Dating A Dragon(29)
He fucked her harder and faster, relentless in his passion, and she came, hard, spasming around his cock, her bursting juices coating his balls and her thighs. She shouted hoarsely as her body was shaken and rocked, and Orion went with her.
He gave a wild groan that turned to a roar as he spasmed inside her, thrusting again and again until the last aftershocks died away and they were both left exhausted and humming with sexual fulfillment.
He withdrew from her reluctantly, murmuring sweet nothings in her ear, and pulled her into his arms, holding her against his chest as their heartbeats settled from frantic syncopation into a steady throb, beating in time.
Chapter Twelve
Cadence paused on her way out the castle’s enormous front door. She was going to the fairgrounds to meet with the festival planning committee. She wanted to find Orion first, though, to drink in his gorgeousness and possibly enjoy a few minutes of deep, passionate kissing. For some reason, she couldn’t find him anywhere.
“Hey, Orion!” she yelled, and her voice echoed back at her in the cavernous entryway.
Phoebe and her older brother Remus hurried up to her.
“Hey, Cadence, we’re supposed to distract you,” Phoebe said. “Want to go outside and see me do fireballs?”
“You’re not supposed to tell her you’re distracting her, dummy,” Remus said, and stuck his tongue out at her. “Now he won’t give us the chocolate, and it’s your fault.”
“Who are you calling dummy?” she demanded indignantly, and singed his eyebrows with a blast of fire.
“Hey! No fire inside the castle!” Cadence quickly stepped between them. “What are you distracting me from?” she asked Rebus sternly.
He shrugged. “Don’t know.”
Very suspicious. “Where is Orion?”
“Haven’t seen him.” Phoebe stared up at the ceiling and put her hands behind her back. Cadence leaned over to see what she was doing.
“Phoebe, are you crossing your fingers?”
“And my toes,” Phoebe bragged.
“Does that mean you’re lying?”
“Yep,” Phoebe said cheerfully. “But I can’t get in trouble because I’m crossing my fingers.”
“That’s not how it works,” Remus sneered, and crossed his eyes at her, then dodged back behind Cadence so Phoebe couldn’t flame him again.
“So where is he really?”
“Talking to Uncle Nikolai,” Phoebe said, jerking her head towards a doorway. “But he’s keeping something secret.”
Cadence stalked off to find Orion.
He was standing in the drawing room, talking to Nikolai in low tones.
“Should we tell her?” Nikolai asked him.
“No, she doesn’t need any additional stress, especially if she is with dragonling. There’s no need to worry her,” Orion said. “We’ll deal with it if it comes up. What are the odds, anyway?”
“Fifty-fifty?” Nikolai suggested. “Who even knows? It’s been hundreds of years since this issue has even come up.”
“Well, mum’s the word. Anybody who tells her has to deal with me.” Orion’s voice went deep and threatening.
Okay, she was getting sick of this.
She kicked the door wide open, and they both jumped, with guilty expressions on their faces. She demanded indignantly, “Tell me what?”
“I’m outta here,” Nikolai said, hurrying off.
“Coward!” Orion yelled after him. “Abandoning your post!”
“Not abandoning! It’s a strategic retreat!” Nikolai called back.
Cadence stalked up to Orion and repeated, in tones of icy rage, “Tell. Me. What?”
He let out a long, exasperated breath. “All right, I talked to the Elders today, because of a claim that Humphrey is making. Here’s the problem. If you are carrying dragonlings, we don’t know if they would be fire or ice, at this point.”
“And?”
“The last time we know of a fire and ice couple having dragonlings, it was five hundred years ago. In that case, the man was an ice dragon and the woman was a fire dragon. But she gave birth to ice dragons, so the ice dragon clan tried to take them from her, while banning her from their clan because she was a fire dragon. Told her husband he could take the babies from her and marry someone in his clan. Instead, she and her husband fled with their dragonlings and managed to escape. Both sides went to war, and burned down entire towns and forests. It turned humans against dragons for a very long time.”
“Thank you for the history lesson. Glad the husband wasn’t a dingleberry. What does this have to do with us now?”
“Well, because of the fire and ice war, the law now says that if you give birth to ice dragons, even if I am the father, any ice dragon male who is willing to take you as his mate can claim them, and if I were to try to interfere – pardon me, when I definitely did interfere – then my clan’s lands, mines, and all of my clan’s possessions would be forfeit to him. Wouldn’t matter if I challenged him and won – his clan would still have the right to your dragonlings and my clan’s possessions.”