by C. A. Salo
“Mmm, I like playing with all of you.” His nose lowered to her neck. His eyes closed as he caught her scent before moving his mouth over hers, capturing her with a hungry kiss.
Livi grabbed his biceps, moaning as he dominated her mouth with firm, commanding strokes. His kiss made her knees weak, and her body yearned for the erotic pleasures to come. His undeniable hunger for her pulsed like a beacon in the night. Her hands cradled his face as his quiet energy echoed to touch her heart. Livi sighed, tightening her grip, trying to draw him closer.
Tommy sat back on his heels, bringing her up to straddle his thighs. Her warm wet center glided over his aroused cock and she moaned with hunger. Lowering a hand between their bodies, he slid a finger over her wetness and pressed a finger deep inside her, pleased with her arousing response. He rubbed his thumb against her clit. Her back arched toward him with a low throaty moan as she pressed herself deeper against his finger.
“Tommy, please,” she pleaded against his mouth.
“Please what, woman?” His other hand moved up her back. His fingers weaved through her hair and gripped close to her skull.
“Please take me, make me yours,” she breathed as he nibbled on her bottom lip, another finger joining the first. Her pussy closed around them, tightening, and she cried out with pleasure when he bit the side of her neck. “Master, please!”
Tommy lifted her, turned her, and brought her back down to straddle his lap with her back facing him as he thrust up into her heat. Her cries of bliss hardened his cock even more. His hand came up around and across her chest to hold her, his hand squeezing her breast. Her turgid nipple rubbed against his calloused palm as his thick cock buried itself deep inside her warm sheath. “Mine,” he groaned and began thrusting deep and hard.
Livi spiraled, jerking and whimpering softly as he thrust into her. Lowering her hand, she rubbed her fingers along his sack, smiling at his groan until he shifted slightly and slammed against her faster and faster. “Oh gods!” Slanting her hips up to take him deeper, she moved her hand up to circle around his neck and hold on. The tension within started to unravel. “Tommy!”
Tommy halted immediately, holding her to him and praying for restraint.
“What, don’t stop!”
His hands gripped her hips, keeping them from moving, his breath scorching as it bounced off her neck back at him. “Who?” Gripping her hair he tugged her head back until their eyes met. Livi’s eyes were a beautiful translucent amber color. “Who am I?”
“M-Master.”
He thrust upward. Her body shuddered as he rotated his hips and she ground against him. He nipped her neck and her trembling grew as she bounced on his lap. Tommy nearly lost it. Lowering a hand between her legs he glided his fingers over her slick nub. Her body jerked, but she didn’t stop the fast pace he’d set. His other hand gripped her breast, tweaking her nipple between his fingers. “Are you ready for me to claim you?” he asked when a low keening moan escaped her parted lips.
“Y-yes, Master,” Livi breathed.
“Will you let me claim you and make you mine forever, Olivia Roven?” His breathing was harsh as he pumped into her faster and faster, his balls tightening.
“Yes, Master, please claim me and make me yours.” Olivia gasped, her orgasm so close. She felt the sweat on her upper lip appear as she tried to hold back her release.
Tommy lowered his mouth to her neck. His eyes shifted and his nostrils flared as his canines descended and his claws emerged. “Now, Livi! Come for me now!”
Livi cried out with her ecstasy as her body convulsed, his erection so hard she felt it throb inside her as he found his release the moment his canines pricked her skin, sinking deep. Her lips parted on a soundless gasp as millions of light shards erupted within. Her shudders grew deep with the quickening of the bonding. The light shards came together and euphoric waves swept over them as the mind-marking took place. Images of him appeared before her closed eyes as he thrust slowly into her several more times. Livi gasped before she collapsed against him, her head lolling back on his shoulder as his canines withdrew.
Tommy licked the punctures on her neck until they closed. He rubbed his cheek against hers, drawing her closer when her body trembled. Then he drew his head back as the full moon emerged from behind a cloud, and howled.
Livi smiled, loving the deep silver color of his eyes as he met her gaze. “Well, that’ll tell’em.”
Tommy chuckled as he wrapped his arms around her holding her close. “Love you, Livi.”
Livi smiled as she leaned back against him, loving the warmth of his body, his arms embracing her, and his thick member still snug inside her warmth. “Love you, too.”
Chapter 5
Livi stood in the middle of the field on the west side of town waiting for the Dragon Hunters to make an appearance. The entire town was out tonight in full shift. After all, you can’t have a Fun Fall Carnival without the ghouls and ghosts floating around. The town had pulled together quickly to go along with the idea Livi had come up with to thwart the Dragon Hunters, and a carnival had been erected within forty-eight hours with posters around town and cotton candy to boot.
“They’re here,” Peter announced over the earpieces. “They just passed the eastern entrance, heading for the center of town.”
“Roger that, Peter,” she replied, with a nod of her head toward her mom. Livi shifted Fae as Alston’s residents began their show. Everything had been staged out so she could show the Hunters afterward that it really was a magic show—well, a fake magic show with fake wings, fire and smoke bombs in place. It was a good thing she’d studied in Vegas for a while. Taking a deep breath, Livi waited until she felt the first of the Hunters’ energies. “Come and see the most terrifying, the most amazing sight ever! Alston’s very own Dragon!” Well that caught their attention. Five of the Hunters turned to stare at her. “That’s right folks, our very own Dragon, and she’s here! You there sir,” she smiled as a Hunter walked her way. “Do you want to see her in all her glory, in all her magnificent mysticism? They say Dragons aren’t real, but we have one, our very own.” She smiled.
“Where is she?” the Hunter growled.
Livi smiled as she sidled up to his side. “Ahhh, so you are interested in seeing her, are you?” Meeting his eye, she grinned. “Right this way my good man, to the most fascinating sight you’ll ever behold.” Stepping to the side, she tossed a smoke bomb and shimmered over to the red stone in the middle of the field. They’d found a huge piece of quartz, and with some elven magic, gave it a red glow. “Here, my good man!” she called out when the smoke cleared away. They looked around. “Come and see. Her stone is here. This is how we call her, our Alston Dragon.”
“That’s it, Livi, keep them going. They’re all headed toward you,” Galen said over the earpiece.
“She only awakens every twenty years, and we can call her here tonight! Come and see, step forward, make room for everyone!” Livi called over the gathering crowd of Hunters. Nothing like luring the sheep to the slaughter. And when Alston’s security force stood around them at the outskirts of the field, she knew they were all here. Stepping over to the stone, she smiled at the closest Hunter. “Stay back now, give me room to call on our Dragon, and be ready to be amazed!” Drawing her hand over the quartz, she used a little Fae magic to help it glow. “We, the people of Alston, call upon you, oh great and powerful Dragon! It’s been twenty years since you last woke and we call on you now!” Tossing her arms up, smoke billowed out from either side and she watched as a mist started rolling in. “Be not afraid, my good people, ’tis only the Dragon’s steam from awakening.” Livi’s eyes narrowed as the Hunters glanced down around their feet, several hands went to weapons at their sides and a few even brought out wards to hold Dragons off. Smiling when the ground shook, Livi chuckled as they looked at each other. “That’s right. She’s awakening from the belly of the Earth! Fear not! She won’t eat you upon first waking; it would ruin her sensitive digestive tract!” Tossing
her arms out to the sides Livi stood back from the stone, tossing her head up to look to the sky. “Oh great power of the Dragon, I call upon you to gift me with your very essence!”
“You have them now, Livi, keep going.”
Closing her eyes, she drew in the land’s power and levitated herself a foot off the ground. Concentrating, she formed a fireball into each hand and sent it soaring into the sky as her body jerked and a set of Dragon wings emerged from her back with a scream tossed in for good measure. The energies soaring through her heightened everything around her: sound, smell, sight. She looked down quickly toward the Hunters through a red haze. “Aahh, we have Hunters in our presence. Think you can kill me!” And just as the real Dragon Hunters stepped forward, the team they had in place rushed in toward her and the show went on. Drawing fireballs, she tossed them at Alston’s Hunters.
“Oh shit, this is good. Yhey look so confused.” Peter chuckled over the earpiece.
After a few minutes, she smiled as Tommy came up with her sword and stabbed her through the side. Livi screamed as she went down, and a huge ball of fire swept up into the night sky. Of course, the sword wouldn’t hurt her, but the Hunters didn’t know that. After all, Hephaetus bestowed it upon her and he designed and made it especially for her, so the sword would never hurt her no matter how many times it pieced her skin. Going limp when Tommy picked her up and lifted her above his head, she slowed her breathing down.
“The beast has been slain! I claim all rights to its corpse!” Tommy said loudly as he turned in a circle with her lifted above him. Bringing Livi down to lay within his arms, he started walking toward the exit with his ‘team’ of Hunters.
Livi tensed when one of the real Hunters spoke.
“You’re not going anywhere until we check her out.”
“Excuse me?” Tommy said as he narrowed his gaze.
“You heard me. Lay it down so we can skin it properly.”
Livi gasped as one of Alston’s Hunters leaned forward. “Man, is this part of the show?” he whispered.
“No,” Tommy whispered back. “Dude, I don’t know who you are, but you’re ruining the show,” he hissed. “Skin the Dragon?” he said loudly, turning in a circle for the ‘on-lookers’. “Since when do we skin Dragons, my friend?” Turning back toward the Hunter he went to walk past when two more stepped in his way. “Man, you’re ruining the show, step the fuck back,” he growled.
Livi had already released all the land’s energy so when a Hunter tossed a charm on her, she peeped an eye open. “Can we get moving, I’m getting sore,” she whispered.
“I knew you weren’t dead,” the Hunter hissed.
“No shit, dip wad, it’s a magic show. Now move your ass before you ruin it for everyone,” she snapped.
“Look, mommy, the Dragon’s not dead!” a child’s voice said.
“Yeah, she’s moving,” another piped in.
“What kind of show are you people running here?” Kalana said as she stepped forward with her youngest son. “I bring my kids to a magic show and you ruin it. I want my money back and I’m never coming to this town again!”
“Yeah me too, this is a joke!”
Livi held back her smile as her mother and Aunt Kasey left in a huff with the kids trailing behind them. Gods, she loved her family. When everyone had just about cleared out Tommy set her on her feet. “You sons of bitches! You ruined my show! You’re paying for any tickets I have to refund!” Livi gasped when the Hunter grabbed her by the arm, hauling her to his side. “Let me go!”
“Man, get your hands off her!” Tommy said as he stepped forward.
“Who the hell do you think you are? You come to my show and ruin it! Where are the police, I want him arrested for…for ruining my show and grabbing me!”
“Sir,” one of the Dragon Hunters said as he stepped forward. “If she was tainted, the charm tossed on her would have shown her true self.”
“What the fuck are you people talking about? My true self? I’ll show you my true self when I have you all in court for ruining my business!” Livi yelled. “This is how I make my living every year!”
“Show?” the Dragon Hunter yelled in her face. “Then you explain how the ground shook.”
Livi stomped over to the area where they all had been standing and moved the fake grass out of the way as she lifted a pad with electrical stimulators. “This. It’s an illusion, jerk face, or haven’t you ever been to a magic show before?” Dropping the pad she stepped back when another charm hit her on the chest. Growling, she picked it up tucking it into her back pocket. “Stop hitting me with shit! Sheriff! Someone get me the Sheriff!”
“I’m here,” Galen said as he stepped forward with five deputies. “What in the hell is going on over here? I have pissed off visitors yelling for their money back over a sham of a show.”
“This asshole ruined my show. He wants to skin me, he grabbed me and he keeps throwing stuff at me!” Livi said as she pointed to the Hunter who’d came after them.
“Really,” Galen said as he turned. “Sir, what do you have to say about this?”
“She’s hiding something,” the Hunter said.
“Yeah, I’m hiding the baseball bat I’m going to smack you with!” Livi yelled.
“Now, settle down Mrs. Moilanin.” Galen said as he stopped Livi from going forward. “Sir, did you grab her and throw items at her?”
“Yes,” the Hunter said.
“Then I suggest you leave before she wants to press charges instead of going after you with a bat.”
“She is a Dragon and I’ll prove it,” he growled as he stepped forward withdrawing a Dragon Hunter Athame and slicing it across Livi’s chest.
Livi gasped, her hand flying up to her chest as Galen and another deputy grabbed the Hunter. Glancing over she met Tommy’s eyes when he yanked off his shirt to press against her wound.
“Medic! I need a medic!” Tommy yelled as he laid her down on the grass.
“He cut me! He fucking cut me!’ Livi cried as she rolled her eyes at Tommy.
“It’ll be alright, baby, the medics are coming,” Tommy said.
Livi glanced around him to see Galen handcuffing the Hunter as the others stood there in shock, staring at her with wide eyes. When the paramedics ran up and started treating her, Tommy stayed close by as the Deputies took everyone aside for questioning, getting the names and addresses of every single Dragon Hunter there. When they loaded her onto the stretcher, she held Tommy’s hand as they wheeled her to the ambulance. Only when they were secured in the back did she chuckle. “Damn, that was good.”
“Stay down,” Tommy said as the ambulance moved.
“I know. Damn, I didn’t think he had the balls to pull an Athame out and come after me.”
“No shit, honey, I think the rest of them were shocked as hell too. Did you see their faces when you didn’t turn Dragon and die?”
“Priceless.”
“Okay, babe, just take it easy until we get to the hospital.”
Livi smiled as he leaned down brushing his lips gently over hers. “I just hope they take this as we showed it and don’t bother us anymore.”
“Me too, because if they don’t stop, they’re going to see how pissed the rest of us can get.”
* * * *
Livi smiled as reports from all over the world came in over the next few days. While the Dragon Hunters where being entertained here, Other Kin the world over were releasing captured Dragons from the Hunter strongholds. What the Hunters didn’t know was that any charm they made from a Dragon could be used as a way to find the Dragon or individual with Dragon blood. That’s why she kept the charms the Hunters who came to Alston had tossed at her—to track down the ones they’d imprisoned. The security force had released Barrett and the other Hunter with a little mind wipe and suggestive implant. Barrett had been arrested for his assault on her in the woods and had been left to remember that she’d mentioned the eyes and breath were magician tricks. Turning her head when hands settle
d on her hips she met Tommy’s gaze.
“We’ve had some more good reports. Triton just checked in, all Dragon Bloods from Asia have been freed.”
“That’s wonderful.”
“It wouldn’t have happened without you, Livi.”
Livi closed her eyes as she sank back against his strong chest. “No, it wouldn’t have happened without all here on Alston, and those out there endangering their lives to free our friends.”
“You look tired, love. I think it’s time to retire for the night,” he said as he kissed her temple.
“I’m good, Tommy. I just want to stay up a bit longer.”
Tommy turned her, lifting her into his arms. “I said bed, woman, and I meant it. If anything major happens, Peter will come get us.”
“Don’t worry, Livi, I’ll hold down the fort,” Peter called out.
Livi glanced his way briefly before meeting her mate’s eyes. “Ok, Tommy.” Laying her head against his chest, she started drifting off with the even thump of his heartbeat.
Tommy smiled as he headed for the door and up the stairs of Roven Manor.
“She’s out like a light, huh?” Drake asked.
“Yes sir. She tried fighting it.” Tommy smiled as he stepped up to his father in-law and Alpha. “If it’s alright with you, I think we’ll bed down here for the night.”
“Definitely. There’s never a need to ask, Tommy,” Kalana said as she came out of the study smiling.
Tommy grinned as Kalana stepped up and brushed Livi’s hair off her face. He loved the motherly concern she showed for her daughter.
“Go ahead and get her up to bed, we’ll see you in the morning.” Drake smiled.
Tommy smiled as he set Livi on the bed. Leaning down he brushed his lips gently across hers, surprised when she kissed him back. He lifted his head. “Hey you, I thought you were sleeping.”
Livi smiled sleepily. “I was, but then you kissed me.”
“Hmmm, well why don’t you go back to sleep? I’m going to undress you and then lay down.”
“Promise?”
