Chapter 5 : Sexy Savior

*Ember*

My attackers hadn't gotten very far after trying to pull me around, jostling me, and bruising me. I really wished I hadn't listened to that voice that seemed to be calling from the cave. It must have been them playing some kind of trick to get me to come close. But what the hell was going on?

I managed to scoot myself off to the side of the cave as the new figure dealt with the hooded men. I saw his dark hair flow around him as he beat and yelled at them. I strained to hear his words but didn't register anything in English. I wondered what could possibly be going on with this strange occurrence.

I thought back to Nola and how she warned me that this cave had been off-limits. The shimmering orb or whatever it was those men had come through was extremely odd. In all my dragon lore, I had come across what was called portals. This couldn't be that though. That was impossible. I was just at some old ancient castle.

I winced feeling the bruises on my body starting to form from them trying to pull me around.

I watched as my savior seemed to banish them back through the portal and it closed behind them. It was like everything I had read in my books, non-fiction and fiction. I couldn't help but wonder what Rowena would think of this when I told her.

Holy shit. He was like a god, he looked so hot as he turned toward me with concern filling his eyes like a rush of water filling a creek. I tried not to let my jaw drop to the floor as I looked him up and down forgetting what had just happened.

This man was absolutely beautiful. He wore black jeans with a navy blue button-down shirt, with barely a wrinkle on the shirt. He knew how to dress and get my attention that was for sure.

"Are you all right?" he asked me in a soft grumble that sounded familiar. Coming up close he held his arms out toward me to help me stand up.

"Um," I barely uttered and licked my lips. I was going to have to do better than that and answer his questions with words. "I, uh, yes. I am all right. Thank you for saving me… I don't know where those guys came from."

"We won't worry about them right now," he said, gently picking me up from the ground and unbinding my hands. "They must have been planning to abduct you. You are all bruised up."

As I stood, shooting pain permeated throughout my ankle and I grimaced taking a short breath in through my teeth. "Oof, that smarts."

He worriedly looked me up and down and asked, "It's your ankle isn't it?"

Before I could respond he picked me up like I didn't weigh a thing. "Wait, wait, hang on, I can hop out of here there's no need for you to carry me!"

"Like hell, you are not doing that. I can carry you," he answered me gruffly, his smoky breath wafting over my face as the glow of his eyes seemed to mesmerize me. His arms were strong and secure. His body was firm and warm. For some reason, I had the feeling that I knew him. Why did he seem so familiar to me?

I couldn't quite place a finger on it, but as he carried me out of the cave and into the light, his face was illuminated by the sunshine and I clenched my thighs together feeling turned on and a bit confused at the same time.

He was DracoK4u!

"You! You’re DracoK4u!" I was grateful that he had saved me from the attackers. He may have even potentially saved my life because I really had no idea what those men wanted. But why was he here and how had he found me?

"The one and only," he gave me a small grin as he carried me toward the doors. "I'll explain more later, but right now we need to make sure you are all right."

Walking into the castle, this gorgeous man greeted Nola as she held the door open for us.

"Oh thank goodness, you are all right! What happened?" She asked, looking at me as we passed her.

"I, uh, don't really know. I came across some bad dudes?" was the only answer I could muster and winced at my choice of words. I sounded like an idiot. And I was one for not listening to her warning about the cave being off-limits.

"I'm just glad you are okay," Nola began fluttering around us worriedly.

"Nola, call for a doctor please, she hurt her ankle. I'll take her up to her room," my internet friend said as he effortlessly began ascending the stairs that led to my suite of rooms.

"Yes sir, right away," Nola answered, sputtering off down a hallway at the drop of his hat. Who was he to make her hurry like that? Most likely someone important in the food chain.

I felt confused and worried as he brought me to my room and set me down on the couch in the living room. I took a deep breath in, trying to ignore the pain in my ankle. Who was DracoK4u?

"Here," he said, grabbing a pillow off the couch and setting it on the coffee table. "Elevate your leg so you can rest your ankle here. I read that it helps leg and ankle injuries."

I couldn't help but stare at him in awe and wonder.

"I saw you try to stop your attackers with your hands. Why are they gloved?" he questioned me looking at my hands in my lap and he reached toward them as if he wanted to touch them.

Instinctively, I pulled my gloves taut against my hands worried I would hurt him. "I, uh, don't really know. All I know is that my hands glow and I have the potential to hurt people with them. I never want to do that again. These attackers though, people are always trying to kill me. I've had to run from people like them my whole life."

I bit my lip wincing at the words that had just fallen out of my mouth. I had never opened up to someone as fast as I just had with this strange man I had first met virtually. He made me feel like I could tell him anything, even my darkest secrets.

He stared at me as I finished speaking as if he was hanging onto every word I had said. It seemed like I had his full attention when I spoke. In my lonely life, I wasn't used to being treated this way by anyone.

"So perhaps they are coming after you because you stand a threat to them?" he asked, scratching his head with a perplexed look.

"Uh, I'm not very threatening," I shrugged feeling confused. Where had he gotten that idea?

"I'd say you can be threatening if you want to be," he winked at me. Okay, that was obvious, right? He had to be flirting.

I had no idea what to say to him next, this was the longest I had ever spoken with someone of the caliber he had. I didn't even know his real name.

His eyes swept over my body looking at the bruises on my legs. "Those must hurt."

Before I could respond, he knelt down beside me on the floor beginning to kiss the bruises on my legs one by one. He began trailing upwards and kissed the bruises on my arms. Oh shit. He was turning me on, and he was kissing my body!

I inhaled sharply as his mouth came just a few inches from mine. I was speechless once again, was he going to kiss me? I licked my lips in preparation, like a silly schoolgirl. I broke eye contact when I felt him tugging at my gloved hands again.

"Wait, what are you doing? I don't want to hurt you, I need to keep these on," I explained as I pulled away from him. He looked confused and began to open his mouth with a questioning look.

Suddenly the door opened before he could respond. A doctor came in and examined me and my bruises, declaring I just had a mild strain on my ankle. I was glad to hear it wouldn't take very long to heal but I was told to rest up and take pain medicine for a few nights to sleep comfortably. I breathed a huge sigh of relief as the doctor bid me farewell.

As the doctor spoke off to the side with the man who had just kissed me up and down all over my limbs and bruises, I realized something as I poked at one of the bruises; they didn't hurt anymore! How could this be? They were black and blue all over my body and hurt badly before his lips touched my skin. What had he done?

I spun around to look at him after the door shut behind the doctor.

"Okay, what are you? Your kisses must have made my pain go away… There's something more to you," I said as I narrowed my eyes at him. “I saw your eyes glow and… smoke. You were breathing smoke.”

He shuffled his feet as he looked over at me with an intense expression, "Well… my name is Kieran. Kieran Dzianis, known to the world as the heir to the Dzianis fortune. But really…" he paused, allowing his eyes to glow as he watched me. I sat up on the couch reacting to him revealing who he was. "I am actually a dragon."

"What?" I scoffed in disbelief thinking this was all just one big joke to get me to bring my walls down brick by brick. How could this be? "You look very human to me."

"I may look human because I have some very powerful magic suppressing my dragon right now," he said looking at me with his eyes burning bright and extremely mesmerizing.

It felt like something was trying to take over my mind, I could feel the heat rush over my face.

That was odd…

He continued speaking slowly, drawing out all of the vowels in his words. "If you stay with me in the castle, I can protect you from your would-be attackers. I could keep you safe. In exchange, I'd ask that you help extend my lineage. I need an heir to secure my bloodline. I'd like you to help me with this."

I froze staring into his eyes.

“What?”

I couldn't believe what I was hearing. First of all a real live dragon shifter was in front of me, standing there having kissed away my pain telling me that he needed an heir. So that meant a baby. He wanted me to bear his child?

I blinked in wonder at the thought, as my eyes raked all over his body before they drifted back to lock with his eyes.

I had never really thought seriously about having children before. Would it even be possible for me?

I frowned as I absentmindedly looked down at my gloved hands and then touched my stomach.

I knew what my answer needed to be.