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In and out, he worked more and more of his hardness into her.

He kept his pace steady. He had the urge to slam into her, go rough, and make her take the beastly man he indeed was, but he didn’t want to hurt her.

Especially not since it had been more than two days since the last time he’d been inside her.

Pausing, he held her waist with both of his hands. He closed his eyes and took several breaths. He needed to regain control of himself. Watching his dick pumping in and out of her tight heat and seeing how her cream-coated him would soon be his undoing.

“Aodh...please. Don’t stop.” Kai spread her legs wider and began to rock her pussy along his cock, fucking herself on his dick.

“Shit. Hang on.” His control snapped. He could no longer hold himself back. Pulling out, he slammed into her, forcing every inch of his length into her.

He barely tempered himself as he drove into the slick fist of her sex.

The sounds of their slapping flesh, her cries of pleasure, and his groans of satisfaction filled the room.

Needing more, he leaned down, gripped one of her thighs, and brought her knee to the back of the couch to give him more room between her legs. He wanted to bury himself deeper inside of her. He knew what he wanted, the depth he desired to traverse inside her.

One day. He growled.

Kai trembled, her body shaking violently. “Yes. Yes....ah, yes, Aodh.”

Knowing what she needed, he lifted one hand to her breast, cupping it and pinching her distended nipple. With his other hand, he slipped around her hip until he was able to circle her taut, needy clit. Round and round.

Her screams ricocheted off the stone walls as she came. Her sex clenched and quivered around him.

Picking up speed until he drove into her deep, his climax exploded out of him and filled her pussy.

The pleasure was so intense he tipped his head back just in time for the burst of fire to shoot out of his mouth and above their writhing bodies.

The flames scorched his throat and sent wave after wave of ecstasy through his body, causing him to come again.

Kai shivered and came with him.

Once more in control, he glanced at Kai, whose upper body had collapsed over the edge of the couch.

Still buried inside of her, he stared at her sweat-slicked back.

Moving his hand from her breast, he brushed her hair away until more of her beautiful, shiny brown skin was available to him.

Leaning forward, he licked across her spine.

The contact of his hot tongue with her damp flesh sizzled.

Kai hissed, trying to jerk away from the sting as she glanced over her shoulder at him, strands of hair stuck to her dewy face. Her gaze widened as she tried to figure out what had happened.

He arched a brow as he offered her a wicked grin. He wanted to glide his hot tongue all over her and watch her body react, adjust, and come. Stepping back, he pulled out.

She whimpered.

Scooping her up, he carried her to their bed. Once there, Aodh set her on the edge of the bed to remove her boots. He smiled at the image she made. Kai, naked in her worn boots, was just as sexy as any woman he’d ever seen in the human world, prancing around in five-inch heels and a slinky dress.

She slid back on the bed until she was lying against the pillows. He crawled over the bed and then stretched out beside her with one of his thighs over hers.

Unable to keep his hands off her, he stroked the soft underside of one of her breasts. Kai shivered at his touch, and his cock began to harden in response. For the moment, he ignored his thickening shaft as he enjoyed just being with her.

“Aodh?”

“Yes, little flame.”

“What was your brother talking about?”

“Liekki talks too much.” It was true. His brother was an instigator, constantly pushing where he should leave things the hell alone.

Kai fell silent for a few moments. Finally, she turned her head until she was gazing at him. “What aren’t you telling me?”

He glanced away from her, taking in her full breasts and taut nipples. He could answer her question so many ways, but he decided to stick with the most important thing she had to understand. He met her gaze again. “Kai, I have told you that you are my mine. My mate.”

“Yes.” She licked her lips.

He tracked the movement and resisted the urge to kiss her pouty lips. His rough kisses from before made her lips swollen, and he loved seeing the evidence of any of his touches on her.

“What does it mean? Why are you so adamant that I must stay?”

Aodh decided to share a little of his people’s history with her. “Before the last generation, Drahk males had several mates.”

She lowered her gaze to his chest, shielding her eyes from him. “You’re a Drahk. Do you have a lot of love—” Her voice broke away.

Curling a finger under her chin, he returned her eyes to his. “I have had many lovers in my past, but now that I have a mate...you will be the only one.”

A small gasp slipped from her parted lips. She nodded.

“For many generations from the beginning of my kind, it was an honor for the dragon-king to service and impregnate many Drahkelles. It kept our numbers high. Made us invincible.”

“Currently, we have the same rule within the wall. Pregnancy for profit.”

He frowned at the bit of information. Aodh would catalog that for examination at a letter date. “Well, that is no longer. My father was the last dragon-king. He fell in love with my mother and refused to mate with another.”

“It sounds like a beautiful story.” There was a wistful shining to her lovely eyes.

“Perhaps in some ways.” He exhaled.

“In what ways was it not good?” Her delicate fingers idly traced the markings over his shoulder.

He bit down on his tongue to keep from groaning or rolling her to her back and retaking her. “Because all Drahks are connected. Linked through the dragon-king, no one can grow their family if he doesn’t breed.”

Kai frowned. He could see her mind working behind her eyes before she said, “Are you saying that if you don’t have children—”

“Offspring.”

“Then no one in your thunder can conceive?”

“Yes.”

“That can’t be possible.” She pushed up and faced him. “Aodh...are you sure?”

He sat up to rest against the headboard. “My sister and other young adult drakhs her age were the last generation born since the humans destroyed the planet.”

Kai’s eyes widened. “If you know this, why haven’t you mated?”

Chuckling, he wrapped his arms around her. “Little flame, it doesn’t work that way. I can’t just go out and make anyone my mate.”

“Why not?” She leaned back and stared at his face. “I’m sure Ninki would have agreed to carry your offspring.”

He frowned. Aodh didn’t like her bringing up other people into their bed, even if they were his past lovers. “That is over. Ninki knows she wasn’t meant for me as a mate.”

Kai arched a brow at him. It didn’t appear his words had convinced her, but she didn’t verbally contradict him. “What if I hadn’t come along?”

“The Great Spirit always gives us what we need when needed. Somehow, I would have found you.”

The brown coloring of her face deepened as she blushed. “So, you’re saying that because you believe I’m your mate, my becoming pregnant is the only way you can help your thunder?”

“Yes.”

“Does your dragon agree?”

Her golden-brown gaze held his.

Her eyes were unreadable. His beast was an entirely different discussion. He drew close. Ignoring her last comment, he said, “You understand now there can be no more talk of you taking Morlie and leaving.”

Kai drew her legs to her chest and wrapped her arms around them. “Aodh, caring for my sister is important. If I feel she is in jeopardy, I can’t promise I won’t do whatever I must to keep her safe. Give her a better life than we have had.”

“I understand your concern for Morlie’s well-being.” He cupped her face and made her look at him. “As Mckenna, I have my entire thunder to provide for. That means your place is here . I will accept nothing else.”

When she remained quiet for a long moment, he called her name, “Kai?”

She ran a hand through her hair and exhaled. “Okay. Yes. I get it.”

He wasn’t sure if she did, but he would take her word at face value. Besides, he was the dragon-king, and his word was law. Soon, Kai would come to realize this fact.

Shifting, she slowly walked her fingers down his chest and caressed her abdomen as she smiled up at him. “So, think we should practice more of this baby-making business?”

“Practice is always good.” He hauled her up into his lap and made her straddle his hard length.

As he claimed her mouth in a deep kiss and angled her hips forward so he could slide his cock into her tight sex, Aodh silently admitted he hadn’t shared all with Kai.

However, he believed he needed to pace the information he gave her—she wasn’t from his world.

The time would soon come when he had to tell her all.

But for tonight, he’d enjoy showering her body with the attention they both needed.

~YH~

Something wasn’t right.

Morlie stood amid a group of people, strangers, dancing and laughing, but she knew something about how she was acting, and the feeling wasn’t right.

She’d been sick for too long, feeling her body die away one breath at a time, not to know that this strength and energy coursing through her insides should not be happening.

The concern on her sister’s face didn’t help put her at ease, either.

It was one of the reasons when Eilidh showed up and suggested they leave the room, Morlie had pressured Kai to let them go.

She was feeling out of sorts with everything her sister told her.

They were beyond the wall with a big group of people who could heal with smoke.