Chapter 58
Chapter
Fifty-Eight
Just looking at Colton’s face, I knew I would not like the answer. He fidgeted on my lap. If he kept wiggling, I was going to want another round. At least he stopped when he felt I was starting to fill him back up.
Colton looked like he wasn’t going to tell me.
His eyes locked with mine, probably weighing what I would say if he told me no.
Reaching up, I brushed my fingers down the side of his face.
Defining his jawline, I moved down to his neck before I brushed my mark on his shoulder lightly.
It was enough to send goosebumps across his skin, and his ass tightened around me for a moment.
“Mar…”
“Please tell me?”
He let out a sigh. “Two.”
My eyes widened. “Two a month? Colt…”
“Two a week.”
My heart sank, and I sat up. Slipping out of him, he settled on my lap more, his eyes wide. I pulled him close, trying to search his face for anything that would tell me he was joking.
“A week?”
He nodded. “I wasn’t avoiding you sleeping with me. I just…didn’t want you to wake up and realize you couldn’t touch me. Or that you could hurt me just by holding me. They only last about three or four hours, but…”
“Colton.” His full name left my mouth as I tried to wrap my head around what he was going through.
“If it helps, it’s a lot better than it was before.” He flashed me a smile.
I growled, my fingers digging into his sides. “It doesn’t. At all. When was it worse?”
“I was having an episode nearly every night. It was before Kayla was born and for months after she was born. It had been so long, and the stress mixed with the pregnancy and being away from you…”
It horrified me. It didn’t make me feel better. I wanted to cry. Instead, I pulled him flush against me and wrapped my arms around him. He was wearing the crystals around his neck, but I still buried my nose in the crook of his neck.
Colton didn’t resist. He melted into my touch. His head leaned against mine, and he wrapped his arms around me as well. We stayed like that for a moment before he ran his hands through my hair.
“I’m okay, Alpha. I promise. It should get better with you here now.”
“The hell you’ve gone through, my mate. I can’t…” I spoke into his skin, not willing to lift my head.
He let out a soft sigh. “I can deal with it. After pregnancy, I think I can handle anything. I don’t think you understand. I thought I was uncomfortable before you left? I was so done.”
I chuckled, finally smiling. “You were done before you hit twenty weeks.”
Colton groaned. “You have no idea. I was so uncomfortable. Nothing was right. Sleeping was a foreign concept. I was betting every day whether she’d break my spine or ribs from her kicking.”
Sighing, I splayed my hand on his chest. “I missed it all.”
“I was very sassy.”
“You are still very sassy.”
Still, it weighed so heavily on me. I’d promised him I would be there.
I wouldn’t leave his side, and that’s exactly what happened.
Everything he had to face on his own. Not just in helping make Colton more comfortable in the late stages, but in helping take care of Kayla.
Beau and Lauren were giving me the horror stories of Kayla being a little menace for Colton.
Absently, I moved my hand to one side. His chest was still built up, and he complained about producing too much. My thumb brushed his nipple, and he sucked in a breath. I didn’t see his face, only the bead of milk that formed and dripped down.
“Don’t. I need to pump. Kayla isn’t feeding as often, and I have to pump between or I end up like this.” Colton gestured to his chest.
“Does it hurt?”
He shrugged. “Kind of? It’s more uncomfortable than anything. They can get bigger than this, and that’s when it starts to actually hurt. She wanted extra this morning, so both sides got drained. Little pterodactyl.”
Leaning back against the rock, I pulled him higher onto me before pressing him down.
My tongue swirled his nipple, and he tried to pull back, but I didn’t let him.
Instead, I tentatively sucked. He moaned, his hands bracing on the rocks behind me.
The second time I did it, liquid flooded into my mouth.
It was sweeter than I thought it would be. The consistency was a little different from normal milk, thicker, and it was warm. I sucked again, rewarded with more. Colton arched his back, pressing into me. This was something I could get addicted to easily.
“Mar…please…that’s…” He was struggling to speak.
I added my tongue and swirled around the erect nipple as I sucked. His hips bucked against me, his dick already pressing hard into my stomach. Still, I kept him from moving away. As I continued, he fucked my front until he jerked and gasped, his dick throbbing as I felt him come against me.
“No…that…fuck…”
I chuckled, letting his nipple go softly. “It tastes incredible.”
He shook his head with his eyes closed. “You can’t just…do that. Fuck. Coming just from that…” Colton let out a breath.
“Think you can do it again?”
Before he could say anything, I moved to the other side.
This one was definitely larger and more sensitive.
Colton immediately arched his back and cried out as my tongue teased him.
It was hard not to smile, but there was something so hot about drinking from him.
My cock was so hard, but I couldn’t do anything about it yet.
Luckily, he was on the cusp of coming when I stopped and slid him down. He reached back, taking my shaft and guiding it to his hole. He sat back, slowly taking me in. It was torturously slow, but with the water, it would wash away any of his slick and wouldn’t be comfortable if we did it rough.
I let him lead. He was slow at first, but the pleasure took over. His speed picked up, and I helped him stay straight as he went from my tip all the way down my shaft, taking me completely. After a minute, he threw his head back, and I smiled.
Everything about him was otherworldly. I loved how flushed his face was, how his fingers curled and dug into my skin. The sounds he made drove me wild, and I ended up coming before he did. Growling, I thrust up into him and filled him. He cried out, his release coming from under the water.
He fell forward, curling up against me. I moved his hair to the side and dragged my fingers over his skin, reveling in the feeling. I’d missed him so much. Smirking, I leaned my head back against the stone behind me.
“So, would this be a bad time to talk about having more hatchlings?”
Colton’s hand balled up into a fist and hit me in my chest. It was a feeble attempt to hurt me, and I laughed, bouncing his head. He growled and nuzzled into my chest.
“No. Now is not a good time. It will not be a good time for a couple of years. Kayla is a handful and a half.”
“I should go grab something.”
He shook his head. “I’ll ask Eva to bring the potions she has by. She’s been asking me, and I kept saying no. I couldn’t imagine myself sleeping with you when you didn’t have your memory. I guess now I need them.”
“You’re okay still having more with me, though?”
Raising his head, Colton looked confused. “Why wouldn’t I? I’m not having kids with anyone else.”
“I just…after everything with Kayla…I know how hard…”
Rolling his eyes, he sat up and crossed his arms over my chest. “That’s not my Alpha talking.”
My eyes widened, staring at him. “Colt…”
“I need you, Mar. I need my Alpha. You are my strength. I can’t be the strong one. I tried it…for seven months.” He smiled softly. “I hated it. All of it. Every single part. You then shrunk down and the only way I could think of…”
“…was to make me angry.”
Colton nodded. “It wasn’t a good plan. As Mike said, I was playing with fire, but it didn’t matter. I needed you to take the lead. I want you to take the lead.”
I nodded, taking a breath for a moment to recenter myself. “I want more. I want to be there for you from start to finish. If you want to wait until next year, I can wait.”
His brow knitted together, and I struggled to stay serious. “Wait…I said a couple of years. Not next year.”
“And I’m giving you until next year.”
Punching me with a little more effort, he lifted off me and swam over to his clothes. I could hear him grumbling as he dunked down for a moment before getting up out of the hot spring. Grabbing a towel he had, he wiped down his body before pulling on his clothes.
“You suck, Mar.”
From my position, I just watched him for a moment. Enjoying the view of him getting dressed. He was lucky. In my mind, that was a compromise. Now that I knew how he tasted, I wanted to always have it. Drink it from the source. Doing that meant keeping him pregnant back to back.
I chuckled to myself, sounding a bit too enthusiastic about the prospect. Standing, I stepped out of the spring after him. Shifting into my humanoid dragon form, I heated my core and waited a little for the water to evaporate before shifting back, completely dry.
“You can just do that?” He was staring at me.
“Yes?” I picked up my clothes, but didn’t bother putting them on.
He huffed and stormed off when I reached out and grabbed his wrist. Pulling him into another kiss, I doused him in my pheromones. His hand pressed against my chest, but he didn’t pull me away.
“I don’t want us to go back to what it was. I won’t stand for it. You’re my mate and I’m not sleeping another night without you in bed.”
“But…”
My dragon stepped forward. “No.”
Colton nodded.
“If you’re having an episode, you tell me.
I’ll help the best I can. I know it won’t be exactly as it was before, but I don’t want what was happening before.
You and I are mates. They didn’t break that, no matter how close they got or how long it took me to come back.
I chose you, Colton, uninhibited. I kneeled only to you and promised you.
You are my Omega and nothing is going to change that. Do you understand?”
He nodded again.
“Words, little wolf.”
“Yes, Alpha.” They were small, but I heard them.
I nodded, my face serious. “One more thing.”
He stood straight, waiting. “What?”
“Happy birthday. I missed your twentieth birthday. I’ll get you a belated present.”
A smile filled his face. “Happy birthday to you, too.”