by Honor James
“That’s fine. The shields are more important than meetings right now, Skittles,” Talon stated, giving his mate a squeeze. “You’re awfully quiet over there, Katherine. Thoughts?”
“The Vortex to the Council Chambers will work from anywhere in the world,” Cinnamon reminded helpfully, grinning as she did so. “And you will want to be able to use your slipstream often so that you can come home to visit your wife and child. I wouldn’t suggest taking them with you,” she admitted. “No prophecy, I promise. Just it wouldn’t be good for the child to travel to the places you need to. It would be best to keep him as hidden as possible.”
“I wasn’t planning on taking them with me,” Quincy said, shooting Kat a look as she sat there with a thoughtful look on her face. Lifting an eyebrow in question when he caught her eye, he waited for her to add something to the discussion. “I never take Maya or Viren anywhere I don’t know personally is protected and safe,” he said softly.
Shaking herself out of her stupor, Katherine looked to them. “An Angel,” she whispered. “I’ve never believed that something like Angels was real, and yet here you are standing before me. Every single word you have spoken is like a waterfall of truth over me. It’s…” She shuddered. “I’ve never before believed that such truth could be a part of a person, but the truth that you give is just…” She licked her lips. “I’ve never felt it before,” she whispered.
“I think Kat is high,” Quincy whispered loudly and grinned at the dirty look he got from the woman he considered a sister. “Or drunk maybe. She definitely has the look of being a little drunk.”
Rolling his eyes, Talon looked to Kat. “Cinnamon can’t speak lies at all. They eat at her even if they are well-intentioned lies, white lies if you will. She can only give the absolute, unvarnished truth,” he explained. “Which is why we had Quincy ‘adopt’ her—thanks again, Q—and why she’s officially listed as a consultant with our Teams.”
“It is like being drunk,” Katherine whispered. “I’ve never felt anything like this. Even when talking to my guys there has always been something held back. No, I know that they don’t lie to me, but they have occasionally omitted things, but with her there isn’t anything of the sort. It really is the most amazing of things. Yes, I have met her before, but never has there been anything like this before. Ever.”
“Cin can guard her words just as well as anyone else, Kat,” Talon told her honestly. “And you know the boys only omit that which they can’t speak of, just like the rest of us. We never want to lie to you, Katherine, but some things can’t be spoken of before it’s time. We never can be too careful of who might be listening to us.”
“I know that, but right now…” Katherine shook her head again and looked to Talon. “I think that it’s too much for my Fae Senses, for the power that I hold. I swear I feel as if I could become addicted to Cinnamon here in these chambers. Outside of them I’m good, but right now and right here. In her Angelic form. I’m telling you, it’s dangerous for me to be around her in this form too much. Sorry, Cin.”
“Don’t apologize, Katherine, not for this,” Talon told her, pressing Cin in closer to him. “We should head back and finish speaking. I don’t want any harm befalling any of you, and Quincy does need to get moving with the shields. So let’s head back to the base and we’ll go to my office to finish chatting.” The only other space he knew of that was shielded enough for such a talk.
“I will also be able to shield my Angelic being from you there again as well. It’s only when I have to be in battle or, well, here, I can’t shield myself,” she admitted to them. Looking up to Talon, she smiled. “I think that we first all need to see our loved ones. Katherine’s men are all but ready to kill someone, namely you, Talon.” Because of not being able to get to their bond-mate.
“Pfft,” he snorted, waving a hand. “Bunch of wusses.” He teased Kat with a grin and chuckled at her look. “All right, let’s head out. We’ll meet you up at your place, Kat. I need to stop in at the base though and sign a few things and whatever else. Q, head home, kiss your baby, kiss your wife, and get working. I would really like all the bases shielded today, but since that’s unrealistic, what time frame are we looking at?”
“Well.” Quincy tipped his head in thought. “Now that I know what I’m doing, I can get it down to about twenty minutes, but the prep is the killer. It’s still going to take me about three hours ahead of time before I can put up the new shields on each base.”
“You will also need new blood from me as well,” Cinnamon murmured. “We should get that done as soon as we get back to the base in Talon’s office.” It would work best to be able to have them together in a shielded area like that.
“Sounds good,” Quincy said quietly to her as he got to his feet. “Everyone want a lift out?” he asked them as he moved to Katherine to tug on her hand. “Come on, Kat, time to get you home where your boys can give you a run for your money and snap you back out of this.”
“I think that sounds good. If you wouldn’t mind taking me to the B&B, I would appreciate it.” She knew that Quincy could get slipstreams going just about anywhere, and that made her all kinds of happy. “I need my guys.” She looked to Cinnamon and grinned. “See you back at the base,” she called out quietly and waved.
When they were gone and it was just Talon and Cinnamon, she smiled up at him. “I love you, my Dragon King. Now that you and I are all alone here in this Chamber, what do you think we should do?”
Straightening, he took her hand and pulled her with him to his Throne. Sitting down, he tugged her into his lap so she was straddling him. “I think we should do something that will likely have Gaia flipping her wig at me.” He grinned up at her. Defiling the sanctity of the Chambers would get him a dressing down like none he’d had in centuries.
“Well I think that sounds like the best idea ever, Talon.” Thankfully in her Angel form she was in a gown, with no underthings. “So what is it that you think would have my mother flipping her wig?” She wanted to know just exactly what it was that was that her man was thinking of.
“Well, the room is soundproof, the guards are outside and won’t allow anyone entry since I very clearly dismissed the Council,” he said, inching her robe up to bare her legs. “I was thinking that we should think about a little debauchery, christening my Throne as it were.” Talon grinned as he slid a hand between her legs and stroked her silky wet pussy.
Cinnamon moaned. Arching her back, she braced her hands on the table at her back. “I think we should. I want you to think of me every single time you sit on this throne.” She moaned in a low and guttural tone. “Tug my gown off please.” Her wings and sword would remain at her back. She couldn’t help it.
“I like your gown.” He smiled at her, tugging the front down to free her breasts. The result was the front caught below them and thrusting them up high. Leaning forward, Talon caught a pert nipple in his mouth and suckled. Thrusting two fingers deep into her wet pussy, he stroked her as he pressed his thumb to her clit and rubbed. Growling softly as her body spilled more silky liquid, he scraped his teeth to her soft flesh and suckled once more.
One of her hands moved to the back of his head to hold him close and tight to her body, demanding. “I love when you do this to me.” She growled, delight in her tone. “So good.” Her hips rocked on his fingers. She moved in time with his mouth and fingers. “More. I need you, my Dragon King.” Desperation colored her words.
Pressing a third finger into her body, Talon moved to her other breast and breathed a little heat out onto her flushed skin. Flicking his tongue over her skin, he lifted his head. “Kiss me,” he demanded softly of her, pushing his fingers deeper.
Leaning in, Cinnamon teased his lips with hers. Grinning, she brushed her nose against his. “Always, Talon,” she said before she began to kiss him as she rode his fingers. Kissing him with desperation, she squeezed his fingers that were deep inside of her body, telling him what she needed with only her body.
Undoing
his pants, Talon withdrew his hand from between her legs and pulled her to him. Holding his cock, he drew her closer. “Inside of you now.” He growled up at her, nipping at her chin. “I’m desperate to have your sweet, silky pussy wrapped around me as we fuck one another.”
She moved in closer to him. As he held his cock steady, she slid down on him, easing herself on him as she did so. Moaning, she bit her lower lip. “So good.” Goodness, he was so big. Everything about him was massive, was huge. “Help me.” She eased on and off of him. Happiness spread through her from this as she did so.
“Take me all in,” he told her softly, gripping her hip to press her down over him. “All of me, Cin.” He growled out as she took him in deep. Sliding his free hand between them, his thumb found her clit and rubbed at it gently.
Cin slid down his thick, hard shaft and cried out as she did so. Rising up, she began to move up and down on his velvet cock, her liquid heat coating him so that it would make her ride all the easier. When his thumb brushed her clit, she felt the electrical sparks flying around her and took more of him into her body. Moaning, she shuddered. “Talon!” She screamed his name and rocked up and down on him.
“That’s it,” he said, sliding his hand down to her breast and squeezing the soft flesh. Scraping her clit with his thumbnail, he let the Dragon out more, let the beast up as close to the surface as he dared. Any further and the shift would start taking over and he could seriously harm her. “More, harder,” he demanded in the rougher tone of his other half.
Her hands braced on his shoulders, she looked down at him and grinned. “You will never hurt me. Even if your Dragon got out just a bit more, you wouldn’t hurt me. So good,” she moaned and rocked harder on him, taking him fully into her body as she did so.
Moving his hands to her bottom, he moved her up and down him harder and faster. “More,” he demanded of her, his vision that of the Dragon, letting him see her in an entirely new and different fashion. The aura around her was full of shimmering lights, more a rainbow of opalescent colors than anything else he could identify.
Cin allowed her full Angel out. She let him see the truth of what and who she was for the first time. In this place of pure magic, she allowed him to see all that she really was while moving on him harder, faster. Her nails bit into his shoulders, moving down in bloody lines to his arms and back up again, the scream lodging just inside of her throat for completion.
Snarling out her name, Talon pulled her tight to him and sank his teeth into her shoulder again. Shuddering when she squeezed him impossibly harder, he practically crushed her dainty form to his harder one. As he closed his eyes, her scream echoed through the room and she smiled as he pulled his teeth free from her soft flesh.
Completely limp and smiling, Cin fell against his strong chest. Panting as if she had been running for days, she gasped for air and finally spoke in his mind. That was amazing, Talon. I think we should do that far more often. However, they would likely have to do it here in the Chambers because of the explosion of magic that had torn free of her when they both climaxed.
Chapter Thirteen
Stroking her back, he grinned as they lounged in his Throne. I’m all for kicking the Council out on a regular basis so that we can have mind-blowing sex. Though if your mother asks, we know nothing of which she speaks, he teased, hugging her to him. Gaia was going to have his balls as it was with a one-time go. More than that, he’d have to hide behind his mate for protection from her mother. “Holy hell,” he breathed out as it all clicked in his head. Gaia was his mother-in-law!
“Yep, she sure is,” Cin whispered sleepily from where she dozed on his chest. Another yawn had her moving in closer to him. “I wanna go home and curl up in our bed. I’m so very tired,” she admitted to him with yet another yawn. She was exhausted after the mind-blowing and amazing sex they had, but it had felt like more than that. She just didn’t have the energy to analyze it right now.
Pressing a kiss to her hair, he smiled. “Then I will get us to the base and we can head home from there,” he said softly. “But that means you need to move a little, sweetheart, because with how you are I don’t think I can pick you up without giving you a concussion.”
“I don’t know. I really rather love having you buried deep inside of me, darling,” she teased happily. “But for safety’s sake I will get off of you so that we can get ourselves out of here and head home.” She smiled at that. “I love you, honey.”
“I love you, too, darling.” He chuckled softly to her. Helping her up off his lap, he stood and adjusted his pants. Taking her hand, he lifted it to kiss her knuckles. “Come on, sweetheart, let’s get home. We have much to do.”
“We should leave through the antechambers so that hopefully I will be back in human form instead of Angel form so that the guards don’t learn my secret.” Cin squeezed Talon’s hand gently as she spoke. “That way we will be able to keep it a secret for longer, hopefully.” As long as possible would be very nice.
Nodding, he guided her back to the door and through the room, stepping into the hall to ensure he blocked her from view as she stepped out. Smiling at her regular dress once more in place, he took her hand again and led her to the portal room.
Her hand in his, Cin looked up at him with a happy smile on her face. Waving at the guards, she then cuddled up closer to Talon. “I love you, honey,” she told him with a smile. “Have I mentioned to you just how happy you make me?”
“I think you have now and again, but a reminder is always welcome,” he teased. Waiting for the doors to shut and seal at their backs, he wrapped her in his arms. “How happy do I make you, Cinnamon, my most precious and amazing bond-mate?”
“You make me happier than anything. I look forward to each and every single second that we have together. I look forward to the little things like holidays, and I can’t wait for Christmas. I think that holiday will be so very much fun.”
“I can’t wait for Christmas either,” he said with a smile and called up the Vortex. Guiding her through the white room on base, he headed for the door. “I can’t wait to get you so many things that you practically explode with glee and joy.” He could get her anything and everything, and she’d be excited and pleased, but he also knew that he was going to spoil her absolutely flipping rotten.
“Oh, honey, I don’t need a lot of things. I just need you,” she told him with a grin. “That’s all that matters.” She looked up at him. “And I get to get you something as well, and that’s going to be so very much fun. I look forward to being able to go shopping and seeing if I can get something for you, love.”
“Well if you do go shopping, you should take some of the other women, make it a day, and they will help you choose things. I just want to ensure that your first Christmas with me is memorable and special. I know I don’t have to get you things, but I want to, because it’s the first Christmas I have my bond-mate, and that is spectacular,” he told her honestly as they walked toward the garage.
“I would love that. I want to get to know them. They are going to be a part of my family, right? We are all one large family, aren’t we?” She thought that they were. She felt as if she had a family with him. “I think that it will be great for us both.” She had never experienced holidays before, so she looked forward to each and every single one of them.
“Of course we’re a family, Cin.” Talon grinned down at her. “And yes, I think you should have a few girls’ days out with them so you can get to know them better and so they can get to know you, Cinnamon, the most amazing woman in the world. If you want to tell them the rest of it, that’s your call, but I’d wait at least until the first time out. Maybe do a spa day and get massages and such. I know Kat has a standing date. Maybe you can arrange something a couple weeks from now on that day but for all you ladies.”
“I think that would be good, and I would rather them not know about me for a while now. I really don’t think that them knowing would be a good idea.” It might put them into danger, and that was
something that Cin didn’t want to be a part of. “Yep, that sounds good. I will go out with them and get a massage and all that.” Whatever that was. “It will be fun I think, don’t you?”
“It will as long as you like massages and other people handling your feet and hands,” he told her honestly, pulling open the door for her to the garage. “But really I think most of them go just so they can talk about their men and discuss female issues. Just remember when you are with them to not say too much about our sex life please. I really don’t want them all knowing what we do in the bedroom, sweetness.”
“Well since I don’t know if I would like that or not, I would like to at least give it a try.” Cin grinned up at Talon then and asked, “Are you worried that they will look at their men as if they are lacking because you are so amazing? Don’t worry though. I will try not to mention just how exceptional you are.”
“No, darling.” He chuckled softly, guiding her toward the bike. “Women tend to start comparing when they get into groups and then, at functions, they eye up the men that were discussed. For us men it’s a little uncomfortable, sort of like they are mentally dissecting us.”
“Ah, then I won’t say anything at all about our love life. I don’t want to do anything that would cause you any type of discomfort at all.” He was her love. She would do anything she had to in order to shield him from any type of discomfort. “It will be nice to be able to spend some time with some women though. I want to learn how to be a modern day woman, a woman that you need in your life.”
Stopping, Talon pulled her around and tugged her close into his arms. “You are exactly the woman I want and need in my life, Cinnamon. I do want you to learn this world so that you can see it for its beauty and understand its dangers. I don’t mind if you want to learn to be a little more modern when you are out in the world, but when we are home, just be who you are, my love.”
