Jett grabbed her fist in his own hands. “No. It cannot go back to Cage now. Not once it has found his mate.”
Both Ky and Jett's eyes turned to Azynsa. She had been silent during most of the exchange.
But now that they took notice of her again, she took a deep breath and stood tall. She walked toward Portia, and with each step the shard grew brighter. Its light illuminated scales on Azynsa's skin that Jada hadn't noticed before now. They were almost translucent, but in the glow from the shard’s light they were a pearlescent gold.
Azynsa reached out for the shard.
“A shard can only be given, not taken. You must offer it to her, freely and willingly,” Jett said.
Portia nodded, and took the two ends of the cord in either of her hands. “Here.”
Azynsa bowed her head and Portia tied the cord around her neck. The second the shard hit Azynsa's skin a golden light grabbed her body, lifting her into the air. It shot from her eyes, mouth, and fingertips, bowing her back. Her dark skin shimmered as the light settled all along it.
She slowly floated back to the ground. She looked around at each of them, a new light shining from her eyes, like sunshine had been captured in her irises. They were no longer brown, but shiny gold.
The surge of power faded and settled to the spot where the shard lay between her breasts. Before any of the rest of them could even blink, Azynsa turned and disappeared into a tunnel.
The dragons moved to follow her, but Jett blocked their way. “She's gone. I don't know where, but she's no longer in those caverns and tunnels. I can feel every being down here and she's not one of them.”
Neither Jakob nor Ky liked that answer.
“You've got a lot of questions to answer, rogue. Let's go,” Jakob said.
“Not this time, boys. I've got some havoc to wreak, and if you don't head back up your tunnel in the next couple of minutes, you're going to have a brand spanking new horde of demon dragons on your tail.” Jett shifted into his Dragon form and flew down the same tunnel Azynsa had disappeared into. A rumble and screeches echoed from inside.
Ky took a couple of steps into the tunnel and shouted back. “I think he's holding them back. Let's move, move, move.”
Ky and Jakob shifted to their Dragon forms. Ky stood at the tunnel's entrance and Jakob opened a fissure in the ceiling above them. Ciara lifted her hands and the falling dirt and rocks fell to the side without hitting any of them.
Jakob picked up Match in his talons and nodded to Ciara. She grabbed Portia and the ground beneath them suddenly exploded, pushing Ciara and Portia up through the fissure.
“Ky, grab your mate.”
Jada met him halfway and he cradled her in his claws. They flew twisting and turning through the ground for what seemed like forever. Jakob was right behind them with Match in tow. The ground closed up beneath them blocking any demon dragons from following.
They popped out of the earth into a wet and green oasis.
Dax, Steele, and Fleur were there waiting for them along with Ciara and Portia.
Fleur ran across the lush green grass and grabbed Jada up in a hug. “Ciara says we're planning another wedding.”
They were?
Ky shifted into his human form again and chuckled. He pulled Jada away from Fleur and straight into the pool of water at the center of the oasis. “I don't think there's any getting around that, not with Ciara around. But I would like it.”
After being in that hot underground hell, the water and Ky’s love washed over her, soothing her soul. She splashed the water over both of them and then swam up to him circling her arms around his neck and her thighs around his waist.
“I know what you would like, but are you asking me something?” She ground herself against him and found exactly what she was looking for. The water had revitalized him and his cock pushed against the apex of her legs.
“Do you want me to ask you something, my curvy succubus?” He peeled the dusty shirt over her head and tossed it behind him into the water.
She did the same to him, but it took a little wriggling which Ky didn't seem to mind at all.
“Geez, you two get a room,” Match shouted.
When Jada glanced back, she couldn't tell who he was actually saying that to since Jakob and Ciara were also wrapped up in each other. A thin layer of water rose from the edge of the oasis pool and formed a dome over it, secluding Ky and Jada from the others.
“I still say we need to get that old grump laid. Now, where were we.” Ky pushed his hands into her hair and pulled her in for a kiss. This one scorching. But he broke it way before she wanted him to. “I was asking you something, wasn't I?”
“Later, much, much later.” Jada didn't want to wait any longer to be with Ky.
“No, I don't think so. I want to know the answer to this question before I make love to you.”
“Yes. There's the answer to your question.”
Ky laughed. “You didn't even let me ask.”
“Is that the wrong answer?” She waggled her eyebrows at him letting him know it was time to get the show on the road because they both knew what they wanted from each other.
“I'm going to hold you to that. Because I have a lot of questions that that might be the answer to.”
“Well then your first question better be can I take off your pants.”
It was. They were both completely naked by the count of seven and back in each other's arms.
Ky licked over the blue dragon tattoo along Jada's collarbone. God, that felt good. She tipped her head to the side giving him more access. He bit her there gently, scraping his teeth across her skin. That sent a whiz bang whee ooh straight between her legs.
Ky's fingers followed that up with soft stroking that went from her dragon mark, down between her breasts, across her belly, and in between her legs. He found her clit already throbbing and hard.
She closed her eyes and basked in his touch, no longer afraid of what she thought she was supposed to do. Whatever they did together, felt right and felt good.
“Just remember, you said yes.”
Ooh. That sounded promising.
Goddess of Love
Ky's need for Jada was stronger than it had ever been. Touching her and seeing her eyes fill with lust and love had him ready to explode.
She had a new air about her this time. A new confidence. And it was sexy as fuck.
While it was a turn on to dominate her, he didn't need it. All he needed was her.
He'd make her submit to him, any time she wanted. But all they both wanted now was to join, to be one again.
After he made her come a dozen times. Mates liked that.
“Mmm, Ky. That feels so good. Don’t stop.”
She clung to his shoulders, her nails digging reflexively into him.
He loved this look on her face, like total comfort in herself and ecstasy combined. He loved even more that he was the one and only man to put that look there.
Jada moved her hips in time to the swirls of Ky’s fingers around her clit. She no longer needed him to control her pleasure. She was taking it for herself.
Absolutely gorgeous.
“That’s it baby. Take what you need. There’s more where this came from.”
She bit her lip and moaned as he increased the speed of his fingers through her wet folds. She closed her eyes and threw her head back. Those luscious pink nipples of hers puckered and he knew she was close already.
“Look at me, Jada. I want to see your eyes when you come.”
“Ky, I…God.” She looked at him, her eyes glazed with pure sensuality. Her fangs had dropped as she licked her lips.
Oh, yeah. Her bite was deliciously erotic, but if she bit him now, he wouldn’t last. There was no way he was coming anywhere but inside of her hot sweet cunt.
She breathed in heavy gasps and her hips thrust against him. He couldn’t wait for the same when his cock was inside of her and she rode him as hard as he did her.
“Ooh, Ky, I’m coming
. I’m coming.” Her words slurred into moans as her body shook and exploded for him.
Despite his vow to come inside of her, he was damn close to bursting himself, just from the glow of her sexual energy around him.
He floated her back into the water, letting its warmth embrace her. He needed a minute to cool down, because they were far from done.
“Ky,” she sang his name. “I know you’ve got plans, but I want your cock inside of me, filling me. I need you.”
How could he refuse? “I will fuck you anyway you want, aroha, but indulge me a little first. I’ve missed the taste of you.”
“That’s not fair. You can’t make me decide between coming with your cock inside of me or your mouth on me.”
“Sure, I can.” Because eventually, she’d do both, and more. “Pick one, and then we’ll do the other.”
“Well, when you put it that way.” She laughed.
He’d never heard her laugh during sex. She’d been so tied up in her head before.
He loved this new place they’d found between them.
“I’ve been missing you tasting me too.”
“That’s what I like to hear.” He pulled her over to him and guided her feet so she stood on the sandy floor of the pool. “Now, don’t move. I’ll be right back.”
She gave him a funny look, definitely wondering where he was going. The answer to that was down.
Ky slipped under the water, letting his dragon do the breathing. He could stay under almost indefinitely because the water brought him the oxygen he needed.
He knelt before her, that beautiful pussy right in front of him for the taking. With the first long swipe of his tongue, her hands went into his hair and gripped his scalp.
Her plump thighs called out for him to tease them with love bites and scratches of his whiskers. She jumped at the first nibble and tried to guide his head back to her pussy.
He bit her again on the other thigh, watching the water tremor around her as she jumped. He soothed the nips with his tongue and then worked his way up her inner thigh to her sweet, sweet pussy.
It had only been a day and he’d missed the sweet flavor of her like he’d been without it for a lifetime.
He swirled his tongue in circles over her clit. It was still sensitive from her last orgasm and he took her gently.
Ky slipped deeper into the water and flipped himself upside-down so her could slide his face all the way between her legs.
He lapped at her dragging his tongue from her clit to her channel. Jada spread her legs wider, showing him she wanted this as much as he did. He thrust his tongue into her, fucking her.
Her muscles fluttered, all ready to come again. Ky wrapped his arms around her thighs and held her tight to his mouth, pushing his tongue in and out of her, loving the soft heat of her.
He called upon the water to push her farther and swirled a water eddy over her clit. Even through the dampening of effect of the pool between them, he heard her moan.
Even as the water washed away her juices, her body made more, preparing itself for him.
He elongated his reach with just the tiniest shift, pushing his tongue into the dragon form. He thrust it deeper inside of her and used the muscle to wiggle it back and forth along with the in and out motion.
That and the water swirling over her clit pushed her over the edge. Her pussy clenched and her thighs tightened around his head.
But, he didn’t let up. He wanted another one from her. He pushed her, ate at her, fucking her with his tongue and the water until she shook again, trembling from head to toe.
He wondered if he could get one more out of her, but he didn’t get to find out because Jada yanked him up out of the water by the hair.
“That better have been your tongue, mister and not some sort of eel or something.” Her face was flushed and the grin on her face was a very satisfied one.
He flicked his dragon tongue at her.
“Oh my god,” she laughed. “You had better patent, trademark, and market that move. I know a whole lot of incubi who’d pay top dollar to be able to do whatever you just did.”
“I’m afraid that’s an ancient dragon secret, and I think we’ll keep that between us.”
“Okay, but only if we keep it between us often.”
“That, I promise.”
Ky dragged Jada down into the water, forming a thin bubble of air around her body. He was a little worried it would freak her out, and at first, she was surprised, but once she looked around and saw the world that he did, she smiled at him.
By the First Dragon, he loved her and the way she trusted him. He would do everything he could to keep and earn that trust from her every day.
They nestled into the soft sand, a layer of water cushioning her back. He guided her legs, one wrapping around his waist and the other over his shoulder.
His cock was hard and aching and only her body would satisfy the deep need he had for her.
He pushed through the bubble of air around her and into her pussy, just as wet, but hot and tight. In this position he could go deep and he slowly inched into her until he was balls deep.
Fuck, she’d taken all of him and it felt so good, so perfect. She grabbed the back of his neck and pulled him in for a kiss. He thrust into her mouth and her pussy at the same time, each mimicking the other. They moved together, slowly at first, but soon the shard around her neck began to glow and their souls reached out to dance with each other again.
They became one, feeling each other’s pleasure, each touch, each tremor of nerve endings singing with the bliss of their joining.
Her pussy fluttered around his cock, driving them both closer to coming. She’d come enough already that her body reached for his but needed a push to reach that peak.
Ky guided Jada’s hand between their bodies and her fingers to her clit. She used her own fingers to open herself wider and circle the little nub finding a rhythm in counterpoint to Ky’s thrusts.
He split the water around their faces and found her eyes. They stared into each other’s souls for what seemed like a beautiful eternity.
“Jada, aroha. Marry me.” He struggled to get the words out of his mouth between heavy breaths. “I want the world to know how much I love you.”
“Yes. I’ll always say yes.”
Yes. The best word in the world.
He wanted to see her face again as she came, but he needed to reaffirm his claim on her more. He bent his head to her shoulder and sunk his teeth into the curve where the dragon he’d marked her with shone against her pale skin.
Her body shook as he did. Jada twisted and her own mouth found his neck. She returned his bite with one of her own, taking his blood, and pushing them both over the edge into an explosion. They came together, wrapped in each other’s bodies and hearts and souls.
Hours later when they were both sated they returned to shore to find the other mated couples there, Match slept, but there was no sign of either Dax or Portia.
“They’re not?” Jada asked.
“No,” Steele said. He was friends with Dax and would have known if the dragon and succubus were mates. “She asked him to take her back to the States.”
“Speaking of states. Who wants to be in a wedded blissful one? Do I have three weddings to plan?” Ciara clapped her hands and gave both Jada and Fleur pointed looks.
“Jada did say yes.” A whole bunch of times. Over and over and over.
“Squee. Ky, I’ve been studying up on the dance, what’s it called, ooh, right, haka. There’s one for weddings. Did you know?”
Ky couldn’t help but smile at her enthusiasm. How long had she been planning his wedding, anyway?
“I did actually.” He wrapped his arm around Jada and pulled her close, thinking about what Match had said in the tunnels about needing a ring.
Back before dragons had lost the ability to find mates, and the White Witch was still…alive, she bestowed a ring upon mates of Wyverns. Well, she made them find one.
If they fou
nd it, and could wear it, then they were worthy of being a true mate to the leader of the dragons.
Ciara wore the last ring in known existence.
Damn.
Ky should have asked the White Witch for one when he’d seen her. Not that he’d been able to ask for anything at the time.
Ky didn’t want to give Jada any old piece of jewelry; he wanted it to be special. Maybe Nana Kiki would have an idea for a ring.
In a week’s time, Ky got to call his AllWyr in New Zealand.
Cage had miraculously recovered. Almost. He was no longer knocking on atua’s door. But, he could no longer shift from man to dragon.
The one thing keeping Cage from going insane was the promise that he had a mate. Match made Cage a vow that as soon as he recovered from the stabbing and poison, together, they would descend back down into the earth and find Azynsa.
Match refused to even speak Fallyn’s name, so they let him be. He wasn’t that much different than his old grumpy self. Now, he just walked like a dragon in his Wisdom, nearing death, instead being in his Prime.
His brother Wyverns along with Ciara and Fleur had all agreed to stand up at the wedding. Jada saved a spot in that line-up for Portia too. She had yet to reply to the request.
Ciara had wanted months to plan the wedding, but he and Jada insisted on a week at most. Ky was sure Ciara used her white magic to pull it all off.
The garden behind his house on the bay overlooked the ocean. His lands were filled with dragons, mostly blues who had swum in from all over the world to be at the first dragon wedding in their lives.
Many had already told him that seeing him with a mate had given them hope. They, like he, had never expected they would find one. Now it was a real possibility that they might.
The final detail nagging Ky was the ring for Jada.
It killed him that he couldn’t find that for her. He’d searched his own treasure up and down and up again to see if there was any possibility a ring had been left behind. He found plenty of diamonds and jewels, but no ring.