The Dragon King and His Human Mate

19. Make Her Stay

[Mature Content]

| Vladimir |

I had no idea it'd be such a torture not being able to shift on my human form and go take her in my arms. 

For the first time after so many years, I tried shifting with everything in me, even though I knew it wouldn't work. I had tried doing this everyday in the first few years I was forced to be in this island, hoping one day I'd be able to force my dragon go inside my skin. 

Which of course hadn't worked. 

Yet here I was like a fool trying and hurting myself in the process once again, just so I could go to her. 

And I knew I would be torturing myself more than her with that stupid bet of mine. What was I even thinking? God she walked around and I craved her like nothing on my life before. There was something about Anastasia that made my dragon go wild. And I didn't even know why because he couldn't choose. Our mate was chosen. Our mate was Cordelia. This didn't make any sense anymore but I just knew she had to stay. 

She had to. 

For my sanity. 

She had to choose me. 

Which was selfish as hell in the first place from me but she had to choose me or I would never be able to live with the thought that I had her and then I didn't. That she was here and then she wasn't. That I let her go. 

I wouldn't let her go. Never. Yet in the same time I couldn't hold her a prisoner here. Deep down I knew if that was what she wanted after this month was over, I would have to let her go. But would I be able to? 

No, she couldn't leave. 

Hell she couldn't just come here, play with my already messed up head and then leave. It wasn't fair. 

So I had to win the bet, no matter what it took, I had to. 

"Morning." Her eyes didn't meet mines as she spoke. Her voice softer than usual. Waiting for the morning so I could shift had felt like torture. "I've made some mushroom soup and I have no idea how it's turned out but I bet it sucks, plus I don't take any responsibility if there's any poisoning one inside there but we can have a try, can't we?" She kept rambling while slightly biting her bottom lip out of nervousness, all the while not looking at me. 

I grinned. She was shy; and embarrassed about what had happened yesterday. 

I noticed the blush on her freckled cheeks. 

God she was adorable. 

Right I wouldn't let her go. 

I couldn't. 

"I'm a dragon Anastasia, do you think I eat mushroom soup?" I chuckled and if I thought blush covered her cheeks before, it sure as hell did now. How was I supposed to keep my hands to myself? 

"Did you think I would go out to like, haunt some animals for you, Vladimir?" She furrowed her brows. Here comes feisty Anastasia, replacing the shy one. Which one I loved the most, I couldn't decide. 

I shrugged. "It'd be really nice of you, yes," I said as I saw down to the one thing similar to a coach.

She rolled her eyes.  

"Do that again and I'll take you right here in the table Anastasia." My voice was half whisper half growl. 

She tried keeping a straight face however the shiver that went down her spine didn't go unnoticed. Either the scent of her arousal hitting my nose. For once I was thankful of my shifter heightened senses. Being able to see — almost taste — her body's reaction to me was insane I couldn't get enough. 

"If this is how you plan on making me stay here Vladimir, it isn't working." She tried making her voice sound cold yet failed miserably. I couldn't help but chuckle, loving how she tried fighting her attraction to me. 

"Isn't it?" I raised a brow. "I think I'm being pretty successful." 

"Believe me you aren't." 

When she thought she had me I slipped an arm around her waist and put her on my lap. A surprised scream escaped her lips. "What are you doing?" 

"Proving you otherwise?" I stroked her cheek with my fingers lightly, feeling her body shiver like it was freezing Oh teasing her had suddenly become my new favorite thing. "You aren't making a great job at pretending I don't affect you, Anastasia," I whispered in her ear. "Don't you think it's time for you to accept it? That you've never wanted someone like you want me? That you won't ever want someone like you want me, even if you decide to leave?" 

"Vladimir." 

"No." I titled her head with my hand and brushed my lips over hers. "No you want me Anastasia. So much." She tried capturing my lips with hers but I pushed my head back, watching as she narrowed her beautiful hazel eyes at me. "See? All you're wishing right now is for me to kiss you. Suck the life out of your beautiful lips. Do you think there's gonna be someone else that'll kiss you like I do?"

"You know you're an arrogant jerk, don't you?" However she didn't try to move away. She couldn't.

"I know." I shrugged. "But I also know that I'm saying the truth. Would you be able to push me away," I ran my fingers on her inner thighs, but didn't touch her where she wanted me to, "if I do what I did yesterday?" Her will power not to jerk her hips to meet my fingers was entirely amusing. "If I touched you right now Anastasia, would you tell me to stop?" I kept brushing her neck with my lips, teasing her, making her squirm under my simplest touches. "Or would you ride my fingers until you came on my hand and then see me as I lick them clean?"

"Please."

"Please what?"

"Please touch me." I felt myself harden further. Her eyes closed as she ran her fingers in my big bare chest. "Please Vladimir just touch me."

I grinned. My ego busting as my dragon fought on my skin to be let free and claim what he called already his. "You're begging me and it's already day two, Anastasia." I chuckled as she cursed under her breath.

"Please." This time it was the brushing of my fingertips that got her begging.

"Say you'll stay." I sucked on the spot under her ear, a moan escaping her lips. "Say you'll stay and I'll give you whatever you want."

I knew right now she was so built up she could say anything just so I could touch her.

However she seemed to still have a bit of self control left. Just a bit. Which was going to change real quick. "You won't convince me like this." Yet her breathing was hard, her eyes pleading.

I forced my lips on hers in a a possessive kiss, demanding to enter her mouth. Which she let me in a split second. "Then I'll convince you like this." Another kiss. "Or like this." I moved my lips on her neck as she ran her hands through my long hair. I knew she loved doing that. "You wanna go back to him? To your fiancé?" My voice turned a bit inhuman at the thought that she was promised to someone else.

She was f*****g mine.

Mine.

"No Vladimir." Her fingers curled on my hair as she started thrusting her lower half on mine. "I told you I don't want him like that—"

"Yet you wanna go back to him." My teeth bit her n****e lightly as my finger played with the other one. "You know if you go back you'll have to marry him, right?" Even as I said those words I wanted to rip the wizard apart. Whoever he was. "Do you wanna marry him?"

She shook her head. "No no I don't."

I lifted her up, with one hand throwing the pathetic bowls of soup off the table, and with the other placing her above it.

The view making me even harder, as if it was even possible.

She was perfect like that. Spread up for me.

She was always perfect, actually.

A gasp escaped her lips as she saw my human eyes switch to my lizard ones. A sign of my dragon being almost in control. It hadn't happened in forever. She was the only thing that could make me snap like that.

I had my lips only some inches away from her bare p***y.

God she was beautiful.

"Vladimir."

"I swear to god Anastasia if he ever touches you I'm gonna rip his skin alive." I thought she was going to pull away, terrified, but by the way her pleading eyes bored into mine I could tell being dominated was her biggest turn on. "No one touches you but me. Only me."

I gave her a lick and she cried out instantly.

I could tell she was going to come in no time.

In my mouth.

And it was only day two. 

Yes I was going to make her stay. Definitely I was going to make her stay.