Crystal

I'm on the cusp of believing I can't possibly come any more when yet another climax pulses through me. Clamping down hard on Drelix's cock, my bottom hole pulses over his tail. I'm being plundered everywhere and fucking hell, I love it.

"Bite me," I growl at him.

"I can't," he groans, his thrusts becoming irregular, sweat pouring from his scales as he does his level best to hold back. "My venom, it will be bad for you."

"No," I grind out. "It won't and I need it. Bite me, Drelix."

Confusion and lust war across his gorgeous face, and fangs appear over his lips, extending as he gazes down on me, clear liquid running from them.

"Once I claim you, there's no going back," he says, with some difficulty.

"I don't want to go back." I gaze up at him. "I've never been more sure of anything in my entire life. You are all I want, Drelix."

He pulls back and slams into me again. I'm so very aware of how full I am with his tail in my dark channel curling up so it hits all the right parts. He licks slowly up the skin of my neck and with no further ceremony, I feel an initial searing pain followed by the ultimate bliss as his venom fills me. I am in a perpetual state of pleasure, either riding the wave of a climax or rising up on it.

Drelix lifts his head with a roar, his final thrusts leading up to a slight pinch I hardly feel as he fills me with hot cum, each pulse swelling my stomach as his stunning fiery eyes do not leave mine for a second.

"Mine," he says, the voice somewhere between a growl and a purr.

I feel an inextricable pull to him, as if we're joined somehow by an invisible thread. It can't be true but my soul insists it is.

Drelix is part of me, and I am part of him.

My big bad dragon slides his tail out of my bottom and grins sleepily at me as he settles us comfortably, his hook still embedded as, with the occasional grunt, he pulses still more cum inside me. Drelix traces one claw down my neck before leaning in to lap over his bite.

It tingles but doesn't hurt at all.

"You look even more beautiful with my claiming mark." Drelix sighs.

There's a dull ache in my neck, but nothing more than that. When I touch it, all I can feel is a slightly raised area.

His finger continues tracing over a sensitive nipple and then on to where my stomach is rounded by all of his emissions.

"And you'll look just as beautiful filled with my sarkarnling," he says with a wicked smile.

"How likely is that?" I ask.

"Very likely."

I nearly jump out of my skin at the unfamiliar voice ringing across the room. Instantly, Drelix has withdrawn from me and is on his feet with a snarl.

Stood in the doorway are four hooded creatures.

"Sisters! What is the meaning of this?" Drelix half snarls.

All four flip back their hoods and there, just as my hazy memory recalls, are the living corpses. Blackened hairless heads with blank eyes, no nose, and a slit for a mouth from which large, sharp teeth protrude. Skeletal and terrible, they advance on us both, one of them holding a pulsar cannon, which is absolutely not a good thing to be at the wrong end of.

"The meaning should be obvious to you, Haisarkarnii. Our aim was to create a rarity and then use it to create a demand."

My skin creeps. Wrapping the sheet around me, I slide off the bed on the opposite side from the corpse nuns and get close to Drelix. I risk a quick glance behind us to see the star cat pacing up and down outside the room on the balcony. He opens his mouth, but I don't hear any sound. There is a forcefield keeping him out.

And us in.

I nudge Drelix who is growling up a storm at our skeletal captors, flicking my head at what should be our exit. He pushes me behind him as he checks it out, not ceasing his noise for a second.

"What do you want?" I ask from behind my mound of scales and muscles.

"We have what we want, you. A vessel for hybrid Sarkarnii young and a Haisarkarnii to make more. Further, when he brings the rest of his kind here, we will have them too." She looks me up and down with as much disgust as her zombified face can muster. "Get dressed," she spits at me. "You too, Sarkarnii."

Drelix bristles, claws extending from his fingers, wings sprouting from his back and tail lashing.

"You dare to take on a Sarkarnii warrior…with that?" He glares at the pulsar cannon.

"We are in a monixi cage. We are immune to pulsar energy, but you…and your mate…are not."

"You don't want to damage us. You just said so," I retort.

"We don't want you dead, but functioning, even without all your limbs present, will still be fine for our purposes." The living corpse at the front cackles. "Your choice."

Damn it! I look up at Drelix. He looks, frankly, like he's about to explode. But if we're in a monixi cage created by the forcefield, it's not good. Such a cage will simply take any energy discharged within it and make mincemeat of me. Clearly the Sisters of the All Gods feel it's a risk worth taking, and I don't want to test their resolve.

"Drelix?" I query.

He looks down at me, slowly, his eyes filled with resignation.

"I cannot risk you, heartsfire. You are my entire universe," he says quietly.

"Then there's no choice." I glare at the horrible creatures who manage, somehow, given they have little in the way of flesh on their bones, to look smug.

Drelix's tail taps on the ground as he steadfastly refuses to put on pants while I dress with my back to the Sisters. Without the ability to clean up properly, I do my best with the sheet I had wrapped around me and just hope for the best.

Once I'm done, Drelix pulls me to him.

"Whatever happens, I'm here for you, Crystal, always," he says as the Sisters screech at him to let me go and get on the floor.

He eventually complies and a heavy metal collar is snapped around his neck and his body bound with chains. They don't bother with me at all, simply leading Drelix away.

Knowing I will follow.

Whatever happens next, it's not going to be good.