Nosedive

by Torri Heat

was inside of you. Did you like that? When I was breaking you apart? Piece...by...piece.”

“Scream my name. I want this whole mountain to know who’s making you come.”

Cam’s mouth was still resting in the crook of my neck, and I was distracted by his proximity. His smell. Him. His hand was drifting higher under my dress, and I tried to squeeze my legs together to offer some relief. He smiled against my skin, and I knew I was screwed. “She

“Your mouth is saying one thing, ice queen, but your body is saying another,” Cam rasped in my ear. He pushed aside the flimsy panties I wore, stroking his finger between my legs and hissing at the wetness he found there. “You’re really going to make me take care of this in public?”

“So you want me to leave you like this? Aching and needy for me all night long?” He stroked again, his finger toying with my damp folds. My eyes fluttered closed against the onslaught of his words.

“How long have you been craving my cock, Charlie?” My eyes flew open and I sat up straight.

“Tell me how much you need me to stretch you. How much you want me to make you scream. Tell me how desperate you are to lose control.”

“Why, lass, I thought he’d have told you. Cam’s father was the previous Alpha.”

“As touched as I am, I’m not mating you.” “Why not?” Charlie sat up, running her hands through her tangles of hair. She glared at me. I knew she would fight for what she wanted – needed – but this was one fight I wouldn’t back down on. “Because I love you, Charlie!” I slammed my hands down on the bed, feathers exploding into the air around us. “Are you happy? Satisfied? Because I’m not fucking mating you unless you can look me in the eyes and admit you love me too.”

“I know you have feelings for me. I know they scare you. But they don’t have to be scary. I’m not like them.”

“I don’t care that you’re a witch, Charlie. I don’t care that you’re not a dragon. I don’t care that you’re the most beautiful woman I’ve ever seen, or that you aren’t my mate. I don’t give a shite about any of these things. It doesn’t matter. Because you make my heart beat in a way I never thought was possible, and you put a smile on my face just by walking into a bloody room. You fight with me when others back down and above all else? I choose you, Charlie. I don’t love you because someone is telling me I’m supposed to love you. I love you because I want to. Because I choose to love you, every goddamn day.”

“I love you, you dumb dragon. I shouldn’t, but I do.”

Mate, my dragon hummed happily. Yeah, okay, I thought. I could let them win this time.

“Ride me, ice queen. Show me how much you want this. I want to see you control your pleasure.”