Matching Dragons Chinese Zodiac Romance Series Book 6 by Rachael Slate

clarity to one’s mind. He’d finally earned her trust, but it wouldn’t be enough.
    Not enough to save him, or to give them a future.
    Would she have been better off if he’d let those vines strangle him during the Lotus test? No, if anything, at least he could give her the parting gift of his protection.
    Lok caressed his hand down her throat, across the full curve of her breast, and dipped his fingers under the hem of her skirt. Tearing aside silk lace panties, he found her silken heat and thrust two fingers inside. Kadence’s wetness slicked his fingers, her whimpers chiming in his ears.
    The other dragons would locate them, likely before dawn. But in this one moment, he would claim her. He’d sample everything he’d forbidden himself to crave.
    He drew his fingers out of her. “Take off your clothes. Slowly.” Lok stepped backward and sank onto a cushion, spreading his thighs wide to accommodate his throbbing cock.
    From everything he’d studied about her, he judged Kadence hadn’t slept with many men who knew what they were doing. Hard and fast, they probably didn’t take a beat to worship the beautiful creature she was.
    He wouldn’t make that mistake. Hell, maybe this was his other parting gift. To give her the night of her life.
    She drew her bottom lip into her mouth, a flash of her white teeth gleaming. Then slowly, hesitation in her movements, she slipped her pink top down her shoulders. Nudging the fabric over her bare breasts, she slid it, along with her skirt, below her curvy hips. The clothes pooled at her ankles and she stepped out of them.
    Naked before him, she was a vision that made his ballocks swell to the point of pain. “Beautiful.” He nodded, his admiration skimming over every inch of her pale, pearly skin. She clasped her right wrist in her left hand, shifting her weight from one foot to the other. Damn. A woman like her ought to know how exquisite she was.
    He detected her thick swallow, her shallow breaths. She waited patiently while he explored her with his perusal. Fingering the dragon chain around his neck, he rose. She tracked him with her gaze, eyes dilated in hungry anticipation, as though she suspected exactly how much pleasure he would give her.
    He plucked her wrists and snapped the chain around them. Then he nudged her backward, toward the stone wall. A metal loop was fastened to the stone above their heads. He threaded the chain through the loop and yanked. She gasped as her hands lifted above her head, wrists bound together. Quirking his lips, he wound the other end once again around her wrists, leaving enough length to play out his wicked desires with her.
    Yeah, dragons had a thing for vestal offerings. While Kadence wasn’t a virgin, she was pure. Raw. Seductive.
    Leaning in close, he didn’t touch her. Instead, he sank to his knees and inhaled against her, the perfume of her skin tempting him to the edge of passion.
    Viewing her here like this, chained to his wall, a nude, priceless offering, satisfied a deep hunger inside him. If the dark call to covet her were to win out, he might keep her like this.
    Forever.
    Which was why he couldn’t let it. Kadence was more than a treasure to be displayed in his vault.
    But try telling that to a dragon.
    His nature warred with his desires, but in the end, they were the same.
    Want her.
    Lok gripped her hips and pushed her thighs apart, baring her glistening pink pussy to his admiration. A quiver traveled through her limbs, confirming her need was as great as his.
    He pressed his thumb to her bud, her moans rumbling in her throat. The chain clinked as she writhed against the wall, rubbing into his palm.
    Her hips bucked, her pants deepening. He thrust his fingers inside her, two then three, pumping into her slick sheath to the rhythm of her clamping around him. Her cries echoed off the stones as her greedy sex spasmed around his fingers, her hips rotating to ride him through the waves.
    Her bucking subsided, her legs