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I screa hi with two hard thrusts, and then stayed buried inside me

His chest heaved, and he pushed his weight ontoif I could take it I kissed his neck and draped er

We rested for a long moment in silence, limbs entwined

“Did you honestly think I’d enjoy myself with a bunch of de?”

“They can make a person enjoy themselves”

“Not ht—when they put that ic on me, it makes me nauseated”

He stroked his fingertips down ood to know”

“Your response was a bit overkill, though Are all shifters that possessive?”

“Dragons are incredibly possessive when they…feel strongly,” he said, and butterflies spread through my stomach with that hitch in his words I wondered what he’d been about to say “Being that I’m an alpha, and me, I am worse than most”

“What’s going to happen with your fiancée when all this ends? The curse, I mean”

His brow furrowed “My fiancée?”

“The one ned the dresses in the tower The faerie”

He shook his head “She has certainly moved on As soon as the curse went into effect, ere scrubbed frodoht now”

“Yes, but…after Would she not meet you and care for you?”

His sathered me into his arms “I’m not sure she ever cared for s fros froht of her fro years…” He paused and continued in a subdued voice “But then you caain, after you left, and felt nothing for his were just gone There was nothing there Not even athere”

“So you’re not cheating with me, then? And yes, I realize that was a question I should’ve asked before this, but… Well, I’uess”

He chuckled “She has certainly married another Probably has children by now She was a noble in high derow the plants that she used I’m sure she found a noble faerie to takeThat had absolutely nothing to do with my abstinence I already told you why I was celibate”