Fire Me Up_Dragon Romance

  Fire Me Up

  Dragon Romance

  ♥ Amy Faye ♥

  Published by Heartthrob Publishing

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  The look in Alex's eyes made Diana shiver. She could feel her eyes threatening to roll back up into her head, just from the weight of that look. She wanted nothing more than to sit there in a subservient puddle on the ground. But he wouldn't accept that and she wasn't going to give it to him and try to hope.

  No, she wanted to challenge him, wanted to overwhelm him, wanted to throw him off his balance the way that he had thrown her off of her own. And she wanted to suck his cock, because... come on, right? The most power and dominance she would ever have in the relationship was when she was between his knees and he wanted nothing more than for her to never ever stop.

  She had his pants off in a hurry, forcing herself to move perhaps more quickly than she would have felt comfortable with, in the post-orgasmic haze that had overtaken her mind, but it would all be worth it when she had him eating out of her hand. When he needed nothing so much as for her to keep doing what she was doing. The way that she had been made to feel.

  His pants caught on the way down his hips, the fabric stretching slightly to accommodate the cock that seemed to sit at just the wrong angle and catch like a hook on the waist of his pants. And then, as she pulled down his underwear along with the trousers, it sprung out and faced her.

  It was big, and longer than she'd expected. Perhaps five inches around, as thick as her wrist, and long enough that she severely doubted her ability to take the whole thing in her mouth. Diana wasn't about to back down from a challenge, though, particularly not when she was high on the smell of sex and arousal and the feeling of his eyes on her as she moved to take his hard cock into her mouth.

  "God, someone's excited," she said, looking up at him as she wrapped a hand most of the way around his length, giving it an experimental pump. The purple head showed more and more as his uncut foreskin pulled away and down the hard shaft.

  "You've got a mouth that's good for many things, Diana, I'm sure. But right now, I'm only interested in one of them, and it's not your opinion."

  She shivered at the brazenness of the comment, at the way that he seemed so at ease with the notion that her opinion, her very humanity, didn't matter more than in passing. She knew one thing that did matter to him, though, and she knew full well that she had the ability to deprive him of it any time she wanted.

  She pumped his shaft again, enjoying the feeling of it twitching in her hands, and craned her neck forward, her mouth open wide, until the fat head threatened to fill her mouth. But she was very careful about one thing: it never touched her.

  She could feel him twitch again in her hand with every hot breath that she let out on his manhood, but a moment later she pulled away, denying herself the chance to taste him. She could feel the sigh of disappointment coming out of him, a sigh that sounded remarkably like victory to her ears.

  And then she felt him dig his fingers into her hair and pull her mouth onto him, and she let him do it in spite of herself. In spite of her better interests, in spite of the control that she wanted to take from him. Control she knew that she couldn't have, no matter how much she wanted it. Control she knew she didn't want bad enough to take it from him.

  His cock filled her mouth, the silky feel of his flesh on her tongue a pleasant sensation, the taste of it a mix of salt and sex. She relaxed her mouth and let him guide her, and he fucked her face like that until the sensation and the building arousal started to come to a head and her hands started to toy with her pussy as he used her for his own pleasure.

  Her body felt practically numb, over-stimulated, but the need was still there, overwhelming her so much that there wasn't much to her any more but the desire to please him and the need to cum, and an inexplicable belief that one would lead to the other.

  Alex's cock filled her throat, his fingers digging into her scalp, forcing her to take it deeper, forcing more of it in, and her throat relaxed to allow it until she could feel him pressing past the back of her mouth, her nose coming dangerously close to the carefully-trimmed patch of hair at the base of his cock.

  Her fingers moved in a flurry, trying to get any and all the stimulation for her pussy that she could possibly claim, and still it wasn't enough. She let out a frustrated moan, stifled by the fullness of her mouth and her throat, and redoubled her efforts to suck him off. Hoping desperately that all she had to do was please him enough and he would take her all the way, send her a second time into that cascade of arousal that made her lose her sense of self, lose even the most basic control of her body.

  He let out a long, low groan of pleasure, his cock stuffed into her throat, choking the air out of her. She needed to breathe, but that was the last thing on her mind. The less air in her head, the more she got that high sensation back, her mind blank and full of pleasure. Her clit hurt, but she needed to cum again, and she was more than willing to abuse herself to get it.

  There was a sound somewhere above her, and she realized that it was Alex. He groaned and spasmed and stiffened and as her body started to threaten to shut off anything that wasn't essential for life-support, she felt him shoot a rope of thick cum down her throat, deep enough that it bypassed her sense of taste entirely, except for a vague, heady smell of sex and feeling that she'd done a good job.

  He pulled his cock out of her throat and she took in an unsteady breath, her vision blacking out entirely and her body slipping down to the ground. She was happy there. Satisfied. Her body felt good, the orgasm that she'd been craving finally finding her in the stupor of asphyxiation. She wanted it, she needed it, and by God, she had it.

  Strong arms wrapped around her and lifted her up off the ground, and when she started to come back around to consciousness a minute later she wasn't totally surprised to find her nude body curled up in Alex's lap. She fit in surprisingly well against him, her body molding itself to fit his.

  "Good girl," he said. It gave her a sickly pleasure that she wasn't sure how she was supposed to feel about. She knew exactly how she did feel about it, though, and it was more than a little bit humiliating to think how much it pleased her.

  "You liked that?"

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  1

  With the grisly death of her father, Diana Kramer had a lot on her plate. There had already been calls from all her professors, telling her that she didn't have to come in. There had been calls from her boss, telling her that she did, but it would be fine to take a day or two. There had already been calls from Dad's agent, as well, offering his sincerest consolations.

  There was a hint in Jeremy's voice that she had other things to talk to him about, as well, but whatever they were, Jeremy wasn't saying, and Diana wasn't ready to have any particular conversation about her father's work.

  He'd been an artist his whole life, and like most artists, he'd made about enough to get by. Unlike most of them, he spent most of that life avoiding sucking up to the sort of people who pay big dollar sums for art. Most people were mediocre artists, but good salesmen. If you lived the lifestyle well enough, nobody would bother to question how good the art was.

  People bought art for all sorts of reasons. Most people, they buy it because there's an empty space on their wall where something ought to be, so they fill it with a photo of the New York City skyline, or a reproduction Monet or Van Gogh. Big names, or obvious pictures. There was nothing wrong with that, as far as Diana was concerned.

  Dad seemed to think differently abo
ut it. Then again, he seemed to think differently about quite a number of things, given that he lived most of his life away from other people. Diana had gotten used to it, but the minute that there was a chance to leave, she did.

  Diana had always dreamed of the sort of places that people on the internet talked about, places where there were thousands of people running around at any given time, and it wasn't a four-mile trek to go see the nearest house. She had run to them and now it was looking like there were fewer and fewer reasons to ever go back.

  The ranger's service assured her that there were people looking into her father's death, which she supposed was good enough. It had to be good enough. She wasn't a cop, and she didn't know anything about cops. She knew that they looked pretty good in uniform, in spite of her best knowledge. They came dangerously close to being in trouble on a regular basis. Those were things everyone knew, though.

  The other thing she knew was that they came to know how crime scenes were 'supposed' to look, and that they had seemed very upset when she went to identify the body. There wasn't much to identify, if she were really being honest.

  After all, in order to identify a body you had to be able to see the face, at least a little, Diana supposed. That, or some identifying clothing, or something. But he had shirts, same as anyone. They tended towards heavy-weight clothes designed for hiking and backpacking, because that was the sort of thing that Dad did when he wasn't painting. The truth was, he spent most of his time not painting.

  It was something that no doubt disturbed and surprised people, because when you're a painter, you're supposed to be a certain way. You're supposed to be prone to flights of fancy, and tend towards girlishness. You're supposed to be an artistic type, highly emotional, and so on.

  Dad was never any of those things, either. He was just who he was, and nothing more. He was tall, and if anything he was like Hemingway, terse and masculine and hard to approach from any of the usual directions except as himself.

  Diana didn't bother to wonder whether or not that had played a role in his self-imposed exile from artistic society, leaving Jeremy to sell off what he could. She knew better than that, too. He was most at home by himself, and prone to long bouts of silence. She hated it when she was young, when her energy would build itself up into a fury that she couldn't begin to dissipate without some help from her father.

  That same father would shrug and tell her to go walk around the mountain to find something for herself to do. There was always something to see up there, he told her, and at least on that one subject, he was right. There was always something on the mountain. Fallen trees she'd never seen before. New birds, or the same birds in new situations.

  Every trip she'd taken had been worthwhile, though it didn't exactly hurt that she was stuck on the mountain and the only thing she had to amuse herself was an hour of internet browsing a day, and the mountain's face.

  Now, years apart, she was looking down at a closed casket with a picture of Dad when he was younger. He couldn't have been any older than when she was born when the photo was taken; he was alongside Jeremy and Mom, and wore a tuxedo and held a drink, surrounded by people. It must have been one of the most uncomfortable moments of his life, surrounded by his paintings and people looking at them.

  If he were alive now, this would qualify on that list as well, as he'd been put on display for another day, a few paintings borrowed from private collectors adorning the walls. He would have hated that. There was no need to put anything on the walls, except to fill the space to balance the room.

  But the paintings had been part of him, too, even if she had never seen any of it in him. Even if he'd denied it vehemently to the end, said that it was just a practical skill he'd developed. The fact that he had taken the time to develop that skill told her everything that she needed to know. There was something more to the paintings, more to her father, than he was willing to let on.

  Diana let out a breath and looked around. A half-dozen people milled around the room, at least one of them the funeral director and probably another one or two belonging to his staff. There was money in his paintings; enough money that he'd managed to keep the cabin, without having to do any 'real' work for her entire life. Since the first time she could remember, Jeremy would come up once every two or three months, take anything Dad had done, and he'd cashed the checks for Dad so that everything was taken care of.

  Which made it all that much more odd that Jeremy wasn't among the people here. He had something else to take care of, some important business to attend to that wouldn't wait a minute, and she'd taken that at face value, whether it was smart or not.

  A gust of wind, impossibly loud, whistled through the crack in the windows and made the building creak on its foundations, and it made Diana look around. Very little had changed. People moved around, all of them having already offered their deepest condolences, and they looked like they were avoiding her. She went back into her shell, blocked out the world around her, and let herself not think or feel much of anything, which was all she wanted in the first place.

  A man stepped up to her. She didn't look at him at first, except to notice that he was there. He would tell her that he was sorry for her loss, and try to make small talk, and that would be all.

  "You're Diana, aren't you?"

  She nodded vaguely that she was, already planning on what she was going to do after the conversation was over. Already wondering precisely how she was going to get through the day tomorrow, when the world had to keep moving on but Dad wasn't in it any more.

  "I've looked forward to meeting your father a long time, you know," he said. There was a wistful tone to his voice, one that caught in her ear, but Diana continued not to look up. "It's sad that I was never able to. I always admired his work."

  "Thank you," Diana replied absently. "I'm sure he would have appreciated it."

  That was a lie. Dad had never appreciated any of his admirers. That wasn't entirely true, of course. He appreciated all of them. What he didn't appreciate was the idea that there were any of them out there at all. Instead, he was convinced that it was all a big lie constructed by Jeremy to keep getting worthless paintings.

  "Not likely," the man said. "I don't get the impression that Alvin Kramer ever cared much for fame."

  That did make her look up. He was right, of course, but it rubbed at her the wrong way that he would think to say so. And then she saw him and her breath hitched in her chest, the words failing to materialize. Alex Blume looked like he always had, in all the papers. If anything, the photographs made him look old. She'd always thought that he was her father's age, but the lines on his face didn't give him that impression in person.

  Face to face, he looked like a man who smiled a lot, who had things constantly in hand and never seemed to particularly worry about anything. The impression might have been mistaken but Diana found herself captivated by his chiseled jaw, his refined nose, his sharp eyes. He looked like a hawk of a man, hard and severe and at the same time highly motivated. She had to reassess her original opinion.

  Dad wouldn't have liked to meet him as a fan of the art. He was a fool for being interested at all. There was nothing in it except mechanical skill. That was what Dad would have said, though none of the critics of the art world seemed to see it that way.

  But as a man, Dad would have gotten along with him perfectly. And as a woman, Diana had to admit that she could find things to like about him as well.

  "What makes you say that?"

  Alex smiled down at her. "If he wanted to be famous, then that was always an option for him. He chose to avoid it. What else should I think?"

  She opened her mouth and closed it again. "You're not wrong," she agreed finally. "Though, you couldn't avoid it, could you?"

  Alex's eyes twinkled. His story was famous, published in dozens of different magazines. A man made from nothing at all, who came out of nowhere eight years ago to astound the world with the fast-growing technology company. He'd sold it for a tidy billion dollars, and
then come back for more, with another company that killed his first easily.

  A man with that kind of clout couldn't avoid attention no matter what he did, she knew. There was no way.

  "I wonder about that," he mused. "Still, it really is a shame."

  "Yeah," she agreed. "A shame." She felt empty inside, and that was a shame, too. But hey, she consoled herself. At least she'd met a celebrity.

  2

  It was a long time before Diana was going to get over her father, but at least there was something to do in that time, right?

  She smiled at the thought, the sarcasm rich and deep and running into and through her to fuel every little complaint that she had for the whole day. It would keep her going through the worst jobs, but this wasn't one of them. She was easily discouraged from everything, but it helped on occasion to go through the list of things she was thankful for, and this job was one of them.

  It wasn't her dream career, no. She was hoping, eventually, to curate a museum. But paralegal work wasn't data entry. She had to go through old texts, 'curating' in a completely different way, to build up a solid background for the partners. It was hard work, in that it kept her busy, but in other ways it could have been a lot worse, and she had to be thankful for that.

  At the very least, it kept her mind off of her troubles, which threatened to overwhelm her if anything went wrong.

  And besides that, it wasn't like it was criminal law. Corporate law was something entirely different from that. It was all about figuring out precedents, same as anything else, but it was more Niccolo Machiavelli than Clive Barker, and it suited her just fine. She had been hunting before, had dealt with dead things. Living on a mountain, as far from civilization as you can, will tend to put you in those sorts of situations.

  What it did, aside from that, though, was make her a little less than perfectly comfortable dealing with big societal problems like, oh, murder for example. There was a lot of stuff that Diana was pretty sure that she could handle, but there was a lot that she didn't know, as well. Like drug deals. Where did that even happen? How did it happen, given that drugs were apparently so illegal?