was wrong.
“Russ,” she gasped and wiggled again. “Move! Now!”
He drew in a deep shuddering breath, withdrew his cock to the tip, and powered back into her. Her nails dug into the back of his neck and he relished the sting.
Although he wanted to take her fast and hard, he kept his initial pace slow but increased in pace each time he drove into her, but when she leaned into his neck and began sucking on his skin and then nipped him with her teeth he lost all control.
He slammed up into her rapidly and as deeply as he could, savoring the way her pussy coated his erection in her juices and clutched around him. The fire burning inside of him was blazing so high and hot all he could do was hold onto her and hope like hell he was giving her pleasure.
“Yes! Give me more.” Niki’s warm breath caressed his ear and then she drew the lobe into her mouth and sucked.
A low rumbling growl started in his chest as he thrust his hips hard, the sound emerging from his mouth sounding like a wounded animal but there was no way he could hold the noise back.
He withdrew and plunged back into her as fast as he could and when his balls began to draw up he knew he was about to shoot. He bent his head and licked the spot on her shoulder, right next to where Rex had bitten and claimed her and just as fire ripped into his balls and began to race up his cock, he sank his fangs in deep.
Niki screamed. Her cunt clamped down hard on his cock, only to release for a moment before clenching around him again, bathing his erection in her cum. His growl was muffled against her skin and his knees almost buckled as he spumed load after of load of cum deep into her womb and pussy. Normally he would have frozen as he emptied his balls into a woman but he couldn’t stay still. He kept pumping his hips as he came harder than he’d ever come before in his whole life.
His teeth retracted from Niki’s flesh as he continued to slam his hips against hers and just as he thought the climax was coming to an end, Niki’s mouth latched onto his chest to suckle at his skin and then she bit him with her small white blunt teeth and he shot right up and over the edge again. The whole time he was coming he was aware of Niki’s continuous climax. Inside her pussy was so hot and wet, and each time he shoved back into her, her cunt made squelching sounds as if she was trying to pull him in deeper and he loved it. He loved everything about her and his heart was so full of emotion his eyes began to burn as he tried to stave off the tears forming at the back of them.
He was whole for the first time in his life, but he was also humbled at how much his mate trusted him and his flight pod brothers after such a short time.
Russ vowed to then and there that he would give his own life to keep her safe if there was ever a need.
He wished that he and his dragon comrades could go out and scout out all the hunters in existence and wipe them from the face of the earth. However, if he did that he would be putting all of them as well as Niki and Bid in danger.
Most of all he wished he knew how it was possible for a hunter to lock onto their dragons even though they retained their invisible reflection shields when they took to the sky. If they could somehow circumvent that ability in a hunter they would never have to worry about those assholes again.
Russ pushed his thoughts away and hugged his mate. It wasn’t until she shifted on his lap that he realized that he was sitting on the base of the shower with her straddling his hips.
She lifted her head and the smile that formed on her lips shot him straight in the heart. He drew a deep breath and gulped when he felt her emotions through their connection. She may not have said it yet, but he felt the love she had for him, Rex, and Randy.
She was so precious and special, he was going to try and do everything he could to make her happy and see that she had a long fulfilled life.
Anything else wasn’t an option as far as he was concerned.
Chapter Twelve
Darrien was tired after spending all day in his office catching up on paperwork and although he wanted to go home and down a beer and then sleep, he couldn’t. He was going to Niki’s house to see if he could talk her into having dinner with him.
Had he known she was a dragon’s mate for certain he never would have approved her vacation time, but now that he had and he had orders to bring her in, he couldn’t disobey. For the second time in a couple of days he wished he’d never heard of hunters or dragon shifters. It went against everything he’d been taught in his life to hurt someone and he’d hoped that he never encountered one of his own kind, but it wasn’t meant to be.
As soon as Wally Core had hit Rock Springs he knew it had been inevitable to be called in and activated. He’d been like one of those sleeping Russian assassins who’d been programmed from birth to awaken with a code word or snap of the fingers. He knew after meeting the leader, Jerome, he didn’t have a hope in hell of escaping fate. That bastard was huge and his off-sider was even bigger.
Now that he had a job to do, he wished he could go back in time and change the past. He’d been a real bastard to Niki and not because he didn’t like her. The complete opposite in fact. From the moment she’d walked into his office after being assigned to the Rock Springs Sheriff’s Department fresh from the training academy, he’d wanted her, but she was so much younger than he was and he was such a hard ass, he hadn’t wanted to corrupt her with his cynical attitude.
He wasn’t in love with the girl, thank fuck, but he definitely lusted after her and much to his dismay he’d tried thwarting his desire for her by being a complete an utter bastard to her. Maybe it was for the best now that he had orders to snatch her. He probably wouldn’t be able to do that if he’d dated her. In fact he knew he wouldn’t have been able to. Plus, there was the fact that with each passing day the anger inside him was building until he felt like he was about to snap.
He’d heard the stories of hunters going off the deep end and from the way Wally had been acting the last month before his disappearance he had a feeling it was all true. Did that mean he was going to go insane? Fuck, I hope not.
He pushed his thoughts aside as he headed out, nodding at Reece who was on the phone as he passed the other deputy’s desk, and he hurried to his sheriff's truck. As he drove toward Niki’s house he thought about her being a dragon mate and that thought led to another man having his hands on her body. The rage which bubbled up inside of his gut was so extreme he felt like a red haze was filming over his eyes. It felt like the bitterness and anger was consuming him and although he continued to drive he had no idea how he was able to do so without crashing.
When he finally pulled into her driveway he was in a frenetic frenzy and his only thought was seeing her. He didn’t remember parking his vehicle nor getting out but the next cognizant moment was when he saw his fist raised in preparation of knocking on her door. Before his fist even connected with the wood he knew she wasn’t home, but he slammed his flesh into the hard surface over and over again.
He stepped back panting as chaotic thoughts raced across his mind but they were so disordered even he couldn’t make sense of them. With a roar of feverish madness, he slammed his booted foot next to the lock on her door and rushed inside. Her sweet feminine scent was everywhere and although he inhaled deeply through his nose, drawing it into his lungs, he hated himself for doing it, but in that moment he hated Nikita Stravinsky more. What powers did she have to have such a hold over him? Did she have dragon blood running through her veins? Was that why those fucking shifters were after her, too?
He wanted answers to all of his question but he needed to see her more. As he moved to her kitchen he spied two empty coffee mugs in the sink. He lifted them both and sniffed them. Blood raced through his veins and roared past his eardrums and the turbulent ferociousness traversing his body made his whole frame shake. Reece had been here. What the fuck was his deputy doing visiting Niki? Was he dating her? Was he fucking her? Reece never talked to him about his personal life, but he did talk to Niki, often. When he remembered her teasing the other deputy about someone called Lucy, he dropped the cups into the sink and rushed toward the bedroom.
Darrien took deep breaths and exhaled slowly over and over again, until the fury running through his body began to wane. When he was able to think more coherently he knew he had to find Niki and bring her in before he went insane. He couldn’t figure out why he was even thinking about how he’d reacted to her when he’d first met her. None of that mattered and there was no way in hell he was walking away from the hunters.
His aim had always been to work his way up to the top of the hunter hierarchy, so why was he thinking about how sexy that little bitch was? It didn’t matter how good-looking she was, nor that she had a sexy body on her. All that mattered was that he bring her in so he could usurp Sid and Jerome. If he could find out who the leader of all the hunters was, he could take that fucker out and rule them all. And if he achieved that goal, he would be the richest and most powerful man on Earth.
Darrien glanced around the feminine bedroom and began to laugh. Niki had always acted so tough around him, Reece, and the other deputies but seeing her room, with soft feminine touches, he realized that her tough act was a farce. She had colorful pillows decorating the white comforter and there were pretty trinkets gracing the dresser and shelves. Once he started laughing he couldn’t seem to stop. Nikita Stravinsky wasn’t as hard assed as she made herself out to be and when he found her he was going to sample the goods before handing her over to the boss. First he had to find out who the hell was running the hunters and the only person he could think to ask was Sid.
All hunters were clamoring for better positions on the ladder so maybe he could dupe the prick into bypassing Jerome and getting him to take him straight up to the top. He would have to be cagey, though, because if he told Sid what his plans were he knew as soon as he turned his back he would end up with a knife in it.
He grabbed his head and his fractured thoughts went slewing off to Nikita again. As he imagined caressing her soft skin, licking and sucking her flesh as he thrust into her wet cunt over and over, a deep guttural moan escaped his mouth. His cock was so fucking hard and his balls had already drawn up to his body as if he was about to shoot off. The pain was too much and before he thought about what he was doing, he lowered his fly and fisted his cock.
Darrien pumped up and down his shaft with a tight fist as he inhaled Niki’s scent. In a matter of seconds fire was racing up his dick and he was coming all over her bed. His legs shook and he had to lock his knees so they didn’t buckle. He didn’t care that he’d left DNA on her bed, because it didn’t matter. She was going to be his and once he had his fill of her, he was going to hand her over to their leader and then he would kill him and take over the world.
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Niki had never felt so complete in her life. She had spent the night cuddling with her three mates and she was so happy and content. Although she needed to go back home to get some more of her things and she had a few bills to pay. The land rates were due and she didn’t want to be late paying them otherwise she would start incurring interest for each day she was late and as far as she was concerned the council already earned more than enough money from taxpayers.
She was going to have to try and talk one of the guys into driving her home but then she thought about them flying her instead. It would be much faster than going by car because they wouldn’t have to stick to roads.
“You okay, baby?” Randy asked from down near her feet. She was currently wedged between Rex and Russ with their bodies pressed against hers and Randy had one of his hands wrapped around her ankle.
“Never better,” she answered honestly.
“Hmm, you can say that again,” Russ mumbled in a sleep-roughened voice right before he began to nibble on her shoulder.
Niki couldn’t help but tilt her head to give him easier access. Now that she was mated to all three of her men, she could feel what they were feeling and was still astounded by how much they loved her. She wished she could tell them she felt the same but every time she’d opened her mouth to say those words, her throat constricted so much she hadn’t been able to get the words out but she assumed since she could feel what they did, that they could feel what she was feeling, too.
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