CHAPTER NINE
BRADLEY ENDLESS
It was not the first time, nor the last time, that I had kissed Adelaide March. But it was the most important, for she had seen the truth about me, and not run. Even after everything she was still there, kissing me, by The Lovers Tree on the moors.
The Lovers Tree was a single tree on the moors between our properties. There, young lovers used to meet to elope to Scotland for quickie weddings. There was a legend in Dale that if you kissed by the tree, your marriage would be blessed.
I had made a deal with a goddess to make it, so Adelaide March could love me, and now I hoped that with the trees blessing our love would last. That this was our start.
But then, quite suddenly, as we embraced in our kiss, she pulled away, looking like a dear caught in the head lights. “Oh god. Oh god. Oh god!”
“Cairaid, the only time I want you to be saying that is if were making love, which were not right now. What’s happened?” My dragon retreated back, and my face went normal, since I was worried that he was scaring me.
“I have a boyfriend!” she blurted.
I frowned. This was no secret to me. I did know about Danny Boyle. He was a nice enough guy, from the village. They had gotten together when she was sixteen, and I had watched the whole thing in abject horror. But, because of the enchantment on the estate, I hadn’t been able to do anything about it.
“Oh please, please, tell me that you aren’t going to be giving me up for him.”
“No but….” She paused, as if she had truly realized the horror of what she had just done. Something I didn’t want her to do. “He’s in the Royal Air force. He’s going to be coming back from his last mission soon…. oh god.”
“Please don’t hate me,” I whispered.
“I don’t hate you,” she whispered, “I don’t…. I don’t think I can do that, and that is even after all of the secretiveness. But Bradley, I…I can’t be with you. Not right now. I…I have a million questions, but I cannot be with you.”
I sighed and ran through my hands through my blond hair. “I’ll wait, Adelaide. I’ll wait. If it takes a day, a week, centuries…. I’ll wait.”
Tears were streaming down her face as she cried softly. “I don’t know that I’m worth centuries.”
“I do,” I replied, “I most definitely do. But Adelaide, let me give you one thing, please. One thing, before you decide what you are going to do.”
She wiped her tears away. “What?”
“Let me with you, when you’ll remember it,” I told her.
It was her turn to grab my face this time, to kiss me with her full force. Then, she dropped her jacket to the floor, and slowly began unbuttoning the pink, flannel pajamas that she wore. Goddess, there was no one more perfect than Adelaide March. She stripped down to nothing, in the dark, in the middle of the moor.
My dragon leapt inside me, pleased with what was happening. I could picture my dragon’s tongue, licking in between the crevices of her thighs, flickering in between the center of her breasts, trailing down her stomach….
I took off my shirt, revealing myself. I was still partly covered in green scales, but once more, Adelaide surprised me. She did not cower, did not pull away, or run in fear. Instead, she reached her hand out to trace the scales lovingly, as if they were the most precious things in the world to her.
“Let me give you something,” she whispered, “take off your pants.”
I did, tossing them to the side. I stood in front of her, totally nude, waiting for her to make her move. Then, she knelt before me in the grass, took my length in her hands, then in her mouth. She sucked, and licked, and stroked, and there on the moor Adelaide March made me come undone.
My dragon let out a roar, one that echoed through the night sky, scaring the birds in the nearby tree. My wings came out, showing their appreciation for everything that Adelaide was so expertly doing with her mouth.
When she pulled away, it was to look at me in awe.
She got up, to stare at the wings. She walked around me, slowly, examining them for herself. “f*****g beautiful,” she whispered, as she stroked their leathery backs tentatively, lovingly.
I tensed at her touch, my heart beating against my chest, and the smoke came from my nostrils as it happened to do when I breathed heavily. I was half man, half beast, something that would have frightened anyone else away.
But Adelaide wasn’t anyone. She was my soulmate, my heart. The only thing I wanted to live for. The only thing I needed to live for.
As she stroked the bone structure of my right wing, I was overcome with the heat, unable to handle it any longer. I turned, around, grabbed her quickly, toppling her and me to the ground. “Cairaid, you’re driving me mad,” I murmured, “let me love you when you’ll remember it. Just once now.”
She blushed, and nodded, still so innocent after all of these years. I trailed kisses down her chest, all the way down to her cunt, and there, I kissed her. I did not come up, letting my dragon tongue out, snake like almost in its nature it flickered softly against her skin. She arched up on the grass against my touch, soft whimpers and whines coming from her. “Bradley….”
I pulled up, not yet done, putting one finger inside of her. “Feel my heat, Cairaid. Feel it.” I made her wet with desire, a moan escaping her, her leg moving up and down in motion with me. “I’ll make you feel nice, my love. I’ll make you remember. I’ll make you fight for this, my Dragon Queen. My Dragon Heart.”
I took my fingers out, then, I was inside of her. I stretched my wings out, shielding us from the view of any would be strangers out for a late-night walk. There was only her, my wings, and the fire that glowed between us long into the early hours of the morning.