Dragon's Challenge - D. R. Rosier Page 0,46
own adventures. It was going to be a great night, when he concentrated on their bond, he could sense her baited anticipation at his imminent arrival.
Chapter Eleven
The next morning it was bright and sunny, and the humidity had fallen off. After breakfast with the princess, and one last quickie, they returned to find Cinder waiting on them. He frowned at the way she was chatting amiably with two other travelers staying at the inn. He pushed that down hard, it was none of his business, even if she’d fucked the both of them last night.
She better not have done that. The way she was smiling at them pissed him off.
He shook his head. She drove him crazy.
Shar gave him a highly amused look, easily reading his conflicted emotions and instincts, and kissed him in a way that was just short of scandalizing for public.
He got another kiss from Nysa, and a wordless look of devoted love from the sumptuous water nymph before the two of them hit the streets. He put his arm around a very happy Tansya as he waited for Cinder to finish up her conversation and get her ass over to him.
Deep breaths.
Cinder grinned playfully at him when she got up and sauntered over with a mouthwatering graceful sway of her hips.
“Something wrong?” she asked innocently, too innocently. Which was kind of horrifying, that she knew how much that’d annoyed him. Despite having no real right to feel that way at all. She was just a woman travelling with him, and his human male instincts were messed up, that’s all it was. Still, that didn’t stop the smirk on her face, or the fact she was clearly enjoying his jealousy. More than enjoying, she seemed to preen under it.
He grunted, “Not a thing, ready to go?”
She smirked, “I’m always ready to go with you,” she purred in a sultry voice that left no doubts to the double meaning of her words.
He suppressed a groan, and he headed for the door with a giggling elven dryad sexpot under his arm. Of course, Cinder pushed it further by claiming his other arm as they walked out into the busy morning market street, and they headed west for the gate.
Her scent was mesmerizing, and despite filling his lovely wife with his satisfaction not five minutes ago, his cock stirred.
April whispered in his ear, “I’ll scout ahead and try to find a recent trail,” then she added a bit teasingly in a voice so low only he would hear it, “The Phoenix hasn’t been with a man since she joined us.”
He growled, and then heard mischievous fairy giggles as she shot away. Apparently, everyone knew the gorgeous and wildly unpredictable redhead was driving him crazy.
He ignored it manfully, and he wondered for the millionth time if having an extremely powerful Phoenix as an ally and friend was at all worth the trouble.
He said, “Tansya, you need to help track the pack. I’m also glad to see you’re in the yellow robes, you look beautiful in them.”
The orders were necessary, but he liked to compliment them too now and then. It helped that she really was stunning in the warm yellow robes, with her lovely chestnut hair up in a ponytail. He wasn’t worried about taking them for granted because of their subservient natures, his dragon instincts were too possessive and protective of what was his for that to become an issue. Still, he’d figured out women loved to be told, not just physically protected, and it was an easy thing to do to keep them happy.
Tansya beamed, “Thank you, Muranth,” her tone implying master rather than his name, but all his nymphs were under orders not to call him master around other humans.
They made it out of the city with their horses a few minutes later, and he was grateful to put some distance between him and Cinder as he mounted up and headed down the road. His arm still tingled where her warm hand had held him, he ignored it.
There were a lot of large farms to support a city so large, but the last farm to be hit was two nights ago and its location was posted. It’d take them almost forty-five minutes west, then fifteen or so south on a smaller farmers road. They headed in that direction while he practiced his water mastery and went over all the magic words that he’d learned so far.
It was a good distraction from a certain redhead, and he was determined