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I kiss her neck while popping the button from its hole.“I just healed them.”

She bends backward to look at me with big eyes.“You can heal living matter?”

I plant another kiss behind her ear and nuzzle her temple, my lips sweeping her skin as I rasp out a reply.“Not nearly as well as Vitai.With my skill level, I can mend a few cuts and minor injuries, and I do it best on myself.”

“You didn’t tell me.”

I put just enough distance between us to push her pants over her hips.“There’s a lot about me you don’t know.”Holding her gaze, I crouch down to free her feet.“There’s more to me than natural disasters.Sometimes, I use my power for good.”

“I don’t doubt that,” she says with a sad little smile.

As I straighten, I trail my fingers up the backs of her legs.Her breath catches when I reach the junction of her thighs.The fingers I splay over her lower back anchor her to me securely.It’s a dominant touch, a possessive hold—another thing I need.Keeping her in that tight grasp, I make sure she can’t escape as I trace her slit with a finger.

Dragons.

She’s soaking wet.

A groan tears from my chest.I press her closer, trapping my rock-hard cock between our bodies.I watch her face as I part her carefully before slipping a digit inside.Her eyes are stunningly expressive, showing me how much she likes this.She grips my biceps and throws back her head when I start to pump.She’s impossibly tight, but after a moment, her inner muscles give enough for me to add another finger.

The whisper I brush over her ear sounds close to a growl.“I could’ve lost you, Elsie.”

I almost did.Again.And the thought makes me rabid.

Her nails bite through the fabric of my sleeves.“I didn’t know what was going to happen this morning.”

I pull my fingers from her body, inviting a protesting moan.“I’m not blaming you.”I take her wrists and lift her arms.“I blame myself.”

Ire sparks in her eyes.“Unless you can tell the future, you couldn’t have predicted it either.”

“No.”I pull the shirt over her head and drop it on the floor.“But I shouldn’t have let you go without me.”I bend down and kiss a nipple.Searching her gaze, I circle the tip with my tongue.“Which is why it won’t happen again.From now on, I’m keeping you at my side, night and day.”

“I—”

She sinks her teeth into her bottom lip when I suck her nipple deep into my mouth.

I bite down gently before arching a brow.“Was that a protest?”

She shakes her head.Her chest rises and falls with her panting.I can hear the fast pace of her heartbeat and smell the sweet scent of her arousal.I can see the vein that throbs in her neck and the black of her pupils that’s almost swallowed the turquoise of her irises.I can feel her wetness when I cup her pussy.But I don’t need my senses to know what she wants.The bond reveals that to me, as it’s meant to do.As it should.And yet, it’s still not complete.

I pull my hand away and set her free.She looks so disappointed I have to suppress a smile.I strip naked, taking my time and letting her watch.She likes this too—what she sees.Good.Because she’s stuck with me.For many moon cycles to come.For eternity.

When I advance on her, she wets her lips with the tip of her tongue in an action that seems nervous.

My command is clipped, my self-control already close to breaking.“Show me what a good girl you are for me, and get on the bed.”

Perhaps sensing that now isn’t the time to test me, she climbs onto the soft bedding and faces me with her knees pulled up to her chest.“Maybe we should talk first.”

“Turn around,” I say in a tone brusque from pent-up desire.

“What?”she stammers.

“You heard me.”I kneel on the bed, forcing her to scoot back to make space for me.“On your hands and knees.”

“Are you going to…?”She swallows without finishing her question.

“Take you from behind.What did you think I was going to do?”

Her cheeks turn crimson.