Healed by the Earth Dragon Prince: Dragon Shifter Romance (Elemental Dragon Warriors Book 4)

her now.
“Tell me you are mine,” I growl, rough and aroused. “For I am already yours, my linaya.”
“Kaj,” she whispers breathlessly between kisses. “I’m yours.”
My nostrils flare again as the scent of her arousal strengthens. I am desperate to bury myself deep inside her and fill her with my seed. A burst of precum erupts from my stav, and I still. This is strange. This only happens when…
I pull back just enough to meet her eyes evenly. “How often do you enter your heat cycle?”
She blinks. “Heat... cycle?”
“Your fertile peak,” I explain. “How often does it happen?”
“Once a month... every thirty days or so.” Her small brow furrows as she mouths numbers to herself. She lifts her gaze back to mine. “Technically, I’m probably in my fertile window now.”

Chapter 21
Anna
His irises are almost completely eclipsed by black with hunger. His voice is a low and rumbling growl. “I believe I am experiencing my mating cycle, which is triggered in a male when his partner reaches her fertile peak.” He dips his head to the curve of my neck and shoulder, inhaling deeply before his tongue licks my skin and he growls again. “It is driving me mad.”
He pulls me off his lap and sets me on the bench beside him as he stands.
“Where are you going?”
“I must leave,” he rasps. “If I stay, I will be tempted to take you.”
“But I want you, Kaj. I want to be yours.”
He shakes his head. “Not like this, my beautiful linaya. My need is too great. I fear I might take you roughly in my current state, and I do not want you to fear me.”
“I trust you, Kaj. You won’t hurt me. I’m not afraid.”
He starts for the edge of the balcony, but I grab his hand, stopping him abruptly.
He spins with inhuman speed and pins my back to the wall beside the sliding glass doors. His lips are twisted in a feral snarl and his pupils are blown wide. “You must let me go, Anna. I do not wish to take you like this.”
“What about what I want?” I ask. “I want you, Kaj. I love you and want to make love to you. Claim me as your mate.”
He clenches his jaw, and I can tell it’s taking all of his control to remain still. “You would want me as I am? You are not afraid?”
“Not of you, my love.”
His stav is hard against my abdomen as heat pools deep in my core. I press my lips to his. When I pull back, I cup his face with both hands and stare deep into his eyes. “Claim me,” I whisper. “I’m yours, Kaj.”
“You are certain?” he rasps.
“Yes.”
He crushes his mouth to mine in a searing kiss as he lowers me to the floor. He runs his hands up and down my body, the tips of his fingers brushing lightly across my breasts, making me arch into him. He fixes me with a fiery and possessive stare. “You are mine,” he growls.
“I’m yours, my love,” I agree.
He lowers his head to my chest and closes his mouth over my left breast while he cups the other. He scrapes his teeth over the already stiff peak and then begins a gentle suction against my skin that drives my pleasure to new heights.
I grip his horns as I arch up against him, wanting more. He traces his tongue down my body until he reaches my mons. His tail wraps tightly around my thigh, opening me completely to his gaze. “You are perfect,” he whispers.
He guides my legs over his shoulders and dips his head between my thighs. I gasp as he drags his ridged tongue through my folds. Using his horns, I guide him to the small bundle of nerves at the top. He laves at the sensitive flesh until I’m breathless and panting beneath him.
Pleasure ripples through me with each swipe of his tongue. I’m so close; I’m almost at my peak.
He pulls back, and I whimper a protest. I was so near the edge. He moves up my body until his face is even with mine. I only have a moment to stare up at him, dazed and breathless with unfulfilled need, before I feel him notch the crown of his stav at my entrance.
He hesitates. “Do you accept me, Anna?”
“Yes, Kaj. I want you.”
His gaze holds mine and the breath stutters from my lungs as he slowly enters me. Tight heat blooms in my core. He’s so big, it’s almost overwhelming. The hard ridges of his stav rub my channel in all the right ways, and the sensation is too much and not enough all at once.
He groans as I flex my hips against his to take him even deeper. “So tight,” he rasps.
A low moan escapes me as he rocks back and forth until he’s seated completely inside me. A burst of heat fills me, so intense that I gasp.
Did he come so soon? Are we done?
Disappointment starts to creep in as he begins to pull out, but he captures my gaze and strokes back into me. Judging by the expression on his face, I know we’re far from done.
Another burst of heat blooms deep in my core, and I cannot help the low moan that escapes my lips at the sensation. “What is that?” I barely manage. “That intense warmth.”
He wraps his tail around my thigh, holding me still as each thrust becomes deeper and more forceful. “I am claiming you,” he grits out. “My biology demands that I fill you with my essence. The precum softens your womb so that when I release, your body will eagerly take in my seed.”
My head falls back as the delicious sensation fills me again. Already, the small muscles of my channel begin to flex and quiver around his length as I creep closer to the edge. If that’s not even his full release, I can’t imagine how intense that will be.
Through the fog of my pleasure, his