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next words as I could, “I need your help.”
    “My help?” he replied in a husky
whisper.
    “Yes.” My hand moved off the bedding to his
cheek, and I ran my thumb over his bottom lip, surprised by its
softness. I had to clear my unsettled thoughts to speak again.
“Your help. I wish to escape the dragon.”
    His body froze. I could see the anger flash
in his eyes, brighter red sparks giving his true identity away
again.
    Now, I heard irritation in his voice. “You
play with fire.”
    Fighting down my laughter, I trailed my hand
across his face and thread my fingers through his hair. I moved my
lips a hair’s breadth from his and lowered my voice to a soft purr.
“But it’s you I want to burn me.”
    “Why?” he asked with a throaty growl.
    “The dragon will never mate with me and I
crave a real man between my thighs.” This was going further than I
planned, but feeling him pressing against me… it’s what I wanted
now, this instant.
    The burning intensity in his eyes was almost
my undoing. “He will kill us both.”
    I moved my body closer so my breasts rubbed
against his chest. “Not if you help me escape and go with me.”
    His tongue came out, running over his upper
lip, lightly licking across mine. “Why would I wish to go with
you?”
    “To be my lover.” I pushed my lips against
his, but it was him who took my mouth, ravaged it. I couldn’t
breathe as his tongue delved across my lips, past my teeth,
searching my inner recesses. He sucked deliciously, making me groan
deep in my throat. He cupped one breast, squeezed a bit too hard…
just right. A delicious heat pooled at my center. I wanted this man
so badly.
    He pulled his lips away. “Fair lady, what do
you trade for my assistance?”
    I had him. “First, your name.”
    “Bastian.” He breathed out on a moan as I
wiggled beneath him.
    “I cannot give you my virginity,
Bastian.”
    His eyebrows cocked, his eyes growing even
darker still. “Then what can you give me, fair lady?”
    “You misunderstand. I’ve already given my
virginity away and had too many other men to count. But I can fuck
you, Bastian, of that have no doubt.”
    It took two seconds for my words to sink in.
He exploded from the bed, leaving me bereft. His eyes glowed
completely red—dragon red. I wondered if he could spew fire as a
human.
    “You desecrate the claiming,” he yelled, his
hands balling at his sides, chest heaving.
    For a second, I allowed my eyes to peer at
his center. Even thinking me deflowered, he still wanted me. “I
didn’t choose to be a claiming bride.”
    He stared at me for a long moment before
stalking from the room. Doors slammed in his wake and I smiled.
Served him right.
    Foolish dragon.
    Now I just needed my body to calm. I wasn’t
exactly sure whom I just punished.

Chapter Nine
     
    Bastian
    She took the gift of her virginity from me.
How dare she! I jumped from the landing at the end of the hall into
my eating tower. My roar was loud; the burst of flames and smoke
would incinerate anything in its path. My wings pulled me up to the
parapet and out to the open sky. The moons shone bright, and I flew
fast, heading for her town. Because she didn’t know how many men
despoiled her, I would kill them all. The crash through realms was
painful. It didn’t need to be, but I craved this pain, relished
it.
    The town slept, the lights off. I swooped in
low, my wings grazing the tops of their houses, and I roared. She
made me crazy. I wanted death, blood, a fight. Killing these humans
would give me two of the three. With a burst of flame to their
public building, it exploded. Humans poured from their homes, women
screamed, children cried. I made one last pass before changing my
course. Was anyone inside the burned building? A small part of me
didn’t want a human death on my hands. Acasia’s words made it a
smaller part than usual, so I refused to feel guilty.
    I flew to Laryn’s territory after crashing
through the realm again. “Fight me,