Page 64 of Guardian's Dilemma

“I love your dragon healing,” he said, “but I really hate that my marks vanish so quickly.”

I felt a jolt inside me. “You want to mark me?”

“Yes.”

He ducked his head again and sucked at my skin some more. I rolled my hips to get some friction on my dick, and it was perfect. His weight pressed me down and his body was warm and solid. I felt like I could come just from this, my mate’s mouth at my neck and my dick rubbing against his furry body.

When I began to pant, my breath coming fast and my orgasm building at the base of my spine, Kingsley drew his head back again and looked down at me.

“I want to mark you, Glimmer.”

“Go on, then.”

I’d let him do whatever he wanted to me.

A strange flicker crossed over his expression then. “What is it?” I asked.

“I mean mark you permanently.”

I nodded.

He frowned. “You don’t mind?”

“I’m a dragon. I have the same instinct.”

“What do you mean? What instinct?”

“The instinct to claim.”

He frowned and rolled off me, which left me feeling cold and alone. Slowly, he sat up, pulling himself up to the headboard and drawing his legs up to wrap his arms around them.

“Is that what this is?”

I looked up at him. “Is that what what is?” When he raised an eyebrow at me and I said, “You can’t expect me to word properly when you’ve just done this to me.”

I gestured at my dick, which was laying against my stomach, leaking a steady stream of pre-come.

For a moment, I thought he wasn’t going to answer me and it was a sharp reminder that we hadn’t known each other that long. I seemed to know him so well, and he instinctively knew me – better than anyone in my clan – but there were still things we hadn’t found out about each other.

I waited for him to explain, or to push me away.

It was a long wait.

Eventually, he spoke. It was quiet and I sat up, leaning towards him to hear.

“You’re going to need to tell me about claiming. I need to know how you see it.”

I frowned. “How I see it? It’s… a claiming. I don’t know. It bonds us.”

“Bonds?”

“Yeah, that’s literally what a claiming is for. It ties us together. Forever.”

“And that’s what you want to do to me, is it?”

It wasn’t as though I could lie. Not to my mate. Not about that. My dragon pushed at me to lean further into him, to tell him everything, to give him everything.

“Yes, it is.”

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