Vex, almost entirely bared to him, watched eagerly now with that intense gaze of hers that pierced him to the core of his being.
“So hot. So beautiful,” he muttered, holding the side of her hip with one hand while his other cupped her sex gently. She gasped, hands grasping his taut thighs as he straddled her. But when he drew a finger slowly up her slit, pausing over the tiny nub at the center of her arousal, the sound of pleasure she made nearly broke him.
If there had been any chance of going back when he’d shown up to see Vex here, that chance was long gone.
He’d never want another person so long as either of them still lived.
“Ah… that’s… What are you doing to me?” Vex almost seemed lost, back arching each time he drew his finger over her clit again.
He’d move heaven and earth to give her what she wanted.
Tenderness and want and arousal stirred in him like a fire, and Landon leaned closer to Vex, propping himself up on his elbow while the other hand continued to lightly stroke over her center.
To his surprise, Vex wrapped her arms around him, and he could feel her body growing tenser. But even over the satiny fabric of her panties, he needed to feel all of her, and he reached beneath her underwear so he could fully explore her folds with his deliciously soaked fingers.
With nothing between them now except arousal and the indomitable attraction they both felt for each other, Landon started to move faster with his finger, pushing her toward climax as Vex’s fingertips dug into his back like sharp kisses.
The blush on her cheeks had moved down to her neck and up her ears, and she alternated between shutting her eyes as she moaned and looking up at him through a haze of lust.
“I’m right here. Watch me,” he said tenderly as he cupped the back of her head, and her purple gaze locked onto his. Her thighs were squeezing around his hand, core tightening, but she didn’t look away even as she worried her lower lip as the heat of the moment grew to a fever pitch.
“I…” She tried to speak, but he could see her throat tighten, could see a vein there pulsing rapidly as she came close to the edge.
She gasped, and Landon felt her sex and her entire body clench with impending release.
With lightning reflexes, he covered her mouth with his, claiming her scream as she orgasmed beneath him. It was too beautiful for words, holding her as he kissed her deeply, tongues entwining even as she came apart in his arms.
Landon didn’t move, just let her hold him until every bit of pressure that had built released, until she slumped back against the bed and their lips separated, allowing her to take in a deep breath of air.
“How on…? How did you…? What in the…?” She looked up at him with defiant arousal as her chest heaved, and he noted the blush was full body now.
“Thorough.” He sent a wicked glance up her body, memorizing the sight of her like this even as he eagerly removed the last bit of clothing covering her and tossed it aside.
“If you’re going to look at me like that, then it’s only right I’m allowed the same.” She sat up, going directly for his jeans and undoing them, making Landon hold back a chuckle as he stood off the bed and simply took care of the rest before she tore them off herself.
Not that he minded necessarily.
“I don’t need to be naked for what I’m going to do next. But fair’s fair.” At that, his underwear came off too, letting his cock free, and she gulped in arousal, sitting back against the bed and watching him as he spread her legs.
“And what’s that exactly?”
Landon didn’t respond, just appraised her intently as he lowered his mouth to her center. But if she had planned a protest of any sort, it was swiftly interrupted as his tongue licked up her wet slit, covering him with the scent and sensation of her arousal.
Vex collapsed onto the bed, hands desperately clutching the sheets at her sides as he eagerly kissed her clit.
At first, they were light little brushes of his now-wet lips over her. But they quickly intensified into long laves and flicks with his tongue as he worked her into a frenzy of want.
Perhaps she’d expected him to go straight for sex. But in his world, her pleasure came first.
And besides, if he got in too deep with his dragon already roaring to mate her, he might not be able to take the rejection if this whole arrangement ended up being purely physical after all.
So instead, he licked her as though his life depended on it, watching as her gaze flitted down to meet his, flushed and trying to see farther down his body before arching back against the bed again whenever he stimulated her in just the right way.
The air was getting hotter, headier around them. The antique four-poster bed creaked slightly whenever she bucked, which made sense given her considerable strength. And when her legs trembled, he held her steady with his hands on her, pushing her toward another release with increasing rapidity.
All at once, she let out a final harsh moan, and she came again for him. Her hands dug into his hair, clenching tightly as he held her legs over his shoulders.
And this time as she came, he kissed her clit once more, pushing her even deeper into the orgasm as she called his name once in the middle.
“Land—ah.” Even she seemed to try to stop what she was doing midsentence, mid-orgasm. But that alone was enough for Landon to not get ideas that perhaps she felt more between them than simply pure, indescribably hot attraction.
Powerful ripples coursed through her body until she relaxed against the bed again, legs going limp.
Gently, he moved her legs from off his shoulders and sat up to look at Vex, her eyes half open as she looked him over, gasping with pleasure.
If he wasn’t wrong, he’d say they’d had a pretty good first run. After all, it seemed like this was her first time, and Landon had no intention of going too far for their—
His thoughts were interrupted as she sat up in flash, glowing from exertion but just as eager as ever. He didn’t even have time to speak when her hands stroked up his cock, making the muscles in his back clench from the sudden arousal.
Granted, he was already so turned on just from watching Vex come twice that he was on the edge. But being touched by her was nearly too much.
“Hm, so soft and so hard at the same time.” She was up on her knees, looking down at his member while she felt over the ridge of his head, then gripped the shaft firmly as if testing it out. When she was satisfied, she looked up at him with a glance that was as purple as it was imperious. “You didn’t think we were finished, did you?”
Landon gulped, amused and caught off guard. “Vex, I can’t go all the way with you, not now. Not with my dragon so close. Next time, I’ll bring protection. We’ll need it, since I’m half-dragon and you don’t want to be mated—”
He was cut off by the feel of her fingertips slowly running up and down him, making him crazy.
“Seriously,” he said. “I got what I wanted. To pleasure you, to see you come so hard you said my name.”
She went bright red but didn’t look away. “As if making me come was all I wanted from you in the first place. Presumptuous.” She grinned at him. Then he felt one of her hands move up his chest, feeling over his pecs, while the other hand seemed satisfied with just stroking up and down his cock in an agonizingly hot motion.
“Just because we can’t go all the way yet doesn’t mean I don’t intend to enjoy you fully.” She continued, licking her lips as she appraised him from head to toe.
“Be my guest.” He tried to stay calm, but just knowing she wanted him as badly as he wanted her—at least physically—was almost too good to be true in the first place.
Granted, he’d seen her melt beneath him. Felt the way his kisses lit her up like a ray of blinding sunlight. It only made sense it was a two-way street.
She perused him eagerly, feeling over each ridge of his body, each taut ab, up his forearm, over his bicep, and over his shoulder with her one hand. Meanwhile, the other hand just played with the be
ad of wetness at the tip of his cock, moving it over and making her stroking motions slicker.
Apparently, he wasn’t the only one who was going crazy over the attraction between them.
At one point, Landon reached up a hand to stroke her shoulder, the memory of her skin on his fingers recent, but she batted it away as she lowered both hands down to his hips.
“I want to see you lose control,” she said intensely. “To see those sky-blue eyes roll back.”
“You don’t have to do that. I—”
She ignored him as she leaned down, licking up his shaft before taking his tip in her mouth, sucking a bit and soaking his skin before sitting back on her heels again. Just the way she looked at him as she did it, the arousal and want he could feel from her, was almost enough to make him lose control.
And when her hands began to slide swiftly up and down him, the motion slick and gliding with her soft palms over his sensitive skin, Landon grunted, his core tightening with the sudden, intense arousal.
“Good. Let me see everything.” Her purple eyes were glowing and fierce.
She gripped him tightly and pulled back, moving onto her back on the bed as he propped himself over her. But even staying steady was getting increasingly difficult as she stroked him faster and faster.
It was like dragon-hot fire building to a fever pitch inside him. His muscles and arms weren’t cooperating, and as he got closer, he could see a smile creeping up the corners of Vex’s mouth as she licked her lips again, long and slow.
It was Landon’s turn to curse as she threw him over the edge, and his entire body tensed and vibrated with release as he buried his face in the crook of her neck.
He was entirely unable to focus on anything except the powerful pulses that shot up his back and down his hips, coupled with the keen awareness of Vex’s soft, naked body next to him, her hands still clutching him while he came.
By the time he was finished, Landon grunted and tried to take air into his lungs even though the damned things weren’t cooperating after just how hot their first time together had been.
And when he pushed himself up, Vex released him and looked up into his eyes with the satisfaction of a fox who’d unlocked the gate to a hundred henhouses.
“Satisfied?” Landon asked, muscles still sore from coming, body still catching up to the free-fall he’d just been in a moment ago.
“Very.” Vex smiled, and for perhaps the first time, he thought he could see tenderness, maybe even more than just want there as they locked gazes. “You?”
Landon nodded, still breathless.
“Never let it be said I don’t hold up my end of a bargain,” she said, her voice still husky and sensuous.
He wanted to reach up and draw her into him. Hold her tight. Kiss her again and again until the moon rose and fell.
Landon began to lean forward to claim her lips when he saw Vex’s smile turn from calm and sweet to devious.
“You know our agreement, dragon. Landon.” She caught herself, and when Landon looked into her eyes, the purple there was cooler now like when they’d first looked when he came here. He could tell she was already pushing him away.
“If I were you, I’d get your pants on,” she said, cocking her head at him.
“What? Why?” Dammit, why couldn’t he stay longer?
“If you want to come again, then do as I say.” She sighed, leaning back on the bed. “This is far too good for you to ruin it with feelings.”
He blinked. He’d gotten so caught up in everything he’d forgotten he’d ever have to let her go.
The need to hold her, to bond with her, was still a physical ache.
But he was a patient dragon, so he quickly moved off the bed, but not before sneaking a quick kiss on her lips.
She snorted, then waved a hand, watching him hurry to get his pants on as a glowing purple portal swirled next to him. “Until next time, dragon…”
He glanced around for his shirt, finding only tattered remains. “Wait, but—”
She stood, walking over to grab him by the back of his neck, pulling him in to kiss him fiercely.
There was passion there, something so much more than lust.
But a second later, she released him, and he felt her shove him back into the portal. As purple swirled around him, he took a deep breath of invigoration.
He already couldn’t wait to see her again.
4
“You look out of it. That’s not like you.”
Vex looked up from her seat in her office to see Tyrus walk in, back from his meeting with whatever chaos fae they were trying to win over to their cause.
Whatever their cause was now that the dragons were being liberated by fae princes.
Vex got along with Tyrus because his lust for power correlated with her own. At least it had when she’d first been betrayed by Dallin and foiled in her attempts at turning the fae world upside down.
She’d wanted to rule the fae world, to make sure things weren’t the way they had been.
If she played things right, she could still end up ruling the Blur. There was a power vacuum now that Nerroth, the former prince, was dead.
One of Landon’s friends had killed him.
Served him right, trying to take someone’s mate.
Vex knew everyone saw her as hardhearted, but one of the cruelest things you could do to a dragon shifter was take their mate.
To anyone, really.
So all right, she might have done a few good deeds and written it off as getting a favor some later day.
Good thing her cohorts didn’t know because they would never approve.
Tyrus leaned against the wall, studying her with those dark eyes. A chaos fae, but one more in control of himself than most of them, Tyrus wasn’t very free with his thoughts.
But Vex knew what he was thinking right now, and it wasn’t about her daydreaming.
“I don’t like you allying with that dragon,” he said quietly, looking nowhere in particular, his dark hair pulled over his shoulder in a long ponytail. “I don’t think it looks good.”
“That’s none of your business as my deputy,” Vex said. “That’s personal, not professional.”
“Obviously,” Tyrus said, his lips curling in a sneer. “But if your ‘personal’ becomes my ‘professional,’ we might need to start thinking about new leadership.”
She stood abruptly, knowing any challenge needed to be met head on. She planted both hands on her desk, leaning over it. “You want to try it? You want to duel right now? With a glamour fae?”
Tyrus’s face tightened, but she caught the spark of fear in his eyes. “You aren’t strong enough to take all of us.”
“Who says?” Vex asked. “And what, are you planning a coup?”
Tyrus’s lips spread into an easy smile. “Would I be a chaos fae if I wasn’t?”
Vex grinned as well. “I suppose not.”
Tyrus relaxed slightly. “I’m sorry for being insubordinate. The others don’t like the dragon. Everyone but me met him.” Tyrus’s eyes narrowed. “I don’t like his smell.”
“You live in the Blur,” Vex said. “You don’t like anyone who smells like anything but burnt onions.”
“It’s true,” Tyrus said. “Do-gooders annoy me.”
“Right,” Vex said. She used to think the same. Lately though…
“We found another cell,” Tyrus said. “Hanging out in the northeast corner of the chaos realm.”
“Right,” Vex said, moving around her desk and into action. She opened a door with a small closet and pulled out the purple, floor-length robes she always wore to remind anyone she faced what she was.
What she could do to them.
Power was the only way to stay safe in the world. Power was the only way to not be hurt.
And when they proved to the chaos realm that she was the strongest by taking out all of the powerful light fae outposts, she would be able to rule.
No one would be able to gainsay her.
Life would be perfect.
Landon’s soft blue eyes came to her mind.
Vex sighed. “Let’s just imprison them this time. Hold off on the torture. Hand them over to the princes and let them do it.”
Tyrus’s eyes narrowed again. “Going soft? I knew it. That dragon—”
“No,” Vex said quickly, not wanting anyone drawing attention that way. “Nothing to do with him. Torture is ugly. Brutal. Useless. It makes us look like we have no control, like we’re any criminal brute in the Blur. We’re different. We’re better.”
But Tyrus’s eyes held doubts as he looked at her.
“I’ll tell the men we’re ready,” he said. “You have a collar for DFH3?”
She shook her head. “Collaring Diffy? Are you crazy? No, I’ll keep his mind in line.”
“You mean surround him with false reality.”
Vex shrugged one shoulder. “Well, yeah.”
“You better hope your strength never fails,” Tyrus said. “You’d never regain control of that one.”
“You agreed we should take him,” Vex said.
Tyrus frowned. “Well, of course. I’m not letting that much power out of our hands. But I’m still dubious as to how much we can use him. He’s not right in the head. And he was bad before they even did anything to him. I saw the recruitment in the Blur for that project. They said it wasn’t working on good dragons and they wanted the worst of the Blur next time.”
Vex blinked. “And?”
“I just hope it doesn’t end up backfiring on us.”
Vex sighed, opening the door to the office and letting Tyrus follow her. “Trust me. I got this.” She glared at him. “Have I ever let you down?”
Tyrus hesitated, then exhaled. “No.”
In the hall, the three bears and Toady were waiting. The bears had refused to take names when they joined. Despite their love of some human pastimes, they preferred to be treated mostly as animals.
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