Page 72 of Awaken the Dragon
“Do you take baths with everyone on your team?”
He shook his head and kept his eyes locked on the movement of that dress.
“Only the ones who are goddesses,” he replied before clearing his throat.
Now he sat up even straighter as the dress passed her hips and eased up her torso. He was about to jump out of the tub at the sight of her long legs and shaved mound.
“Oh, well I guess that makes sense.”
Pulling the dress up past her torso and over her head, she finally dropped it to the floor and his dick jumped as he stared at her hard dark nipples before lifting his gaze to her face.
“You’re taking an awful long time to get over here,” he told her. “Is torture the form of punishment you decided to inflict?”
She gave him a full smile and continued walking until she stood right next to the tub.
“You are the smartest dragon I know, Theo Masters.”
Theo could have said a lot more. He could have apologized to her and sworn his undying love and affection at that very moment. But he didn’t. Instead, he reached out and grabbed her, pulling her into the tub and growling as her body met his in the hot water. Totally ignoring that most of that water had sloshed right over the edge and splashed on the floor.
She was laughing until he kissed her, then she was kissing him back. His arms went around her waist as she straddled him. He held her close as his dick found her entrance and she eased down over him. More water hit the floor as she began to ride him hard and fast. When she arched her back, her hands firmly gripping his shoulders, he leaned in to take a nipple into his mouth. He sucked and caught that tip between his teeth until she moaned and drove herself down onto his dick with even faster thrusts. He moved to the other breast and her reaction was the same. And just when he knew she was about to come, he lifted her off him.
She was about to protest when he stood her up and then followed, rubbing his palm over the perfectly round globes of her ass. They were slick with water and he licked his lips at the delectable sight. Touching the small of her back, he leaned her over so that her palms rested on the back of the tub where he’d just been resting his head.
“Damn.” A string of more intense curses followed as he looked at that perfect ass, rubbing his palm over it once more, before slipping his fingers between her crease.
He went down with his fingers, spreading her and pushing his face between her legs.
“Come for me,” he whispered over her wet flesh. “Just for me, my warrior goddess. Only for me.”
The second he put his mouth to her, she bucked and screamed his name. He never wanted to hear his name at this pitch by another woman again. She was fearless and tasted sweeter than the morning rain. A more beautiful woman he could never have imagined for himself. Hell yes, he wanted her to stay a thousand forevers and then some.
He continued licking and sucking, loving the taste of her on his tongue and the silky smooth feel of her skin rubbing along his face. Her next words were in another language, but Theo was pretty sure of everything she said because as soon as she finished speaking, her release dripped into his mouth and his beast roared with pleasure.
“I love you.”
He’d whispered the words so softly the next morning as they lay in his bed that Shola almost didn’t hear them.
She was certain she would have missed them if she were asleep, but slumber had failed to find her for quite some time. Her mind was still churning with all the events of the past two weeks. In the beginning, she was Shola N’Gara of the River Tribe, savior to her people. Now, in the end, she was Shola N’Gara, demigoddess who was afraid she might have fallen in love with the only unattainable dragon in the Human Realm.
But now, she was lying in the bed with him snuggled tight to her back, his strong arms wrapped around her, his lips at her ear.
“And I’m sorry. I didn’t tell you why I left the Far Realm because I’d locked that part of me away for so long I didn’t know how to talk about it. My mother’s betrayal made it hard for me to accept emotional connections, until you,” he said.
She wondered if he knew she was awake and then decided he was about to find out.
“But you have built emotional connections. Bleu and everyone in this house are more to you than just your team. They are your family, Theo. They love and respect you, and you love them back.”
He didn’t respond.
“I propose we make a promise to always tell each other the truth about what we’re feeling. Good, bad or indifferent.”
Again, he didn’t respond, so Shola turned to him. “Is that asking too much?”
“Not at all,” he said and leaned in to rub his nose against hers. “Not at all.”
She kissed him and smiled. “Well in that case, I love you too.”
Five hours and another bath later, Shola sat on the seat to the right of Theo in the main conference room.
