Alpha Dragon: Alpha Bites Book 3 Page 13

  “So, with me, you don’t let it control you?” Jax asked. He needed to be as clear as humanly possible about everything they were about to say before moving forward.

  “A little,” Katie replied. “I’m too old to be holding back. If I was human, I would have wasted my life away thinking about this. Maybe I let it get to me because I’m old fashioned. I’m flat out old in human years.”

  Jax smiled at that. “And you don’t look a day over forty-five.” He laughed a little when she punched him in the stomach. It was a gentle thing, but he still doubled back, pretending as if she was a real threat to him when she wagged her finger.

  “Don’t make me bring out my claws.”

  He raised his hands. “Yes, ma’am.”

  Katie grinned at him, though that dangerous expression was still in her eyes.

  “I like this playful side to you.”

  Even the omegas who were going about their chores seemed to notice. Katie didn’t seem to notice it, but Jax was very aware of the few innocent stares and glances that were cast their way. They weren’t used to seeing Katie this open and playful, especially the young ones who had only known her as being so closed off and reserved.

  Jax didn’t have many memories of her smile either, but he had seen it from time to time. Had she ever shown it to anyone else in the house? God, that made him so fucking sad in that moment.

  Katie didn’t seem to notice when she took him by the hands again. “I like it when I’m around you.”

  “Good to know. I’d be doing it wrong if you didn’t.”

  Katie looked up at him, that quirky smile still pulling at her lips. “Yeah, well, you do it very well, so it’s not like I don’t have much to not like.”

  “Are we talking about sex?”

  One of the men who’d been walking by with a pup clearly heard that, and he was quick to usher his daughter away before she could ask questions.

  Katie full-on laughed. “This might not be the best place to have a discussion like this.”

  “No kidding. I’m the one who will get my ass handed to me if we keep on talking like this.”

  “You’re an alpha. None of the betas or omegas can touch you.”

  “Unless they go to Garret and make a complaint. He could probably take me in a fight. If he tries really hard.”

  Katie reached up, shocking Jax when she put her hands on the back of his neck and pulled him down for a kiss.

  Jax stood utterly still in that moment. He almost didn’t breathe. A public show of affection? Okay, no. This wasn’t real. This wasn’t real and he was actually in a coma waiting to wake up because there was no way he could be this lucky.

  Katie’s mouth felt too real, though the heat in her body was also something he couldn’t ignore when she finally pulled back.

  She could hardly look at him. The color that bloomed in her was obvious, but he could sense no shame in her, only a deep sense of shyness.

  “How do you feel?”

  Katie scratched the back of her neck, still avoiding his eyes when she shrugged. “Like I’m still me. I liked doing that, but I probably will need more time before I’m completely comfortable with kissing you in public.”

  “That’s fine.”

  “But I’d still like to surprise you from time to time. Maybe.”

  “Even better.”

  Now Katie did look at him. “And, even if it’s only once a month, no, forget that, once a week, I want you to surprise kiss me in public.”

  Jax blinked at that. “You want me to do that? Not complaining here, but what will you do if I catch you when you don’t want to be touched?”

  “The point is that I don’t want to ever be in one of those moods anyway.” Katie’s stare was a hard one, one that demanded Jax’s attention and forced him to hold eye contact with her. The strength within her was clear and demanded his respect. “I’m tired of being like this. I want you. I’m sick of these conflicting things that keep pulling me away from you. The only reason we’re having a hard time being mated is because of me.”

  “That’s not true.”

  “It’s not because of you.”

  “It’s not either of us,” Jax said, looking around and lowering his voice, even though there was no one around them anymore. What he was about to say seemed too private to say in a normal tone of voice. “What Dennis and those other disgusting pricks did to you was not your fault.”

  “I know that, you don’t have to tell me.” Katie glared at him before averting her eyes. “But I still had control over myself and my actions after the fact. They were always with me, even after it happened, and I’m not going to let that happen anymore. I want to be normal. I want to enjoy you and you enjoy me without having to worry about whether or not I’m going to shatter like glass. That means that I want to be spontaneous with you. I want you to be an alpha with me, like you always wanted to be. Grab me and kiss me in public, show the world that I’m yours before throwing me over your shoulder and carting me off to have wild sex in your room. That’s what I want.”

  The wilder side of Jax, the dragon within him, was snorting fire at her words. Jax couldn’t even breathe fire in real life, but he sure as hell felt like he could in that moment. “I’m going to grab you and do all those things right now if you’re not careful.”

  “Wasn’t that the entire point?” The challenge in Katie’s voice, her eyes, hell, even in the way she clenched her fists, was beyond obvious. “You want to be an alpha, then be an alpha. I know you well enough to know that you’re not going to be too rough or take advantage of me. I trust you to not do that, and to listen if I’m having a really bad day, but every other day, when I’m just kind of moody, that’s not enough. I won’t let myself be trapped inside my own head anymore and that means telling you I want you to ravage me from time to time. It doesn’t have to be every day, but come at me with it. Surprise me with it so that I can learn it’s all right to be touched like that. So long as it’s you, I know I’ll be okay.”

  She was saying everything Jax had ever wanted to hear from her and more.

  He was about to let her know he was going to grab her right now, that there was no way in hell he would be able to hold himself back after that.

  But then that would ruin the surprise, wouldn’t it?

  So he grabbed her. He did it without warning, taking his woman around the waist and hoisting her up and over his shoulder.

  Katie yelled from the sudden shock of being in the air, but then she laughed. She didn’t tell him to put her down, and Jax wouldn’t have even if she’d asked him to.

  The dragon side of his brain was firing and controlling everything. There was nothing but instinct, nothing but desire. The sex they’d had earlier that day? It was nothing compared to what Jax had planned for his woman right now.

  There was just one more thing he had to take care of, one more instinct that needed to be acted upon before he would be remotely satisfied.

  “Katie Nichols is my woman and I want the entire house to hear it!”

  Katie laughed over his shoulder at his scream, and she continued to laugh when Jax ran to his room. To their room.

  Chapter 15

  Yeah, it was safe to say Katie wanted this. The dragon had been in Jax’s eyes. She’d seen it before he’d grabbed her and yelled loud enough for the entire house to hear it—including the prisoner in the basement—that she belonged to him.

  Katie laughed. It was a rush. It was an exhilarating ride. She did belong to Jax. She was his mate, and it was about time she stopped hiding from him. God, how much had she been really hurting herself by hiding away for all those years? How much had she been hurting him?

  “I want you. Hurry up and get me back to your room.”

  “Moving as fast as I can, sweetheart,” Jax said, which was true, but in that moment, it was nowhere near fast enough. Katie was impatient. Something heavy and dark had been thrown off her shoulders and she wanted to play. She wanted to have sex. And she wanted to do those things wit
h her mate.

  Jax was definitely on the same page as he climbed the stairs two at a time with Katie over his shoulder.

  All these years Katie had thought she’d done a good job of keeping herself open and honest about herself and her past. She’d thought she was all right, but she hadn’t been. Sure, she’d learned how to use the guns in the house to defend herself. She’d learned first aid so she would also be a benefit to the injured and sick. Katie had taken classes and volunteered for several responsibilities in the house that she didn’t need to do, anything to make herself feel needed, to feel useful.

  To feel like she wasn’t broken and hadn’t let her past beat her down.

  She’d let it do that very thing, and she’d very nearly destroyed her chances for happiness because of it. She’d nearly caused her mate to walk away from her because he’d gotten it in his head that she would rather be broken and alone than be with him.

  Jax almost kicked in the door to his room. He set her down, but only so he could hurry and lock it before turning back to face her, his eyes blazing with lust.

  “If anyone tries bothering us this time…” Katie started.

  Jax shook his head. “We ignore them. No one gets in here and no one gets out of here until we do what we need to do.”

  Katie nodded, as if they were agreeing to some sort of verbal contract, and like the other times Katie had been with Jax, she felt a sense of control that had never been there before. The only difference was, this time, she was about to burst with it. She was in control here, and she wanted to make sure Jax knew it.

  “Sit down on the bed. There’s something I’ve been wanting to do to you for a long time.”

  Jax lifted a single brow at the command, his mouth quirking at the sides in a smile. “There is?”

  Katie nodded, stepping closer, putting her hands on his chest and sliding them up to his shoulders. “Yeah, I’ve been thinking about this for a long time.”

  His body heat seemed to increase as she spoke. It was intense and exciting and everything that made Katie melt for him. He was so strong, so powerful, and he was all hers.

  “You keep touching me like that and I might not be able to focus.”

  As if Katie cared. “You can do it on autopilot. Muscle memory. Anything. Just do as I say.”

  She had to step back from him because, ultimately, Jax was right. Katie was touching him and stroking him as if the man was made of gold and had just been laid at her feet. He might as well have been. Katie couldn’t stop herself from admiring his body. This had been hers for the taking for decades, and only now was she letting herself get swept away.

  Jax sat on the bed. He looked up at her, waiting, with that playful, sexy glint to his eyes. “Okay. How else do you want me?”

  “With your shirt off and your pants down. Actually, stop. I’ll get your pants.” Katie sank to her knees in front of him, adjusting herself so he was between his knees. Jax stared at her, his eyes turning wide at this new position.

  Katie wasn’t an idiot. She knew Jax would have been with other women over the years. Mated or not, they hadn’t been together, and he was still a man with needs. Other women would have done this to him before, and now Katie was going to compete with them.

  It should have been enough to make her want to bolt, to bring out every single feeling of inadequacy she’d ever felt, but it didn’t. All Katie could feel was this need to prove to Jax, and to herself, that she could do this.

  She had something to prove, and the desperate need to give Jax this pleasure was overclouding everything else. All her senses, all her desires, were solely pointed in Jax’s direction.

  Katie pulled at his belt, unlooping it from the metal clasps and loosening it. She got his button and fly next.

  Jax’s breathing picked up. Katie was acutely aware of it, but also of the way Jax never stopped her, or asked her if she was sure, if she was all right. He was getting better at not treating her like glass. It seemed the more Katie asserted herself, the less Jax thought he had to check up on her emotional state.

  Good, that was good.

  Katie pulled Jax’s cock free from the confines of his jeans. He groaned, and that sound was beyond exciting. Their eyes briefly met, and Katie smiled at the sight of Jax’s half-lidded stare. His lips slightly parted as he gasped for air. The control he attempted to hold over himself was obvious, as was the way he failed at doing so.

  Katie had total control over him and it sent the best kind of thrill through her body. “I’ve never been on a rollercoaster,” she said, “but this has to be what that feels like.”

  The corner of Jax’s mouth quirked up. “I guess it’s a good thing that you think touching my cock is as good as a rollercoaster ride.”

  “You’re telling me it’s not?”

  “I’ll take you to Disneyland one day and you can tell me yourself if there’s a difference.”

  “Okay, well, on that subject, maybe you can tell me if this is better than a rollercoaster ride.” Katie leaned in, putting her lips around the head of Jax’s cock.

  His entire body seemed to react. He sucked back a deep breath, his firm stomach contorting as he let his head fall back in a deep and contented sigh. He didn’t look away from her for long. Katie was only staring up at him from the corners of her eyes with this new position, but she was very aware of him, of the way he stared down at her, and his every reaction as she sank her lips inch by glorious inch down and around him.

  She moved down a little too far, and was forced to pull back.

  Katie sucked back a deep breath when his erection wasn’t in her mouth. She was going to have to get used to breathing through her nose when she did this. She seemed to instinctively want to hold her breath, and that wasn’t going to work.

  “You feeling all right?”

  “Yeah.” Katie wiped her mouth on the back of her hand. She got the impression he was asking about her breathing, and not her supposedly frail emotional state of mind, so she wasn’t annoyed with the question.

  But fuck, this was embarrassing. How was she supposed to make him feel good when she was so worried about how bad this was going to be? She couldn’t lose face. She was going to do this. His reactions alone were more than worth it and Katie couldn’t stop now, not until she dragged an orgasm out of him.

  Then she got an idea, thank God. Right in the nick of time, too. “I want to know what you like. Tell me how you want me to do this.”

  “What I like?”

  Katie nodded, leaning in closer so her mouth was licking distance away from his cock. She was going for the seductive minx angle while she still had enough courage to pull this off, but at the same time, she was kind of proud of herself. Making this out to be that she wanted to know what he liked instead of admitting she had no clue what she was doing seemed like a solid plan. If Jax saw right through her, he spared her feelings and didn’t mention it.

  “Just be careful of your teeth. You don’t have to deep throat me. That’s not really something a lot of people can do anyway. Just use your hand on the spot where your mouth can’t reach.”

  Seemed like good enough advice. “You mean like this?” Katie returned her lips to Jax’s cock head. The way his shaft jumped when her tongue touched him there was amazing. She was never going to get tired of that feeling. This was going to turn into her new favorite thing if she wasn’t careful. The power she felt over him was kind of going to her head.

  “Yeah,” Jax groaned, leaning back on his hands. “Just like that.”

  Katie was extra careful with her teeth. It was kind of funny. She knew teeth would be a problem, but she hadn’t thought about it when she’d tried this. It was a good thing Jax had given her that reminder.

  Tongue and lips? Good. Teeth? Bad.

  Which was maybe why she used a little bit of teeth. Not a lot. Definitely not a lot. She barely touched the shaft of his erection with her teeth, and when she felt the lightest touch of pressure there, she dragged her mouth back. Katie used this to give Jax
another rush of sensation, and the way he shivered and stared down at her with those wide eyes made it all so worth it she didn’t have the words for it.

  He grinned nervously at her. “Uh, just be careful down there. Don’t let your fangs out or anything while you’re doing that.”

  Katie had to pull back at that, otherwise she was going to burst out laughing around Jax’s prick and accidentally bite him.

  “What? What’s funny?” Jax sounded torn between shock and offense, as if he really didn’t understand what Katie was laughing about.

  She shook her head, trying to get control of herself, which probably wasn’t doing much to make Jax feel better about his worry over her potential lack of control when it came to her wolf teeth. “Do…do you really think I would let my fangs out while doing that to you?”

  He shrugged. “I am a big proponent of Murphy’s Law. I wouldn’t want to take any risks either way.”

  Katie nodded. “Fair enough, but how am I doing so far?”

  “Aside from scaring the hell out of me with your teeth? Pretty damned good.”

  “Aw, poor baby.” Katie let her tongue swirl around the head of his cock before she pressed her lips around it once more. All those nights she’d spent alone watching explicit videos were suddenly coming in handy now that she was getting to apply some of this knowledge in real life.

  The sharp hiss and intake of breath was certainly a nice bonus.

  “S-sure, make fun of me. A guy has to protect his manhood. It’s how we, God, spread our seed. Fuck.”

  There was no way he was faking those sounds. Katie could tell, and not just because he was cursing. She could feel each pulsing throb of pleasure though Jax’s erection on her tongue. She didn’t use her teeth this time, but she did everything she thought Jax would want her to do, and everything he’d told her he liked, with a couple of extra things she’d seen on the Internet just to make this extra special.