A Pet for the Dragons

24.

IVRET

"Why do you call me Ivy? My name is Ivret," I asked her. Her words captivated me. It triggered some old things I'd been suppressing for so long. It took me a moment to realize that it was after ages when I heard genuine praise about me.

I'd been caught up in fulfilling people's expectations of me for most of my life. I had forgotten what it felt like to be myself... to be seen as a dragon instead of Silge Healer, who was always supposed to know everything. For a second, it felt like I didn't have the pressure to prove anything. It was a freeing feeling, making me realize what I'd been caught up in for a long time.

I gulped down this bitter realization and focused on the human female before me. She looked at me as if I was the most fascinating dragon she'd ever seen, which made me feel even more drawn to her. I was beyond obsessed with her, and there was no denying or hiding that. I doubted if it could even be hidden.

I knew this could be a trap because she was our prisoner and still owed us the computers, but I couldn't care less about those things now. Even if this was all fake, I was glad someone saw me for the first time. I could work with this.

"Ivy is cute... Ivy is mine," she said, and I wasn't expecting this. Her words surprised me for a moment before something blazed intensely inside me. She'd awakened something long asleep inside me. Her words specifically caught the attention of my dragon.

A female had claimed me as hers. If I was hers, then she was mine. This was how it worked for us. The realization that she'd claimed me reminded me of my intense longing-the longing for a female to call mine, to care for her and be with her. I tried ignoring it for a long time, but it never worked.

All my long-time wishes seemed to have finally been answered. Even though she wasn't a dragon, she was fierce, brave and intelligent. She was an exceptional human female, this Arika, and she claimed me.

Now, I needed to complete the claiming process with her. The thought injected me with an overwhelming desire... but it was unlike anything I'd ever felt before. I had a pleasure mate while I was serving at the Cardinal House, and I was familiar with the passions of the flesh, but this was much more intense, more profound, and not limited to only flesh.

I could feel it deep down- even my dragon acknowledged it, nudging me to complete the claiming process so it'd be clear to Radrox and, especially, Zorge that we had claimed each other.

Suddenly, it all made sense. I must've been the biggest scaggermosh* to have missed it while I was in the study with her- while she offered me food for the first time! It was one of the ways to show that one was interested in claiming! She'd been trying to claim me then! How could I've been so blind to have not noticed it?

That's why she left my study back then! She got frustrated with me for not noticing her attempts at claiming me. I'd been too aloof to her attempts. I was more focused on my damned grill to pay attention to her- to really see her, but I saw her now. I saw everything, and now it was my turn to show it to her.

I rose from the tub while she watched me with a hint of confusion and shock. But she soon smiled at me with acknowledgement as I started to take my clothes off. Her bright blue eyes were wide as she watched me take off my drenched furs individually. She watched me with a fascination that had been there while she'd been sitting on my lap in my study.

I should've seen it then and acknowledged it then, but I didn't because I had doubts. But now, it was all out and in the clear.

I tugged my trousers down, finally freeing my throbbing cock for her to see as I discarded my wet furs outside the tub. When I turned to see her, she watched me with wide eyes. It was as if she couldn't believe her eyes as she stared at my cock.