The Dragon Guardian (29 page)

The approval in his eyes gave her the courage to be bold. Trailing her finger down her chest until it reached the small bow between her breasts, she asked, “You like it?”

Fergus took one step and then another, his heated gaze never leaving her face. “Aye.” He was close enough to lift up a strand of her hair and rub it between his fingers. “And you wore your hair down for me.”

She placed a hand on his lower stomach. “I did a great many things tonight. But I think you have something to do for me, first.”

He ran a finger up and down her arm. “I say forget the silly games. My bollocks are blue from wanting, lass. Don’t make me wait any longer by performing a strip dance.”

Gina smiled. “Only if you promise to do it tomorrow.”

Fergus grunted. “I’ll promise to run naked through the local village tomorrow as long as you let me have you tonight, Gina.”

The corner of her mouth ticked up. “I rather like that idea.”

He lightly tugged her hair. “I thought you were possessive of me.”

She tilted her head. “I am. But I also like pushing your boundaries. You have to admit, it’s been fun.”

“Buying my family a karaoke machine was a mistake.”

“Only because I made you sing, too.”

“I’d rather not remember that,” Fergus grumbled.

She laughed. “Okay, okay. I think I know of a way to distract you from that memory.” Gina scooted back on the bed and lay down on her elbows. “Undress me without ripping anything and you can do whatever you want to me, dragonman.”

Fergus’s pupils remained slitted for a few beats before growing round again. He leaned on the bed and covered her body with his. His lips were a hairbreadth away from hers as he whispered, “You think you’re the clever one. But you’ll be begging me to rip off your clothes before I finish.”

Memories of Fergus’s fingers between her thighs, on her breasts, and strumming her nipples all rushed back to her. Blood rushed to her cheeks at the same time as her heart beat double-time.

Aware her pale skin was flushed, she merely answered, “We’ll see, Fergus MacKenzie.” She lifted a leg to rub against his hard cock trapped in his jeans. Fergus groaned and she whispered, “I’ve waited nearly two months. Don’t make me wait any longer.”

With a growl, Fergus kissed her and thrust his tongue in her mouth. Each stroke was a claim.

She raised a hand to his hair and dug her nails in. He growled and took the kiss deeper. As he licked and nipped, it felt as if he was kissing her for the first time all over again.

As quickly as he’d started, Fergus pulled away. His voice was husky as he said, “I love you, lass, but the kissing is going to wait.”

Before she could nod, Fergus leaned back and traced the strap of her lingerie top. The roughness of his finger against her skin sent a jolt through her body. When the strap ended, he traced the edge of the lace cup holding her breast.

“Fergus,” she breathed out.

Her dragonman let his fingers do the talking and he lightly strummed her nipple through the silky fabric. Each pass caused more wetness to rush between her thighs.

Hoping to encourage him, Gina spread her legs wider. Fergus chuckled. “My mate is impatient.”

She raised an arm and lightly traced the outline of his hard dick. Fergus sucked in a breath and Gina smiled. “You can keep teasing me, but I’m only going to tease you back.”

“Maybe I should’ve brought some scarves with me to tie you up. Then you’d be at my mercy.”

She shivered at the idea of being naked and open to Fergus’s every touch. “Maybe later.” She spread her legs as wide as she could, her crotchless panties displaying her core to her mate.

Fergus’s gaze zeroed in on her swollen flesh and he licked his lips. “My favorite sight.”

Playing innocent, Gina scooped her breast out of its lace cup. “I thought this was?”

With a growl, Fergus leaned down and licked her nipple, and again. At this rate, she’d come before he was ever inside her.

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Fergus was barely keeping control of his dragon. His beast roared inside his head.
We’ve played your games for two months. Hurry up. I want to feel her heat around our cock.

She needs to be ready.

Look at her. Our mate is more than ready.

Fergus ceased his attentions to Gina’s nipple and leaned back to stare at her pussy. His mate was pink and glistening, ready to grab onto his dick and wring every last drop from him.

Still, he restrained long enough to ask his dragon,
You’re sure you can contain the frenzy?

Yes. Now, hurry up and claim our mate.

Fergus met Gina’s gaze again. The heat there caused a drop of precum to leak out. “I’ll replace the lingerie later.”

In the next instant, he ripped the tiny scraps of material from his mate’s body. He ran a hand down her naked chest, breast, and stopped at her abdomen to trace the faint stretch marks. Even after all this time, Gina still shifted when he paid extra attention to the marks. Leaning down, he kissed them and murmured, “You are the sexiest woman alive to me, Gina MacDonald.” He kissed her skin again. “Don’t ever doubt it.”

“Then show me or I may need to go through the things the pregnancy changed in me.”

He grunted, ripped off his own clothes, and covered her body with his. Cupping her cheek, he answered, “As much as I love your games, lass, I only have one question before I claim you for the first time as my mate.”

Gina searched his eyes. “What?”

“Do you want me to use a condom?”

She paused before answering, “No. I trust you not to start a frenzy.”

He brushed her cheek with his thumb. “Even without the frenzy, you could end up pregnant again.”

She wrapped a leg around his thigh. “According to Dr. Innes, it’s less than a 2 percent chance while breastfeeding in the first six months. If it happens, it happens.” She kissed him. “Claim me properly, Fergus. I’ve waited long enough.”

His dragon hissed.
Now.

Fergus took Gina’s lips as he positioned his cock at her entrance. Inch by inch, he eased inside until she took him to the hilt.

Bloody hell, his mate was tight. He’d have to be careful not to hurt her.

Gina broke the kiss and moved her hips. “Stop overthinking. You won’t hurt me, Fergus. I’m more than ready for you. And I mean all of you—both man and dragon.”

His beast grunted in approval.
Do as she says. She wants us.

Fergus moved slowly at first before increasing his pace. Judging by Gina’s moans, he wasn’t hurting her.

His dragon jumped in.
Stop holding back. Claim her. Hard.

As his beast’s lust and desire to claim flooded his body, Fergus’s restraint faded.

Pinning Gina’s hands above her head, he watched her small breasts bounce with each thrust. He moved even faster. While the frenzy was absent, every iota of Fergus’s being itched to finally brand their female as their mate.

Gina arched her back and Fergus pounded harder, each movement a claim on Gina.

Rearranging his grip so he held her wrists with one hand, he ran his other down her chest, her abdomen, and stopped at her clit. Lightly brushing her bundle of nerves, Gina cried out, “Harder!”

Fergus didn’t waste any time. The bed shook with each piston of his hips. Gina wrapped her legs around him and dug into his arse cheeks. Both man and beast thought,
Ours.

But Fergus wanted to see Gina’s green eyes as she came. He ordered, “Look at me.”

Opening her eyes, she met his. The love mixed with desire stoked his dragon’s desire. Fergus growled and he increased the pressure against Gina’s clit as he rubbed back and forth. The sound of flesh slapping on flesh filled the room, mixed with Gina’s moans.

His dragon snarled.
Our mate is ready. Take her.

Pressing against her hard bud, Gina screamed right before she clutched and released his cock. Fergus never stopped moving, the pressure building at the base of his spine. Just as his mate came down from her high, he roared, “Gina,” before stilling his body and releasing.

Each drop from his dick branded their mate and sent her into one orgasm after another. Gina arching her back as he made her come was a sight he’d burn into his memory.

When he’d spilled the last drop of his seed, Fergus let go of Gina’s hands and collapsed on top of his mate. Gina moved her fingers to his back and lightly scratched his skin with her nails. Her voice was breathy as she said, “You’re just as good as I remember.”

Somehow he mustered the strength to raise his head. “You doubted me?”

She smiled slowly. “Well, I was pretty pregnant and my memory wasn’t functioning at full capacity then.”

He grunted. “I see through your games, lass.”

“So if I asked you to take me at least two more times to make sure it’s not a fluke, you wouldn’t do it?”

With a growl, he moved his head to hers and lightly bit her bottom lip. “All you need to do is ask, lass. And I’ll claim you as many times as you like. Unlike humans, I don’t need much time to recover.”

Gina moved her hips and Fergus sucked in a breath. “You will always have a claim on my heart, Fergus MacKenzie, but I think you need to claim my body a few more times for good measure. I can’t have the other females doubting you’re mine.”

Pulling out, he thrust back into her core. “There will never be any doubt, Gina MacDonald. You’re mine and I’m keeping you.”

Taking her lips in a kiss, Fergus claimed his mate three more times before holding her close as she fell asleep. He was the luckiest dragonman in the world and he’d do whatever it took to convince Gina of that fact. Every day he expected his happily ever after to be taken from him, but Fergus would fight until his dying breath to protect his family. MacKenzies loved deep and hard; Fergus was no exception.

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Sacrificed to the Dragon

(Stonefire Dragons #1)

In exchange for a vial of dragon’s blood to save her brother’s life, Melanie Hall offers herself up as a sacrifice to one of the British dragon-shifter clans. Being a sacrifice means signing a contract to live with the dragon-shifters for six months to try to conceive a child. Her assigned dragonman, however, is anything but easy. He’s tall, broody, and alpha to the core. There’s only one problem—he hates humans.
Due to human dragon hunters killing his mother, Tristan MacLeod despises humans. Unfortunately, his clan is in desperate need of offspring to repopulate their numbers and it’s his turn to service a human female. Despite his plans to have sex with her and walk away, his inner dragon has other ideas. The curvy human female tempts his inner beast like no other.

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Melanie Hall sat in the reception area of the Manchester Dragon Affairs office, tapping her finger against her arm, and wishing they’d hurry the hell up. She’d been sitting for nearly an hour, and with each minute that ticked by, she started to doubt her eligibility. If she didn’t qualify to sacrifice herself to one of the British dragon-shifter clans, her younger brother would die; only the blood of a dragon could cure her brother’s antibiotic-resistant CRE infection.

A woman dressed in a gray suit emerged from the far doorway and walked toward her. When she reached Mel, the woman said, “Are you Melanie Hall?” Mel nodded, and the woman turned. “Then follow me.”

This is it.
Mel rubbed her hands against her black trousers before she stood up and followed the woman. They went down one dull, poorly lit corridor and then turned left to go down another. The woman in the gray suit finally stopped in front of a door that read “Human Sacrifice Liaison” and turned the doorknob. Rather than enter, the middle-aged woman motioned for Mel to go inside. She obeyed, and as soon as she entered the room, the door slammed shut behind her.

A man not much older than her twenty-five years sat at a desk piled high with folders and papers. The room couldn’t be bigger than ten feet by ten feet, but it felt even smaller since every available space on the walls was decorated with different maps of the UK. Some were partitioned into five sections, while others had little pins pushed into them. She had no idea what the pins stood for, but the map divided into five represented the five dragon-shifter clans of the United Kingdom—two in England, one in Scotland, one in Northern Ireland, and one in Wales.

One of which might soon be her home for the next six months.

The man cleared his throat and she moved her attention from the walls to his face. When she met his blue eyes, he said, “Take a seat.”

Mel sat down in the faded plush chair in front of his desk and waited in silence. She had a tendency to say the wrong thing at the wrong time, and while she usually didn’t mind, right now it could end up costing her brother his life.

The man picked up a file folder and scanned something inside with his eyes, and then set it down. She wanted to scream for him to tell her the results, but she bit the inside of her cheek to hold her tongue.

The man’s almost bored voice finally filled the room. “Ms. Hall, the genetic testing results say that you are compatible with dragon-shifter DNA and should have no problem conceiving one of their offspring. You also cleared all of the extensive psychological tests. If you’re still interested in sacrificing yourself, we can begin the final interview.”