STORY EXCERPT

Frederico just looked around until his eyes fell on Kelley, and then they halted. Their gazes locked. Both men stood perfectly still as they stared at each other.

When Frederico finally snapped out of it, he walked toward Kelley. When he stood no more than two feet away, Frederico looked down upon his mate for the first time. He slowly began to smile.

“Hello. You have no idea how long I have looked for you,” Frederico whispered. The king’s dragon begged to be let out. It wanted to claim their mate before the beautiful young woman got away, but the man in him forced the unruly beast to behave.

“You are as I dreamed you, stunning.”

Kelley’s eyes got big. He couldn’t move. He could hardly breathe. This was the man in his dreams? Holy shit. It couldn’t be, could it? He just stood there staring at the king, speechless for the first time in his life. It occurred to Kelley everyone was looking at them. When the king leaned down and inhaled deeply, slowly, Kelley didn’t care about anything at the moment but the man before him.

Frederico couldn’t believe what he was seeing. “You’re human, my love? How delightful. You are too tempting for words. Will you do me the honor of accompanying me?” Frederico asked as his voice became impossibly lower. Both his human and dragon sides were in shock. His dragon should have been roaring in his ears, bellowing smoke and trumpeting at the top of his lungs, “Mate!” But the usually unruly beast simply sat, staring at their mate in amazement, after 819 years. Here before them stood their mate. Finally. Frederico didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. The king would have dropped to his knees grabbing her, holding on for dear life. Worshipping her for all to see. He didn’t however feel that would make a good impression on his mate. So he simply held out his hand for her to take. “What is your name, little one?” Frederico inquired.

“Kelley Taylor-Jordan, enormous one,” Kelley said with a smirk.

King Frederico raised an eyebrow at the comment but decided to let it slide. Just this once. “I am Frederico Domenic Tomas Dillon Dragonovic. Please, call me Frederico or darling. Sweetheart?” The king smiled as he said it.

When their hands met, Frederico looked at the intertwined fingers and knew he had just come home. Never again would he be lonely. He had found his mate. He wanted to shout it from the rooftops. Fly through the air roaring, breathing fire, and announcing to the world he had found his mate! The king just couldn’t get over it as his heart and soul rejoiced.

As the king escorted Kelley into Saber’s home, he felt monarch butterflies flutter in his stomach. The other men of the ranch frowned and looked confused, shocked, and generally baffled at what had just taken place. Even the king’s bodyguards were looking at each other bewildered.

Saber felt conflicted. His father had just found his mate? Kelly Taylor-Jordan was now his father-in-law? Oh my Gods. It couldn’t be, could it? No. No way. Of all the people in the world for his father to mate, Kelley? Kelley, whose temper rivaled that of his father’s own legendary wrath? Strong-willed, hard-headed, stubborn Kelley? His father was so screwed!

Then a horrible realization began to creep over Saber. Saber’s world tilted to the left. He must have looked like it, too, as his mate, Ty, asked if he was all right. No, he was not all right.

King Frederico had many times over the years spoken with his son about mates and such. There was always one recurring theme his father knew absolutely down to his bones. His mate was female! Oh shit! How in the hell was Saber going to tell his king and father, he had just found his very male mate, especially in-your-face, completely flamboyant, gay man Kelley? As he shook his head, Saber knew he was so screwed!

The family and its newest member spent the rest of the day chatting and just enjoying each other’s company as they visited and played with the twins. Everyone retired early, as it had been a long day and Saber had a lot of thinking to do.

The next morning, Saber made the supreme effort to tactfully advise his father that Kelley was in fact a man.

ADULT EXCERPT

Kelley unbuttoned his shirt and undid the cuffs with his head down, looking up through his lashes at the king, all the while swaying his hips.

He danced over to the bed and slid very slowly and erotically across it, where Frederico lay watching. Just as his mate grabbed for him, he lifted from the bed and walked across the room, still swaying his hips.

He undid the band from his hair, letting it fall wild around his shoulders and back. The pants fell to the floor, and Kelley stepped out of them, turned toward his mate, and walked back toward the bed with his cock swaying to the beat of unheard music, agonizingly slow. Kelley knew was driving Frederico out of his mind. By now the king was positively panting!

Frederico never had someone perform for him so playfully yet so erotic. The king found this not only exciting but a little illicit, which turned him even more.

Just before he reached the bed, Kelley turned and let his shirt fall from his shoulders. When he heard the king hiss, he turned. “Something wrong?”

“In all honesty? I did not know how I would react to you being male. The dreams never prepared me for that. Your body was always a bit fuzzy. Now I know why. It simply never occurred to me. I see now that you are just as stunning as a man.”

Kelley smiled then went looking for that giant bottle of lube and to freshen up. When he walked back into the room, Frederico was looking at him strangely.

“You have a dragon on your shoulder. When did you get that, may I ask?”

Kelley had forgotten it was there. “When I was eighteen. I just thought a royal-blue dragon with green eyes was beautiful.”

“Thank you.”

Kelley looked at him, and his eyes got big. “You are not serious. You shift into a royal-blue dragon with emerald-green eyes? There is no way.”

“I’ll show you sometime. But not now. I intend to be busy.”

Frederico reached out, and this time Kelley came to him. He stood so close to his mate. His hard erection was leaving kisses of pre-cum all over the king’s chest. Frederico gently took hold of the hard silk and examined it. “What a beautiful cock you have. It is smaller than mine, but perfect just the same.” With that having been said, he slid his tongue experimentally under the head and followed the vein running down. He took the tip into his mouth and hummed with satisfaction. For someone who had never touched another man, Frederico had a smokin’ hot mouth! He proceeded to suck Kelley like a pro, swirling his tongue, ever so gently biting him here and there. Kelley began to moan with abandon.

Ahh, Frederico thought, he had always wanted a noisy lover. Someone who would let him know how he was making his partner feel. Kelley was delightfully loud.

“King, baby, you keep that up, honey, and you’re gonna get a surprise!” Kelley yelled. When the king just started humming again, the vibration and a tug to his balls sent Kelley right over the edge. “Oh Gods, please, please, please! Yes, baby!” Kelley screamed, jerking with every pulse of pearly cum shooting from him. The king sucked him down, licking and cleaning the sensitive flesh.

When he finally let his mouth slide from Kelley, Frederico laid him down on the bed. “You taste so good. Sweet like melons! How wonderful. I am new to this, so you will have to tell me when I do something incorrectly. I do not wish to hurt you, my beloved, but I am going to claim you. Is that agreeable to you? Please, Kelley, just this once comply with my wishes. My dragon and I need to bond with you.”

Kelley turned over on his stomach. “With that enormous third leg you’re packin’, I think this would be best for our first time together,” he said as he slid pillows under his hips. “Are you going to bite me?”

“Yes, my mate. I will bite you there, releasing my mating serum. I am told it is a painful and most pleasurable experience all at the same time.” Frederico touched Kelley on the spot between his shoulder and neck, smiling.

“Always remember lots of lube, baby. Put it on your fingers and then insert one at a time, wiggling and stretching me as much as you can, and watch those nails.” Kelley looked at Frederico’s cock once more then looked back up at him, saying, “Don’t forget the lube, and you want to end up with at least four fingers!”

Frederico was a fast learner, Kelley decided. He slid in one finger at a time, wiggling them around and getting used to the sensation of stretching his lover. “I like this. I find touching you this way to be both erotic and most enjoyable,” the king said as he inserted a fourth finger. When he accidently grazed Kelley’s prostate, Kelley went wild.

“Oh yeah, I forgot to tell you about the sweet spot. Do that again, and I’ll let you fuck me good and hard. Okay, baby?” Kelley looked around at Frederico, panting with that sly grin again.

Frederico was beginning to really like Kelley’s grin!

“All right, I’m going to try to enter you. Will that be to your liking?” the king asked.

“Just do it, don’t make it so damn clinical,” Kelley said, rolling his eyes.

Frederico smiled broadly while lining himself up. He took a deep breath and slowly pushed the huge head of his cock against the little pink star until the head suddenly popped through Kelley’s guardian muscles. “Ohh, oh yeah. Keep going, for Gods’ sake. Don’t stop now!” Kelley moaned with a decidedly unmanly voice. “Keep going!” he screamed as his toes curled.

The king was very good at following orders. By the time Kelley finished giving instructions and encouraging Frederico, he was at last fully seated inside Kelley.