I Married A Dragon (Prime Mating Agency)(72)

“Really?!” Kaida said, stunned.

I chuckled. “Yes. There is no need for long, flowery prose that may end up being nothing but wind and pompous noise. The true pledge is in your everyday actions and words. I will not promise you the moon, my Kaida. I will give it to you. And if it is beyond my means or abilities, then I won’t have broken a promise and I will at least have taken you to the stars. You will never question my love for you, because I will remind you every morning, noon, and night, be it in words or in deeds. You will never have to fear anything, because should harm come your way, I will chase it away. Should you fall, I will always catch you. And if I can’t do it myself, I will always ensure someone else can.”

“Like my favorite brat, Nero,” she said with an affectionate smile.

I snorted. “Yes, like that brat, Nero.”

To my surprise, she cupped my cheek, her thumb gently caressing my lips. “Those vows were far longer than one or two sentences,” Kaida said teasingly.

I stiffened, and my jaw dropped as I replayed my words in my mind. I hadn’t meant to speak my vows, merely explain to her how fancy words and long speeches were unnecessary. My words simply aimed at giving a general overview of what I’d been doing—or at least had attempted to do—since her arrival on Dramnac. And yet, they definitely qualified as vows.

She smiled at my shocked expression and rubbed her nose against my snout. “I accept your vows and speak them right back to you. Although I cannot protect you the way you can protect me, I will always strive to make your life better and bring you joy in every other way I can. I do not need to wait for the six months to be up to know that I already have found the more-than-worthy male I want to spend the rest of my life with. I love you, Cedros. I’m in love with you.”

The powerful emotion that surged through me nearly choked me. “My Kaida?” I whispered in a shaky voice. “Are you saying…?”

She nodded, her eyes glistening with repressed tears of happiness. “I want to be your mate, the mother of your children, and spend the rest of my life with you. Nobody has ever made me feel more seen, more loved, more valued, and more respected than you have. You’ve supported me in everything, even my career. You’ve encouraged me, and helped me become a better me, and freed me of the artificial barriers I’d been confining myself in. And you’ve made me happier than I ever thought anyone could be. Bond with me, Cedros.”

A joy almost too much to bear nearly had my hearts exploding. I claimed her lips in a voracious kiss, to which she responded in kind. Before the last shred of lucidity escaped me, I broke the kiss, my gaze boring into Kaida’s. She looked at me questioningly.

“One last thing, to complete the bond, I must bite you,” I said, showing her my fangs.

“Bite me?!”

I nodded. “I will give you some of my nezarone hormones. It will create a physiological link between us. It is safe, and it will enhance you.”

“Okay,” Kaida said.

The word no sooner left her mouth than she was reclaiming mine. I hadn’t fully explained the changes this would trigger, but it could wait. Giving in to the searing desire that had been burning deep within me from the moment Kaida had stripped out of her clothes, and especially when we started that massage, I crushed her lips with a passionate kiss.

While devouring her mouth, I laid her back down onto the undulating membrane of the cave. My hands were all over Kaida’s body, caressing her and fondling her breasts that had become such an obsession for me. I broke the kiss, my lips tracing every line and curve of her beautiful face, then trailing down to her ear. I rubbed my snout against it before gently nipping at the earlobe.

I inhaled her intoxicating scent, always more potent right behind her ear, between her breasts and at the apex of her thighs. Inevitably, it sent blood rushing to my groin. My length ached to extrude, but I ignored it, despite the discomfort of its confinement. I didn’t want to join with her right away. I would see her soar a couple of times first before I took her to the Dancing Waters for the blessing of the Spirits.

My mouth tasted and explored every centimeter of her soft, silky skin, which had mostly absorbed the oil. Being edible and flavorless, the oil in no way masked or altered the delectably sweet and salty taste of my woman. As my lips latched onto one of her quickly stiffening nipples, my tail gently caressed a path up her legs.

Kaida shivered and breathed in sharply when the tip of my tail started rubbing against her sex. I coated it with the slickness of her arousal while licking the tight little nub of her breast and the surrounding areola. My mate moaned, her legs parting wider to give me better access, and her back arching as she pressed her chest to my face.

Without stopping my homage to her breasts, I let my right hand glide over her flat stomach. It tickled her navel before pursuing its journey down. At the same time my fingers reached Kaida’s sensitive little bundle of nerves, the tip of my tail probed her slit. A strangled moan escaped her as my tail sank deeper inside of her, and my fingers massaged her clit. I reclaimed her mouth, loving the taste of my name on her lips in between two rapturous moans.

Soon, my tail and my fingers had my female cresting. I swallowed her shout of ecstasy, my tongue mingling with hers a short while longer before I ended the kiss. One hand holding her nape still, I lifted my head just enough to stare at her gorgeous face dissolved in an air of pure bliss as my tail continued to move in and out of her.