CLAIMED BY A DRAGON_DRAGON MATED by Christina Wilder

Author:Christina Wilder [Wilder, Christina]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-01-14T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

Jarik

No choice but to shift.

If we tried to go over the side, the spiders would climb down the cliffs quicker than we could. And I hadn’t told PJ about their venomous bite. Once they latched on to someone with their claws, they’d sink their fangs in deep and inject a chemical that made the body rot from the inside out.

The falls precluded escaping to our left. Up would only bring us to the top of the cavern, where the spiders would confidently follow. And there were no handholds to our right.

We could jump, but the drop was guaranteed to kill us. I didn’t dare risk PJ. What if we missed hitting the river? Let alone the fact that there was no way to gauge the river’s depth. It could be shallow.

“The second I’m a dragon, climb onto my back,” I said.

Biting her lower lip and staring back into the tunnel with wide eyes, PJ nodded.

“Not much room,” I said. “But I’ll make it work.”

I bent over and rippled my skin. My groan chuffed out as my scales exploded from my flesh. Molecules deep inside my body went through a sequence older than time, a distant memory that allowed my kind to change into mighty beasts. My wings burst through my spine and settled along my back, and my lungs shuddered at the pain. As my neck extended, and my face bones popped into position, I tipped my head back and roared away the sharp agony brought on by the changing.

PJ scrambled up my leg and settled between two of my back spikes, with her legs straddling my ribs, her hands gripping the base of my wings. “Go,” she shouted, tapping my shoulder. “They’re right behind us!”

As the spiders scrambled down the sides of the tunnel and along the dirt floor, their claws reaching for PJ, I sprang forward and stretched out my wings. With a roar, I spun, and flames of frustration shot from my throat, blasting into the spiders. They cowered, even while their armor protected them from my fire. At least they wouldn’t be able to come after us easily, because their webbing was not impervious to my flames, and I was confident I’d scorched the glands that secreted the gummy silk from a hole just below their mouths.

I roared again, my furious voice echoing in the valley. An overwhelming urge to keep my mate safe had grown inside me since the moment I met her. Yet I was no closer to providing her with the protection she needed than I’d been when she landed on top of me outside the city.

But that would change once we’d located the dragonstone heart.

“What’s that?”

From the corner of my eye, I caught PJ pointing.

A small, gleaming building sat on the other side of the valley, a short distance up the river embankment. The Norans had been built into the base of a mountain that soared all the way to the roof of the cavern. Could this be where they’d hidden the dragonstone heart? A sense of promise deep inside me pulled me in that direction.

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