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Both Drake and I were on our knees, still reeling from the most powerful orgasms we’d ever had. It made my other sex fantasies feel like foreplay in comparison.
“Can you do that every time?” the dragon shifter asked in a hoarse voice. Now that I’d seen him in his true form, I felt like an idiot for not putting it together sooner. His name literally meant golden dragon, even if it was around the wrong way. Drake was an ancient name for dragons that had been used in Europe long ago, according to my mom.
“Of course,” Aurora said. “There’s no limit to the number of times I can induce orgasms. I can make you come over and over all night long if you wanted me to.”
I could see him coming out of his daze and calculating her value and spoke before he could. “I claim you!” I blurted. “You’re mine and you belong to me!”
“Do you mean it?” Aurora asked, clapping her hands in relief and delight. “I’m so happy!” she said, then she threw herself at me. I’d just staggered to my feet and barely managed to stop myself from falling down again when she collided with me.
Lord Gilden regained his footing, giving me a disapproving frown. It was a bad idea to make an enemy of someone as powerful as he was. He watched us both while Aurora cried with happiness, then his frown smoothed out. “Thank you for the demonstration, Aurora,” he said, pretending he hadn’t just ejaculated in his trousers.
“My job is done now, right?” I asked as he headed for the door.
“Which job might that be?” he paused to ask.
“Retrieving the scroll fragments,” I said. “I found the first one, so now the overlords can’t use it to open the axis-gate and invade our world.”
He shook his head regretfully. “I’m afraid your task has only just begun, Ms. Sterling. We can’t allow such a powerful item to remain in the underworld. The fragments need to be found and brought to me for safekeeping.”
“I had a feeling you were going to say that,” I said unhappily as the full weight of responsibility returned to burden my shoulders.
“Do you want me to dispel the enchantment?” he asked after opening the door.
Aurora and I would be able to talk without fear of being overheard if it remained in place. “Leave it,” I requested as I crossed to him.
“I’m sure Ruen will be in contact with you with your next mission soon,” he said, then left. There was no mention of payment for the monumental task Ruen, Aurora and I had accomplished. I guessed saving our world from an apocalypse would be our only reward.
I closed the door rather than watching him stroll down the hall to the elevator like I wanted to. Aurora was staring at me with shining eyes and it wasn’t from tears. She looked like she was about to burst with joy. “Are you really that happy that I’ve claimed you?” I asked, feeling weary from the epic orgasm that had taken me to my knees.
“I’m happy for you, Saige,” she said, then lurched forward to hug me again. I almost shoved her away out of reflex, just in case she accidentally sent me into another sex fantasy.
“Why are you happy for me?” I asked in confusion. I’d just been told I’d have to enter eight more realms of the underworld, which could result in my horrible death or dismemberment. As far as I was concerned, I didn’t have much to be glad about.
“You’ve found your true mate!” she exclaimed.
“What mate? What are you talking about?”
She took a step back, but kept hold of my hand. After having wings for so long, she was probably ecstatic to have fingers again. “Like I said, I’ve never seen two fantasies become linked before.”
“So?”
“One partner is always dominant when I link them together,” she explained. “They enact their greatest fantasy on the other person and they just have to submit to it.”
“Why was our fantasy different?”
“Because you’re equals,” she said. “You were meant for each other. That’s why you both orgasmed so hard and at exactly the same time.”
I looked at her like she was crazy. “I thought everyone came in their fantasies.”
Drake couldn’t be my perfect mate, because dragons only ever mated with their own kind. He might have sex with other species, but he would never procreate with any other type of being. I’d only been a dragon in the vision we’d shared because that was his ultimate fantasy.
She shook her head in denial. “That only happens in solo fantasies. When I connect beings together, the dominant person is always in charge. They’re the only one who gets to orgasm.”
“I can’t possibly be Lord Gilden’s equal,” I pointed out, heading over to the kitchen with her still holding my hand and following beside me. “He’s a dragon shifter and I’m an ogre. At least, I am in the underworld.”
“Are you?” she asked shrewdly.
“What do you mean? You saw me yourself. I was big, green-gray and ugly, just like the other ogres we met.” Once again, I was mystified by her. Aurora was the most enigmatic person I’d ever met, barring Drake.