Dark Fire: A Fireblood Dragon Romance by Ruby Dixon

Author:Ruby Dixon
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2022-02-28T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter

Twenty

AZAR

I am fraying apart.

I keep it together for the rest of the night, instructing my men to take the girl—the one that has somehow captured one of my dragons with her mind—and place her in a warehouse alone with the drakoni male. I feel defeated. Somehow this human female has managed to wriggle through the shields I have carefully placed around the minds of the captive drakoni and stolen him away. I cannot control him any longer. Not when he senses his mate is near. I will keep the girl captive, then, and he will stay just to be with her. He will impregnate her, and then there will be another child to help with the Rift.

If I live long enough for them to all be born, of course.

Why would you not live? Sallavatri asks. Luminoura prods at me with her thoughts, too, as if poking a wound.

Because I am tired. I am tired, and I am failing at everything. I have lost a drakoni from right under my nose, the Rift bleeds more malice out by the day, and I suspect it is affecting my thoughts. Worse than that, worse than anything, I was cold to my mate. I can feel her hurt vibrating through the fort this morning. I spoke to her as if she were one of the fools that bother me, when that is not the case. I was just so angry and upset last night that I lost control of myself.

I should have gone straight to her side and apologized, but I worried the girl would get away. I worried the drakoni would lose himself and attack the fort. I worried my tenuous control on the others would snap. I did not return to bed last night. Not only because I was busy, but because I knew I would not be welcome.

And I am so, so tired.

Do you need to sleep? Luminoura offers. I like to sleep.

You should eat, Sallavatri insists. That one always commands like a general. I would find it amusing were I not so exhausted. I always feel better after I eat and then my mother pats me until I burp. Maybe you need to burp.

I do not need to burp. I need my dragon back. Now there are only five to guard the city, and I must place yet another into the “unknowns” grouping, with Vaan and Jurik. They say they will help me with whatever is coming through the Rift, but I do not trust them to be on my side. I have lost yet another ally somehow.

You can take me instead, Luminoura offers. I will help with the fort if you will not be sad.

I'm shocked at the offer, so freely given. No. I would not. The idea is repulsive. She has no idea what she freely suggests, or what she risks when she allows her mind to brush against mine so effortlessly. Both of the children talk to me in the empty void of mind-speech, where there were once countless minds but now seems to be populated by me and me alone.

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