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“Hold on to me, little flame.” As soon as he felt her hands clutching at his shoulders, he gripped her plump ass in his hands.

He grasped her ass cheeks hard, parting and giving him complete access to her pussy.

He knew it probably caused her a bit of pain to be held open in such a way, but he’d give them both pleasure soon.

Staring into her beautiful eyes, he thrust into her.

Heat surrounded him on the inside and out. Kai’s wet walls clenched around the half of his shaft inside of her as his beast filled his core with fire. Both heats drove him wild, and he needed more.

“Ah!” Kai screamed, her nails dug into his shoulders as her pussy clenched around him, drawing him deeper. Her face flushed, her mouth parted, and her eyes lowered halfway.

Her desire was lovely, perfect.

He arched back until only his bulbous head remained inside of her. When she squeezed him, as if her sex refused to let him go and tried to suck him back inside, he slammed forward—not stopping until he’d rammed his entire length in her wet, tight sex.

Then insanity took hold of him. He captured Kai’s mouth, kissing her. His tongue commanded her mouth as his cock dominated her pussy. As he continued to thrust into her, he lifted and lowered her along his shaft, pounding their bodies together.

Her screams and moans filled his mouth as he continued to kiss her.

Needing more leverage, he curled one of his arms behind her back. He pressed against her and leaned them both toward the tree. The move tilted Kai’s hips to a good position so that he could drive deeper.

Enraptured by the feel of Kai’s hot, slick pussy, Aodh barely processed the feel of the rough bark scraping the back of his forearm and wrist. In and out. In and out. In and out, he thrust his hard cock into heaven.

Kai’s walls squeezed him. Her sex quivered around him. Her body trembled against him, and her moans grew louder. Her body was begging him for release.

His climax was paramount, too. Pulling his mouth away, he pressed his chest into her breasts. He stared down into her lust-filled face, wanting to hear and see her as pleasure overtook her.

He angled his hips to hit that spot inside her that made her croon.

“Yes, yes, yes. Oh...Aodh, don’t stop,” she chanted. Her pussy seized his length as her body began to shake.

“Look at me,” he growled. He needed to see her eyes.

When her beguiling, delirious gaze met his stare as her climax overtook her, it pushed Aodh toward his end.

Not breaking away from her gaze, he pressed closer and drove harder.

The tree began to sway a bit from the power of his thrusts, and a tearing sound blended with their growls and screams as the force of his strength tore some of the tree’s roots from the ground. But Aodh didn’t stop.

He couldn’t stop. He had to claim his woman as his equal.

A blaze dove from his core and through his cock, knocking his body off the cliff into pleasure’s abyss. Thick and hot, his release shot out of him, filling Kai. Even though he knew his seed would not take root like all the other times, his body warmed, knowing it would soon. Very soon.

Kai’s legs locked around his hips. She gripped his shirt in her hands as her body tumbled through another orgasm.

They stayed there, panting and trembling against the slightly askew tree as the haze of desire lowered enough for them to get their bearings.

Her lips caressed along the side of his neck above his collar and started the build of lust again.

Aodh kissed her on the temple before he pulled away. They couldn’t give in to it again. Once, his dragon could excuse him, but the beast would tear him asunder a second time. Even now, it sat quiet but alert to everything Kai.

“We must go.” Aodh detangled their bodies and set her on her feet.

He didn’t miss her limbs shaking or how she rested back, using the tree for support.

Even as he adjusted his pants, his cock still damp with her cream, he stared at her.

His gaze locked on the sight of her bare, full hips and her thick thighs glistening with evidence of both their release.

It was too easy to step back to her and retake her.

Becoming more aware, Kai tipped her head down and saw herself. She gasped and quickly yanked her dress down, covering the delectable sight.

When her gaze shifted to him, her eyes were still bright with her desire even as she shyly bit her bottom lip.

Breaking their gaze, he moved to his sword, buried halfway into the earth. Gripping the handle with one hand, he snatched it up.

Pushing away from the tree, she started to walk away, moving toward the trail.

“Come here, Kai.”

She turned. Her brow pinched. “You said we needed to get back.”

“Yes.” He faced her. “But we don’t have time for me to keep a tolerable pace for you to walk.” With his free hand, he beckoned her.

Her frown deepened, but she still walked back to him.

When she was before him, he set a hand on her waist. “Wrap your legs around me.”

Her gaze darkened even more, her need flaring again as she first slipped her arms around his neck and then jumped up.

He helped her lift into position with her ankles linked at the small of his back and her arms around his neck. Once Kai settled, he wrapped an arm around her to hold her tight against him.

Her soft fingers danced along the back of his head. “Why can’t I walk? What’s the rush, Aodh?”

Their combined scent greeted him and made his heart pound as he bit back the groan caused by her touch. He reminded himself that he could not fuck her again. He stared at her. “It is time you met my dragon, little flame.”

Kai clutched the back of his neck. Her eyes, bright with desire, flashed with curiosity and fear.

He wanted to tell her not to be afraid, but a Drahk’s beast was damn unpredictable. Once the enormous reptile was loose, he ran the show until he relinquished control back to Aodh.

“Close your eyes and hold on.”

After she closed her eyes and buried her face in the curve of his neck, he headed off. He squeezed her and exhaled, releasing some smoke from his lungs. A puff of white smoke swirled around them and soaked into their pours.

Aodh sprinted toward the Mckenna building with his woman and sword in hand.

In less time than it took him and his brother to get to the meeting grounds, Aodh got them back in the heart of his people’s territory.

He entered his building from the backside.

He took the stairs two at a time, still clutching Kai’s relaxed, curvy form.

When he passed his brother, who sat in a chair outside Morlie’s door with his feet perched on the stair rail, they only acknowledged each other with a sharp nod.

Liekki was too perceptive not to sense the situation at hand, and most likely, he could smell the heady sulfuric scent Aodh’s dragon was putting out. The beast was staking its claim to all.

Now that Aodh had returned and seen him in place guarding Kai’s sister, it was more than likely Liekki would order sentries to stand guard at the two entrances at the bottom of the stairs. They wouldn’t allow anyone but Tana or Liekki to pass.

Aodh walked into their suite and shut the door behind them. He patted Kai firmly on her ass to rouse her, the jostling having lulled her to sleep.

She looked up, then around, taking in their new surroundings. “Wow.”

When she met his gaze, he said, “Kai...it’s time.”

~YH~

“How is this supposed to work?”

Aodh stood before her by the door to their suite, slipped his hands around hers, and squeezed firmly. “Breathe, little flame.”

The touch of Aodh’s strong hands on hers stopped her from wringing them. Kai thought she was doing an excellent job of hiding her nervousness about meeting Aodh’s dragon, but apparently, how she felt was evident.

She inhaled slowly and offered him a smile, but the twitching at the corners of her mouth let him know it was weak. “I’m good.”

He cocked a brow but didn’t disagree with her. “You are.”

Linking his hand in one of hers, he tugged her behind him as he moved toward the center of the front room.

She followed him without resistance but couldn’t help but glance at the couch as they passed it.

Her knees felt a little liquid after the mind-blowing sex she had with Aodh in the forest and the speed of his movements back to the building.

Aodh hadn’t even broken a sweat or appeared to strain as he carried not only his heavy-ass sword but her and all her curves—he’d done it with ease.

Now that she knew her sister was safe and protected back in the Thunder and the hum of great sex was in her body, the rhythmic pace of Aodh’s light jog shockingly lulled her to sleep.

It had taken her and Eilidh over an hour to get to the meeting grounds, and Kai’s arms burned the entire way as she did more dragging of the impressive sword than carrying it on her shoulder where it had weighed her down. She wasn’t sure how long it took Aodh to get them back.

Once they were standing close to the spacious center, away from the couch, he stopped and faced her. “This is the best place for you to stand.”

Kai glanced around. The couch was too far to dart behind quickly, the dining room table seemed even further, and to make it to the closet would be possible only if she could move in a puff of black smoke like the two pale ones on the council.

“You will be alright, Kai.” Aodh cupped her cheek.

Staring up at the wall of a man before her, she met his gaze. “What if he decides he doesn’t like me? Doesn’t think I’m good enough to claim?”

There was a beat before Aodh responded, and a brief shadow crossed his turquoise-opal eyes as if she pondered the results of that possibility, but he blinked, and it was gone. “Trust me, little flame, when I say my dragon is eager to meet you.”

She licked her lips. “And you will still be here?”

“I’ll be right here with you. He is me.”

“Can I talk to you...him—?” Confused, Kai cut off her own words.