Braving Darkness: The Complete Series (Paranormal Scifi Romance) by Scarlett Grove

Author:Scarlett Grove [Grove, Scarlett]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Published: 2017-04-07T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 2

Dragon wings beat the air and sailed north over the central valley. Every mile Xavier flew away from her friends filled Circe with growing dread. None of this made any sense. Not that the world made sense anymore. The laws of physics and reality had been turned upside down.

Magic and spacecraft ruled the world. The witches were able to instinctively tap into the quantum field to manipulate time and matter. Without her magic, Circe no longer fit into this new world.

She lay limp in Xavier’s claws as they crushed her ribs. Looking up from under his torso, which was covered in pale-yellow scales, she could see his lower jaw. She ground her teeth, trying to shift in his grip to a more comfortable position. He tilted his head slightly to glance at her.

His eyes gleamed against the blue of the sky, and Circe could see the sharp teeth that lined his massive jaw. She flinched, knowing he could devour her in two bites. Why had this man, a leader of a group of two hundred mixed shifters, suddenly gone feral and kidnapped her?

Strange magic was at work, indeed, and Circe intended to find the meaning of it, unless he ate her first. The landscape below slowly changed from vast valleys of dried and dead farmland, orchards, and towns to rolling hills covered in evergreen forests.

Soon, the hills turned to jagged mountains. The air cooled, and Circe could see peaks dusted with snow in the distance. Xavier pumped his wings, gaining altitude as he approached the mountains. He descended into a grassy clearing surrounded by pine forest.

Beating his wings hard against gravity, he dropped her from the air a few feet from the ground. She fell into the tall grass and wildflowers and rolled for several feet.

As she stood, Xavier landed gracefully a dozen yards away. His eyes never left her. She gathered herself up, ready to defend herself. He strode across the field toward her. A breeze blew her hair around her face, and she noticed it had lightened to dark-auburn waves.

Stunned and distracted by the change in her hair, she was surprised when Xavier’s dragon face came close to hers. His huge nostrils sniffed at her body, causing her thin black robe to flutter. She narrowed her eyes at him and gripped in the air.

He should have felt her spell grip his neck and squeeze. Her grab spell might not have been able to defeat him, but it should have at least given her time to escape. Unfortunately, her grab spell didn’t work. She frowned and crossed her arms. At least the beast hadn’t eaten her. Yet.

In a glimmering shift of light, Xavier’s body contorted. He shrank as his wings withdrew. Claws contracted into hands, and scales smoothed into glistening, tanned skin. Xavier stood before her, panting. His cobalt eyes glinted and held her in their unblinking gaze. His shoulders twitched, and he clenched his fists. He was magnificently naked. A more perfectly fashioned man had never been made.

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