Chapter 44

Unnatural Bureau training was my bitch.

Lucian had set me up for success with the simulations he’d put me through. I rubbed my chest and crouched close to the ground. I knew he’d been nowhere near close to being a good guy, but the ache from missing him would be with me forever.

A branch crunched, and Enzo stepped in front of me. “The session is over.”

“I thought we were supposed to stay.” I frowned and peered around the forest. “Haley said to wait . . .” I stopped mid-word. Son of a bitch. She lied to me.

I straightened my shirt. She didn’t like me. The girl had been side-eying me since day one after I beat her during the endurance trial. Petty people were everywhere, but she drove me to take a page out of Enzo’s book and beat her until she straightened out. She hadn’t seen everything I could do, but I’d start with wiping the floor with her the next time we grappled.

“You want me to put her in her place?” Enzo murmured, crowding me. I tipped my head back until my neck pinched. He squeezed me to his chest, his large arms banding around me, making it difficult to breathe.

“No, I’ll handle it.”

He grunted, nuzzling his nose into my hairline. I better handle it quickly or Enzo would get kicked out for torturing her. “You remember what today is?”

I nodded frantically. I’d been counting down the hours. Today we were allowed to go offsite to visit Tanner, Beckett, and Elliot. This last week had been grueling without them, and not having a phone made it ten times worse.

The intention of isolation was for training purposes. Fortunately, I’d managed to make a deal with Woo. Convincing him had been easy after telling him about the guys being my mates. Now that I’d experienced the week though, I wish I’d bargained for a shorter time between visits. The only reason I hadn’t gone nuts was because of Enzo.

Elliot had joined us originally, but he’d backed out on day-one because ‘he’d rather rest.’ I was glad he was honest; I’d rather he be doing something he liked instead of what I wanted to do. After all, we were going to live for a long fucking time. All this combat wasn’t for him. He was my soft-boy. It didn’t mean he couldn’t kill or get violent; he just preferred not to, and I loved him for it.

He’d rented a studio not far from the base, and that was where Enzo and I would meet them tonight. In total, the separation would last a few months, and I was already on edge about it.

But I kept focused on the end result. Once training ended, I would start as an intern, then move up the ranks to junior agent, and so on. Enzo too—and I never would have anticipated that.

“We should get going. You have the address to the condo?”

Enzo hummed, and his hands flexed around my waist. Soon I would be in their embraces, and my mind would calm. My guys were everything. If I’d had to be without them for months, I would have gone crazy.

“I’ve enjoyed having you to myself, pretty girl.” He bowed over to press his mouth to mine, his eyebrow piercing glinting with the movement. “I’ll have to share you soon.”

The rose bush at my feet rustled with the breeze, the scent of its sweet perfume wafting to my nose. As I turned to look down at it, a petal fell gently from a flower, flitting away with the wind.

“Remember when you gave me a black rose?”

He hummed into my neck. I trembled against him, my belly squeezing in anticipation.

“How did you get a black one?”

“A witch . . . helped.”

“Help?” I snorted. Enzo had a loose definition of working with others. “So, you threatened them?”

He chuckled.

“Well, regardless, it was sweet,” I muttered.

“I know,” he breathed into my ear.

I shivered and all sorts of sparks traveled downward. “We should go.” Before I gave in and fucked him for hours.

“I have a faster way of getting us there.” His offer was accompanied by a smug grin.

“I’m down for it . . .” I trailed off as he shifted, his wide wingspan causing the pine trees to sway. Fortunately, the foggy expanse of Oregon’s night would cover his massive dragon form once he took to the sky.

Enzo wrapped his front claws around my back and cradled me within his palm. The rough surface of his tail tickled my leg, but it didn’t stop as the thick tip slipped into the waistband of my sweats.

They were elastic enough to stretch and slip down my hips. My panties didn’t have the same fate; they snapped in half.

Puffs of fog plumed in the air from my heady pants. Naughty fucking dragon was about to?—

His tail plunged into my pussy.

My eyelashes fluttered, and I slumped into his grip. The thickness of his tail spread my pussy as he sank the rounded tip inside. My chest seized as heat blazed across my skin and scorched my insides. The sight of his erotic, onyx scales fanned the flame of my ache. I wanted more of him.

I undulated my hips to get more pressure on my clit.

A clicking noise vibrated from his toothy mouth and smoke plumed from his nose. His golden eyes seemed to laugh at me. Enzo withdrew his tail until the tip shallowly swirled in my core, and then he slammed inside again. I screamed and flutters of bird wings echoed. My moisture leaked out from around him. The tail fit up to where his spikes started. Dammit, I hated the limitation.

He shoved it into me, then pulled it out, again and again, wringing screams from my throat with each thrust. Testing boundaries. A blazing orgasm slammed through my limbs and my legs turned into noodles. My pussy clasped at him like it would never release him. He cradled my limp weight.

He swirled the tip again and extracted it.

A gush of heat wet my thighs. Fucking dragon. His large head dipped, and his large tongue lapped the moisture from my pussy.

I cried out. The rough surface reached everything .

He shoved his tail in again. Oh, he wasn’t done.

Dammit, Enzo.

I didn’t have the energy to say it, so I cursed him in my head as he continued fucking me.