Page 13 of The Gold Dragon Prince
“Theogres?” Selle asked. “The ogres that have gone missing?”
I swiveled one of my large eyes enough to peek at him. I wondered what he knew about the ogres, how much he’d learned from the things on my desk before I’d caught him in the library.
“Should we tell someone?” he asked, clinging to me again. “They aren’t missing anymore. It looks like they’re going somewhere.”
He was right. Ogres weren’t inclined to move much when they didn’t have anywhere to go or anything to do. The way the torches bobbed below was a clear sign that they were on a mission. Following them, or even popping down to ask what they were doing, could resolve the entire mystery and aid in the mission Mother had given me.
But Selle smelled so delicious. His body was warm and ripe as he lay across my back. I could feel the bulge of his belly, where the egg had already formed and was ready to leave him and begin its incubation. Omegas didn’t need to birth their eggs immediately, of course. I’d known of a few omegas who loved the feeling of growing an egg so much that they waited the maximum of a week before birthing it. But the longer they waited, the larger the egg was and the more painful it was for them.
I didn’t want Selle to suffer that sort of pain. I wanted the birth of our egg to be as swift and smooth as possible.
That’s what I told myself as I veered away from the ogres and their trek, heading fast toward my lair instead.
“Shouldn’t we do something?” Selle asked, glancing over his shoulder as the ogres’ torches disappeared into the distance.
“We are doing something, my darling,” I said, sending feelings of lust through our bond. “We’re finishing this breeding.”
Selle shivered, and I was certain I felt a rush of slick spillfrom him onto my scales. His scent seemed to grow stronger. If ever there was a motivation to hurry up and get home, that was it.
It was the first time in my life that I’d had a golden opportunity to fulfill my mother’s orders but I chose to do something else instead.
I put the guilt and shame of that choice aside as quickly as I could and flapped my wings, giving us an extra burst of speed to make it home. It only took a few minutes before my deceptively modest house was visible in the vast gardens where I’d had it built alongside the river. In the moonlight, the gold decorations seemed to glow and the whole thing practically dripped with magic.
“It’s beautiful,” Selle said breathlessly as I descended to land on the balcony right outside my bedchamber. “So beautiful.”
As soon as I alighted, I shifted back to human form. My dragon form was far too big for the narrow balcony in any case. I’d grown exceedingly skilled at transforming at just the right time as I landed…after breaking about half a dozen balconies in the past.
“You are beautiful,” I told Selle, gently shaking him off my back, then turning to face him. I drew him into my arms and slanted my mouth over his in a possessive kiss. I could feel the need to finish what we’d started wash over both of us. It made me impatient. “You are the most beautiful thing I have ever seen, and all I want to do is bury myself in your tender body.”
“Yes, please,” Selle said breathlessly, then threw his arms over my shoulders again and surged into me for another kiss.
I loved the way my delicious omega took what he wanted when he wanted it, despite having lived a life ofcruelty. He’d been beaten down by his father, but that hadn’t dimmed his spirit at all.
I vowed that I would do everything I could to support the spark within him as I lifted him against me once more and pulled the windowed door beside us open.
I carried him quickly into my bedchamber, not giving him time to look around. There would be time for him to examine the gilt decorations and the vast, canopied bed later. In that moment, we had a task that needed completing, and I intended to do it well.
“All of this is yours?” Selle asked, gazing up at the canopy as I lay him across my bed. His eyes went wide behind his glasses as he studied the intricate and lascivious pictures woven into the cloth of the canopy.
“Yes,” I said, sweeping a look over his delicious body and grinning. “All this is mine.”
I leaned over him, brushing my hands from his thighs, up over his round belly, and onto his chest, teasing his nipples as I did. Selle’s attention returned to me in an instant as he gasped for breath and shivered under my touch.
“You are the most precious thing I own, my love,” I told him, trailing kisses over the parts of him I’d just touched. “You are more valuable to me than all the gold cloth in the world, all the treasures in my hoard. You are more precious than all of that.”
“Oh, Gildur,” Selle said, softening under my lips. He threaded a hand through my hair as I kissed his belly repeatedly.
I melted. It didn’t take much for gold to melt. I felt such contentment with my mate under me. Everything else, every responsibility was forgotten.
“Are you ready, my darling?” I asked him, moving fromkissing his belly to drawing my tongue up the length of his already hard cock, from balls to tip, then sucking it into my mouth.
Selle didn’t answer with words. He moaned and burst into an orgasm, coating my tongue and the back of my throat with his delicious cum.
I swallowed it all, then chuckled and raised myself above him. I forced myself to be serious for a moment to say, “I will make this as easy as possible. It can be difficult, but seeing as hardly any time has passed since conception, the egg should be small enough not to cause you a great deal of discomfort.”
Selle tensed. “A-alright,” he said, then swallowed. “Tovey told us all how it was when he birthed his eggs.” He sucked in a breath and put on a brave face. “I can handle it.”
I was so proud of him, my fierce, brave omega. I would give him more pleasure than he’d ever known as I opened his womb again and coaxed my egg out of him.
