Chapter 7 #3
“I know more than you think,” Vilka said. “I know, for instance, that you are best kept stripped, contained, and well fucked. It is the only time you are not actively causing trouble, I think, when you are beneath me, filled with my flesh.”
Her blush was bright red and she swallowed deeply, as if she didn’t know what to say, or even how to take his words.
“Is that what I need to do, Kate? Do I need to fuck you again?”
His hand slid down her belly. She let out a whimper as his fingers found her swollen pussy.
She had been taken twice today. She had lost her virginity and she had been ridden hard.
He did not want to hurt her, and had no intention of taking her again, though his cock was already rampant at the hint of the idea.
“You’re sore,” he told her. “You’re tired and although you don’t want to admit it, you’re weaker than I am. There is no shame in that. It is what you are. It is how you were made. So stop arguing with me for a little while and let yourself get some rest.”
She bit her lower lip and didn’t say anything.
That was probably the closest he was going to get to agreement from her.
He slid his hand back and pulled her against his body again, cradling her precious form against his hard frame.
He loved how she felt against him, so soft and tender, so sweet in spite of her sour tongue.
They lay there in silence for some time, drifting in their thoughts. He felt her begin to relax, the tension leaving her muscles little by little.
“If humans expect to be able to invade any territory they find, are they not concerned that we could be the same way inclined?”
“I don’t know,” Kate said, lifting her eyes to look at him. “There’s not really anything anyone can do if it happens.”
“So humans live in fear of a dragon invasion?”
“Not really,” Kate said. “I mean, some do, I suppose. Some people have bunkers and things and are trying to buy heavy artillery—not that they’re allowed to, and not that they weren’t doing that before dragons came. But in general… no. I don’t think so.”
“No? That is strange,” Vilka observed. “Did the war not leave a lasting impression?”
“Yes and no,” Kate said, happy to talk, it seemed.
“Most people are sort of in denial about it. I mean, outside the areas which were directly affected. There’s conspiracy theories that there never was an invasion, that the government dosed everyone in California on LSD in the water supply and it was just a grand hallucination. ”
“You cannot be serious,” Vilka snorted. “My father’s legions rained fire over your lands and whole cities were destroyed, if his stories are to be believed. How could such an event be erased from the collective memory?”
Kate nibbled at her lower lip as she thought. It was a little idiosyncrasy he found quite charming.
“I think maybe people can’t really live with the thought of giant lizard creatures breathing fire behind every atom,” she mused.
“It scares them too much. It’s easier to think that the government is experimenting on its own people than to think that we’re at the mercy of forces beyond all our control. ”
“So nothing has been done,” he said incredulously. “You’re telling me your realm is simply there for the taking?”
“Don’t get any ideas,” she said sharply.
“Obviously we have weapons capable of doing damage to dragons. I’m just saying there’s nothing public or obvious.
I’m sure there are other people working on it too; it’s the sort of thing that captures a scientific imagination.
And the military, they’re probably working on some things, but they’re also rebuilding after the war and the budgets aren’t really there and… ” She shrugged. “It’s just life.”
“It’s just life,” he said. “To ignore a significant threat on your borders and leave the next foray into the world beyond to a young woman with a death wish.”
“I don’t have a death wish!” Her eyes widened at him and she looked utterly confused.
“You certainly don’t have a sense for self-preservation,” he said. “It amounts to the same thing.”
“It does not,” she scowled. “I just think some risks are worth taking. I guess you can’t understand that.”
He looked at her, half wishing he could share his secrets, but knowing that someone like Kate would almost certainly exploit them for her own ends.
They would have to wait until she accepted her place in his realm.
Then he would tell her everything. Until then, he was left with platitudes to express himself.
“I can understand it more than you imagine.”
“Sure you can,” Kate said, rolling her eyes. “You think you know everything, but you really don’t.”
“How frustrating for you,” Vilka deadpanned, “to be in conversation with someone who insists they know better even though they seem to know nothing at all.”
She made a face at him and tucked herself into his arms, her eyes closing as she started to lose the battle against sleep. Vilka’s heart swelled in his chest, a protective, loving urge rising so powerfully in him that for a moment he did not know how to contain it.
“Good night, my human,” he murmured, pressing a kiss to the top of her fire-red hair.
Kate mumbled something back. He suspected it was probably something rude.