“You want to mate with me?” Walren blurted.
Raptor stared at him. Then the alpha hunched over like he had been punched in the gut, his breath rushing out, his hands shoving against his crotch. “Fuck!”
Walren tensed. “Raptor?”
“Fuck, fuck.” Raptor groaned, pressing his forehead against the table. “Fuck, this sucks.”
Worry hooked its claws into Walren’s spine. “What’s wrong?”
Raptor was breathing hard, his cheeks flushed. When he tipped his head back to look at Walren, Walren realized that the alpha’s pupils had blown wide open, a thin ring of gold around them. He looked like he was in pain.
“What just happened?” Walren asked nervously.
“I’m in rut,” Raptor said.
4
RAPTOR’S RUT
Walren stared,not understanding Raptor’s words. “You—what?”
As far as he knew, alphadragonsdidn’t go into rut. The alphas of some other species did, but... definitely not dragons.
So why was Raptor—?
“I have a medical condition,” Raptor said breathlessly. “Random ruts with no warning at all. It’s fucking difficult to get out of them myself.”
An extremely vivid image painted itself in Walren’s mind: Raptor naked and sweaty, his shoulders bunched with need, his biceps flexing as he worked his swollen cock, desperate for an omega to shoot his cum into.
Raptor twitched, as though he was trying not to touch himself in front of Walren.
Walren’s throat went dry. “Um.”
“Yeah.” Raptor shoved his face against the table. “You should leave. I—Fuck, I said I would drive you home. I’ll get Hassel—”
“What if I helped you?” Walren blurted.
Raptor hissed. “Fuck. Don’t say shit like that.”
“But I meant it.”
“You don’t—You don’t know what you’re offering, handing out an invitation like that. I might hurt you.”
Walren looked down at the mating contract. “This is what the contract is for, isn’t it? You need someone to help you during your ruts.”
“And you haven’t read it,” Raptor said through gritted teeth.
“I’ll read it now.” Walren flipped to the first page.
It was very,verydifficult to focus on the small black words, with Raptor panting raggedly in front of him, his shoulders tensing and relaxing.
The words swam. A sentence stood out:
I will hold you down and thrust roughly into your body.
Walren froze, a shudder rippling down his spine. Gods, it had been a while since he’d taken a cock. And definitely not one as big as Raptor’s.
Instead of starting from the first paragraph, Walren let his gaze skip around the contract details.