Dark Heat: The Dark Kings Stories by Grant Donna

Author:Grant, Donna [Grant, Donna]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2013-12-30T23:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER

TWELVE

Guy looked at the Silvers and wondered if Ulrik’s need for revenge had faded over the millennia, or if it had grown.

“So Ulrik is still around?” Elena asked.

Guy nodded. “Oh, aye. We keep an eye on him. It’s part of his punishment for attacking the humans to be immortal, but no’ to be able to be a King.”

“That seems … cruel. It was the humans who hunted the dragons. I wasn’t there, so this may sound like I’m pitying Ulrik, but I think I would’ve sided with him. The humans had no right to hunt the dragons if everyone was living peacefully.”

He smiled at her and smoothed the furrow of her brow with his finger. “It’s easy to look back now and know what we could’ve and should’ve done. At the time, emotions were running high and war was imminent.”

“So you say you’re immortal. Can nothing kill you? You’re safe from everything?”

Guy rose and pulled her up with him. He led her to the Silvers and placed his hand atop one of the immense dragons heads. “We can be killed, Elena.”

“How?”

“Touch the dragon. He’s asleep and can no’ feel anything.”

She delayed a moment before she laid her hand beside his. “The scales are warm. I wasn’t expecting that.”

“There is magic in dragons. You should’ve seen it when we reigned, before there was man. Dragons of every color and size ruled the skies, the water, and the land.”

He pulled himself back from the memory he had held on to through the passage of time. “In dragon form, another dragon can kill us. It isna easy because we’re Kings, but it can be done. It has been done. We lost many Kings during the war before we contained it.”

“What happened to the dragons who lost their King?” she asked as she slowly stroked the Silver.

“Other Kings stepped in to rule them. We didna think any more Kings would ever be made, until Tristan showed up five months ago.”

She frowned and bit her lip. “Is that a good sign?”

“No, especially when it coincided with two other events.”

“Which where?”

Guy knelt beside the Silver closest to him and put his hand in front of the dragon’s nose as a rush of wind blasted his hand from the dragon’s breath.

“The Silvers moved.”

Elena yanked her hand away and took a step back. “They moved?”

“Aye. We doona know how. It was just an instant, but they moved. It shouldna have happened.”

“And the second event?”

Guy rubbed the Silver’s snout and straightened. “With the betrayal of Ulrik’s woman, it did something to Con. He didna want us to ever be in that position again. So, we all joined our dragon magic and bound our emotions.”

“Excuse me?” she said in half surprise, half outrage.

“We feel things like hunger, laughter, anger, happiness, and such. What we did was prevent ourselves from becoming entangled with a human.”

“You have no human friends or lovers?”

He shook his head slowly. “None. Until five months ago when Hal, another King, fell in love with a human. Hal wouldna give Cassie up, and she wouldna give him up.

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