mate and mating with Maya was like absolutely nothing I could have ever imagined. I let out a low rumble, glad that she hadn’t thought I was an absolute ass for taking her up against the mirror of the closet so hard and rough. I had wanted to take my time with her, devouring every inch of her, but I’d been waiting for Maya for far too long. I had been needing her this entire time, and now that she was mine, I could barely remember all the years that had passed.
They seemed unimportant now. Simply a passage of time before she came into this plane of existence. In fact, everything seemed unimportant before her, and while I would gladly admit that if she asked, I did know it came across as a bit unhinged. I ran my fingers over my wrist as I took a moment to consider what was to come.
I knew Maya was set on handling this Pastor Malcolm situation directly. I knew that she wanted to be there to see if there were others like her. I also knew that if his coven was as bad as I was imagining, they would take advantage of her presence and attempt to capture her once again. Something that I would never allow to happen. So how did we keep her safe without exposing her to the risk that she was set on surrounding herself with?
“I have no idea how to convince her to do this from afar,” Henry stated quietly as if reading my mind. His thoughts were elsewhere though, overall, his gaze on the horizon. I could tell that being here was messing with his and Marco’s dragons far more than they would ever admit.
“We can’t,” I admitted, hating that I knew this wasn’t something we could fully control. “You’ve seen how determined she is, Henry. We just have to do our damn best to protect her while we are there and fucking wait to go until we have backup.”
“I hate that we have to rely on them for anything,” Henry noted as I nodded, knowing he was referring not only to the crown princes but also the other teams they would be sending.
“It will be easier to focus on keeping her safe if we have more people,” I conceded as he let out a tired sigh but nodded.
Before we could continue our conversation, Atlas walked out onto the balcony, putting down two more cups of coffee as he drank his own. I don’t think he’d slept since we arrived here, and I honestly couldn’t blame him. We were all on edge as it was, and I was glad that Maya could at least get some sleep because it put all of us in a better mood to know that she was well rested.
While this trip had been more complicated than fucking necessary in my opinion, I was at least thankful that we had some information regarding her health. A ton of other shit as well, but now we knew that her fevers and magic overload was part of the mating process. I smiled down at the mark on my wrist as I tried to not let my thoughts stray down the path of how it had gotten there. More specifically how fucking great Maya’s ass had looked pressed up against me as my cock slid in and out of her.
Fuck. I had really lost it. I knew that bite mark on the back of her neck had to hurt, but she’d yet to complain. That wasn’t surprising, though. Maya rarely complained, but it did make me worry that I’d hurt her. Although, my wolf was also causing me to feel as though I had a split fucking personality, because he was goddamn thrilled we had marked her in such a savage way. Deep enough that she would always remember it. Always feel it. A low rumble nearly escaped my throat as I cleared my voice.
“When is the younger flight arriving?” Henry asked suddenly, drawing my memory to the fact that we were traveling back with a much younger flight of dragons. Ones that were, for all intents and purposes, fleeing the Dreki realm.
“That’s why I came out here,” Atlas admitted. “Marco said it should be any minute now. I didn’t want to wake up Maya, but we probably need to.”
I stood, grabbing my cup of coffee, and walked towards the door. Atlas put a hand up and handed his to me as well. I offered him