King Beast - Vicious Flames

Chapter 46

ODETTE POV

AN/ Zerberus is Odette's soulmate, but he pretended to eat her in his dragon form to scare her because she tried to cheat on him (over a misunderstanding). But his dragon, just as the human, adores her and if she dies he dies. So he pretended to eat her.

I lay on the grass, or what used to be grass - now more like a swamp of dragon slime, with no clothes and, once again, no hair.

My soul mate, in his dragon form, had swallowed me whole, roasted me in his throat, and then, only then, decided I wasn't worth the meal, spitting me back into the hell I was living.

No traces of my dear old sister and her mate.

No signs of my mother-in-law either.

He, however, loomed over me, in his human form. Fuming. Mad. Was it because I kissed someone else?

Arms crossed over rippling muscles and blue scales, nightmares danced in his cold eyes and mouth, and his wings flared as if they had a life of their own.

"Mmmh, you smell just like my last meal," he drawled, watching me.

A cloud of smoke billowed around me, and the charred wood and melted rocks reflected the tremendous heat in the air. Trees had exploded like torches or been torn from the ground like matchsticks by the blast of my mate's jealousy.

"You...did...you...swallow...didn't...me..." I fumbled with my words as I noticed the extent of slime covering my body. A freaking dragon almost swallowed me alive.

But then he didn't. "Why?" I asked.

"Why?" he repeated, still in that dazing tone.

"Why didn't I eat you? I mean, me? You, me," I stuttered, but it was hard to speak.

I think I'm in shock. I blinked and swiped my face as some green slime tangled in my eyelashes.

Zerberus took a step forward. "Why didn't I eat you? Well, I don't eat mice like you."

I gaped at him, my body still shaking. I had been in his dragon throat!

"You would give me a bigger stomachache than what you've already given me when you put these..." his clawed thumb dragged harshly over my lower lip, "on someone else's."

The fog around the trees seemed to swirl even more as the sound of the slap echoed.

Zerberus's head snapped to one side as the blow was struck.

How dare he.

My hand stung like a bitch, but I didn't care.

"If you are into pain, rat, all you had to do was ask," his hold on my neck tightened, "but are you sure you can take it?"

I wasn't sure what he meant until he thrusted his hips on me, and I felt his bulge. My eyes widened in realization and a mix of shock and indignation.

"You wanted to scare me because I kissed my sister's mate," I blurted out.

His eyes glittered with malice, and his face split in a vile grin, "So it would seem. Though the purpose of such pointless trickery was a waste of my time. As usual with all you do."

With a scream of frustration and rage, I hurled myself at the lizard bastard, teeth bared, hissing like a reptile, punching, kicking, screaming insults, and all the while weeping like a child. "You cheating scam!"

Zerberus made no real attempt to fight back but instead tried to grab me, only for his grip to fail as my skin slid through his fingers. Covered in spit and drool, I was slippery as an eel.