The dragon's harem

”She works hard, doesn’t she?” Mira looked at Arad with a faint smile, ”If Aella was here, only Isdis would’ve been here tonight.”

”Tina is extremely good at her job, Rey and Ray are also skilled. But I think she edges them out by how used she is to our family.” Arad replied, ”She knows what each one needs or wants and acts according to what’s best for all.”

”Like the one time she got mad at you for cutting trees in one spot?” Mira giggled, ”Luci didn’t want to tell you off, but Tina spoke up.”

”You’d think she won’t be that good for someone who didn’t attend any maid official training. But she’s indeed talented.” Mira looked up.

”Wait? They have official training?” Arad gasped.

”There is a whole academy at the capital, their courses range from cooking to cleaning and sewing all the way to secretary work, financial management, and healing care.” Mira leaned back on Arad’s shoulder, ”That’s one reason why maids are paid a lot, especially those in the royal castle or those with special contracts.”

Arad immediately realized something, ”Tina’s pay is managed by Aella, right? How much are we paying her? We aren’t underpaying her, right?”

”We aren’t paying her at all.” Mira looked at him with a passive face, ”She has access to your hoard and can take whatever amount she wants.”

Arad sighed, ”You scared me there…I thought she was left with nothing.” He was relieved that Tina was in fact being paid, not with a set amount, but by allowing her to get paid whatever she wanted from his hoard.

”Last month she took around five gold coins. Three of them were expenses on Serin, one gold, and fifty silver were spent on things around the house while the remaining fifty silver coins were private spendings.” Mira explained what she saw in their ledger last month. While Arad did many things around the house, he wasn’t that good at management, but hearing this made him believe that his wives might be just as bad as him.

”That’s nothing.” He gasped, ”Fifty silver is basically nothing. Someone could make that in a day chopping wood or reselling monsters’ leather in Alina’s Plaza.” Albeit fifty silvers were a decent amount, it wasn’t that big for a whole month of spending.

”She lives in our house so she doesn’t worry about rent. She eats with us, and we also take care of heating and providing any similar necessities. Merida provides all of our clothes so those are basically free, and Lydia stops by occasionally so we don’t need healing, and with me and Eris becoming demi-goddesses, our healing needs had disappeared.” Mira smiled, ”Even if Tina wanted jewelry, the kobolds make far better jewelry than anything money could buy. They also tailor it on command.”

”So even if she had the money, everything is provided at our home for better quality…” Arad laid on the bed, ”You forgot yourself. You’re the best carpenter in Alina so we don’t need anyone else.”

”You’re building a small kingdom in your domain. Especially with King Baltos living inside your castle now…” She giggled, ”We almost can’t pay for anything. I once went to Alina’s Plaza to buy some custom nails from the smiths there and I found it near impossible to convince him to get paid.”

”He refused?”

”Said he wouldn’t accept payment since we provided him access to the iron ore mined from the mountain when we were building the base of the castle. King Baltos being close to us also gives us a lot of influence.” She slowly moved and sat on Arad’s stomach, dangling her legs from the bed. ”You’re a baron, did you forget?”

”Didn’t we get a dwarf woman? Liora, the blacksmith from Riverside?” Arad realized that he hadn’t seen her in a while, she did deliver his weapons though.

”Liora? She’s working on the steel and iron work for the castle and its siege engines. Dwarves get really sucked into their work as long as they have alcohol. We decided to pay for all of her alcohol alongside paying her for all the work, but Alina’s brewery said they give her drinks for free in exchange for putting some of their barrels on display at her shop, and for them to the castle’s first suppliers of drinks.” Mira lay on Arad’s chest, taking a deep breath as she listened to his heart beating…there was nothing, she couldn’t hear anything.

”What’s up with your heart?” She looked at Arad’s face, ”I always wanted to ask, but why can’t I hear it?”

”All of my organs are stored in the void; no sound could get out.” He replied but she stared at him with a doubtful face, ”Really? It’s usually gotten loud when you fight.”

”There is a limit to how fast blood can be transferred out of the void and to my apparent limbs and especially nervous system. If I wanted to go above three-quarters of my power, I’d need at least my heart and lungs to be exposed.” He patted her back, ”While I’m almost immune to fatal wounds to my body when not going all out. If a foe is strong enough to force me to go above three-thirds of my output, he’d be exposing those two weaknesses.”

In his human form, Arad acts like a dungeon boss fighting with rules. To expose his weakness, you must be defensive enough to force him to use more than three-quarters of his firepower, which will expose weaknesses that are easier to hit than his brain and spine, for those two are protected with hard bones while you could still stab the heart and lungs through the ribcage with a well-aimed thrust.

”How about now?” Arad said with a smile and Mira could hear his heart beating, he had pulled it out of the void.

”Yeah, this is better. I can hear it well, and it’s relaxing.” He slowly ran his palm across her back and combed her hair between his fingers.

Mira sighed, ”I really…really…really want to do it…” She reached down with her hand and grabbed his flesh. She then quickly touched herself, ”But we can’t…”

”Sorry, I’m too big it might be dangerous.” Arad replied in a whisper, ”Is there anything you would like to do?”

”Cuddling like this might be the best.” Mira relaxed at Arad’s side, snuggling closer to his chest. She then looked at him, ”Well, it’s not like I just wanted to do it. Since I saw you grow a bit bigger, I wanted to feel you a bit more. Still, it’s a shame we can’t do it.”

Arad scratched his head, ”Well, I got a few ideas. Want to try them?”

”Ideas? About bedtime? Since when have you got ideas?” She looked at him with a puzzled expression.

”Not mine, but from the others. They might work for you as well.” Arad sat up and so did she. ”Want to try them?”

”As long as you don’t tell me what is from who…” Mira’s first sexual partner is Arad, and she’ll remain only with him. In this world, he’s her only source of such knowledge. While he on the other hand has access to many more wives to learn from, and a stack of people he doesn’t care to mention.

Arad pushed Mira onto the bed and lifted her legs up, opening her legs apart. ”So, what is it?”

Arad started rubbing his flesh between her legs as he licked her toes.

”This?” Mira gasped, pulling her legs away, ”Stop, it feels weird.” She crawled into a ball, ”And I can totally guess it’s from either Aella or Eris.” She knew about the elves’ habits and preferences. Humans loved butts and breasts, elves loved hands and feet, dwarfs loved beards and muscles, while dragons like Arad liked more behavioral qualities like aggression and strength, their taste was far more refined beyond humanoid’s understanding.

”Don’t like it?” Arad looked at her.

”No, it feels a bit weird. And It’s too embarrassing…” She looked at Arad, ”Got something else?”

”How about this?” Arad pulled her hips closer to him. On the tip of his fingers, he pulled a tiny bit of oil from his stomach and rubbed it on Mira’s butt.

”What are you doing?” She asked with a puzzled face.

”Trying something else.” He pulled her even closer to him, ”Take a deep breath and relax, try not to tense up.” He tried to push it in her butt, but she immediately cried. ”Stop! That hurt!” She pulled back.

”It hurt that much?” He looked at her, Eris had never shown such a reaction, but her pain tolerance was indeed higher than anyone else.

”It’s not supposed to go in there.” Mira sat up, ”That hurt a lot! This has to be Merida or Eris.” She sighed, ”Why I’m even guessing…Let’s try something else.”

Arad lifted Mira up and laid on the bed, he then sat her on his face, ”You bed down to suck it, I’ll take care of you here.”

Mira gasped, trying to jump away as she felt him licking her most delicate parts. ”Wait! This feels wrong, I’ll be at the bottom.” This time Arad wasn’t letting her go, ”I’m heavier than you by a lot. You’ll be on top now.”

”Fine…” She said with a beet-red face as she slowly bent down to start doing her part.