Rising Dragons Omnibus

Author:Ophelia Bell
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2014-12-23T05:00:00+00:00

Breath of Desire: Chapter 7

Aurik shook his head, baffled at her reaction to his proposal. “I’m offering them to you. You can have again what you had once before. Why are you fighting me?”

Thea gave him an exasperated look. “Because what we all want is for you to stay. To never leave. Why did you say that to me that night? I had only just gotten there and we’d only just met, yet something made you say that. You were honest with me about why you think you need to go, so come out with it. Why did you tell me that?”

He opened his mouth to speak, but found the truth difficult, as contrary as it was to everything else he’d said to her tonight. He would sound like a capricious idiot if he confessed it. Yet all she asked for was honesty.

He swallowed thickly and cleared his throat. “You affect me like Dimitri does. The magic—the energy we subsist on is drawn to you more than it is to other humans. Dimitri is the same. It makes it difficult to keep my distance, even though I must, because of how deep my need is to pull that magic from you.”

Thea looked down to where his hands still gripped her thighs. They’d moved higher without him being entirely conscious of it and now his thumbs idly teased at the edge of her cotton shorts. The magic that surrounded her shifted, became less a steady swirl and more a winding coil, the thread of it reaching toward him. Was she even aware of what she was doing? It was a wonder no other dragons had found her yet, but she may not have been so potent living alone and in grief. If he left, would Dimitri’s own well shrink as a result?

“What would it take to make you stay?” she asked. Her hips shifted toward him and the heat of her sank into his fingertips.

The magic teased at his skin, promising fulfillment but he had to draw it from her completely to have it. His answer was instinctual, pulled from his lips before he could think. “To have you both every day. To mark you, too. To fill you with my seed and have it mingle with his in your womb.”

“What about Aurin, does she get to mark me?” Thea’s breath quavered with the slow strokes of his fingers against the moist, hot velvet between her thighs.

Aurik shifted to kneel between her legs. He was eye-level with her and close enough that the warmth of her breath caressed his face. The question took him a second to process. Of course Aurin should mark Thea, too. Thea should have every privilege offered to Dimitri. The Council be damned. If that’s what it took to keep Thea here, that’s what should be done.

Aurik shook his head trying to clear it of the magic seeping its way in, confusing him. No, she had asked what would make him stay. He forced himself to pull

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