Page 2 of Monsters In Her Head

I gaped, pushing at his chest. He didn’t budge.Fucking does not count as claiming. Or I’d have been claimed a long time ago.

Ira’s hot breath brushed against my skin, the claws on his other hand taking liberties through the silky crimson material clinging to my body.I have no doubt about that. However, since you have offered yourself in exchange for our help against your fiance I think the matter is rather moot, wouldn’t you?

Anger burned into me. I threw my knee up, hitting Ira between the legs. The hand on my throat loosened, and I shoved with all my might. Ira stumbled back a few steps.

Baring my teeth at the drake, I shoved myself forward until we were nose to nose. Unlike his brother, Ryu, Ira and I were almost the same height.That does not mean you can tell me who I can or cannot spend time with. I will fuck your brother. He will help me get rid of Callahan and Luis. And you,I shoved his chest to no avail,will treat me with respect.

Lips curving up to the side, Ira’s hand shot out and wrapped my braid around his fist until I was forced to tilt my head back or break my neck.I don’t think you want me to treat you with respect, princess.He dipped his head and brushed his nose along the side of my exposed throat before lifting his head so I could see his face.In fact, I think you want someone to treat you like the broken thing you are.

I swallowed thickly against the hammering in my heart.You don’t know anything about me.

Ira tugged my hair just enough to make me wince before releasing it. “Oh, princess. Believe me, I do. I’ve been broken too.” He pointed at the milky yellow eye, the scar splitting it in two jagged lines down his face. “They won’t ever know how it feels. The helplessness. The feeling of not being quite whole. Not like us.” He played with my braid, my chest heaving up and down against my will.Let me know when you’re ready to give in.

Just as quickly as he had cornered me, Ira strode away, gone before I could retort, leaving me in the hall with my raging heart and throbbing between my thighs. What was wrong with me?

I realized a few moments later that Ira hadn’t told me where we were going and had left me in a part of the mountain I didn’t recognize. Before I could panic about getting lost, Beautine appeared around the corner with a bright smile on her pale honey colored face.

“There you are,” I worried that brute of a prince had led you astray. Now,” she peered over my form and pursed her lips. “This won’t do. You’re going to need battle leathers and I’m thinking you’d do well with daggers. But we will see how you pan out. You never know, you might be a sword or bow kind of person.”

I blinked at her. My mind barely keeping up with her words. “What? Why would I need daggers?”

Beautine patted me on the shoulder with a patient smile. “To train, of course. You didn’t think we’d just fight your battles for you, did you?”

It seemed everyone had found out about the episode I had with their king a few days ago. Bowing down to the drake king, pleading for his assistance, to save my people as well as his own, had been the most humiliating thing I’d ever done.

One would think what had happened a few minutes before that would have taken first place. But no. When I thought about the way the drake king had chased me down and then fucked me not only with his bumpy yet massive cock, I’d let him shove his tail in my... ugh I couldn’t even think it. It made my face and body heat in two entirely different ways. Not that I would let him know that.

Beautine squeezed my shoulder to grab my attention. “Are you ready?”

Yes. Not for training, for something else entirely. To Beautine, I bobbed my head. “Lead the way.”

Chapter 2

Ryu

Ryu bore holes into the map in front of him. There was the Caffew to the east. The Gunni to the north. The Haidori to the west. And the bastard kingdom belonging to the princess’s betrothed to the south, Plumus. If not for a small tip ofKinokotouching the ocean, they would be landlocked and have no way out if all four sides attacked at once.

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