by Mina Carter
Dualla growled in frustration and reached down to grab a handful of his silken hair to drag him up to where she wanted him. “There,” she panted. “Now.”
“Oh, you mean here?” She heard a smile in his voice he blew a cool breath over her clit. Dualla almost howled in frustration. Before she could make any more demands, though, he leaned down and sucked the small nubbin into his mouth.
Her climax hit her like a tidal wave across the shore. Heat exploded out from her core, surging along her veins like an inferno to fill every cell of her body. The soft moan in the back of her throat became a keen cry of pleasure as she called his name. Wave after wave hit her, washing her away in a sea of ecstasy. The brush of his tongue over her clit was both her tormentor and her savior. Hands twining in his hair, she lifted her hips, begging for more even though she wasn’t sure. There was no possible way she could take it.
With a last flick of his tongue over her, Edan pulled away and crawled up her body. Hands braced either side of her head, he looked down at her.
“I can’t believe you’re actually mine,” he whispered, and the vulnerability in his eyes broke Dualla’s heart all over again. To see such a powerful creature, and such a proud man, humbled before her was nothing short of a miracle and something Dualla knew she’d never see again.
She lifted her hand, and making sure to pick the damaged side, touched his cheek again. “I am, always have been,” she admitted. “You’re the man of my dreams. Literally.”
He grunted and reached down between them to position himself, pressing the broad head of his cock to the slick entrance of her body.
“I’ll make you explain that. But later,” he said and pushed forwards. Dualla’s back arched as he slid into her in one long, powerful slide. His smile was slow and assured as he started to move, a steady rhythm which started to build the fires of her arousal all over again. “Right now, I’m a little busy loving my soulmate, my souler.”
Epilogue
“You are one lucky son-of-a-bitch, you know that, scale-boy?”
The amused voice broke through Edan’s contemplation of the party going on in his garden. It had been a few months since he’d taken Dualla as his fire companion, and the curvy woman had insisted on a party to mark their bonding. Considering the fact she was pregnant, her belly already starting to round with his child, the normally reclusive Edan hadn’t been able to say no. Then again, one pleading look from her turquoise eyes was enough to shatter any arguments he tried to muster. Simply put, the big dragon couldn’t resist giving her anything she wanted.
“Mac! You made it.”
Edan turned from his post behind the barbeque, a broad smile on his face which tugged at the barely there scars on his cheek. Repeated healing -- making love to Dualla -- had accomplished wonders. Even now Edan could hardly believe his wing was almost whole again.
Mac leaned around him and snagged a sausage. “Of course I did, man. You think I’d miss your bonding party? Someone’s gotta give a speech and warn the poor girl about your deplorable antics as a single man.”
Edan grinned and shook his head as Mac bit into the sausage, then cursed as the hot meat spilled out and burned his lip. “As impatient as ever. Hey, it’s daylight. What happened to the old sun slavery bit?” he asked, realizing the sun was out and Mac was walking and talking. Not the standard MO for a gargoyle. Usually they were locked in stone during the day.
Still chewing, Mac lifted a small pendant around his neck. “Warden-made, cost me an arm and a leg. Someone else’s, of course,” he said around a mouthful, then swallowed. “So, that the lucky lady?”
Edan followed his gaze to where Dualla was holding court amongst the other fire companions. The look on his face mellowed. The sunlight glinted off her dark hair, hair that had gained a purple hue since their bonding, and the light sound of her laughter drifted over the lawn to the two men.
“Yeah.”
“Eloquent as ever I see.” Mac finished his sausage and swallowed, looking back at his former partner. “She’s beautiful. You’re a lucky guy.”
“Why are you here, Mac?” Edan asked bluntly as he turned the burgers. Quite why he was standing here burning meat on a barbeque was beyond him. It would be so much easier for him to just shift and toast the lot in one go, but he had his orders.
“We got a lead on Carmicheal.” Mac’s voice lost the charming note and went all business. Edan nodded and stabbed another burger to turn it. “You healed enough to want in?”
Silence stretched between the two men as Edan carried on turning burgers, a frown on his face he looked up and across the lawn toward Dualla. At that moment, perhaps sensing his dilemma, she looked up and their eyes connected.
A smile spread over her lips, love and happiness shining in her eyes. Edan shook his head, his decision made.
“Not this time. Ethan’s gone and I’m done in the ring. My life is here now, with my souler.”
The End
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