I pushed up onto my arms and peeked over my shoulder. “I think I’m beyond being surprised by you. Show me.”
His body began to slowly grow, pale silvery scales erupting across his shoulders and down his hips. The hair on his head turned snow-white, and between his legs his cock enlarged, doubling in size with his body. With each new inch, my core gave a needy spasm. There was no way he’d fit at that size, but for some reason, I didn’t really care. I wanted every single inch he could shove into me.
“You okay with this?” he asked, giving his huge cock a stroke with an equally huge hand, but his horns where what held me mesmerized. They were enormous, coiling works of art that looked like they were carved out of glowing white marble.
“Fuck me, you beautiful beast,” I said.
His mouth tilted in an almost shy smile. “Glad I don’t scare you. But if this doesn’t help, I’m going to have to go full dragon.” He shifted close, sliding his huge shaft along the wet crack of my ass. I groaned at the teasing contact.
“I’m gonna hold you to that, especially if you don’t hurry up and get that beautiful thing inside me.”
He emitted a long, low hum of approval that was akin to a purring cat as he spread me wide open. With one finger, he tested my readiness, which was completely unnecessary but made me warm inside anyway. Then he lined his cockhead up with my opening and pushed.
The air rushed from my lungs at the first stretch of the invasion, and my eyes flew wide. I clutched at the pillows but held my ground. Because with each startling stretch of my body, I felt myself give a little more, as if all my pussy needed was a promise and it opened up wider to take what he offered. Soon it was as if a barrier had fallen, and every ounce of tension in my entire body evaporated. Gray gasped as he seated fully into me, and all I could do was cry at how utterly perfect he felt buried to the hilt inside me.
But if that was perfection, fucking him this way was absolutely transcendent. He held my hips as he started to move, slowly at first, then faster. When I slammed back against him, meeting him thrust for thrust, he groaned and hauled me up, clasping my breasts in his big hands, and forcing me to reach back to grab hold of his neck for leverage as he speared me from beneath. He toyed with my breasts then slid his hands down to grip the insides of my thighs and spread me across his lap. He held tight to my thighs, keeping me splayed across his hips, just high enough so he could slam up into me with that glorious, huge cock. One hand strayed to my pussy, and when he found my clit and teased with his fingers, I lost it completely, flying over the edge with a scream of pure pleasure.
He refused to release me this time, but I didn’t have time to object before the waves came again, though they were less intense than before. He kept fucking, and I just held on, letting him control my pleasure and push me to another orgasm, then another, and another until I lost count. I was barely aware of whether or not he finished even once, but by the time the surges of heat and desire finally ceased, I was too wrung out to notice much beyond the softness of the pillows beneath my cheek and the raw soreness of my body.
I found myself flat on my back again, covered in sweat, with Gray lapping gently between my legs. I shuddered through another small orgasm granted by his talented tongue, then sighed when he slipped up my body and pulled me close to him.
“I don’t know if I loved that or hated it,” I said, resting bonelessly against his strong chest. He was still a giant half-dragon creature with enormous horns, and I reveled in being held by so huge a man. It made me feel even safer to be so completely enveloped within that comforting aura, and the pulse of his energy around me told me he knew I liked it.
“It’s an ordeal, and it isn’t close to over yet, but it’s manageable.”
“How the hell do the ursa do it? You’ve got to be exhausted. And did you even finish?”
He chuckled, looking down at me with gleaming silver eyes. “A few times, yes. But normally, an ursa male wouldn’t even be allowed to fuck you, much less spill his seed inside you. For the ursa, it also takes multiple males to service a single ursa female, partly because they can’t fuck her. It’s too dangerous. And partly because…it’s exhausting.” He sank a little lower on his pillows, pulling me tighter and sighing. “But it’s also an enormous honor to service a fertile ursa female. And for me, it’s even more of an honor because I can feel exactly how powerful you are with both elements.”
I looked up at him, searching his face for clarification. “You can feel it?”
“When you share your Nirvana, I absorb traces of your true essence. I feel the earth magic alongside the fire magic, and they’re both intense and absolutely beautiful.”
His tone was filled with awe and a little worry. “Is that a bad thing?” I asked, not sure if I wanted to know the answer.
“It is if Chaos learns the truth. And I don’t even want to consider what Fate might think about this. Because with power this strong, I think it means you’re another Chimera, and both of those assholes seem dead set on exploiting your kind.”
13
Gray
April shivered and snuggled closer but didn’t respond. I tightened my hold and kissed the top of her head. Her uncensored thoughts betrayed her confusion about what was happening to her, but behind it was a sense of complete trust in me that I hoped I would be able to live up to. Eventually, she fell asleep to the gentle strokes of my hand against her back.
I couldn’t sleep, and thanks to the abundance of magical energy I’d absorbed from her, I could do without. Perhaps I could take care of her alone if the guys failed to get my message. With as much power as she’d infused me with, I could set wards and traps around the property that Vesh and his brothers would have a hard time breaking through. I hoped I wouldn’t have to do it alone though.
The longer I lay there, the more I itched to fortify our hideout, but April looked so peaceful and beautiful curled against my side, I hated to risk disturbing her sleep. But I couldn’t let my adoration of her interfere with what needed to be done to protect her.
I made use of a bit of my abundant magic and exhaled a long breath. The smoke obeyed my command, sinking between April and me and supporting her while I slipped out of bed. With a bit more effort of will, the smoke coalesced into a vaguely me-shaped pillow. It wasn’t as detailed a substitute as a Shadow dragon was capable of, but it would keep her comfortable for the time being. Then I clothed myself and headed off to patrol the house and grounds.
I took a detour on the first floor, back into the library to the shelf with the photos. In one photo, a dark-haired woman stood beside a sturdy man with curly blond hair and a trimmed beard holding a pale-haired baby. April certainly resembled her father more than her mother. But something about that photo of her mother, grandmother, and the friend nagged at me. I’d had a chilling sense of déjà vu at first glance but hadn’t wanted to alarm April when I wouldn’t have been able to explain the feeling anyway. I wanted another look.
In the photo, the three women stood together, arms draped around each other’s waists. April’s mother was a younger version of the dark-haired older woman who April had called “Grandma Meryl.” She’d only identified the third woman as her grandmother’s friend Adele, who looked to be about the age April was now. The longer I stared at the face of that woman, the more agitated I became. I knew her, but I wasn’t ready to confront the implications of what her presence in that photo meant. I just wished I understood what the connection was and hoped like hell that it didn’t have anything to do with why Chaos was after April’s family. Vesh had said that April’s dad stole from the casino, but Chaos wasn’t exactly that precious about his money. He only went after someone if he stood to gain some power advantage over Fate by doing so.