Page 5 of Savage (Savage Dragons #1)

Margo hung up the phone and let a little of her dragon go to let off steam. She’d been warned no less than a dozen times that if she messed up the room, she was going to have to pay for it. The Savages were making her life hard at the moment, but they had allowed her—well, she had bullied them into bringing her along. Christ, even her brothers were turning against her. Smiling, she thought that was funny. They’d never liked her any more than she liked them. Being their older sister had made her angry at the time, and it hadn’t gotten any better when they were older, either. She had loved being an only child, and her parents paid for them having the two boys with their lives.

Plus, her needing to make sure that they knew who was the stronger of the three of them had paid off over the years. She had always bullied them into her way of thinking, even going so far as to make sure that they were the ones who had been caught when things went sour. Sometimes, she would just walk away and leave them to face whatever consequences there were when she wanted them to suffer. Yes, she thought to herself, they were going to give her what she wanted and then beg her to allow them to live.

Never one to save money, she was in deep trouble now. If not for Sofia and William, her aunt and uncle, she would have been jailed a long time ago. She might well have known that there were fees and dues to the leader of their kind owed, but she’d never paid any attention to it or the summons that she’d gotten either. She’d never been responsible for anything. And even if she had been, it didn’t take long for her to shove it all the way to the back of her mind and right out. Being responsible for things would mess up her life.

Now she had less than thirty days to make it right, or she was going to be stripped of her magic and her dragon, pretty much killing her where she stood. It wasn’t fair that they could kill off dragons and when it came to her, it was suddenly frowned upon. Stupid rules. She hated to have to be ruled by people. They should just let her have her fun, damn it.

With pentiles and back payment she owed her kind nearly fifty million dollars. Then there were the other things that they were attaching to her bill. Attorney fees for them having to find her and calculate how much it came to. There were also the damages that she caused when they brought her in. Shifting to her dragon at that moment had gotten her nearly killed as well.

“They’re going to pay it all for me and keep their mouths shut too.” She thought about seeing Savage there. “Christ, what a delicious hunk of waste of a man. She might not have alienated him so much if she’d known that he’d be that good-looking later in life. Her brothers were so-so looking, but Savage looked like the name that he went by, a savage and a good-looking one, too.

Now, all she had to do was get ahold of her brothers and shake them empty of cash. Maybe getting an eye full of hoping for more than she needed, she was going to take that as well. No longer was she going to be without just because she didn’t have cash or gems on her all the time.

Her usage of tears had been taken from her when they thought that she’d killed her parents. She had, but without proof, all they’d been able to do was take a bit of her magic away. She had disliked her parents as much as she had her brothers. Well, anyone if she was honest with herself. Sometimes, Margo didn’t even care for herself, much less a bunch of humans gathered together in one place. Christ.

The older her parents had gotten, the more set in their ways they became, like humans, only worse. They’d even gotten into the habit of hanging out with humans. Having vacations with them and the like. Killing them had been her greatest triumph. Nothing could have pleased her more than being able to tell the world how easy it had been to murder them in their beds one night. The worst part was, of course, that since they had thought that she’d killed them, she couldn’t inherit their fortune. She wondered if her stupid brothers had ever realized or been told that they had a great deal of money left to them by their parents. The fools would give it to her if she was able to tell them. God, how she hated them both so much.

Her phone ringing startled her out of her thinking, and she snapped when she said her name. Whoever the person was on the other end was laughing, and that pissed her off even more. Hanging up seemed the right thing to do, and she’d be willing to bet that they’d call her back within minutes of realizing who they had angered. Putting her phone on the little table she had, Margo waited for whomever it was to call her back.

Three hours later, they still hadn’t called her again. Thinking that it had been the perfect way to show someone how not to be on her bad side, she still wished, just a little, that she knew who had called. It couldn’t have been one of her brothers. They would know better than to not call her back not to mention just talking to her in the first place. They had to know that it would piss her off.

Nor the Savages, Aunt Sofia, and Uncle William. Even though they’d not wanted her on this trip with them, they had gotten her a hotel room without room service. She’d tried to order something, just to test the waters, so to speak, but they told her that unless she had cash, they weren’t bringing her anything to eat.

“Mother fuckers.” She didn’t know what to think about her aunt and uncle when it came to Kingston. He didn’t bother them. Never once did she ever remember him being disrespectful to them, with the exception of the airport shit. But the way that they were speaking on the way to the little hotel, it had been planned that the other woman would show herself by being mean to Kaida. “Sofia seemed to think that the little twit was going to own them something, too. For some reason, I’d not mess with the stranger. She seems to be slightly deranged.”

William brought up how she was human. Only human is what he called her. Maybe they were hoping for her to be only a human, but she was far from that. You could almost smell the magic surrounding her. And it was powerful, too. While she didn’t think that she could shift, it would only be because she didn’t want to. The woman was scary like that. And she did wonder, off and on today, what she was doing with Savage. He had said, mate, but that could have been a lie. Neither of them had rings on, so that was just bullshit, she told herself.

Time would tell when she met up with her brothers. They’d tell her all she needed to know before she beat them senseless. She couldn’t kill them, mores the pity, but she could hurt them in ways that she’d never used on someone before. Having them dead would mean that everything they had, and she was sure there was plenty to be had, she’d get it all and be worry-free for the next few centuries or so. Poisoning her parents is what got the law put into effect that you couldn’t kill those related to you by blood. She’d been skirting around that law her entire life and had gotten away with it time and time again. Just look at Savage’s parents.

Kelly and Ben had been all right as an uncle and aunt. Savage had never been in the picture when they came to family outings, and he’d been less in the picture when she killed them. Had she known about the money that they had, she might well have killed them sooner rather than later. Before Savage and Lillian were born.

They deserved to die after using their magic to make sure that Lillian won all the awards for her beauty and poise. She’d asked to be able to be competitive with her cousin, but she was told—even today, it still hurt her that she’d been told that she wasn’t nearly as beautiful as Lillian was and that they didn’t have time for her. That got them all three dead. Treating her like she was an ugly duckling had pissed her off enough that when she’d killed her aunt, who had said that to her, she killed off Lillian as well as her mother. Kelly wasn’t beautiful at all when she got done with her nor was Lillian. It made her smile when she thought of how much pleasure she got out of the way that she’d murdered the three of them and got her to laughing when she thought of her uncle Ben telling her that she had broken the law by killing her relatives and that he was going to turn her in. Like that ever happened.

She was startled when a woman answered the phone when she tried to contact Cassian. She said hello twice before she asked if this was Margo Savage. She told her that it was before she could remember that she was all badass, and the woman on the other end of the line was—

“This is Kaida Savage. What do you want calling your brothers twenty times in the last half hour?” Again, startled out of making a good comeback, she really felt her dragon react to the woman’s laughter.

“I want to talk to them, obviously. They are my next of kin.” The laughter again. “What makes you think that you can do anything with me. I’m nearly ten times your age not to mention, I’m a dragon that eats your kind for breakfast.”

“Yes, I’ve heard about how you treat your next of kin. Did you really try and kill the two of them when they were only days old?” She said that she had and then told her they were going to die soon enough by her hands. “We’ll see about that. I know you think you’re all that and a bag of chips, but I’m in charge now, and you’re going to have to come through me to get to them.”

“Gladly.” She felt a moment of fear when she remembered who she was talking to. But once more when she thought of the magic around her, she remembered that not only were her brothers there but her aunt and uncle, Savage and Kingston. They were the reason for all the magic that she had felt. “Why don’t we get together and hash out how I’m going to murder you as well.”

“Sure. And good luck with that, killing me I mean. I have something that is going to protect me, as well as the love of four of the greatest men I’ve ever met. They can kill you if you harm or speak of harming anyone that has yet to do anything to you.” She asked her where she’d gotten that drivel. “Oh, from the laws governing your kind. Mostly its you that I’m looking things up on. And something else you didn’t understand, if I draw first blood, you and your dragon belong to me. Did you read that little tidbit?”

“You lie.” Kaida asked her why she’d lie to her, as she had nothing to gain. “You’ll need to come here now and meet me. If you do, then I might even allow you to watch Savage die before I kill you. That’ll be fun, don’t you think?”

“You’ll be happy to know, too, that I have a few things up my sleeve. I’ve been playing around with the magic that I got from the men and realizing that I have a lot of it. It’s funny, really. You’ll never be able to get away from me once I see you.” Margo laughed, but she was nervous. If she was reading up on— “Yes, in reading your mind, I have contacted the committee and told them where you are. For now, they’re letting me tangle with you, and when I’m finished with you, they’ll get what’s left of you.”

“Brave words for a human.” At least, she hoped she was human. But again, the more she thought about it she knew that it had been the others around her. “You come on here and allow me to tear you up.”

While on her phone, her door was knocked on. Since she’d been able to trick the staff into bringing food for her aunt and uncle, she was going to be in the hall when it arrived to take it into her room. She just then realized that they had been knocking on her door when she opened it. The slice to her cheek had her falling to the floor. She was owned by someone else. And it was Kaida Savage if she didn’t miss her bet.

“Sit in the chair over there, and don’t make a sound.” She did so, crawling on her hands and knees until she was all the way across the room. Getting up to sit, she put her hand on her cheek and remembered something else about the law. She would not heal until she was allowed. Even then, she’d still only answer to Kaida and never have a thought of her own until the day she died. Or was killed by her. “Just so you know, you really fucked up with me.”

“Yes, your ladyship.” She hadn’t known that the other woman was a lady until the words flowed from her mouth. Even then she hated to know too that once she said that status, she would now have to call her that forever. Again, until she died. And since there was no blood between the two of them to make them related, she would be able to kill her as well. Margo was well and truly fucked. Her brothers walked in just as she was thinking of plans to get out of this. “What are they doing here? Will you allow me no dignity?”

“You mean like you did for them? No. And because I’ve read the entire book of laws that you should have been well versed on, I’m going to turn you over to them so that they can do with you what they wish, including but not limited to killing you. They can do what they want with your body and that of the dragon, too. You should have been more up on your laws, Margo. You might well have saved you from being treated the way you treated them.” Laughing, the woman left the three of them there. Picking up the phone, she heard Brenin order several large pizzas and something to drink. She knew too that they’d not share with her and she wished now she’d been able to get the food that was coming to her aunt.

After they ate all eight pizzas and drank nearly a twelve-pack of beer, the two of them sat and watched television without allowing her to turn to see what they were looking at. After the silence of the TV being turned off, they came to stand in front of her.

“You’ll forever follow us ten steps behind us with your head lowered and your hands behind your back. You’ll wear what we tell you, eat what we allow you, as well as going to bed, on the floor when we allow that as well.” Cassian grinned. “You fucked with the wrong woman, Margo, and I couldn’t be happier.”

So, her life began as a slave to her brothers. She knew the humiliation of what she was going to endure for the rest of her days, and there was nothing that she could do about it. Margo was royally fucked over.

~*~

After telling Tucker what she’d done, she was happy that he laughed. Every time he asked her a question about how her brothers were taking it and Margo’s look on her face, he’d laughed all the harder. She thought that he was getting good at laughter. She especially loved it when he laughed with her. His sense of humor was much like her own, salty and harsh.

When they went up to bed later that night, she got into bed first. For the past three nights, they’d been sleeping in the same bed, and Tucker had been true to his word. Only sleeping with her throughout the night. He even made the bed when she got up before him, and she thought that was the sweetest thing in the world. The man was a charmer. Who knew?

Kaida had never slept with anyone before Tucker. But she had seen naked men, mostly in art class when she’d taken a few college classes, using the male form as a model. But Tucker was different. He was muscled and hard, his skin was silky and tight. And hot. Everywhere she touched him, she felt his heat.

“It’s my dragon. I’ve had the occasion to touch the others with their dragons and they’re not nearly as warm as I am. In fact, they have to stay warm in the winter months as their bodies can’t take the cold like I do. That’s why I was so happy that we have a pool. It’s the only way that I can completely cool off in the summer months by taking a long soak in it.” She asked him if it would be too hot for her to swim in after he had cooled off. “I never thought of that before. We’ll have to test it when I use the pool again. I know that I create a steam bath in the bathroom when I take a cold shower.” Kaida didn’t even ask him why he was taking cold showers. She thought that she might well know.

Deciding that she had enough of just sleeping with him, she was going to mark him as hers. Or the other way around. She really didn’t care right now. As soon as he was in the bed, his boxer briefs were the only thing that was keeping them both completely naked. She started touching him as much as she wanted to.

Moving her hands down his hard abs, she ran her fingers through the coarser hair just below his belly button. His hiss of pain or pleasure, she didn’t know which had her looking up at him. His eyes, usually a lovely shade of blue were darkened to a nearly black color. His nostrils were flared like he was trying to get in whatever scent he was smelling more into his body.

“Baby if you keep this up, this won’t last as long as I’d like for it to. Is this really what you want? Right now?” He had captured her wandering hands and kissed them both before placing them on his chest. “Here for now. Touch me here.” Pulling her closer to him, he kissed her.

This kiss wasn’t like the others they’d shared. This one felt more possessive, hungrier. He demanded entrance this time, his tongue sliding along her lips and pushing inside when she opened to him. He moaned deeply. She felt it rumble along her body from his. He pressed her back against the mattress and covered her body with his heavy weight.

His hand moved down her ribs and then along her ass, pulling her hard and up into him. She didn’t remember getting naked, but they both were. Their skin-to-skin contact was like having the sun beating down on her from high above. She could feel the hardness of his cock through the blanket and slid her leg up his to hook around him, but she wasn’t able to because of the stupid blankets that had wrapped themselves between them and mostly around her.

“Christ, I want you. You’re hot, and I can smell you, your arousal. I need to taste you, now. I need to taste your sweet cum when you come for me.” He began to move down her body, licking and nipping at her as he went. Getting her untangled by the blankets as he went. By the time he had settled himself between her legs, she was wild with a need of her own.

Kaida knew that if he touched her, she was going to come apart. A breath of air over her pussy would have her screaming out loudly her release. And she found that she didn’t care either. If he came or not, she was going to come as hard as she could and be damned the consequences of her actions.

She leaned up on her elbows as he sat on his knees. His cock was hard and sticking straight out from his groin. As she watched him, he wrapped his hand around the shaft and pumped his hand up and down. A drop of cum seeped from the tip. Kaida licked her lips, a need to take him into her mouth, making her hungry and aggressive. She started forward, reaching for him, and he stopped her.

“No. Not yet. I would like nothing better than to have you wrap your mouth around me, but I want to taste you more. Next time, I promise you’ll be able to do what you want, but next time. Oh love, you’re wet, so wet I can see the dampness on your curls.” He let go of his cock and touched her pussy with his long slim finger. As much as she wanted to roll her eyes in the back of her head, she knew instinctively that he wasn’t finished.

His finger moved slowly along her nether lips, up and down like he had his cock. Her body responded, and she felt her pussy weep more. He hadn’t touched her yet, not touched her where she needed. When his finger slowly entered her heat, she opened her legs wider and raised her hips up to meet him.

“Please, Tucker. I want you. I…there’s a need, something…I don’t… you have to fill it for me please, fill me.” Her hips moved up and down with his finger, and when he inserted another into her, she nearly came up off the bed. Whimpering now, she moved faster with his fingers inside of her. For every downward stroke, she was right there meeting him. Christ, this was more than she thought she could handle, more than one man had ever given her before.

“I need to stretch you, love. You’re too tight to take me inside of you yet. As much as I’d like to plunder you, I don’t want to hurt you either. That’s what you want, me to fill you with my cock, isn’t it?” He was moving faster now; her body was on fire. “Tell me what it is you wish, little dragon. Tell me what you want, and I’ll give it to you.”

“Yes, oh yes, please. Make me come, Tucker. Help me over the edge before I fall over it without you there with me.” She felt rather than saw him move, her body straining to get to something. When she felt his breath on her thigh, she started to clamp her legs closed, but he held them open with his hands. She was panting now, her need making her ach for release.

With his fingers, he opened her lips and ran his tongue inside her, lapping at her, tasting her. When his mouth closed over her clit and suckled into his mouth, she screamed out her climax, but he didn’t stop. While his fingers fucked her, his mouth teased and nipped at her until she came again and again.

“Please, Tucker, please. I want you. I want to suck your cock. Now I want you to come in my mouth.” As she reached for him, pulling away from his very talented tongue, she pushed him back against the footboard. She leaned forward and stroked the length of him with just the tips of her fingers. His hiss made her bolder.

“Take me, love. Take me in your mouth. I want to fuck your hot mouth and shoot cum deep into your throat.” She was nodding even though she’d never done anything like this before. Had sex, but this wasn’t just sex. It was everything in her life that was good rolled into one big event, and tasting Tucker was the gift that she’d never had before.

She swiped her tongue across the tip of the large, deep purple head, taking the cream into her mouth. He hissed again. Bolder than she had ever been in her life, she wrapped her lips around him and licked again. She loved the way he responded. He pumped into her. She didn’t know what she was doing, but taking her cues from him and his body, she licked and nipped every inch of him, up one side of his thick vein, then down the other. When she felt his hand touch the back of her head, she felt him guide her, show her what he needed. Soon he was pumping into her hard, his cock bumping the back of her throat again and again.

“I’m going to come, Kaida. Fuck, I’m coming!” Seconds later, she felt the first hot explosion hitting the back of her throat. He pumped harder into her, pulsing into her over and over. She swallowed him, his cum; loving the salty taste that she knew was unique to him. He lifted her up and turned her over onto her hands and knees. She was ready, she thought, so ready for his cock to be deep inside of her. Moaning, she moved back against him.

The sudden intrusion hurt, but as soon as he moved again, she was wanting more. His cock touched parts of her that she’d never felt before. And when he leaned over her, still fucking her hard, she cupped her breast into her hand and licked the hard tip. The roaring sound got louder and louder as he fucked her while holding the other breast in his hands.

Feeling him come like she did caused her to come over and over. Her body was spent, her arms and legs weak. When Tucker dropped atop of her, unable to hold up his weight, she fell forward on the bed and lay there. Even if the house were under threat of a tornado, she would simply die with a huge smile on her face and her naked body for all to see.

Waking up enough to feel that she was being moved, she wrapped her arms around Tucker, asking him weakly not to drop her. Settling her in the bed, she rolled to her side and let him curl into her body from behind. Kaida really didn’t care what happened next. She was so relaxed that she doubted that she would wake up once in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom. She was finished.

She did wake when a ringing noise bothered her. Tucker said that he had it, and she didn’t care if it was for her or not. The thought of having a conversation with someone was going to be impossible, and while she would love to know who he was talking to, she really didn’t either. Closing her eyes once again, she was fast asleep.

Getting up to go to the bathroom her feet were even sore. Washing her hands when she was finished, all she could think about was her bed. It occurred to her that Tucker was missing from the bed, but she figured that if it was something he needed her for, he knew how to get in touch with her. As soon as she was back in bed, she closed her eyes and let sleep take her under once more.

Waking up, she felt pain. There was no pinpointing it for herself as it was all over her body. It felt like someone was using a yard roller over her, and instead of spikes, it was needles less than an inch apart. Crying out, she felt someone touching her, but the pain was too much for her to see who it was. Just as she was thinking that she couldn’t take another roll over her, she fainted.

It didn’t feel any better when she was awakened by pain again. Her body was being turned inside out, squeezed, then stretched to the limits of even her own skin would allow it. In all that time, over and over, it hurt her. She could see flashes of things. Dragons and men. Some she knew, others she did not. As she was being twisted up and wrung out, she remembered throwing up at some point and feeling all the pains starting over.

“Kaida? Wake up, honey.” She opened one eye and closed it quickly. Telling Tucker that the sun was too bright, she heard the curtains shut and him sit back on the bed. “Are you awake this time? Come on, honey, it’s been four days, and I need for you to wake up and talk to me. Please? We all miss you.”

“Did you say four days?” when he didn’t answer, she looked at him. “Four days? I didn’t—what happened to me? Why did I feel like I’d been smushed up and remade?” He grinned at her.