The Alpha's Unclaimed Mate novel Chapter 140

Chapter 140: Dealer’s Choice, Captain

Thor stared at Serena, who had just commanded every dragon on the field. "That was the hottest thing I’ve ever witnessed, and I watch myself train every morning."

"Thor," Halvek warned.

"I think I’m in love."

"You’re not in love, Crushturn."

"My dick disagrees."

"That’s your last remaining brain cell dying. Get in formation."

Thor looked Halvek dead in the eye. "Let’s just say I would let her ride me hard and I wouldn’t buck her off."

"One more word, Crushturn."

"I would let her ruin me. On my knees. On my back. Sitting on my face. Choke-me-while-I-finish. Dealer’s choice."

"CRUSHTURN."

"Yes, Captain."

Above them, Flareon circled once and glided down, touching the field with the composure of a dragon who had absolutely not just terrorized her bonded for an hour.

Elara slid off before the dragon had fully stopped moving.

Captain Halvek was waiting, his arms crossed.

"She tried to kill me," Elara said flatly.

"She tested you," Halvek corrected. "There’s a difference."

"The difference is subtle when you’re plummeting toward the ground."

Halvek’s mouth twitched. It might have been a smile, quickly suppressed. "Tomorrow you ride Styx. He’s worse."

Elara gave him a look of pure horror. And it had nothing to do with Styx.

Thor’s head snapped toward them. "Did I just hear Moaning Myrtle is going to ride Styx?"

"Thor, if you call me that one more time."

Thor gave her a knowing look. "I heard what I heard, Myrtle."

Styx closed his eyes. Not asleep. Just choosing not to participate.

"Ground rules," Thor continued. "You ride him. He’ll fight it. I watch the whole time. And if he makes a noise he’s never made with me—"

Halvek held up a hand, cutting Thor off. His eyes were on Serena.

"Frostborne. Water dragons it is." He pointed past the field toward the coastline, where a water dragon circled low over the water. "Get that one to listen to you."

Serena stared at it. From afar, it stared right back at her. The mutual enthusiasm was overwhelming.

She climbed onto Styx with Thor and they launched towards the coastline.

"Welcome aboard Styx Airlines," he narrated. "Today, we will witness a girl become a woman for the first time."

Serena didn’t even open her mouth. There were too many things wrong with that.

"Heard it," he said. "Didn’t hate it."

She closed her eyes. She’d flown with this man in an actual battle. Her first actually. He didn’t say a goddamn word then. What happened to that guy?

She gladly stood on Styx, jumping off in the middle of a Thor monologue about the Holy Trinity.

The wind hit her face, and her body responded before her brain did. Muscle memory. The kind earned from two battles full of bruises and near-death experiences that she really should have learned from by now.

She jumped from Styx onto the water dragon’s back.

It bucked immediately. This dragon had looked at Serena, assessed her, and decided, on principle, that it was not interested.

She respected that. She also didn’t care.

"To land," Serena commanded.

The dragon did not go to land. The dragon went straight up, rolled, and dumped her off its back like a sack of flour it had grown tired of carrying.

Serena found herself airborne. Velkaris was not nearby. And shocker, Thor and Styx were nowhere nearby. The ground, however, was very nearby and approaching with enthusiasm.

If she died here, Dex wouldn’t even know. He’d come back to learn that she got bucked off a water dragon while Thor was supposed to be spotting and she was banned from using Velkaris and magic.

On the bright side, if she survived, it would make an excellent story. On the dark side, Thor would be the one telling it.

Considering no one else was told ’no magic’ and she was the only person going near water dragons, she assumed it was Tiberon’s orders. What’s another protocol violation on her growing list.

She rolled her eyes at the ridiculousness of the rules just for her and fabricated a glider in her hands. The wind carried her back toward the dragon.

"And she’s off!" Thor announced. "Beautiful dismount. Flawless rotation. Nine out of ten. Minus one for not screaming. That’s the sexiest part."

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