Chapter 18

18

Alluresh

T avi's sweet, tight hole took me in, hungrily pulsing around my cock, the soft wetness sucking me deep. I had intended to take my time, going slowly, giving his virgin hole time to process the intrusion.

He wanted none of that. His heat caused a fever of desire in us both to the point where our fused bodies became one.

He moved his hips, causing me to pull back and thrust.

His mouth opened as I did that, a soft, low sound coming from deep in his chest.

I held his hips and thrust again, watching his eyes roll up.

My own pleasure came over me like a blinding cloud of want and need. My cock was like flame, building pressure. I needed release and began to chase it.

I'd wanted to be gentle and slow. I'd wanted to take my time. He was so small and I was so big, it seemed like it might be an issue.

I was wrong.

Every time I thrust, he lifted into it. It was Tavi's hips that started to move quicker. I had to keep up or lose our natural rhythm.

I began to thrust faster and faster into the beautiful body splayed before me. His heat and my pleasure drove us until his lower body was bouncing up with each thrust. If not for the pillows, his head would have been knocking against the wall.

His mouth stayed open in an almost grimace. He looked far away and gone, riding the currents of his impending orgasm. My own was sliding through me, as well, lifting me past the ceiling and into the sky as if I was Allure and flying free.

Tavi gave a garbled yell and his cock shot its young milk all over his chest. The walls of his hole squeezed me as his orgasm pulsed fast and hard, lasting a good long time.

The beauty of him combined with my own need sent me higher until I tumbled over the edge in a long fall that took my mind and body through extraordinary sensation and rapture.

My cock emptied months of held-back seed deep inside Tavi, flooding him, breeding him.

I crumpled on top of him, trying not to squash him. His slim arms went around my shoulders. His breath was hot against my neck. I was still coming hard when I felt my knot begin to form.

Tavi curled his legs around my hips, holding onto me, hips lifting to try to bring us closer.

"It's my knot," I panted.

"It feels so good."

"I don't want to hurt you."

"It doesn't hurt. Don't pull out."

My balls moved, pushing out more cum. Tavi gasped, body straining. Hot dampness squirted between us as he came again.

It took a minute for my knot to swell and peak to fullness.

"Okay?" I asked.

"Yes. Please. It's so good."

"I have to stay locked to you. It lasts about twenty minutes."

Tavi gripped me hard, fingernails digging into my shoulders. "I thought it would be longer."

I wanted to laugh.

His body squeezed and milked me until I lost my thoughts again. I bent down and devoured his mouth with kisses. He groaned and moaned. His knees pressed my sides. He clung to me as if his life depended on it.

"Would it be easier if I sat up and brought you into my lap?"

"It's so good. Yes, do that."

I sat back, dragging him with me, his legs still wrapped around my hips. He leaned his head against my chest, and I hugged him to me. We weren't kissing, but it was a very intimate position.

"Are you all right? Do you need me to adjust?"

"No, it's good." He undulated against me.

It felt so good against my knot, I came again, my head falling back as his fingers wove through my hair.

Allure's awareness probed me. All the other times I'd ever taken a lover, he'd never made himself known. Now, he looked through my eyes at our omega mate, taking in every detail but saying nothing.

My knot surged. Suddenly, I felt my fingertips tingle as claws poked through them partway. I pulled in a fast breath.

Tavi lifted his head from my chest looking up at me as the claw tips scratched gently up his back. I pulled my hands away from him but not before Tavi saw the protrusions. He quickly grabbed my hands in his, then leaned down and kissed each claw, one by one. Ten claws and ten kisses.

"Allure," he said.

Slowly, I nodded.

Tavi undulated his body again. I let out a groan that sounded more like a roar.

"Allure," Tavi repeated. Then in a whisper, "You're beautiful."

Deep inside my mind, the dragon stretched. My head went back. My knot fed more sperm into Tavi.

I'd never known anyone who accepted my dragon as anything but the feral beast he was. He'd wrecked my castle more times than I could count. He'd taunted me from teenhood on. His moods were dark and his tempers fiery. It kept people away from both of us.

But with Tavi, I saw a new side of him I never knew existed. Instead of bursting from my skin beyond his claws, he stayed back, strangely at peace. At the auction block he had forced me to bid on Tavi only because he said we needed an heir. But all along, he'd been missing a mate, alone even more than I was.

Tavi kept hold of my clawed hands and leaned his head into my neck, nuzzling. His cock was still hard between us, pressing my abdomen. He was small, but also powerful enough to keep himself steady and strong on my knot.

In the beginning, I had worried about how wrong all this could go. I'd seen only a skinny, omega boy who had been forced into being a brood slave. I'd known only my own pathetic lack of will with my beast inside.

When had Tavi become real to me?

Maybe it was when he'd invited me into the game room I'd given him. Or maybe it was when I watched him swim and explore the grounds on my security cameras. Or could it have been when he boldly took the risk to befriend Allure in his monstrous, dragon form?

There had been a dozen times a day he showed me in small, inconsequential ways that he was a person who deserved to be valued and seen. More than a brood slave. More than a set-omega.

Too soon, my knot began to deflate.

Tavi rested, nearly boneless against me. Carefully, I settled him back on the bed. He moaned as I pulled out of him. Liquid gushed from his hole.

"Oh, I'm sorry," he mumbled, starting to turn away.

I'd reconstructed entire doorframes, hired construction workers to repair walls. This was nothing. I grabbed my pants from the floor and put it between his thighs. Then I got up, standing over the bed. "Be right back."

Tavi put a hand on the bunched-up material at his crotch and turned onto his side, facing away from me.

I hurried into the bathroom. I had planned for his heat. Sort of. Doing the best I could. I knew he would need care and as the alpha that was my job. In a spare cupboard I had stored supplies. Bottles of water with electrolytes. Fluffy new towels and washcloths. Healing lube. Gentle soaps and shampoos made for babies that didn't sting overly sensitive skin. Also, candles. Lotions. Little hand soaps shaped like dragons. And, on a whim, floating bath toys shaped like dragons.

My alpha caretaking instincts had surfaced weeks before his heat when I'd started this small hoard.

I quickly drew a bath, lit candles, brought out the soaps and lotions.

I ran back into the bedroom, still naked, and found Tavi curled up in a nest of pillows.

"Hey." I put my hands under him, lifting him easily into my arms.

He woke from a doze. "What? Are you moving me?"

"You'll like it. I promise."

He grabbed my neck and let me carry him.

When I placed him in the bath, he was already looking around, eyes big.

"Oh gods, that feels so good. How long was I asleep? When did you do this?"

I knelt beside the tub, grabbing up a washcloth. "I am an alpha. It's my job."

"Did you get all this stuff before my heat?"

I took up the washcloth, squirting some baby soap into it. "Yes. Before your heat. We both knew it was coming." I started with his shoulders, grasping his hair and pushing it out of the way as I stroked down his back.

Tavi picked up one of the baby dragon soaps. "This is almost too cute to use."

"They came in a box of a dozen. Use all you like."

Tavi sighed, his eyes closing. "The water feels so good. And the candles are perfect. I'm glad you got unscented. I only want to smell you right now."

I leaned in and kissed his forehead. As the washcloth traveled further down, Tavi bent forward without a word, allowing me to wash between his firm, round ass cheeks.

After that part was done, he leaned back and allowed me to wash his chest and between his legs, along his slick thighs and all the way down to his ankles. All that time, he held the dragon soap tightly in his hands.

I got up and returned to my cupboard, bringing out the dragon bath toys. I brought one to him. "Here. This one won't dissolve like the soap."

Tavi set the soap on the edge of the tub and took the toy, examining it closely, then looked up. "You got me a toy?"

My cheeks began to heat. "Y-yes?"

"I love it." His chest heaved. His eyes shone. "I didn't expect this." He waved his hand over the entire bath scene. "All of this."

"Expect to be well taken care of. You're my mate now."

"It's real." His statement was not a question.

"It's real."

He looked up at me with an almost pleading gaze. "Is it wrong to love you?"

My cheeks turned to fire. "Is it?"

Tavi lifted his ankle from the soapy water. "You took my chains away."

"There was no other choice if I want you as an equal."

"Equal?"

I put soapy hands on his shoulders and pulled him closer to the edge of the tub. "I love you, Tavi. It was the only way."

He grasped my thick biceps, his hands too small to encompass them. I leaned in and kissed him on the mouth, deep and possessive. He opened to me without hesitation. Was his heat wave returning?

When he didn't rush me or beg, I knew. That kiss was for me.