by Anna Lewis
I tried to move, but I couldn't. I was too messed up to do so. My head ached fiercely, and desperation was getting the best of me.
Suddenly, warm arms wrapped around me, and although I had no idea who it was I instantly felt safer.
“Kayla?” came a familiar voice, breaking through my shock barrier. “Kayla, are you okay?”
Hex… that sounded like Hex, but it couldn't have been. There was no way he would be here for me, he hated me!
“Kayla, it's Hex. Are you okay?”
Great, the thump to the head was worse than I thought, now I was hearing things.
“Hex,” I murmured quietly, just wishing that I could will the fantasy to life. “Hex, get me out of here.”
I was so done with Charlie. I wanted this nightmare to be over. I wanted out…
And that was the last thought that I had before everything went black and I passed out.
Chapter 16 – Hex
She was still out, still lying on the bed unconscious, and I was pacing the room anxiously. I probably should have called a doctor to get her checked out properly, but I'd seen her fall and it didn't look so bad. Of course, her unconsciousness could have been due to trauma. Who knew what had happened during the time she was with that monster? But I didn't want to assume that before I spoke to her.
Calling the cops in was a good plan, that meant they could focus on Charlie while I could save Kayla. I wasn't sure if I could have done it without the back up. I was just so afraid that he would escape, and he probably would have done.
Now, hopefully, he was behind bars somewhere.
“Nghh,” she groaned, suddenly shifting in the bed.
“Kayla,” I gasped, sliding onto the bed next to her. “Kayla, are you awake? Are you alright?”
“Wh… where am I? Charlie? The banging?” her eyes weren't even open yet, but relief flooded my body.
“Charlie is gone,” I reassured her, rubbing her back. “The banging was the police. They have him locked up.”
With that she blinked, and moved herself into a sitting position. I could tell that this was causing her pain, but she persevered anyway. She seemed to need to know. “He's gone?” she asked.
As she looked at me with those penetrative deep green eyes, my heart fluttered. In fact, it wasn't just my heart that she had an impact on, it was my entire body. Butterflies flapped in my stomach, my thighs tensed up, a tremble ran through me… the feelings were more powerful than ever. There was no escaping any of this. However hard I tried, I was always going to feel something powerful for Kayla.
With that, I stepped back sharply and an awkwardness overcame me. “Erm, yeah, he's gone. Maybe I should call someone…”
“No,” she gasped, sliding her body to the edge of the bed. “You can't go, you mustn't leave me.” Her eyes were wide and pleading.
“But he's gone,” I insisted, my eyes flicking from side to side, needing an escape. “He's locked up. You have nothing to worry about anymore. It's probably best if I call you a doctor anyway…”
“No,” she said again, shaking her head. “No, I need you. You have no idea.” She paused for a second, biting on her lip, and everything inside of me melted. I felt hot and worn out, faced with the temptation of a woman who I adored, and I wasn't sure how much longer I could keep going on like everything was alright. “All the time I was locked up, all I could think about was you!” My heart leapt, was she serious? She said, “I realized how stupid I was to let you go. I like you. I like you more than I have ever liked anyone, and being away from you has made me realize just how much I want to be with you. And not because you're my bodyguard, or even because you were the only one willing to tell me the truth. Because… I don't know, I can't really vocalize it, you just make me feel special. I think… I think that I could love you… I really do.”
Everything stilled, I no longer knew how to feel.
I had no idea who made the first move, but all of a sudden our mouths were connected and we were back to kissing like there was no tomorrow. A big part of me feared that I was about to be pushed off again, that all of this was going to end up back in the same vicious circle, but another part of me was screaming at myself to just live in the moment and never let her go.
“I mean it,” she gasped into my mouth as I slowly allowed my hands to trail down her body. “I want you. Every second I was with that creep I wanted you.”
I never intended for our reunion to be like this. Having sex with her hadn't even entered my mind, I'd been so focused on saving her. But now it felt so right. It felt like the only way me and Kayla could progress things. Yes, things had been very up and down between us, but the threat on her life was enough to put everything into perspective. None of that mattered anymore, not when we had each other.
She lolled her head to one side as a small groan raced past her lips, allowing my to run kisses up and down her neck. I drank her in thirstily with all five senses.
My cock sprang to attention, straining painfully against my trousers, but I had to fight the urge. She was laid up. There was no way in hell that I was going to push things. I still didn't know what she'd been through, and I couldn't become a part of that.
Kayla didn't seem to get that I was trying to hold back, however difficult that was. Instead she flopped her body backwards, her arms falling above her head, looking as if she were in ecstasy. She was luring me in, tempting me, and it took all that I had to keep myself back. I stared down at her beauty, with a serene smile on my face. Even if I couldn't do anything about it, it felt good to just have her with me, back in my arms where she belonged. This was why I'd fought so hard for her. Deep down, this was what I'd been wanting the whole damn time.
“What are you doing all the way up there?” she moaned, grinning up at me. “I have been waiting forever for this, why are you holding back?”
“Are you sure?” I asked seriously. “Is this really what you want?” I hated sounding like that, but I needed to be absolutely sure.
She sat up and grabbed onto my tee shirt, staring deep into my eyes. “This is what I want,” she insisted. “This is all that I have been thinking about. I want you, Hex, I need you.”
Well, there was no way that I could argue with that. It was the sexiest damn thing that I had ever heard in my entire life. I pulled her lips back to mine and kissed her with every bit of passion that I felt inside, allowing all of my emotions to run free. This had been a long time coming, and I couldn't wait to finally explore the woman that I was falling so hard for…
Chapter 17 – Kayla
We tore our clothes off each other's bodies as quick as lightning, as if we couldn't bear to be clothed anymore. I really had been wondering what that body was like, what it would be like to feel him, to touch him. I couldn't wait to have that dream come true. It had been such a long time coming, and I really couldn't wait…
And as my fingers trailed up his incredible abs, I knew that he had been worth the wait, his body was amazing! I knew then that being with Hex would be totally different to being with a human male. He was strong, sexy, powerful, and domineering in the best possible way. I couldn't wait to experience that fully. I loved that it was so new, so exciting; it turned me on even more.
“You're so beautiful,” he whispered carefully as his hands ran over my curves. “I adore you.”
I threw my head backwards as his fingers finally found my nipples, and he played with them in a gentle, caring manner. I appreciated what he was doing, it felt nice for him to be so loving with me, but this had been building up for so damn long that I needed it rough and ready. I needed him to take me hard. He was trying to treat me like a princess, but that wasn't what I needed.
I grabbed his hand and slid it down my body, taking control, with a wicked smile on my face. He raised his eyebrows questioningly at me, but in a good way as if he liked me telling him what to do.
He ran his fingers up my slit, feeling how hot and wet I was for him. He drove me crazy, and after weeks of thinking about this
it felt wonderful for it to be coming true.
“That feels amazing,” I panted as he slid his fingers into me. “Oh my God.” I clung to sheets beneath me as he moved his mouth down my body, until his tongue was flickering all over my breasts in a much hungrier fashion. “Oh, Hex.”
This was so intense. My entire body was buzzing with the thrill of him, making it even better than I assumed it would. His manly, clean scent filled my nostrils causing me to reach out for him, to grab onto his muscular shoulders instead.
“You like that, baby?” he gasped as he ran his thumb over my clit. That, combined with the other fingers plunging into me caused an intense, pleasurable pressure to build up inside of me. I arched my back against Hex, driving his fingers in deeper.
“Fuck, I love it!” I said. “Don't stop… ever.”
I reached down his torso, wanting to give him some of the pleasure that he was giving me, and I soon found myself gripping on to a thick, pulsating cock like no other. He was huge, absolutely massive, and I couldn't help but wonder how he would feel inside of me. I slid my hand up and down his shaft, causing him to start trembling too. I needed him. I actually finally wanted him to pull his hand away so that I could feel him making love to me, fucking me hard.
“I need you,” I whispered honestly. “I have waited too long for this moment.”
“Oh God,” he groaned as he pulled back to look at me. “I am addicted to you. You have no idea what you do to me.”
But of course I did because I felt exactly the same way about him. Of all the people that I had ever let into my life, that I had ever shared anything with, none of them compared with Hex. He was someone I could call a friend, someone that I could rely on to protect me, and someone that send passion tearing through my body faster than I ever thought possible.
He hovered over me, teasing my entrance, and I felt my heart thunder in my chest. I was pulsating for him, desperate to reach out and drive him into me, but I forced myself to hold back, just for a second. I wanted to savor this moment, just before we had sex for the very first time. I wanted to recall the loving look in his eyes for the rest of my life. I felt like we had the sort of connection that would keep us locked together forever, and I needed all of it to be committed to memory.
Then he slid into me, and I forgot about absolutely everything.
“Oh shit,” I gasped as he moved expertly in and out of me, somehow managing to brush passed my clit with every single thrust. “Oh Hex, you feel incredible.”
He had my mind spinning, my body flying higher than air. As the pressure slowly transformed into something fantastic, as the waves started to crash over my body, small at first but growing increasingly with every passing second, I felt better than I ever had done before. The orgasm started screaming through my body, shattering me, causing me to buckle and yell without a care in the world.
I felt hot, sticky, and animalistic, freer than I ever had done before. I didn't want the sensation to end. I had never expected to escape that nightmare, I thought that I would be stuck with Charlie forever more, so the fact that I was here, in a hotel room with Hex, having the best orgasm of my life was incredible to me. This day couldn't have gone any better. I couldn't have asked for a better reunion with Hex… except maybe passing out, and I strongly felt like it was the start of something new. Something exciting. Something that I really needed.
The beginning of the rest of my life.
I loved him. I was in love with Hex, and that sensation only got stronger as the heat from our lovemaking consumed me entirely.
Chapter 18 – Hex
We lay panting next to one another, both basking in the post-orgasmic bliss. However good I thought that being with Kayla would be, nothing could compare with the reality of it. I felt like we had connected on a much deeper level.
Because there were real feelings there, intense ones that I wanted to grip onto forever more.
“So,” I gasped, turning my body over to face her. She had a sheen of sweat covering her body, and a pleased expression on her face. I could honestly say that she'd never looked more attractive to me. “What now?” It didn't feel like the best time to be covering any awkward topics, but at the same time I didn't want to be left in the dark again either. I needed to know where her head was at, what she was really feeling before I got myself hurt again. I needed to be honest about what I was feeling and thinking, if we were ever going to become anything serious… which I desperately prayed that we were.
“I… I want to try,” she smiled serenely at me. “I meant what I said. I want to be with you.”
“But what is that going to entail?” I said. There was no denying that it was going to be complicated – she was a pop star, I was her bodyguard, she'd just been kidnapped… and I was a dragon. If we were going to make this work, we needed to talk about it and make some decisions.
“I don't know,” she admitted, shrugging her shoulders at me. I would have taken that as a negative thing if she hadn't had a shiny, love filled look in her eyes. “But we can work it out, right? If we… like each other enough, then surely we can make it work?”
I held her hands in mine and lightly kissed her on the lips. “Come on,” I said moving myself into a standing position. “Let's not worry about that now, let's go and do something fun.”
“What do you have in mind?” As she stood up, totally revealing that gorgeous body in the full to me. I sucked in a deep breath of air, taking a second to really admire her beauty. How could I ever have liked any other woman with Kayla in the world? I was so glad that nothing before had worked out, because it had led me to her.She was the woman that I was supposed to be with.
“You haven't seen me change yet, have you?” I said. Her eyes widened in shock, then excitement overcame her expression. “Why don't you finally see me in my dragon form? Why don't we go out to fly?” We couldn't make any full commitments until she had seen every part of me anyway, so this was absolutely the perfect moment for this to happen.
“Yeah, I would love that.”
As she raced off to get changed, I remained standing in the middle of the room, buck naked. There wasn't any point in dressing just to take it all off anyway, so I took the time to really embrace the happy glow inside of me.
I just slept with Kayla. She wants to be with me. This is all really happening…
With her, the complications would be worth it. She meant everything to me, she was the one.
Although it wasn't just Kayla's complications that we needed to consider, was it? If she wanted to be with me, forever, then we had to decide what to do in the future. If she remained human, we would never be able to have children, and I would have to suffer the agony of watching her die many years before me.
Some dragons were happy to do that, they moved on with ease after their human mate died, or even beforehand when they became old and less appealing, but I wasn't like that. When I loved, I loved hard. I loved with everything that I had. I wouldn't be able to do that. Even if Kayla's looks faded, she would still be her. Her soul was what attracted me.
If we were going to make this work, then Kayla would have to become a hybrid. I would have to infect her with the non-deadly dragon venom to change her. Then she would live for as many years as I did and we could start a family… but that would be a huge sacrifice for her to make. She would have to watch everyone she knew and loved die, and she would have to give up her current body. She might even face some adversity.
Throughout the majority of the world most people were happy for the shapeshifters to live among people, and life was peaceful, there were still odd pockets of people who remembered the war and who resented shifters because of that. I didn't affect me, but it could impact on Kayla and her career.
This wasn't going to be easy.She came out of the bathroom in a sweet looking summer dress, and my heart fluttered like crazy. This had to work, I needed it to. Once we did this, once we took this time out and went for our flight, we needed to have a serious heart to heart , we needed to
talk.
“She we go?” she said.
***
“That was incredible!” she screamed excitedly as soon as we landed. “Flying was amazing, much better than I thought it was going to be. That view… wow! And you as a dragon, I don't even know how to describe how amazing you look.” She was flush faced, babbling, and super cute.
“I'm so glad you like flying,” I grinned back, seriously happy that she enjoyed that side of my life too. “But maybe we now we really do need to sit down to have a talk. If we are going to go into this then I want us both to have our eyes wide open, I want us both to agree, that way neither of us can get hurt in the future. Agreed?”
“Agreed,” she nodded.
Well, here goes nothing!
Chapter 19 – Kayla
Moving in with Hex was an easier choice than I thought it was going to be. It was actually probably down to Charlie. Maybe if he hadn't kidnapped me and put me through that hell, I wouldn't have been able to make such a life-changing decision with such ease. He had put everything into perspective, and now I was happier than ever.
“Are you ready, sweetheart?” Hex called out to me from the front room of my brand new apartment. “The premiere will be happening in a moment. We do need to get there.”
Ever since my trauma, I gave up the pop star career and started writing instead. That allowed me to remain in the same place, to buy my new home, and to really make a go of things with Hex. We were moving slowly despite the fact that we desperately wanted to jump in things with both feet, because after our long talk we chose to be cautious. We might have known, but we still needed to be certain.
He was at my apartment all the time anyway, so it wasn't much of an issue for either of us. When we eventually did make the move towards living together, it would hardly be any different. In fact, we were probably just holding back so no one else thought that we were moving too fast…