Dragon VIP: Kyanite (7 Virgin Brides for 7 Weredragon Billionaires Book 5) by Starla Night

Author:Starla Night [Night, Starla]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-04-13T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

Kyan squirmed with risk.

Laura snuggled against him, her head resting on his bicep, her calves tangled with his. She slipped a hand under the hem of his shirt and slid her fingertips over his flexing abdomen.

“Next time, we should take our clothes off.” Her voice held a warm, sleepy smile.

That was exactly his problem.

He stroked her hair. The curls clung to his fingers. And she clung to him, too.

But she didn’t want him.

“Unless you don’t want to,” she said, and he realized he’d been silent.

“I want what you want.”

She snuggled closer. He returned to stroking her softly.

The parts she would allow him to stroke.

Dragons mated with no barriers. Complete nakedness, male and female, so there was no doubt. Everything was laid bare. And once they had mated, they were temporarily married in the dragon way until the birth and presentation of their first dragonlet to the family matriarch. After the matriarch recognized their dragonlet, the marriage was validated — or, if the dragonlet was not recognized, their marriage was destroyed.

His parents’ marriage had been destroyed. Seven times. Once for him and each of his unrecognized siblings.

Laura had barely removed her clothing. Then, she’d introduced a barrier to prevent him from filling her with his seed.

She did not want to carry his dragonlet.

She did not want to truly know him.

She did not want to bare herself and preferred to keep their coupling anonymous, for relief rather than for marriage.

It scored his heart with a new, deep wound.

To be so close to everything he’d ever wanted and then to be shown forcefully that he was not her chosen mate tore into his soul.

“You feel so good.” She rubbed her cheek on his clothed arm.

Her gentleness broke him.

She was human. Her ways were different. Humans performed a ceremony to marry. They spoke vows and signed a paper and exchanged metal rings. He had researched it when first Mal and then Pyro declared their intentions to escape the Empress’s proposal by capturing human mates.

She did not know his ways.

Although he knew this in his head, it was impossible to convey to his aching heart.

He was used to being broken. He was used to shutting down pain.

So long as Laura did not accept him as her mate, his plans for the Empress’s marriage proposal remained unchanged.

A different awe clung to the underside of his hurt.

A female, any female, had chosen him for her partner. Even as an anonymous partner. Even just for relief. His bitterness came from wanting more. Wanting all of Laura.

And that bitterness shamed him.

Laura had given him a more precious gift than he’d received in his whole life. Instead of being overwhelmed with gratitude, he silently complained.

His greediness made him sick.

But something else bothered him, unrelated to the soul-hunger for that which he could not have.

“You apologized.”

She sucked in a breath; her even breathing suggested that she might have allowed herself to drift off to sleep against him given a little more time. “Hmm?”

“When I touched you. You apologized.”

She remained silent for several seconds.

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