Taming the Dragon Collection (11 page)

“No,” he said, shaking his head. “I suppose you are better than my treasure.”

“You suppose?” she asked, trying not to slap him. On the other hand, that would probably just excite him so much he would take to the skies tonight and destroy several villages.

“Well, yes. You do provide me with companionship. I find I can talk to you more easily than the other maids. I do admit you are pleasing to my human eyes. You challenge me and give me things to think about, which my treasure does not do. So, yes, you are above the treasure.”

“And the other maids?” she asked, feeling the happiness growing in her again.

“Yes,” he said. “They are interchangeable in my eyes, but you are not.”

“Even Raylene?”

“Raylene is a loyal maid, I will give her that, but she is far too boring and she does not please my human eyes.”

“I thought that you weren’t attracted to humans,” she said innocently as she traced the hard line of his pecs with her finger.

“I’m not,” he said. “My human form is.”

“But isn’t it the same thing?” she asked. “I mean, it’s just you shape shifting.”

Alek recoiled as his mouth hung open, like she was telling him something completely foreign. It made sense; why would his human form think and feel differently than his dragon form? It was Alek in both cases.

“You do not understand dragons,” he said quickly, following her eyes and then her finger. “Do you find my human body pleasing?”

Now it was Mara’s turn to stammer and stutter as she was thrown off her game. She hadn’t expected him to turn the tables like this. All she could do was look down and answer with a quick “yes”.

Alek smiled at her, a devious, almost knowing smile. He had won this round.

“I will see you for dinner,” he said, stepping out of the water.

She tried not to look, but her eyes still traveled across his mountainous back and tight butt.

“I will bring it on time,” she promised.

“No,” he said, wrapping a towel around his waist. “You will join me for dinner again. You will not make it.”

Mara giggled and looked away again as Alek strode confidently from the room. She understood dragons better than he thought she did.

Chapter 14

Mara found a new dress, one that was absolutely splendid, waiting just beside the bath when she got out. She hadn’t noticed it earlier and she concluded that Alek must have dropped it off for her while she was bathing. He was very quiet and sneaky when he wanted to be. She pondered this fact and remembered the way he had snuck up on her at the river during her failed escape bid. She realized he must have wanted her to hear him all the times she had caught him staring at her in dragon form.

He can deny his feelings all he wants,
Mara thought.
He definitely likes me. Dragons are just as stubborn and confusing as human men.

The dress flowed all the way to her ankles and it was made out of a shimmering blue material that complimented her eyes in a way the ugly brown dresses she was used to could only dream of. Of course it was cut low and the bodice pushed into her breasts, forcing them to be displayed prominently.

Mara left the bathing chamber feeling perkier than she had since she had arrived. It was almost like she had a real life date with a dragon. How many women in her position could say that?

The other maids were nowhere to be found as she walked into the dining chamber to find Alek sitting behind the table with a broad smile on his face. Her earlier distraction with her body had obviously improved his mood.

That’s good,
she thought.
Maybe we’ll have more headway in our conversation tonight.

It seemed every time they spoke she got further and further with the dragon. Soon maybe he would spill the beans about his past and about dragons. Maybe he would finally admit his lustful feelings for her and not blame them on his human form. Or they would just eat and make small talk before she was banished back to her duties. As Mara walked across the room she thought that would be the most likely scenario, but Alek surprised her yet again.

“Please sit,” he said, standing to pull her chair out. She smiled at him and when she was seated he pushed her chair in and fell heavily into his own seat.

“It’s been a rough day,” he said, sighing and acting as if he had just come in from tilling the fields.

“A rough day counting your treasure and sleeping on it?” she asked, winking at Alek as he gave her a confused look.

“Yes, I suppose so,” he said quickly.

“You’re certainly acting a bit different,” she said, immediately laying her cards on the table and dismissing any chance of small talk.

“How so?” he asked.

“Well, you pulled my chair out for me and gave me a pretty new dress to wear. If I didn’t know better, I’d think you were courting me, Mr. Alek.”

“Just call me Alek,” he said flatly. “I merely pulled your chair out so that I could allow this human body the opportunity to peer down your dress as I pushed your seat in. Furthermore, I presented you with the dress so I would have something pleasing to look at as opposed to the usual muddy brown affair you like to show up in.”

“Oh, I see,” she said, looking down at her soup. It was a lie and she knew it, but Alek was really good at making her feel small when he bluffed and hid his own feelings. If he was going to continue to have drawn-out conversations with her, she was going to have to fix this.

“You have no idea how to treat a lady, do you?” she said finally.

Alek’s chair scooted back slightly as he gave her a perplexed look. “I know how to treat a lady just fine,” he said.

“No,” she said, trying to laugh at the absurdity of the conversation. “You really don’t, Alek. I don’t know what you’re scared of or what you’re hiding, but you don’t have to be so on guard with me. You can let yourself be vulnerable.”

“I am never vulnerable!” he declared, slamming his fist down on the table and puffing his chest out. “I am a dragon!”

“This is what I’m talking about!” she cried. “If you feel the smallest challenge to your manhood you have to turn into a caveman and swing your penis around so we all know how big it is.”

“It is very big,” he said with an air of smug satisfaction. “Big and magnificent, like everything on my body.”

“That’s not my point,” she said, pinching the bridge of her nose in frustration. “I see you, Alek. I know how great you are. I know what a powerful dragon you are. You don’t have to remind me all the time.”

“I think I understand,” he said, taking a large gulp of his stew. “Perhaps you are right.”

“And another thing: I know you find me attractive.”

“We went over this in the bath chamber.”

“You lied to me in the bath chamber. Your human form is the same thing as your dragon. Don’t act like you’re separate entities. I’ve seen the way you look at me. You find me attractive, don’t deny it. And that also means you don’t have to insult me and make me feel so small and unattractive when I call you on it.”

“I am a dragon,” he said without the bravado he had displayed before. “You are human.”

“So what? Does it matter? I don’t think it does. You can like a human. I like a dragon.”

“You what?”

“I find you very attractive, Alek, and I… well, I enjoy your company.”

Alek sat there and pondered what she had said for several minutes. The silence began to grow thick as Mara wondered what response he would come back with. She was afraid of the sting of his words if he tore her down again and tried to prove that he had no use for humans. But the dressing down never came. Instead, Alek merely smiled at her and nodded his head before returning to his stew.

“And since we’re being honest,” she said. “I don’t like the idea of you razing in the spring.”

“Why not?”

“Well, for one, a lot of innocent people will die. You may not care about them, but I’m human and I care about the loss of life. I don’t want it to happen, Alek. On top of that, it’s dangerous. You could be killed by a dragon slayer.”

“Don’t be absurd. No human can kill me.”

“One human can’t, but what about an entire army with ballista and archers?”

“I will crush them just the same as one man.”

“There’s still a chance, Alek.”

“What would you have me do? I have spent too many winters reading and then exploring dark, mostly abandoned tombs looking for treasure. I am a dragon. I must release the pressure. I must spread my wings and fly.”

“You want to release pressure? You want to have fun?” Mara pushed her chair back and walked over to Alek with as much sexiness as she could muster. She wiggled her hips and rubbed one hand behind her neck as she sashayed to his chair. “I can help with that.”

“What?” he asked, then pushed his chair back and looked up at her.

She eyed the inviting area between his legs, noticing his thick manhood already growing as he looked up at her. She fell to her knees in front of him, throwing her hair forward and letting it tickle the tops of his bare legs. Her tongue left her mouth and she ran it along his thick, muscular quad.

“You cannot,” he started to say.

Mara simply put a hand up to shush him as she pulled back his robe, allowing his long, rock-hard cock to be free. She had never done anything like this before and she had a nervous feeling in the pit of her stomach, but still she proceeded. It was obvious Alek had never allowed himself any sort of sexual gratification and maybe if he achieved release he would calm down just a bit and turn his attention away from conquering.

She started with the two round balls at the base of his shaft, working her tongue across the rough skin and reaching out to nibble on them softly with her front teeth as she worked. Alek’s leg muscles tensed and he groaned while she worked her way to the base of his shaft. She tried to swirl her tongue around it while she firmly gripped it closer to the head.

Alek sucked in an even deeper breath as she began to work the shaft up and down with her hand. She could feel his breath quicken as her hand rose all the way to the head and down to the base where her tongue was still swirling furiously. She raised up, looking down on the red, engorged head. A tiny bit of clear liquid was spilling out of the top, betraying the excitement and pleasure Alek was experiencing.

She had never had a penis in her mouth before and she didn’t know how it would feel or taste, but she knew she had to please the dragon. She glanced up at Alek, who was looking down at her with bated breath. She gave him one last long look before plunging the length of his manhood into her mouth.

Like a silly, inexperienced girl, she was almost afraid for a moment that she was going to impale the back of her head on it, but instead her throat opened up perfectly to receive his full length. Before she knew it she could feel the rough skin of his balls on her lips before slurping her way back to the top. She continued her bobbing motion, taking his length all the way down her throat before working her way back up. There was something about the feel of his stretched skin on her lips and the slurping sound she made that aroused her like she had never been before. She could feel her own juices running down her leg as her clitoris throbbed even harder than it had earlier.

She dispensed with the modesty she had felt earlier in the bath and began to work her finger between the folds of her labia, running them up and down until she found her stiff bulb. With the rough pad of her middle finger she began to rub it in a circular motion. Her chest began to heave as she continued to suck up and down Alek’s monstrous cock while she felt her own electricity begin to grow between her legs. It washed over her body, leaving every inch of her skin tingling as she worked herself.

Just as she reached the edge of climax she felt Alek’s rough hand grip her hair and pull her away from his cock. Mara immediately quit touching herself, feeling fear and excitement blend together into one as she stared up at him. His eyes were on fire and he was biting his bottom lip like he was trying to hold himself back. He let out a roar that shook Mara to her very core before he lifted her onto the table and pushed her onto her back. She looked up at him as he threw her dress back, exposing her wet, inviting sheath to him. His cock was like a lance ready to strike as he stared down at her with lust in his eyes.

“Do it,” she whispered.

Alek roared one more time before spearing her with his thickness. She had expected her first time to be gentle and slow, but Alek threw all that aside and dove in like an animal. She cried out in pain and arched her back as she felt her virginity leave her. Alek didn’t even take a minute to allow her to get her bearings; instead, he gripped her hips so hard she thought he would break the skin and he began to thrust into her with force.

She put her hands over her face and screamed as he fucked her, his roars and grunts filling the chamber. The pain she felt began to meld with pleasure, both becoming one in a wonderful sensation that made her chest feel heavy and her body feel weak. She moaned and writhed as his lance continued to spear into her moist depths. She could feel her inner walls being stretched as the muscles of her vagina clamped down on him.

Then a release like nothing she had ever felt took hold. She slammed her hands down on the table and lifted her legs to put her feet on his rock-solid rear. She tried to push him into her, not wanting him to pull out or leave her as she felt a wave of pure electricity wash over her body.

“Alek!’ she screamed, feeling the orgasm turn her world upside down. At the same time Alek threw his head back and let out an inhuman roar that she swore shook the cavern so hard that rocks began to fall from the ceiling. At the same time his manhood exploded inside of her. She moaned and squealed as she felt his hot come fill her to the brim.

Both of their orgasms seemed to last for an eternity. Slowly she felt the feeling return to her body as the world around her quit spinning. Alek was hunched over her, his back heaving as his sweaty hair covered his face. She looked at him with a smile, hoping he would return it. He looked down at her, his eyes wide with shock.

“That was amazing,” she whispered.