Page 71 of The Ice Prince's Fated Mate
The smell of her arousal tickled my nose, courtesy of the panties tucked away in my pocket.
I don’t know where that came from, but damn, was it hot. That memory will serve meverywell.
My dragon flexed its wings, unsettled and unhappy. It wanted us to go back inside. Ella was our mate. We should not be leaving her. Instead, we should storm back inside and take what was ours. The tips of my fangs started to descend.
And that is why I am in control, not you. If we did that, we would only push her further away, possibly lose her. Forever. We can wait a bit longer. Or are you too weak?
There was silence, and then a snort, but my fangs retracted.
Exactly.
“Dirk?”
That was Kolar from his spot in the hallway. Although we were in the tyrant’s private wing of the citadel, Caz still insisted on having guards posted, and Kolar must have drawn the night shift. Across from him was another member of the palace guard.I nodded in acknowledgment, though I only vaguely recognized his face.
“Eyes forward,” I said to Kolar, struggling hard to keep a straight face.
“Wouldn’t be much of a guard if I didn’t notice every going … and coming.”
I fixed Kolar with a stare, but he just stared straight forward. His lips may have twitched. Once.
“Goodnight, Kolar,” I said slowly, walking past him.
“Goodnight, Dirk.”
I spun, but his eyes were still fixed on a spot directly across the hall.
Accepting defeat, I continued.
“I told you I’d get you back for that outfit,” Kolar whispered, my dragon hearing easily picking it up.
Shaking my head in amusement, I returned to my quarters, still in a bit of a daze from everything that had happened tonight with Ella. After we had gotten dressed, I’d ordered dinner to the room.
It had been painful, my dick straining against my pants, begging for further release, but strict self-discipline kept me from coming undone. That time. I had told Ella I was fine, that I would make it, but truthfully I had barely gotten through the evening. To be so close to her, the taste of her sweet pussy on my fingers, and her soaked underwear in my pocket, had been pure torture.
Now I fell back into my bed with the memories of her nude body in the dim light, and immediately started stroking my cock, her panties sitting under my nose. It wouldn’t take long to give me the release that would reduce the aching in my balls.
Behind my eyelids, Ella danced and moaned once more as I pleasured her with my mouth this time, tasting her fully, making her body writhe and arch as I fisted my shaft, up and down, moving my index finger just over the thick head and back.
Ella cried out my name in my fantasy, and I stifled a loud groan as my dick twitched. I was going to come. My other hand snatched her panties just as the explosion burst from the tip of my cock, and I came hard into her underwear, shaking from the intensity of the orgasm.
I sagged back into the bed, still hard as a rock. After being turned on all night, I would have to jerk it at least once more before I could settle down.
Getting up, I moved to the shower, where I quickly drained what little seed I had left a second time. Cleaning myself up, I then got out, dried off, and stood around, staring at the bed. Something about sleep felt wrong.
But what was it? I couldn’t go to Ella. She was safe with Kolar and the other guard in the hallway.
The other guard. My dragon growled. We didn’t trust him. Didn’t know him, and didn’t want him anywhere near our mate. Even Kolar was pushing it, though we trusted him completely.
Fine, I grunted at my dragon, putting on clothes and walking back into the hallway.
“Take a hike,” I told Kolar and the other guard. “I’ll take tonight’s watch here. You go reinforce the entry to the wing.”
Kolar took one look at me and marched himself and the other guard away, not voicing a word of protest.
I took up station directly across from Ella’s door. My dragon settled in for the night, one eye open, and I did the same. This felt right, felt like where we were supposed to be. My earlier discomfort faded swiftly, replacing by a sense of fulfillment.
As her mate, this was where I belonged. Between her and any possible danger.
