Chapter 4 #3
‘I’m guessing you made sure she had a little scare, first? ‘ I ask. ‘To deter her from trying to leave again?’
His lips twitch. ‘Of course. I dangled her long enough for one of them to almost get her.’ He chuckles. ‘She was frightened as a doe when she saw that fucking thing leap out of the water for her. Serves her right.’
I nod. ‘We’re going to need to keep a close eye on her. She’s got a knack for getting into trouble.’
He rolls his eyes. ‘Maybe we should lock her in our rooms, chain her to the bed until she realizes where her bread is buttered.’
I ignore him, but knowing my friend, he’s probably half serious. ‘How long do you want to let her sleep?’
He glances at his watch. ‘Not long. We’re going to need to do it a few times to make sure it takes.’
I nod, watching him absently stroke her shoulder.
It’s only a few minutes before he nods at me. I shake her awake and she mutters something, batting my hand away.
‘We need to do it again, Mari,’ I tell her, and she frowns, opening her eyes.
‘Again?’
‘Yes, it’ll be on and off for a while.’
‘How long?’
‘Until it’s done,’ Brax answers, parting her thighs.
She looks scared for a minute, but he doesn’t do anything else, just waits until she gives a small nod and moves onto her back.
‘Do what you have to,’ she says in a small voice.
I don’t like her resigned tone at all, but Brax is already lining himself up and easing himself into her.
She gasps, her eyes clenching.
‘Are you okay?’ he sounds almost genuinely concerned.
She nods, but her body is still tense, and I motion for him to stop.
‘Are you sore?’ I ask.
She nods again and I see Brax give an almost imperceptible wince.
‘I didn’t realize… I thought you’d already taken her.’
‘I only used my tongue,’ I murmur pointedly, and I get another wince.
‘I’m sorry, little rabbit. I was too rough for your first time.’
‘You can’t heal me too?’ she asks him.
I see his jaw tick and my lips twitch. He hates that he can’t do it. He always has.
‘No,’ he admits quietly.
‘It’s a rare skill,’ I say, unable to keep myself from rubbing it in a little. ‘One he doesn’t have.’
His answering scowl would have a lesser dragon quaking, but not me. He’s forgotten who I am… What I am.
Maybe I’d forgotten, too.
I switch places with him and put him and the past from my mind. I want to savor this. Last time I did it quickly for her sake because she was scared. This time, Brax has unknowingly paved the way for my softer touches with his roughness.
I ease a long, lone finger into her, healing her carefully.
Her relaxed sigh and the way her body unclenches as her pain recedes is like a balm on my soul, something I didn’t know I needed. The dragon paces through my mind, wanting more than what I’m doing right now, but I shove him back ruthlessly.
We’ll take her now, but I’m in control, not you. You’ll hurt her. She needs calm. Seduction.
I can feel his frustration.
She’s strong, not weak, he snarls.
She’s human, I reply silently.
I slowly draw my finger from her and, unable to help myself, I pop it into my mouth with a groan.
She gasps and I register my friend’s surprise. I hate humans, or I’ve always professed that I do with my peers in the faction. But there was a time…long ago.
I shut the thoughts down. It’s not the time to indulge in memories.
Instead, I let my eyes move over Mari, taking in the rapid rise and fall of her chest, the way her eyes are riveted to the finger I’m still sucking on, and I’m overcome with an urge to understand what she likes, what makes her body heat.
I lean over her, making sure she’s watching me as I draw my hands slowly up the inside of her thighs. Her eyes drift closed, and I tut at her, my hands stopping their ascent immediately.
‘Eyes on me, Mari,’ I growl and watch as those green, expression-filled orbs snap open, pupils dilating.
She likes the orders, I realize, but I’ll bet she doesn’t know that about herself.
‘Did you enjoy being prey?’ I ask.
‘No.’ She shakes her head, but I can tell she’s not giving me or herself the whole truth.
‘What was it that you didn’t like?’
Her brow knits together. ‘Th-the water and the thing. The fish. It almost got me, and I was hanging upside down.’
‘That was part of your punishment for leaving the building when you were told not to,’ I explain sympathetically. ‘In our world, orders need to be followed, or little humans like you don’t make it.’
She looks away, and I cup her cheek, making her look back at me.
‘I mean the game before it, Red.’
My hands go back to her knees and start moving upward again, tracing over the tops of her thighs to her belly and around her breasts. I avoid all the areas she expects me to touch, instead caressing her shoulders and down her arms to her hands, only to go back the way I came to do it all again.
‘Did you like running from us?’ I continue as I stroke her. ‘Knowing we’d catch you? Knowing what we’d do when we did?’
Her breathing stutters and her pupils dilate. Her hips shift without her even noticing. But I do.
‘Are you going to answer?’
She nods. ‘Yes.’
‘Yes, what?’ I ask, my hands gliding up and down her sides firmly before returning to her legs.
‘Yes, I liked it,’ she admits.
I glance at Brax who’s staring at her, at what I’m doing.
‘What was it that you liked?’ I murmur, my hands flitting dangerously close to the apex of her thighs before moving away again.
I ignore the fact that her hips buck a little more this time, and her lips part on a quickly indrawn breath.
‘I liked that I was being chased,’ she breathes out. ‘I…liked that feeling. I felt alive.’
‘And when Brax brought you in and fucked you?’
She winces and I think she’s not going to admit it, but her eyes find Brax.
‘I liked that too,’ she confesses in a very quiet voice. ‘But it hurt.’
I tut at him, and he looks rueful for a second before his face hardens and he looks away.
‘Do you touch yourself, Mari? In the dead of the night when everyone’s asleep in your little town? When no one can hear you?’
She looks at me again with wide eyes. ‘Um. Well…’
‘Show us,’ I cajole, almost making it sound like a request even though it isn’t one.
I spread her legs gently as one of her hands flutters to her mound. Two fingers find her clit, circling it and her eyes drift closed again.
Two of my thick fingers press at her entrance, making her gasp.
‘No, Mari,’ I chide. ‘You look at me.’
She does what I say, her gaze fixed on me. I groan when I delve into her shallowly and find her dripping. Her fingers keep up their circles, quickening as Brax and I watch her.
I think she likes us looking at her.
‘You’re very wet,’ I comment in a low voice, entering her just an inch and scissoring the tips of my fingers.
‘Would you like to play that game with us again? We could take you to a forest, give you thirty minutes to run and hide and then start searching. You’d hear us getting closer and closer, your heart fluttering as we closed in on you. ’
Her throat bobs.
‘You’d wait until the last moment, but once you knew we’d found you, you’d fly from your hiding spot like the little rabbit you are. You’d try so hard to evade us.’ I groan. ‘You’d put everything into it. Wouldn’t you? Even though you’d want to be caught.’
She nods, eyes not leaving mine.
‘And we would catch you,’ I breathe. ‘We’d grab you, rip off whatever clothes we’d let you wear, and spread your legs wide.’ I punctuate my words with action, pushing her thighs wider.
‘I’d line up my thick, hard cock right here.’ I notch myself at her entrance and watch as her mouth falls open, her eyes unfocused, ‘and I’d take what was mine,’ I snarl, sliding into her hot, dripping cunt in one smooth motion that makes her give a strangled cry.
But where Brax was rough, I’m the opposite. I let her adjust the way I know he didn’t, and I’m amused when I see his eyes narrow at me from the sidelines. He leans forward and, in a gesture I know is borne of his competitive nature, he kisses her lips.
But she pulls away with a small cry of upset, turning her head away from such an intimate act.
He looks momentarily annoyed but then kisses down her neck instead as if that’s what he was always going to do. He takes a nipple into his mouth and suckles.
He pulls back at her gasp, releasing it with a pop and he chuckles as he eases back. ‘Is that new to you as well? What exactly did Tor even do with you?
‘Just used his tongue,’ she whispers.
Annoyed at their conversation while I’m inside her, I start to move, thrusting into her firmly, but gently, letting her feel every inch of me while Brax looks on.
Her fingers falter as her pleasure rises and I raise a brow at my friend, who blinks almost in surprise at my unspoken order, but almost laughably scrambles to angle his face between her legs to suckle her clit.
I lean back, grabbing a pillow and pulling her hips up to slide it underneath her ass to give my friend more room. His nose brushes my shaft, and I’m filled with something I haven’t felt in a very long time.
Dominance.
He might be higher than me in the pecking order in the Stormriders, but in this room, he’s mine to command.
I keep my pace slow, almost languid, my motions gentle but unyielding.
She’s relaxed under me, her eyes still on me as she lets out little gasps with each thrust. If I knew her better, if I didn’t know myself better I might call this making love.
But instead, I call it what it is, a very gentle fuck to juxtapose Brax’s hard one in the bathroom.
‘More,’ she whimpers.
But I don’t change my pace. There’ll be ample time to plow her into the mattress later. This first time with her is going to be like this with our eyes connected.
‘Lick her,’ I growl at him. ‘Make our female come. I want to feel her pussy walls tighten around me, milk me.’
He does what I say, and she moans under us, her hand fisting in the covers as I feel her body begin to shake with pleasure.