Page 40 of Under the Dragon's Spell
"I can't stand the thought of you having a baby with someone else."
"I see." He ran his hand into the fine hair on the back of my neck and I felt a shiver go down my spine. "We know it's not impossible for you to have a baby."
"But it's unlikely." I stared straight ahead, unable to look at him and see the inevitable disappointment on his face. "Rory was right. It was my fault we couldn't have a baby."
"Maybe not. We can speculate that your body shut down the whole pregnancy thing because Rory didn't make you feel that having a child with him was truly a good idea. Ithappens with dragon females. You have to make them want it or it doesn't happen. One reason there's so few of us."
"I'm not a female dragon."
"No, but human omegas, human males who can become pregnant resulted from crossing between our species, so you're related to some dragon females, even if it was a long time ago."
What he said made sense, but it wasn't solving my problem. How did I tell my body to start the pregnancy thing up again when I'd unwittingly shut it down before?
Why had I shut it down when I'd always dreamed of having a family?
I took a deep breath, feeling the beginnings of tears burn in my eyes.
Tyrel let go of my neck to put his arm around my shoulder and pull me closer against his side, as if he knew what was going through my mind. And when I blinked, he wordlessly wiped the tears from my cheeks with his thumb and I wanted to kiss him.
"If you had my child," he said, "it wouldn't lack for anything."
What about parental love?"You don't even really want a child."
He smiled at me, showing just a hint of teeth, and then he said the sweetest thing I'd ever heard anyone say. "I wantyourchild."
If I hadn't already been crying, those words would have made me start.
His smile widened. "Can you even imagine a combination of me and you running around? They'd be powerful enough to rule the world."
"I don't need my child to rule the world."
He laughed. "No, I suppose not. But doesn't every parent have high aspirations for their child?"
"I only want him or her to be happy."
"What if ruling the world made our baby happy?"
His insistence on this silly fantasy made me laugh even as my tears dried on my cheeks. "If that made them happy then I guess I would support them in their aspirations."
"As would I."
I wiped my eyes. "Would you?"
"I'd be a better father than my sire was."
"I know you would be. You will be."
He showed me a soft smile and I couldn't help but respond in kind. I didn't know how he managed to make me feel so light on what was supposed to be one of the darkest days of my life, but he'd done it in a matter of minutes and I loved him for it. And more than anything, I wanted to have his baby.
I felt his gaze on me, and then I heard his words in my head.
Kiss me.
This time, I didn't resist. Didn't even try to. I leaned in and pressed our lips together, tasting dragon. Tasting him. He pulled me into his lap and opened his mouth, letting our tongues meet. I suppressed a needy moan as blood rushed to my groin, getting me hard.
He broke the kiss to speak into my ear. "Do you want me?"
"God yes." Sitting on his lap, I could feel him react to my response, and the intensity of my need to get rid of the fabric between us and lower myself onto him was making my head spin.
