The hallway was empty.
“What the hell?” he said.
“Bren, it’s me.”
He startled back, his heart knocking in his chest, and he made an unmanly squeak of surprise when he felt Kaida brush past him.
“Kaida?”
“Hi there.” The door swung shut on its own, the deadbolt turning as if with magic.
“This is super weird,” Bren said. “How did you get into the building?”
“Followed one of your neighbours in.” Kaida’s hand brushed across his chest, at least he thought it was her hand. “Is that okay?”
“Yeah, it’s no problem,” he said. “Jesus, this is weird.”
Her low laugh went straight to his dick. “I know. Hold on, I’ll take the other potion.”
Her voice was growing fainter and he walked slowly to the kitchen. “Are you in here?”
“Yes. I’m about to take the potion,” Kaida said.
“How come I can’t see the bottle?” Bren asked.
“Whatever non-living stuff I’m holding when I drink the invisibility potion turns invisible with me,” Kaida said.
“Oh. Cool.”
“Very.” There was silence and then she said. “Okay, it takes a couple of minutes to kick in.”
“Do you feel different?” he asked.
“No,” Kaida said. “It does tingle a little when you disappear and reappear.”
The air shimmered in front of him, shimmered and wavered, and then Kaida appeared, materializing in the kitchen like she was an actor on the Star Trek series.
His plans to throw out a glib, “Beam me up, Scotty” died in his throat.
Kaida was naked – gloriously naked – and her long hair flowed down her back in soft waves. She leaned against the counter, setting a small bluish coloured bottle on the countertop. His gaze dropped to her breasts and his cock hardened immediately. She really did have the most amazing tits he’d ever seen.
“How was your day, Bren?”
He blinked at her. “What?”
“Your day? How was it?”
“You’re naked,” he said.
“I know,” she replied.
“Why? I mean, not that I’m complaining,” he moved closer to her but when he reached for his beer, she scooped up the bottle and took her own drink, “but I wasn’t expecting you to be naked.”
“I don’t shift with my clothes on,” Kaida said. “It would destroy them.”
She handed him the beer bottle and he took a long drink, his gaze still on her delectable tits. “No clothes when shifting. That makes sense.”
She laughed. “Did Bishop bring my suitcase to you today?”
“He did. It’s in my bedroom. What did you have to promise him to get him to do that favour?”
She took his beer and drank another swallow as his gaze dipped down her body. “Nothing. He did it because we’re friends. Was it too presumptuous of me to decide to leave some clothes and toiletries here? Bren?”
Her hand reached out and poked him in the chest. He dragged his gaze from her pussy. “What was that?”
Her smile was wicked and sweet. “Is it a problem if I leave some clothes and toiletries here? I can’t wear clothes when I’m in my dragon form and it’s a pain in the ass to carry them in my mouth or talons when I’m flying here.”
“It’s not a problem,” he said. “But I’m also perfectly fine with you walking around my apartment naked.”
She laughed again. “Until Elora and her crow show up, or Tyler drops by with Corey.”
“Good point,” he said. He told himself to be a gentleman and lifted his gaze to her face. It was flushed with happiness and maybe a touch of desire, and he cupped her naked hip, tracing his fingers over her warm skin. “You look beautiful.”
“Thank you. It was so amazing flying in the daylight, Bren.” Her eyes sparkled and she couldn’t stop grinning. “Do you know I have never flown in the light before?”
“Really?”
“We’ve only ever been allowed to fly during the night. It was,” she paused, “a little terrifying, a whole lot exhilarating. I have never felt my dragon so happy and content.”
“I’m glad,” he said. “Are you hungry?”
“Maybe. Are you?” she said.
“I could eat… something.” His gaze dropped to her pussy again.
She purred to him and pressed her naked body against him. “Let’s go to your bedroom.”
He pressed a kiss against her warm throat. “I like that idea.”
He followed her to his bedroom, knowing she could smell his eagerness and not giving a damn. He started stripping off his clothes the minute they were in the room. She laughed as she opened the window wide, then crossed to the bed and sat down on the side.
When he was naked, she crooked her finger at him. “Come here, human.”
His pulse thudding and his lungs already fighting for oxygen, he joined her at the bed, standing in front of her. “Lie back, Kaida.” His need to taste her, to bury himself between her smooth thighs and listen to her cries of pleasure were too intense to ignore.
“No,” she said with a devilish smile as she eyed his erect cock. “It’s my turn to taste you.”
Her hand slid around the base of his dick and he moaned when she licked away the bead of precum at the tip of his cock. His hands were sliding into her hair, gripping tightly and urging her forward before she could lean back.
Her warm laugh washed over his dick and he groaned when she licked around the ridge and kissed her way down the heavy shaft. Her lips were soft and warm and felt fucking amazing, but he needed more. He gripped her skull tight and made a low pleading noise that made her purr loudly.
“Do you want my mouth, human? My tongue?”
“Christ, yes,” he muttered. “Kaida, please. Suck.”
Her warm wet mouth surrounded his aching dick and he was in heaven. He forced himself not to drive forward into her mouth as she sucked in a slow and steady rhythm. Her tongue traced the vein below before cleaning away the precum that had collected at the tip. When her soft hand cupped his balls and tugged, he groaned harshly, his pelvis bucking forward.
“Such a good human,” she said before closing her mouth around the head of his cock and sucking hard.
“Fuck!” He pushed forward, sliding his cock deep into Kaida’s mouth, his hips driving back and forth as she sucked. She hummed, the vibration travelling down his cock and straight to his aching balls. She gave his balls another tug and a squeeze that wavered on the knife edge between pleasure and pain.
She hummed again and he knew he was going to come, knew he couldn’t hold back. He cried out with frustration when Kaida released his cock with a loud pop. Her hand gripped the base, squeezing tight and preventing him from coming as she smiled up at him. “Not yet, human.”
“Oh fuck, please,” he groaned. “Kaida, I need to fucking come.”
Her teasing look and the way her fingernails of her other hand scraped across his lower abdomen, would be the fucking death of him.
“I know you do, but I want you to fuck me,” she said.
He took a deep breath, trying to think of anything other than how fucking good Kaida was at sucking his cock. Kaida released his dick and leaned around him to open the nightstand drawer. He kept his eyes closed, sucking in lungful after lungful of oxygen as Kaida opened the condom.
When her soft hands rolled the condom over his dick, he groaned in pleasure and agony.
“Good, human,” she praised as she rubbed his upper thighs. “Now, fuck me.”
He didn’t open his eyes right away, he needed a few more minutes to take back his control, but when Kaida made a sound of impatience, he took a deep breath and opened them.
“Fuck me,” he said.
“Isn’t that supposed to be my line?” she asked with a grin.
She was on her hands and knees on his bed, her head pointed toward the window, her delectable ass pointed straight at him. She widened her thighs until he could see her p
erfect pink pussy. It gleamed with wetness and before she could stop him, he bent and licked her wet slit from her clit to her tight entrance.
“Bren!” Her voice was breathless, her thighs already starting to shake as he stiffened his tongue and probed inside of her. “Oh my God! Bren, please!”
He licked his way to her clit, sucking at it lightly as she made another pleading moan. He loved hearing her sound this way. She liked to be in control during sex and he was one hundred percent good with that, but he couldn’t deny that hearing her pleading and begging was also a turn-on for him.
His cock rock-hard, he straightened and pulled Kaida back by her hips until her ass pressed against his pelvis. She wiggled against him, trying to slide his dick into her pussy and he squeezed one firm thigh. “Patience, honey.”
“Fuck me, human!” She glared at him over her shoulder, her eyes glowing and the glow from her chest filling the room with reddish light. “Before I lose my patience and take what is mine.”
He grinned and lined his dick up at her tight entrance, sliding into her with one hard push that made them both cry out with pleasure. Kaida fit him like a glove, tight and warm and perfect. He would never tire of being with her, of fucking her until they were both sated and weak.
Kaida made another harsh cry before blowing flame out the window. The glow in her chest died out and she rocked back and forth on the bed, fucking him with short, hard strokes. He gripped her ass in his hands, letting her take the lead as he watched her pussy slide back and forth over his cock.
When he couldn’t take it anymore, he drove into her, meeting each of her thrusts, turning her short strokes into long ones that sent pleasure skating down his spine. Kaida cried out, her hands clenching into the bedsheets and didn’t resist when he reached down and took her arms. He lifted her up until she was kneeling on the bed, her spine against his chest and her pussy impossibly tight around his cock.
He cupped her tits, playing with her nipples as the heat radiating from her chest made his fingertips tingle. She turned her head and palmed the back of his skull, kissing him hard on the mouth. Their tongues dueled as he tugged on her nipples and their lower bodies rocked back and forth.
When the heat began to burn his fingers, he pulled back. She immediately turned away and released another lungful of flame. Thin smoke drifted in the room and he kissed the side of her neck as he trailed his fingers down her flat abdomen.
His balls were tightening, and he knew he couldn’t hold out much longer, not with the warm slick grip of Kaida’s pussy surrounding his entire dick. He cupped her pussy, kissing her neck and the top of her shoulder as his other hand toyed with her breasts. When his fingers skated across her clit, her purring filled the silence in the room.
He rubbed firmly before sliding her clit between two knuckles and giving it a firm pinch. She shouted his name, her pussy squeezing around him as she climaxed. He fucked her hard and rough as Kaida’s final burst of fire soaked the room in bright light.
He drove deep one more time, his own release strengthened by the way Kaida’s pussy milked his throbbing cock. When he’d emptied himself completely, he rested his forehead against Kaida’s damp back. Both of them were panting harshly and the acrid smell of smoke was thick in the room.
He straightened and kissed the back of Kaida’s shoulder as she waved the smoke away from their faces. “Sorry.”
“You know I don’t mind.” He pulled out of her and disposed of the condom as Kaida stretched out on the bed. He joined her, cupping her breast and kissing the top of her shoulder as she threw one leg over his and rubbed his thigh.
When his heartbeat had finally slowed to a normal pace, he said, “That was incredible.”
“You’re welcome,” she replied.
He laughed, and she smiled at him before cupping his face. “It’s good with us. Isn’t it, human?”
“Yes,” he said.
She kneaded his thigh. “I’m glad that I haven’t crushed your fragile bones or accidentally set you on fire.”
He burst into laughter before planting a kiss on her mouth. “Me too. You hungry? I can make us some dinner.”
“Starving,” she said with a soft smile. “Feed me, human, and in return I’ll take you to my bed again.”
“Technically,” he kissed her throat, “it’s my bed, but I like where you’re going with this. Come on, I’m about to make you the best boxed macaroni and cheese you’ve ever tasted in your life.”
* * *
“Do you want jam or peanut butter or both?” Bren juggled two pieces of hot toast onto a plate in front of Kaida.
“Just jam, please.” Kaida was scrolling through his iPad.
“Did you sleep okay last night?” He placed the jam in front of her and sat down, spreading peanut butter across his own toast.
“Yes, thank you.” She smiled at him. “I like spending the night in your bed.”
“I like it too.”
“What time do you need to leave for work?” She was wearing just his shirt and her morning bedhead was sexy as hell.
“Half an hour, forty minutes. You’re welcome to stay in my apartment as long as you want. I can leave my spare key for you.”
“Thank you, but I’ll leave when you do,” she said.
She turned back to his iPad and he said, “Did you find it yet?”
“Found it.” Kaida propped his iPad up against the jar of peanut butter and hit play on the video. The image of his father, standing at a podium with a few men and women in suits standing behind him, popped up on the screen.
His father smiled at the sizeable crowd of people sitting at the round tables in the hotel conference room. “Thank you again for joining us today. Your donation to the HAPI group is much appreciated. I’m honoured to be working with such a fantastic organization dedicated to keeping humans safe.”
He waited for the polite applause to die down before gripping the podium. “As you know, we’ve had recent confirmation of the existence of dragons.”
There were some scattered boos throughout the crowd and the senator put up his hands, nodding in agreement. “The existence of these creatures puts us all in grave danger. While it is harmful enough to have predator animals such as grizzlies and lions and wolves walking among us, the dragons living in the forest outside of our city pose an immediate threat to every man, woman, and child.”
The senator paused, his hands gripping the podium, his gaze solemn as he stared out at the crowd. “Many of you know that I have spent almost my entire political career fighting for the rights of humans. Humans who deserve to live without fear from the monsters who walk among us. I promise you that I will never stop fighting. And, as many of you also know, I’ve been working on a bill for the Senate. One that will require paranormal creatures to register with the government and wear an identification tag, so that we can better identify threats to us and our loved ones.”
He paused again, a greasy smile crossing his face. “Today, I’m happy to announce that, very soon, I will be introducing the bill to the Senate.”
The room erupted in applause. Some of the people stood up, clapping and cheering as the greasy smile on his father’s face widened.
Feeling sick to his stomach, Bren hit the stop button on the video and flipped his iPad face down on the table. His appetite was gone, and he pushed his toast away, watching as Kaida did the same.
“You okay?” he asked and then could have smacked himself. What a stupid question. Of course, she wasn’t okay. “Sorry, that was a dumb thing to say.”
She reached out and took his hand. “It wasn’t. I’m all right. It’s … gross to watch a bunch of people cheering over having my kind tagged and registered.”
“It won’t happen.” He squeezed her hand.
“It might,” she said. “There were a lot of people in that room.”
“It is only a fraction of the people in this city,” Bren said. “Even if the bill gets past both the Senate and the House, the President will still need to s
ign it into a law. She’ll never sign it. She’s pro-paranormal. It’ll be fine, Kaida. No one’s being tagged and registered.”
“I hope you’re right, Bren,” Kaida said, “but we both know the discovery of my kind changes everything.”
Chapter Twenty-Two
Kaida set the potion bottle on the table and waited. A few minutes later, her entire body tingled, and she stared down at herself as she reappeared out of thin air. She grinned as she walked to her bedroom and dressed in jeans and a thick sweater. It had been two weeks of taking the invisibility potion and she still got a thrill out of disappearing and reappearing.
She returned to her small kitchen and made herself a cup of coffee. She and Bren had slept in this morning and there’d only been enough time for Bren to quickly shower before they left. She had a key to his apartment and could have stayed longer, but without her mate there, her dragon’s urge to return to the clan appeared quickly.
She sank down on the couch, sipping at her coffee. Her dragon, always grumpy in the morning, made a disgruntled hiss when there was a knock on her door.
“Come in,” she called.
“Hey, honey.” Sika joined her on the couch, sitting down and tucking her legs under her.
“Hi. Where’s Kova?” Kaida asked. They’d had the naming ceremony for the hatchling a week ago, and Sika and Jarvis had named the baby after Jarvis’s father.
“He’s with Jarvis,” Sika said. “I finished feeding him, but he was being fussy, so I handed him to off to Jarvis.” She laughed. “I feel a little guilty, but Jarvis does love spending time with our hatchling so…”
Kaida smiled at her. “You and Jarvis are wonderful parents, Sika.”
“Thanks, honey. How are you?”
“Good,” Kaida replied.
“You look good. You look happy,” Sika said.
“Do I?”
“Yes. Is it because of how much time you’ve been spending with the human the last couple of weeks?”
“Who says I’ve been with Bren?” Kaida said.
Sika rolled her eyes. “Please. You’ve had dinner twice with the clan in the last two weeks, and I’ve come by every night this week and you haven’t been here. Also – you’re covered in the human’s scent.”
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