Page 42 of Winter's Dragons. Frozen Flames
Chapter Eleven
Togetherness
Kerryn
Kissing Cassia felt like flying, like taking a breath of fresh, sweet air after having been suffocated by the fumes of a demonic enchantment. It felt heavenly, and I basked in the rightness of having her in my arms and feeling her familiar warmth and magic against my naked skin. I craved her as a dragon and as a man, with more greedy lust than I could have ever displayed for any amount of precious stones and jewelry, or for all the females in Terra Dracones put together.
I knew my fellow dragons felt the same, and I didn't begrudge them for it. When Cassia broke the kiss between us and turned to press her lips to Emmerich's, it felt natural, right, just like we had told her. The four of us had been meant to be together, and while I would always be possessive of my female and want to keep her from other males, Emmerich and Raijin would be the exception.
It certainly helped that as Emmerich buried his hand in Cassia's hair and dove in for a deeper kiss, she started to grind against my already erect cock. The scent of her arousal permeated the air, as addicting and alluring as Cassia herself. My dragon roared at the back of my consciousness, urging me to bury myself inside her and take what was mine, but I leashed my immediate, visceral need for her into something more sedate. I'd feared that my time with my soulmate had run out, and the fact that I'd been wrong about that didn't change my need to make the most of every second we spent together.
We didn't speak. At this point, everything that needed to be said was out in the open, and we'd always been much better at communicating with our bodies anyway. As my fellow dragons shared kisses with our soulmate, I nibbled on the white column of her throat and reached down between our bodies, sliding my fingers over the bare lips of her pussy.
The moment I rubbed my thumb over her swollen clit, she let out an inarticulate cry of pleasure and her magic seemed to swell, wordlessly beckoning us closer. The ethereal caress of her icy, yet comforting touch swept over our bodies, reaching out to our core natures, a siren's call we couldn't hope to resist.
Following an instinct I could no longer control, I tumbled my soulmate back onto the bed. In the process, I lost my access to her most intimate region, but I promptly fixed that problem a few seconds later, when I spread her legs and buried my face between them.
As I delved in deep for the most intimate kiss that could possibly exist between a male and his female, the delicious flavor of her cream exploded on my tongue, the most potent aphrodisiac in existence. I didn't think I'd ever get enough of tasting her like this, of indulging in the sweet nectar of her pleasure, of making love to her with my mouth. Groaning, I suckled gently on her clit and was rewarded by the sound of an almost distressed cry of pleasure. It might have alarmed me had I not understood the true meaning of the inarticulate noise. Cassia had not uttered a single word, but every fiber of her being screamed for more, and that desire echoed into the breathless, sharp whimpers she did manage to release.
Obeying my soulmate's plea, I slid my fingers into her tight, slick channel. She was so hot inside that a part of me had trouble reconciling the ice magic still dancing through the air with the pulsing, vivid warmth of her pussy. In a way, it was suitable, as Cassia was like that even the rest of the time, both the perfect, beautiful ice queen and the passionate nymph who had opened her heart and her lair to us. I had no idea how I'd gotten so lucky and what kind of deity had chosen me as one of her fated males, but I would forever be grateful for it.
My fellow dragons must've felt the same, and they decided to show their appreciation for Cassia's charms in methods similar to my own. Raijin leaned over to steal a kiss from Cassia's plump, pink lips, whereas Emmerich lowered his mouth over her full breasts.
I didn't have the right angle to see much of what they were doing, but I didn't necessarily need it. I felt it in the sharp spike of Cassia's pleasure, in the mild tremors now coursing through her shapely form, in the way her legs shook in my hold. I smelled in the scent of her sweat and the light traces of her almost indiscernible, uniquely floral perfume. And because of that, when Emmerich's fire magic physically reached me, engulfing my body in a cocoon of blazing heat, I embraced it just like I had my connection with my soulmate. Time seemed to grind to a halt as the puzzle pieces of our souls slid into place.
For as long as I could remember, whenever Emmerich's magic had come into contact with mine, the results had always been explosive. The extent of the damage had varied, depending on the intensity with which we'd attacked one another, but it had always been unavoidably painful and violent. The natural poison I emitted through my breath had clashed with his fire blasts as badly as our tempers and personalities had.
I was of course perfectly capable of breathing without poison being an issue—as evidenced by my current position—but even so, one would've thought that I should have experienced at least some mild discomfort upon feeling Emmerich's elemental abilities sweep over my skin. I didn't. Instead, my magic seemed to naturally accept his, as if the two forces had come to an agreement. Under normal circumstances, I might have questioned this a little more, but I was too busy taking in Cassia's reaction to these developments to care about the reasons. Ice spread over the sheets beneath us, smooth and transparent, like crystal-clear glass. I felt it crawl underneath my knees, singing with Cassia's magic like it had a life of its own. It should have melted in the heat of Emmerich's fire, but oddly, it did not.
I was not surprised when the distinctive feel of Raijin's mystical energies joined our own. His abilities had always been different from mine and Emmerich's, which was why he'd been more popular with females. I'd resented him for so long because of that, but now, everything had changed. Through her beauty, strength, and kindness, Cassia had brought us all together.
Allowing the rightness of the moment to fully engulf me, I focused on pleasuring her, on showing her everything we had told her during our unfortunate, but necessary argument. I thrust my fingers deeper into her clenching heat, making full use of the magic coursing through me to reach into her core. The mellow languor that had settled over me refused to release me from its hold, but I did not attempt to escape, not when Cassia herself had surrendered to it. She did not even try to impale herself on my fingers, although I sensed the need for it vibrating in her body. She simply embraced the sensation we were giving her, as beautiful in her surrender as she was when she defiantly fought for her nation. I spread her legs further, licking over her slick pussy lips, stopping to press butterfly-light kisses on her inner thighs, then going back to what I'd been doing before. I wanted to taste every inch of her like this, from top to bottom, to spend hours on end lavishing her body with my tongue, until the flavor of her became imprinted in my senses so deeply that it would never fade from my memory.
Maybe in that sense, Cassia wasn't very different from us, because she finally found her voice and spoke the words that had been echoing in my head since I'd first brushed my lips against hers. "Claim me. I need you inside me."
Her voice was like a palpable caress, our entwined magic responding to the desperate plea she could no longer suppress. I couldn't have denied her to save my life. When I pulled away and withdrew my fingers from her body, Cassia whimpered in protest, but I made sure she didn't experience the loss for too long. I gripped her hips, positioning my cock at her entrance. In one single smooth thrust, I slid home.
There really was no other word I could have used to describe the feeling I got when I was inside Cassia. We could all talk about lairs, palaces, caves, rooms a million different times, but at the end of the day, she was the one who was my home. I wanted to bury my dick into her body so deeply that we'd never be separated, to stake my claim on her over and over again, for hours on end.
I didn't get the chance to go through with any of it, because seconds after I thrust inside her, her silken walls tightened around me and she came, squeezing my cock in a vise-like grip. A new wave of wild magic exploded over me, and the sudden onslaught of sensation caused by her outburst took me completely by surprise. In hindsight, it made sense, since I had been pleasuring her with my mouth for quite some time, but the buildup of desire that had been swirling around us had held something hypnotizing that had simply not allowed me to contemplate what came after.
That strange sensation might have been part of the reason why I didn't follow her over the edge. I wanted to give her more, to make her climb higher on the peaks of pleasure, to feed her need and her lust with my own. And so, I held back and even as she convulsed through the waves of her orgasm, I gently started to rock in and out of her.
Emmerich and Raijin had the same idea. They bent over her breasts and lowered their mouths over her nipples. Raijin's hand slowly traveled down Cassia's body, over her abdomen, toying with her bellybutton. Meanwhile, Emmerich's fire magic licked over Cassia's skin, the tongues of flame mimicking my own earlier thoughts and exploring every part of Cassia I could not reach.
We moved just as gently as before, mindful of the fact that she could get overwhelmed if we pushed too hard, too quickly. She might have been a nymph, a creature born to experience pleasure, but that didn't mean we didn't have to be careful. I kept my thrusts slow, almost imperceptible, and my fellow dragons lavished her beautiful body with attention while still attempting to give her a moment to catch her breath.
I didn't know how successful we were in that field, because Cassia didn't seem very interested in catching her breath or not getting overwhelmed. All of a sudden, something shifted between us, the air thickening with an icy fog so cold my breath became visible. The sudden temperature drop should've hurt me more than Emmerich's fire ever could, but instead, it sent spikes of sharp pleasure through my nerve endings. Emmerich and Raijin must have experienced the same thing because Emmerich tore his mouth away from Cassia's breast and growled. "Treasure..."
The simple word—our shared pet name for our beautiful soulmate—was barely understandable due to the rasp in his voice. It dropped into a hiss that almost made him sound like he was speaking in our own native tongue. Cassia shivered, although it certainly wasn't because of fear or the chill she herself had created. "Yes," she hissed back. "Claim me."
The slight sibilant tone of her words wasn't the sole modification in her demeanor. Her hand landed on Raijin's arm and I noticed that it was now clawed once again, just like it had been the day before, in the healer's wing. I'd always found that sexy, but the circumstances of the occurrence had been such that we'd never explored the potential of this new development. It seemed like that was no longer the case.
My wyvern responded to the sight and my fingernails curved and sharpened, mimicking the icicle tips that now protruded from Cassia's elegant digits. Emmerich had even less of a chance to control himself than I did, and his no longer human-looking hand reached for Cassia's face and cupped her cheek with a tenderness that belied the threatening glint of his claws. A scattering of dark red scales already covered his arm, but Cassia did not seem shocked by it. Instead, she nuzzled his palm, and then, much to my surprise and explosive arousal, took one of his fingers in her mouth and sucked.
We had always known that Cassia acknowledged and accepted our bestial natures, but at the same time, we'd been aware that there were very clear cultural differences between us, which was part of why we'd kept butting heads in this situation with Snegurka. At that moment, whatever lingering doubts we might have experienced dissipated like smoke in the wind, and something inside me melted away as well.
Seeing her like this, having her so close to me... It reminded me of how easily we could've lost her, of the moment when she had shattered in front of us. She was safe now, and we were here, together, but my desire to feel that she was real had never faded, not for a moment. It flared brighter, consuming every other decision I'd made and every thought I could hope to have. And as I started to viciously pound into her, I knew that if anything tried to take her away from me again, I would tear the whole world apart in her name.
