Page 24 of Our Haunted Omegas (Moonscale Heirs Duet #1)

“Okay,” I let out a long sigh of relief. “The claiming vows would’ve shown me too, probably.”

“Are you on anything I should know about?”

“Anxiety meds but they’re not uppers. I think if I took any upper stronger than caffeine, my heart would break my ribs and they’d have to shock me back into sinus rhythm.”

“That makes me want to keep you away from the coffee pot,” Cobalt teased.

“Only if you want me to eat you. Caffeine is my buddy,” I laughed. “It’s bad enough I’ll have to cut way down when I get pregnant and I won’t be able to sleep on my back or have soft cheese or sushi.”

“Someone’s done their research.”

“Uh…. Every omega I know groaned all through Omega Studies when we had like two weeks of study material on all the stuff growing babies would take away from us. It was this whole thing about how we got the raw end of the deal. Though, the dragons weren’t too mad.

In most cases, they get to keep their coffee. ”

“You might carry an egg,” he pointed out.

“I think I’ll be stressed out either way.”

“I’ll be there.”

“Yes, because if you try to leave, I’ll use my big pregnant ass to sit on you.”

“You can sit on me whenever you want, pregnant or not,” Cobalt grinned and stole another gummy to slip into my mouth.

We came into a clearing as the sky finished swallowing down the sun. A wicker basket sat in the middle of it and looked like someone had cut the grass recently.

“The caretakers did this?” I asked him. “You haven’t had the time away from me to do this.”

“No, this is a Teal move. Leaving baskets in all the places we might sneak off for time alone,” he smirked. “My brother comes through again. Shall we see what’s in the basket?”

“You don’t think it’s a journalist waiting to jump out like a fox-in-the-box and snap a photo, do you?” I asked, only half teasing.

“I’ll eat him and make him speed-free coke,” Cobalt laughed.

“Let’s go see,” I mock-sighed and tugged him further into the clearing. I started to open the box and thought better of it. What if it was a trap?

“Then he shouldn’t open it either,” my wolf chimed into my thoughts.

“I’ll be fine,” he said, squatting down. “It smells like Teal.”

I sniffed and nodded my approval, then he opened it.

Inside was a fluffy red tartan blanket and underneath it nonperishables like cans of nuts, bags of jerky, and sweets.

Beside them rested a few sodas and bottles of water.

Without speaking, we spread the blanket over the freshly mowed grass and stretched out next to each other after checking for anything sharp.

“You don’t have a grass allergy or anything that I should know about, do you?”

“That would be your deal breaker?” I laughed.

“No, but I won’t have you rolling around dick and ass flapping in the grass if you do,” he said and brought my hand up to his lips to kiss it.

“Grass is one of the few things that don’t stress me out,” I shrugged.

“Good because the blanket’s pretty big but I don’t know how much attention we’ll pay to it.”

“You brought more than one condom, right?” I asked, double-checking the one I stuffed into my pocket earlier was still there and it was.

“Always,” he nodded. “One is never enough. Food or kissing?”

“Kissing, I think,” I said and scooted closer so that I closed the space between us.

Cobalt’s scent filled my head, and I let it go straight to my libido.

All journalist jokes aside we were alone in the woods, and I had no reason to hold back.

His tongue met mine halfway and I sighed into the kiss as my mate’s warmth spread all over my body.

I kicked off my shoes while our tongues danced between our mouths.

“Less clothes. Less fake fur,” my wolf growled into my thoughts. “Less. Less. Less.”

“Burn them all!” Cobalt’s dragon murmured back to him.

It wasn’t like our clothes got in their ways now that our mating link was wide open.

Still, we stripped each other naked under the dim light of the rising moon as we kissed.

Then I traced the warm, chiseled contours of his chest and abs not only with my fingertips but with my tongue, committing the path of his body to my memory.

He kept interrupting me part way through and pulling me back up to kiss again.

He tasted so good, warm, and sweet and his hands traveled over my body as if they’d made the trip a million times before.

Soon he was between my legs and patting around for his pants. I grabbed mine first and whipped out the condom, feeling like some speedy magician putting on a show. I started to tear it open with my teeth.

“Nope, give me that,” he snatched it away. “We do not open condoms with our teeth unless we want babies. Sure, it might be fine, but it also might not be.”

I blushed at being scolded.

“Sorry, habit. Look, I’m used to taking all the precautions to not knock someone up. Believe it or not, there are people out there that wanted me to knock them up whether I wanted to or not. The whole Moonscale thing. I know everyone rips at them with their teeth, but it can defeat the purpose.”

“I’m sor—”

“I should’ve handled that better,” he frowned.

“Don’t do that. Don’t get all in my head about it,” I said and bit my lip.

“You weren’t thinking because you’re hard and you’re slick and everything inside of you wants what we’re doing.

I get it. I do too but I also promised not to get you pregnant and that’s something I take seriously.

We’ll have all the babies you want once we’re ready but for now – no biting the condoms.”

“Yes, sir,” I managed a grin. “I guess I’m lucky I never ended up pregnant then.”

“You’re on birth control,” he said, matter-of-factly. “I can smell it. That probably saved you a bunch too.”

He tore open the edge and asked if I wanted to put it on him.

“I’ll just enjoy the show,” I said, leaning back with my arms behind my head.

Cobalt made it look like a science inside of just gloving up a dick. He moved slowly and precisely, double-checking every inch of it as he went.

“All good,” he glanced at me a second later.

“How can you think straight right now?”

“I’ve had lots of practice,” he shrugged.

“Me too but—Well, maybe not as much as you but that’s only because people give me anxiety. It’s not like I could just tape their mouths and use their dicks.”

“Maybe one day,” Cobalt laughed and leaned over me to give me a long, slow kiss.

I blushed but didn’t have time to think of a retort before my mate tapped my legs further apart and settled in between them as we kissed.

I ran my fingers over his back and shoulders, wanting to touch every inch of him I could reach.

He paused for a second and raised his head as if he heard something.

“Bone coke?” I whispered.

“A deer by the smell of it, I think,” he whispered back to me.

“Does he have a camera?”

“No hands.”

“It’s in his antlers.”

“It’s a doe.”

“Oh no! It’s a girl!” I laughed because I couldn’t help myself.

“Shush,” he laughed too and kissed me again.

His fingers found my omegahole a second later and drew slow, lazy circles that made my toes dig into the soft blanket under us as his tongue snaked back into my mouth.

He teased me until everything inside me cried that I was ready for more and about to roll him over and prove it.

Then his fingers disappeared to stroke his condom-clad dick, spreading my slick arousal all over it before lining up our bodies.

I wrapped my legs around him because I never wanted to let him go.

He pressed his forehead against mine and we rubbed noses for a long second before he pushed his way into my body.

My breath caught in my throat as my body tried to tighten around him before relaxing enough to make room for him.

I rocked my hips, taking more of him in and reveling in the fullness spreading over my body.

“You good?” he asked when he was all the way in.

“It’s not my first time,” I nodded and squeezed him hard.

His eyelids fluttered and he let out a quiet groan as pleasure spiraled over him.

I loved our mating link. It told me exactly what to do to drive him crazy and with it in a matter of seconds we found the rhythm between our bodies.

For a second, I wondered if we were the first true-mates who exchanged their claiming vows before having intercourse for the first time.

Then Cobalt sank deep into me and derailed my train of thought.

Who needs to think anyway? Thinking always led to overthinking and right now I didn’t need any of that.

So I surrendered to the heat dancing between our naked bodies and Cobalt’s hungry mouth that kissed me even while pleasure spread over us like a warm blanket.

I clung to him, desperate to hold onto him and this moment for as long as I could.

I moved my hips faster and faster, desperate for more of the slippery feeling of his cock sliding over all my nerve endings.

“Do you want to ride?” he whispered, and I nodded hard and fast.

Before I figured out how we might change up the position, Cobalt rolled onto his back, taking me with him.

Laughter bubbled over my lips as the world spun for a second.

I clung to him, and he helped me sit up.

We stared, immobile, into each other’s eyes for a long moment.

He ran his big, warm hands over my thighs, caressing them and leaving behind a warm trail of desire, before wrapping his nimble fingers around my cock.

“I love you,” I murmured the words before I thought about them too long.

“Love you,” he said and rocked his hips under me.

I sank down comfortably onto him and gave my hips and hole a chance to relax for a second before I moved over him.

Resting my hands on his chest made his heart thrum under my fingertips, racing to keep up with mine.

He panted under me, groaning as I sank onto him again and again all the while his fingers gripped my cock and kept pace with the grinding rhythm of our bodies.

He squeezed me over and over again, wiping away wet drops of precum each time he reached the sensitive knob on top.

His skin burnt hot underneath my flesh as if each time I rode down on his dick I stoked his dragon’s fire.

Cobalt held tight to my hips as all the sensations mingled over our mating link and I swallowed hard to keep from howling.

I didn’t know what dwelled in these woods or what might be watching and I didn’t want to become someone’s dinner because I was too loud while pounding myself down onto him.

“I’m the biggest, meanest thing in these woods,” Cobalt grunted under me and gave my ass a slap.

I didn’t consider him mean at all but then again, I enjoyed being eaten.

I held onto my self-control for as long as I could.

Everything inside me drew up tight and my mate’s grip on my dick tightened each time I crashed back down onto him, slipping and sliding from growing slicker the closer I grew to orgasm.

His dick twitched inside of me and that was all it took.

Combined with everything else it was too much for me to hold back against. I growled and then let out a howl as he milked warm, sticky streams of cum from my cock.

Driven on by the scent of my orgasm, Cobalt dug his heels into the blanket and bucked up hard and fast. I held onto him as both of his hands found my hips again.

He pressed me backwards and threw back his head as a stream of fire shot from his mouth as he came inside me.

He roared as the fire died out only to erupt again.

So much for taping his mouth. The damn tape would’ve just melted all over his tongue if he did that.

I panted for air and groped around my brain for my wits and when he pulled me down for a long, hard kiss his lips were still fire warm.

Maybe he was the scariest thing in the woods, but he certainly wasn’t the meanest.

“Thank Juda we weren’t under the damn trees,” my wolf murmured, more amused than worried.

“Trees, smees. Don’t get in my way,” Cobalt’s dragon yawned back.

He kissed the top of my head and I wiggled around until I was off his dick enough to remove the condom before it leaked everywhere.

Only once it was tucked away in the now empty gummy bag did I settle down on top of him with my ear pressed over his heart.

That was the only lullaby I needed to send me off to dream land wrapped up in his arms.