Total pages in book: 78
Estimated words: 75457 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 377(@200wpm)___ 302(@250wpm)___ 252(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 75457 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 377(@200wpm)___ 302(@250wpm)___ 252(@300wpm)
Klynn’s yawns were distracting him and breaking up my bedtime story, but I was getting the gist of it.
“So the king ordered a new castle built. It…it would protect the people and…and save them from the world being torn apart.” Every word got harder for Klynn and I knew we’d have to come back to this story when he was more awake, but for the time being it was doing a wonderful job at putting him to sleep.
“He tried…he tried to warn…someone…but he moved his people into the special castle and kept…he kept them safe.” Another jaw-cracking yawn had Klynn slipping closer to oblivion, but he wasn’t quite done yet. “His dragon…he kept them safe and…and then the new world…it…it started…”
And he was out.
I was pretty sure I could be frustrated if my bedtime story stopped on a cliffhanger.
It didn’t stop me from following him, though, but it seemed to push my imagination in odd directions because as I woke up, I remembered dreaming about explosions and earthquakes and it’d felt like the world was ending.
None of that mattered when I woke up to a very quiet and very still Klynn.
Was he panicking?
Overthinking?
Wondering what to make me for breakfast?
I wiggled and pretended to stretch to make it obvious that it was awake, but that didn’t prompt any response from him.
So I sighed.
“I’m not going to overthink this or start to worry because you told me that I don’t need to do it constantly. You even reminded me that you know your colors and you’ll tell me if we run into a problem.” Ha.
That got an adorably human-sounding sigh from him.
Clearly parents here didn’t use nearly enough guilt.
“I think I need to reread the book about the Daddy who uses language carefully to get his way.” Finally lifting his head from where it’d been using my chest as a pillow, he was nearly frowning. “I think that was what the other dragons would call cheating.”
Yep.
“You told me that I don’t need to worry, though.” Shrugging, I made sure to look innocent and slightly confused. “So I wasn’t going to worry. I was going to steal a kiss.”
I kept it innocent and pecked his cheek but that got an actual frown from him. “I’m not little.”
So?
Oh.
“The cheek kiss?” When he gave a decisive nod, I realized how it might’ve been portrayed in his books. “I was thinking how cute you were and that I wanted to make you less stressed. So I was aiming to look cute too.”
His expression was back to being fairly blank but I could almost hear the wheels turning in his head. “I will admit to believing that you find little me cute. I’m not sure I like it, but I have seen it repeatedly mentioned in my stories.”
He was wonderfully fucking cute no matter what he was doing.
“Yes, I find little you cute for a variety of reasons, but even when you’re regular Klynn, I find you cute.” Taking a chance, I rolled him over so I had him pinned against the bed. He was still glaring at me in a neutral way, but I was pretty sure he was smiling inside. “I have to remind myself that kissing you in public and telling you that you’re adorable when you glare at people isn’t appropriate.”
He sighed.
That was cute too.
“Humans are very strange.” He seemed to have accepted that because he frowned again. “I am aware of what humans call morning breath and I will let you kiss my cheeks at times where it is good manners.”
Because he had good manners and followed the rules.
“Thank you, but I will brave morning breath for you any day.” I was going to remember his clear distinction between little and grown-up, though. “And before I show you how brave I am, I’m going to remind you that you know your safewords.”
Yep.
He nodded.
There were little words and big words.
“Yes, I know my safewords and we both understand how important they are.”
He was insane.
I loved it.
So to make that clear, I slowly inched down and brushed my lips against his, nibbling and licking until I’d made it obvious…and I made how sexy I found him obvious too.
Chapter 17
Klynn
“You are scheduled for far too many meetings with the same people.” Was there any logic in his schedule? “Why are you meeting with the food people three times in two days?”
My mate shrugged as he glanced down at our version of what he would call a tablet. “Yesterday they wanted to talk about something related to our diets but they got distracted on fast food and it got completely off track. So I assumed we were going to try again to have the original discussion?”
“You need to guard your time as a dragon would.” Or a mage who thought very highly of themselves.
“You’re going to lecture me again if I point out that I’m here to answer questions, aren’t you?” His question indicated that I nod to make my opinion clear but it got a smile from him.