The Fury Queen’s Harem: A Reverse Harem Paranormal Romance (The Cursed Dragon Queen and Her Mates Book 1)
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Before I could further question him about my curse and its origin, the demon horde bellowed and jumped from the spectator seat into the arena. “Traitor!”
At the same time, the dragon warriors ran from the other side and charged toward them, swords and spears ready, led by their roaring princes.
And then everyone, including the clans of the City of Nine, threw themselves into the fray. “Kill the horned ones—the demons!” I shouted to my monster army.
Henry howled, bloodthirsty and hungry, and darted toward the demons after the dragon warriors.
The arena rumbled with yells, snarls, the sounds of crossing blades, laser beams hitting flesh, bullets bursting out of guns, and screams of pain.
The carnage had begun.
The vampires also jumped in. They had no interest in fighting me or anyone else. They only had one purpose—replenishing their livestock. They snatched all seven of the hunters and several demons and zoomed away. But they’d be back to get more.
“Here they come,” Elvey said casually and delightfully. “Time to defend milady.”
I did not look like a milady.
I was the Dragon Princess Daisy Danaenyth and the Fury Queen.
I roared the battle cry of the dragon, calling for all the dragons, my fire shooting out toward a wave of the demon horde.
The dragons responded with their roars.
In front of me, wings took shape, scales flashed, and tails swept into the enemies.
The princes shifted to dragons first, and all their men who were full-dragons followed suit.
Rai was the biggest dragon with gray scales, decorated with blue. Blue meant a royal dragon. Thunder shuddered across the horizon at his roar, and lightning flashed across the desolate sky.
Blaze had orange-red scales like fire, some blue scales spotted on his head and along the spine. He poured out a stream of fire in satisfaction. Fire was Blaze’s element.
Iokul was a silver dragon with blue scales on one side of his tail. While Blaze melted part of the demon army with molten fire and Rai impaled some with his bolts of lightning, Iokul sought out the rest and turned them into ice chunks.
My dragon flame lit the entire grandiose coliseum like the wildfire.
CHAPTER 20
On Mistress’s bridge, we peeked out the view window.
Smoke twirled into the gloomy sky; dragon fire sparked here and there across the City of Nine.
Blaze, Rai, and Iokul, all in their man form, stared hard at Elvey, demanding answers, as did I.
I was in my Fae form; my three Fury forms had become the thing of the past.
Only my jungle monsters missed having their Fury Queen.
My monsters had chosen to stay in Pandemonium’s jungle instead of leaving with me to the new world—all except Henry and Sybil.
“So?” Blaze gestured at Elvey impatiently.
“Congratulations,” Elvey said. “When you all were near extinction, Daisy’s instinct to protect her mates activated the link between you. As soon as the tether became alive and was strong enough, it gave her the magical strength she needed to break the curse.
That’s why the duel was necessary. Now all of you can shift, and Daisy can stay in her lovely Fae form as long as she wants.”
“We got that part,” Rai said. “But—”
“Oh, you’re worried why the masks haven’t come off your pretty faces,” Elvey said with a satisfied smile, his bright blue eyes dashing from one masked prince to the other. “Even though you are able to shift, your curse is only half-lifted. It’s something to ponder on, isn’t it?”
“We’re not worried about that,” Iokul said coolly. “We’ll work on being worthy of our mate. Until then—” He paused, his icy gaze on Elvey. “Why did you aid us?”
“That’s a very good question,” Elvey said. “But I never had the intention of helping you. Daisy, on the other hand, needed a gentle nudge to be free from her Fury forms.”
I narrowed my eyes. Gentle nudge?
“And she knows that I have my own selfish reason for that.” He turned to me, his face serious and mournful. “This is only the beginning of a perilous path, Daisy Danaenyth. If I can spare you, I do not wish you to walk through it. It’ll be a very long time until you see light ahead again if you leave this planet. You’ll meet evil in all veils, and I’m certain you’ll choose to battle them all. You were born a protector of your mates, your people, and your realm.”
“Can you be more specific?” I asked, “Instead of giving me the doom and gloom?”
The dragon princes glared at him, but he ignored them and focused only on me.
“I won’t say more, as I don’t want it to come true,” he said, shaking his head. “I want you to enjoy as many bright days as you can. But when the days come, when darkness finds you, and when I become your enemy not by my will, you’ll need to end me. Do not hesitate when I’m no longer useful.”
From Sybil’s spying, I’d learned that both he and the demon captain were bonded to their queen by blood. They were her slaves and weapons.
“I won’t hurt you, Elvey,” I said. “No matter what.”
He smiled, a little bright and a little sad. The smile tugged my heart. An old doubt haunted my mind. My curse had fallen off, though it hadn’t lifted right away, because it mattered that my heart had to catch up with the truth that all the dragon princes were indeed my true loves.
I had kissed all of them. I loved all three my true loves. But why was I still so hung up on Elvey?
What was he to me?
“Of course, you don’t want to harm me, but it won’t be your choice in the end,” he said, his hands in the pockets of his trousers as he tried to be as careless as possible. “One last thing. I won’t escort you home on this journey, but you’ll never be alone with your brave dragon knights by your side.” He gave me another lethal smile. “Princess Danaenyth, the ship is now yours to command.”
Then Elvey vanished in a mist of light.
An empty ache throbbed and expanded in my chest, until my dragon mates pulled me into their solid, warm arms.
CHAPTER 21
The crew was in position. The course was set, and Mistress was ready to take off. There was nothing to worry about for the moment.
All four of us—Rai, Blaze, Iokul, and I—settled down in the captain cabin.
Blaze glanced at the vast bed and grinned at me.
“It can fit us all,” he said, his golden eyes lighting with delight and lust.
Iokul gazed at me with heat, and my pulse raced at the prospect of what my dragon princes would do to me.
Rai chuckled and winked at me wickedly. “We’ll do all sorts of things, but you’ll like it.”
Ever since we’d all shifted, we were more connected, and we could sense each other’s need and emotions if we didn’t intentionally put on a mental shield.
Rai scooped me into his arms, my hands pressing against his muscled broad chest. His heartbeat pounded against my palms, in sync with my mine.
I gazed into his gorgeous sapphire eyes and lost myself in them, as he carried me toward the bed.
Not missing a beat, Iokul strolled along beside Rai, his hand anchoring at the base of my skull, and planted a hot kiss on my lips. Pleasure tingled on my skin, and I parted my lips and met his silver eyes, silently pleading for more.
Iokul smiled in satisfaction. I believed that he hadn’t realized when his icy demeanor had melted along the way. But his ice had burned as hot as fire for me, and it was still burning.
Blaze walked along to my right. He caressed my cheek with his knuckles before placing a hand on Rai’s arm. And I wanted more of the fire dragon’s touch as well.
“Why don’t we bathe our mate first?” Blaze said. “Daisy will like it.”
Rai stopped. He was halfway between the bed and the bath chamber. He gazed down at me, consulting me silently.
While all three sexy-as-hell, gorgeous-as-heavens dragon princes fixed their attention on me, their body
heat basking me and their raging need to fuck me, the fire licking between my thighs grew unbearable.
“Bathing sounds good,” I breathed out.
Rai inclined his head toward his two brothers with a soft growl. “What are you waiting for? Go get the water running. Daisy doesn’t like waiting!”
Blaze growled back at Rai before rushing toward the bath chamber ahead of us. Iokul heaved a sighed and followed him.
Flashing me a doting smile that was full of heat, Rai crushed his mouth on mine and kissed me indulgently, not eager to get me into the bath chamber. He wanted to keep me to himself as long as he could.
And zealously I tasted him—dominant male with minty breath and the scent of rainstorm. He was every bit a thunder and lightning dragon. I had seen his glorious and terrifying lightning in the arena. It had pierced the demons.
Right now, when it was sexy time, his dragon watched with interest, instead of striking down anyone.
Rai’s kiss grew impatient with a primal male need.
The tip of his tongue pushed my lips apart and invaded my mouth. When my tongue received his, he let out a short, rough groan.
I moaned, throbbing with wild desire.
I wanted his cock inside me now. I didn’t want to wait.
A beastly sound rumbled in Rai’s chest. He pulled me up and I wrapped my legs around his waist. His big hands gripped my ass cheeks.
My breasts pressed against his rock-hard body, my bottom rubbing against his thick shaft. He groaned, the erotic sound sending heat sizzling through my body.
“I must fuck you now, sweetheart,” he said roughly.
“Water’s ready!” Blaze shouted, menace—not aimed at me but at Rai—lacing his voice. He must have heard what Rai declared about taking me now.
Iokul ducked his head out of the bath chamber in order to execute their decision to have a collective bath. Rai sighed and brought me into the chamber.
“Let me help Daisy into the tub. It’s slippery,” Blaze said, and nearly ripped me from Rai’s chest.
“Be gentle with Daisy!” Rai snarled.
“We’ve talked about this,” Iokul said. “We need to be civilized and share fairly. We’re brothers and we have the same lovely mate. We’ll never fight among us again but defend our only mate with our every breath.”
That line used to be Rai’s.
Rai nodded, annoyed, and Blaze looked a bit ashamed.
I was glad they’d decided not to fight.
I kept silent, not wanting to take sides.
The three of them worked together to undress me. Blaze swiftly removed my top, and Rai cupped my breasts from behind as soon as the gown dropped to my waist. Blaze sent him a chiding look but did not growl. Iokul stared at my flimsy panties before he slowed pulled them down with a gasp that was full of lust and awe.
My heart pounded violently against my rib cage at the thrilling anticipation.
Despite the heat coursing through my blood, I shivered, not at the cold, but at their raging need that mirrored mine.
For a second, I had trouble shifting gear, not knowing which one I should focus on, but then a joyful realization sliced through my mind. I didn’t have to single out one of the dragon princes. They were all mine.
I was completely naked in front of my mates.
I was at my most vulnerable, yet I offered myself to them.
They stared at my body in amazement, suddenly not knowing what to do.
“Are you just going to stare at my nakedness the whole day?” I asked, half-amused, half-lustful.
And then they were all on me.
One hot mouth claimed mine, two hands cupped my breasts, and a tongue licked my clit.
I arched my back and moaned, overwhelmed by the sensation.
“Let’s bathe Daisy first!” Rai had the sense to protest for me. “She likes bathing. It’s why she has a pool in her chamber.”
They lowered me into the water. I knew I was in good hands, so I let them do whatever they wanted. Rai lathered the soap on me and their large hands ran over me, touching me everywhere at once.
Heat sizzled through my body into my toes.
When Iokul thrust his finger into my pussy, I almost came from the contact.
Rai pulled at me until I was standing, and wrapped around me from behind possessively, his thick erection pricking against the small of my back, burning my skin.
I let out a breath. It was hot here—a dragon was so much hotter than an ordinary man, and I had three.
Blaze’s hand palmed my pussy, unbridled lust ablaze in his golden eyes. He was the only one who hadn’t come inside me, though he’d penetrated me when we’d been in my jungle. So, I guessed the brothers had a silent agreement that he should fuck me first in this group fun.
“Daisy, our mate,” Rai murmured and lifted me up, my back against his solid chest. His large palm held one of my butt cheeks, and Iokul helped to spread my legs wider.
The ice dragon melted once again, liquid fire glowing in his silver eyes as he stared at my bare, pink pussy. His body shuddered with primal male desire, and his long-lashed eyelids half closed. His fingers grazed my breast and kneaded it eagerly.
Blaze moved between my thighs, his hand on top of my leg, the other holding his cock, letting the thick head of his shaft rub my sensitive bud back and forth.
I moaned as waves of pleasure spread through me.
Blaze’s lustful eyes burned brighter.
“Do you want my cock, honeybee?” Blaze asked roughly.
“Please,” I whimpered.
His steel rod brushed my folds open and pushed into my narrow passage. One inch, then another, and then all the way in.
I gasped, my mouth open. His cock was the largest among all his brothers.
My inner walls molded to his shape and adjusted to his size.
Blaze cursed. “Our mate has the hottest and tightest pussy ever!”
He started to thrust, the weight of his hard rod delicious inside me, his scent intoxicating.
Pleasure burst in me and I moaned.
Blaze thrust in me in steady rhythm, as if he had all the time in the world to savor me. Every stroke sent pleasure to my every cell.
I propelled my ass toward him, wanting to take him as deeply as possible.
“Is that so? You want more?” Blaze asked, his voice hoarse.
He pounded between my thighs with a dragon’s strength, moving in harder and faster.
In and out. He slammed to the hilt and paused, his cock buried deep within me, then he thrust again at a ravaging speed.
I cried out from the pleasure it ignited within me.
My back rammed into Rai’s rock-solid chest as Blaze fucked me relentlessly, but Rai held me just fine. The lightning dragon gently brushed my hair to the side and traced his hot, hungry lips along the column of my neck. There were a lot of sensitive spots there, and he knew all of them, his teeth grazing them one by one.
All my mates were experienced lovers, and now they were all mine, and mine alone.
Iokul’s large, powerful hand cupped my breast, massaging it as his other hand pumped his cock. The three dragons had different skin tones. Blaze was golden-bronze, as was his cock. Rai was sun-kissed light brown. Iokul had pale skin that matched his silver eyes and hair. And the ice dragon’s cock was also pale and silky.
Iokul’s pumping quickened as he watched Blaze’s cock thrust in and out of my pussy in savage rhythm.
My moans were cut short as Rai turned my face to the side and bent down to claim my mouth. His tongue thrust against mine, mating me as Blaze fucked me vehemently.
“I want to fuck you, too, Daisy, right now,” Iokul said, his voice slurring, his eyes heavy-lidded. “My cock hurts without getting inside you.”
Rai broke the kiss and whispered. “I also need to fuck you and bury my cock so deep inside you so you moan my name.”
Blaze grabbed both my legs, as if afraid that his brothers would take me away from him.
“This p
ussy is mine!” Blaze declared as he thrust in me wildly.
“And ours!” Rai said, his hands squeezing my butt cheeks.
“And mine!” Iokul said, rubbing his pre-cum dripping on my round butt cheek.
“Let’s move Daisy to the bed,” Rai said firmly, “so all of us can have our mate at the same time, and everyone will get a fair share.”
How could I have three cocks at the same time?
“We’ll show you,” Iokul said.
“Only after I give Daisy an orgasm first,” Blaze insisted as he drove into me hard. “Star-damned, this is the best fuck I’ve ever had!”
Blaze’s powerful, longs thrusts hit my molten core over and over.
“Come for me, Daisy,” he commanded.
At his words, the floodgate opened.
I sobbed and moaned as waves of orgasms crashed over me.
“Mine!” Blaze roared and rammed through my clenched inner walls around his cock, until he pumped his bountiful seed into me.
He dropped his head onto my shoulder and kissed my skin, breathing hard in satisfaction.
And then I was in the water with them.
Before the pleasure ended, it started again. While my head was still hazy from sensory overloading, I found myself in the center of the bed, with three of the hottest dragon shifters around me.
I was a half-dragon myself and a half-Fae. I was stronger than most species, yet the three wildest, sexy dragons weakened my knees. Just as I thought I couldn’t handle all of them, they’d whisked through me like a breeze.
All three of them were dedicated to me, devoted to only me, and wanted only me. It was intoxicating to know they lusted after and loved me more than anything. They did not care for the dragon kingdom—they wanted me.
And I enjoyed each one of them so much, equally, yet differently.
My body quivered in need for all of them
I closed my eyes, not knowing whose lips seared mine, whose hands fondled my breasts before a hot mouth suckled my needy breast.
Large, powerful hands ran all over my body, exploring and loving and savoring, and every touch drove me to the brink of insanity, yet I wanted more.
There weren’t just the hands, tongue and teeth joined the feast as well.