Fire & Ice

by Alice Brown

  Evangelina realized Adrian had been the one speaking the entire time, Aiden had yet to say a word, one way or the other. Turning her attention to him, she inquired, “And how do you feel about this situation?”

  Aiden gave her a smoldering look and then a slow, sexy half-smile, half-smirk. “Darling, I want nothing more than to strip you right here and show you how many different ways I can send your body to heights unknown and have you screaming in pleasure, but I do agree with Adrian. You are our mate, and if we mess things up with you this early, we take the chance of starting this relationship on the wrong foot. Or worse yet, scare you into leaving us. That is just not acceptable.”

  “Okay,” Evangelina replied as she nodded her head and bit down on her lower lip. She had one more thing to ask them, but wasn’t sure how they were going to take it.

  “Will you two show me your dragon?”

  Aiden glanced over to his brother who looked just as shell shocked as him. “You want to meet Fadri?” he verified.

  “Well yes, isn’t your dragon a part of you?”

  Aiden shook his head in amazement. She certainly was taking all of this far better than he had ever hoped. “Yes, he is.”

  Fadri decided to lift his head up and join in. 'And why would she not want to meet me? Everyone knows I am much better looking, more sophisticated, and better cultured than you two hellions will ever be. Now stand aside so I can meet and woo my mate!'

  'Settle back down, Fadri! Father will have our asses handed to us if we shift here. We will take her outside to an open field and then we shall let you out. But you had better not do anything to scare her! I will kick your ass myself if you do anything to upset or frighten her!' Aiden warned darkly.

  'Blah, blah, blah…as if I would ever do anything that would upset our mate! Give me a little credit here! I bet I will have her wooed before you will!' Fadri challenged, to which Aiden just rolled his eyes. Sometimes Fadri was difficult to control, and that situation seemed to have been getting worse since meeting their mate. He hoped that maybe after they all had bonded, Fadri would settle back down.

  Adrian and Aiden walked on either side of Evangelina as they took her out to the back of the castle’s property where there was a nice open field for them to be able to complete their shift without destroying anything. Both twins asked her yet again if she was feeling all right, and if she was sure about this; she couldn’t help but inwardly roll her eyes as she sighed and replied, “Yes,” while also flexing her fingers. They would be lucky if she didn’t end up taking a swing at them before the evening was over. She felt fine, why could they not get that through their thick heads? Although, she had to admit to herself, it was nice to have someone, or in this case, two someone’s, looking after her and caring about her welfare. Thinking back, she couldn’t remember a guy ever treating her the way these two did. It was kind of old-fashioned, but romantic.

  “Okay, here is good,” Adrian stated as he turned to her. “You’re not going to freak out, are you?” a definite hint of worry in his voice.

  She gave them a reassuring smile as she watched the brothers walk a few more feet away, leaving her standing in place. When the two brothers stopped, they took a second to glance at one another and then both locked their gazes on her. Her eyes widened slightly as she watched them begin to strip their clothes away, revealing perfectly sculpted and tanned bodies with muscles in all the right places. Broad shoulders, strong biceps, tightly packed six packs, thick thighs, and their packages…WHOA!!!

  Sex with these two would be so very good, she told herself as she shamelessly stood ogling over their thick stalks. The moment they had pulled their pants down they were immediately hard, and judging by their length and thickness, she wasn’t even sure they would fit. Wait a moment! How would that work since there were two of them? They had made it abundantly clear that they wanted to share her, and she had read a romance book a few months back that had a ménage relationship in it, so she wasn’t completely clueless. Her mind was quietly whispering all the things they could explore, and then conjuring up images of all three of them in bed together. Oh, the possibilities!

  Forcing herself to turn her attention back to the men’s faces and not their bodies, she blushed hotly when she found them both grinning wickedly at her. She had been caught. Oh, well, she thought with a slight shrug, it wasn’t like they had tried to hide anything.

  Trying to clear her mind of all the sexual images, she watched closely as the brothers’ bodies began to meld together after they joined hands, then their bones began to crack and reform, their bodies growing tall and wide in size, their smooth skin turning into scales, and finally a long tail spurted out! How cool was that? They had a tail! It was long and looked as if it had spikes on it, but for some strange reason, the thought of their dragon having a tail was really cool. As the dragon now reached its full form, she tried to take in all its glory. The creature itself was outstanding and looked just like the painting back in the castle. Its body was a charcoal grey color, but one of its heads was ice-blue while the other was a fiery-orange, the color of fire. She was completely awestruck by its magnificence. She knew the dragon was a part of the brothers, but still found herself wondering if they or the dragon would be able to understand her while in this form. She didn’t have to wait long to learn her answer.

  Before she even realized what she was doing, she started slowly walking toward the beautiful creature. It lowered its body closer to the ground for her as she neared, both heads coming down to meet her at eye level.

  “Hello, my beauty. Don’t be startled. I would never hurt you. You are welcome to come as close as you wish.” The dragon had long eyelashes on the head that was ice-blue, and he blinked a couple of times as if he was trying to clear his vision.

  The fire-orange head then spoke, “Would I be asking too much too soon for you to place your hand on me?”

  “Umm, where?”

  “Anywhere you wish, my love. You are so pretty. I would be honored for you just to place your hand on me. You could touch my neck if you like.”

  She noticed the ice-blue head cocked his head to the other head and frowned. Obviously, if she was going to touch their necks or heads, she would need to do both, as not to upset one of them.

  Both heads lay down on the ground, making it easier for her. She felt no fear as she walked right between the two heads and using both of her hands, stroked both necks at the same time. A loud purring sound came from deep within the beast's chest as she marveled on how smooth their scales were, and how the blue neck was cool to the touch, but the fire-orange neck was very warm.

  “Oh, how remiss of me. I completely forgot my manners in introducing myself to you. I am Fadri. And yes, the brothers can still hear and see everything going on, but for the moment, they have let me take charge. If at any time, sweet mate, I make you nervous or upset, you just let me know, because that is the last thing I want to do. It is my intention to try to woo you, hoping that when it comes time to mate with the boys, you’ll overlook their personality defects for my over-generous chivalry and charisma.” The dragon stopped and sighed deeply, “You know, the boys really can’t help themselves sometimes. They have come a long way since they were little, but sometimes—well, sometimes they can be dense. I hope you have a forgiving nature. But oh, the stories I could tell you about those two getting into mischief when they were younger.”

  Evangelina felt perfectly comfortable with this huge dragon, and she started to sit down on the ground and use the dragon to prop herself up with. But Fadri was having none of that.

  “My sweets, don’t soil your clothing sitting on the ground. I would be honored if you would climb up on my back.” When she just stared at the dragon as if he had grown a few more heads, he gently pushed her forward.

  “Go ahead, sweets. Climb on up and find a comfortable spot. Then I will tell you a bit about your men.”

  She ended up climbing up on the blue neck, and then sliding down to the back of the dragon. She found a s
oft spot just under where the heads were joined on the body, and she sank down into it. It was very comfortable, reminding her of a hammock. Then she giggled. She was referring to this huge dragon as a hammock! Maybe she was going crazy!

  She sighed contentedly as Fadri began to move his body slightly from side to side, furthering the feel of a hammock. Oh, she could sleep right here for days! “Fadri, you are very comfortable. Thank you for allowing me to climb up on you.”

  “Oh, sweets, there is no need to thank me. I live to please you. Now, you get comfortable, and I’m going to tell you some stories of mischief the boys got into when they were growing up.”

  Both heads turned toward her, and if she hadn't been paying such close attention, she would have missed the eye rolls of each. Smiling, she settled in as Fadri began his tales.

  Chapter Nine

  Evangelina woke, startled. Fadri’s two heads were on either side of her. The blue head was gently nudging her with his nose, and seemed to be inhaling her scent as he went. The fire-orange head was using his forked tongue to taste the skin on her neck and cheek, much to her disgust. The feel of that slivery tongue across her skin caused goose bumps to break out all over.

  “Eww, get that tongue off me!” She brought her hand up to rub the areas that he had licked.

  Fadri didn’t see what the problem was. If she let one head inhale her scent, why wouldn’t she allow the other to taste her? Still, he didn’t want her mad at him, so he quickly withdrew and looked down at her with both heads.

  Having two sets of eyes on her at the same time but knowing they were of the same body felt a little weird, but no more so than having a dragon’s tongue waking her up. She must have dozed while he was telling her stories about Aiden and Adrian and how much mischief they got into when they were boys. He even told her that they would torment him, until one day he set the castle on fire by accident. He then assured her that King Thoran swiftly reprimanded the boys, and they were strictly forbidden to torment Fadri from that day on.

  She smiled up at Fadri a bit sheepishly. “I’m sorry, Fadri. I loved your stories, but I guess I got too comfortable and fell asleep. I didn’t mean to offend you in any way.”

  Fadri made a sound that sounded a bit like a growl. “Pssh, sweetheart, you needed your rest. We have plenty of time later to talk about the princes when they were younger. Here, let me help you down.” The blue neck extended over to her, allowing her to climb onto it and then he carefully brought it back around before lowering her to the ground.

  “Fadri, what happens to the men when you come forward? Do they just fade into the background, or do they maintain some control?” Evangelina asked once she was standing on her own two feet again.

  “Most of the time they maintain a lot of control. I am surprised they have let me have this much leeway for this long of a period of time. You do know each man represents one of my heads, don’t you?”

  “Umm, I’m not sure I follow you completely on that, Fadri.”

  The blue head leaned down and looked her directly in the eye. When it spoke, it wasn’t Fadri’s voice, but Adrian’s. She could also see his face in the eyes of the dragon. “Yes, sweets, it’s me, Adrian. My part of the dragon is capable of bellowing out ice, but also has healing capabilities.”

  Adrian’s dragon head no more than moved out of the way when the orange-fire looking head came down directly in front of her, and again, she could see Aiden’s face in the eyes of the dragon. “Yes, darling, it’s Aiden. My part of the dragon is capable of blowing out flames that will torch just about anything it touches.” A shudder ran down her spine when Evangelina thought about the amount of damage Aiden’s part of the dragon could do. Now she knew which half of the dragon had set the castle on fire when they were kids.

  “Sweetheart, the men are demanding for me to relinquish control and hand it back over to them. It was an honor to meet you, and a pleasure to spend this evening with you. Now, I’m going to step back just a few steps, and the boys will be right with you.” He gave her a wink as he took about six steps backward.

  One minute an awe-inspiring dragon was standing in front of her, the next minute the two brothers were standing absolutely naked before her. She couldn’t help it—she tried to keep her eyes on their faces, but didn’t succeed. Glancing down, she gasped as she saw both men were fully aroused and huge!

  “Like what you see, baby?” Aiden purred as he strode over to her, not even bothering to stop and dress first.

  She forced her eyes back up to his face. “What?”

  “I said, do you like what you see?” Even in the complete darkness, Aiden could see her face was a bright red from embarrassment.

  His brother had come up behind her and moved her hair out of the way, so he could plant tiny kisses on her neck. Aiden watched as she tensed up for about five seconds, but when Adrian reached her earlobe and gently bit down on it, following it up with his tongue to take the sting away, it was as if all tension flew out of her body at once. Aiden stepped up even closer to the front of her, cupping her cheeks, as he placed a sweet kiss on her lips. When he went to withdraw, she leaned forward, as if she was chasing him. He ran his thumbs up and down her cheeks.

  “You are so beautiful, baby. Would you consider letting us pleasure you? We brought a blanket with us, and we have complete privacy out here.” He was afraid if they waited until they arrived at the castle, the mood would be gone for her. He drew back just a bit to watch her facial expressions. Excitement warred with trepidation. “Look, we will stop at any time, all you have to do is tell us. You have complete control over us, darling. I know you don’t know that now, but you will in time.” He took a quick second to glance over her shoulder to his brother.

  “Why don’t we start with sitting down on the blanket? We could talk a bit if that would make you feel more comfortable, and then we will go from there.”

  Evangelina allowed them to both take one of her hands as they guided her to where the blanket sat on the ground. Aiden quickly let go of her hand and spread it out. As she sat down on the soft blanket, she kicked off her shoes and pushed them to the side. She reached over to the outside of the blanket and ran her hand through the grass. Grass on Earth wasn’t like what she was feeling between her fingers. Here, grass had an almost silky feel to it. Even the ground wasn’t hard like she was used to back home.

  Adrian dropped down beside her, and immediately reached over to play with the grass with her. “It’s different than Earth’s, yet the same. Does that make sense?” she murmured over to him.

  He gave her a smile as he nodded. “Yes, our grass and even the ground isn’t as hard as what you have on Earth. It took Aiden and me a bit of time to get used to the changes like that when we first arrived on Earth.”

  “How long have you two been on Earth?” she asked, seriously wondering why anyone would want to leave this beautiful land. The ground beneath her felt as if it were padded somehow. She pressed her hand into the dirt beneath her, and watched as her handprint stayed for a few seconds before disappearing.

  “A couple of years now,” Aiden replied as he dropped down on her other side.

  “Why? Why would you want to leave this beautiful land?” She just couldn’t understand it. Had they been gone all this time, or did they come back to visit periodically? It seemed, at least to her, that they had certainly no reservations about rushing her here when they thought they could help her better with their medical equipment and knowledge.

  Adrian picked up her hand and began to run his thumb lightly over the top of it. “We believe there is one person that is meant to be our other half, or mate. Unfortunately, even though Dragonose is very wealthy, we do have one big downside. We have very few females on Dragonose. Each generation produces fewer and fewer girls, and if we don’t find a way to bring in new blood, and try to find a way to increase our female population, we will become extinct within the next three generations or so. With so many males on this planet and so few females, it was decided to use the por
tals many years ago to search out our mates. Luckily, we were tailing a guy who, unbeknownst to us, was following our mate.”

  He gave her hand a tug which propelled her forward until her face was directly in front of his. Before she knew what was happening, his lips came down on hers in a sweet, but sensual kiss. She felt something at the back of her neck and realized Aiden must have moved her hair out of the way, because he was raining kisses down the side of her neck and trailing the tip of his tongue just around the outside shell of her ear. She moaned and closed her eyes, letting her head roll back as Adrian continued to nip lightly at her lips and then kiss the sting away. Mentally, she shook her head. The kiss Adrian was giving her was by far not the most intense kiss in the world. He did not ask or demand entrance. He was concentrating on her lips only, no tongue, and yet, because of the gentleness of this kiss it was by far the most erotic kiss she had ever had in her life. They were trying to take things slow for her sake, and that meant more than she could express in words. Her body, now cradled between the two men’s bodies, felt like pure heaven. God, she could get accustomed to this kind of attention.

  Aiden slowly slid his hands from just under her breasts down to her hips, and then back up to her breasts. He did this repeatedly, each time making contact with the sides and undersides of her breasts. When he reached her hips, he inched further downward on every pass, until he was encompassing part of her ass. A light moan of ecstasy escaped her lips, her head resting back on Aiden’s shoulder. The two brothers made eye contact over her shoulder.