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Riley

Mine

I was flying and then falling into Lucan’s powerful arms. We crashed naked into the safety and softness of our bed. The full moon shone through the gauzy curtains of the open window, illuminating his perfect face. But it was the intensity of his gaze that stole my breath away.

I loved the way he looked at me.

Once upon a time, I’d thought that line was so cliché, but that was because I hadn’t been worshipped properly before.

He tucked my hair behind my ear, growling some strange words under his breath as his callused fingers delicately probed the lump at the back of my head.

“What was that?” I asked.

“Dragon speak.” His lips lingered at my temple as he held his large body over mine so we were molded together but none of his weight crushed me.

“It means that his death was too quick.” Lucan pressed another kiss to the side of my face, working his way to my neck.

I shivered, instinctually turning my head to give him better access. “Let’s not talk about that now.”

“I’ll keep it in my native tongue.” He whispered against my throat, tasting the pulse there.

“What else can you do with that tongue?” I arched against him.

His chuckle awoke an aching need in me.

“I’ll show you.” He gave a teasing nip to my clavicle, right where Ember’s mark was, and licked the pain away.

He stilled when he realized where he’d placed a love bite and I froze under the sudden sharpness of his teeth.

“Do it,” I urged, breathless.

“Not yet.” His lips were soft as he continued to kiss his way down.

I sat up against the bedframe and pushed him away. “I’m not going to break if you bite me.”

Lucan balanced on his hands, planking so we were eye to eye. “I didn’t say you would.”

He had me trapped underneath him, but I didn’t feel caged. It boldened me.

I moved forward so our faces were inches away. “You’re treating me like I will.”

His eyebrow raised. A question to my challenge.

“And how would you like to be treated?”

“Definitely not like some porcelain doll,” I said. “I want you to bite me and fuck me, hard.”

His pupils dilated at my words and it felt awfully good to know I could rile his beast. My pulse quickened, but it was a good kind of fear.

The kind that recognized how powerful I was.

I dragged my nails up over his shoulders, watching as his breath caught and his muscles quivered under my touch.

Every other part of him held still, being patient.

I laced my hands around the back of his neck and pulled myself forward to whisper into his ear, “Unless you don’t want to claim me.”

A growl rumbled in his chest.

I turned and bit down onto the side of his throat.

“Goddess, Riley.” Lucan moaned as he turned us both, adjusting so I was sitting on his lap. “Do you want this?”

He fisted his cock between us before rocking my already wet core against his length.

I sucked onto the bite mark I’d left, releasing his neck with a pop. “I want everything you can give.”

I leaned back to look at my handiwork. I wanted him bruised and marked and covered in reminders of me. My nails dug into his shoulders as I rocked my core along the outside of his ribbed shaft.

Oh. I could come like this.

“Everything I can give?” Lucan thrust gently, still letting me set the pace.

“Everything.” I reached between us and grabbed his dick, thumbing the bead of precum off the tip.

Lucan’s hungry eyes followed as I raised my hand to my lips and sucked his taste off my thumb.

An explosion of salty-sweet filled my mouth.

I groaned as he caught my wrists.

“You’ll tell me if it’s too much.” His voice was raspy with lust.

I nodded, smiling as excitement from his words coursed through me.

“This isn’t a game, Riley.” He regained control and lifted me so we were both sitting on our knees. “I need to trust that you’ll speak up for yourself.”

Bossy Lucan was so damn hot.

The shiver that raced along my skin had me arching forward, seeking his warmth again. “I swear I’ll tell you to stop if it’s too much.”

“Good.” His praise made me blush as he pressed a kiss to my forehead, resting gentle hands on my hips.

But that wasn’t what I wanted, I needed—

“I know what you need,” he growled.

Lucan’s pupils were slitted and his eyes burned as he captured my chin, crushing my lips in a beautiful, almost painful kiss that left me gasping when he pulled away.

“Turn around and crawl that sexy ass to the top of the bed.”

I’d never felt more bold as I did obeying his command. As slowly as I could, making sure to draw out the tease, I moved to where he said.

More than once, I had to bite down on my smile at hearing the feral growl behind me.

When I got to the pillows, the bed dipped under Lucan’s weight.

Then his hands were on my thighs, stroking and running along the length of my back and down again, spreading my legs wider.

“Look how pretty and wet this perfect pussy is for me,” he praised with a growly purr.

Heat scorched my skin at his words.

His hand dipped between my legs and slid forward to pinch my clit, rolling it between his fingers to soothe the sharpness and eliciting just enough pleasure mixed with pain that I cried out.

“More.”

“You want more?” He wrapped his other hand around my chest, drawing my breast into his massive palm and brushing his thumb over my sensitive nipple. “Tell me, do you still want it rough?”

My body answered for me.

Slick gathered between my thighs as I arched my back, pressing myself harder into his hands.

“Use your words.” His laughter rumbled against me as he pressed a kiss to my shoulder.

“Yes.” I pushed myself up, gripping the headboard so I could move his hand deeper where I wanted it. “Harder. Please.”

“As you wish.” He slipped a digit inside and then another, scissoring his fingers as he pinched my nipple between his finger and thumb, giving it a delicious tug.

“Lucan, I…” I panted as he moved his hand to my other nipple, giving similar attention to my clit. “I need you.”

I was so wet. So ready. So right there. I just…

I gasped as he pulled his hand away, lining the tip of his dick right where it needed to be.

“This is what you want.” He thrust to the first ridge.

“Exactly this,” I moaned as I sank down, meeting his next thrust.

He pushed past the first ridge, stretching me wider as I adjusted my legs, and then he let me work myself up and down as I relaxed into it.

I broke the second ridge on my own, screaming out in pleasure as he filled me deeper.

“That’s it,” Lucan coaxed as he threaded his fingers through the base of my hair.

I froze.

Lucan stilled inside me.

“Words, Riley,” he commanded, not moving an inch even as I felt our hearts pounding through our conjoined sex.

“My hair,” I whispered, closing my eyes.

He can’t take this moment. He has no power over me.

I was stronger than my demons.

“Your beautiful hair,” Lucan said, encouraging me to finish that sentence.

He didn’t pull hard enough to aggravate my injury. In fact, the way he touched me was almost massaging and felt like a leash straight to my sex. He could control where my head went and I trusted him to move it right.

“It’s just…” My voice trailed off as Lucan gently turned my head to the side, exposing my neck.

My breath came quicker as he kissed a spot below my ear. Need gathered deep in my core, burning me from the inside out when he dragged his teeth down the sensitive skin.

“What about your hair?” he whispered against my shoulder.

Tears gathered in the corners of my eyes.

Happy tears, filled with so much joy at reclaiming this piece of my body.

Lucan wouldn’t hurt me. He’d make it feel so good. Kiss away all the pain.

I closed my eyes as I rocked against him. “I love the way you touch my hair. I love how you touch every part of me.”

“That’s good.” Lucan thrust his hips forward as he moved his other hand back to my breasts. “Because I plan on touching you everywhere.”

“Swear it,” I begged on a breathless cry as he increased his pace.

“On a dragon’s honor.” He moved his hand to my clit, working it faster as he slammed into me. “Now tell me what else you like.”

“The way you fuck me,” I gasped as my legs trembled and he held me upright. “The way you love me.”

He groaned as I opened wider—impossibly wide—and I felt the third ridge stretch every part of my insides, touching places I didn’t know could be touched.

“And I love that you’re mine.” I cried out as I grabbed the headboard, breathing through the feelings that hit me everywhere.

It was so much. So deep. So good.

“Yours,” Lucan grunted his agreement as he thrust in deeper somehow, making my body spasm around him.

“And I’m yours,” I swore, knowing I was ruined for life. No one else would be able to make me feel this way. This full. This taken care of.

“You were always mine.” Lucan increased his thrusts now that he’d fit in completely and the orgasm I’d been holding back built around us both. “Come for me.”

That third ridge stretched even further as Lucan pounded me over the edge.

I screamed his name as I crashed boneless, stars bursting into flames.

His teeth sank into my neck and fire burned through my veins, heightening every sensation and matching the burn of his cock between my legs as it dragged out my orgasm, rolling it over and over again.

Just when I thought I couldn’t take anymore without combusting, a comforting warmth settled deep into my bones as Lucan gathered me to his chest, being careful of where we were still connected.

“I’ve fought for you all my life,” he whispered as his seed warmed inside me and something deep, almost primal, settled between us both.

I felt the call of it in my soul, begging to be acknowledged, and the sense of no longer being alone lit up a dark corner in my mind.

Lucan laced his fingers through mine. “I didn’t know it then, but this was what I wanted. What I was willing to live and die for.”

“I know exactly what you mean.” I nodded as I clung to his arms, tears streaming down my face as I whispered, “I fought for you, too.”