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that?”
    “You need to pay me for the instruction.” He gave his cup to a bot, rose to his feet and walked over to her.
    Zel put her cup down and put her hands in his, letting him pull her to her feet.
    The kiss was shocking, and it woke every nerve in her body. Her hands clenched around his, and she held tight as the kiss deepened and he tasted her.
    She shivered from head to toe, her body was telling her to rub against him, but her mind was wondering how she could kiss a man she didn’t even know.
    She told her prudish self that not only had she been with this man while he and she had been naked for the better part of the day, he was the father of her child. A little making out was in order.
     

Chapter Six
     
     
    The days took on a predictable pattern. In the morning, she had swimming lessons then breakfast and kissing Rad.
    The day he looked nervous and led her outside after their standard make-out session, she knew something had changed.
    “This is awkward. Usually Drai introduce their mates to their beast form before they show them to their homes. It seems we are not doing anything in the prescribed order.” He took a deep breath and moved away from her until he was standing in the centre of the courtyard.
    She felt wind rushing past her as he blurred, and in seconds, she was staring at over forty feet of scaled and rippling muscle with huge deep blue eyes.
    His limbs were strangely arranged. Instead of the wings of his normal shape, he was smooth and hard scales, long-fingered claws and a wide, whipping tail. He was an Asian dragon with a European dragon’s head.
    She wasn’t sure what she was supposed to do, but she walked up to him, and he extended his muzzle to her. His head was wider than her body, but the nervous look in his eyes was still there.
    She ran her hand along the silvery-blue scales and walked from his head to the tip of his tail with her palm dragging along him the entire way.
    He was cool and slick. His body was what she had seen cruising under the surface on those first few days and in her dreams.
    She turned to walk back to his head, but he had doubled on himself, and his head was right in front of her. “Oh, hello, pretty.”
    He blinked and there was relief in his eyes.
    “You are rather stunning, I have to say. How do you fly in this form?”
    A gleam came to his gaze, and she heard his voice in her mind, Get on my back, behind my head, and hang on.
    She blinked and stared at him. “I wouldn’t want to hurt you by stepping in the wrong place.”
    He let out a huff, grabbed her in his claw and set her on the back of his neck. Rad seemed to be able to bend himself into any arrangement he wanted.
    As she settled herself astride him, she found herself blushing. It was another weird intimacy that went beyond letting him help her with the medical scanner.
    He lifted off without undulation or any motion at all. I travel via telekinetic propulsion. I don’t use any aerodynamics in this form.
    “Which is why you are so at home under the sea.”
    This form is well suited to moving through the waves.
    “Please don’t do that while I am on top of you.”
    There was a low rumble of amusement from his throat, and he streaked out over the open ocean.
    There was fine downy hair at the base of his skull, and she hung onto it as he moved over the bands of water until there was no visible land around them. She had a flicker of unease, but it was squashed when she remembered that the Drai were attuned to their homes. He could get her back to the house without any problem.
    Zel smiled as they approached a land mass and he circled it.
    This was the alternate site for the house, but there is no ready access to transport to the mainland and I did not feel it fair to keep my mate stranded in the middle of the ocean, as tempting as that might be.
    She smiled. “Your mate might not have enjoyed the isolation. The house itself is fairly isolated. I don’t even know where the monks are.”
    I will show