by Arya Karin
“Don't see you’re precious lover anywhere around,” the male snorted. “Me and my friends want a taste of you.”
Oh hell no! I kicked harder, scrambling for a rock big enough to use for a weapon as I was dragged out of the cave’s tunnel.
There stood at least eight men. The alcohol on their breath stinking.
No way could I fight them all. Where was Caine when I needed him? Sipping blood Brandy while he reclined in his cave floor? “It’d be a nice time to show yourself, dragon.” Nothing. Not even an arrogant chuckle broke the night air. “Caine! This isn't funny, I could use some help here.”
A whoosh sounded around me. The trees, men, and darkness spun so fast I closed my eyes to keep from throwing up. Screams and yells echoed near me but dizziness pressed against my skull.
“You're safe now,” Caine's said.
I opened my eyes to find him naked in a hot spring that went up to his chest.
“Wha—?” We were in a giant cave with lights strung across the ceiling. The men were gone and we were in a completely new place. How did we get here?
“My lair.” He waved a hand out. “Well, my healing chamber. The rest of the place is upstairs.” He cringed and lifted his leg which snapped into place before my eyes.
“Wait, your leg is still broken? But you were fine...you led me on the path...and how did we get in here?” I sat on the edge of a flat boulder, my head spinning.
He lowered his leg into the bubbling water and the pinch between his brows eased. “That was an illusion spell. I conjured a duplicate of me and used it to lead you here.”
I crossed my arms. “No, you took me to a tunnel that no one bigger than a rabbit to fit through.”
“And if you had continued through, you'd have found the stairs to my front door, so to speak.’
I rolled my eyes. “Stop speaking in riddles. I was accosted in the tunnel and yanked out. Then all of sudden I'm here too and so are you. How did we get here?”
“When you were within the shields of my home and called my name at least three times, then the magic was engaged. We are linked, so the spell located me through you. It teleported me here and I in turn sent the power of my lair to bring you to me.”
“Right.” I leaned back. Some rumors said that dragons had magic including being able to vanish. Guess that made sense. “So why didn't you do that at the council meeting or when we were flying or in the woods?”
His face flushed. “Because I have to be within the lair’s boundaries for the magic to activate.”
But you were in the valley.” I paused. “Except I was here and the magic heard my plea of saying your name and brought you here through me? Then what's to stop others from doing the same and gaining entry?”
“No. Actually you wouldn't have been granted access at all without me bringing you inside myself.”
“Why? What would happen if I got inside without you?”
“The enchantments would burn the flesh from your bones.”
I swallowed, remembering the bones in the tunnel. “Then why didn't it fry me? Is it because we’re bonded, isn't it? We could've avoided all this if you had suggested the bond back at the gas station.”
“It's not that simple. Yes, there are perks to having a dragon as a mate but there are downsides too and I believe the woman should chose to be bound or not and the male to concede or deny.”
“What consequences?”
He stared at me. “Our life force is joined for all time. If I die, so do you. When I am reborn so will you be. There will be no escape from the link. No magic ritual to break it. What if in fifty years you grow tired of me? I couldn't bear to see you in pain.”
What if he got sick of me or I couldn’t stand the way he brushed his teeth. “Guess I should've read the manual.” I rubbed my hands down my thighs. My bruises aching.
“Undress—”
“Excuse me?” I balked. Did this guy think he could order me around? Snap his fingers and I'd jump his bones. Though at the image my sex throbbed.
“You're hurt. The water will heal you.”
The water shimmered and seemed to call to me, while her bones ached and I’d love to take a load off and relax. And chilling in a hot spring with a sexy dragon shifter was too tempting. My cheeks heated. “Thanks.”
I kept my bra and panties on. Most of the fabric was ripped from the fights but I still felt better leaving them on. Carefully, I eased into the water. It was hotter than it looked. Yet it instantly soothed my muscles. Inside the semicircle that was the size of a Jacuzzi I sat across from Caine.
“So, did you think this afternoon you'd be here with me in your hot tub with shifters after us...well, me?” A thump sounded outside and I cringed. “What was that?”
“One of the wards activated. In answer to your other question, no I hadn't planned this. Honesty, I thought you'd be like the others before you and screw your twelve men in a night and be done.”
Can't say I blamed them even if Caine sounded like he did. The pull in that room was so strong to mate that I even felt it now. Moisture pooled between my legs that had nothing to do with the hot spring and everything to do with thinking about sex and a sexy dragon shifter across from me. Was he wearing any clothes at all under the water? I licked my lips and tried to deter my lustful mind elsewhere. “Did you try to save any of the women chosen to hold the twelve zodiac signs like you did me?”
“Twice before, yes.” He glanced away. “But it did no good.”
“What happened?”
“One nearly bonded with me but a rival dragon appeared and though I won the fight against him, she chose him.”
“And the second,” I prodded.
He swallowed and stared down into the water. “Despite all she said about loving me and wanting the bond, at the first shifter that touched her, she tore off her clothes and spread her legs. She laughed and moaned as two men mounted her in front of me. Then she took three more men at once and so on until her twelve were chosen and I was left alone and outside that inner circle.”
“Both of them were stupid.” I slid through the water toward him.
His bright serpentine eyes watched me with heat rising between us. I wanted him so bad that it hurt deep inside and he was the only one to scratch the itch and give me satisfaction. Until now, we’d been running and now that we were safe, the urge to have sex returned full-force and I took off my bra. His gaze dipping to my breasts that peeked out of the water intensified my desire.
I scoped down and removed my panties, tossed both garments outside of the steaming water. Sinking down into the water, I touched his knees.
“No,” he drew me up, “I want to see you.” The raw gravel in his voce made me shiver in anticipation and need.
Naked, I stood before him. The water lapping just below my belly button, but my dark hair triangle was visible. I nudged my chin at him. “What about you?”
He rose. His sex standing out thick and proud. Longer than I would’ve thought and wide enough to make me know that it wasn’t going to fit easily. My mouth watered.
“You’re beautiful,” I said.
His stare had me turning even hotter. “Yes, you are.” He grasped my arms and dragged me closer to him. His hard body pressing up against my soft curves. He kissed me then pulled on my lower lip with his teeth. My knees buckled but he kept a hand around my waist, holding me up. Then he kissed my neck to my just below my ear. I wrapped my hands around his shoulders, trying to hold on to the burning urgency that boiled over inside me.
He brushed a thumb across my nipple and I groaned in pleasure. Everywhere I was on fire and he was the only thing to quench me. When his mouth covered mine again, and his hand massaged my breast, I deepened the kiss, stroking his tongue and lightly sucking on it.
A rumble reverberated from him and turned me on even more. I love that I was affecting him like this and I wanted more. I wanted to scream his name and have him do the same with mine.
He lifted me up in the water until I was s
uddenly on a shallow covered rock. But I wasn’t cold, I was on fire for this man…this dragon shifter. He spread my legs, then his lips crushed mine. Yearning and hungry and lustful all at once. I ran my hands down his chiseled abs, loving the rippling muscle beneath my fingertips. His hips ground against mine, his erection, rubbing back and forth across my clit, making a decadent sensation that blossomed through my sex.
“I want more.” I grabbed his cock and tugged.
He panted. “God, Karen, I can’t stop thinking about fucking you.”
“Then don’t think…do it.” I’d felt like I’d been waiting forever to have Caine fill me, and I couldn’t walk away now. Not for anything or anyone. I was so close to cumming that I could feel it just under the surface.
He slid his hands under my ass and lifted me onto the tip of his cock. Even that sensation had me climaxing. But it wasn’t enough. Not nearly enough. Slowly, he eased into me and I panted, curling my fingers into his shoulders to keep him with me. He pushed in a little and allowed my body to adjust to his size. My sex stretching and throbbing and wanting more all at the same time. When he thrust deeper until his balls hit me, pleasure exploded through me. I cried out his name, clutching his shoulders, my nails digging in deep.
Between us, he stroked me, and I screamed again as he pumped, hard and deep, filling me like I’d never had before. He didn’t stop, but kept increasing his pace and hardness of his thrust until I threw my head back and screamed until my throat grew raw.
Still he pumped me harder. He pinched my nipples with one hand, holding my ass with the other. His emerald eyes blazed as my second climax rode the first. I ground my clit onto him, shifting so that I could wrap my legs around his hips. Water splashed around us across the rock. And when I orgasmed again, he shouted when he found his own release.
The realization that I was with this guy…this dragon for eternity and beyond shook me. He meant more to me than anyone had in my life, and that scared me. I didn’t want anyone else but how could I live with a dragon I barely knew? More, how the hell would I chose eleven more other lovers?
Chapter Nine
Caine laid his forehead against mine. “I'm never gonna let you go, you know that right?”
“Yes,” I breathed, my body still tingling from our earlier sex marathon. The hot spring bubbled over the rock I sat on.
“You need food and rest.” He was buried deep inside me and his cock stirred.
I was deliciously sore. And yet, I wanted more. More of Caine and more of something I couldn't quite explain. A need to be filled front and back and deeper than I ever had been.
Caine traced my lower lip with his thumb. “It's starting up again, isn't it?”
“Yes.” The fact I had to take eleven additional lovers. Caine was perfect, I didn’t know if I was ready to give myself to elven others when I was already falling for him. And right now with us clinging to each other, and his dick hardening again, he was all I wanted.
“You're going into heat again,” he said.
“So? You’re here… filling me up in all the best ways.” I lifted my pelvis up, his cock almost sliding out of me completely, then slowly eased back down. My breaths quickening.
Straddling him, he grasped my hips with his hands and guided me up and down his shaft. Over and over, I pounded down on him, getting faster and faster. The ache deep inside me growing until I couldn't stop. Caine roared, his release shooting hot cum into me. But I was trembling with need.
It wasn't enough, and I shook on the rock despite the heat. “More,” my voice was hoarse and tears flowed down my face from wanting him to be enough and needing sex so bad I couldn't stand up.
“I'm surprised you lasted this long,” he sighed. “In a few minutes, I'll be ready to go again but that won't be soon enough for you.” He wiped one of my tears away. “It's okay, Luv. Let me help you make it better.”
I leaned forward, and he eased out of me. A groan burst from my lips at the intensity of being empty.
“Easy there, Luv.” He picked me up. When he reached the deep end of the circled pool, he set me down into the bubbling hot springs.
When he turned to leave, I clasped his hand. “Please Caine, I can't take this ache any longer.” It was like I'd emerged from a dessert after days of no water. Where I'd sell my own soul for a drop.
He cupped my cheek. “I know. But even if we had sex nonstop for days, it wouldn't be enough. And we both will need to eat and sleep eventually. You have to pick more of your court.”
A sobbed hiccup escaped me. “I-I can't.” The burning hunger in my groin, in all of me, had to be satisfied now. I was desperate, if those eight men were in front of me right now, I'd let them all fuck me. I didn't want to feel this way but the desire was overriding everything else.
“Stay in the water. Believe it or not, it's easing your symptoms a bit.”
How was that even possible? I was on fire! My breast were heavy and nipples strained to be touched, pinched, sucked. Under the water my sex throbbed so hard I cringed.
“Give me a few minutes, I'll be right back.” He sped up the stairs and disappeared.
Was he going to pick up dragon shifter Viagra? I shifted and moaned as even that slight movement stirred up the lust inside me increased ten times. My hands gripped the rock underneath me and I dug my fingernails into the edge to keep from screaming.
I counted to a hundred three times before a shout ripped out of my throat. Fuck! How long had Caine been gone?
Where did he go? What if he left me here and had decided a nymphomaniac girlfriend was too much trouble. If I left now, how long before I met the shifters outside?
I stood up but my legs shook so bad from my sex cramping, I feel down, sinking under the water. Sputtering, I broke the surface of the water and swam to the side. With my entire body shaking, I climbed out of the hot springs.
The staircase was only yards away but I whimpered low in my throat as I dragged myself toward it. Halfway between the stairs and water, lust slammed into me so hard I curled in on myself. It felt like a thousand hornets stung my middle and they wouldn't stop. Even my skin hurt like acid was scraping it off my flesh.
“Shit, she's got it worse than the others had it,” a male voice I didn't recognize said.
Through my tangled hair I peeked up to find a man as big as a linebacker.
“Here,” he reached a hand down and I bit my lip.
What about Caine? But my body sensed a male near me and began to uncoil some. “Caine…” I couldn't get the words out as my gaze fixated on the erection tenting his shorts.
The man smiled and took off his shirt. His tanned abs drew my attention before it snapped back down to the front of his shorts.
“It's okay, I'm a friend of Caine's. He brought me to help you and is bringing two others.”
“B-but I'm supposed to choose my court, not him.” I panted.
“Name’s Jerry.” He removed the rest of his clothes and his penis pointed straight at me. He was even tanned there too. “Suit yourself if you want to walk outside Caine's protection guarding this place. But I guarantee you'll be raped before you take two steps. Now I can ease your pain or we can take a walk and I'll try to keep as many shifters off you as I can until you pick a few more.”
My sex pulsed so tight, I yelled. “Make this stop, please. Am I going to have to screw eleven men tonight before I find relief?” I sobbed.
“No. Get your four pillars, then you have a bit of reprieve for a few days before this starts up again.” He stroked himself and I couldn't stop staring at his girth growing in his hand. “But I'd be honored to be your second. I vow to make you happy and fuck you as much as you want.”
“How do you know Caine?” Weren’t most dragon shifters loners? “Where are you from?” My conscious said I should know something about this guy.
He laughed. “Is this an interview? I speak with my body better than words.” He looked my up and down and another wave of sexual desperation hit me.
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�Fuck it, just take me.”
“At your service, mistress,” he bowed slightly.
“Lay down,” I whispered.
He didn't question but laid down on the rocky floor. His penis standing straight up. I crawled over to him, licking a path from his shin to his thigh to his penis. The hint of bear tickled my nose. That had to be his animal. Briefly, I suckled his tip, making him groan. I wanted to have his penis hit the back of my throat while Caine fucked me from behind, but the dragon wasn't here and I had a fire scorching me from inside.
Lifting myself over him, I sunk down, his penis filling me up. I cried out from the stretch and the hope of having an orgasm and fulfilling my lust.
He grasped both of my breasts in his hands and kneaded them, tweaking the nipples as I rode him. My thrusts harder as the climax built inside of me. He grunted. But I didn't stop, couldn't.
His hand moved to stroke my clit and I gasped as my body exploded around him. His hot seed spilling into me.
“Fuck!” he bellowed.
I smiled, panting. “Karen, my name's Karen.”
“You're a sex goddess.” He smiled.
My legs cramped but not as shaky as before. “A bear shifter?” I stood.
“Yup.” He rose and sniffed the air. “And you're part Coyote and witch?”
“Didn't Caine tell you when he picked you up?” God, I almost felt normal. Not like. A pain shot through me. My vagina clenching down hard enough that it felt like my hips were going to shatter.
“Damn, it's happening again, isn't it?” He rubbed his chin. “You'll have to take more than one lover at a time.”
I gasped as another aching pain shook me so hard I fell to my knees.
“Karen!” Caine's voice was full of concern as he pulled me into his arms.
“Make it stop, please.” I held onto him, unable to catch my breath.
“I brought Leo and Greg back with me.” Caine rubbed my back. “A lion and a gorilla shifter that I've known a long time and trust. Will you take them?”
