She frowned and mumbled against his fingers. “Care to tell me why?”
Removing his fingers, he placed a finger under her chin. “Because I want my clan to know that you’re mine.”
Her breath hitched and a feeling of smugness came over him. His dragon hummed. See? She wants us too.
She hasn’t said yes yet, you bloody beast.
She will.
Evie pushed half-up and looked down at him. “Is this a firm ‘Yes, I’m going to take you on as my mate’ or another half-arsed way to string me along?”
Calm her fears. Leave no doubts.
Sometimes, Bram wished he could just let his dragon talk instead of conveying the beast’s messages. Still, he agreed with him this time. The thought of her walking away from him and leaving with Finn in a few days caused a surge of jealousy to shoot through his body.
Bram rolled on top of Evie, pinning her body to the bed, and leaned in until he was a hairbreadth away from her lips. “Evie Marshall, I want you as my mate.” Remembering her request from this morning, he tacked on, “Will you allow me to walk in to the great hall with you on my arm? I can make the announcement tomorrow, as I don’t want to take the focus away from Finn, no matter how much I wish I could just kick the bastard to the side and bring you into the limelight.”
Evie’s eyes searched his. “Are you being serious? I don’t want to get my hopes up only to have them dashed later when we have another row.”
He moved one hand between them and gripped her breast possessively. Evie sucked in a breath as he said, “You are mine, Evie Marshall, and one day you’ll admit as much.”
His dragon hummed. Yes, yes, she is ours. Always. We need her.
Needing was the last word he wanted to hear right now since his cock was currently cushioned between him and Evie’s round, soft stomach. Every instinct he possessed urged him to thrust into the female and make her scream.
Yes, yes, fuck her. If we do it quickly, we have enough time.
But she said only once.
Then ask.
Gritting his teeth, Bram forced himself to ask a different question. “Will you accompany me and agree to be my mate?”
The human stared at him silently. With each passing second, his dragon pushed harder to take control. Don’t lose her. Make her say yes.
Evie’s London tones snapped him from his mind. “As long as you plan to protect me, then yes, I’ll accompany you and be your mate.”
Joy rushed through his body and he lowered his head to kiss her.
The kiss wasn’t meant to be gentle, and he immediately thrust his tongue into her mouth. As he licked and explored every inch of her hot, sweet mouth, he pinched her nipple and reveled in the vibrations of her moan both in his mouth and from the contact against her chest.
Now, now, do it now. We must fuck her and brand our scent more. Don’t let the leader take her.
Only because of years of practice did Bram resist his dragon’s commands. Breaking the kiss, he whispered, “Please, Evie, let me take you from behind quickly or my beast will break free and take you every which way until he’s sated. I want that, too, but I can’t risk the alliance.”
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Evie was having trouble thinking. Between the fit dragonman’s muscled body lying on top of her to his recent domination of her mouth, her lady parts were very much screaming for attention. Somewhere in the back of her mind, she was glad he’d asked her to be his mate. But as Bram asked to fuck her to calm his dragon, any rational thoughts vanished. All she could think about was the cock currently pressing against her. “Then take me, dragonman. Doggy-style—or is it dragon-style?—is one of my favorite positions.”
With a roar, Bram rose off her body, flipped her over, and lifted her hips before he thrust his long, hard cock into her. Evie gripped the sheets and raised her arse. As if signaling to start, Bram pounded into her, no holds barred.
The speed, combined with how his hard cock was hitting her at just the right angle, made her moan. The sensation was in that wonderful place on the border of pleasure and pain.
Then her dragonman picked up his pace and she cried out with each thrust. She’d never had a man so completely fill her, let alone fuck her as if this were their last moment on Earth. Sometimes she appreciated special attention to her clit, but at the moment, the sheer power and animalistic nature of Bram’s movements was bringing her close to the edge.
Then he roared and stilled. She felt him orgasm inside her, and pleasure instantly coursed through her body as her pussy started to spasm in time with her clit. Each hot jet inside her brought another orgasm, until she lost all rational thought.
Only when she felt Bram lean over her back and kiss her shoulder did she come down from her high. His arms were tenderly wrapped around her, the hair from his arms and chest tickling her skin. His voice was low and husky as he whispered into her ear, “Thank you.”
Her brain took a second to make a coherent thought before she said, “Mr. Dragon Leader is thanking me? That’s new.”
His chuckle vibrated against her back. “Don’t get too used to it. I only bring out the ‘t’ word on special occasions.”
Evie laughed. Bram rose upward, but took her with him until she was leaning back against his chest. She looked into his very human-looking eyes. “Is your dragon doing better now?”
Hugging her tightly, he nodded. “I don’t know what’s gotten into him. He hasn’t been this out of control since I was barely an adult. It’s almost as if...”
I was his true mate.
Evie pushed that thought aside. There was no way she could be. According to her testing as a teenager, she couldn’t have dragon-shifter children. True mates always reproduced. Always.
Or, so went every documented case she’d studied over the years.
Bram nuzzled the side of her neck and she focused on the here and now. She didn’t need to be his true mate to enjoy the man at her back. She was about to ask when Melanie and Samira were due to arrive when he cursed and said, “They’re knocking on the door. You need to go.”
Snuggling against his hard chest, she murmured, “I don’t want to.”
Her dragonman chuckled. “So have my sex skills graduated from ‘nice’ to something much more now? So much so that you can’t bear to leave my side?”
She tried to frown, but failed. “Remind me not to compliment you too often or you will become unbearable.”
He grinned. “You haven’t seen anything yet, lass.”
As she smiled widely, a mobile phone rang. Bram sighed. “That would be Melanie. We can talk later, lass. Once I find out information from Kai, I’ll let you know if you’re in any danger. That’ll have to be at the dinner in the great hall, provided we can find a secure place to talk.”
He moved away and pulled out from her. She turned around and he cupped her face with his warm hands. “I can’t wait to see you kitted out in dragon-shifter attire, Evie. It might just drive my dragon crazy again.”
She smiled as he placed a gentle kiss on her lips. Then he pulled away and reached for his jeans. “Hurry, lass. Once Melanie has a task, she’s determined to see it through. She’ll drag you half-naked through the community if that’s what it takes.”
Standing on the floor, she looked at Bram’s light blue eyes. “Just one question: is being your mate-to-be a secret?”
“Melanie and Samira are fine, but don’t go spreading it around yet. If there’s a traitor in the clan, I don’t want them to hurt you to get at me.”
After nodding, Evie took one last look at her future mate and headed for the bathroom, unsure of what the next few hours would bring.
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Blaze of Secrets
(Asylums for Magical Threats #1)
Kiarra Melini overhears the dangerous secrets of her blood and decides that if Feiru elemental magic is to survive, she needs to die. However, before she can finish the deed, a strange yet determined man shows up in her cell, throws her over his shoulder, and carries her right out of the prison for elemental magic users.
Jaxton Ward is ordered by his superiors to train the stubborn elemental fire user he rescued. There's only one problem—she claims her magic is gone and he has no idea how to train a woman who spent the last fifteen years inside a prison cell. He's determined to keep his relationship professional, but as the danger amps up and they're forced to go on the run, he starts to fall for the newly confident woman who ignites his temper like no other.
Kiarra's final secret is the key to them staying alive, but can they outrun the prison enforcers long enough for her to embrace her unique magical talents and finally learn to love again?
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Reclaiming the Wolf
(Cascade Shifters #1)
Female wolf-shifter clan leaders are rare, but Kaya Alexie thrives on the challenge and can handle anything the men of her pack throw her way. However, when the male cougar-shifter who broke her heart ten years ago shows up on her doorstep with a dead wolf-shifter in tow, her whole world goes off-kilter. She’s determined to ignore him, but when a virus threatens to decimate her clan, she has no choice but to work with her ex and his brother to survive.
Sylas Murray is sent by his brother to ask for the wolves’ help in solving the mystery of a recent wolf-shifter attack. There are a few problems, however. Not only is he a cougar-shifter among a pack of wolves, the clan leader is also his ex-girlfriend. To say they had a bad break-up would be putting it mildly—Sy’s actions nearly destroyed the truce his clan had with the wolf-shifters. But as a virus threatens the GreyFire wolves, Sy and Kaya must put aside their past to find a cure.
As they work together and race against the clock, Sy starts to wonder why he let Kaya go in the first place. Despite their past, will he be able to reclaim the wolf that captured his heart and start over?
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Sacrificed to the Dragon: Boxed Set
Parts #1-4
(Stonefire Dragons)
In exchange for a vial of dragon’s blood to save her brother’s life, Melanie Hall offers herself up as a sacrifice to one of the British dragon-shifter clans. Being a sacrifice means signing a contract to live with the dragon-shifters for six months to try to conceive a child. Her assigned dragonman, however, is anything but easy. He’s tall, broody, and alpha to the core. There’s only one problem—he hates humans.
Due to human dragon hunters killing his mother, Tristan MacLeod despises humans. Unfortunately, his clan is in desperate need of offspring to repopulate their numbers and it’s his turn to service a human female. Despite his plans to have sex with her and walk away, his inner dragon has other ideas. The curvy human female tempts his inner beast like no other.
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Books by Jessie Donovan
Asylums for Magical Threats
Blaze of Secrets (AMT #1)
Frozen Desires (AMT #2)
Shadow of Temptation (AMT #2.5)
Cascade Shifters
Convincing the Cougar (CS #0.5)
Reclaiming the Wolf (CS #1)
Cougar’s First Christmas (CS #1.5)
Stonefire Dragons
Sacrificed to the Dragon: Part One
Sacrificed to the Dragon: Part Two
Sacrificed to the Dragon: Part Three
Sacrificed to the Dragon: Part Four
Sacrificed to the Dragon: Boxed Set (Parts 1-4)
Seducing the Dragon: Part One
Seducing the Dragon: Part Two
Seducing the Dragon: Part Three (December 2014)
Seducing the Dragon: Part Four (January 2015)
About the Author
Jessie Donovan wrote her first story at age five, and after discovering The Dragonriders of Pern series by Anne McCaffrey in junior high, she realized people actually wanted to read stories like those floating around inside her head. From there on out, she was determined to tap into her over-active imagination and write a book someday.
After living abroad for five years and earning degrees in Japanese, Anthropology, and Secondary Education, she buckled down and finally wrote her first full-length book. While that story will never see the light of day, it laid the world-building groundwork of what would become her debut paranormal romance, Blaze of Secrets. In October 2014, she officially became a USA Today Bestselling Author.
Jessie loves to interact with readers. When not reading a book or traipsing around some foreign country on a shoestring, she can often be found on Facebook and Twitter. You can email her at: [email protected].
This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either the product of the writer’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
Seducing the Dragon: Part Two
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