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He laughed, “And elves. It's just beautiful to me.”

“I feel the same way. I have an elf father, shifter fathers and wizard fathers, and all are perfect in their own way.”

“I knew you had more than two parents, but just how many do you have?”

“Six,” I replied with a fond smile. “And you’ll get to meet all of them soon.”

He swallowed nervously, but I just hummed happily against his throat, my hand stroking his thigh. “I love you,” I whispered, needing to say it again without my cock inside of him.

He turned his head and kissed me. It was intimate and soft. “My lion,” he whispered against my lips. “I love you, too.”

My heart felt fuller than ever before as I held my mate in my arms, his butt firmly placed on my lap where he belonged, with hot water lapping comfortably around our middles.

Chapter 13

Once the two hours were up, we were transported to our own rooms. We’d spent most of the time talking and lazily stroking one another through a few more orgasms (it was good being a dragon shifter). We met up for lunch and spent it alone while the others were off doing their own thing. It had been nice just eating with my mate for once, even if I loved having my family around. After we’d eaten, we decided to shift to our bunnies outside and jumped around excitedly as we chased one another. Damon was just so adorable in his bunny form that I had to shift back and snuggle with him, much to his obvious pleasure. He’d napped in my lap while I just spoke about random things from my childhood, my hand stroking his soft fur as he relaxed and enjoyed my attention on him. I had no idea how much he’d heard or if I’d mostly spoken to myself. It didn’t matter. It felt good just to ramble as I relived the most memorable things from my past.

Something hit my forehead and I was forced out of my lovely daydream. “Ryn,” Nym said, sounding amused. I looked down at the table at the torn off piece of bread that my dear cousin had thrown at me. We were eating dinner and finally had everyone gathered once again. Most of them had won the hot springs like us and had been to similar caves. Nazuss had gotten a massage for two hours and had decided to wait on his haircut until he knew who his mate was. He clearly wanted to look nice for him. Nazuss had also won a date for him and his mate and a few other things he didn’t want to tell us about. “Ryn,” Nym repeated, waving a hand in front of my face.

“What?!” I snapped, angry to have my lovely moment of peace so rudely interrupted.

Nym just shook his head at me with a soft smile. “I asked you if you were looking forward to tonight?”

“Oh,” I said, blinking a little, then smiled when I gazed at Damon, who sat right next to me like always, one hand on my thigh so we were always touching. “I am,” I said, not even looking at Nym as Damon’s lilac eyes gleamed with happiness. Our time together had done wonders for us and I felt closer to my mate now that I knew more about him. I’d shared a lot myself, especially what I envisioned for our future. I wanted to live at the palace with my family, but with an actual job when I returned. Damon seemed pleased that we would have something to do and that we would be able to work together. I knew dragon shifters were worth their weight in gold as guards, roaming over our kingdom to make sure it was safe, I wouldn’t mind doing that with Damon once or twice a week to help out.

“I think we’ve eaten enough now, don’t you?” Damon said, his eyes shining with amusement.

“You’re absolutely right,” I grinned, taking his hand.

“You think your room is ready?” Nym asked, looking ready to grab Harpy over his shoulder and march to their room.

“Why wouldn’t it be? We can always return to our rooms after dinner. I thought the same thing would happen with this shared room,” I said, lacing my fingers with Damon’s.

“We’re definitely going to see if we’re right,” Damon said, tugging me along. The others were right behind us, all following their own guiding light to share a night with their fated. All except for Nazuss, who waved at us with a sad smile on his lips. He would get his mate soon. I could feel it. Myve and Hans were with him now, so at least he wasn’t alone.

Damon led us up the stairs, and so far, he was following my light perfectly. When he turned to the right where my room lay to the left, I felt relieved. We were going somewhere new.

We ascended yet another staircase and found ourselves led to a room with double doors. Damon opened it, and inside was a spacious room that looked like something out of my palace. It was luxurious and held a huge bed in the middle with bed posts that had white see-through fabric over it. The window beside the bed framed the most amazing view over the forest and an open door to our left led into a bathroom. A private bathroom.

“I can’t believe we have this for ourselves until breakfast tomorrow,” I gushed, running for the huge bed.

Damon laughed and joined me, both of us sighing as the soft covers pulled us further down. “Our first night together,” he whispered as we both stared up at the ceiling.

“First of many.” My mate then turned and placed a soft kiss on my cheek. “It’ll be harder sleeping without you after this.”

I laughed softly at that. “I was thinking the same thing. Soon, I’ll know what it feels like to sleep with you in my arms, only to go back to my snoring roommate.”

A teasing growl escaped my mate. “You better not be holding your roommate when he sleeps.” I grinned as he attacked my neck with kisses, placing his hard body on top of mine.

“I wouldn’t dream of it,” I breathed, angling my neck to give him more access to it.

He hummed against my skin. “Are you up for being claimed tonight, baby?”

“Fuck, yes,” I groaned, tugging his robe off. I loved to be claimed by my mate and even though I preferred to claim him, there was just something so primal about Damon when his dragon needed to fuck me. I was something precious to him and he couldn’t stand not staking his claim. “I want marks after this,” I demanded. “I want every student to see just how taken I am.”

Damon growled, clearly very into the idea as he robbed me of my clothes, shedding his own hurriedly. We fell together on the bed, naked and eager. And as soon as I was prepped with the oil they’d so lovingly provided for us, I was on all fours and panting for my mate’s cock.

“Yessss,” Damon rasped as his cock breached me, hitting my inner walls like nothing else ever would.