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Then she was doing it. Tentative at first until she found a rhythm and pace she liked.

His eyes were trained on her tits. Her gorgeous breasts jiggled every time she bounced her ass on him and swayed when she wound her hips against him.

Liekki let her loose to find her pleasure and drive him over.

She was a sight to behold.

Avalore spread her thighs wider, took him deeper as she rode him as hard as he’d taken her.

“Yes, you like to be fucked don’t you, little lure?”

“Yes!” Her head was arched back, showing the delicate column of her neck as she cried out.

“Touch yourself.”

She slid her hands up her stomach, one hand cupping her breast while her other fisted in her hair as if she needed to find purchase. But she never stopped gyrating her wet pussy on his cock.

“That’s it. That’s it.” Liekki could feel his balls filling with seed, as his heavy sac drew up ready to explode.

But he wanted to watch her come one more time. He reached up and palmed her other breast and pinched her nipple between his thumb and finger, adding just enough pain.

She cried out, her pussy creamed around him and she rose and fell harder.

Yes, she enjoyed just enough pain with her pleasure.

When she came, he gripped her hip with one hand and held her pressed to him, pushing deep, allowing her clenching walls to drag him over and milk his seed from him.

He exploded. Roared.

The spine-bending, teeth-grinding euphoria of releasing inside Avalore forced smoke from his mouth as he growled and forced his beast back.

The pleasure was so good that both he and his dragon fought for space as Liekki, for the first time in his adult life, both beast and man let that veil of control, of form, between them slip.

Thank the Great Spirit he’d caught himself as he felt the fire tingle along his skin.

Pulling Avalore’s quivering body down to his, he held her against his chest and kissed her. He had one hand pressed to her lower back and the other buried in her hair as he bent toward her enough to fuse his mouth to hers.

Their hearts pounded together.

Shaken from her own climax, she curled into him while he kissed her languidly. He swept into her mouth and withdrew slowly, only to return in the same lazy fashion. He wasn’t trying to start anything up again for them right then, but keep her calm.

Then she gasped and tried to push away from him, letting him know the moment she felt his dragon’s stem extend through her cervix and into her womb. His beast would complete its claim on their mate tonight.

Wait...something’s strange— What’s happening?

Shh, little lure, it's my dragon claiming you. Liekki continued holding and kissing her as her curves settled again.

Oh. I thought he did that through the honey-fire.

That’s the start of it , this, he punctuated his words with a short thrust of his cock. “Is the other part.”

She moaned as he squeezed him, but a whimper followed it. His mate was sore.

He needed to care for her as soon as his dragon released them.

Okay. Then there was a beat . Wait. Wait. You can hear...I can hear you!

He pulled his mouth from hers and rolled them so she was beneath him. “Yes, mate, I can hear you.”

“Mate?” She smiled, her hazy eyes were bright with excitement.

“Yes, little lure. You are truly my mate now.” He brushed the strands away that had stuck to the moisture on her brow.

“Your mate.” She wrapped her legs around his, just enough where her ankles pressed against the back of his knees. “I think I’m going to like that.”

“Good. Because nothing will ever change that, you’re mine.” Joy filled his heart in a way he never conceived would happen. He’d run and fought so hard against finding his mate and settling down, now he couldn’t imagine his life without Avalore.

“How long will we be stuck together?” She wiggled her hips beneath his.

Liekki groaned as his semi-hard cock thickened. Nothing stopped him from fucking her while his dragon’s stem was deep inside her, as long as he didn’t pull more than halfway out. Otherwise, the action would be painful for all of them.

However, his mate’s pussy didn’t need further abuse. He was a sexual tyrant, but he wasn’t cruel.

“Be still.” He swatted the outside of her thigh. He saw the spark flare in her eyes, but she didn’t move.

Satisfied, he took one of her smaller hands from his side and linked their fingers together, resting them next to her head on the pillow. He balanced his weight on his elbows to keep most of his heft off her.

Remembering her question, he answered, “We will be joined until my dragon settles an offspring in your womb. Is that fine with you?”

“Well, it’s a little late to ask a girl.” She frowned and fell quiet.

Will she reject it? Liekki kept that question close to his chest, but his dragon picked up on it and his blaze inside dimmed a fraction.

They’d never had that situation. Female Drahkelle understood the process and looked forward to breeding.

It was an honor to carry offspring who would grow the Thunder.

Since dragon-shifter females weren’t limited in what they could do in the short time they carried, it was looked at as another part of who they were—mothers.

However, he had to remember that Avalore was not his kind, and things had to be explained to her.

She played with the ends of his hair and stared silently at his chest.

“Forgive my oversight.” He caressed her face, coaxing her beautiful eyes back to his.

She gazed up at him and nodded.

“Would you like me to command my dragon to pull out—?” Liekki winced. Asshole .

His dragon bellowed out more fire, but was slow to remove its nails from Liekki’s core.

“Um...” she snickered. “It doesn’t seem happy with that thought.”

Liekki arched a brow at his mate, whose face was lit with the humor she wasn’t doing well at containing.

Since they were linked, she could hear him and fully sense his dragon's emotions. He’d have to teach her Drahk so that she could also understand the occasional words his dragon mentally spoke.

“Trust me, don’t encourage the big ass. He’s been insufferable since he saw you.”

Avalore's eyelids stretched in shock. “Have the two of you been at odds...? Was he torturing you...over me?”

She didn’t even attempt to hide her wide smile.

He shook his head and sighed. “He’s been a little temperamental from the start, little lure.”

“I like that.” Her fingers glided up to the side of his head, where the hair was cut extremely short. She stroked along his scalp there.

Cupping her face, Liekki returned to the more pressing conversation. “Are you okay with carrying my offspring?”

“Yes,” she didn’t hesitate. “As long as I can keep training with the sword. After the council meeting, I know a battle is coming, and I want to be a part of that plan and fight for so many reasons.”

Liekki knew part of those reasons had to do with what they all discovered about the scientist’s abhorrent behavior towards her, Michaela, and at least eleven other women they knew about.

“I’ll ensure Khuzaimah teaches you everything she knows, little lure.”

“Then kiss me while we make a baby.” She gyrated her hips, sliding herself along his cock.

He groaned at the gliding of her delicious wet, stretched pussy.

We do need to discuss your listening skills in bed . He rolled them to the side so he could smack her ass hard as he continued his gentle thrusts inside of her.

I guess you can do gentle, mate , she moaned.

An hour later, he thrived in the knowledge that his gentleness could still bring his little lure to three screaming orgasms. Especially when he stroked her clit and flicked flames over her sensitive nipples as he thrust deep and slow inside of her.

Fuck I can’t get enough of her.

“I don’t think I’ll ever move again.” Her head rested on his chest as she lay draped over him like a damp towel.

Liekki chuckled. His dragon’s stem had receded over thirty minutes ago, but he and Avalore continued to fuck until even he felt a bit of exhaustion.

“You need to bathe, lovely.”

“Is that your way of telling me I smell?”

There was a smoked-cinnamon whiskey scent to her honeyed ginger notes, and he loved it. Everyone would know Avalore was his. He caressed down her sides because he couldn’t stop touching her. “You smell like us, my mate.”

‘My mate.’ That will never get old.

He could hear how much she liked that. “You need to soak. It will help you rest better.”

Until he had her again, his mind was already making a list of every way and place he wanted to take her.

Ouch . “Wow, that really burns.”

“It’s just the first scale of your pregnancy.” Humans were different. Aodh had told him about the stinging Kai had experienced when her first scale mark burned through from her womb.

“Wow. It is all-consuming.” She pressed her forehead hard into his chest as she curled against him.

Liekki smelled a slight sulfuric scent in the air and spotted wisps of smoke trailing upward that weren’t coming from him. Aodh never mentioned that effect.

“Sit up, I want to see it.” He lightly tapped her waist. She was evidently in a bit of discomfort, and he didn’t want to cause her more.

Avalore exhaled with a harsh breath, but pushed up until she was seated on his abdomen. Her eyes were closed, and she was still taking in deep breaths as if in great pain.

Liekki scowled. He didn’t like seeing how his offspring was hurting her, even the slightest.

He dropped his gaze from the sight of her lovely breasts to the area of her belly where their newly developed offspring would be growing.

“Well, fuck me.”

“That better not be an invitation right now. I’ll have to pass this round.” Avalore gave him a disconcerting stare.

He would have chuckled if he wasn’t stunned and knocked onto his proverbial ass at what he was seeing. Liekki had never seen his brother's mate naked, but everyone in the Thunder had seen her proudly displaying her markings because of the clothes she wore like those of pregnant Drahkelles.

But he was sure Aodh would have told him this .

“I want to see it, but you’re making me nervous, Liekki.” She clenched her hands at her sides and hissed again. “How does it look?”

“You have two scales.” Which meant twins, which made sense to Liekki since they discovered how the scientist had altered their blood with rabbit DNA, if that was all he saw. “And some on your thighs—”

“My thighs?” She snapped her head down and stared. “Oh...My Great Spirit—”

Avalore launched herself away from him, scrambling over the huge mattress to get off, then dashed to the bathroom.

That’s when Liekki saw that the scales hadn’t only spread to her thighs but covered her entire back with scale markings and angry red welts as they burned onto Avalore from the inside out.

Shit! He got up and rushed behind her.

He stood in the mirror, watching as the pattern of scales was now halfway to her knees. Her features a mask of shock or horror, he wasn’t sure.

“They’re on your back, too.”

She winced as she twisted left, then right, trying to take them all in.

“What’s happening to me?”

Before he could answer, he heard it.

Avalore’s intake of breath was loud, signaling she heard it, too.

His dragon was roused from its contented slumber, raised its head, and stood at the sound.

He and his dragon recognized it for what it was, not an offspring. It was too early for any young one, rather ones, to start to chortle.

The faint call of a female dragon came from Avalore’s core, not her womb.