Twin Dragons: Dragon Lords of Valdier Book 7 (19 page)

“Melina,” Calo whispered, stroking her hair
as her eyes began to droop. “Embrace it. Embrace the fire. We are
so sorry, my little mate. You are ours now. In this life or in the
next, whichever the Goddess gives us.”

Cree heard his brother’s softly spoken
words. The conviction in them soothed some of his guilt. Calo was
close to losing control as well. Their fear that Melina would want
to stay, combined with knowing their time on this planet was
quickly passing, was pushing them both to the edge.

He groaned when Melina’s fingers threaded
through his hair and pulled him closer before she went limp in his
arms. He bent and picked her up as he slowly withdrew his teeth.
Running his tongue along the puncture wounds on her neck, he
allowed his saliva to seal the ravaged skin as her head rolled to
the side.

“Cree,” Calo started to say in concern.

“We have no choice now, brother,” Cree said
harshly. “Take her, now, while she is less resistant. The Dragon’s
Fire will soon begin the changes.”

“It may kill her,” Calo whispered as he took
Melina’s limp body from Cree.

“She will die if the process is not
finished,” Cree said in a husky voice filled with remorse. “I wish
we could have given her more time to accept us, but we could not
chance her refusing us, or wanting to remain here.”

“It still should have been her choice,” Calo
insisted stubbornly before he released a sigh as Melina began to
move restlessly in his arms. “I know you are right, Cree. I just
don’t want her to hate us for doing this to her, or worse.”

Grief flashed through Cree’s eyes as he
stared down at Melina’s flushed face. Resolve and determination
tightened his features. She was one of the bravest females he had
ever met. She was fierce, loving, and strong. She would not only be
strong enough to survive the Dragon’s Fire, but she would be strong
enough to handle them. This, he had no doubts about.

“Let your dragon out, Calo,” Cree said
calmly. “Let him call to his mate.”

*.*.*

Scales rippled over Calo’s cheeks and his
jaw clenched. His dragon rose inside him with a roar. Clawing to
get at his mate. Calo turned out his heel and strode out of the
kitchen and down the hall. He turned into the room that held the
largest bed.

Melina had stripped all the linens that
morning and washed and dried them before remaking the beds. Pride
soared through him when he remembered her ordering him and Cree to
help with moving furniture and cleaning the house. The look in her
eye was so reminiscent of the look their mother used to have, that
he couldn’t help but chuckle.

Now, he was grateful as he lowered her onto
the bed. He trapped her restless legs under his own as he caged her
slender form under his. Her head moved from side to side before her
eyelids fluttered open. Already, he could see the beginnings of the
change sweeping through her.

“Calo,” she moaned, gazing up at him in
confusion. “What is happening to me? I… Oh, God,” she cried out as
a wave of heat washed through her.

“Forgive us, Melina,” Calo whispered before
he tangled his hand in her hair and pulled it to one side so the
slender column of her neck was vulnerable to him. He felt his teeth
grow sharper. “You are ours, my mate.”

Melina’s scream echoed through the room as
Calo struck at the same time as a wave of blistering heat seared
her. Calo groaned in ecstasy as he released the pent-up emotions
inside him; fear, pain, frustration, hope… and love. He knew that
he loved her all the way to his soul.

Images flashed through his mind since the
first time he saw her. Her green eyes flashing as she glared at him
in silent anger while threatening him with a shovel full of Pactor
dung. Her shy glances and floppy hat as she played with his and
Cree’s symbiots. The first time he saw her as a woman, her face
filled with grief as she demanded they leave her alone.

He tenderly touched her pale skin with his
tongue even as he poured the fire of his dragon into her. She had
stiffened under him at first, struggling to push him away. Now, she
desperately clutched at his forearms, arching into him. Love, pure
and unadorned, filled him with a torrent of emotion.

As the last of the Dragon’s Fire pulsed from
him to her, he slowly released his grip on her hair. Swiping his
tongue over the wound to her throat, he pulled back to see the
image of twin dragons forming on each side of her neck.

Pride and possessiveness filled him. Their
true mate had been found and would be claimed. They would never let
her go. She was theirs. His dragon roared and clawed at him to take
her.

He watched as she blinked several times. Her
eyes were dilated so large that the green created a halo effect
around her pupils. In the depths, he could see the flames beginning
to build. His body hardened as it felt the call.

“Goddess, I want her,” he hissed through
clenched teeth as his body began to throb. “Cree!”

He turned his head to see his brother had
already removed his clothes. Scales rippled over his stomach and up
his chest. Calo rolled to the side and stood up as Cree knelt next
to her. He gripped the bottom of his shirt and pulled it over his
head.

“Calo,” Melina moaned, stretching out her
left arm to him. “Calo, I’m burning.”

“We will take the burning away, my beautiful
mate,” Cree said, slowly undoing the buttons of her blouse. “Let us
take it away.”

“Yes,” Melina whispered, mesmerized by the
scales rippling over his cheeks. “Yes.”

“You started this, brother,” Calo grunted as
he kicked his pants to the side and bent forward to remove the
ballerina slipper shoes from Melina’s feet. “If you don’t hurry, I
will be the one to finish it.”

Calo’s lips curled back and he hissed at
Cree when his brother released a low growl, challenging him. This
was one of the things that they were not sure how they would
handle. Never before to their knowledge had there been a true mate
for a set of Twin Dragons.

A male dragon was naturally aggressive. They
did not like to share their mates. When the dragon had a female, he
would fight to the death to protect her from another male. They
could handle males around females that they were not mated to, but
a true mate was out of the question.

“Mine,” Cree snarled, baring his teeth at
Calo.

“Ours,” Calo growled back.

“Ah!” Melina cried out, twisting and pushing
upward as she tried to get away from the fire burning through
her.

Calo caught her in his arms as Cree rose up
behind her. “Get her pants off,” Cree muttered as he ran his lips
along her shoulder as he pulled her shirt off her. “Goddess, she
tastes so sweet.”

Calo slid his fingers along the waistband of
Melina’s pants, enjoying how her hips rocked forward searching for
his touch. He quickly unbuttoned them and pulled the zipper down as
Cree pulled Melina back against him.

Grabbing her ankles, he pulled her legs
straight so he could pull them down and off her. He took her
panties with them at the same time. He rocked forward with a
shuddering gasp as her hand reached out and wrapped around his
throbbing cock.

“Melina,” he cried out as she stroked his
hard shaft.

“Mine,” she panted, gazing at him with dazed
eyes filled with desire. “Mine. Both of you, mine.”

Calo watched as Cree’s hands moved up her
flat stomach to cup her breasts. He leaned forward, capturing her
lips as she pulled him closer by wrapping her ankles around the
back of his thighs. He caught her gasp as Cree pinched her hardened
nipples between his fingers.

Leaning on his left arm, he sought her soft
curls with the fingers of his right hand. Her legs were already
parted with him between them, but they opened even further when he
ran his fingers along the slick slit. She twisted her head to the
side, breaking the kiss as he began to push into her.

“Yes!” she whimpered. “I… Oh…”

“Lay her down,” Calo muttered, gritting his
teeth when she pulled on his cock as Cree moved to the side so he
could lay her flat on the bed. “Hold her.”

“With pleasure,” Cree growled, grabbing her
hands as Calo pulled away. “So beautiful.”

Calo bent to taste the moisture of her
desire. Her loud cry filled the air as he ran his tongue along the
slick folds of her labia. Running his fingers along the silky flesh
of her folds, he teased the hidden nub. Pleasure flooded him when
he was rewarded as her body grew damper and she struggled against
the hold Cree had on her.

He slowly pushed two fingers into her. Her
body stiffened at the unfamiliar invasion. He paused, giving her
time to adjust. Rolling his tongue over her sensitive clitoris,
pulling a long, low cry from her. He glanced up at Cree who was
watching him with blazing eyes. Cree nodded as he bent over
Melina.

*.*.*

Cree pulled Melina’s arms up over her head
so he could hold both of her slender wrists in one hand. A soft
smile lit his eyes as she stared up at him. He could see the birth
of her dragon forming as her body began to change.

The chemical makeup of the Dragon’s Fire was
moving through her, changing each cell and organ. He was watching a
miracle take place before his eyes. This was something that he and
Calo never thought that they would witness.

Capturing her lips with his own, he teased
her until she was fighting to get closer. He sucked on her tongue,
stroking it as if he was making love to it. Both he and Calo knew
when her body was ready. They could feel the wave of heat building
inside her and her desperation as she fought to get closer to them.
When it reached its crest, Calo pushed through the thin barrier of
her virginity with his fingers as he caught her loud cry.

A shudder ripped through both men. The
primitive cry and the need to possess built to a fever-pitched
level. Cree pressed his lips firmly against her and drank while the
fingers of his left hand found the nipple of her left breast.
Pinching it, he thrilled at her loud moan.

Neither one of them wanted to hurt her which
is why they wanted to build her to the point she was mad with need.
They were barely able to keep control over their dragons, much less
their own desires and things were heating up to the point they were
both ready to explode. Her responsiveness was more than they could
have dreamt of and they were both reacting to her loud cries.

He cupped her breast in his left hand and
continued to tease her taut nipples. Her body arched as he toyed
with the right nipple, then the left again. Releasing her lips, he
ran his lips along her jaw before he rose back up to look at
her.

Her parted lips begged for him. His cock
pulsed with the need to feel her wrapped around him. He glanced
down at Calo, who continued to stretch her.

“Is she ready?” He asked in a strained
voice. “I can’t wait any longer.”

“Yes!” Melina moaned, wrapping her heels
around Calo’s waist. “She is ready. She is more than ready.”

Cree released her hands as Calo slid his
fingers from her body and gripped her hips. He rose his knees on
the bed as Calo slid off the edge of it. A sense of growing urgency
swept through him as he felt another wave building inside Melina as
she restlessly moved on the thin covers. Calo flipped Melina over
onto her stomach before pulling her up onto her hands and
knees.

Wrapping his hand in her hair, Cree waited
until she stared up at him. Her eyes were dilated, the pupils
changing from round to an elongated shape. A soft pant escaped her
as her lips parted.

“Now,” Cree groaned as her eyes widened and
she started to stiffen.

Calo aligned his throbbing cock to her slick
vaginal channel. The bulbous head of his cock, damp with his own
semen, mixed with her desire. He was held mesmerized as he pushed
into her. His own breath came in heavy pants the further he impaled
his cock into her.

“Goddess, she is so tight around me,” he
hissed as his fingers tightened on her hips.

“Calo,” Melina whimpered, still staring up
into Cree’s eyes. “I hurt. The heat… it is burning me up.”

Cree refused to release her gaze. He touched
her bottom lip with his thumb, stroking it back and forth. A soft
rumble escaped him when she sucked it into her mouth.

“So do we,” Calo murmured as he paused for
just a split second, waiting for the crest of the heat. “Embrace
the heat inside you, Melina. Embrace it and return it to us.”

Take her now,
Cree demanded.

Yes!
Calo hissed as he pushed forward
until he was buried deep inside her. He leaned forward, holding
still as fire licked up the length of him.
Goddess, Cree! I can
feel her body changing as it accepts me.

Cree pulled his thumb out of Melina’s mouth
as she closed her eyes and groaned at Calo’s invasion. A shudder
went through her body before she began rocking back and forth. Each
time moving faster and faster as the need to come became a frantic
craving.

“Open for me,” Cree demanded in a hoarse
voice. “Look at me as you take me.”

Melina’s eyes fluttered open. Her lips
parted as he pressed his cock against them. The touch of her tongue
as she swiped over the pearled come beading the tip was one of the
most erotic sights he had ever seen, second only to watching her
accept his brother.

“Dragon’s Balls, Cree,” Calo muttered,
watching as Melina opened for Cree and slowly accepted him as he
pressed forward. “She is beautiful.”

“Yes, she is,” Cree agreed hoarsely.

The faint shadow of luminescent green scales
rippled along the curve of her shoulders and back. This was a sight
he had never expected to see. Their true mate was being born right
before their eyes!

“Cree,” Calo muttered, watching the
transformation as well. “She is magnificent.”

“Yes, she is,” Cree agreed hoarsely, she
rocked forward, taking more of his shaft into her hot mouth. “Oh
Goddess!”