10 What side effects?
"G…gee…tttt….sssssss….started? What, hhhhhh…here, n…..nnnow?" she stammered. "Bbbbbb…utttt…."
Thorin laughed a deep rumbling laugh. He raised her hand, still in his, to his lips and kissed it erotically. The hairs on her arms and behind her neck raised at the utter tenderness of the kiss. She felt another strong current passed through them.
"Don't worry, I was just kidding," he said. "I don't think you are ready for me just yet, we will take our time," he said.
He led her out of the room and back to one of the living rooms outside. She doesn't know which one. It was like a maze in his condo. She wasn't even sure if she would even find her way back to the bedroom. Not that she was in any hurry to go there now.
"So, you added something to the contract and wanted your freedom?" Thorin asked her while gesturing for her to take a seat. She sat down obediently and nodded in reply to Thorin.
"Yes, I mean, I am not a prisoner and it's not like I can even run away from you, you have magical powers, surely you can track me down wherever I go," she said.
"Besides, I have already agreed to your terms and your contract, and it's not like I can even run away, those loansharks might come after me any day now," she added.
He considered her request seriously. Then he nodded.
"Okay, you made your point. Since you will be living with me here, you are free to go anywhere but remember the terms of the contract, you are not to mate with anyone else, male or female, once outside," he said.
She turned red, first with embarrassment then with anger. What does he mean by that?
"In case you are wondering, I have never…er…mated with anyone in my life!" she retorted.
He didn't look surprised.
"Of course I know that. It was fortunate for me to find a perfect match that was unsullied by other auras, you have the perfect yin energy without the mess of too much yang around you," he said.
She rolled her eyes at him. Seriously? So, in short, he wanted a virgin? "Unsullied by other auras" sounded like so much mumbo jumbo…but since she is here with an ancient thousands of years old dragon shapeshifter that she never even knew existed before this, she supposed believing in auras and yin and yang weren't all that much of a stretch.
"I am only telling you not to go around mating with other humans after we have mated because you might suffer from some slight after effects after our mating," he said.
"What side effect???" she asked, agitated. And worried. Will she grow scales? Grow horns? Turn green? What?
"Well…you might want be in an enhanced state of being so you might feel things more strongly and this included lust and desire," he explained nonchalantly. "But of course it has its advantages. It meant you will have very powerful…err…endings," he added.
He walked to her and bent down to face her. His smooth handsome face a mere few inches from hers. "Let me give you a slight glimpse of what was to come," he said then he kissed her.
His lips touched her lightly and his tongue darted into her mouth just once. She gasped. She was suddenly filled with wanting, a desire so strong she could feel it blooming like fire within her, her belly was thrumming and she felt herself becoming moist and wet down there. His lips had touched hers for only a couple seconds and she was already left wanting, almost panting and begging him for more. He sauntered away.
He had given her her first kiss and it was phenomenal. It was like nothing she had ever felt and it wasn't only on her lips. She gaped at him dazed from the sensations flooding her.
"See? When we mate…it will be tenfold or maybe even a hundredfold of what you feel and after that, your senses will be so enhanced, you will feel every sensation clearly," he said.
She gulped. Does that mean she will become some sex-crazed wanton slut? Will she start jumping on strange men by the street? That would be so insane. What if she jumped on Darren?
"You mean I won't be able to control the impulses at all? I will turn into an uncontrollable nymphomaniac??" she asked.
He laughed again, his teeth glinting in the light. For a second, she could see a shadow of his dragon shape and then it was gone.
"Of course not. I am saying you will get these impulses and strong sensations but you can still control them, thus my condition that you do not mate with anyone else except me," he said.
"You must remain pure for me before we mated and after that, you must not sully your aura with others, regardless if they are humans or other shapeshifters," he said.
This time, it was Zi Mei's turn to laugh.
"First, I don't even know the existence of shapeshifters before now so I doubt I'd even know where to find one," she said.
"Secondly, I think agreeing to be the mistress of one shapeshifter should be enough to last me a lifetime, I doubt I would do it again with any other shapeshifters, whether they are dragons or phoenixes or pegasus or unicorns," she said.
He looked at her and rolled his eyes.
"Really Zi Mei. You are an adult now. Unicorns don't exist, nor do pegasus. This is not My Little Pony world," he said drolly.
Zi Mei blushed. How was she to know. She thought dragons were mythical too, until Thorin proved her wrong. Well, at least she was right about phoenixes. Those legendary birds exist.
"So, how many other types of shapeshifters are there?" she finally asked him. Might as well get the answers from him.
"You honestly didn't know? Not even a tiny bit of suspicion?" he asked her. She shook her head frankly in reply.
He jumped onto one of the sofa and lounged on it comfortably, not in the least bothered that his expensive looking shirt was crinkling and creasing at that position.
"Let me get comfortable first," he said and then he started unbuttoning his white shirt. Zi Mei rolled her eyes at him.
"Really? This again?" she asked sarcastically. So, it was shocking when he did it the first time but this is the second time, she was already getting tired of it. Sure, he is well built and his smooth muscly chest and six-pack abs sure were impressive too. But really, flashing his chest and abs at her again on the same day?
"Oh, you're bored of my body even before you get to touch it?" he asked, raising an eyebrow. He shrugged off the shirt. "That would be a tragedy but I am certain you will not be able to get your hands off me soon, very very soon," he promised.
Then he launched into a monologue about shapeshifters, their habits, their secrets, the many types of shapeshifters, the evil ones, the good ones, the do-gooders, the boring ones, the uptight ones, the beautiful ones…
Zi Mei found her eyes glazing over after about 30 minutes of Thorin's monologue. There sure are a lot of tales about shapeshifters but the way he recounted it in a monotone, like reading out a boring history book, was boring. She almost nodded off a few times and could barely keep herself awake. Is there an end to his monologue, she wondered. Is this a new form of torture where he talked her ears off or talked till she give in and begged him to mate with her so that he would stop talking?
By the time he stopped talking, she had stifled at least a dozen yawns and barely paid attention. He ended with a story about some wolf shapeshifter and their obsession with shiny things or something like that.
"Were you even listening to me?" he asked, observing her bored expression.
"Actually no. I think I stopped listening at snake shapeshifter…like really? Snakes? But after that, I don't even know what you said," she admitted.
He gave an annoyed growl and lithely jumped up from the sofa. "Don't tell me I didn't warn you about the other shapeshifters when you encounter them," he warned her.
She ignored him. No other shapeshifter except him had bothered her so she wasn't worried.
"So, can I go home now?" she asked finally. She wanted to get home, take a nice long shower and change. Then call Darren and Sheena and Jazzmine. They must be wondering what happened to her.
"Home? But this is your home," he said, puzzled. Then understanding dawned. "Ah, you mean your previous home? It's no longer yours, we have arranged it to be cleared out and a new tenant has since moved in," he said.
"WHAT?!!?!?" she spluttered.
