But Dragon surprised her by asking,
“Could we try that? Kissing on the lips? I mean, could you show me how it’s done?”
“Well…I guess it couldn’t hurt just to show you,” Bobbi murmured.
She leaned over him, letting her hair fall in a curtain around them both, and pressed her lips to his.
At first Dragon just lay there, as though he was unsure how to respond. But then he began to get into it, kissing her back slowly, as though he was feeling his way.
Bobbi was really beginning to enjoy herself. It seemed amazing to think that such a big, tough Mob enforcer didn’t know the first thing about kissing. Once again, she found she liked being his first. Daringly, she opened her mouth and licked gently at the seam of his lips, asking him to let her in.
Dragon opened for her obligingly and she darted her tongue inside, teasing him, tasting him, deepening the kiss in a way she knew she probably shouldn’t. But Hell, she’d already done all kinds of things she shouldn’t do with the big Kindred that night, she reasoned with herself. What harm could a little kissing do after she’d already gone down on him and let him make her come not once but twice?
But the deep kissing seemed to do something to Dragon. With a low growl, he suddenly rolled her over on her back. Taking her in his arms, he kissed her passionately and with surprising skill, considering he had only just learned.
Bobbi’s heart stared pounding and she kissed him back just as eagerly, even though she was a little afraid things were getting out of hand. His mouth tasted delicious—hot and spicy—and his hands were roaming over her bare back and bottom, stroking and squeezing, pulling her closer to him as though he couldn’t get enough of her.
When she felt his rock-hard shaft branding her belly, Bobbi knew she had to stop. If she let this go on much longer, they were definitely going to end up making love and probably having Bonding Sex and she could not do that, no matter how attracted she was to him.
“Hey, hold on—let’s slow it down,” she gasped, breaking the kiss and looking into his bronze eyes, which were burning with lust again.
“Forgive me,” Dragon rumbled, though she noticed he didn’t let her go. “I had no idea that ‘kissing’ could wake such needs inside me. I never dreamed of pressing my mouth to another’s before tonight.”
Thinking of the lipless Saurian mouth filled with razor sharp teeth, Bobbi could believe it.
“You’re amazingly good at it, considering I just taught you,” she remarked, panting a little. Her heart was drumming in her chest again and she felt both aroused and a little frightened to have him looming over her in such an intimate position.
“Tell me,” Dragon asked, looking down at her intently. “I know that mammalians press their lips to each others’ cheeks and lips and that the females might kiss a male’s shaft. But do mammalian males ever ‘return the favor’ as you put it, earlier?”
Bobbi’s heart started beating even faster.
“What do you mean?” she asked innocently.
“I mean, does a mammalian male ever kiss his female’s inner thighs or pussy?” His burning bronze eyes were half-lidded again and his voice had dropped to a sensuous rumble. “Does he ever spread her open and kiss her clit and put his tongue deep inside her to taste her sweet juices?”
“I…um…”
Bobbi felt her face getting hot, which meant she was probably blushing like crazy. She kept thinking about how Kat had said that Kindred warriors needed to go down on their women—that it was part of their biology. It was apparently a significant enough part that Dragon was interested in it, even though he’d been raised in a society where oral sex wasn’t even a thing.
Score another one for Nature over Nurture, Bobbi, whispered a little voice in her head. You better think of something quick if you want to keep him from taking the first bus downtown to tastyville. (Which was the euphemism she and her first college roommate had used, usually with a lot of giggling thrown in.)
It wasn’t that Bobbi objected to letting a guy go down on her—it just had never been a really great experience, to be honest. The few guys—including her ex—she’d let try it, didn’t know what they were doing or didn’t do it for long enough to get her anywhere near coming. Also, she was now remembering something else that Kat had told her.
She’d said that once a Kindred warrior went down on you, his urge to bond you to him got that much stronger. And she needed to avoid bonding with Dragon at all costs. If they bonded, how would she be able to leave him once the Kindred of the Mother Ship came for her? After all, she certainly didn’t want to stay here on Saurous the rest of her natural life. So they needed to avoid a trip to “tastyville” if at all possible.