Chapter Twelve
Sequin
Every atom inside my body pulsated with need for Xav. What we started earlier hung in the air between us and with each step I dragged my feet over the sand my heat reawakened. It inched its way up from the soles of my feet and the tips of my toes. It coiled around me, making it feel as if I dragged the weight of the universe behind me. I needed him. I needed the tugging behind my navel to stop. I needed to know what was inside his head and to finally have someone understand exactly where I was coming from with all my inner monologues. I squeezed his hand as the walk down the beach seemed to grow longer with each step. The cave I was taking him to wasn’t that far from the rental. Why was it taking so long now?
I couldn’t take it anymore. Liatris and Selt were tiny dots on the horizon, and I couldn’t see the baby at all. We were as alone as we were going to get until we got to the cave. Alone enough would have to do.
“Where is t---” Xav tried to ask but I claimed his lips in a hard kiss before he got the question out. I’d show him the cave soon. It was there. I could see the rocky ledge of its mouth from here in the rock wall but that was too many words to say, and I had better things to use my tongue for.
“If they weren’t down there, I’d suck your dick right here,” I said, walking him backwards toward the rock wall and kissing him again. I was so hard and slick enough that walking back by our friends might’ve been a walk of shame for me. It was already dribbling onto my thighs. I leaned against him, keeping him in place, and kissed him for as long as I could stand it. His hands found my ass and his fingers kneaded into my flesh. This is what I had waited for. Xav was what had been missing my whole adult life.
Unable to keep my hands off him, I grabbed his dick, and he swallowed hard, letting out a little moan against my lips. I stroked him through his pants, the shape and weight of his shaft already familiar against my skin. I held onto him tightly, stroking and squeezing him, until everything inside me screamed. He swelled up in my hand, expanding against my tight fist, and knotting. I smiled against his lips and stroked him faster. We were going home in shifted forms because our clothes weren’t going to be fit to wear when we were done with each other.
“Cave now, mate,” he growled, and a chill shimmied down my spine.
I kissed him one more time because I couldn’t stop myself before grabbing his hand and pulling him the last twenty yards down near the sand into the cave. I barely glanced around at the emergency supplies before kissing him again. I made to grab his knotted dick, but he pulled away and grabbed one of the blankets from the back shelf to spread out over the floor. He kicked off his shoes and beckoned me to him with a finger. I rushed into his arms, grateful I opted to come out barefoot. I didn’t have time to bother with shoes. Hell, if my dragon had his way, I wouldn’t have even bothered with clothes.
“Unnecessary! Grow some fluff if you’re so damn cold all the time!” my dragon grumbled.
He pulled my shirt off over my head and then I stole his too. They landed somewhere towards the back of the cave but in my rush to get him out of his pants I didn’t bother to keep track of where. He pulled me in for another long, hard kiss. Every inch of me ached for him. I was hard, slick, and burning up. It was as if my dragon had swallowed the suns of a thousand planets and wanted to shine all their light out through my pores. I sank down onto my knees and stopped him when Xav tried to follow me. He was hard, so hard, as I nuzzled against his dick through his pants. Then I had enough of those damn pants in my way. I made quick work of his clothes and freed the knotted object of my desire.
Pressing my lips against the plump tip of his cock, I let out a long breath. Heatwaves bounced off the cave walls trying to cook me like a giant oven. Xav’s fingers ran through my hair, chilling my scalp and sending little icy lightning bolts down my spine. I breathed a sigh of relief and drew circles around the tip of his cock. Then licked away a drop of salty precum. I slid my mouth down over his thick shaft until I reached the part it was knotted and couldn’t go any further. Dropping down lower, I licked over his knot and his fingers dug into my shoulder. His other hand entwined my hair around itself. I didn’t care what the damn explanation for his ability to knot was, I was grateful for it. I’d have kissed and licked it all day if his dick hadn’t began to tremble and shake under my mouth. I pulled away not wanting him to come yet. Xav tugged on my hair, just enough to make my whole scalp prickle and I rose up to kiss him, hungry for any part of him I could get my hands or mouth on.
“I want inside of you,” he growled against my lips as I pulled away, considering what I wanted to do to him next. “I want to put all this inside of you.” His hips bucked forward as he spoke. “But you’ve got me all knotted up.”
I glanced down, my dragon taking his deep, throaty words as a challenge. I kissed him again, taking him in my fist now that he’d had a few moments to cool down and regain some of his self-control. I stroked him as I toyed with the idea. Would he fit inside me like that? Knots fit but they usually grew once things were already going. I stole glance after glance of his thick, knotted dick. Yeah, I could take that. I’d have to work up to it, but I was gonna do it.
“Here,” I said, dropping down onto the blanket and tugging him with me. “Sit. Get comfy.”
I straddled his legs before he had a chance to say anything and kissed him again. His long, nimble fingers wrapped around my dick and stroked slowly while we kissed.
“Say it again,” I whispered. “I want to hear you say it again.”
“I want to put all of this inside you,” he growled against my lips, and I let the words circle around my heat-clouded brain. I wanted that too. My skin was hot to the touch again and Xav wiped a bead of sweat off my nose.
“But we don’t have to. I…” he tried to say something else. Probably that he didn’t want to hurt me but I kissed him again before the words were out of his mouth.
“I want to try. I want our claiming vows. I want to make a baby. I want you – all of you,” I murmured against Xav’s lips in between kisses. “Does that cover everything? Oh, and you won’t hurt me. I know what a knot is. If we were back at the London house, I’d show you all my knots. I’ve had toys made. Maybe yours doesn’t have as much give as silicone but I know what I’m doing.”
He opened his mouth and I kissed him again. He could say no if he really wanted to and I’d stop but I wanted to kiss him as he played with me. I shifted forward and his free hand found the round, firm globe of my ass and squeezed. His fingers kneaded and walked their way over to where I was the slickest. I rocked my hips, inviting him to touch me all he wanted as our tongues danced between our mouths.
His fingers made quick work of finding my needy omegahole. The air caught in my lungs as the pads of his fingers brushed against it. Still, I moved my hips, rubbing against the tips of his digits as the sensation coiled around me. Heat was a demanding master. Heat wanted it now. All of it – all of Xav – right now but I forced myself to be patient as he drew lazy circles, slipping and sliding over my slick hole. I did my best to wait and ride out the waves of pleasure that stroked my heat as his fingers slid inside me, still slipping on the arousal being near him brought out of me.
“I want it,” I whispered, barely keeping my words from morphing into a whimper. “I want all of it.”
“Do you need more of this?” he asked, curling his fingers up to tease my nerve endings. I bit his shoulder, stifling the roar threatening to break free of my lips. It would not only echo inside the cave but also draw outside attention and I didn’t want any company right now. I might gobble them up and then come back to sit on his lap again.
“I want you,” I said again and sucked his bottom lip into my mouth for a second. “You let me worry about what I can and can’t handle. I’ve been doing this for a lot longer than you have.”
“That’s a big assumption.”
“How many times have you been knotted?” I smirked and he gave a shake of his head giving in to my plan.
Reaching down, I wrapped my fingers around him again. He was still hard and knotted out. I stroked him slowly, pausing to tease his knotted flesh until his hips bucked up and his lips snarled in a way that said he was struggling to keep control of himself.
“Keep it up and you’re going to find yourself face down on this emergency blanket,” he growled.
“I might take you up on that later,” I said, pushing myself up onto my knees and scooting closer to him.
Keeping him in hand, I rubbed the thick, sensitive head of his dick against my slick omegahole. My body clenched, silently begging to be filled up and stuffed full of him.
“So fucking soft and slick,” Xav murmured.
“Better than your cigarettes,” I whispered. “Sometimes when you’re sucking on them, I’m jealous, because they get to be all over your mouth.”
Xav’s hand found the back of my head and pulled me in for a hard kiss. His teeth scraped against my lips and his icy element filled the cave. I breathed out in puffs of steam as his magic cooled me down, but it wasn’t enough to stop the heat. Nothing was ever enough to stop the heat except giving it exactly what it wanted. Cool headed enough to think straight, I lined his thick head up with my hole and slid onto him. I bit my lip as the sensation of him filling me up spread throughout my body. I froze, with just his tip in, giving my brain a moment to catch up. Mischief and hunger danced through Xav’s dark eyes. He wanted to buck up into me, his body begged for it, but I took my time. Slow and steady was the only way either of us were going to get what we wanted. His fingers dug into my hips, and I let out a long, slow breath. I took him in this way – inch by patient inch. We kissed as my body opened to him and soon he was buried inside me up to his knot. I hated to stop kissing him but leaned back on my palms for leverage as I rode him. Pleasure and silk-smooth heat danced over me spreading from the inside out. Xav’s head fell back as his hips bucked in time with mine. Once I was more than comfy and hungry for more, I leaned forward and wrapped my arms around his neck. We shared a long, slow kiss and I pressed myself down. His knot put up a brave fight and he hissed through his teeth as I pressed down again.
“You stay still,” I panted out a long breath. “I’ll do the moving for this part.”
He nodded and kissed me again. I kissed him for a while letting my body relax again before pressing down against his knotted muscle. This time my omegahole played nice with me. I was slick enough and hungry enough that I sank down onto his knot and then over it. My heart pounded in my ears running fast but in time with Xav’s as we clung to each other, both of us a bit overtaken by the new sensations wrecking our trains of thoughts.
“Fuck,” Xav hissed out the word. “Fuck.”
“Shush! You got what you wanted,” I said, leaning back on the palms of my hands again.
I let my eyes drift shut as I rode him as much as his bulging knot would let me. I rocked my ass over him again and again, causing him to give me more, expanding out until I was actually locked in place. My thighs and arms trembled as Xav pulled me back up close to him. He cradled my face in his hands and we kissed hard, tongue flying between my mouth and his. A second later, he broke the kiss and turned his hungry attention to my shoulder. As soon as his gaze fell upon it, my claiming gland tingled. My dragon murmured something about wiggling around but I froze as Xav’s warm, moist tongue licked over my claiming gland. Sweat beaded on my forehead and though my mate wasn’t looking at me, an icy breeze danced up my back. He was better than any air conditioner or fan I ever tried to use during heat.
“I’d hope so,” he chuckled, picking up my thoughts over the flight link.
“That’s the part you pick up?” I laughed.
“That’s the part you thought the loudest, mate. Don’t blame me.”
Xav placed a firm kiss on my gland, and I let out a long, happy sigh. I needed this. We needed this. The magic practically beat at us as he licked circles around my gland. Inside of it, clear magical fluid sloshed around. That was the damn good stuff. The stuff that held the magic of the pact we created years ago when we first chose each other. All true-mates had such glands. At least one gland. Some had two. Juda save us all. Somewhere out there someone probably had more than two. Where the hell would they go once someone ran out of shoulders? I shook the thought away. This wasn’t time to muse about other people’s claiming glands because Xav’s cold canine tooth was sinking into mine. The clear magical fluid flooded onto my shoulder and my alpha chased it down with his tongue. I almost asked him what I tasted like but chickened out. Maybe some things I didn’t need to know. Hopefully the magic didn’t show him anything too petty or too slutty. Okay, slutty was better than petty. He chuckled and licked my skin again lapping up the last of the clear magical fluid.
“What was so funny?” I asked, almost scared to know.
“Slutty is better than petty. Remember that when we have our first fight,” he teased me, squeezing my ass and kneading his fingers into my flesh. “And mostly it was family stuff. That and maybe a map of Moonscale London? Some war stuff.”
“Sorry---”
“Don’t be,” he shook his head, still kneading his fingers into my ass. “I’ve seen battle before. Life isn’t always peaceful but if another war comes – wherever we are – I will keep you safe.”
“That goes both ways, just so you know. They touch you and they fucking die,” I whispered.
“Good to know,” he said and kissed me hard.
I wasn’t sure how to think now that Xav was fully inside my head. Did he know that? Did he hear all my thoughts trying to line themselves out? Did he know how euphoric it felt to be stuffed full of his knotted dick?
When the kiss broke, it was my turn to claim him. There were a million promises I could’ve made but they touch you and they fucking die really summed it up. Ride or die was literal for dragons and ran both ways in mated relationships. Instead, I kissed the icy skin over his claiming gland and drew circles around it with my tongue as he’d done to me moments before.
“Bite him! Claim him!” my dragon purred, and I couldn’t stop it from happening. My inner beast shifted my canine tooth to his and an explosion of chilly, clear magical fluid erupted in my mouth. The borrowed tooth disappeared as I savored the sweet vanilla bean flavor of my alpha. It was cold enough to remind me of ice cream, but Xav’s memories sent a warm wave of fuzzies dancing around my stomach. Everything was green. Trees, grass, even some of the rocks that were here and there. I was a mist. I was an icy mist inside his memories. Then I burnt hot like fire as other mists yelled and screeched. And screeched they did. It was the only word I could use to describe how his mother spoke. Nothing she said was friendly. I didn’t need to speak the language to understand that every word coming out of her mouth was hateful. Then I (and the mist) fled. We fled right through door after door, squeezing around the cracks as wind, ice, fire, whatever element worked really, until we slammed right into Liatris’s classroom. That’s when everything changed. That’s when he found himself even if Liatris still didn’t know Xav flew in on an icy breeze. Glimpses of Starscale establishments popped in and out of my mind. Doctors and dancers ground side by side on dancefloors until my dick ached to be touched. In the solid world, Xav wrapped his fist around my cock and squeezed as the thought crossed my mind.
The memories faded as the last of the vanilla ice cream flavored fluid ran dry. I rocked my hips, savoring the fullness his broad knot provided. Xav gripped my thighs and rocked in time with me. His pleasure squeezed me too now. I could almost feel my omegahole close in and trapping his knot inside me. I bit my lip, but he kissed me making me stop it before the coppery tang of blood dabbled onto my tongue.
We lost ourselves to each other and the newfound magic flowing between us. The cave grew colder and colder as we chased down our joint release. Heat sizzled inside my belly but my skin wasn’t scorching to the touch anymore. I loved his ice, I reveled in it. It was both magic and him. It was as if he could touch me everywhere at once.
I rode him harder and harder as his knot gave us centimeters to work with. Soon it was slim enough that I could ride over it, spreading the sensation to all my nerve endings. My dick shook in Xav’s hand, and he squeezed me harder as he trembled inside me. He was as close as I was, and his pleasure and longing rained down over me on our newly opened mating link.
I came hard, seeing bright lights of stars that might’ve been ice crystals freezing in the air. I panted out my pleasure as I covered him in my cum for the second time that day. His hands found my hips and worked me hard as his hips bucked up, sending his cock deeper into me with each upward thrust. My nails dug into the back of his neck as he thrust up hard again. He breathed out in an icy stream followed by a growl of victory as he released warm, sticky streams of pleasure into me. I clung to him as our bodies slowed. He cradled me against him, locking me in his embrace and there wasn’t anywhere else in the world I wanted to be. My eyes drifted shut and I rested my head against his shoulder. I barely felt him sink down onto his back, still holding me on top of him. The cave was burning up again. The heat hadn’t been satisfied but I couldn’t give it more just yet. My insides still pulsated from the pleasure pumping through my veins from our first time together.