Page 115 of Alpha Dragon's Mating Contract
He woke up with hot air puffing in his face, and a large dragon snout-to-snout in front of him.
Walren bolted upright, bleating.
“Hey, it’s fine. It’s me.” Raptor petted Walren with his wing. “You fell asleep.”
“I wasn’t expecting you to be in my face when I woke up!”
When Raptor’s wings drooped, Walren hurriedly nuzzled him to show he wasn’t offended. Raptor grinned and bumped their snouts together. Then he shifted back into a human, cupping Walren’s fuzzy face with his large hands.
“You’re endlessly adorable,” Raptor whispered.
Walren couldn’t blush as a gazelle, but it was a near thing.
“I hope we can do this again. Us in our shifted shapes. Maybe I can even take you flying!”
Walren hurriedly shook his head. “Nonono. Feet on the ground.”
“Alright.” Raptor pressed their foreheads together. It felt weird, so Walren shifted back into his human shape.
Just that it was twice as intimate now, looking into Raptor’s eyes, being held by him. Raptor pressed a soft kiss to Walren’s lips; Walren’s heart stuttered.
Raptor grinned. He had heard Walren’s pulse, hadn’t he?
Instead of saying something about it, Raptor cradled Walren’s face and kissed him again.
“Why would you?” Walren blurted. “I puked earlier.”
Raptor huffed and nudged their mouths together. “Your morning sickness isn’t going away anytime soon, sweetheart. Besides, I’m to blame for your pregnancy. I’ll deal with it.”
Raptor was just too amazing. Walren remembered the pickup line he had written, knowing for certain now that he wanted to give it to Raptor.
But where had he hidden it? He couldn’t remember.
He wracked his brain, trying to sift through the things that had happened over the past few weeks. Everything was a hazy blur. Because of his pregnancy?
The harder Walren tried to remember, the more his brain hurt. He whimpered.
Raptor leaned back with a frown. “What’s wrong, sweetheart?”
“I forgot where it is!” Walren cried.
“Where what is?”
“Your present!”
Raptor’s eyes grew round. “You have a present for me?”
“I made it a while back,” Walren mumbled. “I wasn’t ready to give it to you then, so I hid it. But now I can’t remember where it went!”
“We’ll look for it, Walry-babe. Don’t you worry.” Raptor dropped kisses all over his face. “Or you could tell me what it is, if we can’t find it. I promise I won’t kick up a fuss.”
Walren pouted. “Iwill kick up a fuss if we don’t find it.”
Especially because he couldn’t remember the pickup line he had written.
Raptor hugged him tight. “Okay, we’ll look.”
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