Oh God, what if wasn’t Garrett at all—
“Eyes front!” he rasped when Billie dared to take a look behind her.
A delicious shiver of anticipation quivered down the length of her spine at the intensity of his expression as he stood just behind her. She quickly turned her gaze back to looking at the other end of the sofa.
The seconds ticked slowly by, with no sound of further movement from Garrett. Not that she’d heard him move the first time. But this utter silence behind her was playing havoc with her nerves.
Until Billie couldn’t stand the tension any longer. “My ass is getting cold— Oooh.” She gave a long and low groan as Garrett’s hand landed painfully across both cheeks of her bottom.
“Let’s see if we can warm it up for you.” He spoke through gritted teeth as he landed another smack. Followed by another. And then another. “You should really be counting these,” he continued harshly. “But as I have no idea when or if I’ll ever want to stop, we’ll dispense with counting today.”
Billie’s backside was ablaze by the time Garrett had landed another ten blows. With heat as well as pain. A combination she wasn’t sure if she found pleasurable or wanted to escape, although the juices dripping from her pussy seemed to say it was the former.
Another five smacks of her flesh with that powerful hand, and Billie knew, aroused or not, she’d had enough. “Shouldn’t I have a safe word?” She was slumped weakly over the arm of the sofa, her fingernails digging painfully into the brocade material. “Something that would make you stop?”
Garrett pressed his thighs up against the back of hers, his jeans abrasive against her sensitive and burning flesh. “Do you want me to stop?” He leaned down to speak beside her ear while one of his hands squeezed and kneaded her abused bottom and sent shards of heat to her already dripping pussy. “You put yourself in danger,” he grated. “If those men had succeeded in killing you—”
“I would never have done anything that would endanger your life!”
“What the fuck!” Garrett felt to his knees to turn Billie to face him, feeling a tightness in his chest as he saw the tears that streaked her flushed cheeks. “I don’t give a damn about my life.” He grasped the tops of her arms and shook her. “You’re all that’s important to me. You!” he bit out forcefully as he shook her again before his mouth crashed down on hers in fierce possession.
Garrett had repressed the terror he felt when he found Billie looming over the Romanian with his sword in her hand, but holding her softness in his arms, devouring her lips with his own, it was impossible for him to fight that fear any longer.
He wrenched his mouth from hers. “You could have died, damn it.” He held her tightly against his chest. “One of those men could have shot you, and your life would have been snuffed out in a single moment.”
She smiled ruefully. “You should know by now that I’m not that easy to kill. God knows enough people have been trying for these past few weeks.”
And every single one of them made Garrett’s blood run cold. To think Billie might have been killed before he even met her! “Once we’re mated, I’m going to lock you in the dungeon and bloody well keep you there.”
She looked up at him teasingly. “I think you might find I have something to say about that.”
“I would be in there with you.”
“Oh. Well. Okay.” She nodded.
His brows rose. “Okay?”
“Hm.”
“I just spanked you.”
“Yes.”
“Hard.”
“Hm.”
Garrett’s engorged cock gave an enthusiastic throb every time Billie made that sexy murmur. “You weren’t supposed to like it.”
She eyed him skeptically. “No?”
“Well…maybe a little bit.”
Her lips curved in a sexy smile. “I enjoyed it a lot.”
Garrett scowled. “How am I supposed to punish you if you enjoy it?”
“Often?” she suggested huskily.
He gave an exasperated shake of his head. “What am I going to do with you?”
Billie ran a finger down his tight jaw. “Well, I know I said maybe we should wait to mate…”
He tensed. “Yes?”
Her teeth replaced those caressing fingers, biting into his skin hard enough, it was just short of pain. “I’ve changed my mind.”
Garrett stilled. “You have?”
“Hm.” Her moist tongue stroked over where she had just bitten him. “It’s a woman’s prerogative, you know.”
“So they say, yes.”
“Oh no, it’s a fact.” She stepped away from him, revealing—as if Garrett had needed any reminding—that she was naked from the waist down. “Now what did you say was going to happen?” She glanced over her shoulder and beckoned him to follow her as she walked into the bedroom. “Ah yes, I remember now.” She threw off her camisole top.” You’re going to put me on my hands and knees on the bed.”
Garrett’s breath caught in his throat as Billie suited her actions to her words, her reddened bottom high, her breasts tipped with long and engorged nipples as she faced away from him.
“Then spread my legs.” Her legs parted to reveal her plump and glistening pussy lips. “Then you’re going to bite me on the back of my neck and mount me from behind—I have no idea why, but just hearing you say that was so arousing,” she mused. “Then you’ll suck some of my blood into your mouth while infusing more of the aphrodisiac into my system.”
Garrett hadn’t been aware of it, but he seemed to have divested himself of his clothing while Billie repeated almost word for word what he had said to her in Iceland. “You forgot something.”
“I was saving the best till last,” she purred. “I am so looking forward to feeling that barb latch on inside me and stroking my—Whoa, you’re fast,” she admired as Garrett was suddenly there, kneeling on the bed behind her.
“You’re sure about this, Billie?” He grasped hold of her hips, unsure of whether he intended pushing her away or pulling her closer. “You have to be one hundred percent sure,” he insisted through gritted teeth. “If we do this, you will be my mate for the rest of your very long life.”
“I think I’ll cope,” she teased.
Garrett pulled her up until she was kneeling in front of him, her back flush with his front as his fingers grasped her chin and turned her head so she looked at him. “I will honor, protect, and cherish you—”
“I love you.”
“—for all the years— What did you say?” he demanded.
“I love you,” she repeated steadily, when inside she felt…vulnerable. Raw. Exposed. Her heart laid out at Garrett’s feet.
Did he even want her heart?
Her love?
Holly said the Pendragon brothers loved their mates, but—
“Goddess, I love you too!” Garrett’s arms moved about Billie’s waist and crushed her back against him, his face buried against the side of her throat.
Billie trembled. “You love me?”
“Forever and always,” he assured her gruffly.
“But how can you?” she choked. “I’ve lied and cheated, and—”
“Survived,” he stated proudly. “You did those things to protect your father. You’re everything I could ever have wished for in my fated mate and my dragon’s. Beautiful. Brave. Loyal. Sensual. Mine.”
That last word came out as a growl, and Billie was pretty sure it was Garrett’s dragon talking as well as the man. Because the two were inseparable.
Man and dragon.
Dragon and man.
They were fierce and honorable, and Billie loved both of them. Because they were Garrett. Everything that he was and would be for many centuries to come. In the same way Garrett loved her, for everything she already was and would become.
It was more than enough.
It was everything.
“Mate me, Garrett,” she encouraged as she bared the back of her neck to him. “Make me yours and
give yourself to me in return.”
“Goddess, yes.” His teeth bit into the tender flesh of her nape at the same time that his cock slid between her pussy lips in one fierce, possessive thrust.
Billie lost track of time as she became euphoric from Garrett sucking on her nape, mixing the two of them together, blood and aphrodisiac as his cock thrust and claimed. Her body erupted in climax after climax, that barb latching on inside her, binding them together, the two of them becoming one entity rather than two when Garrett released fiercely inside her.
Garrett and Billie.
Billie and Garrett.
Fated mates.
Bound together forever.
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Carole Mortimer is a USA Today Bestselling Author and recipient of the RWA Nora Roberts Lifetime Achievement Award 2015, a Career Achievement Award 2017 and Pioneer of Romance Award 2014, both from Romantic Times. She was recognized by Queen Elizabeth II in 2012 for her ‘outstanding service to literature’. Carole has written 240 contemporary, paranormal and Regency novels.
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Other books by Carole Mortimer
Regency Lovers:
INDECENT (Regency Lovers 1)
OBSESSION (Regency Lovers 2)
CRAVING (Regency Lovers 3)
More books to come in this series
Steele Security:
LOGAN (Steele Security 1)
More books to come in this series
Regency Sinners Series:
Wicked Torment (Regency Sinners 1)
Wicked Surrender (Regency Sinners 2)
Wicked Scandal (Regency Sinners 3)
Wicked Deception (Regency Sinners 4)
Wicked Captive (Regency Sinners 5)
Wicked Temptation (Regency Sinners 6)
Wicked Sinners (Regency Sinners 7)
Wicked Christmas (Regency Sinners 8) Author’s 240th book
Dragon Hearts – Contemporary paranormal
Nathaniel (Dragon Hearts 1)
Deryk (Dragon Hearts 2)
Bryn (Dragon Hearts 3)
Dylan (Dragon Hearts 4)
Grigor (Dragon Hearts 5)
Garrett (Dragon Hearts 6)
Aeran & Rhys (Dragon Hearts 7)
Regency Unlaced Series:
The Duke’s Mistress (Book 1)
Claimed by the Marquis (Book 2)
Taken by the Earl (Book 3)
Pursued by the Viscount (Book 4)
Desired by a Lord (Book 5)
Captured by a Gentleman (Book 6)
Pleasured by a Duke (Book 7)
Seduced by a Marquis (Book 8)
Tamed by the Earl (Book 9)
Series is now complete
Knight Security Series: Spin-off to ALPHA series
Resisting Alexandre (Knight Security 0.5)
Defying Asher (Knight Security 1)
Challenging Gabriel (Knight Security 2)
Capturing Caleb (Knight Security 3)
Tempting Zander (Knight Security 4)
Enticing Ian (Knight Security 5)
Seducing Ethan (Knight Security 6)
Series now complete
ALPHA Series:
Christmas Alpha (Alpha 1)
Dark Alpha (Alpha 2)
Shadow Alpha (Alpha 3) Author’s 200th Book
Midnight Alpha (Alpha 4) – Gregori Markovic’s story
Renegade Alpha (Alpha 5)
Warrior Alpha (Alpha 6) – Nikolai Volkov’s story
Rogue Alpha (Alpha 7)
Savage Alpha (Alpha 8)
Series is now complete
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