Page 32 of Alpha Dragon’s Mating Contract (Babies For Broken Dads #3)

RAPTOR’S SECRET PAST

“Raptor,” Walren whispered with what little air he had left.

“Call me Rap,” Raptor whispered back. “All my friends do.”

“Rap,” Walren said, humbled.

Raptor growled. And he pressed a firmer, electrifying kiss to Walren’s mouth, his tongue sweeping against the seam of Walren’s lips. “Gods, I want you to be mine.”

Walren moaned and opened for him. Raptor slid inside, at the same time he gave Walren a deep thrust further south. A louder moan ripped out of Walren. Raptor growled and pushed his cock all the way in, tangling their tongues together.

It was almost too much, being filled on both ends.

“So sweet,” Raptor murmured, cradling Walren’s head with one hand and his hip with the other. He buried himself to the hilt, his cock throbbing against Walren’s inner walls. “I can’t believe no one has taken you for themselves.”

He kissed Walren again, all lips and tongue and teeth. Walren came so hard that it wiped his thoughts away.

“Mine,” Raptor growled. “Mine, mine, mine.”

He punctuated each word with a thrust and a kiss, grinding against Walren’s prostate so Walren shuddered and moaned into his mouth. Walren only realized then how terrible all the other alphas had been.

When Raptor broke the kiss with a wet sound, Walren tipped his head back, trying to catch his breath.

“I feel like—like a mouth virgin who has just lost his virginity,” Walren said.

Raptor stared. Then he gave a sharp smile and pressed nipping kisses down Walren’s jaw. “Oh, you are precious. Are there any more virginities you haven’t lost yet?”

Walren tried to think. It was hard, when Raptor was still pounding inside him. “Uhhh.”

Raptor licked his lips. “Has anyone sucked your cock before?”

Walren blinked at him. “No...?”

“What?” Raptor stopped thrusting. “You can’t be serious.”

Walren wriggled to make Raptor keep moving, but Raptor didn’t budge. “I’m serious! What does it feel like?”

“Fuck.” Raptor pulled out without warning, drawing a high whine from Walren’s throat. “No, sweetheart. We’re fixing that immediately.”

“But I want your cock!”

“You’ll get it soon enough. All you have to do is come.”

Raptor tucked his lips under Walren’s jaw, pressing slow, wet kisses down his throat.

He nipped and sucked on Walren’s pulse point, stroking Walren’s sides the whole time.

The alpha went about this with single-minded ferocity; he licked Walren’s collarbones and sucked on them, then dropped kisses down Walren’s chest, sucking on his nipples to draw milk out of him.

Walren writhed, tugging lightly on Raptor’s hair. “Please just suck my co—ahhh!”

Raptor flicked his tongue against Walren’s nipples, tugging on one, then the other, until they were puffy and flushed, Walren’s entire body shivering beneath him. But he didn’t stop there. Raptor kissed down Walren’s stomach and belly, grasping his thighs and pushing them open.

“Such a pretty cock,” Raptor whispered, breathing on that twitching length.

“Rap—” Walren wheezed, his cock oversensitive. “Please just—”

“Lick? I can do that.” Raptor flattened his tongue against the base of Walren’s length, dragging it soft and wet up his underside. Before he reached Walren’s tip, he pressed kisses back down to Walren’s base, and kissed up its length.

Raptor fondled Walren’s balls, tugging on them and rolling them in his palm, wrapping his lips around the side of Walren’s cock, sucking him there lightly. But it wasn’t a proper blowjob; Walren writhed and nudged his legs against Raptor’s sides, his cock starting to ache.

“There we go,” Raptor murmured. He kissed his way back to Walren’s tip, swirling his tongue around it. Then he took Walren’s head into his mouth, and Walren wheezed.

Raptor’s mouth was hot and wet. It closed around Walren’s cock entirely in a smooth glide, taking so much of it that all Walren could do was gasp.

“F-f-fuck,” Walren hissed, his eyes rolling back. “Oh gods.”

Why had no one told him that a blowjob could feel this good?

“You like?” Raptor rumbled around Walren’s cock, the vibrations of his voice shivering down his length.

“Mmmm!”

Raptor grinned. And he pushed two fingers into Walren’s hole, grinding them against his prostate at the same time he sucked.

Walren came with a scream. Raptor held him down with one hand on his chest. His other hand worked Walren’s prostate mercilessly, pressing harder and harder on it so Walren clutched at the sheets, coming down his throat again.

It was blissful torture. Raptor milked, teased, and sucked Walren until he was mindless with pleasure, drooling and incoherent.

“Gorgeous,” Raptor purred as he pulled back slightly, his lips sliding around Walren’s tip. “Still with me, sweetheart?”

“Mmmphhh,” Walren said, floating in a haze.

Raptor pulled out his fingers. Walren was in too much of a daze to protest it. The alpha flipped Walren onto his front, spread his legs apart, and pushed his wet cock back into Walren’s hole.

“You’re so fucking hot, babe,” Raptor groaned, burying every last inch. “Squirming on my fingers and coming like that. Can’t believe I’m the only one who has ever seen it.”

He thrust hard and fast into Walren, his cock swollen and beyond ready. Raptor tugged Walren’s hips up to push all the way inside; Walren’s body spasmed and squeezed.

With a roar, Raptor came. His hot cum flooded Walren’s insides, his knot swelling at his base.

Walren continued to float in his haze, until Raptor’s knot shoved hard against his prostate. He came again.

For a long while, all Walren knew were the waves of endless pleasure Raptor took him through. The weight of Raptor’s knot, the thickness inside him, and Raptor’s arms wrapped snug around his body, keeping him safe.

“So good for me,” Raptor purred, dropping kisses down Walren’s neck. “Taking my knot like a good omega.”

Walren shuddered. “I want to be good for you.”

Raptor kissed his nape. He rubbed his hands up and down Walren’s body, kneading away all the knots in his muscles.

It was only after Walren had regained some of his brain cells, that he remembered— “You kissed me!”

He peeked nervously over his shoulder.

“Well, I would hope it was me, and you didn’t hallucinate someone else,” Raptor said dryly, his lips pulling into a rakish smile.

Walren’s heart skipped. Raptor wanted to kiss me.

It didn’t matter that it had happened during sex—a kiss was still a kiss. Even now, Walren’s mouth tingled with the memory of Raptor’s soft lips sliding against his, Raptor’s tongue tasting his own.

Walren wanted more kisses. He wanted so many more, he felt greedy, and then guilty.

Raptor hadn’t kissed him outside of sex; what were the chances that he wanted to do it again?

The alpha traced his fingers down Walren’s spine. “What’s on your mind, sweetheart? Don’t get me wrong, you’re still adorable when you frown. But I’d rather soothe away what’s worrying you.”

Walren wet his lips. How did you tell your boss that you wanted more kisses from him? It would just make everything awkward.

Don’t ruin things, he told himself sternly. Don’t mention the kisses!

Don’t—

“Are you going to kiss me again?”

The words fell out of his mouth. Just like that. Walren made a choked sound and grabbed the sheets, pulling them over his head.

“Sweetheart! Of course I will!” Raptor sounded offended. He paused, though. “Unless you don’t want me to?”

“I want!”

“Oh. Well, then.” Raptor snuggled against Walren’s back, nuzzling his nape.

Walren managed to hide his relief. “When are you going to kiss me again?”

Then he froze, horrified at himself. “No, pretend I didn’t say that!”

Raptor laughed. “You really want to be kissed, don’t you, sweetheart?”

To lie or not to lie? Walren couldn’t decide. He ended up making a garbled sound that was totally not an answer, feeling proud of himself for it.

Raptor huffed. “Here, let’s turn you around.”

He flipped them over so he was now under Walren, helping Walren rotate bodily on his knot so they faced each other.

“Better,” Raptor said approvingly. Then he sat up, stealing a kiss off Walren’s lips.

Walren’s heart almost burst out of his chest. “You kissed me again!”

“Well, yes.” Raptor grinned. “I told you I would.”

“I—I thought maybe you might do it later!”

“Why do it later, when I can do it now?”

With exceedingly gentle hands, Raptor cupped Walren’s face, slanting their mouths together in a soft, sweet kiss. Then he kissed Walren again, little chaste touches that made Walren’s pulse race.

The way Raptor looked into his eyes... It felt as though Walren might mean something to him.

Something that might last beyond this contract.

That was too dangerous to think about.

“You’re so lovely,” Raptor whispered, brushing their lips together.

“M-me?” Walren blushed. “But I...” He looked at his leg.

Raptor tipped Walren’s face up. “Yes, you. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise, not even yourself.”

Walren swallowed. “You’re so good to me.”

“We’ve all had hard lives, sweetheart. Who’s going to be kind to us, if not ourselves?”

The thing was, he made sense.

“You haven’t told me about yours,” Walren blurted. “The bad thing in your life that made you different.”

Raptor sighed, his hands falling away from Walren’s face. “Ahh. That.”

“I won’t judge you for it.”

The alpha quirked a smile. “And I appreciate it, Walry-babe. It’s just... No one knows about it.”

Walren frowned. “Not even Ace?”

Raptor looked away, chewing his lip. “Ace had some heavy things to deal with. I didn’t want to drag him into my mess when he was trying to get through his own.”

“But it was bad,” Walren said quietly. “You said it changed you.”

Raptor sighed, rubbing his face. “It was during one of those big wars that went on forever. Ace had just lost his mate and he was grieving; I was grieving along with him. At that point, tensions were high between two of the largest countries. Ace got it into his head that he wanted to join the war no matter what; I had to make sure he didn’t do anything stupid. So I joined the war, too.

“My intention was to stay in the same squad as him. But the army wouldn’t let me; they wanted me to lead my own squad because I had too much combat experience.

They threatened Ace’s place in the army; they really wanted to force my hand.

” Raptor scowled. “I hated every minute of it. Between the fighting and not having Ace at my side, I was going nuts. Then I started caring for my squad.”

There was a haunted look in his eyes. Walren gulped and squeezed Raptor’s hand, but Raptor didn’t respond; he was lost in the memory.

“Mostly, we fought in the day when there was light. At night, we retreated to the safe areas that we had cleared out, either in the trenches or the forests. Those nights, I sat around the tiny fires with my squad. People talked to each other; I got to know them. Some of them were so young. Teenagers, almost adults! Then there was old Barry who was having a mid-life crisis and joined the war. Lucy, the widow who was looking for a new purpose in life. There were a few sets of lovers who didn’t stick around during campfire nights, but that was okay.

“Anyway, the thing was that we had each other’s backs. They trusted my orders, and I trusted them to pull their weight.

“Just that we received some rotten intel one day.”

Walren’s heart sank. “Oh no.”

Raptor looked at Walren, anguished. “You have to know that I felt responsible for all of them. All their lives. We were in uncharted enemy terrain and at a disadvantage. I had taken care to bring them through places where we could not be cornered. But the enemy must’ve used magic to conceal themselves; they ambushed us.

And I wasn’t in time to stop most of my squad from being shot down. ”

Walren cringed in sympathy. “Did... Did anyone...?”

Raptor tipped his head back and stared at the ceiling.

“Of the ones that died, most didn’t perish immediately.

I ended up taking on most of the enemies myself, shifted, because my scales are near impenetrable.

But our healer was killed early on in that ambush, and we only had a limited number of healing spells.

By the time I’d managed to save whoever I could, we were down to a quarter of our numbers.

“In all of my three hundred and seventy years, that day still remains one of my worst ever.”

Raptor looked every day of his age then. Walren slipped his hand into the alpha’s, holding him. Wishing he could do more.

Raptor squeezed his hand in return. He blew out a deep breath. “I didn’t tell Ace for two reasons. The first, like I said, was because he didn’t need another burden. The second...” Raptor sighed. “I was ashamed of myself. Still am.”

Walren slipped his arms around Raptor, pulling him into a tight hug. “It’s not your fault.”

“It is,” Raptor hissed, growing tense. “I should’ve done better. Should’ve scouted ahead. Should’ve shifted sooner. I should’ve done so many fucking things, and I’ve replayed that day in my head thousands of times, trying to make it better.”

Walren’s heart broke for him. He held Raptor and rubbed his back, knowing that this was something he could only listen to, but not fix. “I’m sorry.”

Raptor gave a small shrug.

“Did... Did the rest of them make it out alive?” Walren asked, unsure if he wanted to know the answer.

“Yeah. Most of the surviving ones did. I lost three more along the way, then my squad merged with another, so it wasn’t obvious when I met Ace again, that my own squad had suffered a catastrophe.”

Walren hugged him again. “He didn’t realize how badly the war affected you?”

“He didn’t. I think he must’ve seen some crap, too.

He looked worse than he did before we joined the war.

” Raptor sighed. “After the war, we took a long, long break from reality. We did the craziest things we could think of. We pretended to be different people. There wasn’t much left for me at that point; I could barely live with myself.

So we tried new and better ways to distract ourselves.

After a while, ‘crazy’ became part of who we were. ”

“Oh, Rap.” Walren tucked his face into the crook of Raptor’s neck, breathing in his musk and sweat. “I like you for who you are now.”

Raptor’s chest rose in a deep inhale. “Yeah? You mean that?”

“Of course.”

“You’re amazing, sweetheart.” Raptor gave Walren a smile that turned his insides all gooey and warm.

They breathed quietly together, wrapped in each other’s arms. Walren felt humbled, again, that Raptor had trusted him with something so important.

“So,” Raptor said after a while. Walren looked up at him. “Ready to talk about the pregnancy?”