60. Kitaro

Chapter 60

Kitaro

T hey were two weeks into their journey when Vanra's heat hit. It left Kitaro deeply conflicted. The enchanted amulet that hid Vanra's scent weakened him too much to be practical while traveling, but not wearing it meant his heat would broadcast to any shifter they passed. That would open them up to the possibility of a problematic interaction.

Vanra insisted since he was riding Kitaro and not walking, the exhaustion shouldn't be an issue like it would have been had they been traveling on foot. However, after two straight days of wearing it, Vanra had weakened to where, if they had been attacked, he would have been in danger and incapable of defending himself.

The only possible course of action was to find a cave where Kitaro could erect a protective barrier. It would allow Vanra to recover his strength by not wearing the amulet. That meant being trapped in a tight space to drown in Vanra's heat scent at the height of it, but Kitaro resolved himself to not react.

With the looming threat that Satsuma might forcibly disrupt their relationship by declaring that Vanra had to return to his time, their interactions had become relatively chaste outside of a few kisses. It drove Kitaro's dragon almost to the point of madness. But Kitaro needed to be careful. The more Kitaro fell in love with the human, the harder it would be to let him go if it came to that.

Kitaro finally found a suitable cave to bunker down. He crouched down so Vanra could dismount, then shifted back into his person form. The shifter took great care in erecting a protective barrier at the entrance of the cave before returning to the human's side to start a fire for him.

"We will be safe here," Kitaro promised Vanra. "You may take off the amulet while we are in here."

"But that'll cause problems for your dragon." Vanra's voice had a waver of exhaustion in it that pained Kitaro. He should have acted sooner.

"Seeing you in this drained state is far more upsetting to my dragon," Kitaro said. "You need time to recover, which you cannot do while wearing the amulet."

Vanra bit his lower lip. "Are you sure?"

"I am. Please take it off."

The instant Vanra removed the pendant, his heat scent overwhelmed Kitaro's senses. He inhaled deeply to take in the tantalizing fragrance that called out to him to mate with the human. Despite his protests, Kitaro's dragon pushed to the forefront. His eyes glowed bright silver in the dark cave as he stared down at Vanra.

"I'm sorry. This must be torture for you."

"It is never torture to be around you, especially when you smell so sweet," Kitaro's dragon told Vanra.

The mage's cheeks colored. Tendrils of his desire filled the air with their spicy scent.

Kitaro's dragon was on top of Vanra in an instant, pinning the human to the cave floor. The heat scent drove the dragon wild with a forbidden lust. "We have been holding back for fear of losing you," Kitaro's dragon confessed. "We argue that if we are to lose you, it would be better to have not wasted these moments, but our other half has been most adamant about resisting our feelings for you."

"How am I supposed to leave you when you're the best thing that's ever happened to me?" Vanra asked in anguish.

"We are sure that fate could not part us if we were bondmates," Kitaro's dragon murmured, stealing another heated kiss. "But he will not allow us to do as we wish. That does not mean we cannot do other things, though."

"Other things? "

"Other things ," Kitaro's dragon purred. He leaned down to kiss Vanra's neck, then used magic to make all their clothes disappear when it impeded his exploration.

Although he was exhausted, Vanra's body still reacted to the teasing. He arched up under the attention Kitaro's dragon lavished on him. He gasped when the dragon toyed with his nipples. A lusty haze fell over him, leaving him helpless to resist what his body had been missing for weeks.

Encountering no resistance, Kitaro's dragon was relentless in pleasuring Vanra to make up for lost time. Even his other half gave in to what they both craved. They were almost drunk on the heady scent of Vanra's heat. The dragon went down on the human, moaning in pleasure at the taste of Vanra's arousal in his most intimate place.

Vanra cried out Kitaro's name, which echoed in the cave.

Kitaro's dragon rumbled approvingly, then rewarded Vanra by toying with his entrance. When the human's body moved to meet him, Kitaro shortened his claws and used magic to penetrate Vanra. He longed for it to be his cock inside Vanra, but there was only so much the dragon could get away with before Kitaro would force him back into his cage once more.

Vanra rutted against the dragon in mindless pleasure. His fingers entangled in Kitaro's hair, tugging on it as he pushed deeper into the shifter's throat with needy pleas for more. It didn't take long for him to climax.

Kitaro's dragon gladly drank every drop of Vanra's release.

Vanra's orgasm had drained the last of his strength. He passed out into a deep slumber with a soft moan of satisfaction. Given his exhaustion, Kitaro's dragon didn't blame the human for succumbing to sleep.

Kitaro's dragon jerked off while appreciating how the fragrance of Vanra's release mixed with his heat scent in the most delectable manner.

Even after Kitaro's dragon came, he remained in control. Curling up next to the human, Kitaro's dragon nuzzled against Vanra. As much as Vanra's heat drove them both wild with lust, simply being near Vanra brought great pleasure. They would continue watching over Vanra and keeping him safe.