I Like Big Dragons and I Cannot Lie (The I Like Big Dragons Series) by Lani Lynn Vale

hesitated. “Borrow powers from Declan. For instance, there are times when I can move faster than any normal human should be able to. I can see in the dark, but not all the time. It’s like I have to ask permission first. Usually Declan has no problem sharing, and now it’s so ingrained that I just think the thought, and I have the ability to do so.”
    I blinked. “Is borrowing powers normal?”
    The doors to the elevator opened, and blessed light filled the darkened corridor. “Yes and no. I know for a fact that my brothers and I can. From each other and from our dragons. Actually, all of us can borrow from any dragon rider. That’s part of being in the royal family.”
    “Royal family?” I asked in alarm . “What do you mean royal family?”
    He turned his back on the elevator door as he crossed his arms.
    His hair was slightly ruffled from my attentions earlier, and his mouth was wearing some of my glittery lip-gloss.
    I smiled, looked down, and waited for him to answer me.
    “I’m the Prince of Dragons. I’m the highest ranking official of the royal family. No one is higher ranked than me,” he told me softly.
    I looked up from contemplating my shoes, eyes wide. “You’re what?”
    Ok, I might have shrieked it.
    But holy fuck! What did that make me ? A princess ?
    Keifer smiled, revealing his beautifully straight white teeth to me.
    “Yeah, I’m the prince. Which means you’re my princess. Princess Blythe of the Dragon Riders,” he grinned.
    “What…how…what…how…” I stammered.
    He walked forward, pinned me against the wall, and slammed his mouth onto mine.
    Then the bell sounded that I was on my floor, and Keifer broke off.
    Slowly.
    Too slowly.
    When the door started to close, I pushed at his chest, but he didn’t move.
    “I’m gonna be late. The doors are gonna close,” I whispered.
    I was in no way, shape, or form in a hurry to get out of his arms.
    Not after the last thirty minutes we’d just spent together.
    But he didn’t need to know that.
    The doors that’d been closing at his back slammed back open and stayed that way.
    Narrowing my eyes I asked, “Did you do that?”
    He winked. “See you tonight.”
    With that, he let me go, and moved to the opposite side of the elevator, crossing his arms across his chest, and leaning his butt against the railing before crossing his feet out in front of him.
    “You’re late,” he reminded me when I looked at him in stunned silence.
    That worked.
    Jumping forward like I’d been cattle prodded, I rushed out of the elevator car.
    I can proudly say that I only looked back at him twice before I made it to the nurses’ station.
    A very full nurses’ station.
    “Holy hell,” one of the nurses breathed.
    “You have sex hair,” another one of them said.
    I blushed and turned my face away.
    “Honey child, don’t let them tease you. When you find the right one, and he wants to come up to your work on your lunch break for a quickie, you do it. Because when you find that one that wants you that much, you hold onto them with both hands, both legs around their waist, and your hair if you need to. Trust me on this,” an older woman continued sagely.
    I smiled timidly at her.
    And I took her advice to heart.
    After all, she was right.

Chapter 10
    You call it nagging. I call it listen to what I said the first fucking time.
    -Keifer to Farrow
    Keifer
    “What the fuck is that?” Nikolai asked when I got back to work.
    I looked down to where his eyes were trained, and held up my arms for his inspection.
    “It happened when I was with Blythe this afternoon,” I explained. “I’m thinking they’re the mating marks that the book was speaking about.”
    Nikolai’s eyes went wide. “You fucked her at work?”
    I grimaced.
    “I couldn’t help it! It was like waves of agony and desire were pulsing through me. And the fucking hospital is over twenty miles from here, but the closer I got to her, the more I felt it. Then this happened,” I