Chapter Seventeen
Mac
I was pregnant. Me, a beta. Holy shit!
Where was our baby even growing? I could still use my magic, so they weren't sucking it away from me the way an omega's eggs would.
Galen's paragon had said only one egg, but what if they were wrong? What if there were twins? Would they want out when they were apple-sized or dragon-egg-sized? Laying them by magic didn't guarantee it would be painless, either.
The more I thought about it, the more I panicked. I almost fell from Galen's back when they dipped toward their cave entrance. They flattened me to their scales with a spell, holding me in place. The spell reassured me more than a talk could have. Together, we could do anything, even the unknown. I trusted them.
When we landed, I climbed to the rocky cave floor. Before I had a chance to catch my breath, Galen had returned to their alpha kobold form to embrace me in their muscular arms.
They kissed my temple. "I'm so sorry. Today has been a lot."
My laugh sounded a little hysterical. I still had a way to go before I could consider myself calm. "Today is only the beginning."
"We will figure it out together," they said. "The magic, the eggs, all of it."
"I know." I sighed and tucked my head against their bare chest.
"I want tonight to be about us," Galen said. "It won't be long before the egg inside me grows too large for this form, and I'll have to stay a dragon. Until then, I want to enjoy every part of being your mate."
"I want that, too." Gods, how I wanted that. As scary as it was to be mated to a dragon, I enjoyed every moment of showing Galen how special they were to me. I loved being with them in this form.
They kissed me, and it was everything I remembered from our trip. It felt more real here in our cave with the familiar smells of smoke and damp rock surrounding us. This was our home, where we would raise our young and live together for years to come.
"I want you," Galen whispered against my lips. They tugged my shirt from my pants, and their warm fingers brushed my skin.
"I still can't believe this is real," I said. "We're having babies?"
They pulled away, but I kissed them again, nipping at their bottom lip and encouraging them to rub their tongue alongside mine.
"We should talk," they said.
"We've talked enough today," I said. "There's so much I want to do while you're in this form. I haven't tasted you yet."
"Tasted?" Galen frowned at me. "Your tongue has been all over inside my mouth."
I laughed. "What if I put it other places?"
"Other places?" I loved their frown, but I didn't want to keep them guessing.
I undressed with no finesse, almost tripping over my pant legs in my haste. Then, I dropped to my knees before them, still yards away from their bed. They watched me with wonder as I took their cock and ovipositor in one hand and their balls in the other. I fondled them while pulling their gigantic balls into my mouth one at a time. That was the only way they would fit, and even then, only partway.
Galen had a shock of black hair on their head in this form, but the rest of them was completely hairless. Their balls were covered in small scales instead, and I loved their texture as I ran my tongue over every inch. When I pulled one back into my mouth, Galen growled. My cock throbbed between my legs, reminding me to hurry up. I hadn't gotten to the good part yet.
Galen's ovipositor had already latched itself to the tip of my thumb, but I didn't want to leave it untasted. I gently tugged it off my digit and ran my tongue around the opening. It latched onto the muscle, squeezing as tightly as it had held my thumb. I sucked said thumb into my mouth alongside it, getting it wet. Galen's ovipositor knew what I was doing and latched onto my thumb before I could remove both from my mouth. I licked and sucked around the union of our bodies, and Galen made a sound like purring deep in their chest.
"Don't tease me," Galen pleaded.
I slid my thumb further inside, and Galen rocked forward on their toes.
After their balls and the somewhat spongy texture of their ovipositor, their cock felt silky smooth in my mouth. I ran my tongue along the veins and ridges, learning every movement that had my mate gasping in pleasure. With both hands, I explored their ovipositor and the scales between both organs. Each touch brought Galen up on their toes and farther into my mouth.
Their cock fit perfectly. I loved the slide of it on my tongue and the salty taste of their precome. I licked and sucked at the base and swallowed around the tip.
Galen brought their hands to hold my head in place and used my mouth and hands for their pleasure. I knew they were close when their legs started to shake. I loved the way they stroked my hair as hot spurts of cum hit the back of my throat. They tasted bitter and sweet, my favorite combination. I hummed my pleasure around their cock.
"Gods, Mac!" They released me, but I refused to let go of their cock, still licking up every drop of their cum.
"Are you all right?" They asked. "I don't know what came over me. I shouldn't have kept you from moving like that. I'm so sorry."
Satisfied their cock was clean, I let them slip from my mouth. "Never apologize. I would let you know if I needed to move."
They nodded. "I trust you."
"I trust you, too." I stood and cupped their cheek with my free hand, the one not still suctioned to their ovipositor.
They kissed me, thrusting their tongue into my mouth. At the first taste of themself, they moaned. "I want to taste you now. May I?"
Gods, they were always so polite. "Anything for you."
Instead of dropping to their knees, Galen picked me up and placed me on their shoulders with my cock in their face for a quick ride to their pile of bedding. They nudged me with their snout as they walked and carefully sat me against one side of their bed, which was dug into the cave floor. In their dragon form, they could lay snug against the stone and it would hold their body heat during the night.
Now, in their kobold form, the space seemed too large and cavernous. We kobolds had been trained to pass through open areas like this one as quickly as possible to avoid dragons. Instead, I felt safe in Galen's arms as they lowered me to their bedding and settled between my spread legs.
Instead of sucking me down, they teased my cock and balls with their tongue while roaming their hands up and down my sides. I relaxed into the sensation, sure my dragon wouldn't try to tickle me with their sharp teeth so close to my cock.
Galen explored lower, tasting the ticklish spots along my inner thighs. They sucked until I ached, both from needing to come and the bruises they left behind.
"Gods, yes, mark all of me. Let everyone know I'm yours."
Galen growled. "No one will see these marks but me." They placed gentle kisses over one purple mark, then the other. "These are for us and no one else."
In response, my cock bounced against my abs with a wet sound.
Galen met my gaze as they eased my cock away from my body. They slid their mouth over me, their tongue wrapping around my length and squeezing while their hot warmth enveloped my cock head.
For someone not used to having hands, they already knew what to do with them. They wetted two fingers in their mouth and then followed the line between my balls, along my taint, to my puckered hole. They massaged their wet fingers around my entrance and I relaxed, allowing them to push inside with first one, then both.
They worked me open while their perfect mouth continued to tease my cock, and they held my hip in place at their mercy while my body vibrated with sheer need to come.
"Close." I tapped their shoulder, unable to do more as the familiar tingle started at the base of my spine. I stared down at my mate, transfixed by how focused they were on my pleasure. I'd never had a partner take such good care of me before.
Galen hummed in the back of their throat and took me even deeper, swallowing around me as their fingers pressed firmly against my prostate. I howled their name as my orgasm pulsed through me.
They licked me clean with their delightful tongue before joining me with their head propped on my shoulder. I leaned in for a kiss. They tasted like me, and I couldn't get enough.
Galen peppered kisses along my throat. At my shoulder, they licked over their mark, and my cock tried to rally.
"That feels so good," I said. "Why is that so good?"
"We're connected through our mark," Galen said. "When I touch yours, you have a direct link to everything I feel for you."
I trailed my finger from the base of their horn, down their pointed jaw, to the mark I'd placed on their neck. Galen exposed the mark to my touch and whimpered when we connected.
They must have felt how much I loved them, but it was too new for me to say it. The words wouldn't scare my dragon, nothing could, but I worried my anxiety about our pregnancies and our future hatchlings would spike even higher if I put a name to what I would lose if I lost Galen. I couldn't think about that now.
"You are worried," they whispered.
"Yes." I couldn't keep it from them, nor did I want to. We'd made these eggs together. Whatever happened next, we would face it together.
Galen kissed my temple and urged me onto my side without words. They curled behind me, their arm clutching me to their chest.
The orgasms were amazing, but the cuddles were the best yet. Galen was an excellent cuddler in dragon form. They were even better in kobold alpha form. I loved the way they fit around me, their chin tucked against my shoulder, their breath warm on my neck as they held me against them with a beefy arm. And those hands ... Galen stroked my chest with slow, sure strokes of their blunt nails. I'd never felt so cherished.
Gods, I loved them. I wanted to shout it from the mountaintop and tell the whole world, but I was still too scared it would be taken from me.
"I want to do so much more," Galen said, "but I can already feel the egg growing too large for this form."
Their voice settled into a low rumble after an orgasm, and I wished we had more time to explore how deep it could go. "How long before you lay your egg?"
"I hope it's six weeks." They kissed the back of my neck. "Kobolds and dragons once had the same gestation time, according to the information Priestess Alma sent me."
Punky and Tuft both had their eggs sooner than expected.
"What if mine is early?" I asked.
"Then yours is early." Their chuckle warmed my insides and made my cock perk up again. "We will get you to the gestation cave before then."
"I don't think my pregnancy is like other kobolds," I said. "I don't think it's an egg." It wasn't in my balls, either. It felt more like I was carrying our baby around inside my chest.
"You think you're having a baby, like a human?"
That thought was even more terrifying. Where would a human baby be safe inside me, and where would it come out? "Gods, I hope not."
"We need someone who isn't my family, but who might have answers," Galen said. "Tomorrow, we will fly to see Bale and Olaf at The Grid. Even if Olaf has never had a child, he might have received some information about the curse."
Gods, I hoped so. Olaf was the oldest beta kobold I had ever met. He was also one of the kindest.