Bound to Me (8 page)

“That I can’t say, you have to learn that all on your own and all in good time.”

“What kind of dragon are you Mr. obi-wan-
kenobi?” I motion for him to hurry up and tell me. Right about now I was feeling completely sarcastic and I knew I was starting to get on his nerves.

“I am an Ice dragon. I can also bring winter to Dragconia.
 I sit on the council with the White Guardian’s. I hold a very important title.” Explains why he had the creepy white eyes. Looks like he got the sucky job then.

“No wonder why you are so heartless. You have a frigid heart.” I rolled my eyes and crossed my arms on my chest. He slams his hands down ha
rd on the counter startling me.

“You test me Veronica! I could show you frigid if you keep pushing me over the edge. If you roll your eyes at me again I will freeze your eyeballs in their sockets. Unlike Liam, I don’t breathe hot fire darling.” Okay, I think that was enough making the white frosty dragon upset.

“Um…Where is Liam? I had to meet him by noon so that we could go train.” I changed the subject and just as I finished my sentence Liam walked in with some bags in his hands and looked at me with eyebrows drawn together as if he were surprise to see me here.

“Hey Veronica I thought I was going to meet you at your apartment?” He sat the bags down on the counter and looked at me, while I was looking at Devon.

We stayed like this for a few seconds and then I turned to look at Liam. “She just came by to look for you Liam. I guess she couldn’t wait to see you.” His eyebrow went up quickly as if daring me to say anything else.

“Are you ready to go Liam?” I turned to leave and walked out of the shop never looking back at Devon. I was done testing the white dragon. I was growing a pair out of the blue, and it felt really g
ood, I could get use to this.

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I got to my apartment with Liam and I checked the messages on the voicemail. My mom called and left a message telling me she got the job and she wouldn’t be home till late, so we weren’t going to be able to do the dinner to celebrate. Her new boss wanted to start training her, and show her the ropes. I was fine with that. 

Liam took me to the roof on top of our building. There was enough space for us to practice some self-defense moves. He started with stretching his arms over his head and bounces on the ball of his feet, jumping in place to get ready for some hand combat. He looked like a professional fighter and I thought that maybe this was a bad idea all together. I just stood there looking at him like he was insane. If he thought I was going to
fight him, then he’s on some type of drugs. He lifted his chin up signaling me to make my first move. “No way!” I was not doing this. I mean it was clear that he had more experience than me, and I didn’t want to get my ass handed to me by a dragon. I said looking at him with wide eyes.

“Stop being such a chicken shit Ronnie and give me your best shot.” The sun was shining bright and from up here it was hitting me directly in my face. I shielded my eyes and squinted at him from under my hand. Now he was calling me Ronnie. I guess we had moved passed the full first name stage.

He was comfortable calling me by my nickname so I thought the only thing I could do is make one up for him to. I knew it was childish, but what else is there for me to do? “I think you must have fallen out of the sky and hit your head dragon boy. There is no way in hell I am hitting you.”

He came towards me with no warning what so ever and shoved me. “I guess it takes a person to hit you first, is that it?” and he kept on pushing me and I smacked his hands away before they could make contact again and we went back and forth like this for a while.

“Cut that shit out Liam!” I said through gritted teeth.

“No, I won’t stop until you hit me back. What’s the matter Ronnie are you scared? You’re helpless!” And he pushed me again and I stumbled back. I knew he was only taunting me to get some kind of reaction out of me, but I wouldn’t give it to him. He pushed me again and I stumble back another step. I noticed I was at least ten feet away from the edge. “Come on Veronica, stop acting like a fucking baby and hit back. Shit, push me back! Do something; you have to stop acting like you are worthless, or maybe you are.”

That basically did it for me. I cocked my arm back, closed my hand into a tight fist and punched him right in the mouth. Damn that hurt and my knuckle was cut. “Ahh” I waved my hand in the air to take away the pain, and noticed the cut on his lip was sealing up on its own. I shoved him back and poked him in the chest so that he knew every word I was saying was directed at him. “Fuck you Liam! If I am acting like I am worthless it’s because you ‘The mighty black dragon’ won’t even fight for me. This whole training shit is over. I know how to throw a punch and I know how to fight.”

He came closer to me and I don’t know if it’s out of habit or what, but I thought he was going to hit me. I didn’t realize we were so close to the edge. When I backed up two paces I went falling over the edge to my death. Liam reached out for me, but it was already too late. He grabbed nothing but air. I screamed till I was sure I left my lungs on a window sill somewhere.

He instantly jumped off the building to, but while he was in the air, fire and smoke erupted from his body as he transformed into the massive black dragon. He was the same black, beautiful dragon from the falls. This time it wasn’t a dream and he was real. He was here. Liam’s claw plucked me right out of the air and he flew higher. I was tucked into his warm chest and I could hear his dragon heart beating at an irregular pace.

‘
I never would have hit you Veronica; all I wanted to do was touch you. I am sorry you thought otherwise. ‘ He was talking to me through my mind.

“It’s okay, it’s a reflex. I didn’t realize that we were so close to the edge.”
I say to him. ‘Look at you, you are finally soring high and free. You don’t ever have to worry about falling’ he says back.

I looked around; really looked around and for the first time since he caught me I noticed that I am actually flying with a dragon. We were high above the clouds so we didn’t have to worry about being seen. “You’re wrong, I did fall.” I whispered and I knew he heard it because he could hear my thoughts.

He looked down at me and I swear that there was no difference between the dragon and the human Liam.

‘
I’m so sorry, if it’s any consolation I fell to.’ He spoke back in my mind. I nestled closer to his chest and heard his heartbeat, and it was in sync with mine now.

We were singing the same tune and it was music to my ears. He bobs and weaves in and out of clouds so that I could enjoy the sights of New York City. I could see lady liberty waving from below. We flew over Central park then the Empire state building.
 The sun was starting to set slowly, turning day into night, it wasn’t dark yet but it would be soon. We didn’t have to worry about being seen, because Liam camouflaged with the night. We landed back on my roof, and in a blink of an eye he was human again with me in his arms and my head cradled against his chest.

“Thank you for that. I enjoyed every moment of it, and saw things I had never seen while living here my whole life.” I said still hugging him. I didn’t want to let him go, not now, not ever.

“You’re welcome Veronica, and I don’t want you to let go.” He looked down at me and I looked up at him. He grabbed my hand and we walked back down to my apartment.

Chapter 9

I took Liam to my apartment knowing that my mom was at her new job and she wouldn’t be home till later on tonight. The sun was still setting so it wasn’t fully night out, but it was kind of dark in the house since there are no lights on and we didn’t waste any time turning any on.

Night time in New York City was the time when the city came to life. You could hear sirens from either an ambulance or a cop car passing by.  The window in my room was open so a lot of noise was coming in from outside. Car horns blared and people were standing in front of the brown stone. The music that was NY played for us tonight. I didn’t turn on the lights in my room. I liked the dark. Sometimes I found comfort in it when I needed to be alone and this time I wanted to be alone, with Liam.

I locked the door and turned around. That look of desire that was on Liam’s face right then matched my own, and the need in his dragon eyes told me that this was something he wanted to do too.

We stood in the dark looking at each, his ruby red dragon eyes started to sort of glow. He was inhumanly beautiful, and sometimes I still felt like I was going to wake up from this dream.

We didn’t need to say anything and he didn’t need to read my mind
. He wanted me just as much as I wanted him. He slowly walked towards me and grabbed my face with his strong callous hands.

He traced my bottom lip with his thumb. He was looking at my mouth in wonder.
  “We don’t have to do this.” He says.

“I want to; I wanted this one good memory of us, if this was all I could have. Then I would take it.”

I looked at his mouth and he smirked. “I am going to kiss you now Veronica.”

“Okay and I am going to kiss you back.” I whispered the reply. His mouth came crashing down on mine. Our tongues danced to our favorite forbidden song that only our hearts knew the words to. He tasted of the mint and ash that I had smelled before. It was weird but I guess it couldn’t get any weirder since I was kissing a man who transformed into a dragon.

I started to move backwards towards my bed. He had one hand on the back of my neck his other hand slowly made it’s descent down my chest. He started to caress the side of my breast never actually touching my nipple, and it was the most erotic thing I had ever experienced. I let out a moan in protest and I knew he was savoring the moment. He smiled against my mouth and I slowly bit his bottom lip, not causing much pain, but he must have enjoyed it enough because he growled.

We both went tumbling backwards on the bed and he fell on top of me and I laughed. I had my hands in his hair tugging his mouth towards me again. I could feel his hardness between my thighs. His jeans were rubbing against my core and I was slowly burning up from the inside out, this was where I was meant to be.

“Take off your clothes Ronnie.” I took off my shirt within a few seconds, and he pulled off my jeans. I was left in nothing but black string bikini underwear.

Feeling bashful, I tried to cover up my breast with my hands. I looked up at him. He started to unzip his jeans, and I noticed that he had no underwear on. He freed himself from his jeans, and let me tell you, this man was huge.

He looked at me with a smirk on his face. “I will be gentle; you don’t have to worry about that.” He slowly removed my hands from my chest and he looked at me, really looked at me. For a quick second his eyes turned from red to blue, and the slit was gone, and then it came back to his normal ruby red dragon eyes. I think I had just imagined it so I didn’t think anything more of it. “You are the most beautiful creature I have ever seen Ronnie.”  

He started kissing my neck, and slowly made his way down to my breast. While devouring each with his tongue he used his hand to play elsewhere as he pulled my panties to the side and inserted a digit into my slick core. I was completely open and ready for him, and he knew it. As he lowered his face down between my thighs his nostrils flared and I bet he smelled my arousal. “You smell incredible Ronnie.” He says then licked his lips.

I wanted this man’s mouth on me so bad I arched my back and brought myself up into his mouth. He ripped my underwear off with his hand to get it out of the way. After he was done tasting me he got up and was inside me before I could even catch my breath.  We moaned at the same time and then we made love. Our bodies became one. Slick with sweat our movements became faster. We were both so close to reaching paradise that I closed my eyes. “Don’t close your eyes; I want to see into your soul while you reach ecstasy.” So I opened them for him.

Looking at my reflection in his dragon eyes while he pushed himself in and out of me was something that would stay with me for the rest of my life. It was so intimate and when we both had reached climax. Just before he dropped on
top of me after he was done, I saw his eyes had changed to blue again. I grabbed his face for closer inspection. “Oh my God Liam, your eyes. They are human eyes.” He got up really fast tripping over the clothes he left on the floor, leaving me empty and for a moment my body missed him being inside.

I quickly grabbed the blanket from the bed and covered myself up. He ran straight to the light switch and flicked it on, then ran back to the mirror. “Holy shit!” He looked at me, then back at the mirror.

I knew right there in that moment our time was slowly coming to an end. “Wow, they are extremely beautiful Liam. Human suits you.” I winked at him and he came back to the lay beside me. He put his face in my neck, inhaling my scent in.

“I wish I could stay with you Ronnie, I really do. My eyes turned completely human because I finally know what it is to love. You made this black dragon finally feel something. Soon I’ll have to go, but for now, this night I want to make love to you again.” My eyes started to tear as I shook my head up and down and agreed with him. For tonight I wanted to make sure I had him all for myself.

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