bluest amongst humans but do not compare to mine.”
“Does any of me compare to you?” she asked, running a hand down her side and over the top of her leg. She was trying to be as seductive as possible, winking at Aleksander and leaning forward while simultaneously pushing her shoulders forward. This caused her breasts to hang lower and push together, drawing all of Aleksander’s attention to them. His eyes grew wide as he looked at them while she ran her hands down the front of her now smooth and wet legs.
For the first time she could tell that Aleksander was completely flummoxed by what he was seeing. His face was growing red and his fists were clenched, causing the veins in his forearms to threaten to explode out of his skin. He tried to speak but he stumbled over his words.
“You mentioned I liked your human form,” she said, realizing that for the first time she was in control of the situation with the dragon. “I do enjoy looking at it. You are the perfect man. Do you enjoy what you see in my form?”
“You are human,” he sputtered.
“Your petty dragon problems are of no concern to me,” she said. “It’s obvious you like my body.”
Aleksander stood up, oblivious to what was going on around him. Mara’s eyes grew wide and she tried not to laugh as she looked down to see the front of his robe lifted and draping over what appeared to be a massive erection. It was so long and so thick that his robes hung off it like a sheet thrown over a log.
“Get dressed and get back to work,” he ordered. “I have something to attend to. When your husband returns I will kill him, mark my words.”
Aleksander turned and stomped out of the room, leaving Mara standing alone in the bath. She giggled and finished washing herself. This was too perfect: she had the power to turn the great dragon on and he didn’t know what to do about it. Things were about to change around here for the better.
TAMING THE DRAGON PART 2
Chapter 9
Mara sat up in bed and stretched, expecting to see her fellow maids doing the same thing. However, her eyes fell on empty beds as she glanced around the large bed chamber they all shared.
“Where is everyone?” she asked out loud. “What time is it?”
She could hear clanging coming from another chamber, indicating the maids were hard at work on something else.
“They must have let me sleep in after yesterday’s ordeal,” she muttered, pulling herself out of bed and shaking her long blonde hair out. It was clean for the first time in weeks and it felt absolutely glorious.
As she slipped into her usual brown dress she wondered if the other maids would scold her and chastise her anymore for the events of the day before. She had finally decided she’d had enough of being the dragon Aleksander’s slave and she’d made a run for it. Unfortunately, when a dragon doesn’t want you to leave, there’s not much you can do to escape. Aleksander should have never known she was running for her life, but somehow he had found her not far outside his home.
“He’ll never let me go,” she said, staring at the doorway that led to her usual morning duties of cleaning and preparing for the night’s meal.
As she stared, a devilish smile appeared on her face, one that she just couldn’t wipe away. “He’ll never let me go, but he doesn’t know what to do with me.”
The day before, Aleksander had walked in on her in the bath and had combed her hair out while he talked to her. It was the most gentle and loving thing he had done the entire time they had been together, but it was also the strangest. His heart was encased in ice, much like the icy breath he had used to fight the dragon-slaying knight Val Woodshadow.
She had lied to the dragon and told him she was married to Val, and that had triggered something in him. Was it jealousy? From that point forward he had looked at her differently, not like one of his maids but like an object of desire. His usual calm and collected
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