Dragon's Fire [PUP Squad Alpha 3] (Siren Publishing Ménage Everlasting) Read Free Page B

lot of time around humans these past few years. It’s a reaction I’ve come to expect.”
    “Well I still apologize. We’ve been living together for nearly a month. You’ve been nothing but polite and friendly, and you certainly didn’t deserve such a knee-jerk response.”
    He smiled that charming, genuine smile that made the hero in her current read seem rather dull by comparison. “Now that we have the awkwardness out of the way, is there anything you’d like to ask me?”
    “Does it hurt when you light the burner with flames from your mouth?”
    He laughed, the sound hearty and very appealing. “You saw that, huh? Bet you thought you were seeing things.”
    She shrugged slightly. “After seeing that kid disappear into thin air, being able to breathe fire just seemed kind of normal.” She couldn’t quite explain it. It was as if she knew these things existed but had forgotten them somehow. It didn’t make any sense in her head, yet she couldn’t rationalize it away.
    But then she remembered the answer to her first question. Heated embarrassment flooded her face, and she felt an intense need to apologize for her physical reaction to the e-books she’d been reading. Good grief, was this what it felt like for a man when he was caught with a raging hard-on?
    “Ah, I see the information about my sense of smell finally sank in.” He leaned over, cupped her face in his incredibly warm hand, and pressed a soft kiss to her lips. “No need to be embarrassed, sweetheart. Just tell me you’re not reading seventeenth-century poetry.”
    She laughed, her embarrassment fleeing in the light of his humor. “No, rather more modern stories I’m afraid. The type I wouldn’t want my students to know I read.”
    “Ah,” he said, smiling as if he knew the exact type of story she referred to. “Got any ménages in that reader-thingy?”
    She almost swallowed her tongue at his bold question, and couldn’t help imagining herself between Brody and Nathan. Ava attempted to rationalize away the unexpected attraction to both of her protectors, but try as she may she couldn’t come up with replacements. Even knowing that Brody was a dragon-shifter hadn’t seemed to have lessened her attraction to the man.
    He groaned and lifted her onto his lap. She snuggled into his embrace and tried not to moan out loud at the delicious feeling of his hard cock pressed against her bottom. Good grief. She’d been celibate since her last disastrous relationship had ended nearly two years ago, but it seemed her libido was roaring back to life thanks to a combination of proximity, boredom, and fear. She wasn’t silly enough to mistake it as love. Infatuation, most likely, but not love. Maybe she was also feeling the need to reaffirm life. She was being hunted by a serial killer after all.
    But none of her rationalizing prepared her for Brody’s passionate kiss. He threaded his fingers into her hair, tilting her head to the angle he wanted, and then thrust his tongue into her mouth, exploring and caressing the dark recess as his other hand roamed over her spine and lower.
    She was practically vibrating with need by the time he pulled away. He laughed softly, the sound not his usual hearty laugh, but this time almost mocking, almost insulting. She wanted to bristle with annoyance, but he pulled her head against his chest and wrapped her tightly in his embrace.
    “The things you do to me, sweet Ava. I shouldn’t have done that, but I’m sitting here trying to talk myself out of doing it again.”
    “Why shouldn‘t you do it again?” Ava blushed at her straightforward question. She’d swear that she used to own a modicum of tact, but it seemed to have fled. “I mean…I liked it, so I wouldn’t, you know, mind if you…um…did it again.” She wanted to roll her eyes at her poorly delivered words. For heaven’s sake, she was supposed to be an English teacher. If that was the best she could do, maybe she should reconsider her chosen