Chapter 24

Chapter Twenty-Four

THEO

It was like a glimpse into the afterlife of Elysium as she surged up to meld our lips together. Never before had I felt like I was floating in the clouds while in my human form, until now. It was like being home, tasting her on my lips.

Her intoxicating scent enveloped me, igniting every nerve in my body as her teeth sank into my bottom lip, pulling it into her mouth with a fierce hunger. I surrendered completely to the raw passion of the moment, my hand abandoning her dark tresses and instead gripping tightly onto her neck, driven by an animalistic desire that rode me mercilessly.

My fingers closed around her throat as I pulled back and asked, voice slick with desire, “Who do you belong to?”

I’d never been as infatuated and aware of the way she had me eating from the palm of her hand, ready for any crumbs she offered me.

In no surprise at all, her eyes narrowed, challenging me before that pretty little mouth even opened. “I belong to myself, dragon boy.”

The dragon within me roared, slamming against the constraints wrapped around him, and I was only barely keeping him at bay. He urged me to show her just how much of a liar she was—that she’d belonged to us the second our eyes clashed as she walked into her father’s council room.

We’d tried to fight it, yet we had still ended up here. It was time to accept that I couldn’t rid myself of the haunting way she occupied my thoughts. Every iota of my restraint and will-power I possessed had gone into the last few weeks, and it seemed that well had finally dried up. I was left now with a hunger only she could satisfy.

It was time to right my wrongs. If she wanted me, who was I to deny her any longer? I’d show her exactly how dragons treat their mates, if that’s what she wanted.

Our ragged breaths mingled and I released her wrists, crushing our lips together. My tongue plunged into her mouth, twisting and dancing with hers as my hands roamed down her trembling body. Fingers traced along her smooth shoulders before seizing the weight of her breasts, kneading them roughly as she arched into my touch and let out a throaty moan. This was only the beginning of my plans for her, as I savored every sound she made and learned exactly how to make her mine.

I rolled her nipples between my fingers and pulled my lips from hers, trailing kisses down to her jaw until I settled at the soft flesh of her neck. She turned, giving me further access and my beast reveled at the submission, whether she realized what she was doing in the moment or not. A rumble grew from deep within me as I sucked on the tender flesh she offered up.

“Theo, I need more,” she panted before her lips closed around the bottom of my ear, nipping at me. “Unless you think you can’t handle it.”

She was playing with fire, insinuating such a thing.

A squeal sounded from her as I moved my hands to her waist and lifted her legs to wrap around my hips as I stood, quickly. I backed her against the cave wall, and just as I was leaning in to taste her again, a loud, disruptive snore echoed, making me falter.

Kaida . I’d forgotten he had collapsed into a slumber not far from us.

It sounded like he was choking on his own breath. Truly, I’d never heard such a thing.

We stared at each other for a few moments, panting with need before she cracked a smile. “Kids, am I right? Always killing the mood.”

Frustration and longing pulsed through my veins as I bit down on my lip, nearly drawing blood. "Don't you dare mention kids unless you want me to make them with you right here and now."

I could see her pupils dilate at my words as her tongue darted out to wet her lips. The air between us was heavy with anticipation as my throbbing cock pressed against her covered heat, begging for entrance. It was a pivotal moment—would we let Kaida's interruption push us back into our old patterns, or would this be the time when everything changed?

As if reading each other's minds, our hands reached for one another, refusing to go back to how things were before. And I knew deep in my core that I couldn't ever go back, not after experiencing the way her lips felt on mine. How her moans echoed in my ears. The way she writhed under my touch, desperate for more.

She was mine, body and soul, and I would make damn sure she admitted it before the night was over.

As our lips clashed in a flurry of pent-up need, I palmed her ass and lifted her from the wall. I knew the path to the springs like the back of my hand, not needing to see to get there. We were quickly plunged into darkness as I walked us toward the spot where I wanted to get on my knees and repent.

I opened my mental connection to any dragons within our vicinity, allowing them a quick warning as I came in contact with a few. “If you value keeping your vision, you will leave the springs within the next two minutes.”

Apparently, even my voice belied my lust, for not one dragon grumbled in resentment of my demands. Thoughts of understanding flowed back before I closed them off. I was thankful no one fought back, because at this rate, I would have made good on my threat to remove their eyes if they lingered and saw what I was about to do to their queen.

No man, woman, or beast would ever lay eyes on what was mine.

Her lips moved to my ear as we descended into the heat of the springs, her breath hitching as she murmured, “Are you sure you can handle being in here with me, dragon boy?”

My cock strained in my trousers at her question. I wanted to shove it into her mouth every time she gave me an ounce of that sass, but it was also one of her qualities that I deeply admired. She’d never once backed down from me, despite her open hatred and fear of me when we first met.

Somehow, she had the most courage and stubbornness out of anyone I’d ever met, man and beast alike. She’d make a fine queen, of all of Andrathya. I’d worship at her feet in public, but in private, I would say my prayers between her legs.

“Close your mouth before I give in to my desires to fill it,” I answered, loving the way she pulled back, showing a beautiful flush to her cheeks.

Maybe my little wench wanted to serve her king after all. We’d get there in time—this moment was about her and correcting my behavior from the last time we’d been here together.

Her legs loosened from around my hips until her feet gently touched the ground. She wasted no time in reaching for the strings of my trousers, undoing them and delving her hand down to palm my erection. I strained in her hand, marveling at how differently it felt to be touched by another, instead of myself.

“Fuck, Siyana,” I groaned at as my toes curled and my eyes fluttered.

“Don’t call me that,” she snapped, tightening her grip on the base of my cock before beginning to stroke me. “Sia will do, if you don’t wish to refer to me as wench or queen. Both are titles that I gladly claim.”

She might have been joking, but she had no idea just how in line with my thoughts her words were. My eyes opened as I grabbed her wrist and lifted her hand out of my trousers, barely holding on to my thoughts of ensuring the entirety of this moment focused on her when her bottom lip stuck out in a pout.

“Do you not want me to touch you?” she asked, dropping her hands to her side. “If I’m not?—”

I quickly cut her off as I bent down to undo her trousers, ensnaring her lips in the process. “So you want me to call you my queen?” I mumbled against her mouth as the clothing fell to the ground, pooling around her boots.

Her lips parted as I lowered myself to my knees and took her boots in my hands, pulling them from her feet. From this height, I could scent her arousal as I turned my eyes to look up at her, finding my lips even with her lower abdomen. She stepped out of her trousers as I pressed my mouth to her skin, licking and nipping a path down to her thighs. My hands roamed from her ass to her hips, the tips of my fingers digging in possessively.

Glancing up at her, I whispered, “Let me show you just how willing I am to serve my queen.”

She nodded as my fingers found the sides of her underwear, the silent question clear. I dragged the material down her legs, inch by inch until they hit the floor. The scent of her left my dragon desperate to taste her arousal, to sample the proof of just how much she wanted us, no matter what her mouth might say at times.

To my surprise, her brassiere was tossed down to the side, distracting me briefly from the mound in front of my face that I was barely holding back from burying my mouth in. She lowered herself to the ground, leaning back until she was resting on her elbows and smirking at me.

She was temptation on a silver platter. Her body was somehow even more tantalizing than I’d pictured in my dreams. I wanted to spend days here, running my mouth and hands over every inch of her curves. It was interesting how I’d changed her out of her cold, wet clothing upon her first night in my castle, in an effort to keep her alive, but I’d never given myself the chance to truly glance at her. If I were ever in that position again with her, there was nothing that would keep me from ravishing her.

Her legs spread, revealing that pretty pussy I’d watched her dip her fingers into, pleasing herself all those weeks ago. Our eyes locked and my jaw clenched as I forced my words out.

“This is your last chance to walk away. I’m not saying it would be successful and that I wouldn’t chase you,” her eyes widened at that, and the animal within me wondered if she wanted to be hunted like prey. That could be arranged. My heart rate spiked and I barely stifled a groan at the image in my mind. “But I know that once my mouth touches your pussy, you will be trapped until I deem we are done. I won’t be able to stop. So tell me, is this what you want?”

I expected a moment of hesitation and fear to rise up within her as it had the last time we were here, but she simply shook her head at me and stated in a confident, even tone, “I’m not walking away this time, no matter what happens.”

It was all I needed to hear before I got on my hands and knees before lifting her legs and settling them over my shoulders as I lowered myself to the ground completely. This was the altar in which I’d sacrifice myself, though not for one of the elemental gods as was the ancient way of dragons.

The elementals had done nothing to deserve my faith, but Sia? She’d done everything.

My nose nestled into the sparse hair of her mound as my tongue flicked out to run along her for the first time. Her hips bucked as I did it again several times, noting that she seemed the most sensitive at the top. I may not have been with a woman before, but I was a predator built to sense every movement of my prey, and I’d use it to unlock exactly what made her come undone.

Already, I’d memorized the speed and location her fingers had displayed, but I wanted to discover this first—on my own. To know I didn’t need assistance.

My arms curled around her legs, my hands finding her hips and holding her down as I pressed my face in further. My lips closed around the sensitive bud that seemed to be what made her tick, and I sucked, long and hard, before flicking my tongue across it. Instantly, she rewarded me with a moan as her hips strained to move. I doubled down, repeating the motion over and over until her legs quivered atop my shoulders.

A growl rumbled from my chest and up my throat, and she let out a gasp that had me looking up at her. Our eyes clashed as her mouth parted, panting out, “You’re far too good at this.”

There was an air of jealousy in her words. One that I knew far too well, in relation to thoughts of her with Brenson.

I grinned against her wet pussy before responding, “I’ve only ever touched your flesh, Sia. Do continue to be territorial, though. I quite like this possessive side of you.”

Her head fell back and she let out a breathy sigh as I returned my tongue to her. As I focused on delivering her the highs of unrelenting pleasure with my mouth, I dragged a hand down and toward her center, running the tips of my fingers along her arousal to make them slick.

I sank a finger inside of her and began to move it in and out as she’d done with her own two fingers. We’d build up to two, considering mine were far thicker than her own. She’d need to adjust to everything about me, if I didn’t want to harm her. I found a rhythm of flicking my tongue on her swollen bud and building up her pleasure with my finger that had her hips rocking as much as they could in my ironclad grip.

Something within me knew she was searching for more with the motion, but I wasn’t ready to give it to her. Her pleasure was on my terms.

My own arousal was reaching new heights as she moaned my name, the breathy sound echoing through the cavern. “Theo, please.”

Her words had me growling out, “Please, what? Tell me.”

I moved my hand on her hip across her abdomen, using the full weight of my arm to hold her down as I slipped another finger in, stretching her and curling my fingers up. The motion made her gasp and beg again, “Please. More.”

“I need you to do something for me first,” I said, speaking into her mind so as to not take me away from my feast.

“What?” she panted out in return, not bothering to speak back to my mind, or perhaps not even realizing that speaking into her mind was what I was doing right now. “Anything. Just tell me.”

“Look at me,” I demanded, increasing my pace with my fingers to drive her closer to the precipice of pleasure that she was moments away from toppling over. When her eyes dropped down to look at me between her legs, I said, “Tell me you’re mine. Tell me, and I’ll give you everything you need.”

Her eyes narrowed at my request, but I instantly clamped my lips back around her and sucked hard as my fingers stilled, besides curling up and down to reach the tender spot within, making her lids flutter and a soft moan escape her parted lips.

“I want you looking into my eyes and admitting that you’re mine. We both already know it’s true.”

Her moans turned into cries as I resumed my pace with my fingers, slowly building up in speed as I reached up with the hand across her breast to pinch her nipple. “Shit,” she breathed out as I rolled her nipple in the same manner she had seemed to like earlier, “I’m so close.”

Her words had me nearly finding my own release without her even touching me.

A possessive growl sounded once more from my dragon, pushing me to cover us in the scent of her arousal.

“Tell me, Sia,” I begged, knowing I wouldn’t be able to stop myself from giving in to her needs, even if she didn’t answer me. I was too far gone in my obsession to see her shatter for me. “Admit that no one else makes you feel this way. Tell me you’re mine.”

I watched with rapt fascination as her lips parted and her eyes widened. The walls of her pussy clenched around my fingers and I growled, sensing her release coming.

“I’m yours.”

Her words sent me into a frenzy as I worked her pussy with my mouth and fingers, continuing even as her head dropped back and she screamed her release.

I wasn’t done with her yet—far from it.

“You’re so pretty when you say you’re mine.”

Her hands found my head, pushing me back as I slowed my pace but didn’t back off. “Theo! I’m so sensitive now.”

A renewed hunger awoke within me, wanting to see just how many times I could get her to fall apart with my body. I pulled back and smirked at the relief she showed, her shoulders curling forward and a heavy sigh falling from her.

“I’m not done with you yet,” I admitted before grabbing her hips and pulling her over me as I laid on my back. Her hips shifted to allow her legs to settle on either side of my head as I pulled her down onto my mouth.

The new position had her legs truly trembling, and she squirmed as my tongue licked her again. My hands fell to grip her ass, hard, urging her to move back and forth on my mouth.

“Theo! I…I need a second—oh!” she cried out, and I felt her arousal covering my lips and the way her hips began to rock at their own pace without my urging. “My legs, they?—”

“You’ve lain with a human man before, but never a king of dragons. You’re about to learn that dragons finish their meals, so, I don’t care if you’re trembling and begging me to stop.”