Page 93 of The Ice Prince's Fated Mate
I touched my forehead and my jaw.
“It was a long time ago, Dirk.”
He growled angrily. “Not long enough.”
Not wanting to talk about it more, I rolled on top of Dirk and kissed him, moving my hips back and forth until I could feel his cock begin to harden once more.
Then there were no words for some time.
Forty-Three
Ella
I touched themarks just above my collarbone once more. They were still there after the shower, still showing in the mirror now. Two small dots that represented so much.
The smile bursting forth turned into a cheek-hurting grin.
“I have a mate,” I said to my reflection. “I. Have. A. Mate.”
Then I shrieked in glee before just as quickly stifling it. I was not a child. I would not act like it.
But I flashed the mirror another smile. Something I never thought I would be able to experience was now a permanent part of my life.
In my head, the lizard-brain rumbled its happiness right alongside me as she curled into a ball.
I stared at my face in shock. She curled into a ball. I didn’t know how I knew that’s what she was doing, but I did. I could feel it.
“So you’ve been there all along?” I asked my mirror-self. “Why haven’t you wanted to come out? Why are you hiding?”
Silence.
I conjured up an image of Dirk. A little stir. I erased Dirk’s imaginary clothes. My dragon perked up.
“Really? So Dirk will wake you up, but not me. Rude.”
I received a quick snort of disdain before more silence. I smiled anyway. So the beast was in there somewhere. I just had to find a way to fully unlock her. Somehow.
Maybe Dirk could help me, but he’d said he had some things to attend to, and he would see me that night. The look in his eyes when he’d said it made it very clear what he had in mind, which had very little to do with just his eyes.
I bounced out of the room, got dressed and hurried two doors down to Milly’s quarters, where I knocked and opened it before Milly had even responded.
“Guess what!” I cried, too eager to keep the news to myself.
Milly sat back from where she had started to rise from a couch and looked me over from head to toe.
“You got laid.”
Heat exploded out onto my cheeks, down my neck and across my chest at the frank assessment. It was Milly, so I shouldn’t be surprised, but I was.
“That isnotwhat I meant.”
She smiled broadly, her chocolatey brown eyes dancing with evil bestie delight at making me uncomfortable. “But you totally did.”
The laughter that followed was loud, loving, and totally Milly. It was also a boisterousness I hadn’t seen much of from her since she’d been rescued from Bryna’s dungeon—a surefire sign she was getting healthy again.
“Okay, fine,” I admitted, “if you must know the truth, yes, we had sex. But for your information, it wasn’t even the first time.”
Now it was my turn to enjoy the bombshell shock.
