Claimed By the Dragon Lord by Miranda Bailey

Author:Miranda Bailey [Bailey, Miranda]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sparrow Publishing
Published: 2020-01-17T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

Adakan

“What news?” I demanded as I strode into the room where Anastasia was instructing her new recruits. Everyone in the room instantly dropped to their knee.

“Rise and speak freely,” I commanded.

It had been eight weeks since the Aquarians had moved back to their world. During that time, Anastasia had crafted a script and a call had gone out for males and females. There’d been thousands to volunteer, eager to serve their people, but dear Anastasia had rejected all but ninety-one. Now she was shuttling between the Ormian and Aquarian worlds, conducting classes, teaching our people and the Aquarians how to mate successfully.

“Slow, my lord,” Anastasia said.

My eyes narrowed. “Why? Are these men and women not following your instruction?”

If they weren’t, they would regret that choice.

Anastasia smiled. “Yes, my lord. They’re trying. We’re making progress, but I’m fighting millions of years of evolution. I’m trying to teach a Jegger to not bite, and that takes time and patience.”

I grinned. She was picking up more and more of our idioms and manners. The Jegger was a nasty, ill-tempered, vicious beast, suitable only for hunting and eating.

“Show me.”

Anastasia smiled and pulled the ceremonial blade she’d taken to wearing, pointing to Serenity and a male whose name I didn’t know.

“Serenity, Teg, let’s show our lord how Aquarian women want to be touched.”

The two stepped into the center of the room and gazed at each other.

“When are they going to start?” I asked.

“Shhh...” Anastasia hissed softly. “They have.”

As I watched Teg took Serenity’s face in his hands, his gaze never leaving hers, as he softly caressed her face.

“Good,” Anastasia said softly. “Now, Serenity, how would the Aquarian react?”

As I watched, Serenity softened, gazing into Teg’s eyes, then burst into laughter.

“I’m sorry! I’m sorry! Let me try again!”

I went stiff with rage.

Perhaps Anastasia sensed my wrath rising within me because she touched me on the arm and shook her head slowly as Serenity composed herself and once again gazed into Teg’s eyes. She touched his face tenderly, as I had my mother’s as she lay dying of old age. I didn’t understand what she was doing. Teg wasn’t infirm or injured. He wasn’t an infant. I didn’t understand why Anastasia was forcing Serenity to touch him as if he were a child. I realized then that was the problem. We didn’t understand what we needed to give to the Aquarians to mate and bond with them.

Teg touched her lips with a finger, smiling at her, then forcing his features back into the softness of before. Serenity giggled, then composed herself again, and opened her lips slightly.

Suddenly the mood was broken as Teg burst into a deep laugh, causing Serenity to do the same before he pulled her roughly to him, their hands locking as they strained. Serenity, with her guard training, easily overcame his defense, threw him to the ground and fell on him, taking his lips before laughing and bounding to her feet and then offering him a hand.

“I don’t understand what they were doing at the beginning,” I said softly.

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