Page 72 of Dragon Me Through Space

“Relax, pet,” he purred and dropped his head down to suck my nipple into his mouth. “I won’t hurt you. Do you trust me?” He raised his eyes to mine and I could see the tiniest bit of hesitancy, of nervousness.

“Yes,” I answered immediately. “I trust you.”

He smiled and it was one of the rare, true smiles of his that I wished I could see more often. No words were spoken after that; his body and mine moved together as he continued a relentless pace, the ridges flaring wider and wider, and before I realized it, his knot popped inside of me.

I screamed as an orgasm shattered my body and mind, the fullness unlike anything I had ever felt before.

He bit into my neck, drawing a gasp from me, but I was already so overloaded from the orgasm and his knot that I barely registered the pain from his sharp teeth breaking my skin as he marked me.

Preston cried out as he orgasmed as well, our bodies tied together, and dropped his forehead down to rest against mine.

“Mine,” he growled.

Tilting my face, I kissed his lips softly and said, “Mine.”

He rolled us onto our side, eliciting a slightly painful hiss from me, but it was much more comfortable to be on our side with his knot still inside of me. His warm hand stroked gently along the side of my face as he purred.

“It’ll take a little bit of time for my knot to deflate, so rest now.”

I pressed a hand to his rumbling chest. “This purring sound, is it because you’re satiated?”

He gently brushed some hair behind my ear. “It’s because I’m happy and I want to ensure you’re happy. Our purring can help repair our mate’s body faster.”

“Really?” I asked, eyes widening slightly. How interesting! “Even if they’re not Dragonkin?”

He nodded.

We lay in silence for a bit before I asked, “Is Gage’s father an enemy?”

Preston smiled wider and tapped the tip of my nose. “You catch on quickly. That’s ideal for the future queen. While he isn’t a direct threat at this time, Dragonkin are big on power, so if we show weakness, he might take advantage of that either immediately or in the future.”

“Would his father really do something to harm him?” While I knew not every parent was a good parent, and I knew that I had lived a spoiled life, I hoped that my mates would have had good parents as well.

“I don’t think so, but it doesn’t hurt to be cautious. Plus, it wasn’t just Gage’s father that was around us. There were other members of the ship watching as well.”

Oh, right, duh.

His knot had deflated enough for him to pull out of me and while I did feel a little bit of a void at the sudden emptiness, the full body high I had from being fully satiated negated it.

Just as we were about to fall asleep, I asked, “Is it alright for me to call you my mates when I haven’t used the magic in my locket yet?”

He growled softly and licked the spot he had bitten, his mark, which made me gasp and arch into him. “You may call us that whenever you want, though in the beginning, I would suggest you do it only when we’re alone.”

“Why is that?” I asked as he grew hard against my stomach.

“Because hearing you call us that makes me want to claim you all over again,” he purred.

“So, if I asked, ‘please, mate, may I have another orgasm?’ You would …”

I didn’t get a chance to finish my question before he flipped me over and buried himself inside of me. “It’s going to be a long night, pet. I suggest you prepare yourself.”

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

Preston gathered everyone into our room the next morning before breakfast. I lay in the bed, half-awake and pleasantly sore.

“What kind of weapon was on that ship to allow it to destroy ours, shields and all, in a single hit?” Wayne asked.

It took me far too long to realize the silence was because he’d asked me and they were waiting for my answer. I raised my head from the pillow, shrugged, and said, “I don’t know. I’ve only heard of a few weapons that powerful and most were on military ships. To be fair, it’s been about five years since I last ran into him, so it’s not impossible that he saved enough money to get something crazy on the black market.”