I cursed as I broke our kiss, my eyes widening as I looked at the blue and red flames which had consumed not only her flesh, but mine as well, this fire between us catching light and claiming everything around us just like we were claiming each other.
Roxy rolled her hips again and a Dragon’s roar escaped me as the burn between us ran through my veins making every single point of contact between us buzz with a pleasure unlike anything I’d ever known.
Her wings spread wide at her back, the fire gilding them so beautifully that I could only stare at this stunning creature and marvel at my luck for making her mine.
Roxy moaned as she rode up and down the length of my cock and I thrust up into her, staring at her as she cried out for every drive of my cock inside her and I felt the gold coins melting beneath us with the power of our flames.
The red and blue fire was interspersed with the gold of my Dragon and there was something so captivating in the way it coated her flesh that it was all I could do to stare at her and try to make this moment between us last and last eternally.
But of course, my body could no sooner hold off her destruction than I could stop the days from passing us by and as I continued to fuck her deep and slow, I knew I was closing in on my end.
I pushed up to kiss her again, the tears burned away by the fire now so that all I could taste on her lips was the desire and love I felt just as keenly for her.
I gripped her ass and rolled us over, pinning her wings beneath her as I hooked her leg over my arm and drove my cock in just right to make her gasp my name for me as I found that perfect spot inside her body and delivered her all the pleasure that I could manage.
Roxy’s lips found mine once more as I drove my hips down on her, keeping up that slow torment as I kissed her deeply, my tongue dancing with hers as I thrust into her one more time and she came for me so beautifully that I had no choice but to join her in her climax.
I kissed her hard as I came inside her, filling her with my seed and marking her as mine as her pussy pulsed around me and the flames between us finally died out.
We fell panting onto the bed which still dripped molten gold to the floor, and I couldn’t even find it in me to care about my destroyed treasure as I wound my arms around her and held her so tightly that I could almost convince myself I would never have to let go.
“Marry me, Roxy,” I said, knowing it was unfair of me to ask but doing it all the same. Because there were a lot of things I wasn’t going to get to do with my life now but I didn’t want to miss out on that.
“Stay with me, Darius,” she replied, asking me to do the one thing I was almost certain I couldn’t. But if there was any way in which I could, then I’d do it for her.
“If I can then I will,” I replied honestly, hating that I couldn’t swear it any more definitely than that.
“Then I’ll marry you,” she replied. “No bullshit. Just us.”
“Really?” I asked, my chest swelling with the idea of that, of her being mine in such an unmovable way.
“Really.”
***
I woke in the arms of the woman I loved with melted treasure coating the bed and sticking us to the damn mattress.
Roxy groaned as she woke too, one of her legs also stuck in the now solidified gold though the rest of her body had been draped over mine, so she’d escaped the worst of it.
I wasn’t really sure where to start with trying to fix it, but she just rolled her eyes at me when I made a comment about it as she lifted her hand, using her earth magic to take control of the metal and force it all back into the form it had taken before we’d managed to turn it into a molten gloop. She tossed the coins and jewellery back into the treasure chest beside the bed with a flick of her wrist then got out of bed before I could stop her.
“We need to plan our attack on your father today,” she said, moving across the room and opening the wardrobe, flicking through her clothes aggressively.
“We do,” I agreed, trailing her movements with my eyes and trying not to focus on how many more mornings we had left before the stars came to collect their debt. Because I knew they would. I could make as many vows as I liked and fight as hard as I was capable of, but in the end I saw no real way out of this fate for us, despite how much I wished there could be.
“So we need to hurry.” She took the long, golden dress she’d worn back from The Palace of Flames out of the wardrobe and dressed in it while I continued to watch her. “I’m pretty sure you shouldn’t be looking at me, dude.”
“I’m not your dude,” I growled irritably. “And why shouldn’t I be looking at you?”