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“I can take on anything. Except an injury you...
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I was still here, and I’d risk my life to make her prophecy come true. I’d do it all by myself if I had to. Yet, I knew I wouldn’t have to. I wasn’t alone anymore. I had Julian, and the allies he trusted.
He wasn’t scary at all. Not to me. He was utterly beautiful.
“I’m your treasure, the gods have said?”
“I care not what they say, for what I feel is all my own. Not forced or given to me by the fates or anyone else. It comes from my own soul.”
“I can finally confess to you,”
“that you are my treasure too.”
“You come so sweetly, my wild firebird.” Another sweep of his mouth. “I had no idea you’d be so soft and perfect.”
“Did you let your dragon slip his leash?”
“I can’t deny him what he wants.”
“Gods! You’re bleeding.”
“I believe a suture or two popped while we were … engaged.” “Julian! Why didn’t you stop?” He frowned. “Not on my life. I couldn’t stop even if I wanted to.”
“Only a man would rather bleed to death than end his pleasure.”
“It was your pleasure I wasn’t willing to end.”
“I’d have bled to death just to see that look of sweet ecstasy on your face. Knowing I’d put it there.”
“Malina,” he rasped when I ignored him too long. “Thank you.” Finally, I looked at him. “For what?” “For being exactly who you are and nothing else. For not pretending this”—he gestured between us—“doesn’t exist.”
“I was afraid you might deny me. Deny us. I was afraid you wouldn’t allow even this.” “Will there be more than this?” “So much more, Malina. There will be forever.”
“You jest.” “Not ...
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“Come sleep with me.” “Absolutely not. I just redressed your wound.”
“Just sleep,”
“I could still jostle you.” “Please, Malina.” He sighed. “I just want to lie beside you.”
Julian wanted me beside him for comfort, and I couldn’t deny him. Not anymore.
I could let my worries go, that I was wrapped in the strong arms of Julian, my dragon. Nothing had ever felt more right.
The strangest thought came to me as I stirred awake: this was how I wanted to die. With her in my arms, many years distant from now after a full life together.
The dragon didn’t want to pretend anymore. He wanted to drag her far away, where she’d be safe, and fuck the rest of the world. Let them fend for themselves.
She didn’t understand the depth of my affection, how long I’d dreamed of having her. And though last night was only a kiss—a little more—it was enough to buoy hope in my heart.
“Then we are bound together, as you said before.” “I suppose we are,”
“What is it?” I asked. “This soft Julian. I don’t recognize him. Or see him often.” “It’s dangerous for me to be anything but the Conqueror outside this tent. Outside my home. Only for you can I be this Julian,”
“I never cared about losing my life.” “But now you do?” “No.” I hugged her close. “I care about losing yours.”
When I mentioned that the others in the house would know that I hadn’t slept in my bed and was sleeping in his, he’d merely said, “They should know.”
I suppose it didn’t matter. I knew what was in my heart, the fire of a red dragon’s love.
“And my emotions have run riot through my blood all night.”
“The emotions you stir in me have become all-invasive. A painful physicality I can no longer endure.”
“I may burn in Tartarus for all the evils I’ve done.”
“But by the gods, I’ll fuck my mate before I’m sent there.”
“I need you, Malina,”
“Is your dragon fucking me too?”
“Is he claiming me too?”
“That’s right, Malina.”
“You’re mine.” His voice was so deep, I hardly recognized it. “This sweet pussy, this beautiful body, your bright soul.”
“It’s all mine.”
“Tell me.”...
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“What have you done to me?” “No more than you’ve done to me,”
“You were spared by the gods for a purpose.” “What?” I huffed. “To be your lover?” “To be my wife.”
“To be my partner in this infernal world. To be my helpmate as we crush the Roman Empire and build a new one.”
“That woman is a dim, dying light compared to you. Gods, Malina. You were so fucking beautiful tonight, it hurt my heart to even look at you. And yet, I couldn’t look away.”
“When you bend your throat and bare your neck to me?” “It means I want you to kiss it.”
“It means you’re submitting to me. That you’re offering yourself to me.” He pressed his now hard cock against my bare backside. “Are you offering yourself to me, Malina?” “You’ll take me anyway,”
“Tell me you’re giving yourself to me,”
