Claimed by the Dragon King (High House Draconis Book 5) by Riley Storm

Author:Riley Storm [Storm, Riley]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: High House Press
Published: 2019-12-12T05:00:00+00:00

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Galen gazed out over the Keep.

Up this high on the balcony, a cool breeze whipped at him, ruffling his hair, pulling the black strands into a wild unkempt mess. Distracted by his thoughts, he ran a hand across his head, but it didn’t make any difference. In seconds, his efforts had been undone.

After leaving Kyla, his most pressing need had been to find a quiet place to think. Diving down into the bowels of Drakon Keep had never been a thing for Galen, like it was for some of his brothers. They loved wandering the old, original hallways of the Keep, finding new passages and rooms that had once been important, but were now all but forgotten about.

Not him. Galen needed heights, he needed freedom, and fresh air, when he had something he needed to think deeply on. If he’d been free to change, he would have taken to the skies in his dragon form, or headed westward to the small range of mountains that ran north to south on this side of the continent.

The vampires had taken all that freedom away from him, however, and so he was left with one of the tall spires that dotted the sprawling Keep. There he could taste a hint of the wind as it spoke to him, but only a hint. He could not truly embrace its nature, let himself be carried away in a storm, all but merging with the winds themselves.

Like his brothers, he felt trapped. Caged. Confined.

Part of him just wished that the vampires would attack already, so that they could get things over with. The realist in him, however, knew that every day that passed without the attack gave the dragons one more chance to find a way to defeat them.

The other shifters waited patiently for his call, slowly assembling their might to come to the aid of the dragons. The vampires would be in for a rude awakening, but even with the strength of all five shifter Houses united, Galen wasn’t sure that there was a hope for victory.

Not without more of his kin.

The wind picked up, sensing his dark thoughts and swirling around him and whistling across the roof of the Keep. Angry that he’d let his emotions boil over, he flicked a hand at the growing windstorm, dissipating it before it could take on a life of its own.

“Get yourself together, Galen. The others expect better of you. They need better of you. Keep yourself controlled.”

“You seem so sure of what the others need.”

He lifted his head in surprise. “Kyla,” he said, tensing. “I thought you were leaving?”

The mage came out onto the balcony. Apparently, he was so deep in his thoughts that she’d made the entire climb up to his level without him hearing a sound.

She’s as bad as Francis for sneaking up on us.

“So did I,” she said, coming up next to him, leaning on the ledge. “I really thought I was.”

“What happened?” he asked, worried that perhaps the vampires had attacked. Was she hurt?

“Things.

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