Chapter Eleven
Sunny
After we said goodbye to Laken’s grandma, he cleaned up the kitchen while I stepped into the back garden and called to check in with Castor. He’d grown more comfortable with the crew staying away for longer, but I grew accustomed to touching base with him and the others as if we were a big extended family. He thanked me for checking in and told me to take my time working things out. Everyone was eager to find out what Liam’s vision might bring but Castor knew better than anyone that sometimes life stood still when you met your true-mate.
Then I sent the triplets a text to let them know I met my true-mate. My parents were two kids up since I left but I was still in a group chat with my nephews: Cobalt, Teal, and Indigo. Due to the age difference between me and their dad we more or less grew up together. It took me forever to realize that they had their own triplet link, and every group messaging system was for my benefit.
“That’s why we’ll have our kids in clusters. No one grows up as an only child. Either they get clutch mates, or they get siblings close to their age. None of this left out nonsense,” my dragon chimed into my thoughts.
I didn’t have a chance to answer him before congratulations texts from the triplets poured into our group chat. I was typing out a thank you and about to inquire about their love lives when the questions started.
COBALT: Do you know what Liam’s vision means yet? I heard it was S&M related.
INDIGO: Maybe she ran a kink club. That would make sense. Keeper of the keys or something.
I made a mental note to tell the others to maybe try phrases that included keys. Keys and doors did go together, and puzzles had been solved in stranger ways.
TEAL: Not S&M. Teddy wouldn’t do S&M. I wanted to let you know, Sunny, watch out for enraged dragons. Those get tied down. Maybe the Starscales tie them down to slabs of stone so they can’t fly away. Be careful. Tell your mate to be careful too.
ME: I will. Always careful.
ME: Has Liam told anyone who Teddy’s mate is?
TEAL: I’m working on it. You’d think so would Duke but he told me to mind my business. If Teddy is your business then he’s our business too. Grandcarrier says to mind our business too but he’s more concerned about who you’re going to sacrifice and to who. He wanted us to remind you that Frost and Juda have never asked for any sort of blood sacrifice like that.
I rolled my eyes. Of course that’s what my carrier would worry about. He’d pick the most outlandish possibility and worry about it. Though, my youngest sibling was born not long ago and Dad always got weird after having a baby. At least, that’s what I’d been told.
COBALT: So is he hot? When do we get to see him?
Me: Uh…. Cousin. We don’t know for sure who it is yet. Put it back in your pants.
INDIGO: Not S&M guy. YOUR MATE!!!!!!!!!!!
COBALT: WHAT HE SAID!
TEAL: SORRY THEY’RE UNCIVILIZED KOMODO DRAGONS!!
ME: Soon. I promise. I’m not sending a photo of him to another world without his permission though. Oh! Shit! What do you guys think of heading a community tree project in London? I almost forgot to ask you.
COBALT: That’s my cue to run away. I’m allergic to half the things my carrier grows.
TEAL: Email me more details. I’ll help you. I think it’s to impress your guy anyway. So, I’ll help.
I almost told him it was about more than impressing Laken. It would’ve been the truth, but I didn’t want to leave a trail of texts insulting how my grandparents ran things. If they knew that was influenced by Laken at all, they’d never like him. My carrier would be offended that he was accused of not ‘loving’ his flight and my sire would blow his top, saying he did the best he could. It was better if I waited until I could get the triplets on the phone.
ME: Thanks, Teal. Cobalt, take your damn allergy shot. Make them sit on you or something. You’re bigger than that needle.
“So, that’s why you wouldn’t have made fun of me,” Laken said, leaning his chin on my shoulder.
“Dragons did not evolve to take shots. We evolved to rebel against anything that tries to stab us,” I shrugged. “Those are my nephews. We’re all around the same age, though. They’re triplets.”
“The ones you grew up with,” Laken nodded and kissed my bare shoulder. “I look forward to meeting them.”
“One of them might help with the community plant project,” I told him as I typed a quick ‘talk later’ text to the triplets. “He thinks I’m only doing it to impress you.”
“Even if you are, I’ll take it and probably so will the dragons that get food in their bellies because of it. Sometimes if something has a good outcome, people can forgive you for thinking with your dick.”
“Eh, I mean, you’re hot, but I wouldn’t need to do that to get laid,” I teased him, tucking my phone into my pocket and turning around so that we faced each other. “But as we’ve established, I’ve never wanted just a romp. Besides, I don’t disagree with you. I don’t know that it’ll work back—”
“Nothing works until it does. No nail is hammered in until you find someone to hold it steady,” Laken said.
“I’ll hold it steady,” I smirked.
“This is where I want to make a joke about alphas always being so fucking horny, but,” he said, grabbing my hand and putting it on his crotch.
My nostrils flared and a ring of smoke drifted out. Laken smirked at me. He smelled so fucking good. Keeping my hand on his crotch, I claimed a long, slow kiss. His soft lips parted under mine, and I slid my tongue into his warm, welcoming mouth. His stubble rubbed against my face. Not a lot of dragons grew facial hair so quickly. I wondered if he was a whiskered dragon and suddenly was torn between getting him naked again and seeing him in the scales.
“I am,” he growled against my lips.
“Whiskered or naked?”
“You’d know if I was naked with what you’re holding onto, mate,” he chuckled, and we kissed again.
The scales could wait and so could the whiskers. I started to drop to my knees, but he grabbed one of my belt loops and pulled me back inside.
“I’m not modest but you never know who will walk by. Probably no one who would take offense but—”
“You don’t have to explain. If broad daylight backyard head is off limits, it’s off limits. You don’t have to explain why,” I said, dropping to my knees.
Once we were alone with the door shut, getting Laken out of his clothes was easy. I kissed his belly before licking up and down the happy trail that led to his hard, throbbing dick. He ran his fingers through my hair, tickling and massaging my scalp, as I licked and kissed up and down his stomach before finally dropping my attention down to his cock. Holding it at its wide shaft, I licked up his underside. His hands gripped my shoulders and squeezed, fingers trembling against my flesh. I drew zigzags with my tongue around scales as I licked my way back down to my fist. I took my time exploring his dick and marking him as my territory before he used his bulk to make room for himself to drop down to the floor with me. Cupping my chin, he pulled me up into a long, hard kiss. His teeth scraped against my bottom lip, bringing up scales to protect me. I kissed him hard until he leaned back on his heels almost as if we both struggled to whip the other’s tongue into submission. He kissed me back, running his hands up and down my thighs.
“Lay back,” he murmured against my lips, and I almost did without asking why.
“Don’t be like that,” he laughed. “I’m not asking you to walk over a mine field. Just lay back.”
“My turn to get you off,” I shook my head in between kisses.
“And I plan to get off,” he said, caressing the spots where my knees bent. “I promise it’ll be worth it to trust me for a second. I mean, you trusted me not to kill you in the arena. I don’t plan on smothering you today.”
Laughing, I leaned back until my legs came out from under me so that I could stretch them out. Laken was over me, kissing me again. I wrapped my arms around his neck as our tongues danced between our mouths. Every inch of me craved more of him. Touching and kissing – hell, even sucking him, wasn’t enough. It was as if something inside me starved, and he was the only cure for the hunger pangs plaguing me. I kissed him like he was my oxygen, and I would die without him.
“Be right back. Sort of,” he laughed, rolling off me.
I reached for him, but he was already out of grabbing range. He was over me, undoing my pants and stealing them away so that I lay naked on his kitchen floor. Then he straddled over me with his face above my hard dick. Before my brain registered which position he’d guided us into, he licked away a drop of precum from the sensitive, throbbing head of my dick. I roared as the sensation rolled up my body.
“Told you it’d be worth it,” Laken chuckled, his words laced with need.
He wiggled his ass at me, until I hooked my hands under his hips and pulled him back. I licked over the textured skin of his soft scrotum as he returned his attention to licking up and down my shaft. Holding onto his hips and thighs, I licked away the slick arousal that dribbled onto his balls. Slowly, teasingly, I licked and kissed my way up to his dripping omegahole. I squeezed his hips as his mouth slid down my dick. My hips arched up to meet his soft, welcoming mouth.
Laken’s hands rested hard against my thighs as if silently telling me to hold still. All that meant was I needed to work harder if he could still think that straight. I lapped at the sweet, tangy arousal pooling around his omegahole. He pushed back against my face and suddenly I got his joke about not smothering me. I grinned for a second before I lost my train of thought as Laken’s nimble tongue traced the tip of my cock and then licked away another drop of precum.
I snatched at my wits and gripped his hips, my fingers digging into his flesh as I licked over his dribbling omegahole. He pressed back against me again, letting out a deep, throaty moan that let me know I was headed in the right direction. I lost myself to his mouth and the taste of his slick arousal sliding all over my tongue and lips. He was so fucking slick – so fucking ready and here I was pinned under him as he sucked my brain out of my dick. My hips rocked against the heavy weight of his hands, thrusting up into his warm mouth. He sucked me hard – taking his time to slide up and down my shaft, drawing out the moment when I’d come despite how close up to my body my heavy balls had drawn themselves.
I licked him relentlessly, doing my best to give as good as I got. He moaned over my dick, pressing his tongue hard against it. I let go of one of his hips and took his thick cock in my hand. He was dribbling a line of precum onto my skin as I stroked him in time with my tongue lapping at the slick arousal still pooling outside his omegahole. He was fucking perfect. I could’ve lived right there on the floor pinned under him with my dick in his mouth forever even as he grew close to the edge and dug his nails into my thighs. I hissed against his flesh but rocked my hips to keep everything going. My breaths came in heavy pants and smoke rings shot out of my nose as if I tried to perform a circus trick.
He roared!
Victory was mine!
Laken came first, spilling the proof of all the pleasure I milked from him onto my flesh. Still, I licked at him as he slid his groaning mouth down my cock again. I trembled underneath him as his nails scratched deeper into me. I bit into his ass cheek when I finally came hard and fast and he swallowed down my pleasure as if it were a delicacy. We collapsed together there on the kitchen floor, him still laying on me upside down. I stroked his hips and thighs as we both caught our breath.
Eventually, he wiggled around to face the same direction as me and we helped each other upright. He was right about coming inside. This would’ve been one helluva mess to make where anyone could walk by and see. He grabbed one of the dish towels and wiped my face and then my belly before balling the towel up in his fist. I had the inkling that his shower was going to get used more than it ever had over the next few weeks.