Total pages in book: 95
Estimated words: 88010 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 440(@200wpm)___ 352(@250wpm)___ 293(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 88010 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 440(@200wpm)___ 352(@250wpm)___ 293(@300wpm)
“We are going to go back to the dragon realm and you are going to get a spanking to settle you,” he says, stepping back into his world like walking into another room. He grabs the tech guy too, by the collar, like he’s an animal and drags him through with us.
We step into the main hall, where dragons are assembled with weapons and armor. I hear Mikey make some faint sounds of shock as his perception of reality is forever twisted. Then I remember it’s possible this is not actually the first time he has been here.
“Take the boy,” he says, pushing Mikey toward the guards. “Make him comfortable, and make him secure. I have business with my mate.”
I am carried to the bedroom where Ornix puts me over his knee and starts paddling me lightly, not hard enough to hurt, but hard enough to get my attention and settle me down, just as he planned.
“I’m sorry you are losing so much in this war,” he says. “But I am still here, and I still have you. You won’t lose me.”
“Fuck you,” I curse. It’s a gut reaction, a bitter sound that comes from knowing he has forever changed me. He fucked me and made me a thing with wings and now I’ll never see my friend again. We were gonna find matching guys and have kids together and raise them and now I’m going to lay a fucking egg or something. I don’t know the details. I haven’t asked.
“I want to go back home. I want to be normal again.”
“I know,” he says, smoothing his palm over my burning ass. “I know it would be easier if you could go back to the world you came from and be the girl you were, but that can’t happen anymore. You’re here. You’re mine. You’re already changed. This is what life does. It changes us all, over and over, again and again. We make our choices, and then the consequences of those choices change us.”
“I didn’t make any choices! You made the choices. You took me here. You fucked me. You made me grow wings!”
“That was an unforeseen consequence, and I am sorry. Not for the wings, but for taking so many choices from you all at once and so completely.”
His hand slides down over my mound. His fingers drift lightly over my aching sex. He fucked me roughly so recently and I am sensitive. My fury is real, but so is the way he changes the chemical composition of my brain when he touches me.
“It is not easy,” he says. “But remember there are benefits to being mine, to being owned, to being taken as my mate and transformed.” His fingers slide into my pussy, just a little, teasing me.
It is so hard to stay sad and angry when I am aroused by his fingers dipping inside me, toying with my pussy and driving me wild, out of my mind with need.
“I’m going to make you happy,” he growls. “I’m going to take every bit of pain you’ve been suffering and alchemize it into pleasure and joy. I promise you, my love. You are going to be taken care of in ways you could not possibly previously have imagined.”
He strokes me to an orgasm that feels irresistible, a climax that makes my legs shake so much that my toes feel slightly numb when it is all over.
I fall asleep in his arms with an ache in my chest and another in my pussy. I miss my world. I miss my friends. I wish I could have told Tempest what was going on.
Sometime in the middle of the night, I hear Ornix being roused. He gets up, presses a kiss to my head, and leaves me to sleep.
Ornix
“What is it?”
It has been another long and exhausting day, and I wish nothing but to sleep by my mate. It is the one time I know she is not getting into trouble.
“You did not seem to want to be disturbed, but you should know that Equinox has made an escape. He moved through a portal not long after you two left. It was not opened on this side. Humans made it.”
“Get the human,” I say. “The male we brought.”
Mikey looks wide-eyed and afraid. The same feelings that my mate has struggled with. He will not find it as easy as she does in my realm. He will not be coddled as she is.
“Will Equinox be able to open further portals to this realm from where he is? Or now that he is in the human world, will he be similarly blocked?”
Mikey looks around nervously, then nods, quickly. “I don’t think he will be able to return. Not the same way. The frequencies have been adjusted in such a way that they cannot be reached in the human world. They are out of spectrum entirely. It’s like the way bees can see infrared, except it’s making doors through adjacent realities…”