Grabbing a fork, Morlie speared two pieces of meat and brought them to her mouth. With her free hand, she motioned for Eilidh to join her. “Yes. When I turn eighteen... and we... can have the party.” She mumbled around the food she chewed.

Her friend was still standing between the sitting area and the table as if she were stuck to the floor, staring at her.

Morlie swallowed before questioning her. “What’s wrong with you?”

“It’s May twenty-one twenty-four.”

Her fork slipped from her slack hand and clattered against the tray before striking the floor.

Morlie didn’t hear what sound it made when it landed because all the blood rushing in her ears drowned out every sound around her.

The only thing she could hear were the words echoing in her mind: Kai lied.

I’m nineteen.

~YH~

The intense kiss went on.

Aodh claimed her mouth like he was a starving man, and it was his last meal.

He consumed her. His tongue dove deep into her mouth, gliding along hers and driving her desire higher.

Kai wanted to show him she could give back as well as he was giving.

She tightened her lips around his tongue and sucked, drawing him further into her.

She loved the taste of him. There was a savory smokiness to him now.

An intense flavor that wasn’t there before she met his dragon.

After sharing his beast with her, it seemed the experience had released something in Aodh.

He devoured her mouth, and his kiss was both hot and potent.

She felt his strong arms surround her, holding her pressed against him.

Everything inside of her came alive and stretched toward him.

She wanted and needed him with the same insanity that seemed to have overtaken Aodh.

Out in the forest, there had been a desire combined with an urgency, but it was nothing compared to what was happening between them now. Aodh’s tongue thrust and continued to parry with hers while she closed her lips tight and suckled him each time he attempted to withdraw.

His hands were everywhere, gripping her ass, rubbing her back and fisting her hair.

She enjoyed it all. She was touching him in the same way.

His arms, chest, and neck were the perfect playground for her to explore, especially with his scales radiating heat, the same heat that thrummed through the dragon's chest. She wanted more of it, and she wanted to feel it on the outside and inside until she, too, was burning from within.

The tearing sound filled the space. She gasped at the shocking kiss of air on her back. She leaned away, severing their kiss for the moment. Kai gazed up at Aodh, his cerulean light gaze locked on her with an intensity that caused her knees to shake.

“Aodh?” she questioned as her dress sagged between their close bodies.

“I need you now, mate. No barriers.” He stepped back long enough to rid himself of his boots and pants.

She became breathless to see how fast he moved, or rather, she didn’t see more than a blur before he was naked.

“Come, mate.” Instead of him leading her to the room, he hauled her up to his chest.

When she pressed against him and was able to stare into his eyes without peering up, she wrapped her legs around his waist.

Aodh gripped her ass in his hands, holding her tighter to him as his thick fingers caressed along the seam of her ass and her sex. “Kiss me, little flame.”

He didn’t have to ask again. Kai slid her hands into his hair and fisted it as she guided his mouth to hers.

She took command of his mouth this time and was excited to show him how much she wanted him.

Their kiss was just as explosive no matter which one of them was driving it.

She could feel their bodies shifting as Aodh walked them across the room.

She continued to slide her tongue over his before she drew out and circled the tip.

He was willing to allow her the lead. Again, she slipped in, then curled her tongue up and caressed along the top of his mouth.

Aodh groaned and gripped her tighter.

She smiled, enjoying discovering a sensitive area on him. Aodh was all strength and fire, and he fucked her the same way, which she always liked, but feeling him tremble a little was satisfying.

Thump. Thump. Kai’s boots landed loudly and haphazardly on the floor as they got to the room.

The next thing she knew, she was pulled away from him and falling.

Her breath caught in her lungs from the sudden movement, but it didn’t frighten her.

Aodh would always protect and keep her safe, so if he released her from him, there would be a good place for her to land.

Sure enough, as her body dropped from his massive height, it bounced on impact with the soft mattress.

She stared up at him, allowing her gaze to eat up every inch of his massive, naked form.

From his thick, powerful thighs to his heavy, hard, beautiful cock.

It was sculpted so well that it made her heart race and her sex weep.

She wanted all his long cock, with its considerable girth inside of her.

There would be discomfort with such a man of his size; there was always a bit of pain, but she craved even that.

When he gave his cock to her hard, like when they were up against the tree, it made her come and want him to drive harder, harder, until she was a weak, quivering mass of flesh, coming at his will.

Her study of him continued up past his cock, the only part of his body other than his hands and face that didn’t have his gorgeous markings, only to take in his broad, muscular chest. So illuminated by his scales at the moment, Aodh appeared to glow cerulean with an edge of sapphire.

She panted, knowing soon she would feel his heat on her again.

She shivered at the thought and the absence of his warm flesh touching her.

It wasn’t that the room was cold, but when she was used to being held in the arms of the God of Fire, any other option left her body feeling remised.

“Cold, mate?”

Every time he called her ‘mate’ now, it touched a place inside her that felt hollow—a place she wanted to be filled by him.

She could not explain it because being with Aodh—he was all-consuming, and she didn’t have any lack.

However, she could feel that emptiness swelling inside of her.

It had started to form when she touched the Dragon King’s heart like he was hollowing her out and making a place for himself that only he could fill—only he could claim.

It was a part of how Aodh filled her heart with everything she needed.

“Just a little,” her thoughts made her shiver again. She gazed up into Aodh’s strong, masculine features. She realized how vulgarly her body was splayed on the bed and started to right herself and close her legs.

“Don’t move,” he growled as his eyes zeroed in on her swollen, wet pussy at the crux of her thighs. It seemed to take all his will to rip his gaze away from her as he turned his head toward the empty grate and released a flash of fire toward it.

The temperature in the room increased exponentially, only to lower just as quickly until there was a cozy warmth to the room. ‘Dragons like heat,’ he’d once told her. She seemed to like it, too, but now that she was toasty, her body craved a heat of a different type from Aodh.

She was at the end of the bed, her heels resting close to the edge. Aodh was a big man, and she wanted him to be comfortable. When she started to slide back, a rumble filled the room. She glanced up and saw one of his brows were cocked as he gave her a sharp look.

“I thought you needed—”

“What I need...”

The words came out in his gravel tone that sent a frisson of heat down her spine and right into her core, making her sex pulse.

“Is for you to stay right where I place you.” Aodh dropped to the floor, and the room shook a little as the stone absorbed the impact of his weight.

“Yes, Mckenna.” She half-teased, half-melted at the way this man commanded her.

He chuckled and offered her a wicked smile as he tilted his head to kiss the inside of her knee. Aodh turned his head and kissed the other one in the same place.

Tremors. Not from the cool room this time, but Kai’s body's response to his sexy look. It promised pleasure on multiple levels, and she was ready for it.

She stared at him, settled between her parted legs as he began to lick and suck down her inner thighs.

His hands squeezed and caressed up, down, and around her full thighs as if he revered her curvy body.

Her heart started to pound, knowing his destination.

She’d often experienced his kisses there, and she never got enough.

Frequently, she found herself drifting at times during the day, recalling how it felt to have him pleasure her in such a way.

Rarely before coming to his territory did she think about sex and what it would be like, but she never conceived of Aodh’s style of sex.

The engrossing impact took over every part of her being but gave back so much more.

“Your smell, little flame, is only second to your taste,” he venerated as he bumped and circled her clit with the tip of his nose.

Heat infused her cheeks, spread along her body, and exploded in her core. The way the man seemed to worship her body. “Ohh...Aodh!”

His tongue sank into her sex without preamble, shocking her and turning her inside out. He thrust in and out of her sex in a rhythm that left her senseless.

Then he slipped out of her and glided his dexterously, nefarious tongue up between her labia. He went left and right over her swollen flesh and left no part of her sex untouched until he arrived at her clit.

Then something changed. Kai could feel the tip of his tongue making small flicks right below the hood. The action caused her thighs to shake, and her toes curled into the bed. He kept her hovering just under the radar of the astounding orgasm that was seconds away.