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Come watch with me when you’re full.”

Chapter Three
    I ssa and the other two dragons all glowed with the Nirvana they’d channeled from the humans by the time Kris sensed the next phase beginning. As much as he would like to, he didn’t have the time or the constitution to watch her continue. He had to get to the Twins’ chamber door. And above all, he had to survive the ritual long enough to make it to his own chamber before imploding from desire.
    His powers of observation began to falter for the first time when Issa joined him shortly in the Twins’ chamber. His task, his purpose, was to witness the awakening of each dragon, to watch each phase of the ritual from its beginning until each potential mate was marked and thus bonded to a dragon.
    The task Issa didn’t know about was his responsibility to report to his teachers and then the Council when it was all over to let them know if the ritual had proceeded smoothly. Objectivity was one of the things his teachers had impressed on him as being paramount. He’d done just fine until one rogue, lavender dragon gave away her mate, then soaked up every spare drop of Nirvana the humans chose to give her.
    Once she was beside him, the power radiating out of her and her intoxicating aroma filling his nostrils, he really wanted to urge the others to move along with their fun.
    Dragon law had been his most common lesson in the monastery, and the details of it were etched into his mind. The most prominent one was that dragons were required to mate with humans to preserve their fertility and prevent inbreeding. There were too few of them born in each generation to risk it. The imperative to reproduce was what drove the dragons’ instincts, and also what drove the Council to make the laws it did. Though the infighting that would occur with too many dragons alive in each generation was probably equally undesirable. It was a double-edged sword and the laws they followed were designed to maintain the strict balance.
    Yet he was drawn to Issa with a kind of urgency that he hadn’t felt from any of the human women he’d traveled with, in spite of spending several weeks with them. From Hallie’s honesty during their shared mornings bathing, to Erika’s frustrated display earlier that evening, then Camille’s very enthusiastic sacrifice of her own virginity.
    Issa still outshone them all in some unfathomable way.
    After the ritual, Kris would be an unbonded dragon, free if he chose to be. Free to find his own human mate. Human mate , he thought. Not dragon, which was what Issa and he both were.
    Lost in his tangled ruminations, he was only half aware of both of the twins marking Dimitri. Damnit. That couldn’t be good. But Kris was only a guide, not an enforcer. He had neither the ability nor the inclination to intervene.
    “Is that supposed to happen?” Issa asked when the trio before them continued their tryst.
    “Not exactly, but you weren’t supposed to give Eben away, either.”
    “I guess that means I’m not supposed to be in here watching this all unfold with you. Should I leave? I can go wait patiently by the doors until it’s all over.”
    He turned to look at her, suddenly bored with the tableau of sex that he couldn’t participate in. He wanted them all, but Issa had already given him the best preview. The image of her violet folds spread open before him lingered even as he observed the two golden dragons and their new lover. Issa’s nearness comforted him even as he found himself dwelling on what she might feel like to touch.
    “No. I’m weary of watching, but it’s easier with you beside me.”
    Her lips curled into a pleased smile.
    They watched the others, Kris finding himself more aroused by Issa’s nearness than the acts of pleasure playing out between the trio in front of him.
    “I knew your parents,” Issa said after a few moments. The comment seemed completely incongruous when he’d just been contemplating doing to her some of the things