Mated to the Earth Dragon (Elemental Mates 2)

Through the bond, she could feel his pleasure as keenly as her own. And then her own climax broke over her with all the strength of a storm. Dimly, she could hear herself crying out his name, her clit pulsing again and again as she trembled.

The pleasure was incredible. She was carried away by it like a boat in a storm, the light of Damon’s love filling her until nothing else seemed to exist.

And then, little by little, she came back to herself. Damon had rolled off her and drawn her tightly into his arms. She could feel his breath hot against her lips, and when she opened her eyes, she could see him smile.

At her wrists, the new bracelets were still warm, as if a small part of Damon’s essence filled them.

She ran a curious finger over one, tracing the swirls of gold.

“I still want to decorate you with all of my treasures,” he murmured, “but you’re right. You’re all I need. My most precious treasure.”

She felt her smile widening. “So we’re mated now?”

Damon nodded. “Forever,” he said earnestly.

Then he leaned forward to kiss her until she sighed against his lips, utterly exhausted and content.

Maybe getting hunted by fire dragons wasn’t the adventure she’d been hoping for when she’d booked that trip to Iceland. But right now, she’d gladly go through it all again a hundred times if it meant that she’d get to wake up next to this sexy shifter in her bed every single day for the rest of her life.

Chapter Twenty-two: Damon

They slept in the next day. When they woke up, Damon was confused for a moment to be woken by brilliant sunlight and a view of a fluffy carpet of clouds spreading below him.

A moment later, he remembered what had happened during the past night. With a grin, he reached out with the new-found powers now pulsing gently within him, easily contained by the golden chain of the mate bond.

All it took was a gentle nudge to make the protrusion of rock that had destroyed the mirror melt back into the wall. He shifted the large crystals he’d grown out of the floor a little, so that they were out of the way.

And the huge window with the panoramic view of the clouds below he left just as it was, together with the flowering vines that covered the entire wall.

Let the chimera deal with it if he didn’t like Damon’s redecorating.

By the time they’d showered and dressed and made their way into the small kitchen, Ginny was already awake, preparing breakfast.

She beamed when she saw them, her eyes lighting up when she realized what had happened. Damon smiled proudly.

“Congratulations,” Ginny said softly.

Autumn rushed forward to hug her.

A little later, they sat down with bacon and pancakes and a huge pot of coffee. Half an hour passed while Autumn and Ginny traded stories of what had happened to the other while Ginny’d been racing through tunnels to find help and Autumn had hidden in their prisoner’s bedroom.

“He’s really not all that bad,” Autumn said firmly. “Can you believe he doesn’t even know that we’ve gone to the moon? Hey, if you’ve got shifter carpenters who hooked you up with a kitchen in these caves, surely there’ll be a werewolf engineer or something who can get you satellite internet on the mountain?”

Ginny smiled. “That’s the one thing I miss since working here. Catching up with my series. But I was planning to go back to Mountain View next month. I’m just covering for the chimera’s caretaker while she’s off admiring her first grandkid.”

“Hmm.” Autumn made a thoughtful sound. “If not for you, then for the fire dragon. I know you guys need to know what he knows. But I’ve seen him. He’d rather die than be a traitor.”

“And you really think getting him Netflix is the solution?” Damon demanded.

Autumn grinned. “He’s already feeling guilty about the danger he’s put me in. That’s because now he knows me. It’s much harder to hate someone you know. He knows absolutely nothing about humans. So let him learn about us.”

“That could backfire,” Damon said and laughed. “What if he gets into sci-fi and starts believing that he needs to conquer space next?”

“Oh, come on,” Autumn said with mock sternness. “He’s naive, but not stupid. And so would you be, if you’d grown up locked away in some cave. I’m just saying that you need his help, and you haven’t gotten it so far. Why not try my approach?”

“The chimera’s very suspicious of technology,” Ginny said. “No one knows how old he is—but he’s far older than electricity.”

“I guess he’ll have to learn as well then,” Autumn said firmly. “Everyone wins.”