She lowered her hands and cupped his face, kissing him softly. “I am exhausted, sweaty, and throbbing.” He looked at her, and lust was taking over. “Do it again.”

  He grinned and rolled so that she was on top of him. “I think we have time for you to go exploring.”

  She blinked. “Really?”

  He nodded. “Yeah.”

  She kissed him and then licked and sucked her way down his neck, letting her hair block Niko’s view. He remedied that by lifting the veil and suggesting targets in a thick voice.

  She murmured happily and licked and bit at Alexi, feeling his erection between her thighs as she wiggled slowly downward.

  His pecs were nibbled, his nipples treated to the same treatment he had given hers. She was dripping as she stroked her fingers over his abs, pausing only to dip her tongue into his navel.

  She ran her tongue up his cock, ignoring the weeping head. She licked at the creamy musk of him before taking two-thirds of him into her mouth in one stroke. He shouted and arched, so she sucked as she eased back and then slid forward again. She did it two more times before he erupted, and she swallowed as he jetted cream into her mouth.

  She sat back on her heels and wrapped her arms around herself. He had gone off faster than she had thought.

  She breathed slowly to bring herself down.

  Niko looked at her with a raised brow. “Did you forget I was here?”

  She shook her head. “You weren’t playing, so I thought you didn’t want to.”

  He threaded his hand into her hair and made a gentle fist. “You are mine, first and foremost. You can play with him, but you belong to me.”

  She moved with his hand, and when she was pressed against him, he smiled for a flicker before his mouth crushed hers, and the fire started again.

  One thing about dragons, they took their time.

  Chapter Nine

  When Niko finally let her move away from him, she untangled from the fabric that was now stained with a multitude of substances and pulled on his shirt. Once she was dressed, she curled into a ball on the floor and tried to relax as her muscles started to bunch up. She had hit her limit for the day.

  Niko dropped down next to her and curled her up against him. “Tired, princess?”

  She nodded. “Yeah. I just want to rest, and then, I have to check my phone.”

  “I will show you your room then.” He had already hitched his sweats into place, so he sat up and lifted her before looking at Alexi.

  Alexi groaned. “Remember me as I was. Beautiful, clever, and horny. Bury me here.”

  Niko laughed. “Tonight is your turn to make dinner until our princess is ready to take her turn.”

  Niko carried her up to the floor where his bedroom was located, opening a connecting room. “This is a space for you to get dressed in and nap when you are inviting us to join you. Unlike the nests where we would like your invitation, this space itself is an invitation.”

  “Alexi said there was a nest in the basement where I could be private if I wanted to.”

  Niko frowned. “That one is a heat nest so that we can be secure until it runs its course. Why do you need that?”

  “I don’t sleep well, and I don’t want to wake anyone else.”

  “We will hold you through the night.”

  She sighed as he set her down. “I am not used to being in a bed with anybody, and you and Alexi have a routine that I don’t want to interfere with.”

  “You aren’t interfering with anything; you are enhancing it. We will become more and better with you with us.”

  She looked up at him with wide eyes. “But what will become of me?”

  He cupped her jaw and kissed her. “Ideally, you will rise with us, but we will not leave you behind.”

  She met his kiss, and then, she said, “So, where is my stuff?”

  He grinned. “Alexi told you about that?”

  “Yeah, he said to just give in to you, and you would take me on a tour later.”

  “He has been paying attention.”

  He showed her where her three dozen itemized dragon tees were, her underwear, her jeans, and her boots and shoes. “I notice a lack of dresses.”

  “Not practical around horses. I have gowns for riding, but they are costumes. I don’t need anything else.”

  “Well, now you do, princess.” He smiled. “Sorry, but it is going to mean a visit to Natasha.”

  “She’s gropey with me.” She pouted. She blinked. She never pouted.

  “That is because you are the cuddliest omega that she has ever seen. You are made of curves that draw the hand and the eye. Your figure is fantastic, and she wants to make sure it is real.”

  She grimaced. “If I don’t go to her, it will be annoying for you at family events when I dress up.”

  He sighed. “Correct. I will be there to defend your honour.”

  “Good because I don’t think she is intimidated by Alexi.”

  He chuckled. “She has little respect for betas who take a mark. She is missing out.”

  He opened a drawer with all of her sex toys arranged by length and girth. “It is an extensive collection.”

  “Sometimes I want longer, sometimes wider. The one with the knot was a gift from a friend.” She shrugged with her cheeks pink. “Did my costumes come along as well?”

  “Yes, your parents want payment for them and the horses, so I settled on a fair sum, and it will be transferred to their account in the morning.”

  She sighed. “They made you pay?”

  “I expected them to. Consider it an old-fashioned omega price. I got off cheap.”

  He opened another drawer. “These are from me. From my mines.”

  She looked, and he showed her rack upon rack of jewels, mostly diamonds, some rubies, and a few sapphires. Hell, there was even a tiara.

  “Oh. Wow. That is...”

  “I would like you to choose one piece per day, or I will choose one for you. There are even some nipple studs here, but yours aren’t pierced, and I would love to arrange that.”

  She flinched. “That is a little advanced for me to consider today. Thanks for the warning, though.”

  He chuckled. “Put something comfortable on, so we can continue the tour.”

  She opened a closet and smiled. All of her stuffed dragons were on shelves, arranged by size.

  She grabbed her favourite blue dragon with a little spiked collar, and she moved around the drawers with clothes, getting dressed in underwear, sweats, and a tee with a baby dragon and a popped balloon.

  She put her hair in a loose knot and then another and another. That got it up and out of her way so she could move around easily. She kept her dragon with her, clutched in her hand. Her feet were clad in fluffy socks.

  He smiled. “It may lack style, but you are definitely dressed in comfortable things.”

  She shrugged. “I wear the jeans because I have to when I am working with the horses, and regular riding gear has to be tailored for me, so it’s too pricey.”

  “Why?”

  “Why what? For the tailoring, my body doesn’t fit clothes off the rack. I can put a belt on jeans. For the money, it is self-explanatory. My parents spent nearly all of their money on my rehabilitation, so there wasn’t extra available for tight pants.”

  “How much did your rehab and surgeries cost?” He put a hand around her back and steered her out of her bedroom and walked her down the hall.

  “About half a million. A third of that was paid by the insurance, but that is what covered the surgeries. The Omega Centre even pitched in at the beginning until it was clear that my pelvis was a mess, and that was what they were interested in.”

  His hand made small circles at her back. “They still have your file?”

  “Oh. No. May parents said they returned my file and all documentation when they removed me from their rolls. They tried to pretend I had never existed. It was pretty successful.”

  “Why did you keep riding?”

  “You are going to make fun of this?”

  He smiled. “Probably.”

  “When I widened my legs and rode, it shifted my balance and removed the pain from my hips and tailbone. It even neutralized the limp for a while. Until I dismounted, I felt nearly normal.”

  His hand on her back started rubbing a little faster. “Would you ride me if I was in my larger form?”

  “You mean on your back or neck, right? Because I am not screwing anything more than seven feet tall.” She smiled. “Yeah, I would totally ride a dragon.”

  He turned and wrapped her in his arms. “Thank you, you have made him positively giddy. He has dreamed of a princess of his own.”

  She chuckled as he placed a slow and careful kiss on her lips while his eyes blazed with heat. She murmured, “Let me know when he finds one, so I can get out of the way.”

  He smacked her ass with an open hand, and she yelped. No one ever smacked her lower body. She tried to ignore the tingle that spread through her and chalked it up as her just being depraved.

  “Oh, where did my enormous drug collection end up?” She asked it when he had shown her more of the second floor and was climbing the spiral steps to the cupola. This was another one of her nests, but instead of being cozy and private, the glass dome above her left her protected but in full view of the elements.

  “Your medications are in a lockbox in your bedroom, under the bed, with a combination of your birth month and day. It is a large box.”

  “Having part of you crushed and trying to heal is painful.” She shrugged. She left him and crawled to the middle of the bed, looking up. Then scooted to the edge and cuddled up with a soft, fuzzy throw. “I like it here.”

  He chuckled. “The nest materials will have to be replaced more frequently due to bleaching from the sun, but this way, I can look in on you in thunder storms.”

  “You fly in the city during storms?”

  “When better? Either of my forms can move around in the rain and wind. It is a trick I learned from another dragon.”

  “There is another one?”

  He laughed. “There are five on this continent. The other lives a few hundred miles away. I cleared my territory with him before I moved in here.”

  “Oh. Wow. Is he older; does he have a mate?”

  “You are very curious about the other dragon. Mine is not fond of that idea.” He moved toward her with a slow, sexy crawl.

  She bit her lip and held up her stuffed animal. “I like dragons.”

  He kissed her and pinned her to the soft surfaces. “He is not mated, he has plenty of female companionship, and I think he once met his mate, but he let her slip away and could not find her again. It haunts him.”

  “That’s sad.”

  “I think you are going to be firmly marked and mated and probably bred before you meet him.” His growl was firm.

  “If I can breed.”

  He opened her mouth with a thumb to her chin and breathed fire into her. “When the time comes, you will be able to.”

  She twisted slowly under him as the fire worked into every cell, every nerve, powering them up and getting them into fighting shape. When the burn was over, she slumped under him.

  “I love the slow dance you do to my fire. It’s intoxicating.”

  She looked up, and it wasn’t Niko talking. “I can’t help it. I can feel it running around and splashing through my insides, and my body does what it does.”

  His face turned dark and hard and shiny, and his sweats stretched to their limit and beyond. She suddenly had a dragon over her again, and her body was delighted. She kicked it for being tired, but it didn’t care. She had a dragon.

  He looked at her intently and stroked her with his claws then huffed in frustration and flipped her over, nuzzling her hair out of the way. She heard him lick his teeth carefully, the wet smacking sounds unmistakable, and then, he set his beak to either side of the base of her neck, and he squeezed until he broke through the skin.

  It was like having her ears pop, except unlike her ears popping, her entire body felt information and knowledge rushing in. She whimpered and then heard...

  “Ah, there you are, princess. I waited for the male to mark you, but he took too long. I wanted to speak with you.” He released his bite and licked at the wounds, giving her short huffs of fire. He chuckled. “Nikolai is angry with me. He can go fuck himself. I would rather play with you.”

  She didn’t understand what he meant before the claws slipped off her sweats and panties with utmost care. Oh.

  There was amused hissing, and he pulled her shirt off and then she heard, “Best you remove your garment before I shred it.”

  He hooked his claw in and plucked at her bra. She blinked, unhooked it, and slipped it off. He made a groan that she could feel in her blood. She warmed, slick dripped, and she leaned on her hands as he flicked his tongue over her nipples, and he hummed happily. “Pretty princess. You like me.”

  She blushed and looked at the shining black scales, the folded wings, and the lashing tail. “I do.”

  “Not scared.”

  She leaned her head to the side as he licked her neck. “A little scared.”

  “Hot. Wet. Mine.” His pleasure spilled through her mind.

  She wrapped her arms around him and bent her knees to rub her legs along his scales.

  His erection came out against her belly, and she arched her hips against him. She slipped her hand between them and stroked his cock, feeling the scales that felt like they were designed for something specific.

  “More touching. I like the touching.”

  She chuckled and caressed him, feeling him get slippery as she stroked the thick bar of scales.

  He hissed. “I taste now.” He moved off her in a graceful glide that had him moving backward, but then, he lifted her hips to his mouth and stroked deep with his tongue, commenting on how wet she was and how she tasted like his.

  She closed her eyes and let the heat build. His claws got tighter, and he was praising her for giving herself up to him when she shrieked, and the slow clasping fire gripped his tongue. He pulled his tongue out and pulled her to him, sliding into her with a groan. He told her she was beautiful, sex on legs, and his. He would take care of her.

  He didn’t thrust. He slid and retreated. It was like being ridden by a wave with a molten core. She clutched at him, but her hands slid off his body. He grabbed her hands and pinned them down as he continued to undulate into and out of her. She whined, and he licked her lips, ear and neck. “Pretty princess. My princess.”

  She came with a low groan, and he hissed and plunged into her, his cock thrashing around until fire bloomed in her belly.

  “You take the fire so sweetly. Your body is so welcoming. He was lucky to find you. We were lucky to find you.”

  She was coming down and blinking sweat from her eyes. “You didn’t find me. I worked with Lexa and Olivia. And Ford. Ford found me.”

  He chuckled, and she was looking at Nikolai again. “We will have to give Ford a reward then.”

  She smiled and stroked his cheek. “Hey, where did you come from?”

  He grimaced. “I was locked inside him. That hasn’t happened before.”

  She traced his lips. “He was locked inside me. Fair is fair.”

  He shifted his weight. “You don’t have to keep your legs around me.”

  Alita blushed. “Right. Forgot about that.” She unhooked her ankles, and her feet thudded to the mattress.

  Niko nuzzled her. “I wasn’t complaining. I just didn’t want you thinking you had to.”

  She moved her head against his and yawned. “I know I didn’t.”

  He withdrew and lay next to her, cuddling her against him. “Alexi did a good job with your pictures.”

  She blushed and yawned again. “That was an error of judgment on my part. He’s just so hard and slippery.”

  “You have a crush on my dragon?” He murmured it against her temple.

  She nodded seriously. “Big time.”

  He laughed. “How did you manage to hide all this time?”

  “I wasn’t hiding. I was broken. You fixed me.”

  “He’s purring inside me right now. His princess has finally come to him, and he has claimed her. He is fucking delighted. If I didn’t know better, I would say he was high.” He stroked her hair.

  “Oh. Well, he doesn’t leave much behind.” She rubbed her thighs together, and there was only a slight residue left over.

  “He finishes with fire. In a mating situation, I would follow up after he had made everything nice and ready for my contribution.”

  “What?” She yawned and cuddled closer.

  “Never mind. After you have your heat, we can discuss the possibility of using the next to try to get pregnant.”

  She smiled. “I wouldn’t mind that.”

  His arms clenched. “Neither would I. Alexi would be weirded out a little, but I think he would grow to love it in time.”

  “It?”

  “The baby. A tiny little alpha.” He pressed a hand to her lower belly. “Growing right here.”

  Alita shivered. “If I can.”

  “We have dumped so much healing fire into you, it should be dripping out of you by now, but until it does...” He kissed her, and more fire flowed in. When the kiss was over, she curled against him and let herself relax to take it in.

  She dozed off in her nest under the glass dome in the arms of her alpha.

  * * * *

  “We are going to have to get her medical records.” Nikolai helped Alexi with the cameras and setting up for the trip to the mountains for the shifted shoot for Lexa and the bears.

  Alexi nodded. “We are. We are also going to have to set up a private gallery somewhere in the house for pictures of her. She is super photogenic, and I want life-sized images around me while I am touching the real thing.”

  Nikolai chuckled. “For once, your kinks and mine are lining up.”

  Alexi grinned and checked the tripod. “Just this once?”

  They both smiled. Alexi sighed and said, “Is it weird that my chest feels lighter and fuller at the same time?”

 

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