Releasing the Dragon (Brides of the Kindred) Read online

  But here Annie was, saying she liked his Drake and wanted it to come out more!

  “You don’t know what you are saying,” he protested. “Drakes are dangerous beasts—creatures that are all hunger and lust. They are not to be trusted.”

  “Well, I trust yours.” Annie crossed her arms over her breasts. “And I think you should too.”

  “You don’t understand,” Dru told her. “For letting my Drake out, I must now go before the Kindred High Council and admit what I have done. I will have to beg forgiveness and hope they do not strip me of my position and send me back to my home world in disgrace. And if my parents ever learned that I had let it out…” He shook his head, thinking of the dishonor his indiscretion would bring on his family name. The endless shame and recrimination…

  “If you’re going before the High Council then I want to go too.” Annie jutted her chin out stubbornly. “I want to tell them what I saw and how well behaved your Drake really is. And I don’t care what anyone else says—he’s a beautiful, amazing person with feelings and it’s wrong for you to keep him cooped up inside all the time and never let him out! It’s like…” She frowned. “I don’t know. Like if you bought a lion for a pet and kept it in a tiny cage its entire life. It’s cruel, Dru!”

  He looked at her in amazement. Somehow he had never thought of things in this way. It was true that though he was a large male, his Drake was much larger. Keeping all that energy and power bottled up inside him all the time sometimes made him feel like he was going crazy. He could often feel his other half yearning to get out and be free and the time and effort it took to keep the beast penned up inside him was sometimes exhausting.

  But still, he couldn’t just—

  “Oh! Oh, no!”

  Annie’s cry of pain and dismay alarmed him.

  “What? What is it?” he took her by the shoulders, ducking down to look into her face. “What’s wrong, teeska?”

  “It’s happening…it’s happening again,” she gasped and pointed down to her chest.

  Dru frowned and pulled the silver top she was still wearing to one side to verify what he was seeing. Sure enough, her breasts—which were already lovely and full—were somehow growing fuller while he watched. Soon he saw droplets of the amber colored nectar beading at the tips of her ripe nipples.

  “It hurts, Dru!” Annie’s voice was pleading. “Oh God, it really hurts. I thought I was over this—that you cured me when you, you know, helped me in the Shadow Palace.”

  Her cheeks got pink as she talked and Dru realized she was embarrassed to speak about what they’d done. Well, she would have to get over the embarrassment quickly because it looked like they would have to do it again.

  “I remember Zar’ren saying that the Xi-46 often has long-lasting effects,” he said grimly. “Apparently that means you can have another, ah…attack, even after the first one has been taken care of.”

  “But that’s awful!” Annie exclaimed. “Are you telling me I’ll have to go through life having these…these lust attacks from now on? I’ll go crazy, Dru—I’m really in pain here.” She bit her lip. “My breasts are so full and I feel…feel so empty inside.”

  “Come on.” Bending down, he swung her lightly into his arms. “Let’s get you somewhere I can tend to you. I don’t want to do this out in the woods.”

  “Tend to me?” Her eyes flew wide. “I thought you didn’t…didn’t want to bond me to you.”

  “Right now I want to ease your pain,” Dru told her, though his heart thumped painfully in his chest when he thought of bonding her. “But I can’t do that out here in this wilderness. We had better go back to your domicile.”

  “We’re likely to get some pretty nasty looks from the neighbors,” Annie remarked. “You’re naked and I’m not much better. Plus, I’m still wearing this damn cat tail.”

  “Your neighbors will have to deal with the sight,” Dru growled. “I have no quarrel with them but I must ease your pain.” And he carried her out of the woods and towards her apartment building.

  * * * * *

  Luckily they got into her apartment without anyone seeing them or Annie was certain she would have gotten kicked out. It wasn’t every day that you saw a seven-foot-tall, buck-naked Kindred warrior carrying around a plump, freckled, nearly nude girl wearing a cat tail.

  Once they were inside her apartment, she had the immediate impulse to press her nipples to Dru’s mouth and beg him to suck to ease the pressure. She could feel the emptiness growing inside her too and her pussy ached to be filled.

  But she forced herself to put a hold on both pain and desire.

  “I need a shower,” she told Dru, struggling to get down once he had kicked the door shut behind them. “I’ve been out in the woods, gotten all scratched up and dirty and bloody—I need to get clean.”

  “I would not mind helping you to clean up.” His big hands were restless, roving over her curves, gently squeezing her full breasts and cupping her ass possessively. The long, thick shaft rising from between his thighs showed Annie he needed her almost as badly as she needed him.

  She bit back a moan and told herself firmly that she had to wait.

  “Just give me a five minute head start,” she told him. “Then you can come in the shower and we can, er, get clean together.”

  “I will wait.” He crossed his arms over his broad chest. “But if I hear you moaning in pain again I will come in to check on you.”

  “I’ll be okay,” Annie promised, hoping she was telling the truth. In fact, the pain in her breasts and pussy was getting worse but she really, really wanted a shower…and to remove the damn cat tail. Though Dru had helped her put it in, she needed privacy to take it out .

  Because there’s no way I’m going to be able to fit all that inside my pussy if I have the stupid tail up my behind, she thought, measuring his cock with her eyes again. He’s huge!

  And yes, she fully intended to have him in her. She instinctively knew she needed something thicker than his fingers this time. And besides, she needed to be close to him—as close as possible after what had almost happened in the woods.

  Of course, there was the question if Dru would be willing to fill her pussy with his cock. Annie wasn’t completely sure but she thought that was what would bond her to him—which seemed to be a permanent commitment for the Kindred.

  Still, she was damn well going to try to get him to do it. They belonged together, damn it! Even his Drake knew it. Dru needed to get with the program and realize it as well.

  Thinking this and a whole lot more, she placed Nutter Butter’s purple walnut carefully in the empty soap dish and started the shower. As the water got hot and the steam rose, she carefully removed the twitching cat tail and sighed with relief when it was out. She curled it neatly and set it aside. Then she stepped into the hot shower, sucking in a gasp of pain as the steaming water hit her engorged breasts.

  “Ouch,” she exclaimed, before she could stop herself.

  Immediately she heard the door open and Dru was there, poking his head anxiously around the flowered shower curtain to see if she was all right.

  “Annie, are you well?” he demanded. “I heard you gasp in pain.”

  “I’m fine. It’s just…my breasts are so full now and the hot water…” She beckoned to him. “Come on—come in. It’s okay.”

  The shower stall in her apartment had clearly not been made to hold a seven-foot-tall Kindred warrior but Dru ducked down some and managed to make it work.

  “Gods, you’re so beautiful,” he murmured, looking at Annie’s curvy, freckled body. “This is the first time I have seen you completely naked, teeska.”

  Annie blushed and restrained the urge to cover herself. She would have felt too plump and too freckled in front of any other man but she knew that Dru truly did like both her curves and her freckles and it made her feel like a goddess.

  “Thank you,” she murmured. Reaching for the body wash, she pumped some into the palm of her hands and started to rub up