Beautiful Torture *Book Two of the Beautiful series*

24) Waking Up

*Sexual Content. Readers be advised.*

Hunter was snoring softly in a chair from the far corner, earning a cold look from Alexander, who had yet to truly fall asleep since the visit from Rickton. He did not trust the monk, not when he had a feeling he had been the one to attack his flame. His scent was always muddled with others, and Lucy had yet to waken, so he had no definite proof.

Looking back down at his queen, he placed a hand over her stomach, which had more shape to it than when they had laid together last at the twin's castle. He knew human children did not develop this quickly, yet a female dragon would be nearly half-way to laying her egg. Their son was growing somewhere in the middle. Akeso had only confirmed this when he brought it up, although there was something she clearly was leaving unsaid.

Sighing, he stood, stretching his arms above his head. Under his skin, he could feel the skin of his dragon coiling dangerously, not having been out for three days. Although it was the first time it had been locked up for this long, it also was not bursting forth because Lucy was always right next to him. And he would not risk harming his flame.

He had left her side twice to relieve his bladder, which he would have to do soon once more. Walking over to where the familiar slept, he softly kicked the leg of the chair, "Wake up." At the order, Hunter's eyes fluttered open, grumbling softly about missing a bed. But if one was offered, he would have denied it, like the dragon, refusing to leave her side for too long.

"What?" He groaned only once he had looked around to check on Lucy. Rubbing his eyes, he stretched his legs out as he slumped further into the seat, crossing his arms over his chest and letting his head fall to the side. Alexander kicked the chair again, a little harder this time, causing the cat to topple sideways to the floor. Jumping up immediately, he glared at the king, "What is your fucking problem?"

When he opened his mouth to give a sharp retort, he was cut off by the most wonderful sound in the world. "My king?" Both men froze, Alexander closed his eyes, as if that beautiful sound had somehow been a nasty trick.

Hunter looking away first, being the one facing the table. The smile that fitted his cat-like features stretched from ear to ear. His eyes welled up with moisture, which he blinked away. "Thank the gods," he breathed for the first time in his life. He darted forward, bumping Alexander's arm which his shoulder.

Still keeping his back to that side of the room, he was actually scared to turn around. Was this a dream? Would she still be laying there unconscious when he looked? He could not bear anything but her mint green eyes staring back at him.

"Alexander?" There it was again, his eyes opened. He turned, finding Hunter helping Lucy sit up. Her gaze was already on him before he met it with his own.

She smiled at him, like she had not just woken up from being unconscious for three days. Like she had not been assaulted in the bath chamber. No, she smiled at him like she could not have been happier to see anything in her entire life. "This is real? Am I truly back?"

Alexander rushed forward just as she slid from the table, meeting her in the middle. His hands captured her face as he leaned forward and slammed his lips to hers. He knew he should not have been so ruff, since she was just waking up, but he could not control himself anymore than he was in that second. Her arms wound up his chest and around his neck, stretching up on her toes to kiss him back just as hard. Nothing felt more necessary in that moment than kissing her dragon king, the man she loved.

They were so wrapped up in each other that they missed Hunter excusing himself to give them privacy as he went to find Akeso. The door closed behind him as Xander reached down, lifting her back up so she was sitting on the edge of the exam table. Her burlap gown kept her legs from opening wide enough for him to step forward.

A frustrated growl grumbled in his chest, not liking the small amount of distance between them. Forcing her legs wider caused the seam to burst open, as he stepped closer to her. Her blossoming chest pressed tightly against his as his hands began roaming over the cloth at her back and around her hips.

Lucy whined when he broke away, allowing his queen to breath as he assaulted her face with kisses. When she tried recapturing his lips, he was forced to hold her head still so he could place his forehead to hers. "Do not ever leave me like that again," his demand drew her eyes to his as he pulled back to look down at her.

The fire burning brightly in his eyes scorched her, setting her a blaze with a flame only he could extinguish. "I promise," she breathed, reaching up to cup his own cheek, "Never again." He looked back and forth between her piercing gaze before kissing her again, with a high sense of desperation.

Fumbling between them, Lucy pulled his shirt up to reach the tie of his trousers. Alexander reached down to stop her, pulling away for a second time, earning a whimper from his Flame. "Luciana, you have been unconscious for three days, the doctor needs to look you over first."

This time it was Lucy who growled, shoving his hand away, undoing his bottoms. Looking up at him through her dark lashes, she used her other hand to grab the hand that had tried to stop her. Pulling it forward, she moved to grab his wrist as she guided his fingers to the apex of her thighs.

He sucked in a breath when he was met with the damp cloth of her undergarment. "What I need is to feel you inside of me," she breathed as she pushed down the waist of his pants, freeing his hardening cock.

Finding it impossible to say no, Xander gripped the thin fabric, yanking his arm back and tearing it from her. He started to reach for her again, but she had already guided the head of his erection to her slick entrance. Wrapping her legs around his hips, Lucy pulled him in, forcing his girth to stretch her tunnel.

Alexander cursed under his breath as he pulled her hips closer to the edge of the table, allowing himself to sink as far into her as he could. He gripped her outer thighs holding her still so he could pull back, making her cry out in protest. Trying to hold him in with her grip around his own waist, he did not allow her to control him this time, taking complete control as he rammed back into her.

Lucy slapped one hand over her mouth to keep from screaming out, leaning back on her other one, she let her head fall back as she was flooded with pleasure. Smacking her first hand down to the table to give her move balance while Xander jerked her back and forth, matching the rhythm of his thrusting.

"She is awake, I saw it myself," the sound of Hunter's voice reached the dragon king's ear just before the familiar twisted the door handle. Pulling himself free from Luciana, he turned just as the door swung open, tucking his wet rock hard cock back into his trousers. "For the love of the gods you two," he swore, closing the door just as quickly as he had opened it. "Do you have no self restraint at all?"