by Dahlia Rose
Michelle casually explained to Bior the set-up as she drove. “My group is staying in a converted factory, it’s one of the various safe houses my mom set up. She’d been around for generations on this world and acquired property when they were worth nothing. She built them to suit her purposes for the humans that we trained to fight for.”
“Good plan,” Bior murmured. “These properties have to be worth a pretty penny. You could sell one or two and be set up.”
Michelle glanced at him as she drove. “No, I won’t even consider it, that’s one less place that they would have for safety.”
“You should accept the seat at the warrior’s table,” Bior commented. “I think you’ve been fighting more than any of us realized. Your honor is evident in everything you do for this group of humans.”
“Thanks,” Michelle said. His words pleased her to no end.
It took an hour and forty-five minutes for her reach the converted safe house in the factory district of Miami. By the time she pulled into a parking spot, Bior was out of the car before she came to a full stop and stretching like he was in a box.
He looked around. “It’s secluded enough. I’m shifting and flying back to the house in the Keys.”
Michelle laughed. “You do that after you meet everyone. I’ll stay around for a bit.”
Bior’s face had relief written all over it as if he thought she’d tell him he couldn’t shift. Michelle hid her smile as she walked around the back of the old factory and knocked on the door.
“Who dares comes to the dragon’s door?”
She recognized the voice and paid no attention to Bior’s elegantly arched eyebrow. “Shut it Kiara and open up.”
“Mimi!”
The door was dragged open and someone threw herself into Michelle’s arms. She was shorter, standing at only five three, but Michelle knew that Kiara was full of spunk and fire. Michelle smiled down at her friend’s face devoid of its usual glamorous make up.
“Hey small fry,” Michelle hugged Kiara again.
“Hey giant chick,” Kiara laughed. “I was about to get worried and go out looking.”
“You have children fighting with you?” Bior’s voice held disapproval.
“Well hello, pressies for me,” Kiara looked him up and down. “I’ll have you know I’m thirty and willing to play dirty.”
“Down girl,” Michelle said. “Let’s go inside and I’ll do introductions. Is everyone here?”
“Just about. Mike went out looking for your trail, he thought you may have gotten kidnapped,” Kiara explained. “He went by your houseboat and saw tracks. We’d of hit some possible Shen spots later this week if you weren’t back.”
Michelle sighed. “Kiara, I told you if I get caught you guys leave me because I’m already dead. Move to another safe house and keep fighting.”
Her friend shook her head. “No way I’m leaving my best friend to those dogs. So who exactly is tall and sexy?”
“Thank you.” Bior inclined his head.
“Who said I meant you?” Kiara asked.
Bior looked around as people came forward from different areas of the factory. “No one else here is, dare I say, tall and sexy.”
“Let’s amend that to tall, sexy, and big-ass ego,” Kiara said.
“Just speaking the truth,” Bior answered mildly.
“He’s from my homeland, Paladin,” Michelle supplied the answer.
“The place that supposedly was destroyed,” Kiara gasped. “We so need a wine and girl on this.”
“Later, I promise. First I need to introduce everyone to Bior and he can talk to you about what the Shen are doing. We’re sharing information,” Michelle explained.
“Gotcha, I’ll call Mike and tell him to make his way back here.” Kiara walked away.
Michelle introduced Bior to the rest of her team. Even as she spoke she saw his gaze move to where Kiara was standing. She could tell he was interested, but that was because Kiara held nothing back and was as blunt as a hammer. But men always liked what they couldn’t have until they got it. She’d have to warn him about her best friend. Warn as in if you hurt her I’ll kick your ass, Michelle thought.
Mike showed up looking relieved at her presence but none too pleased at Bior’s. She knew he had some interest in her but it was never going to be even before she found out about Paladin. The sun began to set and Bior said he wanted to head back to the house in the Keys and grab a meal before he did a sweep for Shen.
Michelle walked them out. “Do you think the information we compiled can help the warrior court?”
“Honestly, you have way more than I expected,” Bior admitted. “The mapping of each attack and the records you guys keep show a systematic increase of their numbers and attacks. You’ve lost many in your battle. Orin will want to see all of this.”
“He’s welcome to come speak to us any time. Now that my people know who you are even if I’m not here they’ll welcome you,” she said. She lifted her nose to the breeze and inhaled. “Rain is coming, you’d better head on if you want to sweep after dinner.”
“I’ll do it before,” Bior answered and began to take his shirt off. “Mursi followed us through. You didn’t notice but I did. I know how the energy of the portal feels and just before it closed it rippled. I have no doubt it’s him.”
“Damn it, I’m tired of fighting with him.” Michelle pinched the bridge of her nose.
“Maybe you should stop fighting and try another method,” Bior said with a smile. “I’ll take my leave now.”
Michelle grinned as she walked away and called over her shoulder. “By the way, Kiara is watching you from one of the upper windows. Make it a good show for her. Oh, and if you hurt her I’ll cut your twig and berries off.”
“Twig and berries, I’m offended. I’m a full branch and ladened with fruit,” Bior retorted.
She laughed but her mind was on other things. Why did Mursi come through the portal and follow them to Florida? Didn’t he trust Bior, or was it her he had a genuine mistrust of? In her heart she knew it was for other reasons, the ones that made their kiss so passionate and her body ache for him. They had so many obstacles, so much between them that if they came together how could a mating possibly survive? Maybe Bior was right and action should take precedence. When their bodies collided it would be fierce, and her sex throbbed at the thought. If he came to her she wouldn’t say no. It was time to give fate free reign when it concerned her and Mursi, time for the chips to fall where they may.
Chapter Six
After hanging out with Kiara for a little talk that included lots of wine, Michelle decided to do her own sweep to make sure the area was safe for her people. They’d had Shen try to follow them to home base more than once, and while she wasn’t there Mike had gone out with a small group. They may have not seen anything, but more often than not eyes from the shadows were watching. Sometimes Mike frustrated her because while she understood he wanted to take the fight to the Shen their numbers weren’t enough to stage such a battle or win. So she flew in a grid pattern, working her way outward from the factory, scanning the shadows for any unnatural movements.
She did this for about two hours, and in that time the rain began to fall. She felt confident that nothing followed Mike to the factory and headed back to her houseboat. She very rarely stayed in the factory knowing that any Shen that had her scent could find her there. If she was to be attacked she wanted it to be on her own turf where her friends were out of harm’s way.
After her time in Paladin she felt magnificent, even after being in her dragon form for two hours. She shifted easily into her human skin when she landed in the clearing and began to walk naked through the rain to her houseboat. She stopped suddenly as Mursi landed in front of her. The rain ran in rivulets down his dragon scales, and her gaze met the emerald green of his eyes and held his stare. His eyes never left hers as the magic that changed him from an ethereal dragon to human began. He stood before her, tall, proud and purely male. His cock w
as erect showing his intent, his desire. Michelle felt her legs tremble at the thought of having him inside her, yet she stood her ground. The thunder rumbled low as if pushing them to meet in the middle.
“Why have you come here?” she called over the sound of the rain.
“For you.” His answer was simple.
She shook her head. “You don’t want me.”
“Yet I stand here, aroused and aching,” he said.
“Your body wants me but your mind and heart does not,” Michelle pointed out. “Why should I take you to my bed?”
He laughed and held up his hand to the sky. “I’m standing in the pouring rain because of you. Everyone is telling me I should give in to my destiny and you’re it, but no one can make me do anything I don’t want to do, not even the gods. Yet instead of my dreams being filled with those whom I’ve lost, they are filled with your face. What does it all mean? I have no clue, but right now all I want to do is sink myself into you so hard and fast we forget where you end and I begin.”
She took a step closer. “So we take it day by day and see where this path takes us.”
Mursi covered the last of the distance between them in two steps. He kissed her hard. “Yes,” he said gutturally against her lips.
She wrapped her arms around his broad muscled back and kissed him back with just as much intensity. Mursi lifted her up and she wrapped her legs around his waist. She could feel his cock, thick and hard between them. Michelle needed to feel him inside her and she reached between them to position him at the entrance to her pussy. He knew what she wanted, what she needed, as she pushed down he thrust up hard and joined them. She threw her head back and gave a low sultry cry at their joining. The walls of her pussy clenched around him and she shuddered as an orgasm ripped through her.
In the midst of her heat everything was even more heightened. Mursi turned and strode toward her houseboat. He didn’t loosen his grip on her body to use a key or turn a knob. He kicked the door and it gave away easily, and he took them in out of the rain. He went straight to the bed, dropped her on the mattress, and before she could move he pinned her body under his. Michelle locked her legs around his waist and the contact sent instant heat through her body.
“I guess we were hurtling toward this moment, and having you beneath me right now makes me wonder why the hell I was running,” Mursi said softly, his green-eyed stare searching her face as if looking for a clue to her thoughts.
“I wasn’t running. You had your own issues to put to rest and us having sex wasn’t going to help you resolve things.” Michelle let out a small moan as he flexed his hips. Having him pressed so intimately against her was doing strange but wonderful things to her senses.
“You’re mine now, I claim you as my own.” Mursi kissed her hard. “Bior and all others will know this from tonight onward.”
“Just know when you claim me I do the same, and I’m not a woman to be played with,” Michelle said.
“I would never play with you or your emotions,” he countered.
“Yes, because you know I’d kick your ass across the skies from here to Paladin,” she responded.
He smiled. “You are such a brave dragoness.”
“I’m much more than that, you’ll see as time goes on, lots to learn.” She kissed him gently. “Lots for a dragon bull who is very bull-headed to learn.”
“I look forward to my lessons.”
Mursi lowered his head and bit the soft skin of her neck, making her shiver. “Now it’s time to please my dragoness.” His lips roamed to the other side of her neck and Michelle bit her lip to keep from moaning. “I’m going to take you like there’s no tomorrow. I’m going to bury my face between your thighs and lick you until you come…over and over again for me.”
Those words alone sent the ripples of a mini-orgasm through her. His green eyes were intense with desire and when he kissed her she was lost again in the abyss of pleasure. His hands roamed her body and he moved intimately against her. She wanted him, and in the recesses of her subconscious her dragon felt the connection to his and was satisfied. His kiss was fiery and left her reeling, Michelle moaned under the onslaught of his lips. She used her tongue to entice him to taste deeper and he accepted, devouring her mouth until she could hardly breathe.
Now was the time they learned each nuance of their bodies. Michelle felt the caring in his every caress and showed how she felt in return. He filled his hands with the voluptuous bounty of her naked breasts. Lightning flashed outside the window as the skies opened up even further. She opened her eyes to see the light show play across his sculpted body. He ran his finger across both her cheek and the bone ridges that created her face as if memorizing her by touch. It was a tender, intimate moment, one that she would cherish. His next kiss was a little more intense and from there roamed down her neck until he reached the swell of her breasts. He kissed and licked the smooth globes until she moaned, and when he took her nipple in his mouth Michelle whimpered his name.
“You are so delectable,” Mursi murmured before moving to her next breast and laving the nipple with his tongue.
“Take it in your mouth, it feel so good,” she begged.
Michelle tunneled her fingers through his damp hair and arched upward offering him her breasts. Mursi gave her what she craved and took her black cherry nipples into his mouth. She cried out in agonized pleasure and felt his cock throb against her in response.
“I don’t think I can stand this much longer, I need to feel you inside me,” she said in breathless impatience.
He gave a husky laugh before responding. “I’m not finished making your body melt, I like when you beg for more.”
She lost what she was going to say as he began to kiss his way down her stomach to the apex of her thighs. He placed a kiss on the top of her mound before spreading her legs apart, exposing her to his touch. He growled low and she felt his breath against the sensitive lips of her pussy. Anticipation made her stomach clench. She gripped the sheets beneath her waiting to feel, just to feel the first lance of pleasure that was to come.
“I can see how wet you are, your scent is driving me crazy,” Mursi said.
“Damn it, do it, touch me, taste me before I go crazy,” Michelle gasped. Her heat had kicked into high gear and she writhed because it coursed through her veins to mate.
He ran a finger along the swollen lips of her sex. Her body shivered and Michelle parted her thighs. He continued to run his finger up and down her slit and when his tongue replaced the action of his finger, her body jerked in response. Suddenly he grabbed her hips and pulled her toward his mouth roughly. Her body arched upward as he buried his mouth into her core. At each flick of his tongue or suck on her clit, Michelle closed her eyes and saw starbursts of light behind her eyelids. Nothing she ever dreamed of prepared her for the sensation of unadulterated pleasure. He was ravenous in his tasting of her sex and all she could do was hold on to the bed as an anchor because she swore she would shatter and fall to pieces if she didn’t.
Mursi delved between the soft folds of flesh that held the bud of her clit. It was driving her to the edge of reason, her head thrashed back and forth on the back of the bed and she wouldn’t be able to hold on much longer. Her excitement built and he doubled her ardor when he penetrated her with two fingers. He gave her just what she needed and slid his digits deep into the warm cavern of her pussy. She screamed, she couldn’t help it, and her hips undulated fiercely as she sought completion. Michelle’s breath came in short pants. He fingered her moist entrance with deeper movements that became faster and harder as she begged for more. Her orgasm crested over her body like an unexpected wave. “Oh yes!” Her body tightened and arched and a low cry escaped her. She trembled with her first orgasm and she felt her juices flow from her sex in response to his touch.
“Again,” Mursi demanded.
He kept his fingers moving inside her and sent her spiraling into another round of ecstasy. She felt his eyes on her as if fascinated by her body’s reac
tion. Her pussy gushed again and when she met his gaze, his eyes had a wild look of need. It enthralled and aroused her to no end to know she caused that look on his face. She thought he was done but Mursi certainly was not. He buried his face into her pussy once more. His tongue burrowed deep inside, tasting her flavor. He wrenched a moan from her lips and Michelle ground her sex against the source of her pleasure.
He lifted his head gasping. “By the gods, your heat is sending my senses into overdrive. My dragon is primal inside me, pushing me to fuck you until we’re both consumed with it.”
“I want to feel your fire, dragon. I can take it,” Michelle said breathlessly.
Her words spurred him on, even she could smell the pheromones her body exuded because of her dragon heat. His tongue lashed furiously at her clit and as she writhed he fingered her wet pussy. Michelle felt herself coming again and he made her fly without dragon wings when he slipped three fingers into her while sucking on her clit.
“I must have you, now.”
“Yes, Mursi, yes!”
Michelle moved eagerly as he settled himself between her legs and rubbed his cock against her slick pussy. His guttural groan mingled with her soft cry and she bit the tense muscles of his shoulder when he sank his cock deep inside her. Michelle wrapped her long legs high around his waist. They moved together in unison, as if their bodies knew each other for a lifetime. He knew just how to please her, how to make her cry out and cause her blood to boil. The thrust of his cock met the lift of her hips in a perfect piston movement. God I want more, I don’t want to stop! she thought wildly. Her hips ground toward him as they raced to completion. Michelle wanted to give more and take more at the same time.
“Tell me you want me, tell me you’re mine.” His voice was a harsh whisper by her ear.
“Yours, I belong to you for this eternity until we live in the stars together,” she gasped. Mursi fisted his hand in her hair and devoured her mouth. She felt the sheen of sweat that covered his shoulders under her fingers. She tore her mouth away from his to cry, “Oh, I’m going to come.”
