“I’m never letting you two go!” She scrambled around in her tote bag for her pen and paper, flipping open her notebook, everything around her fading from her consciousness as she started to write.
* * * *
She fell asleep on his shoulder. Feeling more than a little smug that it was he who had kept her awake for the most of last night, Brim pulled his little mate into a more comfortable position and even when unconscious, she trustingly burrowed into him. Slade eyed them before reaching out and gently pulling the notebook from her bag. She had been lost to them inside her head, writing madly in it for almost an hour.
“Don’t.” Brim warned as Slade flipped the book open, his eyes skimming over the content within.
“Why not, aren’t you curious?” Slade asked without pausing.
Brim couldn’t deny it.
Slade was quiet for a long moment as he flipped through page after page. A wide smile spread over his face. Brimstone couldn’t stand it any longer and growled at his friend.
“What does it say?”
“She has quite the imagination. I must say, for humans who know nothing about the supernatural world, they are fascinated by it. These...”—Slade tapped the book with his finger—“…are her fantasies. Looks like you really are her hero, and are out to save the maiden from an evil demon bent on taking over the world. Oh, and you’re going to love this part. There is a lot of full, descriptive fucking. Did you really take her from behind while—”
Brimstone snatched the book from Slade’s grasp. “Hey, I didn’t finish reading it!”
“The fuck you have.” He opened to a page where she wrote a description of him and the sexual positions he took her last night.
“Calm down, my friend. Your growling is frightening the whole bus,” Slade warned, a smile on his face as he nodded towards the humans who were eyeing them warily.
“The more I learn about this modern, human world the more I like it—sexually liberated females eager to embrace new ways of thinking. There are none of the old superstitions. Dragons and other outer realm, along with lower realm creatures are reduced to myths and the imaginations of women, such as your mate. Mind you, I like your mate’s imaginings most of all.”
“Slade,” said Brimstone, lowering his voice to just above a whisper, but nonetheless deadly in tone. “I wonder how much female attention you would attract without teeth.”
Slade shrugged, not in the least bit intimidated. “She didn’t believe me when I told her we were dragons. So, the question remains, how would humans really react if one of us suddenly changed to their beastly side?”
“It would scare them. From what I’ve seen, humans have not changed much in the way they fear what they don’t understand, and it makes them do foolish things.”
Slade frowned. “That doesn’t help our case with the King.”
“You, my friend, dragged me to this realm,” Brim pointed out. “You need to come up with something to tell the King.”
“Ah, yes, but would you have met your mate, if I didn’t bring you here? This development helps our case by the fact another dragon has found his true mate in a human female.”
Brim grunted, acknowledging Slade’s part in helping him find his feisty, little mate. However, at the same time, he wanted to plant his fist in his smug smile. Friends did have their advantages, even if they annoyed the fuck out of him at times.
Brim closed Amber's notebook and slipped it back into her bag. He needed to talk to his little mate about the content of her stories. He didn’t want to stop her doing something she loved, but he also didn’t want her doing anything which attracted male attention other than his own. She was his responsibility.
“What, by demon’s blood, is that?”
Slade stared out the window while the bus pulled off the freeway, heading towards a large building with a huge, obviously fake crocodile on the roof.
“Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the first stop of our day trip—jumping crocodiles,” the bus driver announced over the speaker system.
“Crocodile jumping.” Amber opened her eyes, sat up, and yawned. Brimstone's cock, already hard, throbbed at the sight of her soft, sleepy blue eyes. All he wanted to do was drag her off and fuck her again, this time properly, until she couldn’t walk away from him at all.
“Why, on this earth would a crocodile jump? They are mindless scavengers.”
“Because it entertains the tourists. It's the thrill of being close to a dangerous reptile without the risks involved, and people need to make a living.” Amber stretched her neck from side to side.