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for freedom from your shirt. I can hear

    your blood rushing through you. I can smell your desire for me. I can feel your increased heat.” His tongue rested against the bottom of his top teeth for a moment, and he closed his eyes. He sighed. “Yes… I can taste your need. You’re wet. Very wet for me. All of my senses are flooded by you. I know you want me. All you need to do is say yes.”
    How fair was that?
    She crossed her arms over her chest and tucked her trembling fingers beneath the crooks of her elbows. “Explain to me how the mating works,” she said. “I know you think I’m a Dragon mate, and maybe I do have it in my blood, but I don’t want to accidentally chain myself to a man I don’t know.”
    “You will be mine.”
    Her womb contracted, sending a fresh flow of arousal through her folds. “Not unless I choose to be,” she countered, though at the moment, her body was ready to scream ‘yes, take me’.
    Janos shoved his hands into his pockets, and she got the impression he did it to keep from reaching for her. “Mating,” he said slowly on a pained sigh. “It’s a process. We need to have sex.”
    “You and every other man between fifteen and ninety—”
    He growled. “No. We . You will not touch another. You’re mine.” He pulled a hand from his pocket and drove it through his hair. It fisted in the back and he turned away as if thinking and keeping himself calm. “ We will mate. We will have sex, and once I have made you pregnant, I will change you. Once I do, you will be safe. And forever mine.”
    She wasn’t so sure safe and his actually went together. Several other parts of his short explanation stuck out in her mind. “Pregnant?” she started with.
    “Once you’ve changed, you cannot get pregnant. Your body will be impervious. You must be pregnant first then you must be changed immediately afterward to protect you from our children as they grow inside you.”
    Okay…so that gave new reasons for condoms use, though having his children seemed to arouse her further. Did he exude some sort of Dragon pheromone to drive her insane?
    “And the change?”
    “You’ve already had so much to take in.”
    “Tell me!”
    Janos regarded her with a look of resignation, and Scarlett knew she wasn’t going to like what she heard. “Dragons aren’t originally from this dimension, but this is the one most hospitable to us on a long-term basis. In our home dimension, a plant called the Salauret

    provided essential nutrients to us. It won’t grow here.”
    “And?” She had no idea what this had to do with mating, and his reticence about sharing worried her.
    “We must take blood to survive.”
    “Take blood?” Scarlett echoed, her voice rising slightly. She took a deep breath and swallowed back her reaction. She would not panic.
    “Yes. Once a month, though some partake more often with their willing feeders. It’s very…sexual. Much of the vampire lore stems from us, I’m afraid.”
    She skirted the bed, edging away from him. “You’re Dragons…and vampires?”
    “Just Dragons. There are no vampires. There are no victims. Only those willing to supply our blood. Now at least. We don’t have bloodlust, except from time to time for our own mates, and our feeders live posh, pampered lives. You don’t have to be afraid. I won’t take your blood without your permission.”
    “What does this have to do with mating?” Despite her arousal, which hadn’t abated with this new information, the thought of mating didn’t hold a lot of appeal. Knowing what she did of vampire lore, she had a feeling she knew what was coming when he explained
    ‘change’.
    “To unite, we will stand before our people. I will take your blood then, when I’ve felt your heart begin to wane, you will take my blood and I will feed you until you regain strength. We will lose ourselves in one another and you will be filled with my Dragon blood. It will protect you from all enemies and nourish our