“Hmmm, you’re right,” Bobbi murmured. “Maybe…” She stopped, biting her lip as a thought came to her.
“Maybe what?” Dragon asked, looking up at her.
“Well…maybe your, er, seed, has the same heating compounds in it that your blood does,” Bobbi said. She could feel her cheeks warming a bit as she spoke the words—she couldn’t believe she’d given him another blowjob this morning after she’d promised herself she would leave him strictly alone after last night. But she loved the feeling of power it gave her to pleasure him with her mouth—not to mention the look of ecstasy that came over his normally stern features and the way he groaned her name when he came.
“What makes you say that?” Dragon raised an eyebrow at her.
“Just that they taste a lot alike,” Bobbi told him. “Like melted cinnamon candy. Which is weird, but really good, actually.” She licked her lips guiltily.
Dragon’s eyes went half-lidded.
“Mmm, I like the taste of your juices too, little one,” he murmured. “Just wish you’d let me taste them right from the source instead of only licking them off my fingers after I stroke your soft little pussy.”
His deep, rumbling voice and the way he was looking at her gave Bobbi some shivers of her own.
See? whispered a little voice in her head. This is what you get for doing things you shouldn’t do! You know what letting him go down on you would lead to—Bonding Sex! So you’d better keep it in your pants from now on, Bobbi.
“Let me show you how to fix your hair,” she said to Dragon, hoping to change the subject. “You can pull just the top of it back and let the rest flow free, you know. That way it stays out of your eyes when you’re fighting…”
“As you wish, feela,” he murmured, but his eyes were hot as he looked at her and Bobbi knew she was going to have to be careful from now on—extremely careful until she found a way out of here.
38
She didn’t find any way out—not right away—but the next few weeks were surprisingly peaceful. Their days and nights fell into a kind of pattern which felt strangely normal to Bobbi.
Every morning they got up and showered together before getting dressed and going to the main dining area for breakfast. Sometimes Zerlix was there, with one or more of his females, and Bobbi often saw him glaring at her. However, he would glance away when Dragon caught him looking and would usually leave shortly thereafter, much to her relief.
After breakfast—or First Meal as they called it—which usually consisted of some kind of meat porridge and hot meat tea, she and Dragon would part for the day. While the big Kindred did his duties—which seemed to consist of patrolling the boundaries of his Clan’s borders and enforcing the law of the Crimson Blades—Bobbi usually worked in the kitchen or the sandy-soiled garden with the Saurian women.
She had always been good at integrating herself into groups of new people and she made friends easily. So it was no surprise that she got along well with almost everyone—though Res. Tizlah had cooled towards her markedly after the scene in the banquet hall with Zerlix.
Bobbi was sorry about that, since she genuinely liked Dragon’s adoptive mother, but she made other friends as well—though she wasn’t as close to any of them as she was to Keelah.
Bobbi had been worried that Zerlix would take his rage out on the hapless Saurian girl that night after the banquet, and she’d been right to worry. The next day one of Keelah’s yellow eyes had been nearly swollen shut and there were dark green bruises on her scaly skin. But she’d only shaken her head when Bobbi exclaimed over it.
“Please, don’t blame yourself,” she’d said softly. “I have borne such marks before and I will bear them again. Males hit when they are angry—it’s simply the way of things.”
“Not all males hit when they’re angry!” Bobbi had exclaimed indignantly. “Dragon has never hit me once! No man has—I wouldn’t put up with it!”
“But what choice do I have?” Keelah asked. “I’m just lucky he didn’t decide to send me back to my old owner or to another Clan to get rid of me!” She shook her head again. “I still don’t know why he chose to keep me with him when I witnessed his disgrace.”
Bobbi didn’t know either, but she was glad that Keelah was still here in the Crimson Blades compound. Her heart went out to the Saurian girl and she was more and more determined that when she left, she was going to take Keelah with her. Though how she was ever going to get out of the compound while she was being watched every moment by Res. Tizlah and the other women, she didn’t know.