Her breath caught, her entire body freezing as her thighs clamped instinctively around him.
What…?
She blinked down at him, her lips still tingling, her body still shivering.
But before her brain could form a single word—
His lower body shifted.
Beneath her, she felt the unmistakable ripple of muscle. Flesh turned to smooth, thick scales.
A massive, serpentine tail began to coil beneath them.
The moment it registered—what she was sitting on, what had just happened—Thalina's entire body lit up like wildfire. Her face flushed so hard it felt like her blood had turned to molten lava.
She didn't move. She didn't breathe.
She was straddling a beast. A full beast. A huge, coiled serpent was now beneath her thighs, pulsing with ancient power—and something else that had no business pressing against her the way it was.
Her mouth parted, but no words came. Only breathy pants from the kiss that still lingered on her lips.
This beast!
