Page 40 of Dragon Revealed (Dragon Kings 1)
Chapter Twenty-one
Jeyra came awake slowly. She couldn’t remember the last time she had slept so soundly. No matter what position she or Varek had been in during the night, their limbs were entwined. As if even in sleep, neither could stop touching the other.
Her body still hummed from the pleasure of the night before in the lake. He had touched her in all the right places with an expert hand, knowing how to bring about ecstasy easily. She shifted her head on the pillow to see Varek.
He lay on his side, facing her. A shadow of a beard showed, and his blond locks were mussed, which she found endearing. His breathing was deep and even, and as she looked at him, she realized that with his help, she had pulled back the layers of deception that had filled her life from Rankin to the council and everyone and everything in between.
She had no idea how many were in on it, and it didn’t matter. For her, she wanted all the answers and to expose the corrupt individuals. Regardless of who started the war between her kind and the dragons, it needed to stop. She would help Varek free the dragons in Orgate. Hopefully, that would be enough for the dragons to forgive them, but she wasn’t sure it would.
Her gaze moved to Varek’s arm with the tattoo. She hadn’t lied last night. She was looking forward to seeing him in his true form. It was strange to think that she had hated him so deeply at first. Now, she trusted him with her life. It was because of Varek that her loathing of dragons had begun to wane and then disappeared altogether.
She ran her fingers over the contour of his biceps, feeling the warm flesh beneath. The way she felt with him was like she had busted out of a prison right alongside him. Like she had been the one chained. And in some ways, she had.
“Hmm, lass,” Varek murmured without opening his eyes. “I love your touch.”
She grinned as she rolled him onto his back and threw back the blanket covering them. When she glanced down to find his cock hard, she shot him a grin and scooted down to take him into her mouth.
“Jeyra,” he said breathlessly.
She inwardly smiled as she moved her head, bobbing up and down his length, all the while taking in the handsome, strong, sexy man that for some reason found her attractive. She stroked him with her hand, tongue, and mouth until he flipped her onto her back and lay between her legs.
“My turn,” he said with a smile.
Jeyra watched as he gently spread her and then lowered his head to her sex. Right before his tongue touched her, their gazes met. At the first lick, her head dropped back as pleasure pooled low in her belly. Her fingers dug into the blankets as he soon had her panting from pleasure and need.
He rose over her and filled her with a single thrust. They stayed like that for a heartbeat, their gazes locked. Then he began to move with long, slow glides, gradually increasing his tempo until he was thrusting hard and deep. Sweat slickened their skin, and pleasure mounted until she came apart with a climax that overshadowed the one from the night before.
She clung to Varek, helpless as bliss filled her. Dimly, she heard him shout as he climaxed. Jeyra smiled as he collapsed on top of her. They lay like that for several minutes before he pulled out of her and rolled to his back, taking her with him.
“That was incredible,” she said.
He played with the length of her hair. “Aye. It was.”
She looked at the water and the light dancing across it from the rising sun. “But our time is over, isn’t it?”
“For now. When we’ve rescued the dragons, we can come back here and spend as long as we want.”
She wished he meant it, but she knew it wasn’t true. “You’ll want to return to your world.”
“Eventually. I’m hoping you’ll come with me.”
“I don’t belong there.”
“You belong where you want to be,” he told her in a soft voice.
She couldn’t believe such simple words could have such an impact, but they did. He was right. She belonged wherever she wanted to be. That could be on this realm or his or somewhere else.
“You doona have to figure anything out today regarding your future,” he said.
She lifted her face to reply when they both stilled as they heard something in the distance. In the next heartbeat, she was on her feet, clothed, with her hair pulled away from her face. Their blankets, pillows, and fire, as well as everything else that said they had been there was gone.
“It’s Rankin,” Varek said, looking back the way they had come the day before.
Jeyra shook her head in anger and resentment. “He’s coming after us.”
