Chapter 63

Shaun
He was tired of this ping ponging back and forth between the king and his beta. It had been this way for the last four days since Ethan had issued the gamma challenge. He didn’t understand what the problem was. So what the boy thought he was in love with the queen? In his opinion having the three strongest people in the kingdom be more than willing to give their lives for the queen without hesitation meant she would never be in danger. It wasn’t like she couldn’t protect herself. Aiden was just tripping. They were all friends and now they were divided, because of this. Maybe if it was his mate, he would understand it differently.
‘Sherri,’ Daemion murmured in his head. ‘I want to go home.’
He sighed. Now that she was on his mind, he knew he would be useless to the council for the rest of the day. He tried to keep his thoughts away from his beautiful mate who was still unconscious. It was going on almost 5 days and he was going crazy. He never thought her stubbornness and smartass mouth would have had the effect on him that it did. Kalani gave him a cookie last night when he had got home and it had caused his heart to break when all she did was smile and say goodnight. His Sherri would have waited for him to take a bite of the sweet treat and a swig of milk, before grinning and flirting. She would have something stupid like ‘I’ll give you my cookie if you give me your cream’ or ‘I have another cookie you can eat’ and then winked. His mind would have immediately gone to having her under him, screaming his name while he-
“SHAUN!,” Aiden yelled.
He shook his head. “Yeah, Aiden?”
“CONTROL YOURSELF WILL YOU! WE’RE VOTING AND YOUR FUCKING THINKING GODDESS KNOWS WHAT INSTEAD OF FOCUSING!”
“Sorry. Thought you and Greg were still fighting.”
“We don’t fight.”
“Sire, may I speak freely?”
“If it’ll help you do your job, go ahead.”
Shaun sighed. “Look, Sire. Greg was right to help Ethan. Corbius freed the girl that had abused your mate and his. You being upset that he won over someone who was responsible for the worst heartbreak your mate has ever felt is stupid. Why put out the watch if you didn’t intend to kill him? Ethan did it for you and he did it legally. This has to stop. I’m so fucking stressed right now. I don’t know what Queen Kalani did to Sherri. All I know is that she is burning up and I haven’t seen her beautiful blue eyes in 5 days. I miss her attitude and I miss her feistiness. I miss her yelling at me. I miss her smiling at me and I miss waking up next to her watching me like a stalker. I just miss her. I am having a really hard time and this discord between us is making it worse.”
Aiden just eyed him for a minute, thinking, before he sighed.
“Okay, look. I am not happy that Ethan is here to stay. I know I’m being selfish, but this is about our queen. She’s not just mine. She is all of our queen.” He stood up. “And I think that we need a break. Go be with your mates for a few days. I need to be with mine. Shaun, you may be excused until Sherri wakes up.”
He got up and walked out of the room, leaving everybody staring after him in shock. Well, shit, if he was dismissed he was out. He leapt to his feet, saluted the other men and dashed out of the room before the king could change his mind. He hurried down the hall towards the council members' wing on the other side of the castle. He drew in a breath and the cherry vanilla aroma that filled his nose stopped him in his tracks.
‘Mate,’ Daemion said excited and alert.
He followed it into the library, walking past row after row of books. The familiar smell of his mate’s arousal made him walk faster. Was Sherri really in the library? Why didn’t anybody tell him she was awake? He inhaled again and Daemion growled in pleasure as her scent got closer. He rounded the corner and froze. She sat at a table hidden away from everyone else. Her hand was between her legs and her head was buried in her arm on the table. Her head snapped up.
“Shaun!,” she purred.
“Sherri?”
She gave a little laugh. “Thalia.”
“Who are you?”
‘Thalia,’ Daemion moaned. ‘She smells so good.’
She turned her head to look at him, her iridescent white eyes running over his body. “I am Thalia. I have been deemed worthy by the Secunda Regina.” She licked her lips. “We couldn’t find you when we woke up. We wanted you.”
He took a step closer. “Who’s we?”
She blinked and her white eyes had switched back to the blue ones he had fallen in love with. She blinked again and her eyes were back white. She stood up to face him. She sauntered over to him and started sliding herself over him. Her arousal grew and he groaned when his cock started to get hard.
“How are you feeling?,” he ground out.
“Like we want to fuck you.”
He swallowed hard, trying to keep his arousal in check. She had just woke up and he had to make sure she was ok fir- Her hand went down his pants to rub his cock. His mind went blank as he pushed against her hand, helplessly. He had missed her touch so much. His hand went around her throat and he tilted her head up to kiss her. He slid his tongue into her mouth, before kissing over her cheek to her ear.
“Kalani gave me a cookie yesterday…”
She began to undo his pants. “Mhmm.. and?”
His hands reached for her pants, pushing them down over her hips.
“All I could think of was you making one of your stupid jokes.” He lifted her up to set her on the table. “And I finally was able to think of a comeback to your comments.”
He sank to the floor in front of her while she watched him with hazy eyes. She ran her hand over the top of his head.
“Are you going to tell me or are you going to make me guess?”
He kissed her thigh, before biting into it. She jumped and a moan was ripped from her throat. He licked at her bite.
“What would you have said if you had given me some oreos?”
“I would have said ‘let’s go make a vanilla oreo. I have the cookies, all I need is your cream’.”
He chuckled quietly as he spread her legs wider. He trailed his fingers up her leg, pausing right before he touched her wet pussy.
“I would have said, ‘to get the cookie you must eat the cookie and you must eat it well.’” He smirked up at her. “And trust me when I say, I’m starving. Haven’t eaten your cookie in days.”
He pushed three fingers into her pussy and she clenched around them. He started sucking on her clit. Her back arched as he tilted her hips forward to allow himself to devour her like a starving man at a buffet. His fingers kept moving inside of her. She draped her legs around his neck, curling one around it to hold him close to her as she ground against his face. She let her head fall back.
“SHAUN! FUCK ME!,” she screamed.
He pulled away from her and stood up. He stroked his cock once and yanked her off the table. She uttered a small cry of surprise when he shoved her back down onto it. He forced her legs open to rub his cock along her folds.
“Thalia, answer me something.”
“Anything, just keep doing that,” she panted.
He rubbed it along her pussy again, before letting his tip slip inside of her.
“What are you?”
“A dragon.”
He wound her hair around his hand and jerked her head back as he slammed into her. Her nails raked over the table.
“YES!,” her voice echoed all around the library.
He pulled her hair back more and slid all the way out of her. “Bring Sherri back, Thalia.”
She tried to push back on him and he growled.
“Bring her back,” he ordered.
“FUCK!”
As soon as he felt the shift in her, he started pounding into her rapidly. He bit into her shoulder and she tightened around his cock, screaming again. Her juices ran down his cock and dripped down his balls. She pushed back against him, forcing him deeper.
“AND WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU THINK YOU’RE DOING?”
Shaun looked over his shoulder, but kept thrusting into his mate. Aiden stood there, his face red while Sasha was trying her best not to laugh. She began to tug on the king.
“Come on. You can yell at him later about being in our section.” Aiden let her begin to lead him away. “Good to see you awake, Sher.”
Shaun pulled out of her and flipped her over. He tore her shirt open and used a shifted talon to cut through her bra. He thrust back into her as his hand went around her neck again, squeezing. He lowered his head to capture a hard nipple in his mouth. Daemion breathed out and her skin heated. She wrapped her legs around his waist and arched her back, pushing her breast deeper into his mouth.
“SHAUN!”
He pulled back to look into her eyes. “Mine!”
Daemion blew fire over her mark and she jerked, her body spasming around his. She lifted her hand and he was amazed to see the glowing purple scales and talons on her hand. She tore into his face and torso with them and fire erupted from her mouth to burn along the gashes. It eased and pleasure replaced the pain. He squeezed her throat harder as he kissed her roughly, biting her lips. He pulled her down as he slid into her so deep, he hit the back of her pussy. He rocked her hips, making his tip rub along the nerves there. She clenched around him again and he let his cream fill her. He stared down at her, a smile playing around his lips. He slowly exited her body. She collapsed on the table, panting.
“What’s so funny?”
He brushed her hair back and kissed her shoulder.
“You know the average pack of oreos has 36 cookies in it and the family size has 48. You smell like you're in heat, so I think we should make a family size pack.”
She giggled. “Does this mean you’re taking me home to make more cookies?”
He nodded, smirking as he picked her up. “Mhmm and I’m going to double stuff each one.”