“I dream about him tying me up.” Jaxon kept his voice low even though no one stood nearby. “Flogging me. Whipping me.”
My pussy tingled, and I pressed my thighs together.
“I want him to mark me with a belt—a cane,” he continued, “shove his dick so far up my virgin ass that I lose my breath.” Lust darkened his eyes as his rumbled tone slid over my skin, causing it to pebble. “I want you to watch, Prim. For you to touch yourself, slide your fingers into your soaked pussy as our alpha claims me, drenching your fingers with cum as all three of us cry out our release—together as one body, one heart.”
My muscles jumped beneath my skin, causing a deep restlessness in my bones.
“Don’t do this, Jaxon,” I begged, even though arousal overrode the pain of our alpha’s rejection.
He tickled the back of my hand with his thumb with teasing strokes. “You’re going to ride my dick when he takes your ass—both of us stuffing you full, shooting our cum deep inside your body where it belongs.”
Yessss.
I clenched my eyes shut as my pussy pulsed with the need to be filled like he’d said. Ravaged until I had nothing left to give my mates.
“I want him fucking me while I’m balls deep in your sweet pussy,” he continued. “I need to be the bridge between my alpha and female.” We both groaned at the thought of finally bonding in the way I had explained to him last night. “I fuckinglustfor it so goddamn bad my body aches.”
Jaxon hoped to heal my hurt with desire, to wash away doubt by creating erotic images in my brain that my dragon also longed for.
“I won’t be manipulated,” I said, stress leaking into my tone.
“Prim—”
“No.” I shook my head, pain in the back of my throat making words difficult. “Our ancestors did this in the past.” Swallowing, I met his gaze, holding steady, even though I longed for our alpha just as much as he did. “A forced or coerced mating means all three will suffer the emotions of the one wronged. Bitterness will overshadow any physical release among them. Such a bond would never be enjoyable or fulfilling, how we both desire.”
In the way I had dreamed of my entire life.
Jaxon held my gaze, his jaw set.
“No matter how much my soul aches to be one with bothof you, Patrick must accept what he is in order to fulfill our destiny in a way that will please all three of us.” The truth of my powerlessness flooded through me, causing my unease to intensify. My body vibrated with the need to do something other than sit and wallow in misery. I got to my feet and stepped away from the bench, ice cream cone falling from my hand to splat on the ground.
Cast aside.
Unwanted.
Exactly as I’d been by my alpha.
“All my life, I expected to be alone—feared it, even,” I choked out. “Dreaded rejection from mankind, from any dragonblood I happened to hear whisper from another’s mind. While you’ve accepted me, our alpha did not. He does not want me!” Tears coursed down my cheeks as the pain grew too much to bear. “I am not enough.”
I shimmered from sight and gave my dragon her wings, leaving behind fluttering pieces of my ripped clothing.
“Prim!” Jaxon’s wail faded as I shot into the sky, needing to escape not just my own pain but his as well.
Chapter 18
Jaxon
The one thing I feared the most had come to fruition.
She left me. Fuckingleftme. Abandoned me as though I’d been nothing more than a dick to ride.
“Goddamnit!” I swept my sundae off the table and slammed my fist onto the wooden plank before me. Pain radiated up through my wrist, but I smashed my hand down again, needing something to focus on other than the fact that the energy linking us dissipated with every breath, every aching heartbeat.
All traces of her in my mind faded, leaving me empty and cold.
Our female is gone.
As if I didn’tfuckingknow that!