I won’t be able to see you anymore after tonight.

Jiang Cheng makes no move to leave his dragon. If anything, he burrows himself more against him, wanting to memorize everything about him.

But I want you to know that my heart is always yours. Only yours. And I want to spend the rest of tonight and the morning with you.

He gives another mournful rumble and allows him to spread his paws, allowing the press of the talons to sheathe and unsheathe his own claws, and to play with his toe pads. His free paw rests on the dragon’s other talons, feeling at the scales, cool and comforting.