Page 26 of Gladiator's Bite
“Sometimes.”
“Sometimes is more than most dragons. Doing the right thing and being kind aren’t always the same things,” I reminded him.
“Do you want me to tell him to bring the rest of my stuff over?” Sunny asked.
“What do you want? I want you to live with me, of course. I want us to live together at the very least, even if it’s not here. That doesn’t mean all your stuff has to live here. If having some of it over there makes you feel better--- I’m rambling. You’ve turned me into a rambling dragon. Shame on you, Sunny Moonscale.”
“I like listening to you talk for a change,” Sunny said. “Let’s wait until we get us worked out before we worry about the rest of my stuff. If there’s something I need in the meantime, we’ll worry about it as we come to it.”
“It looks like he brought your stash of lube and condoms,” I said, poking through the bags.
“Eh, no. He bought that or added it to my stuff. I never collected them in hoards like that. I didn’t know he did either.”
“Does he not want us to reproduce?” I laughed, setting the bag aside. “Wait. Are you okay with me poking around your stuff?”
“He wants us to have choices and it’s just stuff. Anything officially Moonscale is kept in the Captain’s office on the ship,” Sunny shrugged. “I don’t have much to hide. That’s clothes and stuff mostly. Well, and whatever he snuck in there too.”
After dinner, we unpacked Sunny’s belongings. He was right. Most of his stuff was clothes. He owned more shirts thananyone I knew that didn’t work in an industry that required them. He owned a lot of underwear too. Maybe as much as someone who worked at Sprinkles or one of the other purple district establishments.
“Do you wear these?” I asked holding up a thong.
“Yeah. To swim in,” he shrugged.
“You could just go naked,” I laughed. “Practically are in this.”
“Sometimes you keep something a mystery,” he laughed and snatched the swimsuit away from me.
“I’ve seen it all. I’ve tasted it all,” I crossed my arms, smirking at him.
“Well, not everyone has.”
“Fair enough. I’m surprised they lasted all the way here.”
“I’m not. Moonscale made items are built to last,” Sunny said. “Wash and take care of them and our clothes will outlive some of us.”
“You’re gonna live forever as far as I’m concerned. I don’t do well with those doors and people leaving forever,” I said, not missing a beat. “So, I’ll eat those underwear before they get the chance to outlive you.”
“Kinky” Sunny said but flashed me a knowing smile.
That was the problem when you lived so long. Deaths became so few and far between that very few of us knew how to deal with them anymore.
“I’m not planning on going anywhere without you and you’re not allowed to die either. I’ll sacrifice Selt to Frost and Juda before that happens.”
“Don’t worry,” I whispered, pushing off the bed to stand closer to him. “If it comes down to that, so will I, and I won’t even tell your carrier.”
Sunny dropped the thong on the edge of the bed, and we shared a long kiss. I could’ve kissed this dragon forever. Hismouth, lips, and tongue were perfect for me. He was perfect for me. As we kissed, his big strong hands moved from my hips to cup my ass cheeks. I leaned into him, playing into his plan without ever knowing it until it was too late. He lifted me by my ass and tossed me backwards onto the bed. Before the mattress stopped shaking, he was on top of me, kissing me hard and rubbing circles over my nipple with one of his thumbs. I let out a throaty laugh and wrapped an arm around him. I bucked my hips up, my hard cock brushing against his through our clothes.
We hadn’t discussed our claiming vows again. We were on the same page as far as hatchlings were concerned. Where we lived and who we sacrificed Selt too was still up in the air. Those were things that could be worked around and with, though. Was it time to stop holding back and acting like we didn’t feel the constant tug of the magic trying to pull us together?
“Yes,”my dragon whispered into my thoughts.“Abso-fucking-lutely.”
“He’s right,” Sunny whispered back to me picking up bits and pieces of our inner monologue while we kissed. “I’m tired of trying to keep my head on straight. I’m tired of trying to stay on track at all. I just want you – all of you, all the fucking time, Laken. For now. Forever. Later. Tomorrow. Next life. Whenever. Everything else can wait. What I think about casual sex doesn’t matter anymore. Selt will be there whenever we want to sacrifice him and as for my flight, they’ll just have to live with whatever we decide. I mean, they don’t even know which of the triplets is heir.”
“Why not?” I grunted under him as I ran my free hand down his back to grab a handful of ass.
“Because Eston is a fucking genius. He’s my brother’s mate. He did this whole spell on himself and his brother so that none of them could ever tell anyone who hatched first. None of us know. Not even they know. My guess is Teal. They think it wasCobalt because he’s like a fraction of a centimeter taller than the other two but it doesn’t matter. My grandparents couldn’t steal away the heir from his brothers because they could all be the heir to the Moonscale Flight and the damn magic. It’s fucking great. They don’t talk about it anymore, but I used to hear my parents arguing about it when I was a teenager.”
“I think I want to be his friend. I like to imagine that when my flight was on Earth we’d drive human leaders fucking crazy. According to my grandma her uncles used to tell tales of such things. Shitting on steeples and --- Wait, that’s not very sexy, is it?”