Dragon's Challenge - D. R. Rosier Page 0,76

two seconds after Cinder asked for this private conversation.

He realized in that moment that he’d confused his need to control his instincts, with his deep desires to claim Cinder. He’d fought against it, thinking it was weakness, but it truly wasn’t. He wanted her as his mate, the fire connection would come in useful, but that wasn’t what it was about at all. It wasn’t about power, instincts, or weakness.

It was about her, how bright she shined, and how she drove him crazy. How he needed to claim her, and to make her his bonded mate along with the others. It wasn’t just about sex, he knew the difference, it’d been easy to push down his lust and attraction for most women that caught his eye, his connection to Cinder was already deeper than that.

A low growl rose in his throat, as he let the lust free along with his frustrated affection and all the other conflicting emotions Cinder engendered in him. He felt his body respond powerfully to the fiery Phoenix and her lovely feminine and burning scent, once he stopped fighting what he wanted.

It’d taken a moment for him to work through all that, and he saw the anger on her face as she pulled her hand off his chest and started to turn away. He’d been thinking way too long for her liking, obviously.

Hell if he was letting her get away.

His hand snapped out and gripped her wrist before it went very far at all, and her eyes widened with shocked desire and anger as he pulled her body forward into his arms. He held her firmly, and then grinned cheekily at her when she failed to wiggle out of his grasp. His other hand gripped the back of her neck forcefully, and he kissed her passionately.

He moaned deeply in her mouth, and his cock was already pressed against her stomach through their clothes. He chuckled as she tried to twist his way out of his grasp, and he held her even more firmly and kissed her harder.

She bit his lip, hard. Apparently, he hadn’t been forgiven yet, for his hesitation.

He growled and swatted her tightly supple pear-shaped ass firmly, “Mine,” in a tone that told her he wouldn’t be denied.

She gasped and her eyes widened with angry lust, then she was kissing him wildly, and let out a desperate little moan into his mouth as her body ground against his. She was completely overwhelming, the taste of her lips and tongue dueling with his made his cock twitch against her, which made her grind her body against him again. She was a wild thing, would never be fully tamed, but she would be his.

He shifted away his armor as his hand let her wrist go and tore her robes open. He moaned into her mouth as she nipped his lip and ground their bodies together one more time, that time skin to skin. Her body was hot, both literally and figuratively, she felt like an oven of supple silk against him. Not so hot he was burned, but her skin and body were definitely warmer than a normal woman’s.

His cock twitched hard, as he wondered what the inside of her heaven would feel like.

Their kiss didn’t lose an ounce of passion, but it did become slightly softer and sweeter, more lingering, as he released his tight grip around the back of her neck, and then pushed the robe off her shoulders so she was completely naked. Her body was supple, perfect, and her generous breasts pert and tight. Her nipples were very large, proud on her soft and supple globes, and strained a dark brownish red.

That’s when she tried to knee him in the balls while the lust and desire burned in her eyes. He wasn’t ready for it, but he managed to get his knee up barely in time to block hers. He growled and grabbed her by the throat, and then pushed her back firmly into the bed.

She had a wide wicked smile on her face, as if daring him to try taking her. That’s when he realized her desperately heated kiss hadn’t been a surrender, not exactly. She’d just been overwhelmed with her lust in that moment, from his firm swat on her ass and his determination.

She truly wanted, perhaps even needed, to be fucked into submission. To be taken and won, to be fought and defeated. It was in her nature as a monster, she wanted him to conquer her, to take