Reawakening the Dragon Page 22
Jane touched Kai’s jaw. “I wish that was the end of it.”
Kai frowned down at Jane. “What are you talking about?”
Jane filled him in on Arabella’s report and he grunted. “We’ll just have to up our security and ensure you never leave Stonefire without an escort.”
Jane opened her mouth, but Bram beat her to the reply. “He’s right, Jane. If they ever find out you were the reason we set them up to be captured, they’ll be out for your blood.”
Kai hugged Jane tighter against his body. “I will protect her.”
Bram clapped Kai’s bicep. “Aye, I know you will, Kai.” His clan leader motioned with his head. “Enjoy Jane for a little while and then come debrief me the rest.”
Jane spoke up. “Is anyone going to ask me?”
The corner of Kai’s mouth ticked up. “No. Your next hour is mine.”
His human tilted her head. “And I suppose we’ll spend that hour touring the clan’s lands?”
Kai growled. “No. You’re going to spend it in my bed.”
Even though Jane’s eyes flashed with heat, she tried to frown. “How about if you shout it to the wind? I don’t think the dragon-shifters on the other side of the landing area heard you.”
Kai raised his voice. “Jane Hartley, I’m taking you home, stripping you, and plan to make you scream.”
Jane’s cheeks flushed pink. “Stop it.”
Bram laughed and Evie walked over to join them. “What’s so funny?”
Hugging Evie to his side, Bram shook his head. “Nothing, love. I’ll explain it later.” Bram met Kai’s eyes again. “Go, but keep your mobile phone nearby. I’ll talk to Aaron and the others, but if I need to reach you, you’d better bloody well pick up. I don’t care what you’re doing. Understand?”
Kai grunted. “Fine.”
Evie jumped in. “I would almost say you’re pouting Kai.”
Jane lifted her head and looked to Evie. “He does it all the time with me. It really destroys the badass image he has going on.”
Since Jane and Evie would conspire against him until it grew dark and the moon rose, Kai adjusted his grip and lifted Jane over his shoulder.
His female squeaked. “I thought we talked about this.”
“That’s the problem. Too much talking.” He lifted a hand. “Bye Bram. Evie.”
As Kai raced toward his cottage, he ignored the people staring or Jane’s protests over his shoulder. He wanted his female and he wanted her now.
Chapter Seventeen
After about thirty seconds, Jane stopped protesting and tried to think of how she’d get her revenge on Kai. Each step he jogged jarred his shoulder against her stomach. He had payback coming his way.
But since she couldn’t do anything about it until he put her down, Jane reveled in the feel of Kai’s hard muscles under her body and took a deep inhalation of his musky male scent.
Her dragonman had come home safe and sound.
Seeing Kai shift into a human had sent a rush of relief through her body. In that second, she knew her place was with Kai at Stonefire. Not just because of her feelings for her dragonman, but she could also do the most good for the British dragon-shifters by working with Bram, Evie, and Melanie.
Hell, Jane could do more than help Stonefire. She could probably improve the status quo for dragon-shifters the world over. No reporter had the access and resources Jane would have on Stonefire.
There was only one thing preventing her from telling Kai she’d stay forever.
While she was pretty confident Kai would repair relations with his mother and sister over time, Jane needed to give Kai the chance to choose his future. If he still wanted a chance with his true mate, Maggie, then Jane would let him go. After all, a dragon-shifter’s true mate was supposed to be their best chance at happiness.
Not that Jane liked that idea one bit. Digging her nails into Kai’s back, she fought the urge to scream, “Mine.”
For better or worse, Kai was rubbing off on her.
Before she spent too much more time thinking of her future, Kai opened the door to his cottage. Once they were through, he slammed it shut and dashed up the stairs. In the blink of an eye, Jane was facedown on his bed.
“Kai, what are you—”
The dragonman tore off her top and trousers, tossing the scraps of fabric on the floor as he went. Before Jane could do more than blink, her bra and underwear were also shredded and tossed to the ground.
Jane found her voice. “Hey, that was my best bra.”
Kai tugged off one trainer and then the other before removing her socks. “You can get another one.”
“That’s not the point.”
Kai ran his warm, rough hands up the back of her thighs. “They are just things. You are important. Whatever you wear doesn’t matter.”
At the combination of his touch and his words, Jane softened a fraction. “That’s a start, but I need something else as way of an apology.”
Her dragonman rubbed her buttocks in slow circles. Without realizing it, she opened her thighs and Kai chuckled. “Your body tells me what I need to do.”
One hand stilled and slowly moved between her thighs. As he played with her slit, Jane couldn’t help but moan. “Someday, your magical fingers aren’t going to work on me.”
“Not if I have anything to say about it.”
He thrust his finger into her pussy and Jane wiggled her hips. His finger wasn’t nearly enough.
Yet Kai took his time removing and plunging into her heat. Clenching the sheets in her fingers, Jane gritted out, “I should be the one teasing you.”
Kai ran his other hand up to her lower back and pressed down. “Not until I’ve taken you from behind.”
She was about to protest when he removed his fingers and hand. In the next second, Kai lifted her hips and teased her opening with his cock. “Have you been on birth control long enough to go without a condom?”
“Yes. Just hurry up already.”
He rubbed through her wetness again. “Maybe I should make you beg.”
“Kai Sutherland, if you don’t—”
He thrust into her pussy and Jane rested her forehead on the bed. She had a feeling he’d keep interrupting her and surprising her until they were eighty.
Remaining still, Kai rubbed her back, her shoulders, and reached around for her breast. The contact brought her back to the present and she wiggled her hips. When Kai sucked in a breath, she smiled. “I’ve heard rumors about post-battle hard-ons. You’re not going to last long if I keep this up.” She moved her lower body again.
He hissed, “Bloody female,” and then pinched her nipple.
Jane arched her back at the pleasure mixed with pain. “Kai.”
Tweaking her again, he retreated and then slammed hard into her. Even after nearly two weeks of sex with her dragonman, she knew she would never tire of feeling his long, thick dick inside of her.
Kai released her breasts and took hold of her hips so she couldn’t move. But as the seconds ticked by and he didn’t do anything, Jane knew what was coming. She growled out, “I’m not going to beg.”
Without a word, Kai moved a hand around and lightly brushed her clit. “Just ask me nicely.”
Another light brush and Jane nearly screamed, both from frustration and pleasure.
Deciding she would have her turn with Kai next, she turned her voice sweet and answered, “Please.”
~~~
Kai was holding on by a thread. Between the post-battle high and his dragon wanting to fuck Jane until she couldn’t walk, he would come too soon if he wasn’t careful.
His beast huffed. She is wet and ready. Stop with the games. Take what is ours.
As Jane’s feminine scent surrounded him, Kai wanted his human more than his next breath. He’d just have to draw on every iota of self-control he possessed to hold out a little longer. Jane needed to come before him. Always.
His dragon growled. We can last. I will help. Just start moving.
It was the first time he’d felt her gripping his dick without a condom and it was hot, warm, and snug. In other words, it was bloody perfect.
He’d never tire of her. Jane was his and his alone. He needed to tell her.
Possessiveness coursed through his body and he growled. “Mine, Jane. You’re mine.”
He increased his pace and Jane raised her hips in answer. He loved how her sass melted away when he was inside of her.
Well, mostly melted away.
He pounded harder and the sound of flesh on flesh filled the room. Even with Kai guiding Jane’s hips, his female arched her back, unafraid to tell him what she wanted.
He moved a hand to around her abdomen and lifted Jane’s upper body. Moving his leg slightly in front of hers, he took her from a different angle.
Jane moaned as she leaned against his chest.
His dragon snarled. Make her scream.
Ignoring his beast, Kai roamed up her ribcage and gripped her breast possessively. Jane’s pointy nipple pressed against his palm. Rubbing in slow circles with his hand, Jane raised her hand to his head behind her and gripped his hair. “Kai. You know what I like. Do it.”
Kai grunted and lowered his head to Jane’s neck. He bit her where her neck met her shoulder and then soothed his bite with his tongue. “Later, I’m going to do the same to your breasts.”
He nuzzled her neck and Jane murmured, “Mm, yes.”
The pressure building at Kai’s spine told him he needed to hurry if he wanted Jane to come before him. He whispered, “I’ll torture you more later,” before releasing her breast.
As he rubbed down her abdomen, he finally reached her clit. Brushing it lightly with his forefinger, Jane moaned.
Kai continued to rub her nub in circles, increasing both the pace of his fingers and the thrust of his cock.
His balls slapped against her flesh, bringing his own orgasm closer. But Kai gritted his teeth. Jane needed to come first.
More than that, he needed her. She was their life. He needed to brand his female and convince her to stay.
Rubbing her clit in short, rough strokes, Jane screamed. Kai never stopped moving as she gripped and released his dick. Only when she started to soften did he place a possessive hand over her lower belly and give a few more rough thrusts before stilling. As he screamed her name, each spurt of semen wracked his body anew as pleasure shot through his body.
Never before had he felt as if he’d die from an orgasm. Only Jane could do this to him.
When he could finally string two thoughts together again, he knew he should hold his female close and talk.
But the urge to take her again was strong. His dragon roared. She is our mate. Take her.
She needs a rest.
No, Fuck her. Now. She’s ours.
Kai’s confusion gave his dragon an opportunity to seize control of his mind. Before Kai could push his beast back, his dragon forced them to pull out of Jane, flip her over, and restrain her hands over her head. “Mine.”
There was no fear in Jane’s eyes, only curiosity. “Hello, dragon. Can I have Kai back?”
“No. You’re mine.”
Kai attempted to push his beast back, but for once, his bloody dragon was too strong.
If he didn’t do something, his dragon would be fucking Jane instead of him. While the practice wasn’t unusual with dragon-shifters, Jane had no idea what she was getting into.
Finally, Jane opened her legs and said, “This should be interesting.”
Kai’s dragon roared out loud and plunged their cock into Jane’s pussy. As his beast pistoned their hips so hard that Jane’s breasts jiggled and the bed moved, Kai took a step back and tried to think of why his dragon was acting so possessive. There was no urgency to impregnate Jane, which came with the mate-claim frenzy. Nor did his semen send Jane into an orgasm like it did with true mates.
Maybe there was something else in between.
Then his dragon blasted a roar inside their head and Kai couldn’t concentrate. The need to brand Jane with their scent and make her come blocked out everything else.
His dragon released Jane’s hands and pushed her legs wider. They were nearly there. A few more seconds and they’d come.
~~~
Jane could barely think straight as Kai’s dragon took her roughly. She was still sensitive from her orgasm a few minutes before and each hard stroke of Kai’s cock inside of her sent her a little closer to the edge.
As she stared into Kai’s slitted pupils, she decided having his dragon in charge wasn’t that bad. Would Kai be upset if she asked to share sometimes?
Then Kai-slash-dragon pressed against her clit and she screamed. A pleasure that was nearly too much, hovering near the point of pain, rushed through her body. And yet her dragonman never ceased his movements.
She was still orgasming when Kai’s dragon roared, “Mine,” as he came. This time, she felt each hot spurt of semen.
When Kai finally collapsed on top of her, she loved the weight of his body on hers. As she traced a finger along the ridge of his spine, she really hoped she could experience this every day. She wanted Kai for her own.
Not just because he was great in bed, which was true. Jane loved his emerging humor, his stubbornness, and his dedication to those he cared about.
She was falling hard for him.
Yet she refused to examine her feelings until she knew she could keep him.
Kai’s rough voice filled her ear. “You alive, Janey?”
“So, you’re back, huh?”
Kai rolled to his back and dragged Jane onto his chest. Placing his finger under her chin, he raised her head until she met his eyes. “Are you okay? Did my dragon scare you?”
She smiled. “No. It was…different. But in a good way.”
“If you say he’s better, I will tie you to this bed and change your mind.”
Grinning, she tilted her head. “You still don’t have enough points to claim me that way yet.”
“Only because you cheat.”
“What? Me? A cheater? No, never.”
Kai grunted. “You’re such a cheater.”
In the next second, he tickled her side and Jane couldn’t stop laughing. After nearly two weeks, Kai knew her most ticklish spot was just under her armpit.
He didn’t hold back.
She kicked him in the shin a few times and he finally stopped. Nuzzling her cheek, he murmured, “You may be a cheater, but you’re my cheater.”
Jane melted at his words, but the niggling fear from earlier crept back into her mind. It must’ve shown on her face because Kai’s voice turned dominant. “Tell me why you will only ‘probably stay’ with me, Janey. Something’s bothering you and I don’t like it.”
“You could ask, you know.”
He hugged her tighter against his body. “Don’t try to distract me. Whatever it is, you can tell me.”
Jane rarely hesitated, but she did in that second. As much as she wanted to know the truth, Kai’s answer could instantly rip away the happiness she’d found with her dragonman.
Kai grunted. “Tell me, Jane. I’m not allowing you out of this bed until you do.”
She pushed past her fear and spit out, “It’s about Maggie Jones.”
Kai’s voice softened. “What about her?”
Jane picked at Kai’s chest hair before she answered, “I’m not your true mate, Kai. I understand that your dragon’s instincts are strong. If you want her, then tell me now. Because if she shows up a few years down the line wanting you and the frenzy takes over, it will break my heart.”
“Look at me, Jane Hartley.” She obeyed. Kai’s gaze was fierce as he continued, “It’s true that a frenzy can overcome a weaker dragon-shifter and they lose the ability to control their lives. But I am not weak-willed. You may have noticed my stubbornness.” Jane smiled at that and Kai traced her chee
k. “I don’t want Maggie Jones. Hell, I don’t think my dragon even wants her anymore.” He traced her brow. “All we want is you, Jane. You’re clever, stubborn, and more beautiful than any female I’ve ever seen. I’m stronger with you at my side and while I won’t admit it to anyone else, I’m a better male because of you. You brought laughter back into my life when I thought I’d never have it.” He laid his forehead against hers. “I love you, Jane Hartley. Will you stay with me forever?”
Jane’s eyes teared up. “You say all of that with such conviction. I’m not sure I can say no.”
Kai growled. “That’s still not an answer, Janey.”
Jane raised a hand to Kai’s cheek and whispered, “I bloody love you, too, so I guess that means I don’t have a choice.”
Kai growled and flipped her onto her back. “Tell me you want to stay.”
“Kai Sutherland, I want to stay. You and Stonefire are my future.”
“Good answer,” he murmured before he kissed her and showed just how much he loved her.
Chapter Eighteen
A few hours later, Kai squeezed Jane’s hand in his as they approached Bram’s cottage. “I still say we should’ve just talked with Bram over the phone.”
Jane squeezed back. “You of all people should appreciate a face-to-face conversation. There’s so much we can learn from Bram’s facial expressions.”
Kai grunted and looked down at Jane. “Remind me why I love you again.”
She grinned and his heart skipped a beat. “Because you can’t scare me and I don’t put up with your crap.”
Kai’s dragon grunted. Why did you let her convince us to do this? If you had allowed me to be in charge, I would’ve found other ways to persuade her to stay home.
It’s hard to say no to her. You know that.
We’re going to work on that soon. I can keep her in line.
Kai snorted inside his head. I’d like to see that.